Launch of Autumn Voices 2018
PLAYSPACE PUBLICATIONS INVITE YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF THE BOOK ‘AUTUMN VOICES’ Autumn Voices: Scottish writers over 70 talk about creativity in later life. Edited by Robin Lloyd-Jones, (PlaySpace Publications, £12.99) EDINBURGH:Thursday 21 June, Blackwell’s Bookshop, 52-63 South Bridge, EH1 1YS,6.00-7.30 pm GLASGOW Thursday 28th June, Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Road, G12 8AU, 7.30-9.00 pm There […]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
‘Growing and Dying’ Tribute to Janet Paisley, Event at Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street
Thursday, 7th June, 2018, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW The event is free but please call Waterstones to book 0141 332 9105. With Tom Leonard, Alan Riach, Anne Donovan and Janice Galloway. Other readers include Pat Byrne, Ann McKinnon and students from Creative Writing Course at University of Strathclyde. Music by Linda Jaxson […]
Sunday, May 27, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Art of Words, Thistle Gallery, 7 June, 2018
Fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Thursday, June 7th, 2018 – 7 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Wine / Raffle/ Canapes – Tickets £15 Part of West End Festival Accomplished author Graeme Macrae Burnet (His Bloody Project) will be reading extracts from […]
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Writers’ Workshop Day at Fruin Farm, Nr. Helensburgh
Wednesday, 20th June 2018 The venue is the picturesque Fruin Farm at the Cross Keys roundabout on the A818, Helensburgh, G84 9EE (www.fruinfarm.co.uk) Programme 10.15 am Robin Lloyd-Jones Building a character 11.15 am Coffee 11.30 am Mary Edward Editing 12.45 pm Lunch […]
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Marian Keyes at Aye Write, the Mitchell Library
30th May, 2018 Join international best-seller Marian Keyes at The Mitchell Library She’s so funny – this is bound to be thoroughly entertaining and an absolute hoot. Marian Keyes: talking books, talking life, just talking……The Break, Strictly, scribing, Ailment of the Month, shoes, reading lists, fillums, inspirational celebs, make-up, Sudden Wild Enthusiasms and everything in […]
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Friday, May 25, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Word Jazzology, Partickhill Bowling and Community Club
WORD JAZZOLOGY! Saturday, 8 June, 2019 at 8pm – 11 pm Partickhill Bowling & Community Club Christine Bovill, Alan Bissett, Ian Macpherson, Magi Gibson, Le Jazz Band with Helen Jayne violin and Graham Pointer. Cabaret collision of French-style jazz, comedy, poetry and literature with bar. Stand up Ian Macpherson, winner of the first Time Out […]
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Autumn Voices Project – Poetry Competition 2018
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Free opportunities to writers in later life that are available through the Autumn Voices Project which aims to promote and discuss creativity in later life.A poetry competition for writers over 70. 1st prize £250. Entry free.Judged by poet, A.C. Clarke.> Prizes 1st prize £250, 2nd prize £100, 3rd prize £50 Closing date: […]
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Autumn Voices Showcase 2018
Autumn Voices Showcase: Aims to promote and discuss creativity in later life. They are offering a free showcase for work published by writers over the age of 60 years. WELCOME to the Autumn Voices Showcase. The Autumn Voices Showcase aims to promote and discuss creativity in later life. This showcase will help to do this […]
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Creative Writing Fair, University of Glasgow
Wednesday 23 May, 2018 QMU– University of Glasgow Browse and buy pamphlets, zines and publications from 3pm! Readings and performances – from 5pm. A great way to celebrate the return of marks / end of examination period! An exhibition, fair and performance evening to celebrate the publications and projects of MLitt, MFA, DFA and Undergraduate […]
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Monday, May 14, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: Wee Write Beano Cartoon Capers, Mitchell Library
20 May, 2018 at 10.30 – 11.30 Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Find out all about the Beano and draw your fave characters to take home! Celebrate the 80th birthday of Britain’s longest running children’s comic, in this fun-filled illustrated talk and comic workshop – Beano style! Jim Glen, comic artist and writer, […]
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Thursday, May 10, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write: Wee Write One Button Benny with Alan Windram
