Doors Open Days

Open on Saturday 20 Sept. & Sunday 21 Sept. from 12noon to 5pm on both days.

Talks on Queen’s Cross each Day:  1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm.

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross is one of Glasgow’s hidden architectural gems. The only church in the world designed by the great Scottish architect, designer and artist, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Commissioned in 1896 by the Free Church, the simplicity of the design is inspiring. The windows are Gothic in character, yet are infused with the Mackintosh spirit, and the floral motifs he affected can be easily recognised, particularly on the tracery of the large western window above the chancel.

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross now houses a plethora of events for the CRM Society and has provided Glasgow with a new venue for weddings, concerts, meetings and seminars. The CRM Society continues to deliver lively learning experiences, workshops and activities for schools, students, adults, families and children.

www.mackintosh.org.uk 

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society is an independent, non-profit making charity, established in 1973 to promote and encourage awareness of the Scottish architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The Society has over 700 members across the world with active affiliate groups arranging local events in, London and the SE, and Japan, and an associate group in Port Vendres. Become a member today!

www.crmsociety.com 

Exhibition in the Hall

Tea for Two / Chá para Exhibition & Events

12 September – 2 October 2025, Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, Glasgow

Presented by Graeme Nicholls Architects, Tea for Two / Chá para Dois is a new exhibition exploring architectural and cultural connections between Scotland and Portugal. It places Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original Willow Tearooms in dialogue with Álvaro Siza’s Boa Nova Tea House, offering a reflective look at design, craft, place, and ritual through drawings, models, photography, film, and original artefacts.

Tea for Two / Chá para Dois: Architectural Exhibition & Events

HEIR OF THE CURSED

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Saturday 30 August 2025 at 7.00pm

Tickets £25.00 + booking fee (Conc. £15.00) Tickets for ‘Heir of the Cursed’ Album Release Concert

Haunting, visceral, defying genre and flipping the finger to convention, Heir Of The Cursed is the debut album by Scottish-Kenyan musician Beldina Odenyo, who died in 2021.

Beldina, who had been performing live as Heir of the Cursed since 2016, recorded these songs in her home studios Govanhill and Paisley. In celebration of her unique voice and remarkable talent, her family have arranged for the album to be mixed and mastered, and are releasing it on what would have been her 35th birthday, 30th August 2025.

The album will be launched with a live performance at the Mackintosh Church in Glasgow, featuring guest vocalists Kathryn Joseph, Rick Redbeard, Rae Lena, Callum Easter, Sacred Paws, Djana Gabrielle, Leah McAleer, Lewis Semple, Megan Airlie and Kimberley Mandindo.

DATES

Digital & Vinyl Release: 30/08/25

Album Launch: 30/08/25, Mackintosh Church Glasgow.

Singles:         Hold The Mirror, 19/06/25

                        Walking Disaster, 21/07/25

An Evening With Irvine Welsh

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 25 July 2025 at 7.00pm

Tickets £5.00 or £24 with a copy of Men In Love from Waterstones

Irvine Welsh joins us to launch his latest novel, Men In Love, the immediate sequel to Trainspotting, continuing the stories of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie!

Set in the late 1980s and early ’90s against the backdrop of rave culture, Men In Love follows the iconic Trainspotting crew through the dying days of Thatcher’s Britain as they do what they can to feel alive, all while asking themselves whether falling in love is the answer to their problems, or just another futile quest?

Irvine will join us for an event in the beautiful setting of Mackintosh Queen’s Cross to discuss returning to the boys, filling in this gap in their stories, and his own memories of Edinburgh in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as signing copies of Men In Love.

Maciej Granat plays Film Music

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Saturday 28 June 2025 at 6.30pm

Tickets £10.00 Conc. £8.00+booking fee (available from Universe)

Maciej Granat presents an exciting programme of themes from movies, TV shows and games arranged for piano in the stunning acoustics of Mackintosh Queen’s Cross. Moving, epic, silly and majestic themes from Indiana Jones, Princess Mononoke, Inception, Zelda, Halo, The Sims and much more! Tickets: £10/£8 conc., available at the door. Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, 28th June 2025, doors open: 6pm.   

AnaVitória

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Sunday 22 June 2025 at 7.30pm

Tickets £30.00 +booking fee (available from SeeTickets)

432 Presents ANAVITÓRIA – a Brazilian pop musical duo formed by Ana Caetano and Vitória Falcão. Originally from Tocantins, a state in the northern region of Brazil, they began their career in 2015 and quickly captivated the Brazilian audience with poetic lyrics about love and self-discovery. Four highly successful original albums have solidified them as one of the leading names in the new generation of Brazilian music. Winners of four Latin Grammy Awards, twice in the “Best Portuguese Language Song” category and twice for “Best Portuguese Language Pop Album”, ANAVITÓRIA continues to document their journey without being tied to a single style.

Shakespeare: Master of the Mind

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 13 June 2025 at 7.30pm

Tickets £11.55 -£15.87 (available from Eventbrite)

I’m Lorenzo, and I read minds.
In this unique experience I bring two of my greatest passions together:
Mind-Reading and William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was a master of the mind. His extraordinary ability to understand and articulate
the thoughts, emotions and experiences of his characters has imbued his words in our everyday
language.
I’ll be using those words to get insights into you and your thoughts.
Please come with an open mind and an open heart.
Expect audience participation and moments of astonishment…

Curtis Stigers

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 9 May 2025 at 7.00pm

Tickets £44.00 +booking fee (Sold Out)

Curtis Stigers drives his publicists crazy.

