OCTOBER Members' Event // Night-time photo walk with Julie Laing

Please note that this event takes place in-person in Glasgow city centre and is for AGITATE MIXER, MAKER, and HERO Members only.

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To celebrate World Photowalk Day and make the most of Team AGITATE being in Glasgow for the weekend, our October Members' Event takes place on foot - and on the move!

Meeting at a central public venue (tbc*) we will be guided by Julie through the city as it settles into evening, and its streetlights begin to transform the nightscape. There will be a chance to sit down mid-way through, and the walk will be at a gentle pace come rain or shine ( or rather, whatever the night-time equivalent of shine may be). You are invited and encouraged to bring your own cameras and snap as you wander, capturing street scenes or portraits illuminated by LED and other type of bulbs most recently illuminating Glasgow. Perhaps we’ll spot one of the last remaining low sodium streetlights still alight among them...

This will be an informal and friendly social as well as a valuable chance to hear more about the making of ‘low-sodium, night frequencies' and other works by Julie Laing, inspired by nocturnal Glasgow. More information about Julie's documentation of low pressure sodium streetlights and their impact on our nightscapes can be found here.

*Given the unpredictability of the streetlight replacement programme, the venue and route will be confirmed closer to the evening of the event.

About the speaker & walk leader //

Julie Laing is a Glasgow-based artist and writer. Her photography has been exhibited most recently at her low-sodium, night frequencies solo show at AGITATE Gallery, Edinburgh (2023-24), Wasps Creative Academy, Inverness 2025, The Scottish Landscape Awards, City Arts Centre (2023-24) and Street Level Open, Glasgow (2022). Other visual art, including poem-sculptures, has been shown at various venues in the UK and Singapore, and with off-page, a development programme of ‘visual poetry | the poetic visual’, which she co-founded with CD Boyland. Until 2024 she coordinated Round Table crit group in association with Street Level Photoworks. She won the William Bonar Poetry Prize (2023), The Wigtown Poetry Prize (2022) and her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, is forthcoming with Red Squirrel Press. She was a mentee of Clydebuilt 13 poetry mentorship programme led by Gerry Cambridge. Julie has delivered sessions and readings at StAnza International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out and Edinburgh Photographic Society.