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Dr Bike – FREE bike maintenance

Dr Bike from Bike For Good is at Skypark on the first Tuesday of every month, providing a FREE maintenance service for all cyclists at Skypark.

The service is offered on a first come first served basis, so early drop off is recommended. Please drop your bike off with Dr Bike at the level -1 underpass, by the bike racks and smokers area, from 1pm.

Dr Bike will check and service minor problems, with more major issues diagnosed and a fault report provided. Gears will be adjusted, brakes tightened, cables and blocks replaced as required, everything oiled and greased and given a once over.

Some small spares are available for purchase from Bike For Good – including lights, mudguards, gloves and locks. Click HERE for a price list.

Wellbeing Day

Beat the January blues and kick start your 2020 at our Wellbeing Day!

Complimentary healthy bites and smoothies by Soul Food Kitchen, pop-up stalls, meet our wellbeing service providers & WIN PRIZES!

Complimentary hand massages with Doreen – WIN a manicure or waxing treatment! Book in for a manicure – get in touch with Doreen to book.

Sports & Remedial Massage with Paul McArdle, Functional Massage Therapy. WIN a massage!

Sacha McKenzie – High 3 Holistic Therapies. WIN a reiki or reflexology treatment!

Patricia Galavis Yoga – WIN a taster yoga session for your workplace!

Reset Your Health with Catherine Walker, qualified herbalist & nutritional adviser who specialises in digestive, hormone, weight and skin issues. WIN a hair mineral test and follow up consultation!

Check out Bike for Good e-bike and cargo bikes and find out more about their Curious Commuter initiative and the Cycle Friendly Employer award.

We’ll have 2-hour nextbike rides to give away – try out the cycle share scheme for FREE, bikes are located just a stones throw from Skypark at the top of Finnieston Street.

Meet the author: Writer Caroline Johnstone is an advocate of journaling to help you live your best life. She is hosting a drop in talk and book signing between 1-2pm in the meeting room, sharing the tools and techniques she has learnt along the way.

More details coming soon… save the date!

‘YOU LOOK AT A SCORE, YOU DO IT’ Exhibition by Casual Nexus

In our final collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art, curators Casual Nexus invite you to ‘YOU LOOK AT A SCORE, YOU DO IT’ an exhibition in the donated gallery space of Skypark 1 Reception.

Sharing interests in self-organisation and collaborative practices Casual Nexus have worked collaboratively, since September 2017. This exhibition of posters provides an introduction to our practice as Casual Nexus and the work produced to date as part of this ongoing project.

As new arrivals to Glasgow (by way of Manchester, London and Bristol) we were both struck by the way many artists in Glasgow were working, ‘live’, fluid, undefined by discipline, keen to collaborate and open to experimentation among their networks. We sought to mirror this in our approach to Casual Nexus, excited to celebrate artists who were working counter to our previous experiences of fragmented arts communities and networks. We aimed to celebrate the social support structures already in place and to reinforce these by creating a mechanism, to facilitate new connections and expand upon what we had identified as an existing ethos within the city. Casual Nexus (a misreading of ‘Causal Nexus’ in our early research stages) borrows ideas from the original term of bonding and links between a cause and its effect, while allowing room for experimentation, trial, test, error and play.

The format of the project stemmed from a discussion event held in January 2018 where a group of artists met to consider collaboration. Conversations on agency and authority in relation to collaborative practice led us to explore these tensions further and resulted in us asking performers to give up their individual ideas, waiving their authority. Each produced a score and instruction for another to work from. These prompts shaped new collaborative performances and this is the format Casual Nexus has continued to use. Artists were matched or mismatched based on their approaches to art making through performance, music, movement, spoken word and written word.

This poster exhibition celebrates the work of these artists, presenting their scores overlaid with images of artists performing their responses to a live audience as part of the project. There are signed and numbered limited editions of each risographed poster. Please feel free to take one.

