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..

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Thursday 14 December, 2023 Kings Theatre, 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 ‘Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, don’t miss the fairest pantomime of them all!’ Starring pantomime legends Elaine C Smith and Johnny Mac, will be spectacularly brought to life with an abundance of comedy, sensational song and dance numbers, fabulous costumes and stunning scenery. With Darren Brownlie, Blythe Jandoo and Liz […]

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Scottish Ballet: Cinders!

Scottish Ballet Cinders

9 – December – 31 December, 2023 Theatre Royal, 282 Hope St, Glasgow G2 3QA “Breaking with tradition in theatre is a tradition in itself, and Scottish Ballet‘s playful new production of Cinders will have a surprise in store each night for audiences as the curtain rises: on some nights, Cinders will be a woman, swept off her feet by her […]

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Kelvingrove Christmas Market 2023

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Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 December, 2023 An unmissable festive market in a fabulous venue. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum will have creative and independent businesses from throughout Scotland selling a wide selection of their work.  This will include glittering jewellery, gorgeous ceramics, colourful & cosy textiles, quirky illustrations and more. With different independent creative […]

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Mother India – Glasgow

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Mother India Restaurants Glasgow Book Mother India for Christmas Mother India Glasgow, 28 Westminster Terrace, Glasgow G3 7RU Book Online Call to reserve 0141 221 1663 Don’t wait, secure your table today: Book for Christmas at Mother India  Step into the magic of the festive season at . Embark on a special culinary journey with  […]

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Elf at IMAX Glasgow and Glasgow Science Centre Galleries

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From 2nd December, 2023 and various dates throughout December include 24th Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA Book Tickets Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some […]

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Christmas Fayre Gallowgate

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Come meet Santa at Free Christmas Fayre Saturday 9 December, 2023, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Morrison’s Supermarket Carpark, 5 Barrack St, Glasgow G4 0TZ – Outdoors but under Gazebo. Hosts; Friends of People’s Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green and Morrisons Goody Bags Entertainment Balloon Modeller Superheroes Free Refreshments All Welcome

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Christmas 2023 – University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

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Sunday 3 December, 2023 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Annual concert of music and readings for Advent. with Madrigirls University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Chapel Corridor (South), West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ This year’s concert takes inspiration from the poetry of the middle ages, with readings from the […]

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Wasps Winter Market 2023

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Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 December, 2023, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wasps Artists’ Studios The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ Back to The Briggait this December for the Wasps Winter Market with nearly ninety stalls to shop from for your seasonal gifts. Boasting some of the best arts and crafts made by the […]

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Christmas Craft Fayre – Golden Friendships

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Saturday 9 December, 2023, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Fabulous Handmade Christmas Gifts by Crafters Golden Friendships, 18 Nairn Pl, Dalmuir, Clydebank G81 4AU Entry is Free Cafeteria will be open so you can enjoy a warm drink and snack in the welcoming atmosphere at this fantastic project. Please come along and support Golden Friendships. […]

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Winter Warmer Nights – Sunny Govan Radio

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Starting Monday 27 November,  2023 Every Monday 6:30 – 8:30 PM Sunny Govan Community Radio Sunny G is hosting family friendly Winter Warmer Nights so you have a place you can get a wee heat, get a snack & hot drink and have some fun! Sunny Govan Radio, 960 Govan Road, G51 3AJ It’s FREE […]

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Christmas Concert, Child Bereavement, Cottiers

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Wednesday, 13 December, 2023 Cottiers are excited to announce first ever Child Bereavement Christmas Concert in Glasgow A magical evening featuring popular carols as well as festive readings and performances from our celebrity friends and supporters at Cottiers, one of Glasgow’s most unique and magical venues. Confirmed performers so far this year include former BBC […]

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Snow White and the Magic Mirror

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Wednesday 22nd – Saturday 25th November and Tuesday 28th November – Saturday 2nd December 2023 East Kilbride Rep Theatre Club’s 2023 pantomime is ‘Snow White and the Magic Mirror’ At East Kilbride Village Theatre, Maxwell Dr, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 4HG £15.00/£12.00 concession Box Office: 01355 248669 / 01355 261000 Book Online

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Night Market at Cottiers

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Thursday 7 and Friday 8 December, 2023 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Buy tickets The Night Market UK is back Glasgow, with a smash hit of an event! You loved it last year, so the night market returns to sprinkle some Christmas joy your way with The Night Market Double-Date-Night Xmas Special!!! […]

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Tortoise in a Nutshell – Ginger at The Tramway

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6 – 16 December, 2023 The Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE Puppetry, performance and play in an interactive show for ages 3 – 7 It’s time to get baking! Eggs crack – Butter melts – Puffs of flour fill the air – The perfect platter of gingerbread people is ready for the oven. […]

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Snow White and the Magic Mirror

