Wilton Street Garden Fete, Glasgow West End
Saturday 17 June, 2023, 1.30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Wilton Street Garden Fete with its usual range of fantastic stalls, live music, great food, kids’ entertainment, local artists and craft workers and cakes – did we mention cakes? Free Entry. Everyone welcome! Wilton Street, North Kelvinside, G20 Part of WestFest
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Refugee Festival Scotland: Limbo and introduction
Saturday 17 June, 2023 5:45pm Captioned screening. Audio description available Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines. This screening will be introduced by Sabir Zazai, CEO of […]
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Thursday, June 15, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Paintings on Railings at West Fest
10th June, 2023, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Mansfield Park, G11 5QW 11th, 17, 18, 24, 26 June at: Railings at Botanic Gardens, Queen Margaret Drive, G20 8NZ. The annual display of local artists showing their paintings, drawings, ceramics and jewellery for sale. Please note – weather dependent! To exhibit, please contact Selma (Modest […]
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wully Davidson Bus Pass Rambles: Kerrera
5 June, 2023 Kerrera After Thursday’s failed attempt, due to a coach blocking the road after becoming stuck in a ditch, I decided to get back on the horse for another go at visiting Kerrera. The 0830 bus from Buchanan bus station arrived in Oban at 1136 and I caught a taxi for the 2 […]
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Walks and Tours Glasgow, Wullie Davidson: Blogging about Bus Pass Jaunts in Scotland
Beatson Cancer Charity Launch Research Appeal
Beatson Cancer Charity is launching its Research Appeal to ensure more patients and their families across the west of Scotland can benefit from clinical radiotherapy research. The charity’s asking supporters and members of the public to help them deliver life-changing research by supporting a talented Radiotherapy Research Team to continue making breakthroughs in research, as […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
SCAP Writers – Donald Murray on Zoom
Thursday 15th June, 2023 at 7pm. Hosted by Linda Jackson and Donna Campbell. Special guest Donald Murray Also featuring: Bobby Motherwell, Hannah Nicholson and Judith Taylor. SCAP – Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications Donald S Murray is a Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright from Ness in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of […]
Lids Open Night ( Summer ) 2023
21 June, 2023 4.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Mackintosh Queens Cross Church, 870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow G20 7EL Come and play the beautiful Steinway piano on stage under ‘GAIA’ as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of MQC and the 10th anniversary of our piano project starting life in 2013. Full details on the Glasgow […]
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Sunday, June 4, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Vinicombe Street Gala 2023
Saturday 3 June, 2023 – Noon until 5 p.m. Come and celebrate the first Saturday of WestFest at the fabulous Vinicombe Street Gala. At the Piazza, top of Byres Road, (opposite Waitrose). Enjoy an afternoon of live music, dancers, circus performers and the fantastic SambaYaBamba! Also street theatre, balloon artists, face-painting and lots more. Free […]
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Friday, June 2, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
The Big Sunday at the Bandstand
Sunday 4 June, 2023 from 11 a.m. Kelvingrove Bandstand, off Kelvin Way, Glasgow West End. After the success of the Big Weekend last year, WestFest is excited to be back at Kelvingrove Bandstand in 2023 for a jam-packed programme of free, community events in partnership with Glasgow Music. Come and join the afternoon gala then […]
Dragon Boat Festival – University of Glasgow
Friday 2 June, 2023, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – Confucius Institute, University of Glasgow All are welcome to join the Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – crafts, tea ceremony, sticky rice dumpling making, music. Tickets free, but limited! Book your ticket. Kelvin Gallery Gilbert Scott Building University Avenue (Gilchrist Postgraduate Club […]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Together Unbound, gig at Websters Theatre
Saturday 3 June, 2023 Czech artists united in one place to celebrate friendship and collaboration. Together Unbound is a two-concert Glasgow series involving collaborators guitarist Jan Stránský, visual artist Karolína Trhoňová, and composer Lukáš Janata. The concert is a conclusion of a three-year pandemic remote collaboration on Lukáš’ new explorative work for solo guitar, Lamentations, […]
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Sunday, May 28, 2023 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Whispers From Heaven at Websters
Thursday, 1 June, 2023 Websters, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Whispers from Heaven offers a unique and intimate evening not to be missed. Dominic will use both his mediumistic and psychic abilities to connect you to your loved ones in Spirit, and give you guidance into your own life. Through the whispers of your loved […]
WestFest One Button Benny – Alan Windram
Alan Windram events with WestFest, ARC and The Children’s Wood Sunday, 4 June, 2023 2.30 p.m. Part of WestFest Children’s Book Programme in partnership with the Children’s Wood and ARC, University of Glasgow. ARC, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW Benny and his friends decide they need a bit more ‘robot dancing’ […]
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write 2023: Michael Pedersen and Tanya Frank, Memoirs of Love and Humanity
Thursday, 25 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. In Boy Friends he […]
Aye Write 2023: Stuart Cosgrove – Hey America!