We are excited to present this exhibition to the community at Skypark. Taking place in a busy area of “Glasgow’s most sociable workplace” we hope these ideas can translate to the working environment. We see parallels between the networks of Skypark and those of our creative circles. We hope to spark conversation around collaboration, to celebrate our mutual networks and to bring these networks even closer together through the sharing of ideas.

With thanks to all the artists who have participated in the project; Aniela Piasecka, Anthony Autumn, Ashanti Harris, Charlotte Arnhold, Colin Herd, Danny Katinsky, Denise Bonetti, Edwin Stevens, Elizabeth Murphy, Estelle Fournier, Greg Thomas, Harry Maberly, Jack Paton, Jamie Bolland, Jane Hartshorn, Jessica Higgins, Joe Evans, Lady Neptune, Lila Matsumoto, Liv Fontaine, Maria Cecilia, Matthew Hamblin, MVB, Puke, Stephanie Black-Daniels and William Joys

Thank you to Skypark, Glasgow School of Art and Sunday’s open access risograph studio for helping us realise this exhibition.

Exhibition Opening: ‘YOU LOOK AT A SCORE, YOU DO IT’

In our final collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art, curators Casual Nexus invite you to ‘YOU LOOK AT A SCORE, YOU DO IT’ an exhibition in the donated gallery space of Skypark 1 Reception. Please join us for complimentary canapés and refreshments and the chance to take away a free print.

Sharing interests in self-organisation and collaborative practices Casual Nexus have worked collaboratively, since September 2017. This exhibition of posters provides an introduction to our practice as Casual Nexus and the work produced to date as part of this ongoing project.

As new arrivals to Glasgow (by way of Manchester, London and Bristol) we were both struck by the way many artists in Glasgow were working, ‘live’, fluid, undefined by discipline, keen to collaborate and open to experimentation among their networks. We sought to mirror this in our approach to Casual Nexus, excited to celebrate artists who were working counter to our previous experiences of fragmented arts communities and networks. We aimed to celebrate the social support structures already in place and to reinforce these by creating a mechanism, to facilitate new connections and expand upon what we had identified as an existing ethos within the city. Casual Nexus (a misreading of ‘Causal Nexus’ in our early research stages) borrows ideas from the original term of bonding and links between a cause and its effect, while allowing room for experimentation, trial, test, error and play.

The format of the project stemmed from a discussion event held in January 2018 where a group of artists met to consider collaboration. Conversations on agency and authority in relation to collaborative practice led us to explore these tensions further and resulted in us asking performers to give up their individual ideas, waiving their authority. Each produced a score and instruction for another to work from. These prompts shaped new collaborative performances and this is the format Casual Nexus has continued to use. Artists were matched or mismatched based on their approaches to art making through performance, music, movement, spoken word and written word.

This poster exhibition celebrates the work of these artists, presenting their scores overlaid with images of artists performing their responses to a live audience as part of the project. There are signed and numbered limited editions of each risographed poster. Please feel free to take one.

We are excited to present this exhibition to the community at Skypark. Taking place in a busy area of “Glasgow’s most sociable workplace” we hope these ideas can translate to the working environment. We see parallels between the networks of Skypark and those of our creative circles. We hope to spark conversation around collaboration, to celebrate our mutual networks and to bring these networks even closer together through the sharing of ideas.

With thanks to all the artists who have participated in the project; Aniela Piasecka, Anthony Autumn, Ashanti Harris, Charlotte Arnhold, Colin Herd, Danny Katinsky, Denise Bonetti, Edwin Stevens, Elizabeth Murphy, Estelle Fournier, Greg Thomas, Harry Maberly, Jack Paton, Jamie Bolland, Jane Hartshorn, Jessica Higgins, Joe Evans, Lady Neptune, Lila Matsumoto, Liv Fontaine, Maria Cecilia, Matthew Hamblin, MVB, Puke, Stephanie Black-Daniels and William Joys

Thank you to Skypark, Glasgow School of Art and Sunday’s open access risograph studio for helping us realise this exhibition.

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