Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Gatherings

Wide view of an audience seated at round tables in a glass-roofed courtyard, facing a small panel discussion set up with a screen and banners in the background.

Gatherings are a series of events and activities taking place across the eighteen days of the festival that are free and open to all, and that usually require booking. This programme of live events, performances, workshops, talks and discussions provides opportunities to engage more deeply with points of exchange and recurring themes that exist across Glasgow International projects. They are also moments to come together with other festival visitors, participants and organisers around food, drink and conversation.

Gatherings feature events that draw out particular areas of concern within the festival programme and reflect a wide range of artistic practices exploring artistic experimentation and career trajectories, personal and ancestral memory, inter-generational kinship, and resonances that cross cultures and trace the textures and rhythms of different lands and waters.  These currents within Glasgow International 2026 reveal the ways in which artists, organisers and cultural theorists today are thinking about art’s social role, its material associations with the world around us, and the ways in which we experience art individually and collectively.

Gatherings

Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Jasmine Togo-Brisby in-conversation with Ane Tonga and Ruha Fifita
The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 72 Clyde Street, G1 5HZ
Ashley Holmes smiles as he places a vinyl record onto a turntable at a table with a laptop and DJ mixer. A Glasgow International festival banner stands behind him, listing the dates 5 to 21 June.
Ashley Holmes
Ashley Holmes Live Audio Essay
The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 72 Clyde Street, G1 5HZ
Ashley Holmes smiles as he places a vinyl record onto a turntable at a table with a laptop and DJ mixer. A Glasgow International festival banner stands behind him, listing the dates 5 to 21 June.
Tanoa Sasraku
Tanoa Sasraku in conversation with Karlito Miller Espinosa
The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 72 Clyde Street, G1 5HZ
Two men in conversation on an outdoor stage, one gesturing while speaking into a microphone, the other listening, seated either side of a low table with water and coffee cups. Glasgow International banners flank the stage, and audience members are visible in the foreground.
In The Making
In The Making - a live choreographic response to The Subtle Body
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall St, G41 1BA
In the Making Katy Dove image of people in a dance studio stretching and squatting
Richy Carey
Soft Palate | A voice and listening workshop
The Boilerhouse, The Hidden Gardens, 25A Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE
A composite image made up of cut out photos of a tree, static caravans and a geometrical dark block building in the background. It is sunny in the centre of the image
Jill Westwood
Nicolas Ballet in conversation with Jill Westwood and Adam Lewis Jacob
The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 72 Clyde Street, G1 5HZ
Black-and-white photography. On the bottom left is a person smoking and wearing a latex suit, their shadow casts on to the wall in the background. 
Maggie Matić
In-conversation: Lisette May Monroe and Maggie Matić
Glasgow Women's Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
A black and white photo of a print
Rehana Zaman
Plots and Plantations - Performance and In Conversation Imani Mason Jordan and Rehana Zaman
The Warehouse, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW
A woman wearing a headscarf and a "Palestine" football shirt stands reading from a book into a microphone in front of a seated audience, with a Glasgow International banner and a neon sculpture beside her.
Michelle Williams Gamaker
Film screening and in-conversation with Onyeka Igwe and Michelle Williams Gamaker
Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, G41 2PE
Close-up of two women in conversation on a panel stage, one speaking into a microphone with her hand raised, seated beside a table with water glasses and a jug.
Rehana Zaman
Common Ground
Bowling Green Together, 49 McCulloch St, G41 1SU
A blue negative photograph showing people at the bottom.