Welcome AGA’s New Trustees!
We’re delighted to welcome Cole Collins, Jade (Stout) Sneddon & Andrew Leitch to our Board. They bring vital expertise in EDI, data analysis & capital investment to help grow and support AGA’s mission. Find out more on our website!

Join us for Archive tours this Oct–Dec, led by @sorchadallas.bsky.social & Holly Rennie Brown. Explore Gray’s legacy & handle our sensitively curated collection Book via link in bio or email [email protected]✨

Finally read Heather Parry’s Orpheus Builds a Girl—a chilling, brilliant gothic novel. Twisted love, control, and obsession meet razor-sharp critique. Fans of @agrayarchive.bsky.social’s Poor Things will love it too, highly recommend.

Delighted to welcome OpenGate Productions as they filmed our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, for Makers of Glasgow, a new series celebrating the city's creative scene. Stay tuned for the full video — coming soon!

📣 FREE webinar + resource launch! ‘Memoir & Biography Writing: Towards Inclusion & Social Justice’ 🗓️ Sept 30, 6:30–8pm. With @sorchadallas.bsky.social @rodgeglass.bsky.social & Lucy Lauder. Sign up via Eventbrite – link in bio! 🙏🎉 #webinar #memoir

Last night, I finally watched Rebel Dykes, a powerful documentary tracing the journey of a tight-knit group of friends who first met in the 1980s at the Greenham Common peace camp and later became artists, musicians, performers, and activists in 1980s London. Highly recommend.

Sorley and Snoutlet in Millport. August 2025 by the awesome Alan Dimmick ❤️

The incomparable Willy Maley at his ‘Scrap Mettle’ new collection of poetry book launch with Seahorse Publications, a great night!

Unputdownable…a dark & twisting triumph by Elle Nash, highly recommend reading 🖤🪲🕷️🐛

We are taking part in Glasgow Doors Open Day 2025! ➡️ Tour our collection with Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social & our new exhibition ‘The City’ curated by Holly Rennie Brown 👨‍👧‍👦 Kids activities including building a Minecraft ‘Glasgow of the Imagination’ 🎟️ Booking essential, link in bio👆🏽

Fun weekend caravanning with the other cousin crew❤️

After four day trip be like…

Day 4 (part two): visit to The Forbidden Corner which is like a more populist Little Sparta (with more cafes and less art) kids loved it 😂

Day 4 glorious visit to the Hepworth Wakefield with inspiring Helen Chadwick and Elizabeth Fritsch works ❤️

Day 3: another day, another unofficial Dr. who exhibition, this one ‘Adventures in Time & Space’ at Peterborough Museum, then a hang in Leeds.

Day 2 @artfund.bsky.social Museum of the Year 2025 Beamish Museum, a formative experience for me when young and the smalls loved it too.

On a road trip with the smalls, Day 1 Hadrian’s Wall, Museum of Classic Sci-fi in Allendale then hanging with pals in Newcastle.

Had a fun afternoon at Romanfest produced by Hydra Arts. At Morven Mulgrew’s Museum of Imagined Things we trebucheted some clay,, made coins, pots & portraits. Sewed with Emma Henderson & listened to a spoken word reading by Oli Higham which spoke to current times.

We welcomed some lovely French visitors yesterday Orane Delphine and Francois Chambe from @artefr.bsky.social who were filming the archive & interviewing our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social for a new documentary.

School is out for the summer! Huge thanks to the incredible staff team at KPS for their love and encouragement over this last year, hope you all have a restful summer and solidarity to all parents over the 7 weeks ahead 😉❤️

Thanks to everyone who attended our @sgsah.bsky.social Summer School session today on ‘Reflecting Creative Practice Through Archiving’. Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social enjoyed sharing her journey to growing AGA over the last five years & the development of @aowensarchive.bsky.social

Huge thanks to our brilliant volunteer Evie Glen who has written on ‘Glasgow’s Community Archives’ for GUM mag which highlights AGA and @aowensarchive.bsky.social feat. interviews with our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social & @sgsah.bsky.social CDA researcher Laura MacDonald

Our @aowensarchive.bsky.social @sgsah.bsky.social funded CDA student, Laura MacDonald is presenting today at the Oral History Society conference, ‘Whose Voices?’, on outcomes of interviews with one of Owens’s sons, John Crosbie, and how these interviews have shaped her ongoing doctoral research.

Can’t let the kids have all the fun 😉🤪😂

Our creative, determined, fun and intrepid smallest person is 9! Happy birthday Willa ❤️🌈

Got a tour of the incomparable @agrayarchive.bsky.social by its amazing custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social on Saturday. Highly recommended! thealasdairgrayarchive.org/event/free-t...

