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The Social

Join us for our monthly Social – music with local supplier and installer of high performance hi-fi and home cinema systems – Loud & Clear, canapés from Wild Fig Food and complimentary wine, softs and beers on tap with Brewgooder!

Lot’s of pop-up shops to look forward to – Park Lane Jewellery, Bewtique, Ellis Gin, Flutterby Boutique, House of Frasers, Hakon Clothing, Thom & Tea, and Nic Nac Bakes

See you there!

Feast Thursday with Screaming Peacock

Breath Works & Meditation Workshop

A new workshop brought to you by our resident yoga practitioner Patricia Galavis.

During this new workshop we will explore different easy breathing techniques.

Breathing is the base of everything: techniques for its understanding and practice orientated to objectives performance, health and productivity.

Breathing is the connection between the body and the mind. The breath is disturbed and changes by the mind in an automatic way. Being the breath the only physiological process that can be either voluntary or involuntary, we can influence the mind by simply changing the breathing pattern. Emotions and breath are connected and through this program we will learn to control the emotions by controlling the breath.

The breathing exploration will leave us in a perfect state of mind to keep exploring our mind with some concentration techniques. This will set the basis so that meditation can happen to us.

At the end of the workshop you will receive a hand out with a description of the techniques practiced so that you can easily keep practicing at home.

Book now: Get in touch with Patricia and find out more HERE.

“Let’s Talk Tech” with Ceridian

The next business networking event from Ceridian Europe will take place in April at Skypark and you’re all invited!

Ceridian is a an award-winning human capital management technology company serving organisations across the globe. Join them for their next Business & Technology Meetup event.

Places are limited so make sure you sign up HERE.

Suite 3A, Skypark 5, 45 Finnieston Street

6.00pm – 6.30pm: Beer, Pizza and Networking

6.30pm – 7.00pm: Guest Speaker 1 – Pete Burns, Chief Digital Officer at Welbot

7.00pm – 7.30pm: Guest Speaker 2 – Billy Wallace, Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Strathclyde

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Networking and Drinks

Guest Speaker 1: Pete Burns is the CDO of Welbot Ltd www.welbot.io

Welbot is an innovative desktop application that has been designed to help look after your physical and mental wellbeing in the workplace. Welbot was created to combat the ill effects of our sedentary computer bound working practices. Their goal is to assist businesses in reducing employee stress and fatigue and help manage musculoskeletal issues and general health through positive behaviour change.

Guest Speaker 2:  Billy Wallace, Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Strathclyde

Billy started his career as a researcher in the Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems Research Group at the University of Strathclyde, where he worked on various near-market projects concerning Natural Language Processing, machine learning, hypertext and document retrieval. After working in consulting and technical training, he was one of the founding developers at ThinkAnalytics, an Emmy award winning technology company that produces the most widely-deployed recommendations engine in the global television industry.

Billy remains engaged with ThinkAnalytics, but decided to return to Strathclyde in 2016 as a Knowledge Exchange Fellow and lead KE activities such as consultancy and collaborative research. He is also responsible for encouraging entrepreneurship in CIS students.

www.ceridian.com

Strange Weather at Skypark

We’re delighted to announce the launch of our first Skypark Curatorial Fellowship with The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) – the first initiative of its kind for the GSA Curatorial practice graduates, that will invest in the emergence of graduates from academic study to professional practice – a natural progression of our long association since housing the School of Design here, during a campus redevelopment and as a corporate partner of the GSA Degree Show.

The Fellowship will give early-career opportunities to five Glasgow-based curators in a bid to support and nurture future artistic talent in Scotland.

The first exhibition is curated by Rosie O’Grady, who presents Strange Weather, a curatorial research project, based around a proposal for a new gallery which materialises only when climate or resources permit. The gallery operates with environmental values at its core and in the first instance is a hypothetical exercise in imagining such a space. It creates a framework in which to ask questions about the response and responsibility of arts organisations to our rapidly changing global environment.

The Donated Gallery at Skypark provides an opportunity to enact and test these principles alongside Fine Art students at Glasgow School of Art, Johanna Saunderson and Eleni Wittbrodt, who will explore how their work could be part of the new programme. This learning and process will be made public throughout the exhibition programme. The participation of students in this project is supported by GSA Sustainability.

