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This project successfully funded on 25th March 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Help Flos Collective CIC Run Our First Festival!
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
First target reached!
We've reached our goal target of £5000!! Thank you so much to everyone who has share...
Aim
Support Flos Festival (working title) - Glasgow’s Newest Grassroots Arts Festival!
Support Flos Festival (working title) - Glasgow’s Newest Grassroots Arts Festival!
We’re launching Flos Festival (working title) our first-ever Glasgow City festival, bringing together a weekend of exhibitions, panel discussions, live music, and workshops - and we need your help to make it happen!
The festival will be a celebration of the creativity and talent from the Flos Collective community. It will provide paid opportunities for artists, create inclusive spaces for discussion and collaboration and bring exciting new art to Glasgow. All funds raised will go directly into Flos Festival (with any extra funds going towards sustain our 2025 programme of events throughout the year).
What’s Happening at Flos Festival?
Over the course of four days, Flos Festival will host:
🎨 A Visual Arts Exhibition – Showcasing incredible work from emerging artists.
🎤 Live Music & DJ Sets – Celebrating Glasgow’s grassroots music scene.
📚 Panel Discussions – Covering accessibility, gender, queer spaces, and grassroots organising.
🎭 Workshops & Community Gatherings – Hands-on creative experiences and networking.
🍽 A Community Meal – Bringing people together through shared food and conversation.
Key Events
- Wednesday 8th – Exhibition Install – Preparing the space and working with artists.
- Thursday 9th – Festival Opening Night – Live performances and celebration.
- Saturday 11th – Workshops & Film Screening – Including a collage workshop, movement workshop and screening films from emerging filmmakers.
- Sunday 12th – Daytime Talks, Closing Event & Networking – Discussing grassroots organisations, accessibility in the arts. DJs, conversation, and community-building.
- Monday 13th – Exhibition Deinstallation – Wrapping up and reflecting on the weekend.
Why We Need Your Support
Flos Collective is a grassroots organisation, ran by artists for artists. For the past two years we have been running with no external funding - purely driven by our passion for supporting artists, we have been volunteering our time to build an inclusive creative scene.
Flos Festival is a major turning point for us. It’s our most ambitious project yet and a huge step in establishing Flos Collective as a long-term, sustainable platform for artists.
How Your Donation Helps
Your contribution will go directly toward:
✔ Artist, performer & facilitator fees – Ensuring artists are paid fairly.
✔ Venue hire & production costs – Making Flos Festival happen.
✔ Accessibility & transport support – Ensuring inclusivity.
✔ Materials, equipment & documentation – Capturing & preserving our work.
✔ Marketing & outreach – Helping us grow and reach new audiences.
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If you believe in the power of grassroots, artist-led spaces, please consider donating. Every contribution - no matter how small - helps make Flos Festival and our future work possible.
Thank you for supporting us - we can’t wait to create Flos Festival with you!
🧡 The Flos Team
Creative Scotland Crowdmatch has provided £3,420 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made