West End Festival New Website with Programme – launch 26th April, 2013

A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Spring – Summer 2013

Lunchtime Theatre,  OranMor, Top of Byres Road.

World Whisky Day!!

Live Music from Acoustic Butterfly!

Saturday 18th May

The Dram, Woodlands Road

FREE

The World Whisky Day celebrations continue into the evening with live music from Acoustic Butterfly playing in the main bar! AND ITS FREE!!

Pop in, enjoy a dram and get yer lugs roon this!

Before the Acoustic Butterfly set there is a great Whisky tasting event also on in dram.

What better way to spend World Whisky Day than with great drams then great tunes!

Follow the link for tickets.
https://www.facebook.com/events/603618846329859/
World Whisky Day!! Whisky Tasting – £20!

May 18 at 5:00pm

Acoustic Butterfly Gig 8 p.m. – Free

Dram Glasgow
232-246 Woodlands Road, G3 6ND

 

South Side Festival

18th and 19th May and events across Glasgow’s South Side during month of May

http://southsidefestival.org.uk/glasshouses-2012/

http://southsidefestival.org.uk/glasshouses-2012/

 

Jim Byrne

Sunday 26th May, 2013

Southside Festival

with Carlton Jug Band and Kevin Young

 Southside Americana Night
 
 The Glad Cafe

8 p.m.

£5 on the door

www.songsbyjimbyrne.com
reverbnation.com/jimbyrne

The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd‎, Glasgow, G41 2HG

southsidefestival.org.uk/

The Power of Self Talk

Inner Space Glasgow Meditation Centre

18th May, 2013 2 p.m.

Give yourself a good talking-to at this workshop all about the right way to talk to yourself. Who needs friends, anyway?

Inner Space Glasgow Meditation Centre 277 High Street, Glasgow, G4 0QS

With Janey Godley, Elaine Malcolmson, Keiron Nicholson, Davey Connor and host Scott Gibson.

Wednesday 22nd May 2013. Doors open 7.30om at The Stand Comedy Club, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3

Tickets (£8 and £6 concession) can be reserved by calling the box office on 0131 558 7272 and a payment will be taken at the venue on the night.

 

West End Festival

Friday, 31 May to Sunday, 30 June.

GLASGOW’S FAVOURITE PARADE IS BACK!

Sunday 9th June, 2013 on Byres Road

The Mardi Gras Parade will be back in Byres Road this year on Sunday, 9 June.

Further details

Cottier Chamber Music Project – Full Programme West End Festival 2013

Partick Folk Festival 2013

Looking forward to a great weekend at Partick Folk Festival.

Six fantastic acts over 3 nights, Friday 31st May – Sunday 2nd June. The Annexe, Stewartville Street, Partick, Glasgow

Friday 31st May

Suzanne Houston and Adam Brown

Adam Brown & Suzanne Houston are a Glasgow-based duo, delivering sensitive arrangements of folk songs hailing from Scotland, Ireland, England and America, interspersed with self-penned and traditional tune sets. Their debut album “Pitch Invasion” will be available from May 2013.
https://soundcloud.com/a-brown-s-houston#play

The Adam McCulloch Trio

The Adam McCulloch Trio are Adam McCulloch (Vocals/Guitar), Paul McKenna (Vocals/Bouzuki) and Sean Gray (Flute/Whistles). Accomplished artists in their own right, Paul and Sean (http://www.paulmckennaband.com/) together with Adam form an exciting and dynamic sound, refreshing in its simplicity, guaranteed to have audiences foot tapping & singing along!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCGlt8AuhU

 Full details of programme

TRAMWAY FAMILY DAY: THE RED SHOES

Sunday 2nd June, 2013
 
The whole family is invited to kick start the summer with an immersive, colourful experience at The Red Shoes Family Day at Glasgow’s Tramway. This playful event explores our wild instincts. The Red Shoes interactive installation takes place in Tramway 1, with workshops and performances happening across the venue.
 
A collaboration with The Letter J (who performed the hugely popular Grandad and Me at Tramway Family Day: The Big Idea in February), this day will feature performances, music, hands-on creative activities and visual treats for ages 0-12 their parents and carers. Free, drop-in, some activities may have limited capacity.

Full details
 

 

Sloans Market

Every Saturday and Sunday 11a.m. – 5 p.m.

Until 22nd December

 Sloans Lane, Glasgow City Centre G2 8BG (Between Buchanan St and Argyle St)

Free entry

http://www.sloansglasgow.com/market

Everything from handmade jewellery to stained glass, cupcakes to candles, soap to scarves, designer clothing to speciality prints, and lots, lots more can be found in Sloans Lane from 11am to 5pm every weekend.

