Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Online 10 – 15 November 2020 ‘Celebrating Extraordinary Cuba’ This year’s Havana Glasgow Film Festival will run online from 10 –15 Novembe. As usual it will be packed full of a high quality mix of thought-provoking Cuban films, Cuban culture, debate and some special surprises. The theme is EXTRAORDINARY CUBA with a fo9cus on […]
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Monday, September 21, 2020 | 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, Zoom and online events
Virtual Glasgow Mela 2020
Glasgow Mela will be broadcast live 20 – 30 September, 2020 Bringing you music, colour and vibrancy to you virtually. Broadcasting live daily between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tune in and enjoy the Mela at home. Truck Art at The Mela Tweets by GlasgowMela
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Sunday, September 20, 2020 | Filed under: Coronavirus, 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
Tidelines Book Festival 2020
24 – 27 September, 2020 Tidelines are taking the festival online this September What’s happening? They are running a series of four sessions around the themes of Poetry, History, Fiction, and Crime over the Festival weekend 24–27 September. All free. All events will be available on Tidelines YouTube Channel Programme Thursday 24 September, 2020 Liz Lochhead: One […]
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Saturday, September 12, 2020 | 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
From the Studio of Alasdair Gray – Sale Great Western Auctions
Friday 18th September, 2020 Included in DAY TWO of Great Western Auctions Autumn Fine Art & Antique auction on Friday 18th September 2020. Lots 326 – 410 Residual artworks, books, furniture and studio elements from the estate of Alasdair Gray. This section commences at approximately 11:15am. Alasdair Gray, writer, painter, muralist and playwright, was a […]
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Thursday, September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping
Hip Hop to Opera via Negro Spirituals
Sunday 13th September, 2020 – Online Hosted by Black History, walks, talks films £6 Book Tickets at Eventbrite A fantastic musical journey covering the hidden African history and links between some of the most popular and obscure musical forms. Queen Nzingha Lecture 85 A musical journey covering the hidden history and links between some of […]
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September Programme at G.FT.
Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) has announced the line-up of films that audiences will be able to enjoy on the big screen throughout September. As one of only a few independent cinemas in Scotland to have re-opened – with enhanced safety measures – following five months of closure due to Covid-19 regulations, GFT offers film lovers […]
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Monday, September 7, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
John Byrne at 80 – Glasgow Print Studio
Glasgow Print Studio First Floor Gallery Exhibition Runs 08 September – 30 October 2020 ALSO SEE: Dear John: Thirty Year Portrait – David Eustace, Photography Exbibition A retrospective exhibition of works in print by the revered Scottish playwright, writer and artist who turned 80 this year. The works have all been produced at Glasgow Print […]
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The History of Scottish Pen – Online
Online event – Free Friday 11 September, 2020, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Hosted by Scottish PEN Tickets via Eventbrite A discussion on the upcoming centenary of PEN International and Scotland’s history of promoting literature and defending free expression. ‘With PEN approaching its centenary in 2021 and Scottish PEN (founded 1927) an early part of […]
The Lady in the Portrait GFT
Cinéfile releases sumptuous epic The Lady in the Portrait 14 – 17 September, 2020 at Glasgow Film Theatre Buy Tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB As cinemas reopen, Cinefile are delighted to announce the release date of Friday 4 September for Charles de Meaux’s The Lady in the Portrait. The epic production with Melvil Popaud and Chinese superstar Fan […]
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Friday, September 4, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Digital Doors Open Day Glasgow 2020
Monday, 14 September 2020 from 09:00-23:30 through until 20 September, 2020 Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Tickets Digital doors are opening across Glasgow… Free Explore the programme In 2020, Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is going DIGITAL! From Monday 14th – Sunday 20th September, you can expect a diverse programme of webinars, 3D-tours, audio […]
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020 | Filed under: Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Jasmine Boutique Hyndland Sale
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Thursday, August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Stuart Cosgrove, Govanhill Book Festival
Friday 28 August, 2020 at 7 p.m. Online on Facebook Stuart Cosgrove is a well know writer and broadcaster. His “Soul Trilogy” Detroit 67, Memphis 68 and Harlem 69 weave a wonderful story of soul music set against a backdrop of civil rights, the war in Vietnam and disaffected youth. They are particularly relevant today […]
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White Riot, Govanhill International Festival
Friday 21 August, 2020, 7. p.m. – 10 p.m. Screening, Q & A and Afterparty Watch Online Glasgow Film is delighted to be partnering with Glasgow Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR), Smoking Bear and Modern Films on the opening event of the Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 2020. It’s three years since the first Govanhill […]
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Henry Bell, Govanhill Book Festival 2020
Tuesday 25 August, 2020 7 p.m. Henry is a writer and editor living on the Southside of Glasgow. He is the managing editor of Gutter Magazine, a biannual literary magazine which was the bestselling book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2018. Henry has edited books including A Bird is Not a Stone, a collection of contemporary Palestinian […]
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Compass Gallery Glasgow – Anna Molin Exhibition
Anna Molin – Costume and Illustration Drawings from the 1970s Original artworks created by Anna Molin in the 1960s and 1970s embody Compass Gallery’s established position as a pioneer of contemporary art, introducing previously unseen work to Scottish audiences and tirelessly supporting the careers of working artists in the early and mid phases of their […]
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Monday, August 17, 2020 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Glasgow Film Theatre Re-opening
Glasgow Film Theatre will re-open on 31 August, 2020 GFT will open on 31 August with best plan in place to ensure opening safely, and with great new films in our cinema. Things will be different with safe operating measures in line with guidance provided by the UK Cinema Association but the magic of watching […]
