South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture

South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Ltd, Arts Development team deliver many arts classes in venues throughout the South Lanarkshire Council area.

The Digital Photography classes for adults at East Kilbride Arts Centre have been running for a number of years. The introduction course teaches all the fundamental skills from composing shots to using creative auto modes then aperture priority for total control over your camera.

Participants from the classes are exhibiting here for the first time, some who before taking this course had never picked up a camera before. With the tutor’s support and direction, you will see the progress that the participants have made.  

If you would like to have a go at digital photography, then please speak to the reception for more information.

Cost: Free

 

‘Going to the Pictures,’ the National Library of Scotland’s touring display, is now open at Low Parks Museum.

This free display tells the story of cinemas through the ages, representations of Scotland on the silver screen, Scottish locations used for major productions, and Scotland’s rich history of documentary filmmaking. 

Footage from the Moving Image Archive will complement the display, which shows over 100 years of cinema in Scotland.

Cost: Free admission

Returning to exhibit at the Arts Centre, Saffronhall Arts Club presents All kinds of Everything, a new display of paintings of various subjects from landscapes to portraits, florals to figures, realism to abstraction, all created in a variety of mediums. Something for everyone.

We hope you enjoy the exhibition.

The club meets in Hillhouse Parish Church, Hamilton every Thursday, 10:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-3:00pm throughout the year. The tutor, Jason Campbell BA (Hons) Fine Art, helps everyone to develop individual skills at his/her own pace.

For further information email:  wil.sh16@outlook.com

Cost: Free

 

Beyond the Barricade, the UK’s longest running musical theatre concert tour features past principal performers from Les Miserables. It delivers over two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, ending of course with a stunning finale from Les Mis. This brand new show will include many of the best numbers that have made Beyond the Barricade the most popular musical theatre concert in the country.
 
The concert features David Fawcett (Valjean), Andy Reiss (Enjolras & Resident Director for the National Tour of Les Miserables), Katie Leeming (Eponine) and Poppy Tierney (Cosette). Together with a live band they capture the feel of the original orchestrations of the chosen musicals.
 
To this day every musical note is still played and sung live – very rare indeed. Beyond the Barricade gives musical theatre songs a bold concert format treatment – but with the conviction and intention to deliver the material as if the audience are watching the original performance.

Available to book online or by calling Lanark Memorial Hall on 01555 673199.

Cost: £24.00

 

Alastair McDonald has been a performer on a full-time basis since 1970. He has built up a successful career not only in his native Scotland; on numerous occasions he has been invited to take his own style of musical entertainment to locations as diverse as America, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Thailand, East Africa and the Arab Emirates.

Never one to be easily pigeon-holed, he is probably best known as "...the folk singing jazz banjo-player from Scotland..." except for those areas in which he's known as "...the Scottish jazz banjo-playing folk singer..." !

Alastair's radio and TV credits are too numerous to list, likewise his recordings, and you will find him equally at home in a jazz club, folk club, variety show, theatre, concert hall or Church - not because he tailors his performance to the venue of the moment, but rather believes that a solid, entertaining, wholesome, uncompromising, thought provoking repertoire should know no bounds or require an apology wherever it may be performed.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: £12.00 / £10.00 concession