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The Magners’ Glasgow International Comedy Festival has announced plans to invade the Merchant City this month, with a bewilderingly huge programme of rib-ticklers and merry-makers. We’ve put together a little guide to the best of the fest, and organised some excellent discounts for [...]
The Merchants Market, which launched in September last year, has been a roaring success and will continue to be held on the third Sunday of every month. To combat the freezing temperatures and encourage you to continue to shop for the best local produce and some great arts and crafts, the orga [...]
Project Ability is a tour-de-force when it comes to developing young film talent in Scotland. With three new elements to existing film projects aimed at young people with disabilities, Project Ability is a force to be reckoned with.
SCOTTISH FILM TALENT ON TOUR
Entries from Scotland to The Co-oper [...]
Merchant City Tourism and Marketing Co-op would like to thank all the businesses in the area for their support throughout 2009. The campaigns and initiatives we implemented were very successful and we couldn’t have done it without your help. We have put Merchant City firmly on the [...]
Glasgow International Comedy Festival 11-28 March 2009
Get ready to laugh your socks off as the UK’s largest comedy festival returns for its eighth year. Last year was the biggest festival yet with 75,000 tickets sold for 347 shows over 51 venues. Each year the festival attracts s [...]
The Modern Institute, one of the most talked about art galleries in the country and described recently by Art Review Magazine as “a model for galleries around the world”, is moving its gallery to a newly refurbished space in the old bathhouse in Osbourne Street.
The gallery, which been [...]
We hear that the £6.5m construction project of one of the Merchant City’s most magnificent buildings , The Briggait, is now complete and will be open to the public in the Spring.
Steeped in history, the building houses Scotland’s oldest collection of market halls and is Gra [...]
The Merchant City has had a starring role in many films and TV series and is set to take centre stage again when BBC3’s new series Lip Service airs in the spring.
The series, tipped to be the UK’s answer to The L Word, stars Laura Fraser and follows a group of 20- something lesbians liv [...]
More good news for the regeneration of the Merchant City were announced before Christmas by Glasgow City Council and Dawn Group when they unveiled plans to regenerate a derelict site the size of 10 football pitches next to High Street Station.
A £200million makeover – the UK&rsquo [...]