The Great May Day Cabaret at OranMor
Monday 2 May, 2022, 7.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Event by Fair Pley Òran Mór 713-735 Great Western Road, Glasgow West End G12 8QX Tickets Featuring another fantastic line-up, the Great May Day Cabaret is back to help celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Scottish TUC. Celebrating international workers’ day are: Singer-songwriter and national treasure Rab […]
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 | 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
The Dughoose Ska Band, McChuills
Saturday 30 April, 2022, 8 p.m. till late McChuills, 80 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NL Free event The DUGHOOSE SKA band formed in 2017 is a collective of like-minded mates that enjoy all things SKA. “We play classic SKA/ 2 tone tunes by bands like The Clash, The Specials, MADNESS, The Beat, with some cleverly […]
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Thursday, April 28, 2022 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Encounters Presents: Ukrainian Shorts
Saturday 30 April, 2022 at 6.20 p.m. In light of the horrific attacks perpetrated against Ukraine, Encounters have curated a programme of short films to highlight, celebrate and support Ukrainian filmmakers and artists. From a stylised sport drama, to a funky animated short about the body expectations that mostly befall cisgender women, this programme welcomes […]
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Beauty of Edinburgh in Spring
Edinburgh is a colourful city at any time of year of course but in spring and early summer it is at its finest. Arthur’s Seat, the ancient volcano that rises above the capital’s main shopping streets gleams with a yellow carpet of gorse, the Botanic gardens burst into life after a grey, cold winter and […]
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| Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write: Aye Write: Louise Welsh Introduces Sukh Ojla, Claire Kohda and Ryan O’Connor
Thursday 12 May, 2022 – 8 p.m. event cancelled Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Novelist, librettist and Professor of creative writing, Louise Welsh introduces this panel of debut writers. Sukh Ojla – Sunny Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she’s the entertaining, eternally upbeat, single one, always on […]
Aye Write: Louise Welsh Introduces Sukh Ojla, Claire Kohda and Ryan O’Connor
Thursday 12 May, 2022 – 8 p.m. Novelist, librettist and Professor of creative writing, Louise Welsh introduces this panel of debut writers. Sukh Ojla – Sunny Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she’s the entertaining, eternally upbeat, single one, always on hand to share hilarious and horrifying date stories. […]
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Nichola Scrutton Work in Progress with Zoe Strachan
6 May, 2022 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Project Room, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD A performance sharing of work-in-progress from Nichola and Zoë’s residency at Glasgow Project Room. About this event Update on development time in a two-week residency at the Glasgow Project Room. You are warmly invited to an informal performance sharing of work-in-progress […]
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Monday, April 25, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wee Write 2022
Wee Write Book Festival in Glasgow Monday 25 to Friday 29 April, 2022 Saturday 30 April will see the return of Wee Write Family Day. Six days of inspiring, fun-packed events for little people with big imaginations. Live In-Person Events Return Returning for live in-person events for the first time since 2019 due to the […]
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Friday, April 22, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Rose at OranMor
Thursday, 28 April, 2022 at 7 pm The Venue, OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Rose Written By Lorna Martin Directed by Maureen Carr Based on real life, Rose tells the incredible, uplifting and inspiring story of an underdog, working-class teenager from Ayrshire who refused to play by society’s discriminatory rules, and who overcame numerous obstacles, including […]
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 | 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
20 Years of Oxfam Music
Saturday 23 April, 2022 at 6.30 p.m. Oxfam Book Shop, 171 Byres Road, Glasgow West End G12 8TS Oxfam Music Shop Glasgow Come one, come all to a very special anniversary celebration of Oxfam Music Shop Byres Road’s 20th year! Performers Bell Lungs Closet Claustrophobe Jim McAteer! Late-nite record shopping fully encouraged! Oxfam’s Music store […]
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, Online Shopping, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Earth Day 2022 at Music Broth
Friday 22 April, 2022, 1 pm – 6pm Music Broth South, 7 Hollybrook Place, Govanhill, Glasgow G42 7HB Earth Day – Invest in our Planet Music and Upcycling Workshops. Music from Scottish Ensemble in collaboration with international ensembles as part of The Bridge Festival, Jordan Stewart, and Music Broth volunteers. Workshops Up-cycled cymbals & strings, drum […]
Oxfam Music Shop Byres Road
Oxfam Music Shop Celebrating 20 years – Saturday 23 April, 2022 Since 2002 Oxfam Music has been selling a wide array of vinyl LPs and singles from every conceivable genre of music. You can also find a range of musical instruments, hi fi equipment, music books, cassettes, CDs, pop memorabilia and many other items of […]
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| Filed under: Music, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping
Glasgow Against Closures – Protest Picnic People’s Palace
Saturday 23 April 2022, 12 Noon – 2 p.m. People’s Palace, Glasgow Green, Templeton St, Glasgow G40 1AT Vote to Re-Open Glasgow’s Venues Glasgow Against Closures groups and members will come together to deliver a strong message to re-open all venues to all the candidates standing in the Glasgow City Council elections of 5 May […]
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Fiona Alderman: The Eye Van Comes to Salignac
Blogging from Rural France When it comes to going to the optician in France, and especially in rural areas where we live, it is really quite difficult. Firstly, unlike the UK, where you can even go to Boots and get a complete eye test, it’s not like that here. You must go to the opthalmologist. […]
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Saturday, April 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France, Pat's Home Page Blog
This Is Where We Get Off – Websters Theatre
Thursday 21 April, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ This Is Where We Get Off follows the Moffatt family through some of the most difficult days of their lives. Yvonne is seven months pregnant, her husband Phillip is constantly disappearing and leaving dodgy phone bills behind. Their eighteen your old son […]
