A major new presentation by one of Brazil's most renowned living sculptors PREVIEW Friday 9 May, 7 to 9pm Open Wednesdays to Sundays Solange Pessoa (b.1961 Ferros Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is one of Brazil’s most renowned living sculptors. This solo exhibition at Tramway, her first major presentation in a UK institution, consists of large-scale sculptural forms made from ceramic, bronze and Hebridean fleece, produced between Glasgow and Minas Gerais, Brazil. The exhibition brings together constellations of organic materials, referencing landscapes, archaeology and historical narratives from both Brazil and Scotland. A series of sculptures will be realised in several clusters across the vast gallery space, inspired by diverse materials and forms ranging from seedpods, nests, plant-life, erratic boulders and Scottish bronze age standing stones, to large-scale sculptures created from raw sheep’s wool. Speaking to the colonial, agricultural, archaeological and material histories that have shaped the landscape of both Brazil and Scotland, this new body of sculptures will manifest as an ecological, visceral and sometimes otherworldly landscape unfolding across the gallery floor, creating connections that span the prehistoric past to the present ecological crisis. Part of the British Council UK-Brazil Season of Culture Solange Pessoa’s exhibition is generously supported by The Henry Moore Foundation More about Solange Solange Pessoa (b.1961, Ferros, Brazil) lives and works in Belo Horizonte.  Her selected solo institutional exhibitions include Solange Pessoa, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2023); Longilonge, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa (2019); Metaflor-Metaflora, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte (2013); Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2008); Museu da Inconfidência, Ouro Preto (2000); Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (1995); and Centro Cultural São Paulo (1992). Pessoa has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad including Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles, The Barbican Center, London (2024); Fondation Cartier pour L’Art Contemporain, Triennale Milano, Milan (2024); The 59th International Biennale di Venezia – The Milk of Dreams, Venice (2022); Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Living Worlds, Fondation Cartier, Lille (2022); Elementos Vitales: Ana Mendieta in Oaxaca, OA Juarez, Oaxaca (2021); This Morning, in the Sweet Torpor of the Great Forest, is Like Every Morning in the World, SALT, Renens (2020); Invenção de Origem, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018); La Fin de Babylone - Mich Wunder, dass ich so Fröhlich bin, Koln Skulptur #9, Cologne (2017); New Shamans (2016), High Anxiety (2016), and No Man’s Land: Women Artists (2015), Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Arte e Patrimônio, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2014); Arqueologia das Terras Altas, 4th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2003) Mostra do Redescobrimento, CAPS Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2001); Heranças Contemporâneas (1999) and Encontros e Tendências (1993), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, No Existen los Limites, Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo (1996). Image - Installation View of Solange Pessoa at Kunsthaus Bregenz, November 2023 to February 2024 Courtesy of Kunsthaus Bregenz Photo by Markus Tretter

Sufi Festival invites you on a soul-stirring journey into the mystical and magnificent world of Sufism! Saturday 19 July – Sufi Conference 3pm to 9.30pm £10 (limited 2 for 1 ticket offer available now) Sunday 20 July - Sufi Festival 10.45am to 11pm FREE This third edition of Glasgow's Sufi Festival presents a Sufi Conference on Saturday 19 July packed with fascinating, enlightening, and transformative talks by internationally recognised scholars and teachers who rarely appear in Glasgow. Sunday 20 July will be a jam-packed day full of performances by acclaimed artists including Khayaal Theatre, Canadian Nasheed sensation Nader Khan, slam poet Sukina Noor, dub singer Ahmed Ikhlas, storyteller Jumana Moon, and original songstress Medina Tenour Whiteman, as well as Nasheeds from our co-hosts Khaleel Muhammad and Abdullah Haqani. Plus so much more, with activities for all the family, a bazaar and food stalls!

