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Pat ByrneI have a Jaunt round the Glasgow West End notice boards to see what’s going on in the centre of the universe but I also rely on mailing lists and you getting in touch with your events. The listings are free for charitable organisations – small charge for profit making events. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Eleanor the Great at GFT

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Friday 12 December, 2026 Eleanor the Great features a bravura performance from June Squibb in the title role of the spirited 94-year-old who tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Eleanor Morgenstein has always stayed engaged and connected to the people around her. So, after a devastating loss, she relocates from […]

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Friday, January 2, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema

Take 2: Back to the Future

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Saturday 3 January, 2026, 11.30 a.m. Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents’ first meeting and attracting his mother’s romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents’ romance and – with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown – […]

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Breathless at GFT

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Various dates 4 – 31 January, 2026 Small-time crook Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), styling himself after Humphrey Bogart, panics during a car theft and fatally shoots a policeman. On the run, he hides out with his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), in her Paris apartment while trying to scrape together enough cash for an escape […]

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The Apartment – 4k Restoration

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2,3 and 6 January, 2026 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB One of the all-time greats and a beloved film with GFT audiences, The Apartment continues to resonate as an acerbic takedown of corporate morality and a bittersweet love story. A sparkling script, career-best performances from Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine and stunning black and white widescreen […]

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Scottish Handmade Crafts, Gifts and Artists at Janet & John Glasgow

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Janet & John – promoting Scottish creativity. A haven for Scottish Handmade Crafts Upper Floor De Courcy’s Arcade Cresswell Lane T: 07731 768373 Delightful gifts handcrafted by Scottish artisans Janet & John Website Janet and John Sale 2 -18 January Always Something New at Janet and John   Lovely Gifts Wild Swimming Hairy Coo Ashton […]

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Preview: Hamnet and discussion with Reclaim the Frame at GFT

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Wednesday 7 January, 2026, 5.40 p.m. Start the new year with Hamnet and Reclaim the Frame at a special preview of Chloé Zhao’s restorative portrait of love, loss and healing, followed by a panel conversation on the film featuring Lauren Clarke, Curator at Invisible Women and more to be announced. Please note: There will be no ads […]

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Peter Hujar’s Day at GFT

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2 – 12 January, 2026 (Captioned screenings 6th and 9th January) Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the stunning new film from Ira Sachs, a richly cinematic rendering of the meeting of acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar and writer and artist Linda Rosenkrantz. In 1974, famed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist’s […]

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Hogmanay at Cottiers 2025

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Celebrate the arrival of 2026 with at Cottiers in Glasgow’s West End. Enjoy seasonal dining, raise a glass, and dance the night away with live music from the Big Stupit’ Ceilidh Band.⁠ ⁠ Tickets available:⁠ Dining in the Attic and Ceilidh £95⁠ Hog Roast in the Theatre and Ceilidh £84.50⁠ Ceilidh only £47.50⁠ ⁠ Spaces […]

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Hogmanay Ceilidh at the Ferry 2025

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The Hogmanay Ceilidh The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, Glasgow G3 8BX Wednesday 31st December 2025 There is no better way to end the year than with a traditional ceilidh in the heart of Glasgow, and why not do it in style by going along to The Ferry on the banks of the River Clyde on […]

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Big Country, Hogmanay at the Barrowland

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31 December, 2025 from 7 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. Barrowland, 242 Gallowgate, Glasgoe G4 0TT The band played their legendary 1983 New Years eve show at the Barrowlands and now they return after over 40 years to do it all again! “Like the Pope in the Vatican, the Queen at Buckingham Palace, the President in […]

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Cameron’s Hogmanany Party

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31 December, 2025 8 p.m. – 1 p.m. Bring in the New Year with at Camerons! 129 St George’s Road, Glasgow G3 6JA Join the celebrations for a brilliant night of music, drinks, and good company and welcome 2026 together. Tickets: £5 Available from bar staff — pay by cash or bank transfer.    

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Marty Supreme at GFT

Marty Supreme

2  – 15 January, 2026 In the 1950s, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) — a young man no one respects who dreams of becoming a champion table-tennis player — goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Also showing the short film Ball (3 min) by Fridtjof Stensæth Josefson and Morten Borgestad ahead of all screenings of Marty Supreme, in partnership […]

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Hogmanay at Blackfriars 2025

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31 December, 2025, 7 p.m. – 2 a.m. Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, Glasgow G1 1LG Celebrate Hogmanay in style at Blackfriars! Gather your mates for a night full of live music and unforgettable New Year celebrations! David Milne playing all the classics and current hits 7:30pm-9:30pm Pablo Jones and the Family Band playing all the […]

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Jean Luc Goddard – Cinemasters GFT

