I 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. 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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Thursday, September 25, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett
Saturday November 15, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW BBC Scotland’s Bryan Burnett is joined by two crime writers extraordinaire as they peel back the layers of a good mystery. Described as “crime-writing royalty” by none other than Ian Rankin, Denise Mina draws us into the world of blood […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Love Letters To A Murder – The Mythology of Madeleine Smith
Saturday 18th October, 2025, 3:00pm The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Kirsten MacQuarrie and Lesley McDowell The love letters which Madeleine Smith wrote to Emile L’Angelier during their clandestine affair of 1855-57 were essentially a work of Victorian fiction. That is not to say they were fabrications of letters. But they were performances […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Thursday 9 October, 2025 at 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW Event by Graeme Macrae Burnet Graeme will be discussing his new novella BENBECULA with an as yet unknown interlocutor before after-show drinks at an as yet unconfirmed venue. “Unrelentingly disturbing and utterly gripping” – James Robertson. Tickets and information
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Reclaim the Clyde – Poetry and Music to celebrate our river
Thursday, 25th September, 2025. 7pm Event by Glasgow Branch CND The Wee Dram, 232 Woodlands Road, Glasgow G3 6ND FREE Poets: Alan Riach, Amy Rafferty, Ellen McAteer Readings of new works by the above and selected readings of works by a range of modern Scottish and international poets. Music: Traditional Scottish music from fiddlers Karen Barber […]
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Monday, September 22, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Glasgow Shanty Festival
Saturday 11th October 2025, 12.30pm to 7:30pm Aboard the Tall Ship Glenlee in Glasgow, Riverside Mueseum,150 Pointhouse Rd, Stobcross Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS FREE EVENT The Glasgow Shanty Crew are delighted to announce that the Glasgow Shanty Festival will be back for another celebration of Songs of the Sea on Saturday 11th October with guest […]
Terry Neason Songs and Words
9 October, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Cottiers Theatre, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Award Winning Music, Poetry & Humour Edinburgh Fringe Angel Award Winner, Terry Neason performs some of her best highly acclaimed repertoire of Songs and Poetry… Be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster. She includes her own songs and other Originals, as well […]
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| Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Boys by Ella Hickson
Tuesday, 30 September, 2025 – 7.30 p.m. An amatuer production – the first play produced by Northern Assignment. Five bedrooms, five chairs and four boys. The Class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn’t want them, these boys […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Gift, Barrowland Ballet at The Citizens Theatre
6 – 28 December, 2025 A Barrowland Ballet production – Created and choreographed by Natasha Gilmore Winner of Best Production for Children and Young People at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2023 A mountain of discarded wrapping. A lonely child with an active imagination. It’s often the cardboard boxes, not the gifts inside […]
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Scotland Loves Anime 2025
31 October – 4 November, 2025 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgfow G3 6RB An essential season for any anime fans. The programme includes UK Premieres, rarely screened agfems and even a special mystery film. Friday October 31st 2:20 pm – Mystery Film 5:00 pm – Lupin the IIIrd: The Immortal Bloodline + […]
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Sunday, September 21, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Falling Out and Fighting Back
Thursday, October 2 , 2025, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Listen Gallery, 60 York Street Glasgow G2 8JX Dean Spade and writer Hannah Proctor in conversation with artist Winnie Herbstein as they discuss collective strategies for working together through conflicts past and present, personal and organisational. This event marks the launch of two new publications: […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Cottiers – Bar, Restaurant, Theatre, Glasgow West End
Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU 0141 357 5825 www.cottiers.com/ Cottiers Bar and Restaurant is a most attractive and flexible venue in Glasgow’s West End. Previously, Dowanhill Church, it is one of only three surviving Scottish churches famously decorated by Daniel Cottier, the revolutionary artist-designer when it was built in 1865. Food and Drink […]
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A Kick Up The Arts – In Conversation with Denise Mina
Thursday 9 October, 2025 – 2.30 p.m. The Stand Comedy Club, Websters, 420 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Nicola Meighan, A Kick Up The Arts will be chatting with award winning author, Denise Mina. “Well then. I always love chatting with Denise Mina, and I can’t wait to have a blether with her about […]
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Saturday, September 20, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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, September 19, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
There Will Be Blood at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 A sprawling epic about family, faith, power and oil, There Will Be Blood chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. He takes a chance when he hears of a […]
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Can I Get A Witnss at GFT
19 – 24 September, 2025 Can I Get a Witness, a film by Ann Marie Fleming starring Sandra Oh, is a radical eco thriller set in the not-too-distant future, which imagines a healing planet, but at what price for humanity? In the near-future, climate change is mitigated, global poverty is eradicated, and all species on the planet can […]
