Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival
10th-16th September, 2018 Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival promotes and celebrates Glasgow’s rich architecture and built heritage. The week long programme highlights the city’s wonderful buildings, throwing open the doors to the public. You can also enjoy: walks, talks, tours, exhibitions and a children’s programme. The Festival attracts around 26,000 visitors with more 100 […]
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 | Filed under: 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
Willie Miller Urban Designer: Glasgow West End Characters
Sadly Willie Miller died of a short illness on 12 January, 2021; he left behind his wife and co-worker Ines Triebel and young daughter Maxi. Very sad news. A remarkably talented and interesting man. Ines will continue the practice at WMUD. (Strategy for Glasgow City Centre Lanes – March, 2018) Willie Miller is an Urban […]
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| Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, People: Local Glasgow West End Characters
Glasgow’s West End Festival, Science Festival, Shopping, Dining Out, Galleries and the Botanics
West End Festival This is a great time to be in Glasgow: the West End Festival, highlight of the city’s cultural calendar, has just kicked off. The festival will run until 25 June with a fabulous programme of events including: music, theatre, film, walks, talks, exhibitions and much more. Our own project Ten Writers Telling […]
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Ten Writers Telling Lies, West End Festival 2017, Waterstones Byres Road, Thursday 8 June, 2017
Waterstones Bookshop, 351 – 355 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8AU Thursday 8 June, 7.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Ten Writers Telling Lies is a unique collaboration between some of Glasgow’s most talented writers and the musician Jim Byrne. In prose and poetry the writers have captured the story of a song they have co-written. Come […]
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Ten Writers Telling Lies, West End Festival 2017, West End Festival Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
ProjectAbility, New Works by Ronnie McCulloch, The Glad Cafe, 2 – 29 June, 2017
New works by Ronnie McCulloch Offsite Exhibition 02 Jun 2017 – 29 June 2017 Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG Admission: Free Project Ability proudly presents a collection of new paintings by Aspire artist Ronnie McCulloch for our very first exhibition at the Glad Cafe. Ronnie’s sources of inspiration come largely from popular culture: his favourite television programmes, films and […]
Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata, GFT, July, 2017
Acclaimed director Sofia Coppola and designer Valentino combine their talents to create one of the most ambitious productions of the renowned opera La Traviata. Working together with a world-class team, the duo’s production breathes spectacular new life into Giuseppe Verdi’s enduring story of tempestuous love and heartbreak. Coppola’s La Traviata has already become one of […]
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Ten Writers Telling Lies book and cd launch review by Mary Irvine
Ten writers telling lies… The date, Thursday 27th April, 2017. The venue, Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow. The event, the culmination of a 15 month project between ten authors and the accomplished musician/songwriter, Jim Byrne. I had attended several ‘taster’ sessions during the project and couldn’t wait to see it in its entirety. And I was not […]
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Jim’s Photo Gallery March 2017: Glasgow University, Ayr beach, Lion and Unicorn Staircase, Park area
I’ve got a new camera (Canon 80D). 🙂 I’ve been experimenting with it and learning how it works. This months photo diary is a mixture of photos I took on my phone and photos I took on my new camera.
