This blog is by Trisha O'Neil who volunteered to help at Bearsden Festival as soon as she heard that the theme was mental health.. It's brave to speak up and...

This year, the Bearsden Festival is connecting community, creativity and mental health and wellbeing, and we’re talking about ways that people can help thems...

Bearsden Festival is about connecting our community, but it's also part of a much bigger series of events, mostly happening in May, under the umbrella of the...

Sleep, or lack of a quality night's rest, has been a problem of mine for around a decade. It's not a coincidence that this corresponds with pregnancy, small ...

This time last year, my heart was breaking for someone I love dearly. A sportsman, able to play music from memory, could entertain us endlessly with magic tr...

'One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.' Bob Marley We bumped into Playlist for Life at a conference last year and were hooked immed...

A chance encounter at the end of 2018 brought us in touch with a community arts partnership that ticks so many of Bearsden Festival's boxes. Ageless Art’s vi...

This is how community works. You're dancing at the Hogmanay ceilidh and someone who used to live in your street comes up and tells you about a friend who doe...

Some thoughts about why this Festival is coming at the right time for Bearsden, and actually is right for any community to have a look at together. Would be ...