Aye Write! presents Jane Harper
15th July 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM Mitchell Theatre, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Jane Harper worked as a journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and is the author of The Dry, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. The Dry has been translated […]
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
West End Shop Fronts, Virtual Tour Kelvin Hall
(photo by Jim Byrne) Monday 17 June, 2019 6:30pm Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW Part of West End Festival Free entry Iain Wotherspoon, Chairman of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, (Strathclyde Group) takes you on a virtual walk along the pavements of the West End to have a look at shops past and present. Some […]
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Monday, June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, West End Festival Glasgow
Glasgow Botanic Gardens: 200 Years at West End Festival 2019
Thursday 13 June, 2019 6:30pm Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, G12 8AP Free entry Ewen Donaldson, General Manager, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, will present the prestigious 200-year history of the Botanic Gardens, from its inception in Sandyford to the current location in Kelvinside. Includes recent milestones such as refurbishment of the “Main Range” glasshouses, restoration of […]
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Thursday, June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, West End Festival Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dear Dinosaur: T Rex on Tour
Saturday 8th June, 2019 11am Dear Dinosaur: T Rex on Tour with author Chae Strathie Kelvin Hall (Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre) 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW More ROARSOME fun for fans of Dear Dinosaur! When Max drops by the local museum to visit his dinosaur friends, they’re all gone! It seems that T. Rex, his dinosaur […]
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Friday, June 7, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, West End Festival Glasgow
Get Your Scots Wirds Oot and Caa Awa!
11 June, 2019 Glasgow Science Festival University of Glasgow, Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser Seminar Room, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ 11th June 13:00-13:50; 14:00-14:50 16+ Free Book tickets Bring your favourite Scots word to this interactive workshop on multilingual strands in Scots and learn how to uncover their histories using free online resources, with expert […]
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Glasgow Science Festival
Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art, Park Road, Glasgow
Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Now in its third year, Thistle Gallery continues to offer its ever growing client base wonderful and affordable art from an eclectic range of Scottish Contemporary Artists. Carol Dunbar – Gallery Owner feature on glasgowwestend.co.uk Summer Time Summer […]
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Dan Richards Booked! Festival 2019 review Mary Irvine
Dan Richards ‘Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the World’ Balloch Library Sunday 19th May 2019 This was my favourite event of this year’s festival. The great intrepid British explorer, risking life and limb to go where no man has gone before (or rarely, in this case) is not of a bygone age. […]
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Mary Irvine review: Polly Clarke – the tiger lady! Booked! Festival
Booked! Festival Alexandria Library Friday, 17th May, 2019 Polly Clarke – the tiger lady! Polly Clarke, born in Toronto, now domiciled in Helensburgh and London (where she does her writing on a houseboat) sashayed down the aisle in a stunning, single-tiger print dress which she later confided had been discovered on the Internet – a […]
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Saturday, May 25, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Taking Tea with a Trailblazer, NLS Kelvin Hall
Wednesday 29th May, 2019 2pm – 3.30pm Storyteller Jan Bee Brown leads a celebration of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Scottish explorer and botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982). Spending her childhood on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Isobel went on to take on solo travels across Iceland, Greenland, and Alaska. In this session, discover the stories of […]
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Friday, May 24, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Samina Chaudry at Avant Garde
Monday 10 June, 2019 Linda Jackson hosts a special evening of music and readings featuring Samina Chaudry, winner of Next Chapter Award 2019, Scottish Book Trust. Also: Maggie Graham, Jim Ferguson and Sean McMenemy and Gordon Dickson on Saxaphone. Avant Garde,34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Starts 7.45 p.m. Food will be served 6.00 p.m. […]
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Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn Tour, The Mitchell review Pat Byrne
Lowborn – Poverty in Britain Today It really is absolutely hellish: ‘We live in the world’s sixth-richest economy but one-fifth of us live in poverty’. Kerry Hudson. Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn Tour isn’t your usual book launch – her book ‘Lowborn – Poverty in Britain Today’, alongside tour events, aims to inform people about just what […]
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Seeds of Thought – Creative Writing
Tuesday, 21 May, 2019, 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Creative writing – a chance to explore the power or fun of words. All welcome beginners and veterans. Free! Look forward to seeing you there! Event on Facebook
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Monday, May 20, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops
Richard Holloway ‘Waiting for the Last Bus’ review Mary Irvine
Tuesday 14th May 2019 Booked! Festival of Words, West Dunbartonshire For several years now the ‘Booked! Booked! West Dunbartonshire Festival of Words has commenced its series of events with the Alistair Pearson Lecture at the Millennium Hall, Gartocharn. This year a tribute to this extraordinary man was given by James Macrea who gave a brief […]
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Look Who’s Talking Now with Des Dillon
Tuesday 21 May, 2019 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre So you’re a novelist wanting to try poetry or drama. Or a dramatist thinking about short stories. You want to try something else. Or writing for the first time. Des Dillon discusses how he moves from one medium to another and one […]
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Sunday, May 19, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Helen Fitzgerald and Doug Johnstone at Waterstones Sauchiehall St
