Helen Rose Outdoor Diary: University of Glasgow. April 2022
Helen Rose Outdoors This is dedicated to the late Mary O’Donnell, a great friend and a very kind person, sadly missed. University of Glasgow In Glasgow there are three universities, University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde and Westend of Glasgow where I live. It is also my alma mater having graduated there twice. Obviously I […]
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Thursday, March 31, 2022 | Filed under: Helen Rose Hillwalking Diary, Pat's Home Page Blog
Lizzie Reid at The Glad Cafe
Wednesday, 1st June & 2 June 2022 (sold out) If you’re lucky you can still grab a ticket for Lizzie’s gig on 3 June. Tickets at TicketWeb The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands, Glasgow G41 2HG DF Concerts presents Lizzie Reid with her band. ‘A seasoned live performer, there’s a maturity to Reid’s performance’ […]
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022 | Filed under: 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
Kelvin Hall Relaunch
Saturday 23 April, 2022, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AW National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall and Kelvin Hall Kelvin Hall On Saturday 23rd April from 12-4pm Kelvin Hall will celebrate the venue’s relaunch for 2022 You can enjoy fantastic free events themed around Earth Day, in honour of […]
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Sunday, March 27, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Carlton Jug Band at The Clutha
Sunday, 27 March, 2022 at 4 p.m. The Clutha, The Clutha Bar 159 Bridgegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ The Carlton Jug Band will be jugging some mighty, toe-tapping, hip-swaying tunes at The Clutha on Sunday 4 – 8 p.m – support from the fabulous Zydell Henry ‘we loooove those sweeeeeet family harmonies. Hope to see you there!’ […]
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Saturday, March 26, 2022 | Filed under: 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
Aye Write 2022
6 – 22 May, 2022 – across three weekends Aye Write and Wee Write book festivals return to Glasgow with live author events Wee Write Festival will run from 25 – 30 April, 2022 The Aye Write book festival will this year return to its home of Glasgow’s Mitchell Library for a live programme of […]
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Friday, March 25, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Spring Forward Fundraiser The Children’s Wood
Sunday 27 March, 2022 1 p.m.– 4 p.m. The Children’s Wood, 76 Kelbourne St, Glasgow G20 8PR Music, stalls and workshops, cakes and plants sale. Allison Galbraith will be telling stories about spring, friendship and more. Proceeds will shared between Ukraine Relief and The Children’s Wood If you want to contribute (by baking for the […]
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BMX Bandits Album and Craft Beer Launch
Thursday 31 March, 2022 8 p.m. Mono Cafe Bar 12, Kings Court, King St, Glasgow G1 5RB A free event celebrating the vinyl reissue of BMX Bandits classic album Life Goes On and a new BMX Bandits craft beer, which is raising funds for the charity Stay Up Late. There will be a short semi-acoustic […]
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2022
23 – 27 March, 2022 Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF) is back in venues for the first time in three years, 23-27 March, bringing a selection of their brilliant programme of home-grown and international cinema to GFT. See the full programme and buy tickets for all films at Glasgow Film Theatre, CCA and Civic House. […]
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | 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
Mozart at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow
A performance for the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine appeal Saturday March 26th ,2022 7.30pm (Artwork by kind permission of Kirsty Matheson, Double Bass player and artist) St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, Glasgow West End , G4 9JB A performance of Mozart’s Requiem (Süssmayr Edition) takes place on Saturday March 26th, 7.30pm at St […]
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‘Faces of Kabul’ – Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Saturday 19 March – Sunday 3 April, 2022 ‘Faces of Kabul’, a photodocumentary exhibition produced by Highlands-based photojournalist and writer, Nick Sidle. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, G3 8AG The exhibition is a partnership between Heartstone and Glasgow Afghan United, telling the human story of the people of Kabul and the surrounding areas, […]
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Sunday, March 20, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, 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
Ataraxie at Sonica Festival
20 March, 2022 – until 5 p.m. New video and pictures of the world premiere of Ataraxie – a jaw-dropping laser and sound installation in the Engine Works, 23-25 Lochburn Rd, Wyndford, Glasgow G20 9AE The event is free to attend and unticketed, running from 11am – 5pm Sunday 20 March. In this this new […]
Family Fun Day – Milton Community Garden
Wednesday, 6 April, 2022, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Milton Community Garden and Food Hub Liddesdale Square, Glasgow, G22 7BT PETTING ZOO EGG HUNT LOTS MORE FAMILY FUN AND CHEER
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The Children’s Wood has officially taken over management
Children’s Wood Springs Into A New Era Campaigners finally take community control of local meadow Celebrating with Spring Forward 27 March, 2022 After a long battle to protect a West End community greenspace, The Children’s Wood charity has now officially taken over management of the land, ensuring that future generations can keep playing there. Locals, […]
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022 | Filed under: Community Groups and Charities, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, G20 Festival, Kids and young people, North Kelvin Meadow and Children's Wood, Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wild Men – Glasgow Film Festival
Review by Pat Byrne In Thomas Daneskov’s black comedy, which will appeal to Coen brothers’ fans, Martin (Rasmus Bjerg) is having a mid-life crisis and, complete with homemade Viking attire, has fled from Denmark to the woods high in the Norwegian mountains. His solution to go back to nature and hunt for survival doesn’t go […]
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Monday, March 14, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Festival of Fitness in support of Ukraine
