Arts and culture
The arts play a key role in the regeneration of Clyde Waterfront with a new artists' quarter, a digital media quarter and new venues for the performing arts helping to create a positive spirit in the area.
Two sites in the Merchant City form the hub of an artist’s quarter: Trongate 103 and the Briggait are being redeveloped to create new studio space for working artists.
Another important creative area is Pacific Quay. This is a developing media and creative hub based around the BBC and SMG headquarters buildings. Film City Glasgow is located nearby and in between the Digital media quarter offers space for small creative businesses.
Another unusual building is SWG3 which is an old warehouse used as artists and photographers studios.
In addition to new studio space, artworks have been incorporated into many of the projects. For example the Gorbals Artworks Programme.
The performing arts will have a new venue for large scale performances when the 12,500 seat arena is completed at the SECC. Other performance spaces near the waterfront include the Citizens Theatre, Tron Theatre, The Arches, and on the water itself the Ferry at the Broomielaw.
| Title |
Short description |
Related curricular areas |
Age group |
| Creating a poetry book |
The class will work both individually and as part of a group in order to produce a book of poetry about life in and around Glasgow. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies |
Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary |
| Craft design on a tourism theme |
Applying learning about plastics to design and make a plastic artefact based on a tourism theme. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Science, Technologies |
Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary |
| Clyde bridges - cards & postcards |
Create ‘impressionist’ images of the Clyde bridges and waterfront to be used in greetings cards or postcards. |
Expressive Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technologies |
Upper Primary |
