Bob Law: Clydebank Walks in Autumn
Walks and Photography There are several good walks in Clydebank at any time of year but in previous outings I have observed that Clydebank has some terrific autumn colours so here’s a selection and suggestions for walks in the area. You can get an 11 bus from Gartnavel Hospital to Clydebank and Mountblow. Or train […]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
Welcoming New Scots To The Wyndford
Saturday 29 November, 2025 2 p.m. International Buffet to Celebrate St Andrew’s Day Event by G20 Youth 21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow G20 8HS G20 Youthis excited to be hosting an International Buffet to celebrate St Andrew’s Day next Saturday afternoon. The event will be bringing together our diverse and vibrant community here in the Wyndford. Whether […]
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Sunday, November 23, 2025 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Liz MacWhirter – Creative Conversations
Monday 24 November, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, Main Building, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Poet and Novelist Liz MacWhirter in Conversation Liz MacWhirter is a writer, speaker and theologian. Her debut novel, ‘Black Snow Falling’ (Scotland Street Press, 2018), gained a Carnegie Medal nomination, and her poetry is published by Lucy Writers, […]
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Fiume o Morel at GFT
Monday 24 November, 2025, 7.50 p.m. In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey. The result is […]
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Friday, November 21, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Film Night at The Arlington: Paul and Paulette Take A Bath
Saturday November, 22, 2025 at 5.30 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that grows around a dark game; […]
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The Kelvin: Restaurant, Bar, Wedding and Events Venue
Scottish Kitchen : Cocktails & Whiskies : Weddings & Events 416 Great Western Road, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow G4 9HZ The Kelvin is a stylish new bar and restaurant in the fabulous A-listed building, previously Lansdowne Parish Church at Kelvinbridge. An impressive addition to nightlife and leisure in the West End, it offers traditional Scottish cuisine, cocktails and […]
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Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Pat's Home Page Blog, Scottish Restaurants
Christmas Market Glasgow West End
Sunday 23 November, 2025. 12 noon until 6 p.m. Christmas Tree Switch on at 5.30 p.m. Vinicombe Street, Top of Byres Road, G12 Come along to Vinicombe Street Christmas Market and enjoy some festive fun as you shop for unique gifts from a variety of vendors. Live music and Christmas Treet Switch-on. The Vinicombe Street […]
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Monday, November 17, 2025 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog
Living With Rain – Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow
Launch of Report by Andrew Hoolachan 3 December, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Collective Architecture, 13 Bath Street, G2 1HY Overview Launch of Dr Andrew Hoolachan’s report ‘Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow’ You’re walking through Glasgow in the height of summer. A heavy rain shower leaves behind a soaked urban […]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 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
Carlton Jug Band Album and CD Launch – Avant Garde
Carlton Jug Band at Avant Garde Friday 6th February, 2026 8.30 p.m. – 11 p.m. At last, The Carlton JugBand album & EP launch! ‘Herding Cats’ & ‘I’ve Been Here Before’. 12 classic ‘Jugified’ tracks and 4 original tunes. With guest trumpeter, J Simon Van der Walt at the launch. Tell all your friends, it’s […]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 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
Still Glasgow at GoMA
Saturday 29 November 2025 – Sunday 13 June, 2027 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 111 Queen St, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH Still Glasgow is an extensive new exhibition which has photography at its core and looks at Glasgow, past and present. With over 80 works, the exhibition showcases well-known photographs of the city […]
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 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
Scottish Open Badminton Championships 2025
20 – 23 November, 2025 Emirates Arena, The Scottish Open Badminton Championships will return to Glasgow this autumn. Secure your tickets to watch world class badminton today Please note: if you are an individual member of Badminton Scotland you are entitled to 2 FREE tickets for Thursday 20 November and HALF-PRICE tickets for all other […]
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Nationhood: Memory and Hope – Street Level Photoworks
1st November 2025 – 8th February 2026 Street Level Photoworks, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Exhibiting artists Miriam Ali, Haneen Hadiy, Grace Springer, Chad Alexander, Shaun Connell, Robin Chaddah-Dukeand, and Roz Doherty. Nationhood: Memory and Hope is a new exhibition of powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. It is a love […]
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Sunday, November 2, 2025 | 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
Oxfam Book Shop Byres Road
Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road – now at: 174 Byres Road · Glasgow · G12 8SN The Oxfam Bookshop reopens Thursday 30 October, 2025, with local award winning author Bernard MacLaverty welcoming people to the bookshop in the old Bank of Scotland premises. Bernard previously helped launch Oxfam Bookshop on Byres Road 25 years ago and […]
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Thursday, October 30, 2025 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping
Big Band Jazz in the Afternoon at Cottiers
Scottish National Youth Jazz Orchestra Sunday, 9 November, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Enjoy an Afternoon of Outstanding Big Band Jazz Prepare for an afternoon of fun as the future stars of jazz in Scotland – and beyond – demonstrate their instrumental skills to get […]
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Saturday, October 25, 2025 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
The Carlton Jug Band
Friday 24 October, 2025 – 9.30 p.m. – late. The Scotia Bar, Stockwell St, Glasgow G1 4LW Hey pilgrims. The Carlton Jugband have got their monthly Barny Dance in The Scotia Bar on Friday 24th October from 9.30 till late. Get yerselves doon to this Olde Saloon in Stockwell Street to hear these lovable cowpokes […]
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Thursday, October 23, 2025 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog
