Festivals
See also: Glasgow FestivalsAs part of Glasgow's cultural renaissance, Glasgow is host to a variety of festivals throughout the year:-
- Celtic Connections - January
- Glasgow Film Festival - February
- Glasgow International Comedy Festival - March
- Glasgow International Festival (Visual Arts) - April
- Glasgow Art Fair - April
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh Festival
- Big Big Country - May (last held in 2006)
- West End Festival - June
- Lord Provost's Procession (discontinued)
- Glasgow International Jazz Festival - June
- North Glasgow International Festival (last held in 2005)
- Bard in the Botanics - July
- Glasgow's River Festival - July
- Glasgow Mela - June
- Piping Live! - August
- World Pipe Band Championships - August
- Merchant City Festival - September
- Glasgay! - November
- Glasgow's Hogmanay - December
- Glasgow Orange Parades
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“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)