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FLOCK 25 & 26 July @merchantcityfestival
Carnival Parade 1st August @gbctyouth
DIVE 4-7th August @govanhillfestival
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🕊️Flock by Bex Anson. @Merchant City Festival🕊️ FLOCK is a participatory outdoor dance inspired by urban birds. Up to 30 strangers gather and move as a temporary collective, guided by artist and choreographer Bex Anson and a contemporary ballet dancer. A one-hour pre-show workshop leads into a 20-minute live performance through the Merchant City. Through playful acts of gazing, perching, darting and soaring, the group becomes a shifting murmuration — a visual poem created in real time by people who have only just met. Join the pre-show workshop for movement and drawing inspired by birds and public space, or simply watch as the flock gathers, drifts through the city and disperses again. 📅 Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 July 📍 Kings Court Courtyard, King St, G1 5RB, Merchant City, Glasgow 🕧 Performance: 12:30pm (approx. 20 mins) 🕥 Workshop: Arrival from 10:30am | Start: 11:00am To join the flock, take part in our free workshop before the performance. Book your place via the link in our bio, as advance sign-up is required. @merchantcityfestival @bex.anson @glasgowlifepresents by @bex.anson
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CALL OUT FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS - FLOCK - OUTDOOR DANCE PERFORMANCE: Be part of Merchant City Festival. 📍 Venue: Merchant City, Glasgow (Kings Court Courtyard (outside Mono and Mr Ben) 📅 Date: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July ⏰ Time: FLOCK Workshop: Arrival from 10:30AM: Workshop Start 11:00AM–12:00PM (Free but ticket required) FLOCK Performance: 12:30PM (Approx. 20 mins) Experience Needed: None — everyone welcome! Tickets: Free but booking required via Eventbrite or link in bio ------------------------------------------- About the FLOCK Workshop FLOCK is an outdoor dance experience inspired by urban birds. Guided by artist and choreographer Bex Anson and a contemporary ballet dancer, up to 30 participants come together to explore simple movement and drawing inspired by birds, public space and community. The one-hour workshop leads into a 20-minute live performance through Merchant City, where the group moves together like a flock — gathering, drifting and dispersing through the streets. By joining the workshop, participants are invited to take part in the final performance, or simply come along to watch. ------------------------------------------- Practical Info What to Wear Comfortable clothing and waterproofs if needed. Refreshments Drinks and fruit provided. Access Gentle movement activities can be adapted for different abilities and access needs. For more information about FLOCK please visit the link in our bio. Produced by Feral Part of the Merchant City Festival Image Credit: Katherine Anne Rose @soultidemovement @merchantcityfestival @bex.anson FLOCK was originally commissioned as part of the Feral Takeover at Galoshans Festival 2025 and supported by a Govanhill Baths "Creative Neighbourhood Grant" by @bex.anson
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DIVE Outdoor performance 📢📢Call out📢📢 Twenty-five years after the Govanhill Baths occupation, DIVE gathers an all-ages community cast in a site-responsive choreography of water, memory and keeping things afloat. Created by Bex Anson with the people of Govanhill, and developed through workshops with local primary and secondary schools, the performance spills from Calder Street into Kingarth Lane, where bodies dive, drift, splash, synchronise and hold one another up. Shaped by the rhythms of the public pool, DIVE weaves together swimming, washing, protest and the everyday life that have kept the Baths alive for generations. They drained the pool. They couldn’t drain our spirit. 💦 Want to take part? We’re looking for a mixed-age cast of around 20 local people to perform in DIVE. No previous performance experience is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to take part. Refreshments and costumes will be provided. Free Taster Session 📅 Sunday 12 July 🕒 3–4pm 📍 Kingarth Lane (next to Govanhill Baths) Rehearsals 📅 Tue 4 Aug: 2–4.30pm 📅 Wed 5 Aug: 2–4.30pm 📅 Thu 6 Aug: 2–4.30pm 📅 Fri 7 Aug: 2–6pm (Performance Day) Attendance at all rehearsals is encouraged. ✨ Sign up via the Eventbrite (link in bio) Children under 12 must attend with a parent or carer. Young people can also take part through Govanhill Baths Youth Club by registering at youth@govanhillbaths.com @govanhillbaths @govanhillfestival @gbctyouth by @bex.anson
