Art School 'Freshers' Week 2013 9-14 September

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Walking Campus Tour: Garnethill + Skypark

MEET OUTSIDE - FREE

Meet in the students association (The Art School) for a tour

around the GSA buildings. This should help you get your bear-

ings.

BIG SCREEN presents.. Ghost World(2001)

BAR - FREE + Popcorn IncludedOur student-led lm night, running since 2009, gets underway.Students are encouraged to show their lm and video workbefore the feature. Last years Big Screen Short Film Festival

entrants will be screened at the start of every lm during theweek.Enid and Rebecca are two social outsiders. Having recently gradu-

ated from high school they spend their days wandering around

their boring little town criticizing pop culture and the people they

encounter while trying to gure out life.

Student Cooking Workshop

KITCHEN - FREE

Head-chef Jameel Lombard shows you how to cook on ashoe string, very limited places... rst come rst served.

James Stephen Wright: Performance

A Study of Noses: Past, Present, Proboscises

BAR - FREE

The third level of consciousness is the understanding of yoursurroundings via your nose. My nose realised its ownexistence through other species proboscises realising whatit could have been if truly its shape use was down to chance.I created my nose a pen so it could draw, write and get toknow these alien shapes. In this adventure my nose will show

you what you really are through an ink portrait.

MASS DJs

BAR+DOWNSTAIRS VENUE- FREE

MASS (Mackintosh Architecture Student Society) kick the

week off with a group of their nest DJs. Expect events fromthem throughout the year!MASS endeavours to create conversation within the Scottish archi-

tecture community and put the student voice at the forefront of

discussions on the future of architecture in Scotland.

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Tie Dye Workshop

UPSTAIRS GALLERY - 1

Last year 250 people turned up to this so please be patient if it is

equally over-subscribed! Bring preferably white clothes and under-

wear.

U DJ

Subcity*

BAR - FREE

Turn up with your music (in whatever format you like: vinyl, cas-

sette, CD and MP3) and play out! If youve never used a mixer or

DJd before someone will be on hand to provide any assistance you

require.

Build a Radio Transmitter

Subcity*

BAR - FREE (limited places)

A workshop inspired by the micro radio movement, this workshop

will guide you how to build your own micro radio transmitter.

International Students Welcome

DOWNSTAIRS - FREE

A chance for all incoming and returning international GSA students

to get to know each other and see what the Students Association

has on offer. Food and drink will be provided!

PANEL DISCUSSION

Subcity*

UPSTAIRS GALLERY - FREEPossibilities of Glasgow as a location for music production and

distribution. What does/can a location represent to the community/

culture of production and distribution?

The panel includes writers, artists, studios, labels, distros and pro-

moters working in Glasgow. Including representatives from Dummy,

Fact, Rubadub, Numbers, Green Door Studio, Clandestine Records

etc.

Presidents Pool Tournament

UPSTAIRS BAR - 50p PER GAME

Sam orchestrates the inaugural pool tournament of the year. He

will excite with tales of student engagement and institutional qual-

ity enhancement criteria. Dont worry - the creepiness is just part

of his charm!

Google Useless Radio (LIVE-R)

Subcity*

DOWNSTAIRS VENUE - FREE

Glasgow Unis radio station Following a tradition of free-form

radio that can be traced through Negativlands Over the Edge

radio series, Google Useless Radios ****documentary-commen-tary-eld recording-call-in-karaoke-interview**** approach to

broadcasting relies on interaction and interruption. This will be

their rst ROADSHOW.

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Freshers Fayre

BAR - FREE

Meet lots of Glasgow based institutions andbusinesses you are likely to make use of during your

time at GSA. Featuring.... Campus Group, CCA (Centre for

Contemporary Art), Flux Laser Studios, Fruit Market Gallery,

Glasgow Film Theatre, GSA Enterprise, Millers Art Shop, NiceN Sleazy, Paperchase, SIAG, S.I.E, The Skinny, Yes Scotland,

Better Together, Gideons, Christian Union, Collective Gallery,

Saltmarket & Gilzean Therapies.

Economics for Artists

UPSTAIRS GALLERY - FREE

Whats the difference between an iPod and a Portrait?

Is working for free ever a good idea? Where does prot

come from in the art world? This workshop will explorehow to best sell-out in the creative industries. Alterna-tively: burn it down.

