Express Yourself Halloween Party 2019 Project Cafe
31 October, 2019 – 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6ST Tell It Slant Halloween Party Get your costumes ready because we are throwing an Express Yourself Halloween party. Halloween 3 course meal, live music, fancy dress, poetry, byob, fun, games and laughter Free event Details on Facebook
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Hallowe'en in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: The Siren Awakes by Linda Jackson
4th November, 2019 Avant Garde Linda Jackson launches the first of three memoirs – The Siren Awakes With special guest Charlie Gracie and music by Linda Jaxson Band Free entry – book will be available to buy on the night. Show starts 7.15 p.m. Book table for dinner at 6 p.m. (2 course plus glass […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre Dove Tales: Dia de los Muertos
Tuesday 5 November 2019 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900CCAWith readings from Dove Tales members, the event will be hosted by writer Jean Rafferty of Dove Tales. Readers include: AC Clarke, Ray Evans, Lesley Benzie, Caroline Johnstone, Allan Cameron. Music: Linda Jaxson and Jim Byrne Dove Tales was formed by a group of […]
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Night of Scripts, Music and Song
Friday 15 November, 2019 With Host Linda Jackson Finns Place, 167 Ledard Road, Glasgow G42 9QU Further details on Facebook
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Penetrate: Translate Reading Group: Five Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo CCA
(Performance for Ban: Loveland Colorado, Bhanu Kapil 2012) Monday 11 November 2019 CCA 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Free but ticketed, Clubroom 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Five Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo is a piece of prose-poetry that speaks about the complex alienation of the expatriate, finding solace in language and ‘not one particular language’. Penetrate: Translate is […]
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Adura Onashile: Artist and Playwright, Creative Conversations
Monday 04 November 2019, 1 – 2 p.m. Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Adura Onashile is an award winning Glasgow based artist. She has been a part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase and has worked with companies such as Untitled Projects, […]
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Monday, October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Short Story Collection with Adam McNelis, Glasgow Literary Lounge
Tuesday 29 October, 2019 – 7 p.m. The Calton Bar, 415 London Road, Glasgow G40 1AG CALLING ALL CREATIVES– Open Mic Calton Bar Theme for the night is the ‘Feast of Samhain’ ‘We still have a couple of slots left for our Open Mic – Speakeasy Style after McNelis’s presentation! Our theme for the night […]
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Sunday, October 27, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Hallowe'en in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Webinair: How to talk to children about Climate Change
Tuesday 5 November 2019 1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Tuesdays4Climate Online:How2talk to children abt climate change This WEBINAR is for parents who would like space to explore + think with others about how we listen and speak to our kids on climate change. This 90 minute call will make space for 6-10 parents to share […]
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mary Miller, Author, on Jane Haining – a life of love and courage
24 November, 2019 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Jane Haining – a life of love and courage Titwood Bowling Club, 77 Glencairn Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow G41 4PS Local author Mary Miller will talk about Jane Haining, subject of her recent book, who lived in Pollokshields. Jane worshipped at Queens Park Govanhill Church of Scotland, and […]
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Monday, October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
An Evening with Mary Irvine – ‘My Greek Love Affair’
Living, working and writing about The Land of the Hellenes Wednesday, 23rd October, 2019 – 7 p.m. Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Free entry/refreshments
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Friday, October 18, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Creative Conversations: Abir Mukherjee – Crime Novelist
: Monday 21 October 2019 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Abir Mukherjee is the Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj era India. His debut, ‘A Rising […]
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Woodlands Community Gardens, Storytelling Circle ‘Tell A Story’ Workshop
Sunday 17 November, 2019 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Have you ever wanted to tell stories to your child without the book? Maybe you already do this, or you have told them their favourite story so often, that you really could put the book down and tell the story, eye to eye, mind to mind […]
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Monday, October 14, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Irene Lebeter, Meet the Author, Fruin Fam
Thursday 17th October 10.30 a.m. Tea, coffee, soft drinks available from 10.00 a.m. Fruin Farm, Glen Fruin, Helensburgh G84 9EE
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‘A Place for the Work and the Human Being’ Kelvin Hall
7. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme The Common Guild Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW 24 October 2019 6 p.m. Thursday 24 October 2019, 6pm ‘A Place for the Work and the Human Being’ runs throughout 2019 and takes place in a range of venues, new and old, around Glasgow. The series explores […]
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Sunday, October 13, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
From Lens to Pen, Finnieston
1 – 3 November, 2019 The Vacant Space The proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to Glasgow City Mission. Why not come along and have a look. 184 Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow
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Friday, October 11, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Robert Alan Jamieson – Shetlandic Poet and Translator
Monday 14 October 2019, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Alan Jamieson was born in 1958 in the crofting community of Sandness on Shetland. After publishing two novels and a collection of poetry, ‘Shoormal’, during the […]