For the past 30 years, the singer, songwriter, saxophonist and guitarist has been making records that confound those who try to categorize his music or put him in a box.

Curtis Stigers has had several top ten hits as a long-haired, blue-eyed soul singer and he’s written and sung an Emmy nominated TV theme song. He’s recorded a track for one of the biggest-selling pop albums of all time and he’s released nine critically acclaimed award-winning jazz albums. He’s played for presidents and princes, and he’s appeared in two Seth MacFarlane movies about a foul-mouthed cuddly bear called Ted. He’s recorded thirteen studio albums and a live album singing Sinatra songs with a big band from Denmark. He’s toured with symphony orchestras, written songs with Carole King and dueted with Al Green, Shawn Colvin and Tom Jones.

Stigers’ success as a songwriter has included co-writing with the likes of legends like Carole King, Barry Mann and Beth Nielsen Chapman, and his songwriting talent also led to an Emmy nomination for co-writing and singing the theme song to the wildly successful TV series Sons Of Anarchy.

It is his rich singing voice, however—singular, balletic, and at turns both mournful and playful— that has landed him on records with the likes of Al Green, Shawn Colvin and Jackson Browne, in studios with venerated producers like Larry Klein, Danny Kortchmar, and Glen Ballard, and on stages and concert bills with pop and rock legends, including Eric Clapton, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Prince, Rod Stewart and The Allman Brothers Band, as well as jazz giants Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, Gerry Mulligan, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Mangione, Toots Thielmans, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Diana Krall, John Scofield, Larry Goldings and many more.

After being mentored in his early years by legendary jazz pianist Gene Harris, and by the revered jazz singer Mark Murphy, Stigers’ unique talent was recognized by music business impresario Clive Davis, who signed Stigers to a record deal after hearing him in a New York restaurant. A debut album sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide on the strength of self-penned hit singles like “I Wonder Why,” “You’re All That Matters to Me,” and “Never Saw a Miracle.” A year later, Stigers contributed a cover version of Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding” to The Bodyguard soundtrack, which has sold over 45 million copies worldwide. Multiple appearances on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Today Show and countless International TV shows, put Stigers directly in the spotlight of popular culture. Stigers also made cameo appearances in the movie comedies, Ted and Ted 2, written and directed by his friend, Seth MacFarlane.

Masa Nazzal – Slovenia Inshallah – Launch & Performance

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 4 April 2025 at 1.30pm

This event is Sold Out

Join Masa Nazzal as she launches and perform parts of her debut tape release on Glasgow’s GLARC cassette label, Slovenia Inshallah.

Slovenia Inshallah is a mixtape created by Masa Nazzal and Ilyas Titaou. Masa spent three months working in Bihać, Bosnia between October 2023 – January 2024 with a no-borders activist group called, No Name Kitchen, where she collected testimonies of violence happening to people on the move trying to pass through Croatia to Slovenia in order to seek asylum in the European Union. The mixtape and performance uses field recording, poetry, songs and storytelling to create a sonic journey about the violence and hopes of border realities; recorded in squats, outside of transit camps and on the streets. Masa’s performance explores how sound becomes the medium to imagine political futures that are not visible, but heard. Creating the spaces to hear futures that are not yet here. Masa uses these political soundscapes to listen from afar – both in time and space – to political possibilities hidden in the cracks of what is now. It is this sonic reaching that our ears hear what is beneath, below, ahead, and above to find new borderless futures.

This is an all ages event.

Amina Claudine Myers in discussion with Adele Oliver

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Saturday 5 April 2025 at 1.00pm

This event is Sold Out

A rare chance to hear Amina Claudine Myers’ story from her own voice, tracing her life and career’s trajectory through her early days in Chicago’s AACM collective, her solo work, collaborative work (including stints with Lester Bowie, Archie Shepp and Wadada Leo Smith) and her music today. Amina’s deep absorption in jazz, the avante-garde, blues, classical, gospel, and world music traditions positions her within a fascinating space in musical, poltical and cultural historical, and hopefully this discussion offers us the opportunity to delve deeper into this.

Adèle Oliver – an artist, scholar, and linguist originally Birmingham – will facilitate this talk. Adele’s practice focusses on black music, politics and culture and colonialism. Her recent publication “Deeping It” examines the criminalisation of UK Drill music.

Celtic Connection 2025

The premiere winter festival and international celebration of Celtic music will illuminate stages across Glasgow from Thursday 16 January to Sunday 2 February 2025, eclipsing dark winter nights with a kaleidoscope of internationally-renowned music, exciting new performances and unique showcases.

Creative Director Donald Shaw programmes more than 300 events across multiple genres of music. The festival is renowned for its ability to bring together one-off line-ups for special collaborative shows. The camaraderie between musicians continues late into the night at the Festival Club – home to legendary musical collaborations and spontaneous sessions.

“If there’s one thing that makes wintertime in Glasgow great then it’s
Celtic Connections”.
The Guardian

This year we are delighted to host 14 concerts at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross.

Tickets for Celtic Connections 2025 are available now at www.celticconnections.com.