ᴀ ᴠᴇʀʏ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ is here! Friday 12 – Sunday 14 June – a weekend of events for all ages at The Bowling Green part of Glasgow International Festival of Art. The programme, created with artists and young people, celebrates collective imagining and community.
Dates & times: Fri 12th & Sat 13th 11am-5pm & Sun 14th 11am-7pm June 2026
Activities include: building a bbq SCULPTURE with Morven Mulgrew 🧱 creating images in the outdoor dark room with Miriam Ali📸 having a go on OUR PLAY a new play structure built last week by Gene Sills and the community with support from Owen Clarke and George Halbert.
Other workshops include:
👂 Little Ears Over Here – making sounds w/ Listen Gallery & Mattie Roberts
🎨 Community Banner Making w/ Keng Keng Tang & Sapna Argwal
🌿 Weaving a Willow Wall w/ Martha Orbach and Beth Coleman
💦 Kids & Families Sauna w/ Glasgow Community Sauna
💮 Kolam Pattern Making w/ Ritu Samuel
✏️ Drawing & Crafts w/ Rumpus Youth Committee & Queer Makers Groups.
📖 Play, Power and Pedagogy Reading Group w/ Ardis Önnerfors.
📍 Radical Walking Tour w/ Radical Glasgow Tours.
👀 Connecting Artist-Led Spaces w/ Listen Gallery & Rumpus Room.
🏵️ Bowling Green Social Space hosted by Tabassum Niamat.
📚 Pop Up Library with books for all ages from Rumpus Room, Red Sunday School, Strange Exchange Library & Solidarity Screenings Glasgow.
🍽️ Free community lunch each day (that you can help to cook!) hosted by Mohammed Sharif & Saubia Anwar.
The project has been brought together by artists and organisers Miriam Ali, Jo Helfer, Morven Mulgrew, Tabassum Niamat, Ardis Önnerfors, Nadia Rossi, Gene Sills, Leo Valenti, Angel Walker & Holly Knox Yeoman.
Free, drop-in events (unless otherwise stated). Children under age 12 must be supervised by an adult.
The Bowling Green Together is on the corner of Kenmure St and McCulloch St, Pollokshields.
Access: The event is taking place outdoors with sheltered areas. The venue has uneven ground. An accessoloo toilet will be available outside the site; this is a Changing Places toilet with a hoist, bench and baby change.
Poster & programme design Jillian Mendoza.
The project is supported by GI Festival & Creative Scotland.