Watershed

🕕 6pm 

Join us for the launch of Watershed, two weekends of Rivers, Rights, Explorations and Conversations. Jude Barber (Collective Architecture) and writer Louise Welsh will be focusing on Glasgow’s River Clyde, chaired by Robbie Armstrong of The Bell. Tonight is also the launch of ‘Who Owns the Clyde’ Saltire Society pamphlet, written by Louise Welsh with research by Louise Welsh and Jude Barber.

🕕 12:00 noon

Children’s storytelling picnic with poet, storyteller & Zimbawegie, Tawona Sithole. Bring along your teddy bears and cuddlies and listen to stories of the river. Age 0 – 7years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

🕕 1:30pm

Future Town Planners with Katrine Turner, an interactive installation where children take on the role of town planners. An invitation for young people to plan the future of the River Clyde. How would you like the river to function in the future? 

🕕 4:00pm

Artists Talk: Chris Leslie in Conversation with journalist Karin Goodwin. Chris discusses Clyde Reflections, his visual arts project, documenting and engaging with a diverse range of individuals and community groups connected to the River Clyde in Glasgow. Supported by Creative Scotland / William Grant Foundation / Glasgow 850

🕕 6:00pm

River Rights, Britain’s foremost Nature Rights Lawyer, Monica Feria-Tinta, author of ‘A Barrister for the Earth’ will be in conversation with Julia Leino of Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) Scotland's only free legal advice service on environmental and related  planning law. Chaired by Louise Welsh. 

🕕 12 noon

Children’s storytelling picnic with poet, storyteller & Zimbawegie, Tawona Sithole. Bring along your teddy bears and cuddlies and listen to stories of the river. Age 0 – 7years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

🕕 1:30pm

Future Town Planners with Katrine Turner, an interactive installation where children take on the role of town planners. An invitation for young people to plan the future of the River Clyde. How would you like the river to function in the future? 

🕕 6:00pm

Speakers are to be confirmed

🕕 12 noon

Children’s storytelling picnic with poet, storyteller & Zimbawegie, Tawona Sithole. Bring along your teddy bears and cuddlies and listen to stories of the river. Age 0 – 7years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

🕕 1:30pm

Future Town Planners with Katrine Turner, an interactive installation where children take on the role of town planners. An invitation for young people to plan the future of the River Clyde. How would you like the river to function in the future? 

🕕 4:00pm

Public Spaces, Planning and Private Ownership, Dr Georgiana Varna author of the groundbreaking book, ‘Measuring Public Space: The Star Model’ & planner, Caitlin Arbuckle MacLeod in conversation, chaired by Andrew Hoolachan

🕕 6:00pm

Launch of Watershed Commonwealth River Poetry Anthology, in association with Scottish Poetry Library, Glasgow Life and the Commonwealth Foundation. Join us for an evening of poetry, discussion and to collect your free copy on the anthology.

🕕 12 noon

Children’s storytelling picnic with poet, storyteller & Zimbawegie, Tawona Sithole. Bring along your teddy bears and cuddlies and listen to stories of the river. Age 0 – 7years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

🕕 1:30pm

Future Town Planners with Katrine Turner, an interactive installation where children take on the role of town planners. An invitation for young people to plan the future of the River Clyde. How would you like the river to function in the future? 

🕕 4:00pm

Quick Fire Talks from a diverse range of activists, scholars, artists and others connected with the Clyde and its history. Speakers TBC