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Islands at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 ★★★★★ ‘A scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight.’ The London Standard Between drinking sessions and one-night stands, washed-up tennis pro Tom (Sam Riley) clings to a job coaching holidaymakers at a hotel in Fuerteventura. When an English couple (Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing) arrive, their presence sets off a chain of events that […]
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Happyend at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 Set in a dystopian near-future Tokyo, Neo Sora’s striking debut feature explores a group of teenagers rebelling against societal expectations. The film offers a vivid coming-of-age portrait, following best friends Yuta and Kou as they confront a world where AI surveillance is tightening under the yoke of oppressive authoritarianism. Infused with raw […]
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Steve at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 Set in the mid-1990s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. Cillian Murphy stars alongside Emily Watson and Simbi Ajikawo (Little Simz) as a headteacher at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken its students. As Steve fights to protect the school’s integrity and impending closure, we witness him grappling with his […]
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Woodlands Community – Anti Racist Film Club
Film Screenings at Woodlands Community Autumn / Winter 2025 Tuesday 30 September, 2025 – From Ground Zero – Booking and Information at Eventbrite Tuesday 28 October, 2025 – Khartoum – Booking and Information at Eventbrite Tuesday 25 November, 2025 – Dahomey-Booking and Information at Eventbrite Tuesday 16 December, 2025 – All We Imagine As Light […]
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Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Woodlands Community
Craft Session: Knitting Circle and Wool Swop
Thursday, 9 October, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QW Come along to this eco-friendly craft session! Make a wool craft of your choice with second hand wool from the Eco-Hub and support from the workshop leader! How will the session work? In this workshop you […]
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The Sound of Music – 60th Anniversary
20, 21 and 23 September, 2025 Experience the breathtaking theatrical presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic musical film The Sound of Music. Meticulously restored and remastered in 4K for its 60th anniversary, the beloved classic is more brilliant than ever with pristine picture and sound. In this true-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, […]
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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
British Sign Language (BSL) Tour of ‘Margaret Salmon: Assembly’
Sunday 5 October, 2025 – 2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. The Hunterian Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Deaf art enthusiast Trudi Collier returns to The Hunterian to present a British Sign Language tour of the newest temporary contemporary exhibition, ‘Margaret Salmon: Assembly’. ‘Assembly’ is a solo exhibition of new work […]
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Creative Conversations: Isabel Stilwell
Friday 19, September, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. A co-hosted event with Portuguese Studies and Creative Conversations, historical novelist and journalist Isabel Stilwell is in conversation. University Chapel, Main Building University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Isabel Stilwell is a journalist and a writer, dedicated to investigating and writing about the impressive lives of women […]
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Document Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow
Saturday 18 October, 2025 at 4 p.m. Park Lane Market, 976 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HA Re-launch of Document Human Rights Film Festival Everyone welcome. Details of programme to be announced
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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
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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Monday, September 15, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, 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
Walking Tour: Tracing Glasgow’s Imperial Past in Kelvingrove Park
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Glasgow’s often referred to as having been the ‘second city’ of the British Empire, a nickname coined in the early-nineteenth century that represented the might of its industries and the reach of its trade connections. The city’s capacity for making and exporting all manner of goods, […]
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Flight of the Wild Geese, Refuweegee Fundraiser
Sunday 28 September 2025 – 7 p.m. Saint Luke’s 17 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2JZ A trad-night fundraiser for Refuweegee. Why is there a restoration Levy? Put very simply, the restoration levy is an additional charge added to your ticket price which is directly invested back into the venue. This money is used for critical […]
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Sunday, September 14, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Related Pages
- October 2025 Programme at GFT
- Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett
- Love Letters To A Murder – The Mythology of Madeleine Smith
- Book Launch: Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- Reclaim the Clyde – Poetry and Music to celebrate our river
- The Glasgow Shanty Festival
- Terry Neason Songs and Words
- The Boys by Ella Hickson
- The Gift, Barrowland Ballet at The Citizens Theatre
- Scotland Loves Anime 2025
- Falling Out and Fighting Back
- Cottiers – Bar, Restaurant, Theatre, Glasgow West End
- A Kick Up The Arts – In Conversation with Denise Mina
- Samizdat: Eastern European Film Festival
- There Will Be Blood at GFT
- Can I Get A Witnss at GFT
- Islands at GFT
- Happyend at GFT
- Steve at GFT
- Woodlands Community – Anti Racist Film Club