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Olivia and Mic at The Lismore Bar
1 May, 2022 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. The Lismore Bar, 206 Dumbarton Rd, Partick, Glasgow G11 6UN Olivia and Mic of Acoustic Butterly with a couple of great sets – a stripped back acoustic duo playing a mix of originals and covers. Catch them at the Lismore Bar first Sunday of every month. www.acousticbutterfly.com […]
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 | Filed under: Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Case Study – Graeme Macrae Burnet
‘Case Study’ hard cover was published by Saraband in October, 2021 to tremendous acclaim. Case Study Soft Cover Launch – Primrose Hill, London On 20 April, 2022 – the soft cover is being launched at Waterstones, in Primrose Hill Community Library, London. (The book is set in Primrose Hill) Graeme Macrae Burnet will be at […]
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write 2022, Graeme Macrae Burnet ‘Case Study’
15 May, 2022 – 3 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Book tickets The Booker-shortlisted author returns with his critically lauded new novel, Case Study. Case Study Treasure Hunt Challenge 14 April – Paperback Launch London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. […]
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Aye Write 2022 – Ian Rankin, The Dark Remains
22 May, 2022, 6.30 p.m. Aye Write Glasgow’s Book Festival Tramway 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE Tickets Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. McIlvanney was a huge inspiration to Rankin and the creator of Rebus completes his idol’s last, unfinished novel. […]
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Book Launch: ‘Portrait’ Tracy Patrick’s poetry collection
12 May, 2022, 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Paisley Central Library, 15 Mill Street, Paisley PA1 1ND Free event You are invited to the book launch of, Portrait, the first full-length poetry collection by Paisley writer, Tracy Patrick, author of the Saltire-commended novel, Blushing is for Sinners. Tracy will be accompanied by one of the […]
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Saturday, April 9, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
International Roma Day Glasgow 2022
Saturday 9 April, 2022, 11.30 p.m. until 5 p.m. Govanhill Park Coplaw Street, Glasgow, Glasgow G42 7DB First physical International Roma Day celebrations since 2019! ASSEMBLE AT GOVANHILL PARK 11AM SPEECHES – 11.30AM PARADE 12PM with a celebratory event to follow the parade in The Point ( 180 Queen’s Drive, Glasgow, G42 8QD). Numbers are […]
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Friday, April 8, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, 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
Shucks Glasgow West End review Sarah Clare Young
Shucks Seafood Restaurant, 168 Hyndland Road, Glasgow G12 9HZ www.shucksglasgow.com Walking into Shucks the first thing you notice is how warm and inviting it is – with gorgeous exposed wooden beams along the ceiling, walls hand painted with images of the seaside, wooden, cream and blue tones and golden fixtures and accents throughout. The warm […]
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Pat's Home Page Blog, Seafood Restaurants
Woodlands Community Cafe
Community Cafe on the Terrace 10 April and Every Sunday Afternoon from 1-4pm Outdoor Events Terrace at 66 Ashley Street, G3 6HW. The cafe is run on a drop-in basis, no need to book. Serving soup and bread, tea, coffee and cakes. All food is vegan and each week there will be gluten free options. […]
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Woodlands Community
‘TICKETY-BOO!’: An Appreciation of Brian Whittingham
Tuesday, 19 April, 2022 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Scottish Writers Centre CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tickets Free – Register for Event A celebration of Brian Whittingham, poet, writer, teacher and the first Tannahill Makar. Five leading west of Scotland poets will read work to, about or by Brian in celebration and fond […]
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Addicted the Musical at Websters
7 – 9 April, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ (adjacent to Kelvinbridge Underground) Addicted The Musical tells the story of a brother and sister’s struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. A tragi-comic tale, with songs that reflect the pain and despair, the joy and the sorrow of those caught in […]
Islets of Silence at Mugdock Theatre
Sunday, 3 April, 2022 at 2.30 p.m. Mugdock Theatre, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 8E A thought-provoking yet funny story about the Gourley family and their journey when someone is diagnosed with Pacreatic Cancer. About this event The Gourley family of four enjoy life. Yes, they have their ups and downs, but their closeness is never in […]
Wee Write 2022
Family Day 30 April,2022, 10 a.m. until 4p.m. Tickets for the fabulous Wee Write Family Day are on sale now! Check the programme and book – many events free. At The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN A fun packed day of songs and rhymes, storytelling, creative play and loads more! Celebrate Harry Potter […]
Night Flea Market – Ukraine Fundraiser
Friday 22 April, 2022, 6p.m. – 11 pm Sikorski Polish Club, 5 Parkgrove Terrace, Glasgow G3 7SD Night Flea Market and Micro Mart partnering with the Sikorski Polish Club (charity registration number is SCO46143) to raise money for medical supplies for two hospitals in Ukraine. While the market will be held upstairs in the club, you can […]
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Sunday, April 3, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Markets, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping, upcycling, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Making Imagined Objects – The Second Alasdair Gray Conference
16 – 17 June, 2022 University of Strathclyde Register for Event The University of Strathclyde and the Alasdair Gray Archive, in partnership with the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Western Brittany (HCTI), Aix-Marseille Universite (LERMA), Edge Hill University, the University of Lausanne and the Tannahill Fund for the Furtherance of Scottish Literature, are […]
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Sarah Smith and Louise Welsh at Aye Write 2022
Saturday, 14 May, 2022, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Two beautifully written thrillers feature at this session. Thrilling and atmospheric, Louise Welsh’s The Second Cut delves into the dark side of twenty-first century Glasgow. Twenty years on from his appearance in The Cutting Room, Rilke is still walking a moral tightrope […]
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