What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

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..

Going for Gold: Young Talent 2026 at ProjectAbility

Archery Emily McDonald

25th July – 5th September  2026 Project Ability Gallery,, Trongate 103, Glasgow G1 5HD Opening Times Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm Free event Project Ability is delighted to present Going for Gold: Young Talent 2026, an annual exhibition celebrating the creativity, imagination and artistic achievements of the young artists who take part in the […]

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Arepas for Venezuela – Fundraiser

arepas venezuala

Sunday 12th July, 2026, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. ByLa Bodega, Valeria Guaimare & Estefany Correia Buy tickets Fundraiser for emergency earthquake aid</> An afternoon of food, art, and music to support communities affected by the recent earthquake in Venezuela. For decades, Venezuela has faced a profound political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has left […]

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Take 2: Muppet Treasure Island at GFT

muppet treasure island

Saturday 11 July, 2026 at 11.30 a.m. Ahoy, matey! Get ready for hilarity on the high seas with Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the Muppets in this exciting action-adventure, inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate tale. When young Jim Hawkins inherits a long-lost treasure map, he hires the great ship Hispaniola to […]

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Wildlife Watch at The Saltings: An Introduction to Wildlife Recording

wildlife watch the saltings

25 July, 2026, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. The Saltings, 11 Erskine Ferry Road, Old Kilpatrick G60 5DF Come and find out what’s living in The Saltings; you might be surprised! If you’ve ever looked at something on a walk and thought ‘what is that?’ this is the event for you! In this session you’ll […]

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Shoot the People at GFT

shoot the people

10 – 23 July, 2026 Shoot The People is a documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman’s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Following Harriman as he highlights the resilience of grassroots activists fighting for equality, civil rights, and social justice, the film showcases the intersectionality of these movements and their collective power. With historical […]

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Rosebush Pruning at GFT

rosebush pruning

10 – 16 July, 2026 Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. When an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed. An outrageous, biting satire on the absurdity of the patriarchal […]

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The Last One For The Road at GFT

the last one for the road

10 – 16 July, 2026 After premiering to a sold-out audience at this year’s GFF, GFT thrilled to be bringing this hilarious, off-kilter comedy back to their big screen.    In this idiosyncratic, sardonic and slyly funny tale, two middle-aged misfits ramble by car around the Veneto countryside, picking up a shy architectural student on […]

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Exhibition Faifley Art Group

Here we are again

Tuesday 30 June – Thursday 6 August, 2026 Here We Are Again Exhibition by Faifley Art Group Clydebank Town Hall, 5 Hall St, Clydebank G81 1UB Opening Times Tuesday – Friday, 9.30 a.m.- 4.30 p.m. Frre entry – All Welcome All art work is for sale! Faifley Art Group are keeping the World Cup Fever […]

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Scottish Writers Centre Speakeasy The Griffin

Hand on the baton, Scottish Writers Centre

Tuesday 28 July, 2026 7.30 p.m. Scottish Writers’ Centre, Speakeasy Special at The Griffin! If you’d like to read please let us know and fill out the form below. The Griffin *Function Suite*, 266 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JP Free Event! Come along, share your writing and join SWC Speakeasy Spectacular at The Griffin’s wonderful […]

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Voices of the Clyde

voices of the clyde

Thursday 9 July, 2026, 7.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Event by The Glasgow Barons and Ainsley Hamill Govan & Linthouse Parish Church, 796 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2YL Montgomery’s music shines over Govan songs of folk and steel by Norrie MacIver and Ainsley Hamill. Jessie Montgomery – Starburst (2012) Jessie Montgomery – Chemiluminescence (2025 – Scottish premiere) Ainsley […]

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Watershed Festival at The Briggait

watershed

24, 25, 26 July and 31 July, 1 & 2 August, 2026 The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow, G1 5HZ Part of the Festival 2026 Commonwealth Games programme and the Merchant City Festival. Watershed is two weekends of river rights events, talks, workshops, poetry, song, storytelling and more! Brought to you by the Who Owns the Clyde […]

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Ray Harris plus special guests at Cottiers

ray harris plus special guests

31 July, 2026, 8 p.m. Ray Harris returns to the stage at Cottiers for a one-night performance of his fifth studio album Prelude. Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, Prelude marks a return to expansive arrangements and cinematic songwriting — piano-led, melodic and rich in atmosphere. Joined by an 8-piece ensemble, Harris will perform the album in full, alongside […]

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Thrum at Cottiers

Thrum

Monday 13 July, 2026 7.45 p.m. – doors 7 p.m, THRUM return to the spotlight with the long-awaited re-release of their classic album Rifferama, arriving on 26th June 2026 on Fire Records. Rifferama recently featured in the Classic Album series of The Glasgow Herald, the record was originally recorded in San Francisco and released in […]

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Taxi Driver – 50th Anniversary at GFT

taxi driver

5th (4.30 p.m.)  8th, 11th, 13th, 15th July, 2026 Robert De Niro stars in Martin Scorsese’s classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Isolated ex-marine Travis Bickle applies for a job as a taxi driver, hoping that the nocturnal working pattern will alleviate the effects of his insomnia and distract […]

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Birds of War at GFT

birds of war

4/5 and 6/9 July, 2026 Janay Boulos, a young Lebanese journalist at the BBC, first contacts Syrian cameraman Abd Alkader Habak for footage during the final months of one of the bloodiest and most decisive turning points in Syria’s brutal civil war. Through texts, video exchanges, voice messages and shared moments from afar, their bond deepens as […]

