Stories from the Briggait

Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival takes place every September, celebrating and promoting the city’s diverse architecture and heritage. The festival sees over 100 buildings and sites open their doors for anyone to visit, along with an extensive programme of walks, talks, tours and much more – all for free!Glasgow Doors Open Days is organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, a charity that works to rescue, repair, restore and rehabilitate historic buildings at risk across the city.View this year's programme and find out more at www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.ukOur 2018 festival runs 10-16th September, bookings for ticketed events open late August.

Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival

Learn about the Briggait, past, present and future.

One of Glasgow’s most enduring and endearing landmarks, A-listed building The Briggait has been a part of the River Clyde skyline since the Nineteenth Century. Built in 1873, the Briggait served as the city’s bustling fish market for over 100 years.The Briggait, now operated by Wasps, provides vibrant studio space for over 80 visual artists and office space for 25 cultural organisations and charities.Join us for a live streamed talk from Glasgow Building Preservation Trust’s Ingrid Shearer, and Wasps’ Tara Marshall-Tierney, to learn more about the history and the untold stories of this spectacular building, and, from Monday 14 September, take a look behind closed doors as some of our tenants present a virtual ‘open studio’ on our website: www.waspsstudios.org.ukThis event will be held on Zoom. You will receive your link to the Zoom session, by email, 30 mins before the event is scheduled to start.

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