Scottish Ballet’s Wee Nutcracker comes to Tramway! Enchanting characters are performed by our dancers in this specially adapted version of the beloved festive ballet, perfect for children aged 5+ and their families who are looking to experience their first ballet together. Follow Clara on her magical adventures through the Land of Sweets in a production designed to captivate young imaginations and introduce them to the world of classical ballet. Created by Scottish Ballet Associate Choreographer Nicholas Shoesmith and award-winning children’s theatre specialist Robert Evans, this magical show brings the classic tale to life through delightful movement and engaging storytelling. Wee Nutcracker will feature a live pianist and a recording of the full Scottish Ballet orchestra playing the spectacular Tchaikovsky score. We’ve created Wee Nutcracker with families in mind by adapting and modifying the content of the original production, and the duration has been reduced to 45 minutes. These modifications will make for a welcoming, comfortable, and relaxed experience for all the family to enjoy. Supported by Albert Bartlett Suitable for ages 5+ Running time: The performance lasts approximately 45 mins with no interval. ACCESS: Audiences are welcome to move, tic, stim or make noise For full schedule and to book visit scottishballet.co.uk Group sales email: [email protected] Find out about Wee Nutcracker workshops for ages 5 to 8>

A new solo exhibition exploring ecological and environmental narratives. OPEN Wednesdays to Fridays 12pm to 5pm Saturdays 12pm to 6pm Sundays 12pm to 5pm (CLOSED Mondays and Tuesdays) Sarah Rose’s practice spans sculpture, sound and installation to create works which explore ecological and environmental narratives. She is interested in the material residues of our everyday lives and how these impact our environment, often working with waste materials, by-products or found objects. Rose removes these materials from circulation, transforming them into artworks through alchemic and experimental processes. Rose’s exhibition at Tramway, Torpor, incorporates processes of material transformation using the basic elements of glass, heat and light. Through these mediums, she explores themes of power, energy, information, connection and environmental precarity. The exhibition poses the question, ‘What might a feminist energy system look like?’ creating propositions for alternative, mutualistic energy systems that might provide sufficient energy for care and well-being rather than profit. The title refers to the phenomenon of summer torpor—a state of dormancy or slowed activity that some animals enter during high temperatures or resource scarcity—inviting reflection on energy conservation and resistance to constant productivity. Rose harnesses solar energy to power kinetic sculptures and prototype animal habitats. These include a maternity box for bats, and glass components from electricity pylons repurposed as bird feeders to then encourage moth habitats. In doing so, Rose foregrounds the energy labour of other living beings i.e. bats and moths, and their relationship with maintaining human and non-human habitats. The exhibition traces the ways in which glass and light form part of our networks, from the fibre optic cables that are woven into our spaces to the reflective glass used to illuminate our road networks. The latter is one of Rose’s primary materials for the exhibition. Rose takes this industrial glass out of road production and hand-moulds it into fragile, organic sculptural forms. Many of these forms reference quietly productive, invisible or nocturnal ecosystems, such as flowers that bloom at night for nocturnal pollinators. A new audio work powered by transparent photovoltaic glass, a developing technology, powers an immersive nocturnal soundscape played across car radio speakers. Sarah Rose’s exhibition is generously supported by The Foundation Foundation. ACCESS It is our aim to make Tramway as accessible as possible for all our visitors. Download our Gallery Visitor Pack with this link . A hard copy of this pack is also available from our Box Office Reception desk on request. Header image: Sarah Rose, Torpor, Tramway (2025) Photo Keith Hunter

Part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May A dynamic and visually stunning aerial show for families and children that explores the joy of friendship Friday 23 May, 2pm and 6.45pm (Each performance is 1 hour long) Two friends perform breathtaking aerial shows. They fly, spin, hang from the rooftops and fall out of the sky… But they weren’t always so glorious. How did they transform from feeling like outsiders, unable to fit in, to the fantastical creatures they always knew they had inside them? The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl is the touching story of a girl who wants to be a monster and a boy who wants to fly. Exploring the universal yearning to belong and sharing the joy of friendship, this is a dynamic and visually stunning aerial show. Recommended for ages 9+ ACCESS The 2pm performance is Relaxed: Audiences can leave and re-enter the space as they please throughout. The performers will share what the brightest and darkest lighting states, and loudest sound will be, at the beginning of this performance. The 6.45pm performance will include integrated BSL from Karen Forbes Highly visual Transcript can be provided on request CREDITS The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl is by Vee Smith and Sadiq Ali. Produced by Catherine Wheels, commissioned by Imaginate, in association with the National Theatre of Scotland and supported by Assembly. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund, development funded by Creative Scotland Lighting Designer: Jamie Heseltine Technical Manager: Bryn Jones Costume Designer: Cleo McCabe Dramaturg & Co-creator: Gill Robertson Sound Designer: Guy Veale Set Designer: Jen McGinley Movement Director: Junior Cunningham Production Manager: Lauren Desjardins Producer: Louise Gilmour-Wills Artist Mentor: Rishi Trikha Co-Creator: Sadiq Ali Co-Creator: Vee Smith Photo Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

