Children’s Easter Event – Free Event
Join us on Easter Sunday 17th April 12:30pm until 3:00pm at the Clyde View Bay Area next to the Blue Bridge on Glasgow Green
Face Painting/ Rickshaw Rides/Goodie bags
All welcome
Mar 21 2022
Colonel Mustard & the Dijon 5 St Lukes Saturday 23th April
Thanks to Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 for playing at our People’s Palace Birthday celebration in January. They fair livened up the event. They have recorded a great song “The Palace” as a tribute to the People’s Palace and you can hear it if you go along to their gig as part of the Spring Bonanza being held at St L
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Below is the link to the song “The People’s Palace
PEOPLES PALACE 21-02-22.wav (dropbox.com)
Mar 21 2022
Millions for the Burrell what about the Winter Gardens! Protest 29th March outside the Burrell Museum
Protest on Tuesday 29th March at 11:00am outside the Burrell Collection. Pollock Park. We will be joining with Glasgow Against Closure and other community groups to protest at the eyewatering £69million that the City Council and Glasgow Life has spent refurbishing the Burrell Museum while other venues like the People’s Palace & Winter Gardens (and other City venues) does not have an investment plan for its future.
We will be making our views known on the morning of the re-opening of the Burrell please come and join us.
Devastation of the Winter Gardens
Feb 28 2022
People’s Palace Re-opens (partially) Winter Gardens remain closed
On the 23rd February the People’s Palace partially re-opened. We were there to see it open and to welcome visitors. It was heartening to see a primary school party, the City Tour bus and families on mid-term holiday as some of the many visitors to the Palace that morning.
The People’s Palace is not fully re-opened and we have been told that repair work to the top floor has still to be completed.
Sadly the Winter Gardens remains closed with a plan for its refurbishment still to be identified by the City Council & Glasgow Life. This is totally unacceptable and our campaign continues until the People’s Palace is fully re-opened and the Winter Gardens restored.
We ask everyone to:
- Write to your local councillors and MSP asking them what they are doing to support the People’s Palace fully re-open and restoring the Winter Gardens.
- Join our organisation and support our campaign
- Sign our on-line petition
Petition · Save the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens for the City of Glasgow · Change.org
- follow us on facebook
Feb 16 2022
Birthday cards
Birthday wishes for the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens
The 124th birthday of the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens (first opened by Lord Rosebery 22 January 1898) was celebrated with style, even although the building has been closed for three years.
Tribute was paid to the artist and writer Alasdair Gray (1934-2019), whose Continuous Glasgow Show exhibition of 30 new paintings of Glasgow people and places, prised the doors of the Winter Gardens open again on 22 January 1978 after a 12 year closure. We proclaimed 22 January to be Gray Day in honour of Alasdair’s service to Glasgow and the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens.
Guests were invited to bring along birthday cards with messages for Glasgow City Council. Some of the cards were left on the fence around the building. A selection of the cards are shown here. We will send a link of this piece to Glasgow City Councillors and employees involved in the curation and care of the People’s Palace, Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green so that the love and good wishes are shared.
