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Scotland’s longest-standing artist-run gallery, established in 1983



Transmission’s 40th | Event | Fri 18 Sep |
Transmission’s 40th | Event | Fri 18 Sep
We’ve been waiting more than four decades to celebrate our 40th birthday, so we’re gonna make it a big one: an art-studded evening featuring an incredible line-up of performances curated by the one and only Jer Reid. Free entry, free food and drink, free fun and laughter.

Stay tuned for more deets.

No Transmo, no party.
 
Free for all members and the general public.

Time: 7-11pm



Flows and SOLOS | Exhibition | Sun 30 Aug - Sun 6 Sep |
Flows and SOLOS | Exhibition | Sun 30 Aug - Sun 6 Sep
We welcome an international artist and scientist to Glasgow. For one week, Haleh Fotowat takes over both floors of the gallery with Flows and SOLOS, opening with an hour of live improvised music from Ellwood Epps and three Scotland-based artists, and closing with an artist talk.

Haleh Fotowat is an Iranian-Canadian neuroscientist and artist based in Boston. Through scientific research at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and abstract painting in her studio, she explores self-organisation and emergence in living systems. Her paintings embrace improvisation, movement, and expressive colour to explore how complex forms emerge through interaction and change.

The show is about emerging forms, in living or non-living matter. Flow, movement, decisions to change course, and the structures that emerge. Paintings fill the main floor, while the basement turns to living forms with projections and sound from her scientific work.

Free for all members and the general public.

Opening: Sun 30 Aug, 12-6pm, performance at 2pm

Open daily: 31 Aug to 5 Sep, 2-6pm

Closing: Sun 6 Sep, 6-9pm, artist’s talk at 7pm




Ellwood Epps Quartet | Performance | Sun 30 Aug |
Ellwood Epps Quartet | Performance | Sun 30 Aug
Flying in from Boston, Massachusetts, Canadian trumpeter Ellwood Epps leads a specially convened Glaswegian ensemble to open Haleh Fotowat’s Flows and SOLOS exhibition. Saxophonist Raymond MacDonald, bassist Una MacGlone, and drummer Stuart Brown will join Epps as improvisers working in the moment and from Epps’ compositions.

This performance is for anyone who is curious to hear new music, see new paintings, and even for those who aren’t, but may find themselves nearby anyhow. Those with a taste for improvised music especially welcome.


Free for all members and the general public.

Performance starts at 2pm




Arika & Scotland 4 Decrim | Sex Worker Resistance and Joy | Workshop & Exhibition | Sun 23  -  25 Tue Aug |
Transmission’s 40th | Event | Fri 18 Sep
We host Hard Labour’s Sex Worker Resistance and Joy workshop and exhibition, in collaboration with Arika and Scotland for Decrim

This events features workshops, talks, and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work and the legislation’s effects.

Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. They’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.

Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of the long history of sex worker resistance, to the flame of current struggles to the warmth of future dreams.

Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a invitation to make art.

Supported by Creative Scotland and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Free for all members and the general public, though some events require pre-booking.

Various event times: see the programme, linked here, for details



Rainbow Ukes | Workshop and Performance | Every Wednesday |
Rainbow Ukes | Workshop & Performance | Every Wednesday  
We host an LGBTQIA+ Ukulele Group. If you already know a few chords, just come along and join in. If you’re new to the Ukulele, follow Rainbow Ukes on Instagram for info about their beginners classes, which run 3-4 times a year. 

Free for all members and the general public.

Time: 6:30-9pm

For all enquiries about this event email hello@rainbowukes.org



Exhale | Staying Here Together | Workshop | Mon 17 Aug, 24 Aug, 7 Sept |
Exhale | Staying Here Together | Workshop | Mon 17 Aug, 24 Aug, 7 Sept  
We host Exhale’s three-part collective inquiry into what it means to be an active participant in community: Staying Here Together. The workshop will explore what it takes to sustain the ecologies we inhabit, and deepen our understanding of how we love, disappoint, repair, and remain in relationship with one another.

This series is open to QTBIPOC+ organisers, artists, and anyone involved in collective life who wishes to explore the emotional and relational dimensions of community. A willingness to listen, contribute and learn alongside others is necessary. This is not a workshop in conflict mediation, nor is it a space that promises answers or resolution.

