Janey Godley, Comedienne – West End Characters
(Aged just 63, Janey sadly died on Saturday 2 November, 2024. R.I.P. Janey, you brought much laughter and joy to many.) I met Janey at Mansions Cafe-Bar at Charing Cross where she runs Jester’s Comedy Club, compering the Friday and Saturday night shows and performing her own stand up comedy act. Mansions is housed in […]
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Hallowe’en – A Bygone Theme by Pat Byrne
‘Mum, Anna and me have got an idea for Hallowe’en,’ said Catherine. ‘Okay. Tell me about it.’ ‘We’ve got it all planned. It’s going to be a bygone theme,’ said Anna. ‘Auntie Mary says she can lend us stuff. She’s got a trunk in her loft full of vintage clothes that she’s kept like forever.’ […]
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Glasgow Film Festival Comes Of Age As First Events Announced For 2025
Glasgow Film Festival – 26 February to 9 March, 2025 To mark GFF’s 21st edition, the festival’s wildly popular free morning retrospectives will take a look at coming of age in the movies. From 1945 classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, via Gregory’s Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Boyz […]
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Hallowe’en Party – Glasgow
Friday 1 November, 2024 G20 Youth, 21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow, G20 8HS DOORS OPEN 5.30PMFOOD 5.30-6.30PMSTORY TELLING 6PMARTS & CRAFTS 5.30-7.30PMDISCO & PARTY GAMES 6.30 – 7.30PMLANTERN PARADE 7.30-8PMDOORS CLOSE 8PM Event on Facebook
Mika & Me Optical Studios Glasgow
56 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9JF Tel: 0141 413 5393 Email: hello@mikaandme.com Dark Nights Are Here And driving can be BLINDING – say goodbye to headlight GLARE with DRIVE-SAFE lenses Pop into Mika and Me or Book a Free Consultation Launch of Chanel Eyewear – Exclusive Event at Mika and Me Thursday 6 June, 2024 Read the […]
Parcels – a poem by Basia Palka
Basia Palka More about Basia – read more of her poetry Jim and Pat’s West End Chat – Pat chats to Basia Palka Basi chats about the Polish Community, her poetry and fundraising for Huntington’s Association
Creative Conversations: Vik Shirley
Monday 21 October, 2024 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, critic & academic from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets, Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings […]
Whistler Pastels – The Hunterian
Friday 04 October 2024 – Sunday 02 March 2025 – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hunterian Art Galler, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQy Throughout his career, James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) made drawings using pastel crayons. His early drawings (1860s–70s) were often studies for oil paintings, but from the late 1870s he […]
Clatty Pat’s Walk Like a Glaswegian into the 90s
24 – 27 October, 2024 At: Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ We got Clatty in the 80s as we walked back like Glaswegians to the legend that was “Clatty Pats”. Due to overwhelming public demand- the smash hit that had you singing and dancing and laughing(and drinking!) to the tunes of […]
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The Nightway Man by Michael Tess
A Story for Hallowe’en In July sore heat, mother and Sheila pitched the tent. Sheila drank water from a bottle. ‘We can top up at the stream,’ said mother. ‘I hear it.’ She shared the bottle. Tucked her vest into her shorts. ‘How did you know it was there?’ ‘We camped here before.’ ‘When.’ ‘Your […]
Fundraiser Community Meal – Glasgow West End
Sunday October, 13th, 2024 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Would you like to have a lovely dinner with Central and West Integration Network in partnership with Glasgow Community Food Network A special community meal prepared by talented refugee chefs at the Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Hall, Observatory Road, Glasgow We are organising once again a […]
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Mary Irvine: My Friend Robin Lloyd Jones
Robin Lloyd-Jones would have been 90 years old on 5 October, 2024, but it was not to be. I was privileged to be asked to write an obituary but felt a formal obituary was too cold and impersonal. After several attempts the following emerged and was published in the Helensburgh Advertiser. My Friend, Robin I […]
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The Nancy Smillie Shop – Glasgow West End
53 Cresswell Street, Off Byres Road, Glasgow West End G12 8AE 0141 334 4240 The Nancy Smillie Shop – see the complete collection Nancy Smillie Instagram Christmassy Gifts and Special Treats Fabulous selection of Christmas presents and Lovely Jewellery for that Festive Occasion Cosy and Stylish Clothes and Accessories at the Nancy Smillie Shop See […]
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Donegal Diaspora in Scotland
Donegal County Council are hosting a series of events in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 3rd & 4th October, they are looking for information from the Donegal diaspora based in Scotland. They are gathering photos & memories of Donegal people who worked in Scotland between 1940 & 1990 for a new exhibition in Letterkenny in 2025. […]
Books at the Botanics
Friday 27 September – Monday 30 September, 2024 Books at the Botanics Weekend Book Fair 10 a.m. till 5.00 p.m. in the Hopkirk Building (behind the main range), Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Hopkirk Building, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE Card and cash payments accepted www.booksatthebotanics.co.uk Books at the Botanics on Facebook