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4 January – 23 February, 2026 GFT celebrates directors and key figures from filmmaking history and gives you the opportunity to watch their work on the big screen. Few filmmakers have reshaped cinema as profoundly as Jean-Luc Godard. A central figure of the French New Wave, Godard tore up the rulebook, replacing polished studio filmmaking with […]

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The Voice of Hind Rajab

The Voice of Hind Rajab

16 – 29 January, 2025 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. Winner […]

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The History of Sound

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23 – 29 January, 2026 In 1917, Lionel—a young, talented music student—meets David at the Boston Conservatory, where they bond over a deep love of folk music. Years later, Lionel receives a letter from David, leading to an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to collect traditional songs. This unexpected reunion, ensuing love affair, […]

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Sentimental Value at GFT

Sentimental Value

27 – 30 December, 2025 In this new family drama from Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World), sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, […]

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Rachelle Atalla – Creative Conversations

20 January, 2026, 1 p.m – 2 p.m. University Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue,  West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ Author Rachelle Atalla reading and in conversation Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her short stories have been published widely, she has written for BBC Radio 4, […]

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Take 2: The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Saturday 20 December, 2025, 11.30 a.m. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere! Every child attending a […]

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It’s a Wonderful Life GFT

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18 – 24 December, 2025 The beloved Christmas classic is GFT’s bestselling film of all time and has become a treasured festive tradition for so many of you, so make sure you don’t miss out on seats for this year’s screenings. Buy tickets Frank Capra’s 1946 Christmas classic follows the tribulations of smallltown everyman George […]

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The Tale of Silyan at GFT

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Tuesday, 23 December, 2025, 1 p.m. Wednesday, 24 December, 2025, 3.20 p.m. Following the critical acclaim of Honeyland, Oscar-nominated director Tamara Kotseva brings her unique, cinematic voice to this poetic story of solitude, belonging and renewal. Rooted in a 17th-century Macedonian folktale of a boy transformed into a stork, The Tale of Silyan follows Nikola, an aging farmer whose community […]

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Folktales at GFT

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19 – 22 December, 2025 From the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Folktales is a timely and moving portrait of teenagers who choose an extraordinary “gap year” in the Arctic wilderness — learning to dog sled, navigate the wilderness, and find meaning beyond the modern world. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely […]

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White Christmas at GFT

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Monday 15th December, 2025 at 12.30 p.m. and Sunday 21 December, 2025 – wheelchair accessible Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. While there, they run into General Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys’ commander […]

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Soul Jazz Sundays Xmas Party

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Sunday 28 December, 2025, 5 p.m. – 11 p.m.  Nick Peacock and Mark Robb McCrea West of Scotland Cricket Club, 40-44 Peel St, Glasgow G11 5LU Nick and Mark’s  last Party of 2025 Traditionally this one is a very busy session so please come down early for 6 hours of amazing music, Jazz, Latin, Disco, Soul, Northern……..Looking […]

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California Schemin’ to close Glasgow Film Festival 2026 

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James McAvoy’s directorial debut California Schemin’ will have its UK premiere as the closing gala for Glasgow Film Festival 2026 (GFF26). Shot on location in Scotland, the film will close the 22nd annual Glasgow Film Festival on 8th March, 2026. Based on the improbably true story, California Schemin’ follows aspiring Scottish rap duo Silibil N’ […]

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Hundreds of Beavers, Arlington Baths Club

Hundreds of Beavers

Saturday 20 December, 2025  6.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Arlington Baths Club 61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT Come along and enjoy this  anarchic slapstick comedy! In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. […]

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Batman Returns at GFT

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Monday 15th December, 2025 at 5.40 p.m. And Thursday 18 December, 20s5 at 5.30 p.m. The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck’s timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill […]

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Kill Bill – The Whole Bloody Affair

Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair

Saturday 17 December, 2025 – 5.45 p.m. and Monday 19 December, 2025 – 5.45 p.m. Screening on 35mm, Quentin Tarantino’s revenge spectacular returns to the big screen as its auteur intended: with both chapters brought together as one film, alongside a never-before-seen animated sequence. An assassin code-named The Bride (Uma Thurman) wakes up from a coma, four […]

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Friday, December 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema

It Was Just An Accident at GFT

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14, 15 and 17 December, 2025 Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, It Was Just An Accident is a fearless tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on. When auto mechanic Vahid unexpectedly encounters the man who may have been his […]

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The Muppet Christmas Carol at GFT

STANDARD SCREENING (CAPTIONED): SAT 13 DEC, 11.30AM AUTISM FRIENDLY SCREENING: SAT 13 DEC, 12PM Audio Description available for both of these screenings ‘Tis the season for love, laughter, and one of the most cherished stories of all time! Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of […]

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