October 2025 Programme at GFT
Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) – the city’s home of cinema for over 85 years – has revealed its October 2025 programme. Highlights include: Exclusive preview screenings from BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express. A mammoth season celebrating big screen melodrama. Special screenings to mark Black History Month, in partnership with the Coalition […]
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Hallowe’en – A Bygone Theme by Pat Byrne
‘Mum, Anna and me have got an idea for Hallowe’en,’ said Catherine. ‘Okay. Tell me about it.’ ‘We’ve got it all planned. It’s going to be a bygone theme,’ said Anna. ‘Auntie Mary says she can lend us stuff. She’s got a trunk in her loft full of vintage clothes that she’s kept like forever.’ […]
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Helensburgh Firework Display 2025
Sunday 2 November, 2025 – event opens 4 p.m. – starts 6 p.m. Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre, 38 East Clyde Street, Helensburgh G84 7PG Get ready for a spectacular night in Helensburgh! The Helensburgh Heart Fireworks Display is back and promises to light up the sky with breathtaking colours and shapes you won’t want […]
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Mika & Me Optical Studios Glasgow
56 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9JF Tel: 0141 413 5393 Email: hello@mikaandme.com Drive Safe Campaign. Get a grip on headlight glare with Mika and Me’s Drive Safe Campaign – New lenses designed for safer driving. 10% off this October. Pop into Mika and Me or Book an Eyetest or Book a Free Consultation Telephone: 0141 413 5393 […]
Bob Law: Walks and Photography – Edinburgh Walks Via Day Trips
Recently I have been taking the Glasgow 900 Citylink bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Edinburgh. As I live on the outskirts of Glasgow I have to take a bus into the city centre. 30mins or so. Then the city to city bus 1hr 30 mins usually to Edinburgh Bus Station. If I leave the […]
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Friday, October 10, 2025 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize and Exhibition 2025
31 October – 13 November, 2025 The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TS The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize is an annual student art competition, launched in 2024 it’s open to students from schools in West Dunbartonshire. With £200 worth of art shop vouchers for the competition winner as well as prizes for second […]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 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
Kittlin at Avant Garde
Tuesday 7 October, 2025 Music, Spoken Word and Open Mic with Lesley O’Brien Free Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5Q
Samizdat: Eastern European Film Festival
30 September – 3 October, 2025 Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in communist states, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival is returning for 2025 with an as-ever eclectic mix of some of the most exciting, powerful, thoughtful, weird and wonderful filmmaking from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. […]
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Friday, October 3, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Ocean with David Attenborough: Community Screening & Q&A at GFT
Monday, October 13, 2025 at 10am – 12pm Doors at 9:45 a.m. By Marine Conservation Society Afree screening of Ocean with David Attenborough, hosted by the Marine Conservation Society and followed by a Q &A. The Marine Conservation Society are hosting a free screening of Ocean with David Attenborough – a stunning documentary showing us […]
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Aye Write 2025: Scottish Fiction
9 November, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Scottish Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Mystery Margaret McDonald, Callum McSorley and Tom Newlands The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Author Martin Stewart chairs a discussion between three talented young Scottish writers, each with an award-winning debut novel to their name. Tom Newlands Tom Newlands won […]
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Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Kick Up The Arts – Nicola Meighan with Jill Jackson and Carol Laula
Thursday 2 October, 2025 Part of Glasgow Americana Cottiers Theatre, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Glasgow Americana is more than thrilled to be teaming up with Nicola Meighan and her excellent podcast “A Kick Up The Arts” during the festival this year. Brining the podcast to the live stage with two of […]
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, 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
Bookface Sip and Swop with Gillian Shirreffs
Saturday 25 October, 2025, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Saints of Ingram, 158 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1EJ Come along for a fun and cosy afternoon at Saints of Ingram in Glasgow on Saturday 25th October from 3-6pm. when Bookface is hosting a luxury raffle to support Beatson Cancer Charity. Following the success of her […]
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Glasgow Doors Open Days 2025 Alasdair Gray Archive
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, 2025 10 a.m. The Alasdair Gray Archive, The Whisky Bond 2 Dawson Road, Glasgow G4 9SS Glasgow is a visionary city and it was Alasdair Gray who first explored this, through writing in his seminal novel Lanark (1981), the imaginative potential of what the city could hold. The tour will […]
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Glasgow Doors Open Days, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
TEA FOR TWO/ CHÁ PARA DOIS – Mackintosh Queens Cross
12 September – 2 October 2025 An exhibition showcasing the tearoom designs of two world-renowned architects Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, Glasgow, G20 7EL Graeme Nicholls Architects are excited to announce Tea for Two / Chá para Dois, a new exhibition exploring architectural and cultural connections between Scotland and Portugal. It places Charles Rennie […]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | 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
Spinal Tap !!: The End Continues
12 – 25 September, 2025 What comes after 11? We’re about to find out. 41 years after the original comedy classic, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues reunites director Rob Reiner with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer as they reprise their iconic roles as the legendary heavy metal band Spinal Tap in this long-awaited sequel. After a […]
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Friday, September 12, 2025 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
