South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture

 

Drop-in art and science activity.

Make amazing glowing images on light sensitive paper in the UV Drawing Room or test out your puzzle skills wearing the upside-down mirror goggles. Explore and experiment with the Light Box equipment to make special effects using mirrors, torches and kaleidoscope tubes. 

The Art of Light is a drop-in activity for all ages that will take place alongside our schedule of children’s summer classes.

For more information on these activities and to book, please call East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: Free

Amy graduated with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Fine Art from the City of Glasgow College 2024. The skills she gained in composition, colour, and materials continue to shape the way creates each piece.

Amy has built a diverse portfolio that includes portraits, pets, wildlife, landscapes, seascapes, still life’s, murals, and other subjects.

She works in a range of mediums, including acrylic, watercolour, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and ink, selecting the one best suited to the subject and style.

Much of Amy’s work is commissioned. She loves working with clients to bring their ideas to life as finished artwork.

Whether a portrait, a pet, a favourite place, or a subject chosen to mark a special occasion, Amy approaches every piece thoughtfully. Amy’s aim is to create artwork that combines technical skill and sensitivity, resulting in original pieces that hold meaning.

Cost: Free admission

 

Come along to our Sip and Glaze Night where you can glaze, paint and design your own pre-cast pottery item, ideal for display at home or the perfect personalised gift.

Chill out from the world and catch up and giggle with friends as you create a masterpiece under the guidance of our expert Tutor.

Age 18+

Includes a glass of prosecco and one piece of pottery.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: £30.00

By Lori Delaney.

A Waiting Game is a verbatim play that foregrounds overlooked experiences of breast cancer beyond dominant “pink ribbon” narratives. Using an intersectional lens, it centres marginalised voices and personal testimonies often absent from mainstream discourse. The play explores cultural disparities through a South Asian perspective, LGBTQ+ identities, infertility, mental health, and addiction, as well as the impacts of medication. It also addresses cancer during COVID-19, male experiences of a feminised illness, relationship breakdown, financial hardship, and ageing.

Performed by professional actors alongside participants with lived experience gathered over a four-year research project, the work powerfully reflects the complexity of living with cancer.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: £10.00 (subject to £1.50 transaction fee)

 

Bookends Theatre Group presents The Philadelphia Story.

Just as wealthy Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord is about to remarry, her first husband - the suave and debonair C.K. Dextor Haven - arrives unexpectedly at her house.

He has with him a tabloid reporter and photographer and he is clearly intent on causing mischief.

Next to arrive is Tracy's ne'er-do-well father and some rather harsh comments from him lead Tracy to re-evaluate her choices and what she wants for the future.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: £17.00 (+ £1.50 transaction fee)