NEWS

Glasgow Music and Film Festival event Wet Sounds, which takes place on Sunday 19th February 2012, has been moved to the fabulous 19th Century Arlington Baths (Arlington Street, Glasgow) off of Byres Road. The nearest tube is Hillhead.

All tickets already purchased are valid for the new venue. Times have changed for the two sessions and are now: 6.30pm – 8pm and 8.30pm – 10pm.

Tickets (priced £9) are available from both the Arches (0141 565 1000) and also GFT box offices (0141 332 6535).

The Arches Cafe Bar and Restaurant has revitalised its bar, lunch and evening menus for January 2012. The new menus feature a range of mouthwatering delights.

One of the highlights of the new evening menu is Sweet potato & Butternut Squash Gateaux with Wilted Spinach, Sauté Cherry Tomatoes and a Coconut Curried Cream. The lunch menu features Pulled Pork Chilli Melt and Goats Cheese, Basil and Tomato Chutney Sandwiches.

If you’re feeling peckish, enjoy a new selection of bites from the bar menu including Beer Battered Black Haggis with Tomato Chutney and Spiced Mixed Bean Fritters with Salsa.

The new menus are available now in both the cafe bar and the restaurant. Enjoy!

After a very busy New Year period, with 2500 of you coming in for the blinding GBXperience NYE as well as huge parties from Colours and Inside Out, and over 1000 children getting their first taste of the building at this year’s charming Christmas show, Rudolf, it’s back to normal in terms of our opening hours:

Argyle Street Box Office:

Mon – Fri:   9.30am – 8pm
Sat:   10pm – 8pm
Sun:   Closed (or noon – 8pm on days when an event is on)

Cafe Bar and Restaurant:

Mon – Sat:   11am – late
Sun:   Closed (or noon – late on days when an event is on)

In terms of our arts, gigs and clubs programmes… we’ve maybe not quite reached normal yet, but rest assured, this is a good thing. Happy 2012.

As ever, the Arches is refusing to quieten down over the festive period with a packed club line-up including the huge GBXperience for New Year as well as our kids’ Christmas show, Rudolf, which runs until Tues 3rd Jan – great news for any familes looking for something heart-warmingly festive to do with the kids over the festive break.

Please note our revised festive opening times for the Argyle Street box office, or click here for the Arches Cafe Bar opening times. Normal service will resume on Wednesday 4^th January 2012. If you’re unsure of anything please contact the Box Office on 0141 565 1000 or boxoffice@thearches.co.uk

Merry Christmas!

Sat 24th Dec       10am – 6pm                11am-6pm
Sun 25th Dec      Building closed
Mon 26th Dec     12 noon – 8pm            12 noon – late
Tue 27th Dec       11am-8pm                 11am – late
Wed 28th Dec      11am-8pm                 11am – late
Thu 29th Dec      11am-8pm                 11am – late
Fri 30th Dec        11am-8pm                  11am – late
Sat 31st Dec         11am-8pm                  11am – late
Sun 1st Jan          Building closed
Mon 2nd Jan       Building closed
Tue 3rd Jan         11am-8pm                  11am-8pm

Hot on the heels of our SLTN Awards win news earlier this week, we are delighted to announce that we have won the overall gold award at this year’s Best Bar None Awards (Late Opening Venues category) which were held on Tuesday 8th November in Glasgow.

This latest accolade makes it the fourth year in a row that we have won the overall gold award at the Best Bar None Awards.

The Best Bar None Awards Scheme is sponsored by Diageo and recognises venues which demonstrate their focus on public safety and customer care. It was developed in partnership between Strathclyde Police, Glasgow Community & Safety Services, Scottish Late Night Operators Association, Scottish Licensed Trade Association and Glasgow City Centre Alcohol Action Group with a view to creating a safer and more welcoming licensing environment in Glasgow.

We are delighted to announce that the Arches has scooped the coveted title of Best Late Night Venue at this year’s Scottish Licensed Trade News Awards, despite fierce competition.

The judges were unanimously impressed with the venue, highlighting in particular the diverse use of the space. With the Arches celebrating its 21st birthday next year, this serves as a very proud reminder, to both staff and all our customers, of the venue’s revered position – not just in Glasgow, but the whole of Scotland.

