Inside the studio with Peilin Shi, Sweætshops® and Rosana Cade, dispatches from the team's travels across Europe, our new Tramway Graduate Residency artists, and a round-up of opportunities and shows from across the sector.
RECRUITING: BUTCHES: WOrkshop
A public dance workshop for anyone who identifies with butchness to come and move together, as part of Bishop May Down and Emma Lewis-Jones’ new project Insistence: A Butch Ballet. Performance experience not necessary, ballet experience not desired.
Free, booking essential. More information.
Take Me Somewhere x Tramway Graduate Residencies
Take Me Somewhere and Tramway are pleased to offer our 2026 Graduate Residencies to Bishop May Down and Emma Lewis-Jones to develop Insistence: A Butch Ballet, and to Amy Clark and Noa Ferder to develop That’s It. at Tramway Studio space. This is a collaborative programme between both organisations, providing graduating artists funded rehearsal space and mentoring sessions with the Take Me Somewhere team.
Residency highlights from Bea Webster, Gillie Kleiman and Kfir Lapid-Mashall, news of Cade & MacAskill's Now Not Now, and a spring round-up of festivals, open calls and shows worth catching across Glasgow and beyond.
News of our new roving studio, the artists joining our 2026 funded residencies, and dispatches from São Paulo to New York, plus sector support for Trongate 103 and a packed spring of festivals from Counterflows to BUZZCUT.
Announcing our 2026 Studio Somewhere Funded Residencies!
We’re excited to introduce the artists selected for our 2026 Studio Somewhere Residencies.
Created to support Scotland-based artists developing bold ideas in experimental performance, these residencies offer time, space and practical support to explore work at an early stage. Funded residencies form part of our wider commitment to creating the conditions for radical performance to be made in Scotland, giving artists room to test ideas, bring collaborators into the process, and consider what the future life of a project might be.
Following our open call, we’re delighted to support the following residents: Bea Webster, Kfir Lapid-Mashall, Peilin Shi, Sweætshops® and Belladonna Paloma.
Open call for artists to work on Do It Together projects!
As part of Live Art Development Agency’s Do It Together (DIT) programme, open calls are now open to work with two partner projects: BUZZCUT x Take Me Somewhere’s project with Gillie Kleiman – Disciplined, and Scottish Sculpture Studio x Take Me Somewhere’s project with Stacy Makishi – Campfire Disco!
As part of Live Art Development Agency's Do It Together (DIT) programme, we're inviting artists/practitioners to work with Gillie Kleiman's BUZZCUT x Take Me Somewhere project Disciplined. Find out more.
As part of Live Art Development Agency's Do It Together (DIT) programme, we're inviting artists/practitioners to work with Stacy Makishi's Scottish Sculpture Workshop x Take Me Somewhere project Campfire Disco!. Find out more.
We were delighted to collaborate with The Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) to commission a response to 2025’s Take Me Somewhere Festival from Glasgow-based artist HUSS.
You can read HUSS’ commission, the result of a personal exploration of what he experienced, as someone who exists at the intersections of various borders in the city, below or with additional material on LAWN’s website.
Studio Somewhere (Somewhere New!)
We’re so excited to announce that Studio Somewhere will re-open next year in a new corner of the city: Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow!
Watch this space for more information on the new studio as well as our further Studio Somewhere programme in January! We can’t wait to show you around.
In the meantime, we have issued a call out for Spring 2026 Studio Somewhere Residencies.
Links to apply are found below, if you have any issues with the application form, please email studio@takemesomewhere.co.uk.
These residencies are for artists working in experimental performance and include time in the studio, a bursary and support from the Take Me Somewhere team. Read more about what to expect, eligibility criteria and how to apply.
An open call for Do It Together projects with BUZZCUT and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (deadline 12 November), plus the announcement of BUZZCUT's 2025/26 Emerging Artist Award recipients.
Take Me Somewhere 2025: what a festival.
We moved, sweat, feasted, danced, promised, revolted. We baked bread, got wet and wild, were tucked into bed, marvelled at suspended wrestlers, made public vows, sat in church pews and ate so much cake.
From intimate rooms to big, sold-out crowds, YOU made the festival as bold and as joyful as it was.
Thank you for bringing the sparkle, thank you for bringing the grit.
💥 IT’S HERE 💥
Take Me Somewhere 2025 programme reveal.
18 shows. 3 rituals. 1 donkey revolution.
A city-wide invitation to gather, move, feast, sweat, promise, revolt. Our 2025 programme is here. Tickets are on sale now for October, come with us.
TAKE ME SOMEWHERE 2025
15–26 October | Glasgow
Head into our artist creation space Studio Somewhere this September for a series of workshops by some fantastic local & international artists.
Saturday 14th September
Take A Breath: Astrology & Well-Being
Zoe Lorimer
Please Note: This workshop is reserved for Black People & People of Colour (BPOC) only.
Saturday 21st September
Studio Somewhere Invites: Whatever I am / let it be seen
Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
Dancer and choreographer Solène on her Studio Somewhere residency, exploring how the theatre's machinery of magic and illusion can deepen a performance about manufacturing truth.
Announcing the four artists selected for our 2024 funded spring residencies, Niki Rush, Ieva Grigelionyte, Thulani Rachia and Solène Weinachter, with funded studio time and producer support.
Interdisciplinary artist Ieva Grigelionyte on her Studio Somewhere residency, where she struck up an unlikely collaboration with the stinging nettle, inspired by plant consciousness and The Secret Life of Plants.
Reflecting on The Centre of Somewhere: a major Glasgow–Johannesburg exchange with The Centre for the Less Good Idea and the British Council, supporting four artists to create across two cities.
As an organisation which seeks to bring Scottish artists into dialogue with the rest of the world, we cannot ignore the ongoing Genocide against the Palestinian people from the Israeli State. In addition to calling for an immediate ceasefire, Take Me Somewhere pledges support for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
What is PACBI?
“The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. It advocates for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions for their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights that are stipulated in international law.” Further detail can be found here: www.bdsmovement.net/pacbi/cultural-boycott-guidelines
In action for Take Me Somewhere this looks like:
- Not platforming or participating in performance projects, residencies & arts/academic exchanges which are in receipt of funding from the Israeli Government, complicit Israeli institutions or Israeli Embassy touring funding.
- Not programming or participating in performance projects, residencies & arts/academic exchanges which serve to normalise and/or whitewash the Israeli system of oppression, or present a 'two-sides' narrative that assumes that both colonisers and colonised are equally responsible for “conflict”.
- Reviewing in detail the guidelines laid out in the PACBI Guidelines for the International Cultural Boycott of Israel & writing them into our policies.
Wider to PACBI, TMS will also share fundraisers, events & protests related to ending the genocide on our social media platforms.
The cultural boycott of Israel will continue until Israel is in compliance with the basic demands outlined in the 2005 BDS Call.
We want to acknowledge our appreciation & respect for the incredible labour undertaken by Art Workers For Palestine Scotland in holding the Scottish arts sector to account whilst providing essential resources & research to rally support for Palestine in Scotland.
As part of the Diverse Critics programme, Elspeth Wilson reviews Christopher Willes and Adam Kinner's Manual - a one-on-one performance turning Glasgow's Mitchell Library into a space of sensory encounter.
As part of the Diverse Critics programme, Zinzi Buchanan reflects on Nando Messias' TransMission: Sissy TV - a performance drawing on two decades of archive to explore trans history, memory and beauty.