Could you give us half an hour of your time to help with the Brighter Bungo back lanes clear-up?
The next clear-up is on Sunday 19th January between 11 – 1pm – find us outside the old Sammy Dows on Nithsdale Road. It’s a dead easy way to do your bit for the community you live in, plus get to know a few more neighbours. Kids love to get a grabber in their hands, so it’s a perfect family activity. The January clear up especially needs all hands on deck as we cope with the aftermath of disrupted New Year bin collections and the overflow that results from the festivities.
Come join the celebration of the New Year at Strathbungo’s traditional Hogmanay street party.
Parade through the streets around 11.30 to meet at the corner of Moray Place and Queen Square before the countdown, and stay for the music, to meet friends, have a drink and a dance. Bring your own refreshments. A little whisky and shortbread will also be available on the Society stall.
The ever popular street event to mark the passing of the old year and the arrival of the new will again be taking place in Strathbungo. Are you intending to come along? Could you possibly provide a little help? Key skills will be pouring some drinks on our stall, passing them out to the crowd, and handing round the shortbread; all skills we all get to practice at this time of the year. If you are intending to be there anyway, why not help out for ten minutes?
If anyone fancies helping out with a playlist, that would also be appreciated.
Please contact the Society Chair to let us know that you can help.
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A huge thanks to all the Society members who put months of planning in to this year’s event, the volunteers who helped setup, steward, and take down, the imaginative stall holders, the musicians, and everyone who came along to make the event another great success. Here’s a few random snaps of the day, with thanks to Craig Johnston for several of them.
And if you want to get more involved, planning starts again in the den at The Bungo on Tuesday 16th July, 7.30pm. There’s no let up. Come along if you have any great ideas to improve this or any other of our events!
The Gazebo set-up team get their moment of fame. Thanks for the help, guys!
Music in Marywood
Project Ability
Fresh Beer
The art of signwriting
New Victoria Gardens
Folky Polky
Folky Polky, Polish folklore art
Lucky dip at the Society bottle stall
Folky Polky
Nicola Surgeon visits the Peace Pole
There's one way to improve your swing
Fresh bakes
Karen Cairns artist
Jon Molyneux and Jane Carolann open the event
The Society bottle stall, always popular
Strathbungo Society Tea Garden
A fan finally gets her selfie taken with Paola!
Folky Polky
Selfie time! First minister sports Bungo Bag.
Exploring
McMillan's Bar
Dylan Lombard, photographer, raising money for Indepen-Dance
Mandy Maria, artist
The view from the Society stand
Music at the Queen Square bar
Jazz in the garden
Fast food, Bungo style
Children's Hospices Across Scotland
Tunes at the Community Zone, courtesy La Roche Rumba
Elise V Allan artist
Karen Miller photography
Jazz Zestival
The Society Tombola
If you have any good pictures, you can email us, or use the submission form, Write!
There is a programme of events at the Queens Park Arena (the old bandstand) but they don’t always seem to be well advertised locally. Or I am not paying attention.
If you want to see what is on, try their events web page. Or follow them on facebook for updates.
Tomorrow (Friday 3rd May) they are holding a celebration of the great Paul Robeson’s appearance at the bandstand on May Day 1960, with an introduction by Norry Wilson of Lost Glasgow fame, and the play Call Mr Robeson. I believe the weather will be dry (if not that warm) and tickets are still available.
There are also disco sessions on this holiday weekend.
David Murray may not be the most familiar Strathbungo character, given he lives 35 miles away on a farm in West Lothian, but he has surprisingly strong links to the community.
He has been delivering fresh organic fruit and vegetables fortnightly to the area for many years (thewholeshebag.co.uk), and regularly serves at the Society’s Back Lanes Tea Garden. His son has even provided the musical accompaniment on the pipes some years.
He recently helped clear the railway embankment at Marywood Square in preparation for spring planting, and is a dab hand at patching cobbles in the back lanes, currently restoring a section off Marywood Square. He is landscaping several gardens, including fresh turf for the tea garden this year.
Single handedly sprucing up Strathbungo – if you spot him, say hi!
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We usually meet in “The Den”, the front room in The Bungo, Nithsdale Road. You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings.[...]
We usually meet in “The Den”, the front room in The Bungo, Nithsdale Road. You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings.[...]
We usually meet in “The Den”, the front room in The Bungo, Nithsdale Road. You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings.[...]
We usually meet in “The Den”, the front room in The Bungo, Nithsdale Road. You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings.[...]
We usually meet in “The Den”, the front room in The Bungo, Nithsdale Road. You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings.[...]
We usually meet in “The Den”, the front room in The Bungo, Nithsdale Road. You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings.[...]
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