Sunday, 21 May, 2023, 9.15 – 10.15 p.m. Stuart Cosgrove’s Hey America! is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong’s spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt’s stormy encounter with […]
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Islets of Silence – using theatre to talk about cancer
Wednesday 24 May, 2023, 1.30 p.m. – 3. p.m. The Mitchell Library North Street Glasgow G3 7DN By TramDirect with Macmillan@Glasgow Libraries Background The play was written and directed by Isobel Barrett after losing her husband to Pancreatic Cancer through misdiagnosis. Her husband died after only 3 weeks. Her main aim in writing the play is to […]
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Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 23 – Revisited
It’s impossible to see everything that GFF has to offer, but now here’s your chance! This May, the GFT are welcoming back four festival favourites, so now’s your opportunity to catch some titles you might have missed. The Eight Mountains 12 – 25 May Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, The Eight Mountains is […]
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
New Writers Showcase with University of Glasgow Lifelong Learning
Wednesday, 21st June, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Lecture Theatre 639, James McCune Smith Building University Avenue, University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QW FREE – BOOK TICKET Join the lifelong learners at the University of Glasgow as they share the best of their new creative writing. From poems and short stories to true tales and drama, […]
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mansfield Park Street Festival 2023
Saturday 10 June, 2023, 12,00 – 5 p.m. Come along and enjoy a fun filled gala day where there will be something for everyone! Catch some live music from samba drummers, choirs, cover bands and community groups from across the West End. There will also be the Partick Farmers Market, street theatre, pop-up workshops, face […]
Aye Write 2023: Val McDermid in conversation with Louise Welsh
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY The Queen of Crime writing discusses her latest Allie Burns thriller 1989, set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series. 1989 – The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie […]
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Monday, May 15, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Florence Boyle: Walk from Erskine Ferry to Bowling + historical connections
The Forth and Clyde Canal (opened 1790) Opened in 1790, the Forth & Clyde Canal stretches for 35 miles across central Scotland and terminates at Bowling Harbour. There’s a lot of history packed into the mile and a half stretch between Erskine Ferry Road and Bowling Harbour. Starting at the lockkeeper’s former home and looking […]
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Saturday, May 13, 2023 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Walks
Clatty Pats – Walk Like A Glaswegian
21 23 July, 2023 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Cleopatras – ‘Clatty Pats’ as it was fondly known! Further to its sell out, smash hit run in April, and featured on STV, they are back for some Hot Stuff “Summer” fun due to popular demand! Reuniting student nurses, Sandra, Dawn, Lynn […]
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Friday, May 12, 2023 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Aye Write: Janey Godley with Nicola Sturgeon
26 May, 2023 at 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Janey Godley in conversation with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP. Janey Godley’s Nothing Left Unsaid tells the story of Senga and Sharon spanning Glasgow in 1976 and 2019. Glasgow, 2019. Sharon has rushed home at the news her […]
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Take 2: Raining Cats and Frogs
Saturday 13 May, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. The Bauer family live on a farm on a hill and own a zoo. The frogs who live on this farm predict that the Earth will be flooded for 40 days and 40 nights. The flood comes quickly after the prediction and all the zoo animals escape to […]
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final screening at GFT
Saturday 13 May, 2023, 7.30 p.m. For the first time EVER, the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final show will be broadcast live on the big screen! Come together and be united by music, sharing the incredible experience of celebrating the biggest, brightest, boldest music party of the year. Hosted this year in Liverpool by the BBC […]
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Beat 6 – dine out and donate to Beatson Cancer Charity
Scotland’s first restaurant with 100% of profits donated to Beatson Cancer Charity Beat 6, 149 Milngavie Rd, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 3DY (Nearest train station: Hillfoot) The Story Beat 6 is a social enterprise founded by Nico Simeone, the owner of Six by Nico, and his wife, Valentina. Many years ago Valentina was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s […]
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Wullie Davidson Climate Change Blog: Global Ocean Temperature Reaches Record High – El Nino Brewing Up
Second warmest March despite no El Nino Globally, March, 2023 was the second warmest March, since record keeping began in 1850.The warmest March was in 2016 and that temperature was boosted by a very strong El Nino. Currently, the tropical Pacific is ENSO neutral, but the average global sea surface temperature (SST) reached a record […]
Sunday, May 7, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Young Frankenstein at Websters
23 – 27 May, 2023 Websters – Theatre | Bar | Playhouse 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Pantheon return to Websters with a monstrous production, sure to make you corpse! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into […]
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Friday, May 5, 2023 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Dream Fest – relaunch of the Dream Machine
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th May, 2023 The Dream Machine 257 London Road Glasgow G40 1PE The Dream Machine relaunches this May, relighting the community campfire in the East End of Glasgow. The first of many new events showcasing our incredible sensory Dream Room kickstarting with a Saturday evening of live music with a super exciting […]
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Queen Margaret Drive Street Festival
Sunday 25 June, 2023 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. The hugely popular Queen Margaret Drive Festival is back for WestFest this year! Queen Margaret Drive, G20 8PB This colourful, vibrant and accessible street festival has become one of the most popular community events in Glasgow’s West End, attracting over 3000 unique attendees each year. This […]
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