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema

The Invite at GFT

the invite

4 – 16 July, 2026 (Closed 7 July) Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down? Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton star. ★★★★ “A-list […]

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My Father’s Island at GFT

my father's island

4,5,6,8,9 July, 2026 Vladimir de Fontenay makes a welcome returns after the 2017 GFF hit Mobile Homes with a beautifully shot and psychologically intense wilderness drama, adapted from an autobiographically-inspired story by David Vann. When British teenager Roy (Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon) agrees to take a year-long trip to a remote Norwegian island with his estranged dad Tom (Anatomy of […]

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Gaggle

Gaggle

Monday 6th July, 2026 – 4 p.m. Tuesday 7th July, 2026 – 11 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. Event by Platform Glasgow The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, G34 9JW Glasgow, United Kingdom For young people with complex additional support needs and their families/carers – recommended age 5yrs and over. Share 3 days and 3 nights with 3 […]

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Take 2: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

20000 leagues under the sea

Saturday 4 July, 2026, 11.30 a.m. This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio’s costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with scientist Paul Lukas […]

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Soulguided Soundbath at Arlington Baths

soundguiesoundbath

Sunday 5 July, 2026, 3.30 p.m. Event by Arlington Baths Club 61 Arlington Street, G3 6DT Glasgow Join Geetha Marcus for an authentic and nourishing soundbath. Using specific frequencies, rhythms and intentional silence to help restore balance, harmony and recalibrate your energy. This is a guided journey through carefully layered tones designed to calm the nervous […]

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Wellspring – Tiles and Tales

gcht wellsrping tiles and tales

Saturday 25 July, 2026 Glasgow City Heritage Trust, , 54 Bell Street, G1 1LQ A day of playful creative activities for all ages, responding to the beautiful exhibition about Glasgow’s very own Wellspring. Discover new additions to the exhibition in the form of artworks made by local children. Make your own clay tiles inspired by […]

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The Arlington Baths Club

Arlington Baths

61 Arlington Street Glasgow, G3 6DT Telephone:0141 332 6021 info@arlingtonbaths.co.uk www.arlingtonbaths.co.uk Soulguided Soundbath 5th July 3.30 p.m. Soulguided Soundbath at Arlington Baths Arlington Baths Commonwealth Games Gala Saturday 27 June Arlington Baths Club Commonwealth Games Gala Learn To Swim At The Arlingon Baths Club News at the Arlington Arlington wins Doors Open Day Award The […]

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Glasgow Merchant City Festival 2026

merchant city festival

24 – 26 July and 31 July- 2 August, 2026 The Merchant City Festival returns for 2026, transforming the heart of Glasgow into a vibrant hub of creativity. From circus and dance to a dedicated family programme, bringing arts and performance out of the theatre and onto the pavement. As a flagship event of the […]

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Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog

Chicago! The Drag Along at OranMor

The drag along

Friday 3rd July 2026, 7 p.m. Film Screening featuring Drag Performances Step into the scandalous world of Chicago like you’ve never seen it before as CJ Banks returns to the basement at Òran Mór with another outrageous Drag-A-Long spectacular!Join CJ and a cast of dazzling drag queens for a boozy, belt-it-out screening of the iconic […]

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Hex Appeal at Cottiers

hex appeal

Sunday, 12 July, 2026, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Buy tickets Join the WEPDA Bébés in celebrating 10 years of fun, friendships and community! Your stunning host for the evening will guide you through a fantastic lineup of 20 stunning pole performances. Students will leave you with your jaws on the floor as they wow […]

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Sunday, June 28, 2026 | Filed under: Dance, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy

The Effect by Lucy Prebble at Cottiers

the effect at Cottiers

Wednesday, 1 July, 2026, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Cottiers Theatre,93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow  G11 5PU Select tickets Who I am is not a side effect. Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a […]

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Dementia Heroes – Family Carers Day

family carers day

Saturday 27 June and 18 July 2026, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Southern Necropolis, 300 Caledonia Road, G5 0TB Dementia Heroes Festival Fund project – Going for Gold – is a celebration of health & wellbeing;  proud to be advocating for a dementia aware Glasgow. Walking Tour, Activities, Refreshmenrs Supported by Friends of the Southern […]

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Take 2: Arco (Dubbed) at GFT

take 2: arco

Saturday 27 June,2026 at 11.30 a.m. A 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and, along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to […]

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Friday, June 26, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog

An Tír úd Thoir : Immigrants from Donegal to Glasgow share their stories

immigrants from donegal film

Monday 6 July, 2026 at 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Screening of An Tír úd Thoir (2009) by Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú. Irish with English subtitles ByGovanhill Baths Archive The Deep End Venue Space – Govanhill Baths Community Trust 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ An Tír úd Thoir (2009) by Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú is […]

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Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog

A Night At The Musicals at Cottiers

a night at the musicals

Thursday 25 June, 2026 at 7.30 p.m. From the producers that brought you the smash-hit Girls’ Night OOT! Insideout Theatre Productions Ltd proudly present A Night at the Musicals Join a first-class professional cast as they sing some of the best show tunes from London’s West End and Broadway. Four fabulous singers will perform songs […]

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