Book Launch: A City of Segregation CCA
19 August, 2019 – 6.30p.m. – 8 p.m. From LA to Glasgow A book launch for City of Segregation Los Angeles may seem a long way from Glasgow, but with a century of vibrant civil rights struggle against exclusionary housing policies and recent attempts to displace communities for boutique hotels and lofts, its current patterns […]
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Danger Poets, Waterstones Byres Road
29 August, 2019 7.30 p.m. Waterstone’s 351-355 ByresRoad, Glasgow, G12 8AU Jenny Lindsay + Magi Gibson + Ali Whitelock – that’s an explosive mix of poetry/spoken word! Three of the most dynamic and challenging voices in Scottish poetry. Books will be on sale. Free. Refreshments.
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Monday, August 12, 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
Women With Fierce Words CCA
Scottish Writers’ Centre Women with Fierce Words: Fringe Off The Fringe Tuesday 13 August 2019 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ Women with Fierce Words is an inclusive collective of established women writers, speaking their truth, their way. They write about what affects them and their world. Their work is often thought provoking, sometimes controversial, but […]
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Friday, August 9, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Books at the Botanics
Friday 9 – Monday 12 August, 2019 Come along to Glasgow Botanic Gardens and enjoy a browse at the Book Fair. Soooo the weather isn’t looking too great but don’t forget it’s indoors, accessible for wheelchairs and buggies and they love to see a dog. Open 10 am till so 5 pm Glasgow Botanic Gardens, […]
Launch Govanhill Book Festival 2019
Friday 9 August, 2019 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In association with Go South: Southside Book Festival The Rum Shack, 657 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB Two new exciting book festivals with a difference come together to celebrate their launch and their events in the Govanhill International Festival. Free. 6.00pm: Welcome to Govanhill Book Festival […]
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Govanhill: Portrait of a Community review Pat Byrne
The Deep End – Govanhill Baths Arts Space 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Part of Govanhill International Festival 2019 Jim and I had a great time at the Govanhill Carnival on Sunday at Queens Park so I though I would venture back across the Clyde to catch some more of the festival. I went […]
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Paul Murdoch, Alexandria Writers + Open Mic
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 – 7 p.m. The Balloch House Hotel, Balloch Road, Balloch G83 8LQ (five minutes from train station) The headliner for August is Paul Murdoch who may finally be revealing what he wants to be when he grows up. Paul Murdoch, born the son of a slater in 1961, began performing on […]
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Saturday, August 3, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Pinolino Puppet Show and Story Telling
Saturday, 3 August, 2019 Waterstones, 153 – 157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW Pinolino is an extravagant puppet storyteller from the Pine Forest in Tuscany. The forest where it was born is dying because of pollution and climate change. Pinolino has a mission: keeping the pine forest alive and blooming in people’s imaginations through the […]
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Friday, August 2, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people
Free Pride CCA
3rd August, 2019 CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Free Pride: an independent and community-led LGBTQ Pride event, with three core values: radical, inclusive, and free. Free Pride Workshop: Zines with From Glasgow to Saturn Sat 3 August 2019 A crafty Zine Workshop with From Glasgow to Saturn! 5.15pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom All ages 0141 352 4900 Related […]
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Thursday, August 1, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow LGBT
Mary Irvine’s Blog: Bruce Biddolph Outstanding as ‘The Inquisitor’
Peter Arnott’s play ‘The Inquisitor’ was recently performed by Bruce Biddolph at the Alexandria Library . The audience sat in a semi-circle in front of a table. A man entered. His dress implied he was someone of importance. An official, maybe. Collar, tie, smart jacket and trousers, highly polished shoes. The table became an office […]
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, 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, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019
1 – 26 August, 2019 In an era of contradiction and division the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival invites authors and audiences to find new stories to give meaning to the world. Stories are to society what DNA is to human life – small strings of information which become bound together to make up a shared understanding of […]
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Stories from the Southside – Govanhill Book Festival
Saturday, 10 August, 2019 – 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Launch of Stories from the Southside, a new collection of short stories and poems focusing on the fascinating people and places that make South Glasgow. We’ll hear local writers reading from their work, and copies of […]
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Obsession: Double Bill Safe/To Die For GFT
Sunday 28 July, 2019 at 1.45 p.m. This double bill brings together two mid-90s arthouse classics that each centre on very different kinds of obsession, and connect with each other in fascinating ways. In Todd Haynes’ Safe, the main character Carol becomes obsessed with possible (and actual) infection from her surroundings, neighbours and family. Meanwhile in To […]
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Saturday, July 20, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Farzane Zamen in Concert
Tuesday 23rd July, 2019 Door time: 6:30pm Start time: 7:00pm A Night of Multicultural Music and Poetry Farzane Zamen, Sawsan Al-Areeqe, Jen Fairgrieve GLASGOW: The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, Glasgow G2 5AR Iranian singer-songwriter Farzane Zamen is joined by Yemeni poet and filmmaker Sawsan Al-Areeqe and local musician Jen Fairgrieve in a multi-cultural celebration of words and music. […]
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Thursday, July 11, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Scottish PEN Writers In Exile review by Pat Byrne
As part of the Refugee Festival Scotland, Scottish PEN’s Writers In Exile committee presented a literary event at The Project Cafe´, Glasgow on 24 June, 2019; they brought together exiled writers and writers who are far from home. Liz Niven chair of Scottish PEN’S Writers in Exile Committee was host the participants were: Samina Chaudry […]
