Glasgow 2024 will be presenting a number of live music events, such as the new Opera, Morrow’s Isle, which we’ve already announced. In this blog entry, we’re delighted to highlight the live performance by a full symphony orchestra—the Worldcon Philharmonic—on the Friday evening of the convention, 9 August 2024, in the Auditorium of the SEC […]
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On this glorious 1st of April—a day of fools and frivolity—Glasgow 2024 would like to share with you something fantastically foolish. A silly surprise to bring joy and to show that we take what we do very seriously but we want to have fun with it. The most Scottish of conventions really needed a tartan
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Dressing up in costumes has been a part of many cultures historically—at carnivals, dances, masquerades, religious events, and formal court balls—and for dramatic performances such as plays and later film and TV. Costuming by fans has been a feature at science fiction conventions since the very first Worldcon in 1939, where Morojo (Myrtle R Douglas)
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The 2024 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow is fast approaching. Play your part in helping fans worldwide join us this summer! In August 2024, the World Science Fiction Convention heads to Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus (SEC) for the 82nd Annual Worldcon. Glasgow is a unique location, with a rich cultural and industrial heritage and
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I’ve been working with Glasgow 2024 since it was a bid, back in 2019, when the Chair, Professor Esther MacCallum-Stewart, asked me to come up with an idea that could be used on both a flyer and a tall, thin promotional roller-banner at events. That was the piece that became the Girder Dragon, a twisted
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Sara is a Hugo award-winning mixed media artist who works in acrylics, inks, and resin. Her techniques of creating abstract space art focus on letting go and letting the medium drive the final look of the piece. She has been showing art at conventions since 2000 and has worked on conventions just as long. Sara
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Growing up in Scotland I was aware of Burns Night, but my only experience of organising a Burns supper was as part of the bidding for the 1995 Glasgow Worldcon, when we ‘piped in the haggis’ during one of the bid parties at the 1992 Worldcon Magicon in Orlando! It was fun introducing various elements
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TaxisGlasgow Taxis (https://www.glasgowtaxis.co.uk/) are the distinctive black cabs you see around the city—you can book them, but you can also hail them if you see one passing in the street. (If available, the yellow taxi sign will be lit.) There are a number of taxi ranks around the city where you can pick one up—notably,
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Some people learned languages in lockdown; I watched all the series of the Great Pottery Throw Down. And in 2021, I went to my first pottery class since school. One of the things I learned was printing on clay. See here a printed armadillo tile in honour of Glasgow 2024! After learning to make pinch
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We’re heading into the last eight months of planning, working, and creating to give you Glasgow 2024: A Worldcon for Our Futures. You’ve probably seen these messages before; I get all excited about what we’re doing, talk about proud I am of my team, and then digress into how good the food scene is in
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