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, […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month, Pat's Home Page Blog, Valentines Day Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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
Beginners Stained Glass Evening Course Glasgow
Starting on Tuesday 8th March, 2022 6 p.m. – 8.15 p.m. The Hidden Lane, 1103 Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 8ND Full Price: £230 Concession: £180 Book the workshop online at Quatro Manis In this 6 week course you will learn the basics of traditional stained glass making and produce your own panel from start […]
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Friday, February 4, 2022 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wanderlust Women on Zoom
Wednesday 9 February, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. Event by Fife Writes The next Zoom session will be slightly different with four guest poets, each reading a selection from their recently published collection, Wanderlust Women. The poets are Tracy Patrick, Lesley Benzie, Donna Campbell and Linda Jackson. They said about their book, ‘Finding ourselves limited with […]
Roy’s West End View: It’s time to end Lord Elgin’s wretched Game of Marbles
Everyone has heard, if only vaguely, of the Elgin Marbles, and any mention of the subject typically resurrects ancient quips about “Greeks lost their marbles” or “what are the marbles doing in Elgin anyway” …etc. However after a Homeric historic wrangle that has bubbled away since the end of the Napoleonic Wars it could be […]
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Saturday, January 29, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Roy's West End View
Glasgow Film Festival Announces 2022 Programme
2 – 13 March, 2022 GFF 2022 will host 10 World premieres, 4 European premieres, 65 UK premieres, and 13 Scottish premieres. Opening and Closing Films The 18th edition of the annual festival will open with the UK premiere of The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance. The festival […]
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 | Filed under: 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
Sonica Festival 2022
10 – 20 March 2022 Sonica Festival 2022 announces full programme for its tenth anniversary edition across Glasgow and beyond One of the world’s largest celebrations of visual sonic art, Cryptic’s renowned biennial festival will showcase a groundbreaking international programme of 200 events by over 85 artists from 10 countries Highlights Live highlights include composer […]
Unchained Comedy Club at McChuills
McChuills, Glasgow’s Legendary Music Bar and Cafe, 80 High Street, G1 1NL Glasgow’s newest comedy night at McChuills! Sunday 23 January, 2022 With guest host Rosco. Unchained Comedy At McChuills Bar is an exiting new night of comedy in Glasgow. Bringing you weekly entertainment featuring the best of Scotland’s comedy scene including both new and […]
Scottish Opera Breath Cycle Programme for Long Covid Patients
Singing your way to health – Scottish Opera’s breath cycle programme begins for Long COVID patients A new block of sessions for Breath Cycle, Scottish Opera’s project designed to benefit those suffering from a range of conditions affecting lung health, in particular Long COVID, begins online on January 26. Register Your Interest Blocks starting in […]
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Monday, January 17, 2022 | Filed under: Coronavirus, Courses, Health and Fitness, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Kavya Prize – New Writers Prize To Celebrate Scotland’s Ethnically Diverse Communities
A new Scottish literary prize has been launched aimed at celebrating published work and new writing by Scotland’s ethnically diverse communities. The Kavya Prize, in association with the University of Glasgow, seeks to encourage Scottish black, indigenous, and people of colour writers – either living in Scotland or abroad. The inaugural prize for full-length published […]
Friday, January 14, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Roy’s West End View: Battered Boris savaged by top Scots true blues
(Image attribution: Think London, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) There’s a memorable scene at the start of the epic movie Waterloo, starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon, where – with allied armies converging on Paris – the Emperor’s marshals gather to insist that he should resign. “I will NOT! I will NOT! I will […]
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Thursday, January 13, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Roy's West End View
People’s Palace 124th Birthday Celebration
Happy 124th Birthday People’s Palace Saturday, 22nd January, 2022 at 12 Noon until 2 p.m. – Free Event Outside the People’s Palace at Glasgow Green. Join – Friends of People’s Palace Winter Gardens & Glasgow Green Come along and show your support to get these iconic Glaswegian owned buildings Repaired, Restored and Re-opened! FOPPWGGG will be […]
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Wullie Davidson’s Blog: Extreme Global Weather Events of 2021
Global Cooling Effect of the Ongoing La Nina Event The global cooling effect of the ongoing La Nina event in the tropical Pacific means that 2021 was ‘only’ the sixth warmest year, globally, in a record going back to 1880. The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has two phases, the warm El Nino, which boosts […]
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| Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Bob Law’s Blog: An Unusual Cross Country Ski Day in Glasgow
January, 2022 – Glasgow Several years ago I worked out a good walk, or cross country ski route, in my local area. When we had a snowfall recently, and I had a free day available, I set off for a mini adventure. You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth to explore. […]
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Pat's Home Page Blog, Walks
G20 Young People to Climb Ben Nevis to support people affected by poverty
The Children’s Wood and G20 Youth Festival (The Children’s Wood youth club) community will be hiking to the top of Ben Nevis – the tallest mountain in the U.K – to raise money for people living in poverty. The G20 young people want to help others and make a difference both locally and abroad. The […]
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Thursday, January 6, 2022 | Filed under: G20 Festival, North Kelvin Meadow and Children's Wood, Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog
Shaking Hands With Christmas – Brian Whittingham
The Quilt and The Book, Christmas Day The Ball and The Boots, Boxing Day A Christmas Trilogy THE FIRE AND THE TREE Christmas-Eve. Mum cleaned the grate of yesterday’s fireplace replenished it with crumpled newspaper, kindling, adding course-coal she lit, gently puffing her cheeks, blowing to fan the new-born flame. She’d stand the coal-shovel against […]
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Saturday, December 18, 2021 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales, Pat's Home Page Blog, Seasonal Stories and Poems by Glasgow Writers, stories and poems, Writing, Writing for the Festive Season
Is this ‘Black Bitch’ name ban really justified?
Hundreds of people are reportedly seething this week at a move to erase the name “Black Bitch” from a popular Scottish bar. A UK pubs firm has decided the name of a historic bar should be “cleaned up” to avoid inadvertently giving offence, and many locals are far from happy. As detailed in a welter […]
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Sunday, December 12, 2021 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Roy's West End View
Roma Night at The Rum Shack
Friday 10 December, 2021 The Rum Shack, 657- 659 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB Tickets · £8 via Eventbrite End of the year Gypsy party with Formatia Express, Ciaran Ryan Band and Transylvanian Ceilidh! About this event Would you like to have a proper blow out before the year is over? Bringing the hottest groups […]