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Start – Graham Morgan at Helensburgh Library
An Evening with local author… Graham Morgan will read from his memoir Start – hosted by Robin Lloyd Jones at the Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Wednesday 24th July, 7 p.m. Free entry/refreshments
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Book Launch: ‘The Sound of the Hours’ Karen Campbell
Tuesday 16 July, 2019 7 p.m. Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Launch of Karen Campbell’s new book The Sound of the Hours. Scottish writer Karen Campbell is the author of seven novels, most recently The Sound of the Hours, Rise and This is Where I Am, all published by Bloomsbury Circus. Come and learn about Vita […]
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Book Launch: Something Like Happy – Sasha Greene
25 July, 2019 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Women’s Library Sasha Greene celebrating the launch of her first novel by publishers One More Chapter. Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP T: 0141 550 2267 Buy Something Like Happy on Amazon @SashaGreeneAuth
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
From Glasgow To Saturn Pride Edition Launch
Thursday 1 August, 2019 – 7 p.m. Category is Books, 34 Allison Street, Glasgow G42 3NN From Glasgow to Saturn is a literary journal of poetry and prose from the University of Glasgow. In our debut ‘Pluto Edition’ zine we are proud to be featuring work from a sparkling selection of LGBTQ+ writers from the […]
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Friday, July 5, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Some Distant Day with Cheeky Besom Productions
Sunday 30 June 2019 Jim Ferguson and Vincent Hunter’s short film-essay on Scottish culture and history CCA 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 Cheeky Besom Productions: ‘Artists with Attitude’ are cordially inviting you to an evening of birlin gallus watergaws and hope you’ll join us in causing a stromash. ‘Come and sing a […]
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Longlist for McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019
THE 2019 MCILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST IS… A Breath on Dying Embers, Denzil Meyrick (Polygon) A Treachery of Spies, Manda Scott (Transworld) All That’s Dead, Stuart MacBride (Harper Collins) All the Hidden Truths, Claire Askew (Hodder) Breakers, Doug Johnstone (Orenda) Broken Ground, Val McDermid (Little, Brown) Conviction, Denise Mina (Vintage) Fallen Angel, Chris Brookmyre (Little, […]
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Friday, June 28, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Express Yourself – Poets at Tellit Slant
Friday 28 June, 2019 starts 7 p.m. Tellit Slant Project Cafe, Renfrew Street, 134 Glasgow G3 6ST Christie Williamson is acting as guest curator. He’s not a natural organiser but seems to know a lot of very good poets. Line up includes: Stewart Alexander Sanderson Catherine Eunson Jim Carruth Dorothy Lawrenson Jelle Cauwenberghs Dave Watson […]
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An Afternoon of Fiction, Poetry and Performance
Saturday 6 July, 2019. 1 – 5 p.m. An afternoon of fiction, poetry and performance in Finn’s Place. Fun, creating and ‘doing your own thing’ but performance is optional. With Linda Jackson. £15/£10 Finn’s Place, 167 Ledard Rd, Glasgow G42 9QU
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, Writing
The Creative Process with Jacqueline Smith
Tuesday 24 September, 2019 7 p.m. Glasgow Literary Lounge Cheeky Besom Productions, Calton Bar, 415 London Road, Glasgow G40 1AG Cheeky Besom Productions: ‘Artists With Attitude’ Presents the Glasgow Literary Lounge In Partnership With 100,000 Poets for Change. ‘The Only Constant is Change: Embracing the Creative Process’ with Jacqueline Smith The Glasgow Literary Lounge at […]
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Sunday, June 23, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
An Evening with local author – Pat McIntosh
Wednesday 26th June, 2019 – 7 p.m. Pat McIntosh is a Scottish writer of historical mystery fiction and fantasy. Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Free entry/refreshments Books by Pat McIntosh on Amazon
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Scottish PEN’s Writers in Exile
Monday ’24 June, 2019, 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. The Project Café, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6ST What does home look like when you are writing far away, unable to return? As part of the Refugee Festival Scotland, Scottish PEN’s Writers In Exile committee will bring together a range of exiled writers, or those […]
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Manaf Halbouni – Artist’s Talk Refugee Festival Scotland
24 June, 2019 – 7 p.m. Scottish Youth Theatre, Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF German-Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni’s sculpture Rubble Theatre is a highlight of Refugee Festival Scotland. It recreates a scene of destruction in Syria, featuring the rubble of a bombsite and an abandoned car. A conversation with Manaf Halbouni […]
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Friday, June 21, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Interfest and Book Launch Garnethill Glasgow
Saturday 22 June, 2019 12.00 – 15.00 by Central and West Integration Network Launch of a book created by Central and West Integration Network (CWIN) youth club, based on the life of Walter Tull and other characters. The book will be launched during the Interfest community event. Garnethill Multicultural Centre 21 Rose Street Glasgow G3 6RE Interfest Garnethill on […]
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Thursday, June 20, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Julia Donaldson – The Gruffalo and other stories at West End Festival
22 June, 2019 at 11 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. Families Programme – Headlining event Julia Donaldson and Catherine Rayner The Go-Away Bird, the Gruffalo and other stories Introducing the new collaboration with Catherine Rayner – The Go-Away Bird. Hunterian Museum, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Tickets from Eventbrite; £5 for children, £10 […]
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A Place For The Work and The Human Being
Thursday 20 June, 2019 6:00pm West End Festival Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL £5 / student £3 / unemployed free Throughout 2019 the Common Guild present an ambitious series of talks that generates discussion around the needs, expectations and possibilities of the space for art today.Jamie Fobert is a London-based architect and designer. Since establishing […]
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