Mack is Back

Today Glasgow Mackintosh launched the programme for the Creative Mackintosh Festival at the Commonwealth Games Media Hub.

The Festival is back for a third year this October with a month-long programme of arts and cultural events celebrating the life and genius of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, designer and artist and is part of Homecoming Scotland 2014.

Now in its third year, the festival will run from 1st – 31st October 2014 in Mackintosh venues throughout the city, and further afield, with the addition of several new partner venues to this year’s programme. Attendees to this year’s festival can also enjoy Mackintosh in: Glasgow Women’s Library; Provand’s Lordship; St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art; Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Nitshill; The Glad Café in Shawlands and Lyon & Turnbull, an auction house in the city’s Bath Street.

Unlooking is the key creative commission of this year’s festival. Created by Alex Rigg and Oceanallover, this is a promenade performance featuring costumes inspired by Mackintosh paintings. Unlooking is a dramatic and thought-provoking piece which will be performed at a number of the Mackintosh venues. This is Alex in a costume that is influenced by the watercolour painting The Fort, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

This year’s programme is a fantastic contribution to the year of Homecoming and will help make sure this is a summer to remember for Glasgow and all of Scotland.