Stalls include:

Sophie’s Childrens Shoes
Jude’s Jewels Handmade Designer Jewellery
Ross Jewellery
Strictly Gemstones
Crafty Me – Handmade Cards
Maura
Phyilis Candles
Fiona Fleming Handmade Silver Jewellery Plectra Picks
Pretty Cuckoo
Cherryloco Jewellery

For information, please contact Jordan Clark, Market Organiser, on 07983 392488.

 

Farmers Market

Mansfield Park (corner of Dumbarton Road & Hyndland Street) Partick, which operates on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. 10am to 2pm.

Mansfield Pk, Partick

From 10am.

Be it grown, bred, caught, pickled, brewed or baked, its fresh!

This year celebrating its 18th birthday

 

Saturday, 1st June 2013 – Torchlight Procession

The West End Festival is Glasgow’s biggest calendar event. With crowds of over 160,000 people and a unique programme across four weeks that includes the Festival Parade, music, theatre and more. However this year the stand out event is the inaugural Torchlight Procession; a unique family event brought to Glasgow for the first time ever.

The Torchlight procession will mark the start of the West End Festival, however it will also highlight some of Glasgow’s most modern architecture and historic sights with the procession starting at the highly acclaimed and award winning Riverside Museum and ending at Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. The route takes visitors through the heart of the West End on to Byres Road and University Avenue. Both the start and finish sites will be enhanced with live music, catering and a host of street performers.

www.torchlightprocession.co.uk/

 

Sat 15th & Sun 16th June 2013 – 12-8pm, Kelvingrove Park

This year the Glasgow Mela takes place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June 2013. Once again, the festival will take place in Kelvingrove Park.

The Glasgow Mela is Scotland’s biggest multi-cultural festival, and will transform Kelvingrove Park into an extravaganza of music, dance, exotic food and eclectic stalls. The two-day event is open to all ages, and will also include family activitiesas well as a richly diverse programme of colourful performances. 

The festival team is programming the festival now, and more details will be announced soon, so keep an eye on this website and www.facebook.com/O2glasgowmela for breaking news. 

We can confirm that yet again Glasgow Mela 2013 will be FREE, so add the dates to your calendar now and make sure you don’t miss this entertaining weekend celebrating the multi-cultural influences that make Glasgow so vibrant,creative and cosmopolitan

http://www.glasgowmela.com/

Refugee Week Scotland Opening Concert 2013

Mon 17 June, 8pm
Old Fruitmarket
£16 standing / £13 balcony
 
Following the success of their sell-out concert in 2012, Refugee Week Scotland once again opens the festival with an uplifting musical celebration of the rich and eclectic mix of people and cultures in Scotland today. Already confirmed are Glasgow-based ensemble Admiral Fallow and Malcolm Middleton, one time guitarist with Arab Strap. See refugeeweekscotland.com for details of full line-up. Funds raised will go to Scottish Refugee Council and British Red Cross to support their continuing work to provide support to refugees in Scotland.

Tickets:

By phone: 0141 353 8000
 
Online  http:/www.glasgowconcerthalls.com
 

Margins Book and Music Festival

Various Venues Glasgow

17th October – 19th October 2013

Back again for year three, this hip young festival spreads its wings a new city for Margins Aberdeen. Set over two weekends, confirmed acts so far include Robert Newman, FOUND, Alasdair Gray, Christopher Brookmyre, Janice Galloway and more for six days of music, books and debate.

www.marginsfestival.com

The Hidden Lane – ‘First Fridays’ Open Studios

On the first Friday of every month there will be a unique chance to spend time viewing the works made by the designers and crafters and meeting the people who work down the Lane. This includes Shona Fidgett Jeweller, whose collections are in demand by quality jewellers throughout the UK and in her home town of Glasgow.

The lane is home to many small businesses and a group of artisans are opening their doors for the first Friday of every month, to let people come along and see them at work.

Visitors can also buy or commission work.

Full details

Under the Kitchen Sink
Hidden Lane Twitter
Shona Jewellery blogspot

The Hidden Lane, 1103 Argyle Street Glasgow, Glasgow City G3

Glasgow Crafters Co-op

Glasgow Crafters Co-op are a small group of artists and makers who decided to work together to create the kind of events we always wanted to sell at. There are so many events of various natures around these days. Among those are some truly lovely well organised ones which we are all lucky to be part of. What WE hope to achieve with our Co-op are events and opportunities created from the viewpoint and experience of the maker behind the stall. We all have a vested interest in this. We all put our heart and soul into the things we make. We want to work with each other and use the unique skills and hopes that we all have. We want to create that image we all have in our ‘selling head’. Bright space, bustling customers, co-operative venue, individual stalls each with different products and happy stallholders with coffee/tea in one hand and an order book in the other.

facebook glasgow crafters co-op

Makers Market

Hillhead Library, Byres Road, G12

11- 4pm

to the home of the Byres Road Makers Market – Glasgow’s new monthly boutique craft & design event.