An immersive performance created in Shetland and inspired by the migration of birds. Through mesmerising choreography, live music from Jenny Sturgeon, and stunning projected visuals, A Journey of Flight creates a thought-provoking journey of arrivals, departures, the nostalgia of place and the notion of flight itself. Set against a backdrop of flowing white sheets which act as a canvas for projected visuals, the dancers move through ever-changing spaces, exploring new states of being and new homes. This captivating and thought-provoking piece invites audiences to reflect on the delicate balance between nature, movement and our emotional ties to place - and each other. Recommended for ages 8+ ACCESS Highly Visual / No or Little Text. An access guide will be available. Photo Chloe Tallak

Part of Take Me Somewhere Festival, 15 to 26 October Somewhere between ritual, the apocalypse, and the carnival, where the flesh can deviate and corrupt to challenge narrated identity until it bursts and becomes unbearable. Fresh from a knockout run and critical acclaim at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, FRANK arrives as the bold final chapter in Cherish Menzo’s trilogy. FRANK, as in open, honest, direct, and short for Frankenstein, observes that which the speaking being has placed not "in here" but "out there" on the other side of the border.
 As the quest to distort the familiar continues, Cherish Menzo examines the monster's figure, its various relations to the idea of humanhood, and the horrors these relations entail. More so than (re)producing a physical or visual portrayal of the monster, Cherish Menzo is interested in how the monstrous is a reification and metaphoric embodiment of the beliefs and narratives that terrify, horrify, and yet also attract us. Cherish researches the process of bringing the pre-monster stage or horror into a metaphoric embodiment and for that process to be the generator of image-making and the performative, sonic, and text material that plays with the tension of ambivalence, uncanniness, enigma, uncertainty, and corruption. The performance space fabulates on the Baka Gorong, a place located at the back of the former plantations and in front of the wetlands, where enslaved people in Suriname secretly went to carry out Winti rituals – demonized under Dutch colonial rule – and to consider fleeing. In continuation of JEZEBEL and DARKMATTER, in FRANK, distortion will once again be one of the main ingredients to generate material. In addition, Cherish will look into the action of decay and how something gradually breaking down and getting less or worse can be another attempt to distort a form or information. FRANK will be the closing of a trilogy. 
A trilogy that does not consist of chronological storytelling or a series of events, but maybe more a trifold of spaces, universes, fictions, and conversations that regard Blackness, bringing the Black body to the centre and attempting to explore the African Diaspora's multi-intersections in recognizable, metaphorical, and abstract ways. Recommended for ages 14+ Audience notes Includes reference to death and killing Contextual reference to colonialism and enslavement Sensory notes Loud Music Sudden Loud Sounds Full Blackout Flashing Lights Strobe Smoke or Haze Falling or Flying Objects Audience Interaction Close Proximity to Bodily Fluids (sweat) Ear Defenders, Ear Plugs and Dark Glasses will be available Audiences are welcome to move, tic, stim or make noise ACCESS This performance is spoken in English and French with BSL Interpretation by Ali Gordon. The Interpreter will be in a fixed position on stage. Text is used in a poetic way and subtitles are purposely not always included. Limited Sub Pacs are available from Tramway Box Office. Essay and written translations of performance texts in English, Dutch and French are available on a dedicated website here . Visit the Take Me Somewhere Festival Access Page Artist Bio Cherish Menzo (°1988, The Netherlands) is a choreographer and dancer, who lives in Brussels and