Tuesday 15 November 2022 

GRAHAM SUTHERLAND is Head of Production for the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, and for much of the last ten years has been focused on the redesign of the Citizens in his role as Client Representative on the capital redevelopment project. He is also an experienced production and project manager with a background in lighting and sound who has worked at the theatre for many years. 

Citizens Theatre - Building in Recovery 

The current Citizens Theatre building project is the first comprehensive redevelopment of the building since it opened in 1878, re-designing an ageing and vulnerable building into a vibrant cultural venue and major landmark for Glasgow. The project will transform the experiences of audiences, participants and performers and secure the future of audiences, participants and performers and secure the future of one of Scotland's most iconic buildings and theatre companies. It was always an ambitious project to deliver but events have conspired to make it more challenging than anyone could have imagined. Graham will talk about the journey through the pandemic for the theatre, the design, and the work on site. 

Tuesday 17 January 2023 

ANNE M. LYDEN is the Chief Curator of Photography at the Scottish National Galleries. She is the author of several books on photography. Photographs of Glasgow from the National Collection 

Anne will talk about Glasgow and how the city and its people have been recorded through photographs from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. 

Tuesday 21 February 2023 

DR EMILY MUNRO is a curator and learning officer at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive, Scotland's national collection of moving images, based at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow.

The Southside on film 

In this illustrated presentation, Emily will screen highlights from the archive that show Glasgow's landscapes and people south of the Clyde, including footage from Pollok Park, Queens Park, Bellahouston, Pollokshields, Govanhill and the Gorbals. Sit back and enjoy a range of subjects including weddings, police, trams and fountains. 

Tuesday 18 April 2023 (following the AGM) 

DAN SWEENEY  after a career in education he decided to turn his interest to local history. In 2013 he published Shadows of the City, a chronicle of Glasgow's lost mansions and houses followed by three other titles. His next book will focus on Dumfries, Galloway and the Borders. He was one of the original presenters of the STV Glasgow People's History Show and has contributed items to the show over the years. 

Lost Grandeur of the Clyde: a vanished Architectural Heritage. 

The River Clyde from its source near Elvanfoot in the clear and unpolluted air of the Southern Uplands, through the open and rolling landscape of the orchard country around Lanark and the rich and fertile farmlands to the north, all the way to the Firth of Clyde, has proved popular with people of wealth and substance who built stately homes in scenic and picturesque locations along its banks. The talk will focus on a selection of these properties, once notable features of the local landscape but now lost to the built environment. 

Tuesday 21 November 2023
NIALL MURPHY, Director Glasgow City Heritage Trust

Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 15 Years and 15 Projects

Niall discusses the work of the Trust over 15 years, discussing 15 key projects, their mission and objectives.