Launch of the Creative Mackintosh Festival

Today was the last day of our Mackintosh Tour and we started with a tour of the Mackintosh House at the Hunterian, and then a visit to the excellent Mackintosh Architecture Exhibition.

Our visit to the Hunterian coincided with the launch of the third Creative Mackintosh Festival by Michael Russell, MSP, The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning. The painting you can see is Le Voile Persan by John Duncan Fergusson c.1919

The Creative Mackintosh Festival is back for a third year this October with a month-long programme of arts and cultural events celebrating the life and genius of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, designer and artist and is part of Homecoming Scotland 2014.

The festival will run from 1st – 31st October 2014 in Mackintosh venues throughout the city, and further afield, with the addition of several new partner venues to this year’s programme. Attendees to this year’s festival can also enjoy Mackintosh in: Glasgow Women’s Library; Provand’s Lordship; St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art; Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Nitshill; The Glad Café in Shawlands and Lyon & Turnbull, an auction house in the city’s Bath Street. Visitors are invited to unleash their creativity during the month with a series of exhibitions, talks, tours, music events, kids’ activities, workshops and walks. Many of the events are FREE and appeal to all ages and tastes.

This afternoon we had lunch at the Corinthian and then went on an external tour of the Mackintosh Building at the GSA. Our tour finished with a visit to the Mackintosh Exhibition at Lyon and Turnbull and Roger Billcliffe's Gallery.