Amsterdam. In 2013 she graduated from The Urban Contemporary (JMD) at the ‘Hogeschool voor de Kunsten’ in Amsterdam. Cherish has appeared in the work of Lisbeth Gruwez (THE SEA WITHIN), Jan Martens (THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones), Nicole Beutler (6: THE SQUARE), as well as collaborations with the likes of Akram Khan, Ula Sickle, Olivier Dubois and Eszter Salamon. Her powerful movement language also comes into its own in her own work, which tours internationally. In 2019 Cherish worked at Frascati Producties on JEZEBEL, a dance performance inspired by the phenomenon Video Vixen from the hip-hop clips of the 90s. Jezebel, a contemporary hip-hop honey, refuses to be defined by others and shakes off her image by deconstructing and redefining it.
In May 2022, during Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, DARKMATTER premiered, a duet in which she and Camilo Mejía Cortés, with the help of the distorted rap choir, search for ways to detach their bodies and the daily reality in which they move from a forced perception. In the context of DARKMATTER , Cherish also gives workshops on the chopped & screwed technique, a process from hip-hop music that Cherish applies to the moving and performing body in the performance. In continuation of JEZEBEL and DARKMATTER, in FRANK, distortion will once again be one of the main ingredients to generate material. In addition, Cherish will look into the action of decay and discover how something gradually breaking down and getting less or worse can be another attempt to distort a form or information. Cherish received the Amsterdam FRINGE and FRINGE International Bursary Awards 2019 with JEZEBEL. JEZEBEL was selected in 2020 for both the Dutch and Flemish Theaterfestival, which presented a jury selection of the best performances of the season and received the prestigious Charlotte Köhler award by the Prins Bernhard Foundation (Amsterdam) in 2022.
 DARKMATTER was selected for both the Belgian Theater Festival and its Dutch counterpart. With DARKMATTER, Cherish received the BNG Bank Theater Prize (2023) and the Dutch Drama Jury prize for best direction (2023). For her artistic work, she is interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the “embodiment” of different physical images. Implementing distortion, decay, and dissonance, Cherish attempts to detach bodies from forced perceptions and their daily corporeal realities, underlining the complexity and contradictory nature of images that seem recognizable at first glance. Glitching the ‘’common’’ lexical, the lexical of the speaking being, she seeks the Uncanny, the Enigmatic, and the Monstrous to give shape to – and materialize speculative forms and fictions. ABOUT GRIP GRIP was founded in 2014 by choreographer and dancer Jan Martens and manager Klaartje Oerlemans. From 2023 on, GRIP choreographers Femke Gyselinck, Jan Martens, Cherish Menzo, and Steven Michel act together as artistic directors. They do so in close dialogue with Klaartje Oerlemans and Rudi Meulemans, who coordinates and facilitates the dialogue between the four makers in his role of artistic coordinator. Credits Concept And Direction: Cherish Menzo
 Creation And Performance: Malick Cissé, Mulunesh, Omagbitse Omagbemi
 Sound Design: Maria Muehombo a.k.a M I M I
 Video Design: Andrea Casetti
 Sound And Video Engineering: Arthur De Vuyst
 Set Design: Morgana Machado Marques
 Lighting Design: Ryoya Fudetani Dramaturgy: Johanne Affricot, Renée Copraij Costumes: Cherish Menzo
 Text: Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Cherish Menzo
 Artistic Advice: Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Nicole Geertruida Technician On Tour: Pieter-Jan Buelens, Arthur De Vuyst, Ryoya Fudetani, Hadrien Jeangette
 Graphic Design: Nick Mattan
 Thanks To: Mildred Caprino, Anne Goedhart, Rodney Frederik & Winti Formation “Krin Ati,” Daryll Geldrop, Ernie Wolf, Sandra Menzo, Shavelie Menzo, Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Sarah Garnaud, Alice Bröker, Johanna Cool Photo by Bas de Brouwer

