The Streets

In an alternate future, there’s an artificially intelligent slime mold. Part technological and part organic, Glory Mold invites you into their world. Step into this interactive and immersive art installation created by Produced Moon.

📅 24–26 July & 31 July–2 August 

🕕 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

📍 Shop Unit (Address to be Announced)

An intimate attempt to rethink the relationship we have with the places we inhabit. Two human beings and an audience attempt to communicate, listen, and empathise with these spaces. We want them to know we care, even though our human minds can sometimes be as limited as a swimming pool.

📅 25 & 26 July

🕕 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm & 2:30 pm – 3:35 pm

📍 Ramshorn Graveyard

👉 Age 7+. During the performance, you will be watching, standing, thinking, and moving a little while wearing headphones. Please inform staff of any access requirements.

Inspired by the book of the same name, Rob Heaslip invites you to enjoy feats of agility and merriment once conjured to entertain visitors at lengthy Irish wakes. Banned by the Catholic Church, these guilty pleasures and unruly games have died out... until now.

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• 25 July | 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

• 26 July | 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm & 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

• 1 & 2 Aug | 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm & 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm.

📍 Bell Street

A unique outdoor performance by a five-strong, inclusive ensemble of playful troublemakers! Full of hope and fiercely comic, the rebellion arrives to disrupt the public norm. A Dadaist take on a brighter future, TRUTH! invites the audience into unfurling games exploring power and control—a gentle call to action and a joyful riot of love.

📅 25 & 26 July

🕕 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm & 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm

📍 Garth Street

Embodying the land and its stories, Miss Mary reclaims the lost Irish tradition of travelling dance masters. Arriving at a gathering of people, she invites the audience to exchange, listen, and dance, gathering ancestors, nostalgia, and community to share the stories that live within us all.

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• 25 July | 2:25 pm – 3:00 pm & 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm
• 26 July | 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm

📍 Garth Street

A poetic and visual contemporary circus piece contrasting domination with collaboration. Set to live music and inspired by mythology, watch the protagonist transform an exercise of control into a collective experience. Balancing on fragile wooden structures, the performer navigates risk, precision, and trust.

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• 1 Aug | 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm & 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm

• 2 Aug | 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm & 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm

📍 Brunswick Street

"...And where magic flowers once bloomed grew a pile of crap, / It grew and stretched collecting all the city folks' scrap..."

Meet Toxic Darling, a gentle, magical mass born from noxious trash. Step inside her cocoon and make a wish for something far beyond yourself.

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm & 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

📍 Candleriggs

👉 Supported by the Four Nations Bursary Programme.

They’ve got the songs. They’ve got the moves. Stuck together in one flowerbed, these joyful, unruly "flowers" bicker, rehearse, and pull themselves together for the crowd. Sing to them, and if they like what they hear, they’ll respond!

📅 25 & 26 July and 1 & 2 Aug 

🕕 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm & 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm

📍 Brunswick Street benches

👉 A Surge Tech Box Project

ALIH/SHIFT is an immersive dance experience turning public space into a living canvas. Through 5 distinct movement studies, the performance reveals the shifting, unstable, and resilient relationships between individuals, their surroundings, and their personal histories.

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm & 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

📍 Brunswick Street

Parading, unmissable inflatable wonders! These curious, musical, and highly emotional idiots physically inflate into elaborate, awkward, and beautiful shapes as they encounter new people and things on the streets.

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

👉 Supported by the Four Nations Bursary Programme.

Two large parade puppets take to the streets of Glasgow, playing with and drawing in the crowds. Reflecting ancient Greek tragedy and comedy masks in a modern context, these opposite characters embody the elements of rain and sun through their design, build, and movement.

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• 25 & 26 July | 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm & 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

• 1 & 2 Aug | 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm & 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm

Gilded from head to toe, Brass, Aye? brings maximum funk, singing, dancing, and carnival flavours to the party. Fostering growth and creating joy is at the heart of what they do... expect total energy and shiny golden goodness.

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• 26 July: 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm (Garth St) | 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm (Walkabout)

• 2 Aug: 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm & 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm (Bell Street)

Surge joins forces with Nemo Arts to bring a brilliant community walkabout act to the streets of Glasgow. Expect silliness, expect absurdity, and expect the unexpected! 

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm & 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

👉 Delivered by Surge, supported by Glasgow Life and Merchant City Festival 

A clown and a buffoon are carrying a bag of oranges to a destination they will never reach. As the bright oranges spill onto the ground, each one sparks a story: an opera, a tragedy, a farce. An irresistible invitation to the public to connect and embrace spontaneous ways of being.

📅 25 & 26 July and 1 & 2 Aug 

🕕 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm & 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm

A high-energy, 20-minute interactive outdoor dance experience where the audience becomes part of the show. Blending global street dance styles, rhythm is built live through movement and body percussion, culminating in a massive finale where everyone joins the wave.

📅 25 & 26 July

🕕12:15 pm – 12:45 pm & 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

📍 Brunswick Street

👉 Supported by the Four Nations Bursary Programme

It's 1997 and these friends are only worried about their Giga Pets working after Y2K. Stumbling upon a massive hopscotch board filled with Welsh words instead of numbers, they must use high-energy dance and teamwork to decode the board before the streetlights come on!

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm & 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm

📍 Walkabout with a finale on Bell St

👉 Supported by the Four Nations Bursary Programme

Roaming performers transform into living card tables, drawing small groups into intimate, surprising magic encounters. Combining faux-marble aesthetics with tabletop design, each surface becomes a miniature stage for sleight of hand and visual illusions before the performers drift away.

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm & 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

👉 Supported by the Four Nations Bursary Programme

A vibrant musical experience inspired by Indian street food. Audiences "order" from a playful menu, transforming choices into short, high-impact bursts of live Dhol drumming and melodies with an Indian twist. Expect bright costumes and infectious, spontaneous rhythms.

📅 25 & 26 July 

🕕 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm & 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

👉 Supported by the Four Nations Bursary Programme