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East Kilbride Rep Theatre Club’s 2023 Pantomime Wednesday 22nd – Saturday 25th November and Tuesday 28th November – Saturday 2nd December 2023 East Kilbride Village Theatre, Maxwell Dr, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 4HG Tickets £15.00/£12.00 concession Box Office: 01355 248669 / 01355 261000 Book Online

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Express Your-elf Christmas Party

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Thursday, 28 December, 2023, 7 p.m. Bru Glasgow  734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow G11 6RD Join Express Your-elf on the 28th December 2023 for a poetry Christmas party with cheese and wine, poetry and banter, and good folk enjoying them-elves. Bring your Christmas hat, and a party piece to get involved with the festivities. £5 entry […]

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Artists’ Christmas Fayre

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Friday 8th December, 2023  1pm – 7pm Saturday 9th December, 2023  11am-5pm Glasgow Art Club’s Christmas Fair Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4HU The fair will be held in our historic building and will showcase a fantastic range of Artists and Artisans Glasgow has to offer. Attendees can savour winter-inspired cuisine and […]

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Now’s The Day Now’s The Hour – Poems for John Maclean

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Sunday 26 November, 2023 6 p.m. The Griffin, 266 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JP On Sunday 26th November, at The Griffin, on Bath Street — site of Maclean’s famous anti-war meetings — we’ll be launching a new book featuring 100 years of poems and songs for John Maclean. Going to a be a great night […]

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Martyn Joseph at Cottiers

Martyn Joseph

Sunday, 3 December, 2023 – 8 p.m. New album out in January come get a sneak preview of his new songs. Martyn Joseph’s only Scottish gig. Always a great night. Buy tickets Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU

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Cottiers – Bar, Restaurant, Theatre, Glasgow West End

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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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Film Night: Smoke, Sauna, Sisterhood

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Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT Buy tickets No story too shameful, no burden too heavy to carry when you share it with your sisterhood… Conic is thrilled to announce the release of filmmaker Anna Hints’ Sundance Award-winning feature documentary SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD in UK […]

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Saturday, November 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema

Take 2: Chicken Run at GFT

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Saturday 25 November, 2023 11.30am Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Ginger the chicken enlists the help of Rocky the American rooster to lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers Mr and Mrs Tweedy and their farm of […]

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Thursday, November 23, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

Preview: Priscilla 35mm at GFT

Preview Priscilla

Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 2023 Buy tickets GFT is the only cinema in Scotland showing Sofia Coppola’s Priscillabefore its release date and in all its 35mm glory. Coppola tells the story of Priscilla Beaulieu, who met Elvis Presley when she was just a teenager and became the superstar’s wife. ‘A transportive, heartbreaking journey […]

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Focus Hong Kong

Focus Hong Kong

Saturday 2 – Monday 4 December, 2023 Buy tickets Focus Hong Kong is a UK film festival dedicated to celebrating the amazing cinema and filmmakers of Hong Kong, from early works to the glory days of its reign as the Hollywood of Asia, through to new and exciting films. A chance to catch three films […]

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Savage Waters at GFT

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Monday 27 – Thursday 30 November, 2023 A family of modern-day adventurers go on a journey to find and surf a spectacular wave in some of the most remote and dangerous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Narrated by Charles Dance, this exhilarating documentary is an intimate and epic portrayal of extraordinary individuals who push the […]

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The Eternal Daughter at GFT

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Friday 24 – Thursday 30 November, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Tilda Swinton delivers a towering dual performance as both an artist and her elderly mother in Joanna Hogg’s chilling new film, executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The two women are confronted with long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now […]

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Is There Anybody Out There? plus Q & A

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Thursday 23 November, 2023 8.30pm Captioned screening, Audio Description available ‘My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own.’ Groundbreaking documentary, Is There Anybody Out There? follows filmmaker Ella Glendining’s global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as […]

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Black Narcissus at GFT

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Sunday 26 November, 2023, 2pm and 5pm Experience Powell and Pressburger’s Technicolor classic on a whole new level at our special Atmosphere screenings from New Media Scotland and Storyhouse, supported by the BFI. A darkly grand film that won Oscars for Alfred Junge’s art direction and Jack Cardiff’s cinematography, Black Narcissus is one of the […]

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Naomi Mitchison Lecture with Hannah Lavery

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Thursday 30 November 2023 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Imagination as activism If we want change, first we have to imagine it… Hannah Lavery is a leading Scottish poet, playwright and performer. Appointed as Edinburgh Makar in 2021, her pamphlet Blood Salt Spring was shortlisted for the 2022 Saltire prize. She is an associate artist […]

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

From Page to Print: Shake the Kaleidoscope

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Tuesday, 28 November, 2023 7 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, Clubroom, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD SWC Favourite G. W. Colkitto will talk about his journey of becoming a successful poet and writer. He will share his insights on how he navigated the process of getting published and the challenges he faced along the way. […]

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