We were similarly delighted to be presented with the award by none other than Denise Van Outen…

The Arches announced the two winners of this year’s Brick Award at the Scotsman newspaper’s final Fringe First ceremony on Friday 26th August 2011.

The awards went to Tania El Khoury for Maybe If You Choreograph Me You Will Feel Better, at Forest Fringe, and Nassim Soleimanpour, the creator of White Rabbit Red Rabbit at St George’s West, who is forbidden from leaving Iran.

Read the The List’s review of Tania’s show here: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/36926-maybe-if-you-choreograph-me-you-will-feel-better/

The Arches offers two emergent performance companies or artists the chance to re-stage their piece at the venue in 2012.

The Arches is delighted to announce that Artist in Residence Adrian Howells has won the Total Theatre Award for Innovation and Experimentation at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011 for his show ‘May I Have the Pleasure…?

The show, which uses Adrian’s personal experience as the best man at 8 weddings and the attendee of nearly 60 nuptials to reflect on his present status as a single gay man in his late forties,  received four star reviews from The Scotsman, Total Theatre and Metro.

Adrian will take up his two year residency with the Arches in September and will continue his work with TouchBase as part of this. TouchBase is one of the country’s most exiting and innovative resources for disabled people, families, carers and the community.

The anCnoc Blackbox Graduate Visual Art Award has announced the winner of this year’s prize as Glasgow School of Art graduate Euan Ogilvie. He will be supported with space and funding by The Arches and will exhibit his work as part of the Arches Live festival of new, emergent work in September 2011.

The award, sponsored for the first time by anCnoc Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, is aimed at giving graduates the opportunity to work outside of their normal practice and gain inspiration from the Arches’ multi-artform activity. Euan is a 2011 graduate of the Glasgow School of Art’s BA in Fine Art Sculpture. He has been awarded a residency at the Arches until August 2011, including work space, informal research opportunities and £400 towards the creation or development of work.

Euan will also exhibit his work, The Bystander Effect, in the Arches as part of Arches LIVE from Tue 20^th – Sat 24th September from 6.45pm each evening. The work is part art object and part psychology experiment as Euan seeks to blur the lines between the performer and audience.  The Bystander Effect will test the individual’s sense of free will against a desire to fit in with those around them. Audience members are invited to join this crowd and may find themselves doing something they wouldn’t want to.

Previous winners of the award include Anna Henson, Greg Grant and Georgina Porteous.

Full information on the Arches Live 2011 programme will be available on the website and via our new Sept – Dec brochure soon. Arches Live returns from Tuesday 20^th September – Saturday 1^st October 2011.

The Arches has announced that it will take two shows to the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.

The shows, May I have the Pleasure and The Pleasure of Being, are by the Arches’ Resident Artist Adrian Howells with May I Have the Pleasure…? a part of the Traverse Theatre’s festival offsite programme.

In May I Have The Pleasure…? (Traverse @ The Point Hotel from 17th-19^th, 21st-24^th, 27^th -28^th August with previews on 15^th – 16^th August), join Adrian at the last dance of yet another wedding disco in this new interactive performance, which uses humorous, poignant, autobiographical anecdote, original home movie footage and collective reminiscing to contemplate the irony of feeling isolated in the midst of a communal celebration of ‘coupledom’.

In The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding (The Point Hotel on 19th and 21st – 28th August 2011) invites you to surrender to an intensely intimate, deeply sensorial and profoundly nurturing one-on-one experience as Adrian bathes your whole body (participants can choose to be either naked or wear their own bathing suit) in a luxurious bath consisting of bath milk, rose petals and essential oils before wrapping you in a large and comforting white fluffy bath towel. Adrian then cradles you in his arms, feeds you white Belgian chocolate and holds you for a prolonged period. The predominantly non verbal experience invites you to make a profound connection with both him and yourself and to enjoy a qualitative period of self investment away from the stresses of everyday life.

For more on The Pleasure of Being and to book tickets go here and for ore on May I Have the Pleasure…? go here.