We're still collecting donations
On the 25th March 2025 we'd raised £7,277 with 93 supporters in 84 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
Help Flos Collective CIC Run Our First Festival!
by Flos Collective CIC in Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Total raised £7,317
raised so far96
supportersSupport Flos Festival (working title) - Glasgow’s Newest Grassroots Arts Festival!
by Flos Collective CIC in Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
New stretch target
We've reached our goal target of £5000!! Thank you so much to everyone who has shared and donated. We can't believe that 78 people want to support our project.
The stretch target will make sure that we can offer industry standard rates of pay for artists, collaborate with more organisations and produce a quality grassroots arts festival in Glasgow.
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
Rewards
This project offered rewards
£3 or more
£3 UK Delivery
Delivery fee for items that can't be collected from Glasgow.
Please get in touch if you have any questions!
UK only
£18 or more
A3 JUICY Risograph Print
A3 4 Colour Risograph Print designed by Lou Rowland & Rachel E Millar. (See updates for photos). UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£20 or more
mokusla Tee
Size Large - 100% Organic Cotton T-shirt designed by Lou Rowland (See updates for photos). UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£20 or more
Embroidered Hip Bap
Black Embroidered Hip Bag designed by Lou Rowland. (See updates for photos). UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£20 or more
Slay that Task - Nänni Pää Print
Created by Glasgows very own Nänni Pää. (See updates for photos)
This print is to encourage you to show up for yourself and to find the joy within even the most mundane tasks. To use your imagination and make steps to help yourself. Also remember how sexy you feel when you succeed in even the most minuet thing.
You slay.
A3 Matte 240gsm
If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£15 or more
corto.alto Fuzzy Beanie
corto.alto beanie in colour of choice: Grey and white / Blue and yellow / Brown and white. UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£15 or more
Banana Oraiste A4 Risograph Print
A4 3 Colour Risograph Print designed by Lou Rowland & Rachel E Millar. (See updates for photos). (See updates for photos). UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£20 or more
corto.alto Made In Glasgow Tee - Black / White
corto.alto tshirt in choice of colour. UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£20 or more
Ease my tears, tease my ears - Nänni-Pää Print
Created by Glasgows very own Nänni-Pää (See updates for photos)
“Tease my ears, ease my tears” - a flippable print from ‘Tables they turn’ exhibition at The Woom Room
A play with spoonerisms & looking at balance in relationships.
240gsm A3
£25 or more
Signed corto.alto Bad With Names vinyl
A corto.alto Mercury Nominated Bad With Names record, signed by Liam Shortall AKA corto.alto. UK Only - Free collection is available from Glasgow. If you need your reward posted within the UK, please select the £3 'Shipping Fee' reward when pledging.
£30 or more
corto.alto UK Headline Show Tickets X 2
2 tickets to a corto.alto UK Headline show of your choice, at a discounted rate! Must be used within 2025!
£35 or more
Guitar / Bass lesson with Luca Pisanu
Looking for a bass or guitar lesson? Look no further cause Luca Pisanu is your man!
International multi-instrumentalist/session musician, you might know Luca for featuring on corto.alto and for hosting jam sessions all over town. Get a lesson off of him for a one time only discounted price!
Either in person (you would need to be able to travel to Luca in Glasgow) or over zoom!
Once you purchase we'll get you linked up :)
£40 or more
Violin Lessons by Laura Jane Wilkie
3 lessons with Laura Jane Wilkie at a discounted rate! You can buy them individually or all 3 as a block! Available from May 2025, lessons can take place in person (Glasgow) or over zoom.
Laura Wilkie is a Fiddle player from Tain in the Highlands of Scotland. She has toured internationally and has a unique style which has roots in the Highland fiddle traditions but is influenced by an eclectic range of music from all genres.