Thomas Muir Symposium 2023 – Remembering John Maclean
Wednesday 4th October 2023 Douglas Academy, Craigton Road, Milngavie G62 7HS John Maclean was a school teacher, Red Clydesider and founder member of the Pollokshaws Progressive Union. Drawing on speakers from the academic community, secondary school pupils and members of local history societies. This years speakers are: Professor Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow): Muir & […]
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Friday, September 8, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: The MacDiarmid Memorandum
Wednesday 20 September, 2023, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Alan Riach Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; a work that blends biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Beginning with his childhood in […]
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Bloody Scotland 2023
15 – 17 September, 2023 BLOODY SCOTLAND BROCHURE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE NOW See all events Cast A Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison review by Pat Byrne Reception will take place in the splendour of the 600-year-old Church of the Holy Rude with festival guests welcomed in style with a glitzy drinks reception before […]
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, 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
Doors Open Days Glasgow – The ARC
A walk in the ARC: tour the Advanced Research Centre A unique tour of the ARC, Glasgow’s exciting new hub for research, discovery and events! Located on the redeveloped site of the Western Infirmary and recently celebrating its 1st birthday, you’ll start your journey in our impressive atrium with views up to three floors of […]
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Glasgow Doors Open Days
A Woman’s War Against Progress by Allan Cameron
Wednesday 27 September, 2023 Scotia Bar, 112 – 114 Stockwell Street, Glasgow G1 4LW Book Launch: A Woman’s War against Progress by Allan Cameron A Woman’s War against Progress is about a fictional minority-language community in southern Siberia and its charismatic and somewhat domineering leader. Her relationships with men are complex and unhappy, but she […]
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Bernard MacLaverty: SCAP Summer Festival
Saturday, 26 August, 2023 at 3.30 p.m. The National Piping Centre, 30-34 McPhater St, Glasgow G4 0HW Free Event Bernard MacLaverty special guest at SCAP (Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications) Summer Festival Belfast man, Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has published six collections of short stories and five novels, the latest of which ‘Midwinter […]
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Writing the World: Book Launch at SCAP Summer Festival
Sunday 27 August, 2023 1.30 p.m. – 3 p.m. National Youth Theatre, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow G1 1TF Free event Writing the World: A Collective This book is the outcome of Creative Writing classes with Asylum Seekers taught by Donna Campbell and Linda Jackson. The book also has work by more established writers who have […]
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An evening with local poets Ann MacKinnon and Catriona Malan
Thursday 24 August, 2023 at 7 p.m. Discussing poetry (with the help of Mary Irvine) Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Free entry and refreshments
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Sowing Seeds: The Strathclyde Review 2022/23 Magazine Launch
Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tuesday 29 August, 2023 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. After last year’s event for ‘Taking Root’, The Scottish Writers’ Centre is delighted to welcome back The Strathclyde Review for their launch of its 2022/23 issue ‘Sowing Seeds’. Join us for an evening of readings, special […]
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The Handsomest Thoroughfare in Glasgow
How Great Western Road Created The West End Sunday 17 September, 2023 – 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ As part of Doors Open day Websters presents The Handsomest Thoroughfare in Glasgow! Join Architectural Historian, Gordon Urquhart, on a historical journey through Great Western Road! Book Online
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Friday, August 18, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Glasgow Doors Open Days, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Zoe Strachan launches Catch the Moments as They Fly
Thursday 21 September, 2023 at 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW Join one of Glasgow’s best authors Zoe Strachan as she launches her new novel ‘Catch the Moments as They Fly’. Zoe will be in conversation with Alistair Braidwood. Today Rena is going to change her life… Rena Jarvie is ahead of […]
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 | 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
Women, Activism, Archive and Heritage, Govanhill International Festival
Sunday 6 August, 2023, 2:00 – 8:00pm The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale St, Glasgow G41 2PZ Free but ticketed Book Tickets Talks: Bread and Roses v Bread and Circuses: The story of the treatment of Glasgow’s Culture, Elspeth King This session will offer a brief historical survey of Glasgow’s material culture looking at when Glasgow, […]
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Gillian Shirreffs – Glasgow Writer Donates Book Profits to Beatson Cancer Charity
Fundraising Book Launch at OranMor, top of Byres Road, G12, Thursday 7 September, 2023, 6 p.m. Gillian Shirreffs, a writer from Glasgow, is donating all profits from her debut book ‘Brodie’ to Beatson Cancer Charity’ – following the support she received after being diagnosed with cancer. Ooriginally from Haughhead in East Dunbartonshire and now living […]
Broken Sleep Books Takeover
Wednesday 9 August, 2023 6:30–7:30 p.m. Govanhill Baths Community Trust, The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Free. – Book tickets at EventyBrite An evening of poetry and stories at Govanhill International Festival, showcasing Scotland-based authors published by innovative press Broken Sleep Books. Each author will give a short reading from their work […]
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Thursday, July 20, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events
All Along the Edge: Launch of Anthology
