Southside<\/a> venue kicked off its ninth official summer season on July 4 and 5, with organisers describing it as one of the arena’s strongest starts to date.<\/p>\nQueens Park Arena (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n
Running until August 2, the programme features more than four weeks of free and donation-ticketed events.<\/p>\n
Opening weekend highlights included the first Cults & Classics outdoor film screenings, creative workshops and the return of the popular Big Fun family sessions.<\/p>\n
The arena’s 7.5-metre by three-metre LED cinema screen is now in use, hosting daytime and evening screenings throughout the summer.<\/p>\n
From Tuesday to Friday, evening films are preceded by 10 short films from emerging Scottish filmmakers, alongside live performances by local musicians.<\/p>\n
The programme also includes the return of Open Stage, showcasing local arts and music, while Glasgow Games will offer fitness sessions and live sports screenings, including the Wimbledon 2026 finals.<\/p>\n
Big Fun activities continue throughout the summer with storytelling, toddler movement sessions and more than 45 free soft play sessions each week for children aged two and under.<\/p>\n
Queens Park Arena (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n
Tickets remain available for QPA Live performances and several co-produced festivals, including the fifth annual Sub Club Southside Weekender, Melting Pot’s One Day In The Park and Laugh In The Park.<\/p>\n
The venue’s 320-square-metre Greenhouse Tent provides a covered, pet-friendly, reduced-noise space for workshops, cinema screenings and sport throughout the programme.<\/p>\n
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Chet Capkiner, founding director of Inhouse Event Solutions CIC, said: “What a way to kick off the season.<\/p>\n
“The atmosphere in the amphitheatre for the first Cults & Classics screenings was exactly what we hoped for, and it says everything about what this place means to the Southside.<\/p>\n
“The team has worked flat out over the past few months to get the site ready, and there is a huge amount still to come this summer.<\/p>\n
“We cannot wait to welcome everyone back for the rest of the programme.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Park Arena has launched its 2026 summer programme after welcoming large crowds for its opening weekend. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[111667,9,24,63,111668,122,124,123,111666,91556],"class_list":["post-292380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-film-screenings","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-programme","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-park-arena","tag-summer-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}