Our monthly markets take place in Hillhead Library on Byres Road on the last Saturday of every month (from February – November).

At each market, you will find an eclectic mix of handmade crafts and original designs brought to you by talented artists, crafters and designers from all over Scotland. You simply won’t find these unique designs on the high street!

Wonderful handcrafted jewellery by Judith Kenny

Glasgow Crafters Co-op

Forty stalls of talent, skill and handmade brilliance

Crafters include: Mismatch Designs, Caroline Campbell Artist, Nicolaceramic, Matt McKenna Photography, The Melt Pool, Crafty Soap, Crafty Kate’s Kollection, All Things Nice Food, Mgcraftsglasgow and Pete Gillies Glass & Art… how’s that for starters!

Afternoon Twee

Vintage and Craft Fair

Vespbar, Drury Lane

Craft Fair Botanic Gardens

First Sunday every month

A Craft Fair with high quality items from Woodturnings by Isaac Curran to designer glass, hand made jewellery, Kendal crystals a huge selection of natural crystals, , Unique hand made greeting cards, hand crafted pottery plus others.

Fundraiser for Marie Curie – all profit from table money goes to Glasgow Hospice.

 

Spring - Summer 2013

Lunchtime Theatre

OranMor, Top of Byres Road

Full programme

The Hidden Lane - 'First Fridays' Open Studios

Friday 1st March

On the first Friday of every month there will be a unique chance to spend time viewing the works made by the designers and crafters and meeting the people who work down the Lane. This includes Shona Fidgett Jeweller, whose collections are in demand by quality jewellers throughout the UK and in her home town of Glasgow.

The lane is home to many small businesses and a group of artisans are opening their doors for the first Friday of every month, to let people come along and see them at work.

Visitors can also buy or commission work.

Full details

Under the Kitchen Sink
Hidden Lane Twitter
Shona Jewellery blogspot

The Hidden Lane, 1103 Argyle Street Glasgow, Glasgow City G3

Mother's Day Arts and Crafts Fair for Marie Curie Cancer

Glasgow Crafters Co-op

Sunday, March 3, 2013

11:30am until 4:30pm

Help us raise money for a lovely, vital charity and buy beautiful gifts for Mother's Day or for yourself!

Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor, 1-10 Grosvenor Terrace, G12 0TA

Counterflows

4th - 6th April, 2013

Various Glasgow Venues

Counterflows marries the local to the international with artists from around the world collaborating with homegrown talent in spaces across Glasgow and London's Cafe Oto, and working within all genres of music.

Festival Pass £35

www.counterflows.com

Glasgow International Comedy Festival

14th - 31st March, 2013

Jimmy Carr, Daniel Sloss, Craig Hill, Harry Hill, Jenny Eclair, Ardal O'Hanlon, Chris Addison and many more funny folk at venues throughout Glasgow.

What's On at GICF
www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com/

Counterflows

4th - 6th April, 2013

Various Glasgow Venues

Counterflows marries the local to the international with artists from around the world collaborating with homegrown talent in spaces across Glasgow and London's Cafe Oto, and working within all genres of music.

Festival Pass £35

www.counterflows.com

Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festiva

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12 April - 20 April 2013

Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Glasgow's Book Festival returns for its eighth festival of books and talks from Scottish and international authors.

It includes a dedicated Schools Programme. 11th - 15th March, 2013.

Aye Write.com

Mitchell Library 201 North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN

More books and talks in Glasgow

Glasgow Film Festival

Glasgow University Charity Zip Slide

Saturday 23 March 2013

Would you like to zoom across the River Clyde and raise funds for a good cause? Then you can take part in the fourth University of Glasgow Charity Zip Slide and raise funds for the Beatson Pebble Appeal, the Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Fund Centre or the Brain Tumour Research Fund - all University fundraising appeals.

No experience is necessary for the Zip Slide as full instruction will be given on the day by ALPS Outdoor. Entry fee is £40.00. Anyone can take part who is over 16 years of age.

For an entry pack or to find out how to register online please contact Susanne Hill or 0141 330 2132. Spaces are limited for the Zip Slide, so get in touch soon.