Themes: cultural capital, heterodox economics, exploita-

tion

BIG SCREEN presents... Peeping Tom (1960)

DOWNSTAIRS VENUE - FREE + Popcorn

Included

The lm that destroyed Michael Powells integrity as a di-rector in the eye of critics and studios. A deep, dark viewat voyeurism and the nature of the cameras eye.

Pub Quiz Newbies Special

Feat. new Smart Phone Friendly Rounds!

BAR - FREE

Not Book smart? Well fear no more, ArtSchooler! Nei-ther are we! ITS THE ART SCHOOL PUB QUIZ! Free

Entry and Prizes to be won! *TBC every Wednesdaythereafter*

Sound Bluff presents... The Weakest Link +

The Sound and the Fury + Felix Welch + Tet-

raspoon

GSA Live Bands Night


The GSA best acts at the moment including some recent

graduates. Not to be missed!We strongly encourage people to make use of ourdownstairs live music venue and have a drum kit you canalso practice on!

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Clothing Swap and Repair Shop!

GSA Sustainability in Action Group (SiAG)

UPSTAIRS GALLERY - FREE

Bring clean used clothing you no longer want

Take clothing you like... shoes, mens, womens, childrens cloth-

ing all welcome. Please no underwear or towels. We will also be

hosting a repair shop. If you have a favourite piece of clothing that

needs some love, were on hand to help out. Buttons, patches and

even some darning. Only simple jobs please

City Walking Tour Glasgow Miracle Tour

FREE (limited places!)

GSA enterprises Glasgow Miracle Tour limited to only 25 places.

A perfect introduction to the history and inner-workings of Glas-

gows unique arts scene! First come rst serve at the Freshers

Fair.

Many Studios - Pecha-Kucha

20 Slides x 20 SecondsDOWNSTAIRS VENUE - FREE

An evening of short, fast, punchy Pecha Kucha presentations from

Glasgow based studio provider Many, their 2013 Graduate Resi-

dents and special guests. Annually Many run a Graduate Residency

Programme based at their studios in Merchant City. This year

three of the four chosen residents studied at GSA. This event gives

the chance for new students to gain insight into work of the most

recent and exciting art and design graduates working in the city

and probably hear some funny stories.

Ceilidh


Traditional Scottish folk dancing, bring a crash helmet and knee-

pads!

WELCOME BACK PARTY + Pre Party from 9pm in

the bar

Feat. David Barbarossa, Fight for the Happiness of

Children of all Lands and current GSA DJ collective;

WERK

MAKE DO, 95 Hope Street 3

(Tickets available from the bar)

A High-Life Italo-House Disco Afro-Beat Party designed to en-

courage (cultural) intercourse between the new and the old.

The students association is famed for its parties. This is the rst

big one of the term at the 600 capacity Make Do venue opposite

central station - A good chance to meet loads of present and for-

mer students.

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Gilzean Therapies Freshers Special

UPSTAIRS GALLERY - 6

30min Swedish Massage - Quick Fix Acupressure

and neuromuscular massage working deeply on

pressure points and helping to relax postural mus-

cles that have been tight for too long.

Book at the Freshers Fair on Wed 11th - Limited

amount of space so rst come rst served!

BIG SCREEN presents.. Jurassic Park

(1993)


It has DINOSAURS in it!

Student Cooking Workshop

KITCHEN - FREE

Head-chef Jameel Lombard shows you how to

cook on a shoe string, very limited places... rst

come rst served.

Bingo Night

UPSTAIRS BAR - FREEA seedy early evening of lucky numbers and prizes

HOLY ESQUE (live)+ The New Fabian

Society + Twin Mirrors

DOWNSTAIRS VENUE- FREE/PWYW

Following their recent success at SXSW and Glas-

tonbury, HOLY ESQUE play an exclusive free gig.

We expect big things from the band, which in-cludes a GSA student and one of our bar staff.

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We Worship the Sun + Tropical Trash

Jumble Sale + All day BBQ

WHOLE VENUE! - FREE / 3 non-GSA

An all day smorgesbord with BBQ and Tropical

Trash jumble sale in the oh so shiny We Worship

The Sun format; featuring performances from

Mistoa Polta, Ex-servicemen, Dead Wood, Thoth,

Ck Dexter Haven, The Famous Five and about

Twenty others. Expect punk jollies and absurdist

improv in a laidback atmosphere.

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