Glasgow Beer and Pub Project - April 2010
Glasgow Beer and Pub Project is a six-week socially engaged art and field-research project into Glasgow's beer industry and pub culture. The research will lead to the creation of participatory artworks for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art at The Market Gallery and other public venues.
Included in the programming is Pub School, an educational event series exploring the aesthetics of beer and brewing in Glasgow, and the Market Gallery Pub, a one night pub that will present Scotland-based homebrewed beers as artworks.
Visit the Glasgow Beer and Pub Project Blog
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
THE PUB SCHOOL
The Pub School is a weekly educational event-series that explores the aesthetics of beer and brewing in Glasgow. Beer making is an art form that influences our daily routines more than one might initially realize. Drinking beer, as pointed out by conceptual artist Tom Marioni is a social lubricant and I would add that it is also a social glue. The act of drinking a good beer, although a small action, is inherently a form of activism; it is a social act with political side-effects as it helps build community, place, and interest in local business. For the Pub School, the public is invited to consider the blurring of art and beer by taking part in homebrewing demos, beer sampling sessions, lectures, presentations, pub-crawls, and more.
DETAILS
Every Wednesday in April
All events are, click the links for full details.
April 7 - All-Grain Brewing Demo - 5pm -9pm
April 14 - Selected Readings About Beer - 7pm
April 21 - Meet the Brewer: Scott Williams - 7pm
April 28 - Brewery Tour - 7pm
April 30 - Market Gallery Pub - 6-10pm
THE MARKET GALLERY PUB
The Market Gallery Pub is an all-senses, one-night, pub that will serve homebrewed beers to the public. Homebrewers all over Scotland have been invited to create beers for this event, where they will be presented as expanded artworks. This event will be part of the programming of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and will serve to bring attention to beer as a site for social and creative artmaking. The Market Gallery Pub is the culmination event for the Pub School, a weekly educational-event series where visitors were asked to consider the aesthetics of beer and brewing and the blurring art and beer.
One beer will be selected to be reproduced for a short 600 bottle production on the system at Williams Bros. Brewing. The selected beer will be sold via mail order and in specialty shops. This beer will also receive free entry into the International Beer Challenge.
DETAILS
When: April 30th, 2010 - 6-10pm
Where: @The Market Gallery (334 Duke St. Glasgow)
Cost: Free (visitors will receive a limited number of drinking tickets)
Pouring: Pours will be approximately 240ml per cup
PARTICIPATING BREWERS
A list of participating homebrewers:
Andrew Billcliffe
Balls to the Wall Brewing
Bennachie Brewery
Buccleuch Brewing
Geoff Traill
Jacob Griffin
Little Lectures Brewing
Mark Brannan
Owen Sheerins
Pub School Beers
Rhys Thomas
Robbie Pickering
Steve McQueen Brewery
Participating Breweries:
Harviestoun Brewery
Williams Bros. Brewing Co.
OTHER
The Market Gallery Pub will be available for installation viewing May 1-15th. Please see the Market Gallery Webpage for visiting hours.