Fitness for Ukraine. 20th March 2022 8am-5pm. Western Baths, 12 Cranworth St, Glasgow G12 8BZ Western Baths have brought together some of Glasgow’s top trainers and coaches to offer you a full day of fitness and well-being to raise money to support the Ukranian people. The day will run from 8am – 5pm with a […]
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Jimi Longmuir presents Trigger Warnings GICF 2022
8 and 9 March, 2022 at 7 p.m. McChuills, 40 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NL Glasgow International Comedy Festival 8 – 27 March, 2022 In conjunction with McChuill’s & Glasgow International Comedy Festival present ‘Trigger Warnings’, an Open Mic style evening with some of the best emerging acts in the city right now. Running two nights […]
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Ghost Signs of Glasgow City Centre Walking Tour
Saturday, 19 March 2022 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Meeting: The Tenement House, 145 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow G3 6QN Free Event Tickets at Eventbrite Ghost Signs of Glasgow is a project which tracks down, researches and archives fast disappearing signs around the city. Ghost Signs are fading signs which represent a business, establishment or organisation which […]
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Mara Menzies, Creative Conversations
7 March, 2022 at 1 p.m. University of Glasgow Online (UNFORTUNATELY EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO HEALTH ISSUE) *Please note that, due to Covid, this event has moved completely online. If you’ve already registered for in-person tickets, you will be sent the link in an email on Monday morning. Otherwise, you may register for online tickets […]
Sonica Glasgow 2022 – Art for the Visually Minded
10 – 20 March, 2022 – Throughout Glasgow Sonica is an 11-day biennial festival dedicated to world class visual sonic arts, presenting exceptional international artists alongside UK talent in diverse venues throughout Glasgow. 10-20 March 2022 Sonica will showcase 200 events by over 85 artists from 10 countries A unique programme of events dedicated to world-class sonic arts, presenting emerging British talent alongside […]
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Her Way – Glasgow Film Festival review by Pat Byrne
UK Premiere – 5 – 8 March, 2022 GFT and At Home 6 – 9 March, 2022 Laure Calamy (Call My Agent) plays the demanding role of Marie, a militant sex worker, fighting for her rights, and a mother desperate to find the fees to pay for her teenage son, Adrien (Nissim Renard), to attend […]
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Writers for Ukraine Online Event
Sunday 6 March, 2022 at 8.30 p.m. Standing in solidarity with their peers in Ukraine, local Northern Irish writers are coming together to read excerpts from contemporary Ukrainian works. Organised and hosted by Jan Carson, the night will include: Glenn Patterson reads Oksana Zabuzhko (novelist and short story writer) Dara McAnulty reads Myroslav Laiuk (poet) Anna Burns […]
The Quiet Girl at GFF2022 review Pat Byrne
The Quiet Girl – UK Premiere Colm Bairéad’s first feature film has already received acclaim and this Irish language film was chosen to open the Dublin Film Festival 2022. The drama set in rural Ireland is based on Claire Keegan’s fabulous short story ‘Foster’. The story is told through the eyes of Cáit (Catherine Clinch), a […]
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Friday, March 4, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
The Changing Face of Glasgow in 2022
Bob Law: Walks and Photography On a recent trip into Glasgow City Centre I was struck by the number of new buildings that have gone up in the last couple of years. This might be due to the Covid 19 pandemic causing job losses in certain areas and as a compensation more work going into […]
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Thursday, March 3, 2022 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
‘Ashgrove’ World Premier GFF2022 review by Pat Byrne
Ashgrove – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Ashgrove is very much a film of our time about the world threatened by a pandemic when the water supply is affected. People are dying of toxicity caused by consuming too much water so everyone has to carefully monitor the amount they drink each day. | It’s a plot […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Kicks Off Today 2 March
It’s been a long time coming but Glasgow Film Festival is back, and it’s good to be back home at GFT! Tonight Glasgow Film Festival 2022 launches, and it does so with a bang. Starting off a 12-day film feast featuring just over 90 different Premieres and over 50 guests is the UK Premiere of […]
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Outfit review by Pat Byrne
The Outfit was the film chosen for the Opening Gala at Glasgow Film Festival 2022 The UK Premiere, from Graham Moore, academy award winning writer of The Imitation Game, and starring academy award winning actor Mark Rylance (Leonard), is a stylish gangster movie set in Leonard’s tailor shop in Chicago in the 50’s. Leonard is […]
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Glasgow Society of Women Artists, Lillie Gallery Spring 2022
Glasgow Society of Women Artists Exhibition Saturday 5 March until 28 April, 2022 Lillie Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ (Gallery will be closed Easter weekend 25 and 26 April) Admission is Free Exhibitors include Scottish Pastels Artist – Lynn Howarth
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Fiona Alderman: A Touch of Spring
Blogging from Salignac in Rural France After a long period of cold weather here and the continuing Covid pandemic, we sense a hint of Spring in the air and the flowers are now blossoming to cheer us up. Preparations for the season starting in May are underway and the family Starkmann are busy at the […]
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Monday, February 28, 2022 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France, Pat's Home Page Blog
Rura at Celtic Connections 2022
Review and Photographs by Pauline Keightley For RURA’s Celtic Connections gig on the final weekend of the festival it was clear the band were glad to be back performing to a live and packed theatre audience. Their previous gig had been in 2020, when the band celebrated their ten year anniversary with a rousing and […]
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Saturday, February 26, 2022 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music Reviews, Pat's Home Page Blog
Ron Sexsmith at Cottiers
6 March, 2022 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Tickets now available through Ticketmaster only. Ron Sexsmith’s status as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation has never been in doubt, even from the moment he released his self-titled major-label debut album in 1995. His career arc since then has in some ways […]
