St Mungo Festival

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St Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow, is celebrated during the city's official St Mungo Festival held annually in January!

About St Mungo Festival

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Now in its second decade, the Festival hosts performances, lectures, concerts, and ecumenical events around the week of the Saint’s Feast Day in January. The Mediaeval Glasgow Trust promotes the St Mungo Festival together with its partners in Glasgow Churches Together and Glasgow Life.

The St Mungo Festival will be the first event in the official programme for Glasgow 850 and while Glasgow 850 will mark the creativity and culture of the City, the Festival programme will be unique in highlighting Glasgow’s origins and a period of our history that was little studied or appreciated before its reappraisal within the last two decades.

See all of this year's events on our site: stmungofestival.co.uk

This year's Festival opens on Monday 6 January with Louise Welsh's talk 'Who owns the Clyde?'.

The 9th sees Dr Craig Lamont discussing 'Glasgow and Cultural Memory': From the Cathedral to the Clyde, Glasgow's cityscape has gone through tremendous change, but how much of that change can we see? How much can be recovered?

Friday 10th sees a celebration of Vespers of St Mungo at St Andrew's Cathedral on the Clyde and Saturday a 'Celebration of St Mungo in Words and Song' at the Mitchell Library.

Beginning that afternoon is our lecture series at the Mitchell Library organised with the Alexander Thomson Society; Neil Baxter's talk 'Getting to 850: Glasgow in Four Chapters'.

On Sunday there is the annual Ecumenical service at Glasgow Cathedral and on the Feast day of St Mungo itself we have our led walk alongside the Molendinar burn to the Cathedral.

In the afternoon we have the 2025 edition of our ongoing exploration of the Signs and Symbols of Glasgow Cathedral.

Wednesday evening sees the Strathclyde University Chamber Choir present a programme of music in honour of Sts Mungo, Columba and Brigid.

On Saturday Dominic D'Angelo of the Alexander Thomson Society looks at the Church in Glasgow from the 12th century through to the Reformation.

Concluding our January programme, Niall Murphy of the City Heritage Trust will discuss the evolution of the city's George Square throughout the centuries.

If you have any queries or wish to support the Festival in 2025 (financially, in-kind or as a volunteer), please send a message to our Chair, Bailie McMaster, or contact MGT Consultant Neil Baxter at hello@stmungofestival.co.uk

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