Facilitated by Kai Khidir Hassan, a visual artist, arts worker, and community organiser based in Glasgow. Their work is rooted in the belief that care is neither soft nor uncomplicated, but is a rigourous ongoing practice of staying and being with one another.

Session 1 (17th Aug): Soft Introductions

Session 2 (24th Aug): Small Matter, Big Matter

Session 3 (7th September): Dreaming Contributions 

*Please only sign up if you can make all three workshops. 

Ticketed event free for all QTIBPoC+QTBIPOC+ organisers, artists, and anyone involved in collective life who wishes to explore the emotional and relational dimensions of community

Time: 6-9pm

For all enquiries about this event email mahasin@exhale.group 

  Food (with vegan options) will be provided at each workshop, let Exhale know if you have any other requirements or allergies upon sign up



Stereo Presents | Grounding Provisions | Workshop | Sat 8 Aug |
Stereo Presents | Grounding Provisions | Workshop | Sat 8 Aug
We host grind provisions and Stereo’s Grounding Provisions: a yoga and reiki session with Asphodèle.

This two-hour session of yoga, reiki, and somatic work is led by Asphodèle (Stereo’s grind provisions001 headliner). Asphodèle is a multi-disciplinary DJ, artist, producer, reiki healer, yoga teacher, and pole dance instructor based in Los Angeles whose sets are rooted in African and electronic club sounds and alchemy.

The session is open to everyone regardless of experience. However, recognising the barriers that people from marginalised communities face accessing wellbeing services the organisers encourage people from queer, trans, femme, and BIPOC communities to come to the workshop.

Ticketed event free for all members and the general public.

Time: 7-10pm



Exhale | Bystander Intervention Scotland | Workshop | Thu 30 Jul |
Exhale | Bystander Intervention Scotland | Workshop | Thu 30 Jul 
We host Exhale’s Bystander Intervention Scotland workshop offering practical tools for responding actively to race and gender-based harassment in public life for QTIBPoC+.

Exhale will also explore the framing of racist incidents as ‘hate crime’ and find ways to keep each other safe instead of deferring to the authorities (using an ‘abolitionist’ approach).

This workshop is open to anyone looking for support and safety advice following the rise in recent attacks on marginalised communities. It is a space for people aged over 16 years old, who identify as both LGBT+/Queer and as Black or a Person of Colour.

The first half of the workshop includes a presentation, discussion, and the introduction of learning tools, which in the second part will be put into practice. 

The workshop will last 3 hours, including a break, and are delivered by two QTIPOC+ facilitators. 

This workshop emerged from work with Remember & Resist, a project by Daikon Zine to expand abolitionist thinking and practice within East and Southeast Asian diaspora organising in the UK. Bystander Intervention Scotland grew out of Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity.

Illustratration Credit - @remember.resist and @siannooi

Ticketed event free for all QTIBPoC+

Time: starts promptly, 6-9pm

For all enquiries about this event email bystanderinterventionscotland@proton.me 

The workshop will have breaks (you might want to bring your dinner because of the timing of the workshop - though please don't bring nuts due to allergies in the team).  There will be light refreshments available.

Accessibility: Transmission Gallery has step free access via ramp. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. 

Age restriction: 16+



KIN-TU | Bubblegum 
Resistance | A Listening Session | Workshop & Performance | Fri 24 Jul |
KIN-TU | Bubblegum 
Resistance | A Listening Session | Workshop & Performance | Fri 24 Jul 
We host KIN-TU’s Bubblegum Resistance. a guided spoken essay exploring South African Bubblegum, the township-rooted, disco-infused sound that emerged during apartheid-era South Africa.


The session brings together music from that time, a short live audio essay and informal conversation. The event looks at the many voices that shaped the sound, and the coded forms of resistance carried through music under political pressure.


Rather than treating popular music from that period as hedonistic or disposable, Bubblegum Resistance considers how sound can hold collective history, intergenerational memory, joy, and trauma in ways that continue to echo present time.

Ticketed event free for all members and the general public.

Time: 6pm