Monday, April 17, 2017 | Filed under: Jim's West End Photography Diary, Pat's Home Page Blog, Photography
Glasgow West End, Glasgow Festivals, Bicentenary at the Botanics, Art, Eating Out and Shopping
Glasgow is a great city for festivals, no sooner has one finished that another one appears on the horizon . I had a fantastic time at both Glasgow Film Festival and Aye Write! Glasgow’s book festival. Glasgow Film Festival 2017 I managed to see some very good films at the festival including Handsome Devil, the […]
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Last Open Mic at Rio Cafe with host Paul Ross, 30 March, 2017
The last open mic at Rio Thursday 30 March, 2017 – 9 p.m. Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, G11 5QF Event on Facebook
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 | 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
Glasgow Vegan Festival, Trades Hall , 27 and 28 May, 2017
Fifty fantastic stalls, 8 world food caterers, all day talks and all day cookery demos. £3 per day payable on the day on the door. Come hungry! To find out more information please email: veganeventsuk@gmail.com 85 Glassford Street, G1 1UH 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 27 and 28 May, 2017 Event on Facebook
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It’s Only The End Of The World, GFT, 1 and 2 April, 2017
Assured young auteur Xavier Dolan returns with his sixth feature, an adaptation of Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play: a claustrophobic family drama about an award-winning dramatist who returns to his hometown after more than a decade away. Revealing to his family that he is dying, Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) ignites a pressure cooker of familial melodrama with each […]
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Thursday, March 23, 2017 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Italian Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 10 – 15 March, 2017
Italian Film Festival 10 – 15 March, 2017 GFT The annual celebration of Italian cinema returns with a wide-ranging programme that stretches from promising new talents to established greats. Highlights this year include Paolo Virzi’s hugely successful Like Crazy and the Kafkaesque comedy Ears which was one of the discoveries of the Venice Film Festival. […]
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Friday, March 10, 2017 | 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
Phoenix Flight Training Cumbernauld
Learn to fly with Phoenix Flight Training Limited, Cumbernauld www.phoenixflighttraining.co.uk Phoenix Flight Training pride themselves on their friendly, relaxed and professional approach to teaching how to fly a plane. Their flying school is operated by two of Scotland’s most experienced flight instructors John Allan and Ian Haggis. Both John and Ian are commercial pilots and instructors […]
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Monday, March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Christmas Shopping in Glasgow, Classes and Workshops, Mothers' Day, Pat's Home Page Blog, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow
Kathyrn Joseph with Jamie Flett and Amy Sawers, BAad, 19th March, 2017
“VERY SPECIAL INDEED” | Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music Kathryn Joseph released her debut album – bones you have thrown me and blood I’ve spilled – in January 2015. It quietly became much-loved among a keen-eared band of admirers, before a surge of critical acclaim culminated with it winning Scottish Album of the Year […]
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Sunday, February 26, 2017 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
The Tale of the Hanged Man by Jane Sweeney
Frankenstein in Glasgow – Ure and Jeffray Did you hear the one about the early 19th century blogger, an anatomist, a hanged man and a well-known author? I hadn’t until I was reading through some old writings about Glasgow. I had abandoned reading all my Christmas present cook books, my husband being too much of […]
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Monday, February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Jane Sweeney: Blogging about Glasgow and its hidden gems., Pat's Home Page Blog
Pat’s Glasgow West End Diary, February, 2017 – Valentines Day, Glasgow Film Festival, Aye Write!, Ten Writers Telling Lies, New Development Plans or Byres Road
Valentines Day in Glasgow Winter has flown by. I was super busy with the Festive Season and then I had a big seventieth birthday to celebrate; my own. Getting back on track work-wise I’ve been uploading lots of information about Valentines Day in Glasgow. There’s certainly a lot to choose from: romantic movies with ‘Breakfast […]
Sunday, February 12, 2017 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
New Development Plans for Byres Road, January, 2017
Byres Road, Glasgow West End’s favourite street is all set for a major redevelopment. Funding of £9million has been assigned from Glasgow City Region City Deal adding to the the plans to expand the University of Glasgow Campus at the Western Infirmary with an intended budget of £1 billion over the the next ten years. […]
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | Filed under: Byres Road New Developments, Pat's Home Page Blog
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Spring /Summer Season 2017
