Join us on Saturday 23rd November 2-3.30pm for a meditative experience, exploring the notion of ‘gestational waters’ through restful listening and shared rituals. Guided by artist Grace Browne, we’ll journey through underwater sounds and storytelling of the deep, reimagining the ancient mythology of the seven sisters of the Pleiades star cluster – known in Igbo…

A meditative sound healing led by Gillian Katungi on Saturday 18 May 2024 from 2–5pm at Market Gallery. Photo: David Chukwujekwu Provocations and prompts will guide you through a map of Gillian’s most recent research interests applied to a different context, culminating in a new entanglement of her work. Rooted in emergent strategy, participants are…

Saturday 24th February 12-2.30pm – “all the monstrous islands / all the trembling people” a writing workshop led by Maya Uppal focused on islands, cultural isolationism and world-building. This workshop will be guided by research into how islands can be defined not only as land contained by water but as any deliberately isolated place, both…

Saturday 2nd December 2-5pm, 13 Ross Street, Glasgow G1 5AR Aimed toward artists and art workers from all creative sectors, this session will equip you with a broad understanding of how to expand your practice into Digital Technology and Web Design. We are excited to host a creative coding session with For Starters’ Coding club.…

Sunday 25 June / 2-5pm How can we draw from soil ecosystems to aid us in processes of decay, grief and death? Can we build interdependency, like mycelium, as we collectively turn towards a more life-sustaining society? This workshop will be a chance to join Amy Dakin Harris in her ongoing research on the violence…

As part of our seasonal Resource Library workshop programme, on Saturday 15th April 11-2pm, Hussein Mitha will be leading a learning and making workshop on climate justice and radical pedagogy. This workshop will support the launch of a new publication, called ‘Paradise Now: A Climate Justice Handbook for Young People.’ The publication comes from a…

Sat 11th February 12-3pm with Zoë Charlery. This workshop will be a [slow and quiet] space to tend to the traces of memory inscribed in our name(s) and consider how we negotiate these presence/s in our daily lives. Through writing and sensory exercises, participants will plot and contemplate the entanglements of personal [imagined + felt]…

‘Abolition requires that we change one thing, everything’ – Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Why is it so hard to imagine a world without prisons or other forms of punishment? What if we didn’t automatically phone 999 when faced with harm, conflict, or a stranger in distress? As Ruth Wilson Gilmore suggests, visualising and working for the…

Market is excited to host Memories of Elsewhere for a workshop on exploring words, languages, poetry and rhythms. In this workshop, we will work together to create collective poems that combine memories, experiences, personal journeys and languages and reflect on the process of cultural hybridisation that happens with movement and migration.

An Abominable Little Perversion is a zine which emerged out of Reading Troupe #14 – Domestic Decadence, a writing workshop led by Emma Wolf-Haugh, taking place via post and video call in the summer of 2020. An associative group of self isolating makers writing queer-feminist erotica from home during covid 19, it’s about re-situating the…

Market Gallery is excited to host Reading Troupe #14: Domestic Decadence – Furniture erotica & bedroom salon slash fiction in the time of Corona. This distanced workshop will be conducted by post and over zoom in the first week of June. Please read on for more info and how to sign up. “It seems to…

This informal workshop led by artist and writer Sarah Tripp will consider the many voices we use in our private and working lives. Some of these voices will be identified and distilled with a view to describing an intimate experience you will have within the workshop duration. You will be asked to make people up,…

Unearthings is a workshop exploring the use of writing within art, discussing the barriers at play that prevent artists from developing confidence in writing, editing and sharing their writing with others. It will involve a conversation as to why and how people are made to feel alienated from writing, despite naturally leaning towards it as…

Social Prescription is a workshop that aims to open up various fasting practices, putting them up for debate and inviting participants to share and exchange perspectives. The workshop is informed by the artist’s performance practice, and a contextualisation of fasting as a ritual that locates the site of resilience within the body. Contesting conventional notions and…

We are excited to introduce you to Market Gallery’s collaboration with My Bookcase, I think you are using the word archive inaccurately. This summer, the Market Gallery committee has decided to devote time to opening and examining the contents of its archive. My Bookcase has been invited to provide the platform for multiple perspectives concerning…

11 January – 21 February 2014 Opening Event: Saturday 11 January 3pm – 6pm For six weeks from the 11th of January 2014, Glasgow Open Dance School is based at Market Gallery, creating a physical, welcoming space for movement research and practice in Glasgow. The first space at Market Gallery is The Resource Room, which…