Johanna is interested in the speculative nature of Strange Weather at Skypark. Her recent work has focussed on ideas of futurity and deep time, as well as considering how we can utilise storytelling for imagining new worlds. She has previously located work in contexts such as the business district of San Francisco and the Musselburgh Ash lagoons, and she enlists environmental and social values, and an ecological awareness in her practice.

Eleni combines photographic and sculptural approaches in her practice. She is interested in opening up photographic processes and apparatus, and her work is an aggregate of sorting, noting, copying and transforming. For her work “As a lover or a chameleon” (2018), Eleni spent a whole summer copying a book by RH Quaytman which had run out of print. She used the process of the cyanotype, which relies on UV light, spending every sunny day in the studio, imprinting one page after the other until she had completed a copy of the book.

» Come along to Skypark 1 Reception on Tuesday 19th March – meet Rosie, Johanna and Eleni and find out how you can get involved – 12:30 – 1:30pm. Complimentary refreshments available.

GREEN THINKERS

Drop-in session every Tuesday lunchtime

12:30pm – 1:30pm, 19th March – 7th May
Meet at Skypark 1 Reception

How can Skypark benefit from green thinking?

Everyone welcome!

Email: rosiebeaogrady@gmail.com for further details.

Cycling Event

‘Get back on the saddle’ with our Cycling Event…

Plans for Skypark’s New Cycling Facilities to be Revealed!

*Find out more about becoming a Cycle Friendly Employer with Cycling Scotland*

*Pick up a free 2 hour voucher code from nextbike the local bike share scheme*

*TRIAL AN E-BIKE OR CARGO BIKE WITH BIKE FOR GOOD AND BIKECHAIN, 12-2pm, LOWER CRANSTON STREET CAR PARK*

*Trial bikes available on the Cycle to Work scheme*

As part of our push on sustainability and to improve health and wellbeing, we are delighted to announce that Skypark is fully embracing ‘pedal power’ and working hard to become a Cycling Friendly Employer.

As part of this, we are pleased that we have secured funding from Cycling Scotland, for a brand new state of the art cycling facility. Our new facility will have space for 250 new bike racks, toilets, showers and a changing area with a dedicated repair space that is designed for  a cyclist’s needs in mind.

Skypark’s cycle plan will be available at our first Cycling Event on 2nd April 2019, when we team up with community partners Cycling Scotland that will showcase the benefits to all employers of becoming a Cycling Friendly Employer; nextbike the bike share scheme provider is giving free voucher codes to trial bikes from their Finnieston and SEC bases across the City; Dr Bike is running a spring maintenance session and Police Scotland will be on hand to advise on bike marking and security. Yorkhill & Kelvingrove Community Council will also show their plans for the new Cycle Village proposal that they are hoping to get funding for.

Kath Brough of Cycling Scotland said: “The Cycling Event is a chance for employers at Skypark and the surrounding area to find out about the benefits of becoming a Cycle Friendly Employer. Our information session runs from 11am, to showcase just how easy it is to get back into cycling. Working with partners such as Bike For Good, we offer guidance, resources and support for cycle training and led rides for anyone new to cycling or the area as well as grant funding for employers keen on attaining the Cycle Friendly Employer Award. The event will also promote cycle to work schemes and cargo bike trials.”

Leading bike share operator, nextbike, is offering free two-hour voucher codes to enable people to trial the scheme, which has 650 bikes and 62 stations across Glasgow. In addition to pubic memberships, nextbike offers corporate memberships to companies that want to encourage their employees to travel by bicycle.

Krysia Solheim, Managing Director of nextbike UK said: “This new cycling initiative plan is great news for Glasgow. Bike share helps to reduces congestion, it’s better for the environment and it brings with it huge health benefits for the rider, so anything to encourage uptake is to be welcomed.

“And with nextbike stations at Finnieston Street and the SEC campus, it has never been easier to get around the city by bike from Skypark.”

The Cycling Event runs on Tuesday 2^nd April from 11am in Skypark 1 reception. Dr Bike will run a maintenance session at 1pm. To find out more please contact our concierge at reception.

Stars In Their Eyes with Fleet Alliance

Can you sing? Are you a hidden Sinatra or Beyonce? Fleet Alliance take over the Drygate Brewery in Glasgow for their annual singing competition, which last year raised over £6000 for Glasgow Foodbanks.

If you fancy taking part or buying a ticket for a night of first class entertainment, email stars@fleetalliance.co.uk