GPC News Autumn 2016 ( I )

It's the last Saturday of August once again so that can only mean that the OVER the WALL festival is back for the 3rd year in a row ! Click on the flyer image opposite to download a Pdf with all the information you will need for this FREE and Fabulous wee festival. Keara Murphy is compering, with Jo Mango headlining more great musicians. Bucket loads of other activities and food on the go too. Needless to say we will have a piano in the cake tent again and the usual GPC crew in attendance. Head to the Crow Road end of Gartnvael Royal Hospital grounds. Google maps link . .. here

During DOD Festival Week in September you can come down to the fetival Hub at St Andrews in the Square and enjoy playing & decorating a piano out on the portico ~ it's GoMA all over again ! There will be a few more surprises this year with nothing officially listed in the brochure but pianos playing an important part in the festival at established venues ike the Lieper Gallery, the Lighthouse, Govanhill Baths and more as well as new ones too. Click on the flyer image opposite to download a Pdf brochure.

Throughout October you can drop in to Mackintosh Queens Cross and enjoy a piano being decorated live in real time by Avril Paton. You can take a jaunt to Helensburgh to visit the Mackintosh Club at 40 Sinclair St to playToshie, our latest Baby Grand installation ~ and there will be a Lids Open Day on Sat Oct 29th - 10am / 5pm. Booking will open for this event in late September with more info to follow soon about all of this in our September newsletter with links to the Festival brochure you will be able to download.

Piano donations are coming in outside Glasgow and the project is growing beyond the city limits with 'Libby' about to be installed in Paisley Arts Centre, before joining the Maggie's Culture Crawl Nightwalk on Oct 7th, and a piano in Dunfermline at an NHS conference, courtesy of a local choir. No sense in taking one there in a van! I am very happy to report that the GCC Area Partnerships fund has awarded us around £5000 to develop our activities in specific areas of the city including our pianos in: Woodlands, Maryhill and Govan. Full details on this and all new funding soon. Our informal piano performances & tuition sessions continue at Riverside museum on 'Denholm', generally on the 1st & last Sundays of the month. Martha Steed is still decorating 'Big Mary' at the Pearce Institute in Govan. ( Click on the image opposite to see one of the earliest examples of this type of piano shenanigans from Phoebe Anna Traquair in 1910.
'Pianos on Prescription' is definitely taking off as an idea and I will share more news as things unfold. Safe to say when a Gp calls you out of the blue to ask if one of her patients can get piano tuition then you know something is working. Click on the pic of Grainne teaching some wee ones to read the recent article in the Times. Enough for now.
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Tom Binns, Project Coordinator