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 […]
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Saturday, March 5, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, 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, Zoom and online events
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 […]
International Women’s Day March, Govanhill, Glasgow
8 March, 2022 – 12 Noon Event by Govanhill Baths Community Trust Govanhill Park Coplaw Street, Glasgow, Glasgow G42 7DB Local activists are taking to the streets with other activists who are challenging stigmas in their communities, their workplaces and in their everyday lives. Together they will be marching for a more equal world; a world free of bias, […]
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Friday, February 25, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Free Events, International Womens Day, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Glasgow Film Theatre
Sunday 27 February, 2022 at 7 p.m. Live from Leith Theatre – A First from National Theatre of Scotland Within the century-old walls of historic Leith Theatre, something sinister is stirring. A gothic tale of double lives and inner demons, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes on its own hybrid identity in this […]
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Thursday, February 24, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Michael Pederson Creative Conversations
Monday 28 February, 2022 1 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, writer, & animateur. He has published two highly acclaimed collections of poetry (Polygon Books) with a prose debut, Boy Friends, forthcoming with Faber. Pedersen was awarded the John Mather Trust Rising Star of Literature […]
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Repair Cafe, Govanhill
5th March, 2022, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. The Deep End Govanhill Baths The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Important: Covid Requirements **UPDATED INFO: Can we please ask that anyone coming along to our the event on Saturday 5th March take a LFT test and ensure they are negative before visiting. This […]
Gray Day at OranMor 2022
Friday 25 February, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX with Canongate Books, Neu! Reekie!, The Alasdair Gray Archive, and Òran Mór GRAY DAY returns for a second year with a day-long celebration and a live event at Òran Mór featuring readings, film and music. The annual celebration of the late […]
Greater Glasgow Climate Action Network South Seeds’ Croft
Thursday 10th March, 2022 – 10.00am-12.00pm Hosted at South Seeds’ Croft, 381 Langside Road, G42 8DA on Queen’s Park recreation ground in Glasgow’s Southside. An in-person meeting held safely outside undercover. Hot drinks and cake will be offered to each participant. After recent meetings exploring a climate action in the Greater Glasgow area, this is […]
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An Evening With Louise Welsh – The Second Cut
Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, 17 February, 2022 – review by Pat Byrne Twenty years ago Louise Welsh’s debut crime novel, The Cutting Room, was launched at Waterstones Book Shop, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. The prize winning book introduced us to Rilke, a Glaswegian auctioneer and coincidental amateur detective. On 17 February, 2022, there was a strong sense […]
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Sunday, February 20, 2022 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Festival for Free
Making the cinematic experience more accessible for all, Glasgow Film Festival 2022 features several free or budget-friendly screenings including 1962 Retrospective. What better way to start your day than with a free screening of a stone cold classic like Lawrence of Arabia or Dr.No preceded by an introduction from GFF Festival Co-Director Allan Hunter? Glasgow […]
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Friday, February 18, 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
Moorcroft, The Tron
Runs until 5 March, 2022 WORLD PREMIERE A team. A team of wit? A team of players. A bunch of mates coming the gither to huv a kick aboot. Wits new? Garry’s turned 50 but doesn’t feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive ‘the glory days’ trying to […]
Partick Pop Up Indoor Market
25 – 27 February, 2022, 11 am – 5 pm 412 – 418 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G11 6SB Event by Green Living Glasgow A new artisan market in Partick Showcasing over 30 vendors selling local produce, crafts, gifts, food & drink, fashion, art, vegan products, jewellery, pet supplies and much more! Come along and support small […]
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Thursday, February 17, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Markets, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
In Conversation with Armando Iannucci GFF2022
6 March, 2022 at 5.45 p.m. At Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Glasgow Film Festival Glasgow-born Armando Iannucci has been the inspirational creative force behind some of our favourite things, from The Day Today to The Thick Of It and The Death Of Stalin, to The Personal History Of David Copperfield. Iannucci’s […]
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Zique – New Acid Bar Residency at SWG3
(Image by Michael Hunter) From Thursday 24 February 2022 Zique’s will take over at the Acid Bar, SWG3, 100 Eastvale Pl, Stobcross Rd, Glasgow G3 8QG with a menu inspired by their greatest hits and classic dishes from the last 21 years Walk ins welcome, booking information will be available soon. One of Glasgow’s best […]
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, International Restaurants, Pat's Home Page Blog, Scottish Restaurants, Takeaway, Vegetarian Restaurants
Mary Irvine’s Blog: What Exactly Is Love?
Go into any good coffee shop today and we are faced with an amazing range of words to describe the specific coffee we require. Gone are the days when black or white sufficed. Cappuccino, espresso, latte, macchiato, au lait, espresso, Turkish, Vienna, frappé, filter (how mundane) instant (ugh) liqueur not to mention all the variants! […]
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Sunday, February 13, 2022 | Filed under: Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene, Pat's Home Page Blog, Valentines Day Glasgow
Flee Glasgow Film Theatre
12 – 24 February, 2022 Part of LGBT History Month Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival, Flee is a testament to friendship, family and acceptance. This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, […]
Flash Fiction for Valentine’s Day – Leela Soma
Love at First Sight? Smitten, I’ve been hit by the golden tip of Cupid’s arrow. Second date? See you tomorrow, same time, same place? Tom xxx He waited two hours wait. It was midnight, is she going to respond? He tossed and turned in bed. Let him wait a bit, play a little hard to get? […]
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Saturday, February 12, 2022 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Valentines Day Glasgow, Writing
Compass Gallery: Gary Anderson RSW : Thoughts and Contemplations
Compass Gallery A group of recent works from the artist Gary Anderson. Gary Anderson RSW Thoughts and Contemplations Gary Anderson, born in Glasgow, studied Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art graduating in 1984 with a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art. He had early success, winning the John D Kelly Award in 1981. […]
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, 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
Ruby McCann – Glasgow Writer
Ruby McCann is a Glasgow poet, writer, playwright, and creative writing tutor. Sadly Ruby passed away on Monday 7 February, 2022 in the Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow. She retained her wonderful spirit and interest in others until the very end. Deepest condolences to Ruby’s family and her many, many friends. Ruby has won numerous […]
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, writers, Writing
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Tickets On Sale
GFF2022 2 – 13 March The time has finally come – Friday 4 February tickets for Glasgow Film Festival 2022 have gone on sale! As announced last week, from 2 – 13 March, GFF are bringing you 10 World premieres, 4 European premieres, 65 UK premieres, and 13 Scottish premieres, and they’re over the moon that […]
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Saturday, February 5, 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
