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GlasgowDoorsOpenDays
@Glasgowdodf
Glasgow's free heritage festival, delivered each September by @gbptrust | Returning 18 – 21 September Part of @doorsopendays
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined August 2009
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    (1/2) Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Returns: 18 - 21 September! Glasgow’s free heritage festival is back for a 36th edition this September and we can’t wait for you to join us. glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
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    In 1921, Maggie McIver founded the Barras Market, a safe place for people to trade from barrows in the East end of Glasgow. Before long the market was attracting 300 barrows each week, many run by women. #HeritageTreasures
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    Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2022 Theme Announcement! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 City in Flux 1982 was a landmark year for Glasgow built heritage. The city was slowly emerging from a long, painful period of deindustrialisation and depopulation.
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    Drumroll... @gbptrust is delighted to announce that in 2020, Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is going DIGITAL! 14th - 20th September, expect a host of digital events! Webinars, film screenings, podcasts, 3D digital environments and more! Programme launch mid-August.
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    Exciting news! The official programme for Glasgow Doors Open Days 2023 is now live!🎉🙌 All events are completely free to attend. Tickets will be available to book in early September, so keep an eye out. glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk #GDODF20223
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    Hurrah for our 2022 festival poster! 🎉🎉🎉 The countdown is on for Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival, 12th - 18th September 2022. Look out for our full programme announcement early August, on our website, glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk. @DoorsOpenDays @gbptrust
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    We are absolutely delighted to share with you our programme for the Glasgow Doors Open Days Digital Festival. You're invited to unlock Glasgow's buildings and the stories behind them in more than 100 events we're hosting online. Browse the programme 👉 glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/bookliveevents…
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    Good Morning & Welcome to Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2018!! Today marks the start of one week of open buildings & events taking place across the city! #glasgowdod #dodscot
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    Rediscover Glasgow's buildings this September at #GDODF2021 🎉 You can now explore our programme, which contains over 100 buildings, events and activities for you to take part in online and in-person. Bookings open Wednesday 1 Sept Find out what's on 👉 glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
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    Shout out to all of the amazing participants who have opened their buildings and hosted events this week, and to the many volunteers who have given their time to organise, provide a warm welcome and assistance! ❤️ #glasgowdod #dodscot
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    🙌2022 FESTIVAL HUB ANNOUNCEMENT!🙌 @gbptrust is thrilled to announce Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2022 Hub will be hosted in the @UofGlasgow new flagship research building the ARC, @UofGARC, @UofGVC. 🧵
    A large building with many windows with a blue and cloudy sky behind.
    A large open space, under an atrium with meeting rooms.
    A stair case off a bright entrance way leads up to a multi floor building under an atrium.
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    Thank you ever so much to all of you who came out and enjoyed #GDODF2022 🙌 We hope you enjoyed exploring Glasgow this week as much as we did! We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate the @gbptrust's 40th birthday! See you again next year 👋
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    It gives us great pleasure to grant you physical access to Glasgow's heritage buildings at #GDODF2021 🎉 Some are free to enter at your leisure, but some require booking. We've categorised them on our website for your ease. Explore Glasgow's buildings 👉 glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/building/
    Glasgow's Old Clay Pipe Factory. A historical red brick building with five floors covered in windows, with a red arched sign to its left saying "Barras", indicating the old Barras market.
    A Sikh man with a purple turban, pale purple tunic and blue knitted waistcoat stands in front of the Glasgow Gurdwara, which has white walls and a brown wooden doorway topped with three white gumbads (domes) and gold text reading "Gurdwara Guru Granth Sahib". There is another gold gumbad at the building's top.
    The King's Theatre in Glasgow. A grand red brick building with a wooden doorway topped by a spherical window sits on a street corner.
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    That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed #GDODF2023. 🙌 We hope you enjoyed exploring Glasgow this week as much as we did! It was a joy to see so many of you out and about discovering Glasgow's buildings and community spaces. See you nexy year Glasgow! 👋