Ecomunky Pop Up Sale

Sunday, April 28, 2013

12:00pm until 5:30pm

Eco chic shopping event...

A great afternoon of shopping which doesn't cost the earth!

Eco friendly, vintage, antique, retro, upcycled & recycled and handmade good unique stuff to eat, to wear, to share.

30 of Scotland's finest indie sellers all under one roof.

£1 entry donated to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.

Wheelchair & pram access.
Licensed bar.
Husband, boyfriend & child creche.

Oran Mor - Top of Byres Road, G12 8Q

EFC Festival - Acoustic Stage

Fundraiser for Yorkhill Children's Foundation

4th and 5th May, 2013

The Clutha Vaults

Acts appearing over the week-end include:

• Jim Byrne
• monsterpop
• Dougie Greig
• Cassy Lochart
• Morag Angus
• Average Andy
• Jamie Angus
• Aaron Mclaren

more to be confirmed plus comedy acts

in conjunction with Southside Sessions Glasgow.

The Clutha Beer Garden, Stockwell Street, Glasgow
www.eventsforcharities.com

EFC Festival 2013 in Aid of Yorkhill Children's Foundation

Ivory Blacks

May 4 - 5:00pm until 3:00am

The second night of the EFC Festival 2013.

An awesome line up of bands headlined by Glasgow Rockers Logan. The full line up for the show includes Whit Snake (Scotland's ultimate Whitesnake tribute band), Still Lizzy (Thin Lizzy Trbute band), Gallus (The UK's Only Gun Tribute band), ROADWAY, Aeriel View, and highly acclaimed Already Gone. The night will finish with Glasgow's on Rock DJ's from The Dollhouse Rock Club bringing you a great mix of past to present rock classics and more.

Tickets £8

Buy Online

Direct from Events for Charities website box office ( No Booking Fee ) Events for Charities Booking

or Ticket Scotland, Argyle Street.

Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, G1 4PL

The Power of Self Talk

Inner Space Glasgow Meditation Centre

18th May, 2013 2 p.m.

Give yourself a good talking-to at this workshop all about the right way to talk to yourself. Who needs friends, anyway?

Inner Space Glasgow Meditation Centre 277 High Street, Glasgow, G4 0QS

Margins Book and Music Festival

Various Venues Glasgow

17th October - 19th October 2013

Back again for year three, this hip young festival spreads its wings a new city for Margins Aberdeen. Set over two weekends, confirmed acts so far include Robert Newman, FOUND, Alasdair Gray, Christopher Brookmyre, Janice Galloway and more for six days of music, books and debate.

www.marginsfestival.com

Glasgow Crafters Co-op

Glasgow Crafters Co-op are a small group of artists and makers who decided to work together to create the kind of events we always wanted to sell at. There are so many events of various natures around these days. Among those are some truly lovely well organised ones which we are all lucky to be part of. What WE hope to achieve with our Co-op are events and opportunities created from the viewpoint and experience of the maker behind the stall. We all have a vested interest in this. We all put our heart and soul into the things we make. We want to work with each other and use the unique skills and hopes that we all have. We want to create that image we all have in our 'selling head'. Bright space, bustling customers, co-operative venue, individual stalls each with different products and happy stallholders with coffee/tea in one hand and an order book in the other.

facebook glasgow crafters co-op

Makers Market

Hillhead Library, Byres Road, G12

11- 4pm

to the home of the Byres Road Makers Market - Glasgow's new monthly boutique craft & design event.

Our monthly markets take place in Hillhead Library on Byres Road on the last Saturday of every month (from February - November).

At each market, you will find an eclectic mix of handmade crafts and original designs brought to you by talented artists, crafters and designers from all over Scotland. You simply won't find these unique designs on the high street!

Wonderful handcrafted jewellery by Judith Kenny

Glasgow Crafters Co-op

Forty stalls of talent, skill and handmade brilliance

Crafters include: Mismatch Designs, Caroline Campbell Artist, Nicolaceramic, Matt McKenna Photography, The Melt Pool, Crafty Soap, Crafty Kate's Kollection, All Things Nice Food, Mgcraftsglasgow and Pete Gillies Glass & Art... how's that for starters!

Afternoon Twee

Vintage and Craft Fair

Vespbar, Drury Lane

Craft Fair Botanic Gardens

First Sunday every month

A Craft Fair with high quality items from Woodturnings by Isaac Curran to designer glass, hand made jewellery, Kendal crystals a huge selection of natural crystals, , Unique hand made greeting cards, hand crafted pottery plus others.

Fundraiser for Marie Curie - all profit from table money goes to Glasgow Hospice.