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Stuart Cosgrove ‘The Soul of Muhammad Ali’
Edinburgh Book Festival Monday 17 August, 2020 11:30 – 12:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Following on from his acclaimed Soul Trilogy about the American soul music scene in the 1960s, much-loved Scottish broadcaster and writer Stuart Cosgrove returns to the American post-war era with his highly topical new book. In Cassius […]
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Friday, August 14, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Coronavirus, Edinburgh Book Festival, 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
Edinburgh Book Festival The New York Times Book Review Live
THE NEW YORK TIMES SERIES Sunday 16 August, 2020 17:30 – 18:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by ‘There is an intimacy to reading: it’s just us and the author; our subjective response and their generous, imaginative understanding of a world that we share but may struggle to articulate. Yet […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt
Sat 15 Aug, 2020 10:00 – 10:50 Gruffalos, Conjurors and Teeny Weeny Genies with Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt Baillie Gifford Children’s Theatre Online Free, online In the first of two bumper Book Festival shows from the award-winning author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson treats you to some lively storytelling from her magical book, The Teeny Weeny […]
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Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham at Cottiers
Rescheduled for 2021: ORIGINAL TICKETS (26 May, 2020) VALID. Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham return to the stunning surroundings of Cottiers in Glasgow. What more can you say about these two stellar musicians, now embarking on their 34th year of working together Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have established themselves as the epitome of […]
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Sunday, August 9, 2020 | 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
Lockdown Video – Mic Clark
Glasgow Lockdown Video – original music Acoustic Butterfly street art Rebel Bear Scotland end Racism ‘It’s been a bizarre and thought provoking time for everyone during lockdown. As a musician all live work dried up overnight. I found myself trying to keep my mind occupied and at the start of lockdown I fixed up an […]
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Scottish Writers Creative Conversation Showcase
(Photo Credits: Kris Kesiak (Cosgrove), Chris Scott (Jassat), Anna Leader (Nayeri) Tuesday 11 August, 2020 – 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Writing the Personal and the Political: Dina Nayeri, Stuart Cosgrove, Nadine Aisha Jassat and Donald S Murray, chaired by Louise Welsh About this Event The first in a three night series of Creative Conversation […]
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Coronavirus, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Art in Nature: Make a Mandala
20 August, 2020 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Woodlands Community Garden, 117 W Prince’s St, Glasgow G4 9BY Thursday, 20 August 2020 Hosted by Woodlands Community Free Tickets at Eventbrite Natural mandala making is a therapeutic practice using nature’s ‘loose parts’, arranging them in a geometric figure creating completeness and unity. Join Woodlands Community Garden […]
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Helen Rose Outdoors: Victoria Park August 2020
Victoria Park Victoria Park is located in the West End of Glasgow and is within walking distance of my house. The Glasgow Parks have been a life saver for me during the Covid 19 virus pandemic lockdown. On Sunday afternoons I have walked around them discovering the historical connections and enjoying the outdoor beauty. The […]
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Friday, July 31, 2020 | Filed under: Helen Rose Hillwalking Diary, Pat's Home Page Blog, Walks
SEE YOU IN 10 YEARS WRITING COMPETITION for Teenagers
Open to 13 – 19 year olds Submission Deadline 31 August, 2020 Do you ever wonder where you’ll be in ten years’ time? How about being part of Scotland’s writing future? Scottish Book Trust have teamed up with author Val McDermid to give you a chance to do just that. Looking for a two-part piece […]
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog
Govan’s Glories: Central Govan Walk Ian R. Mitchell
THE TALK In one of his biographies, Alex Ferguson expressed pride in his origins when he stated that “to call Govan a district of Glasgow was an insult.” Most Govanites would agree and the area is without doubt the one with the strongest sense of identity amongst the older working class districts of the city. […]
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 | Filed under: Coronavirus, Ian Mitchell, Pat's Home Page Blog, Walks and Tours Glasgow
Payback Claire MacLeary
When police are called to a murder scene at the home of Aberdeen socialite Annabel Imray, they are under pressure to get a conviction, and fast. The last thing they want is the distraction of a series of baffling break-ins. The victims, all of them women, are terrorised: just how did the intruder know so […]
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Saturday, July 18, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, New Books by Scottish Writers, Pat's Home Page Blog, People: Local Glasgow West End Characters, Podcast: JIm and Pat's West End Chat
Starchild Sunflower Sanctuary – Autism
Starchild’s dream has been to build a sanctuary for families and children affected by autism. The stigmas and myths that surround disabilities in Uganda are frankly horrendous with many being locked up, chained up, ridiculed, raped and abused. In many communities, they believe them to be cursed by the devil and the mother also. With […]
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Starchild
Sound & Vision Drive-In Summer 2020
Glasgow Film Festival and Electric Frog Music and Movie Drive-In 30 July– 9 August, 2020 Two of Glasgow’s best loved festivals are joining forces to create a special movie and music drive-in taking place in July. Sound & Vision Drive-In is a unique collaboration between Scotland’s creative electronic music and film festivals: Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) […]
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Monday, July 13, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Coronavirus, 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
Outdoor Activities Woodlands Community
Meetings & Fresh Beginnings in Movement with Penny Chivas 10 July – 14 August, 2020 Boost Your Health and Confidence – Free Events During July and August Woodlands Community will pilot a number of ‘socially distanced’ outdoor activities at their Workspace Terrace. These free events have been designed to help boost your health, confidence and […]
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Friday, July 3, 2020 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Coronavirus, Dance, Pat's Home Page Blog, Woodlands Community