Thursday, 27 June, 2019 at 7 p.m. Helen Fitzgerald and Doug Johnstone in conversation discussing their new novels ‘Worst Case Scenario’ and ‘Breakers’. This event is free but places are limited so please register via the ticket link on Facebook Page asap. Doors will open at 6:30 PM for a 7 PM start. Helen FitzGerald […]
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Book Launch: ‘this exquisite corpse’ Tawnya Renelle
Tuesday, 28 May, 2019 6pm – 8 pm This exquisite corpse book launch and poetic sexploration Katie’s Bar, 17 John Street, Glasgow G1 1HP Tawnya Renelle launches her new book “this exquisite corpse” in Glasgow. She will be reading from her book and asking you to participate in an interactive second half of the evening […]
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Dialogue: Niven Govinden and Season Butler
Thursday May 23, 209 11 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. John Smith Book Shop, University of Glasgow, The Fraser Building, 65 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QF Exciting event with Niven Govinden and Season Butler launching new books by Dialogue Books (a publisher of books for, about, by #BAME #LGBTQI+ #disability & #workingclass communities.) Praise for Niven […]
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Saturday, May 18, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, LGBT Glasgow
Robin Lloyd-Jones ‘A life in books’ Helensburgh Library
Wednesday 29th May, 2019 7 p.m. An Evening with local author… Robin Lloyd-Jones A life in Books’ at the Helensburgh Library Free entry/refreshments Since June 2018 a group of friends have gathered once a week in the Helensburgh Library to encourage and support each other in their writing. It is not a club so has no membership […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Aye Write presents Paul Mason
16th May 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The author and broadcaster introduces Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism. How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of […]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Henry Bell, Booked Festival 2019
Wednesday, 15 May, 2019 7 p.m. Henry Bell at Dalmuir Library 10 Lennox Pl, Clydebank G81 4LX Henry Bell “John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside “ Historical topics are a perennial favourite of Booked! and this year they feature Henry Bell exploring the life of the Red Clydeside legend, John Maclean. He will look at the […]
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley Collaborative Writing Workshops
The Collaboration Process and Inspiration Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley have been working and writing together since meeting as PhD students at the University of Glasgow. Their essays and short fiction have been published in a variety of places including Gutter Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. Together they co-edited the collection Writing Creative […]
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Polly Clark, Booked Festival 2019
Alexandria Library – Friday 17 May 2019 Polly Clark presents her latest novel “Tiger”. Polly visited Siberia so that she would have a direct experience of the extraordinary environment that this apex predator reigns over. Alexandria Library Gilmour Street, Alexandria, G83 0DA Last few tickets remaining Book Festival Events Eventbrite www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/booked2019
Dialogue Road Show
23 May, 2019 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Discover Dialogue with the SWC and Dialogue Books · Hosted by Scottish Writers’ Centre Spearheaded by publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Dialogue Books is home to a variety of stories from illuminating voices often excluded from the mainstream. The imprint has built its foundations on the idea that through storytelling […]
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Anne Donovan Scottish Writers Centre
Image credit: Alan Dimmick. Tuesday, 4 June, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Anne Donovan will read from her work and talk about the importance of voice in her fiction, and the process of writing in different Scots voices. Anne Donovan is the author of the short […]
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Kathleen Winter, Creative Conversations
(Larry D. Moore [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Monday 13 May, 2019 1 – 2 p.m. An extra-curricular #CreativeConversations event for May! @colinjherd will be in conversation with award-winning novelist, short story-writer and non-fiction writer, Kathleen Winter (@supremetronic) on Mon 13th May, 1-2 Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill […]
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Saturday, May 11, 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
Thoughts and Reflections in Poetry and Song with David Nicoll
Tuesday 28 May, 2019 Glasgow Literary Lounge, Calton Bar May’s monthly featured showcase at the Glasgow Literary Lounge with poet and musician, David Nicoll who recently returned to Scotland after living in South Africa for more than thirty-six years. Nicoll will be launching his new publication, Thoughts & Reflections Volume 3, (Amazon KDP, 2019). In […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Crossways Irish Scottish Cultural and Literary Festival Roseanne Watt & Kate Newmann
Literary Lunchtime Wednesday 8 June, 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. BAAD Backyard, Calton Entry, 54 Calton Entry, Glasgow G40 2SB Roseanne Watt is a poet, filmmaker and musician from Shetland. She is poetry editor for the online literary magazine The Island Review. She was the winner of the 2015 Outspoken Poetry Prize (Poetry in Film) and runner-up […]
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Free Comic Book Day, City Centre Comics
Saturday, 4 May, 2019 City Centre Comics, 37 Ruthven Lane, G12 9BG Free Comic Book Day 2019 A large selection of the free comics on offer this year! Free comic grab bag! 20% off all sets 20% off all t-shirts! Selected Marvel/DC action figures reduced! A free copy of DC Year Of The Villain #1 […]
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Friday, May 3, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people, Shopping
Booked Festival Wendy Erskine
Saturday, 18 May, 2019 – 4 – 5.30 p.m. West Dunbartonshire Festival of Words Dumbarton Library, Strathleven Place, Dumbarton G82 1BD Sweet Home is the debut short story collection of Wendy Erskine which has aroused great interest and critical acclaim. A reclusive cult-rock icon ends his days in the street where he was born; a […]
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Hungry Cities, Redesigning Our Relationship to Food
13 June, 2019 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. CCA A panel discussion examining the role of design in changing our relationship to food, in which we talk to those who have radically redesigned elements of the Scottish food system. In this panel discussion, we examine what role design can play in changing our relationship to […]
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