Hello lovely SNACK pals,

Have you got your physical copy of our spring magazine yet? If not, then what are you waiting for? You can get your copy from your usual spot, or order a box-fresh copy here.

We’re so chuffed to be back in print after our winter break. There’s nothing quite like the smell of a freshly printed SNACK. The sunshine yellow, the synergy of paper and ink, true ownership – saying ‘this is mine’. Being in print, and in control of our own distribution, also means we can say what we want, without worrying about algorithms or the like. True ownership, again. It’s important.

But if digital is more your thing and this is how you get your SNACK fix, then here we are, our weekly what’s on won’t disappoint. As always, a little something for everyone, well almost everyone, you cannae please them all. This week we’ve got queer punk, experimental art theatre, reliving your national 5 English exam – choose your poison.

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Catch you next week! 

Lots of love,

Zara Grew

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Ayanna Witter-Johnson & Fergus McCreadie @ SWG3

SWG3, Glasgow

Wed 22 Apr 2026, 7.30pm

Singer, cellist and composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson explores the vibrant meeting point of jazz and classical music in a concert celebrating Scottish jazz legends—past and present—who have charted similar innovative paths.

She’s joined by Glasgow-based pianist Fergus McCreadie—Mercury Prize nominee and winner of Scottish Album of the Year 2022—whose music blends jazz with Scottish folk influences inspired by his country’s landscapes.

Teaming up with players from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, they present a unique evening of jazz-infused classical artistry to SWG3.

Performers
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Fergus McCreadie
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

TICKETS (Unreserved Seating):
General admission: £22.50
Half Price for U26s & Students: £11.50

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StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival

Byre Theatre, St Andrews

13th-15th March

Scotland’s international poetry festival is back! StAnza, which has been running for almost 30 years, is an annual celebration of poetry in the historical seaside town of St Andrews.

The festival brings together a diverse range of voices for a jam-packed weekend of poetry, performance, music and art. Featured poets and artists include Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, Pascale Petit, Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Sarah Howe.

This year’s theme is You Are Not Alone focusing on connection, community, and shared experience through poetry. Poetry lovers, old and new, are welcome to be part of the festival and enjoy poetry in all of its varied and wonderful forms.

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Everybody To Kenmure Street

Cinemas across Scotland

From 13th March

After a sold out premiere at the GFF opening gala, and a 10 minute standing ovation, Everybody to Kenmure Street will be shown at select Scottish cinemas including Edinburgh’s Filmhouse and the Glasgow Film Theatre.

This documentary has got people talking because it spotlights an important moment in Scottish political history. In May 2021 a UK Home Office dawn raid took place in Kenmure street in Pollokshields in the southside of Glasgow, and, joyously, the community stopped it. An extraordinary act of peaceful solidarity which is a true testament to the people of Glasgow.

This powerful story has been documented by  filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra through a collage of videos from the day, archive film, and testimonials from people who were there.

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Women Takeover Glasgow All-Dayer

Nice N Sleazy

15th March

Women and non-binary artists are taking over! Nice N Sleazy’s are hosting an all day event showcasing some of the best women and non-binary fronted acts the Scottish music scene has to offer. All to raise funds for the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre.

Upstairs will be all about pop and funk meanwhile downstairs will host punk and rock bands. Be ready to challenge patriarchal norms and boogie all day long to some eclectic and electric sets.

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Flight

Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

21st March till 4th April

Flight is a groundbreaking international hit production, originally commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival in 2017 in association with the Beacon Arts Centre. It has toured the world from New York to London and is finding its way back to Scotland this spring.

So often theatre is experienced communally but Flight at the The Citz Studio turns this on its head. Seated in your own personal booth with your own individual headphones you will watch the journey of two orphaned brothers unfold in images and models with speech and music, completely alone.

An experiment in immersion, Flight asks the audience to jump into a miniature world and experience a gripping story of two children adrift in dangerous lands.  

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Queer as Punk

The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh

21st March

Queer as Punk’s first gig of 2026. A series of gigs and events that have been running since 2022 ‘by queers 4 queers’ giving a platform to queer punk bands. Their events are trans-normative, anti-racist spaces.

The upcoming gig at The Wee Red Bar presents 3 top acts from Edinburgh and beyond! Touring act Strange New Places (see puppets above), plus local legends Harry Miles Watson & the Union, and Skinny Imps.

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Sailmaker

Various venues across Scotland

6th March till 1st April

You may have studied Sailmaker in Nat 5 English – if that’s you I apologise for even mentioning it. Lucky for me I didn’t but I had pals who did, and it actually looked pretty good.

The play is about father and son Davie and Alec, and their changing relationship as they struggle with the shared loss of Davie’s mother. A simple, powerful and emotionally driven piece of theatre which explores masculinity and class against the backdrop of an austere 1960s Glasgow.