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Young people, this is your Govanhill. Join us for this year's parade on Saturday 1st August 2026 - all young people and families welcome. Last year, Govanhill Youth Programme took inspiration from The Lorax, asking a simple question: Who speaks for the trees? Together, young people created giant puppets, costumes, choreography and chants, imagining a greener Govanhill. The result was a joyful carnival performance celebrating nature. "Can we get a "Tweet, tweet?" "TWEET! TWEET!" "Now DJ, drop that seed!" This year, we're inviting all young people (S1+) to build a parade float with a house party vibe. Want to make something cool and epic? Contact youth@govanhillbaths.com or follow @gbctyouth. Whether or not you're part of our Youth Programme, come have fun, socialise, and make some noise! Bring your friends, bring your family. 📍 See you Saturday 1st August, 12:30pm at Queen's Park Victoria Road Gate! Huge thanks to the young people who made the 2025 Parade and Carnival, and the Govanhill Youth Programme 2025 Delivery Team: Carnival Artists: Jane McInally & Bex Anson @bex.anson Producer: Sofi Shall Youth Workers: SaeHee Simmons @saeheesimmons_design , Bronte Jones & Taylor Winters Thanks to: The Wee Retreat @theweeretreat, Alex McCabe, Joey Simmons & Dave Bernard Film by: Robbie JJ Funded by: Youthlink Scotland @youthlinkscot & Creative Scotland @creativescots by @bex.anson
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A huge well done to our Wee Drama Club on their end of term performance: Open Day at the Wee Retirement Home of the Future! Parents & guardians came to meet the spirited residents, heard their stories, experienced their daily activities, and got a taste of the exuberant life on offer. (let us know in the comments if you think we should make Wee Retirement Home a reality!) The club came up with the whole concept for the performance from start to finish, from workshopping ideas, dreaming up the characters, staging, costuming and performing! A huge thank you to @bex.anson Taylor Winters & Saehee Simmons from Govanhill Baths for guiding this group, and to all the young people who participated! by @bex.anson
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Pabbay 💘 taken in Pabbay, Harris by @bex.anson
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CALL OUT FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS - FLOCK - OUTDOOR DANCE PERFORMANCE: Be part of Merchant City Festival. 📍 Venue: Merchant City, Glasgow (Kings Court Courtyard (outside Mono and Mr Ben) 📅 Date: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July ⏰ Time: FLOCK Workshop: Arrival from 10:30AM: Workshop Start 11:00AM–12:00PM (Free but ticket required) FLOCK Performance: 12:30PM (Approx. 20 mins) Experience Needed: None — everyone welcome! Tickets: Free but booking required via Eventbrite or link in bio ------------------------------------------- About the FLOCK Workshop FLOCK is an outdoor dance experience inspired by urban birds. Guided by artist and choreographer Bex Anson and a contemporary ballet dancer, up to 30 participants come together to explore simple movement and drawing inspired by birds, public space and community. The one-hour workshop leads into a 20-minute live performance through Merchant City, where the group moves together like a flock — gathering, drifting and dispersing through the streets. By joining the workshop, participants are invited to take part in the final performance, or simply come along to watch. ------------------------------------------- Practical Info What to Wear Comfortable clothing and waterproofs if needed. Refreshments Drinks and fruit provided. Access Gentle movement activities can be adapted for different abilities and access needs. For more information about FLOCK please visit the link in our bio. Produced by Feral Part of the Merchant City Festival Image Credit: Katherine Anne Rose @soultidemovement @merchantcityfestival @bex.anson FLOCK was originally commissioned as part of the Feral Takeover at Galoshans Festival 2025 and supported by a Govanhill Baths "Creative Neighbourhood Grant" taken in Merchant City Festival by @bex.anson
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Roof test @organhaus_beibei by @bex.anson