Wednesday, 9 August, 2023, 5.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. All Along the Edge: Contemporary Voices Explore the Roman Frontier – launch Hunterian Museum University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ History is story! Join us as we celebrate All Along the Edge, a collection of new poetry and prose inspired by the past, present and future of the […]
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
In Conversation with Graeme Armstrong, Websters Theatre
Thursday, 30 August, 2023 Join the host of Glasgo Podcast as he sits down with local author Graeme Armstrong His bestselling debut novel, ‘The Young Team’ inspired by his experiences, and Picador published in March 2020. It won a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and the Scots Book o the Year 2021. In […]
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Aye Write: Diana Gabaldon – Outlander
Wednesday, 19 July, 2023, 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Kelvin Gallery Glasgow G12 8QQ Diana Gabaldon, the author of the bestselling Outlander series returns to Glasgow this July. This special event takes place in partnership with the world’s first academic Outlander conference. Diana Gabaldon will discuss the books that influenced her writing and the making […]
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Cruinneachadh, Scottish Writers Centre
Tuesday 27 June, 2023, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Cruinneachadh Join poet, translator and editor Marcas Mac an Tuairneir for an evening of poetry in translation in celebration of Cruinneachadh. Cruinneachadh includes selections from some of the finest poets in Scotland, England, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland and further afield. The volume is a celebration of language […]
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Monday, June 26, 2023 | 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
How To Save Our Planet – The Children’s Wood
Saturday 17 June, 2023, 11 a,m. Special Event at The Children’s Wood, 76 Kelbourne St, Glasgow G20 8PR With the fabulous illustrator Lizzy Duncan
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, North Kelvin Meadow and Children's Wood, Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Shared Reading with Ann MacKinnon
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Shared Reading with Ann MacKinnon Agnes Owens Room, Alexandria Library, Gilmour St, Alexandria G83 0DA Come along and join in discussing the topic of Sibling Rivalry in poetry and fiction Free event – all welcome. About Ann MacKinnon Ann is a poet ‘writing in both English and Scots, […]
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Friday, June 16, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
SCAP Writers – Donald Murray on Zoom
Thursday 15th June, 2023 at 7pm. Hosted by Linda Jackson and Donna Campbell. Special guest Donald Murray Also featuring: Bobby Motherwell, Hannah Nicholson and Judith Taylor. SCAP – Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications Donald S Murray is a Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright from Ness in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Queer Reflections on Horror: Jennifer’s Body
Saturday 3 June, 2023 7:15pm Presented in association with GFT Youth Board at GFT to celebrate all things queer and all things horror as they launch new essay anthology It Came From the Closet: Queer reflections on Horror. The event will feature a screening of Jennifer’s Body followed by a Q&A and book signing with Glasgow author […]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Wee Write Family Day 2023
Saturday 3 May, 2023 Spark your little bookworm’s imagination. This jam-packed day is full of creativity and book-based fun at the Mitchell Library. With Horrible Histories, Dennis the Menace mischief and a flying visit from Bookbug, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN See the full programme and buy tickets Chai Strathie – Scotland, […]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people
Aye Write: Stuart Braithwaite – Spaceships Over Glasgow
Sunday 28 May, 2023, 9.15 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3NY Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in Mogwai, one of the Glasgow and Scotland best loved bands. Spaceships Over Glasgow spans a delinquent childhood, rock star hedonism […]
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Saturday, May 27, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write: Pat Nevin – Football and How To Survive It
Sunday 28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Pat Nevin’s memoir Football and How To Survive It takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. rom Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he’s ever played. Then, in […]
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Aye Write: Neil Lancaster, Carole Johnstone and Fulton Ross – Something Dark Up North
Saturday 27 May, 2023 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In Neil Lancaster’s The Night Watch a lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, […]
Friday, May 26, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Ones to Watch – Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott, Wiz Wharton
Saturday 27 `May, 2023 11 a.m. – 12 noon The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott and Wiz Wharton will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which platforms some of our best new writers. On […]
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Aye Write 2023: Jim Carruth and Liz Lochhead – The Tannahill Event
A Happy Makar Birthday Sunday 28 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Stgreet, Glasgow G2 3NY Join Glasgow’s two living laureates to celebrate two milestone birthdays. Liz Lochhead has just turned 75 and has been Makar for both city and country and has been awarded the Queen’s Gold […]
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023 Arthur Snell: How Britain Broke The World
Saturday 27 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Suchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 4NY How Britain Broke The World is by former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell. It critically assesses UK foreign policy over the past 25 years, from Kosovo in 1998 to Afghanistan in 2021, while also scrutinising British policy […]
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Aye Write 2023 – Ones to Watch – Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater
28 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event. Martin Griffin’s The Second Stranger finds a hotel worker trying to […]