Make and play with clay, inventing your own figures and sculptural forms, in a workshop open to everyone. Led by artist and workshop leader Ezra Bernnico. Inspired by our exhibition Pilgrim Fields by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, this drop-in workshop encourages all ages to get involved in inventing, shaping and decorating clay forms. Be inspired by ancient civilisations and the natural world around us, and come up with your own unusual and unique sculptures. This workshop is part of our public programme for Solange Pessoa - Pilgrim Fields . Events run through the summer holidays until 7 August. See what else is on Please note This workshop takes place in the Tramway Café Mezzanine Young Children should be supervised by a parent or guardian

Join artist and workshop leader Ezra Bernnico in a fun felt stone making session Inspired by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa’s exhibition Pilgrim Fields, and her use of natural sheep’s wool, this drop in workshop will let you try felt making. You'll learn how to shape and decorate stones with wool to make your own woollen felted artwork. This workshop is part of our public programme for Solange Pessoa - Pilgrim Fields . Events run through the summer holidays until 7 August. See what else is on Please note This workshop takes place in the Tramway Café Mezzanine Young Children should be supervised by a parent or guardian

Discover the fascinating art of 'sun printing' with artist and workshop leader Catalina Barroso-Luque. Inspired by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa’s exhibition Pilgrim Fields, and her interest in the use of natural forms and materials, try out the alternative photographic process of Cyantoype, sometimes called 'sun printing', and create your own incredible art works and T-shirts to take home. This workshop is part of our public programme for Solange Pessoa - Pilgrim Fields . Events run through the summer holidays until 7 August. See what else is on Please note This workshop takes place in the Tramway Café Mezzanine Young Children should be supervised by a parent or guardian Cyantoype is a natural chemical process that uses the sun to expose an image created by positioning collected materials, plants, stones, sticks - or even parts of the body! - over a coated area. Exposed areas turn blue leaving the negative in white, like a blueprint or an inverted shadow.

Join artist and workshop leader Fionn Duffy to get creative with moss. Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa - whose exhibition Pilgrim Fields is open at Tramway now - is interested in the direct use of natural forms and materials. In this workshop you can learn now to use moss to make your own moss terrarium - or ‘mossarium' - and create your own unique mini gardens, sculptures and worlds. This workshop is part of our public programme for Solange Pessoa - Pilgrim Fields . Events run through the summer holidays until 7 August. See what else is on Please note This workshop takes place in the Tramway Café Mezzanine and The Hidden Gardens Young children should be supervised by a parent or guardian

Make and play with clay, inventing your own decorative sculptural vessel forms, in a workshop open to everyone. Led by artist and workshop leader Ezra Bernnico. This workshop is inspired by our exhibition Pilgrim Fields by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, and her interest in shaping and decorating clay forms. Be inspired by ancient civilisations or nature to come up with your own unusual holders for objects.... pencils or peanuts… or anything that comes to mind! This workshop is part of our public programme for Solange Pessoa - Pilgrim Fields . Events run through the summer holidays until 7 August. See what else is on Please note This workshop takes place in the Tramway Café Mezzanine Young Children should be supervised by a parent or guardian

Saturday 13 December, 2 workshops at 10am and 12.30pm and Saturday 20 December, 2 workshops at 10am and 12.30pm Join Scottish Ballet for a joyful, interactive workshop designed especially for children ages 5-8. Led by Scottish Ballet’s expert engagement artists, this fun-filled session brings their Wee Nutcracker to life through imaginative storytelling and creative movement. Together, the children will explore the magical world of ballet, and experience a playful introduction to the story and characters of Wee Nutcracker. The young dancers will experience a warm and welcoming space to learn steps and create movement inspired by the production. Perfect for igniting young imaginations and creating memories this winter. These workshops are inspired by Scottish Ballet presents Wee Nutcracker, a ballet for ages 5-8, at Tramway from 12 to 24 December. MORE Running time: 45 minutes Workshops take place in Scottish Ballet's Engagement Studios Tickets through Scottish Ballet only Please note the workshops are for children aged 5 – 8. Accompanying adults can wait outside, enjoy a cuppa in the Tramway cafe, or take a stroll in The Hidden Gardens while the workshops take place.