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STRUT KIDS part dance lab part playground part disco 4 schools 10 lunchtime clubs per school 90+ kids 250+ audience 300+ ribbons given away and… Dougie, one dedicated mascot designed by the children of Rutherglen we made dances out of: playground handshakes as ritual spinning till we nearly fall skipping ropes as portals ribbons like weather kids → wolves → trees → lift → wolves →village face to face with audience 28 bodies wriggling at once somehow… everyone gets a solo everyone gets held by the group and it all kind of makes sense in the end main takeaway: kids = elite choreographers teachers = saints holding the edge of it all Thank yous❤️ To dance facilitator extraordinaire Alex Tsiapi— five years working together and still magic . For jumping fully into the chaos, testing every idea, and shaping the work so it feels right in the body before we even bring it to the kids. Couldn’t do this without you @alexandratsiapi To Producers Feral for securing funding and making it happen again after our first prototype in 2023 @feralartprojects To Dav, our tech wizard — turning school halls into full-blown dance Haciendas To Libby, Tami and Laurie -STRUT OG legends. To Gabriel, Carmen and Holly for stepping in and holding space with us @carm_ola @shok.src To Katherine for capturing the moments @kathclick STRUT Kids is supported by YouthLink Scotland, Creative Scotland’s Open Fund and Rutherglen 900. Produced by Feral. @creativescots @rutherglen900 by @bex.anson
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Raydale and Judd, I’ve been thinking a lot about your agit prop theatre, The Secret Agent. Back then we were just saying yes to everything. I took a job at Sloans so we could use the ballroom for the finale. Did shit club decor at the Classic Grand so we could get access to the derelict car park next to Sub Club. We met upstairs in Raydale’s GFM studio, above the old Modern Institute beers, biscuits, smokes, listening hard as Conrad got pulled apart and put back together. A man trying to blow up time itself, staged through the back alleys of Glasgow city centre. We had no idea what was coming. Every week more appeared, music being scored, sets growing, cardboard heads, voices recorded onto cassette tapes, a giant puppet of poor wee Stevie. We needed more bodies, so I found them: friends, stoners, familiar faces who said yes. It all just ran and the feeling that we had to make it. Then there was that afternoon, painting BAD WORLD FOR POOR PEOPLE up garnet hill. Ladders, paint,overalls, then getting chased by the cops. Proper running.. I loved you guys for rhis,The work didn’t stop when the performance ended, the city became part of it. The stickers, graffiti, posters, music with @mercuro__chrome We rinsed the public/private Gi2008 theme 😅me and Krisdy turning the lowsalt gallery into a weird corporate gallery for Andrew & Iain kettles inflatable sculptures popping up about town. Always lots of bodies, collageing, make without asking in public Nice one @brianbeadie for uncovering the insane poster by Judd Pics by Nelly 🖤 @nellyd23 lowsalt was a good time @krisdyshindler xx by @bex.anson
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Lost Species Day. In honour of the Passenger Pigeons: wild, forest-dwelling nomads that depended on living in hyper-mega flocks for their existence. Once the world’s most abundant birds in the 1800s, they say they would darken the sky for hours or days as they flew overhead. As major forest ecologists, they seeded beech nuts and acorns. 🩶To Martha, the last known of the species, who died alone in a zoo in 1914. @lostspeciesday Here’s me hanging with a flock of Rock Doves on Argyle Street, once domesticated birds that have become feral. 📸 + costume by Saehee Simmons @saeheesimmons_design taken in Argyle Street, Glasgow by @bex.anson
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📹FLOCK at the Deepend (3 mins) 🙏Stunning camera work and edit by Connor @konaerobonaero . Beautiful music from Finn. Special love to dance artist Izzy @soultidemovement and Saehee on design @saeheesimmons_design Dancers Gemma, Carmen, Alex, Ekin, Nina, Raquel, Jess, Roz, Anne, Jenny, Mike, Siobhan, Sarah, Georgia, Konrad, Aislinn, Kat. ✨✨✨ FLOCK Team Artist / Choreographer – Bex Anson Designer – Saehee Simmons Dance Artist – Izzy Zych-Watson Composer – Finn O’Hare Dramaturg – Lou Cope Producer – Feral (Jill Smith & Kathryn Boyle) Press Storytelling PR Filming / Edit – Connor McGhie Special thanks to Simone, Stevie, Jeong, Dav and Frida “Bird Whisperer” Sue. FLOCK was commissioned as part of the Feral Takeover at Galoshans Festival 2025 and supported by a Govanhill Baths Creative Neighbourhood Grant. by @bex.anson
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