Curtain rises on thrilling new spring/summer season at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – January until June, 2017 Performances, masterclasses, festivals and talks … the stage is set for a spectacular spring/summer season of performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), the country’s busiest arts venue. The new programme, which runs until June, is […]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | Filed under: Dance, 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, What's on Glasgow: Students, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The King’s Theatre, Glasgow Programme Autumn 2016 – Spring 2017
See Full Programme of Shows King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JN Cinderella (Fri 2 Dec 2016 – Sun 8 Jan 2017) ‘We’ll all be going to the ball this year as Cinderella, the godmother of all pantos, returns to the King’s. Starring Scottish comedy legends Gregor Fisher and Tony Roper as those awfy […]
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Friday, December 30, 2016 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Jim’s Photo Diary December 2016: Alan Kitching Exhibition, trip to Crail, trip to St Andrews, Pat’s birthday, Kelvinbridge underground
| Filed under: Jim's West End Photography Diary, Pat's Home Page Blog, Photography
Hiire: Matching Jobseekers to Jobs
Today (Wednesday 16 November, 2016) I met Mike Hughes for a coffee and he told me about his brand new recruitment project, developed in Glasgow West End it aims to match jobseekers to jobs. Mike is confident that his new system will make the recruitment process easier. I have to say after hearing about it […]
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Monday, December 19, 2016 | Filed under: Business Directory, Business services, Pat's Home Page Blog
Graeme Macrae Burnet at Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow, 12 December, 2016
I always enjoy Creative Conversations and when I can I head along to the University of Glasgow Chapel to catch Louise Welsh in conversation with a talented writer included in the programme. The event this week with Graeme Macrae Burnet was a particular highlight attracting a large crowd with other writers in the audience. These […]
Thursday, December 15, 2016 | 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
Christmas Panto, OranMor, The Princess and the Pie, Mon, 28 November, 2016 — Fri, 23 December, 2016
OranMor, Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8QX Mon, 28 November, 2016 — Fri, 23 December, 2016 By Morag Fullarton | Directed By Tony Cownie When Queen Jockina McTatty of Scone emerges from obscurity to find a bride for her son and heir, Prince Angus, the whole of Weegie Land is in thrown into a frenzy. Only […]
Sunday, November 27, 2016 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas in Glasgow 2016 – festive menus, shows, shopping., Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow 2016, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Curtains Up on Winter Windows, Thistle Gallery – Exhibition Runs Until 24 December, 2016
‘CURTAINS UP ON OUR WINTER WINDOWS……. Thistle Gallery, Park Road, G4 9JF Open seven days a week through until Christmas Browse through their eclectic Christmas Show ‘Unwrapped’ which runs until Christmas Eve.’ As well as an exceptional array of original Scottish Contemporary Art hanging the spacious Gallery walls you will also find: JEWELLERY BY : […]
The Darkest Universe, GFT, Thursday 10 November, 2016
Zac is a lonely, highly-strung city trader on the edge of a psychological breakdown. He has lost his job, his girlfriend and, most devastatingly, his weird and wayward younger sister Alice, the only family he had left. Increasingly frustrated with the futile attempts of the police, Zac decides to take matters into his own inexpert […]
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog
Jack and the Beanstalk, Knightswood Congregational Church, 23 – 26 November, 2016
Pantomime time is fast approaching. Come along and share the adventure with Jack and his friends. Tickets £3 for children and £5 for adults. Discounts for groups. For more info email kccpanto@yahoo.com 12 Dunterlie Avenue, Glasgow G13 3BA Event on Facebook
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas in Glasgow 2016 – festive menus, shows, shopping., Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow 2016, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Southside Film – The Bishop’s Wife, Pollok House with Christmas Dinner, 16 December, 2016
THE BISHOP’S WIFE (U, 109mins) WITH CHRISTMAS DINNER | POLLOK HOUSE| 7.30PM | FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2016 | £40 Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing, and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham’s Victorian home. Struggling […]
Dougie Wilkinson: Wedding Piper
Experienced Piper for all Events Dougie Wilkinson. A professional piper and composer, who can provide you with a tailored and personal service to fit with your wedding plans. A well turned out piper who will help make your day memorable. Available for: Piping to greet guests on arrival at the ceremony venue Piping bride’s arrival […]
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Monday, October 31, 2016 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Weddings, Weddings Glasgow
Paul Rutherford, Personal Trainer/Lifestyle Coach – feature by Theresa Talbot
I have to admit I’ve always been slightly scared of personal trainers; Convinced they’d make me do things I didn’t want to do and yell at me if I didn’t reach peak fitness in less time than it takes to throw off my high heels. But my opinion changed dramatically when I met Paul Rutherford. […]
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