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Sloot – it’s Oot!!! – Book Launch with Ian Macpherson
Friday 25 October, 2918 Waterstones Byres Road, 351-355 Byres Road, g12 8au Where Comedy, Literature and Ian Macpherson Collide Ian says: Ahead of publication of my forthcoming novel by Bluemoose Books, I keep getting asked what exactly sloot means. Does it refer, for instance, to a deep South African gully eroded by rainfall? No, it […]
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Glasgow’s Welcome University of Glasgow
Tuesday 15 October, 2018 – 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Hunter Halls. Gilbert Scott Building. University of Glasgow. Glasgow G12 8QQ. Join Louise Welsh and the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, as they celebrate Glasgow’s Welcome, a children’s book about the arrival of a refugee family to Glasgow. (Prof Louise Welsh) Louise Welsh will be in […]
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Bearing Witness: the state of journalism and press freedom across the globe
Tuesday, 15 October, 2019, 6.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Sogo Art Gallery EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL NOVEMBER Panel Discussion Join David Pratt and Scottish PEN exploring issues around conflict, journalism and press freedom across the globe. Journalists and photographers bear witness to the changing world around us and challenge power on our behalf, but across the […]
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James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture Black History Month 2019 University of Glasgow
Black History Month Glasgow 2019 Tuesday 15th October, 2019, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. This year’s James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Blight. David is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, […]
Monday, October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Black History Month Glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Black Abolitionists in Scotland, Black History Month 2019
Talk & Film Screening Thursday 10 October 2019 5.30pm, Free/£2/£4/£6 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book online / 0141 3524900 Professor Bernier, from the University of Edinburgh, will discuss the African American “struggle for liberty” in Scotland by tracing the transatlantic tours of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josiah Henson, Sarah Parker Remond and […]
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PURGATORY Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Two by Alasdair Gray
Purgatory: Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray ALASDAIR GRAY & DANTE ALIGHIERI ‘In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this sublime […]
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Sunday, October 6, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Creative Conversations Sara Sheridan
Monday 7th October, 2019 1 p.m. Free Event University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Sara Sheridan has written over 20 books but is best known as the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries. She also writes adventure novels set in the period 1820-1845. One of these, ‘On Starlit Seas’, based […]
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Professor J. Edward Chamberlin National Poetry Day University of Glasgow
Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies Wednesday 2 October, 2019 – 6 p.m. Yudowitz Room, Woolfson Medical Building To celebrate National Poetry Day, the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Programme in association with the Scottish Poetry Library are delighted to present this very special event with Professor J. Edward Chamberlin introduced by […]
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Monday, September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Poets Tony Walsh and Stephen James Smith at Cottiers
Sunday, 27 October, 2019 Poets Tony Walsh & Stephen James Smith visit Glasgow on their autumn UK Tour … Tickets are £13.50, including a £1.50 booking fee which is applicable on all tickets. Please note, the box office voicemails and e-mails are picked up at least once a day Tuesday-Saturday. Box Office 0141 357 5825 […]
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LUX Scotland presents: where did we land Fi Dem 1 and 11
2 October, 2019 – 3.30 p.m. CCA London-based curator and artist Rabz Lansiquot screens their new moving image essay where did we land, an ongoing experiment interrogating the effect of images of anti-black violence produced and reproduced in film and media, and parts 1 and 2 of artist Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem Series, a continued […]
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, LGBT Glasgow
Bearing Witness: the state of journalism and press freedom across the globe
15 October, 2019 Sogo Gallery, 82-86 Saltmarket, Glasgow G1 5LY The Exhibition will run until November. Exhibition and Panel Discussion will take place on 15 October, 2019, 6.30 until 9 pm. Journalists and photographers bear witness to the changing world around us and challenge power on our behalf, but across the globe they are threatened […]
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Tidelines Book Festival 2019
Irvine Harbourside 26 – 29 September, 2019 Harbour Arts Centre 114-116 Harbour Street Irvine, KA12 8PZ 01294 274 059 info@tidelinesbookfest.com Great Writers Making Waves Tidelines aims to bring a book festival to the Firth of Clyde which caters for various literary tastes and for all age groups. The festival is planned and organised by a […]
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Thursday, September 26, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Behrouz Boochani with Scottish PEN, Creative Conversations
Journalist, Human Rights Defender, Poet and Film-Maker Monday 30 September 2019, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ www.gla.ac.uk/events/creativeconversations Behrouz Boochani is an Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He was born in western Iran. He was held in the […]
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Hunterian Poems at Kelvin Hall – National Poetry Day 2019
2 October, 2019, 6 p.m. Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8AW Some of Scotland’s finest poets will come together at the Kelvin Hall to celebrate National Poetry Day and to read their poems inspired by the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Collection. Professor Alan Riach will be hosting this exciting evening of poetry readings drawn […]
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