Obsessed by my new portrait drawn by Willa, pls note I am enjoying an (almost finished) glass of Prosecco whilst reading The Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid 🥂👌😂

Thought this was an absolute triumph, her literary spark was always simmering but was ignited after her husband read her description of a blue road. She writes, “He erupted saying there was no such thing as a blue road, but I knew that there was. I had seen them, I had walked on one.”

Fife fun times ☀️

The Isle of May, full of guillemots, shags, puffins and gulls. As we circled the perimeter a peregrine falcon flew over swarmed by gulls. Kept thinking it be such a brilliant setting for a tartan noir thriller…

Huge thanks to @danigaravelli.bsky.social for her brilliant piece in @lrb.co.uk this was Alasdair’s favourite literary magazine to read so feels very special for the archive to be featured in it, link in bio to read the piece in full👆🏽

Recording now live from our recent ⁦‪SGSAH‬⁩ supported webinar exploring colonial & anti colonial thinking in Gray’s work with researcher Hussein Mitha, introduced by @sorchadallas.bsky.social plus presentations from ⁦‪Lauren Forde and ⁦‪Henry Bell‬⁩, delivered with ⁦‪Rodge Glass 👇🏽

Fulfilled a lifelong dream today and held an owl 🦉

WATCH GRAY DAY 2025! All good things come to those who wait, Alasdair Gray knew this more that most... and just over a month after Gray Day 2025 you can now watch it back in all its effervescent glory! Click the link in bio or head direct to our YouTube channel

Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social was delighted to join students yesterday from Curatorial Practice at GSA/GU to discuss her curatorial journey and how she’s been embedding her approach based on radical empathy and care at The Alasdair Gray Archive and @aowensarchive.bsky.social

Sharing a teaser from the hilarious new commission Ashley Storrie made for us & Glasgow Comedy Festival, which we shared at Gray Day 2025. Will be making the whole film available after it’s screened at Gray Matters: A Laugh For Glasgow’s 850 Years at Oran Mor, 23.03.25 at 6pm 👌

Spent the morning helping Willa’s class @kelvindaleps.bsky.social release their small trouts they’d been caring for thanks to the brilliant Clyde in the Classroom. What a big journey these wee guys have been on with the biggest one now lying ahead, there were a few tears as they were released 🥲

Watch the brilliant @sarasheridan.bsky.social discussing at Gray Day 2025 her recent commission with us, why archives matter and what makes AGA particularly rich. Sara’s short story commission was supported in partnership with Creative Writing at Strathclyde ⬇️

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, and new Curatorial Assistant, Holly Rennie Brown are delighted to present a lighting talk poster at today's Connecting Communities: A Shared Responsibility for Digital Sustainability @scotsarchives.bsky.social

What a day☀️🌊⛱️

Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social honoured to meet so many of Agnes Owens friends & family today whilst discussing her work & plans for sharing via the @aowensarchive.bsky.social at Alexandria Library for #internationalwomensday

For #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate Agnes Owens whose darkly comic stories of everyday working-class life brought a satirical edge to the wealth of post-industrial urban Scottish fiction produced at the end of the 20th cent, can’t wait to open @aowensarchive.bsky.social later this year!

Apply! Deadline today! Creative Commission with The Edwin Morgan Trust supported by Creative Scotland

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social , is delighted to be giving a talk on Agnes Owens tomorrow for #internationalwomensday She will be discussing her work & plans to bring it to wider attention via the opening in 2025 of @aowensarchive.bsky.social supported by her family ❤️

To celebrate #scottisharchivesday we are highlighting our new archive, opening later in 2025. Housed within AGA, @aowensarchive.bsky.social contains redrafts of her novels, short stories and unpublished materials.

Thanks for all the outpouring of love for #GrayDay, my cup is full ❤️ @agrayarchive.bsky.social

Happy #GrayDay So far I’ve spent mine setting up at Oran Mor with a cuppa in my brand new AG mug. I also walked up to Alasdair’s home… thinking of him & celebrating today whilst knowing how keenly missed he is too ❤️

Happy #GrayDay! Ideas for how to celebrate this special day… 👉🏽Come to Gray Day at @oranmorglasgow 👉🏽Visit one of his artworks or murals 👉🏽Read one of his books 👉🏽Share a memory (pls tag us!) Photo by Gunnie Mobley #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive

Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social is delighted to be on BBC Radio Scotland today just after 3.30pm talking Gray Day…tune in! #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive

Nothing beats spending a sunny day in a graveyard 🖤