20th May 2018 10:30AM – 11:30AM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN 3 – 6 years old Benny is a Robot. Benny has a big red button in the middle of his tummy with the words ‘only press in an emergency’ on it. Benny is different, Benny is special, Benny is a Robot. […]
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Ann-Marie MacDonald in conversation with Louise Welsh, University of Glasgow
University Chapel Wednesday 9 May, 2018 – 4 p.m.Free & Open to the Public Ann-Marie MacDonald is an author, playwright, and actor. (Photo by Guntar Kravis) She is best known for her novels, Adult Onset, Fall On Your Knees, and The Way the Crow Flies, as well as her plays, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and Belle Moral: A Natural History. Her […]
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Great May Day Cabaret, Night for Chris Bartter, OranMor
Monday 7th May, 2018 show starts 7.30pm Featuring another fantastic line-up, the seventh annual Great May Cabaret includes a tribute to founder member Chris Bartter, whose untimely death last October robbed the trade union movement of one of its great campaigners and supporter of the arts. Celebrating international workers’ day will be: Scottish rapper, […]
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Wee Write Literary and Book Festival for schools and children 2018
Family Days and Wee Write! Schools Programme All set to go ahead with rescheduled dates after cancellation due to heavy snowfall courtesy of the so-called ‘Beast from the East’. Here are the rescheduled dates: Family Days 19th and 20th May, 2018 Everything from T-Rex to Robots and you can try and solve the biggest mysteries in the […]
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Radical Film Network 6818 Launch, Glasgow
May Day – Tuesday 1 May, 2018 at 7 p.m. citizenM, 60 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3BW Radical Film Network Scotland commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, a tumultuous year in politics and cinema. Anti-Vietnam protests rocked the world and students rioted with workers in Paris, as tanks rolled into Prague to quell its spring. […]
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Camilla Grudova, QMU, University of Glasgow
Tuesday 24 April 2018 – 6 p.m. QMU, University Gardens, G12 Free admission – all welcome. If you like your short stories ‘grotesque and very dark please come along and hear Camilla Grudova. Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University. Her fiction has appeared in […]
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Thursday, April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write: Archie Macpherson, Adventures in the Golden Age
The Mitchell Library 26th April 2018 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM Archie was the voice of Scottish football, he knew the players, the managers and many of the fans through this halcyon time and his book is a timely reminder of a golden era in Scottish football. Qualification for the World Cup has never been easy, […]
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Cross-feed Night School with Dr David Luke
Thursday 26 April, 2018, 6.30 p.m. The Reidvale Centre, 13 Whitevale Street, Glasgow G31 1 QW In conjunction with the exhibition Cross-feed, Market Gallery presents a special edition of Night School with Dr David Luke at Reidvale Hall. Dr David Luke will present his scientific research into psychoactive substances and transpersonal experiences. Dr David Luke […]
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‘Growing and Dying’ a tribute to the writer Janet Paisley edited by Linda Jackson
The book is a tribute to the award winning writer Janet Paisley. It is a combination of essays, poems and biography. The writers include, Professor Alan Riach, Tom Leonard, James Robertson, Alan Bissett and Sheila Templeton to name a few. ‘I think of Janet as the sister I never had and when she told me […]
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 | 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
Dr Yupin Chung: Tea Under A Willow Tree, Glasgow Art Club
(Image credit: Courtesy of Thomas Jacobi) Thursday, 27 September, 2018 – 6 p.m. Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street, G2 4HU Abstract: Chinese symbols are embodied in daily life. Tea signifies harmony, respect, purity, tranquillity, rejuvenation, refreshment and contentment. There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into the world of the […]
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Stuart Murdoch, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Monday 16th April, 2018 1 p.m. Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Musician, songwriter and filmmaker Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian in conversation about his work with Colin Herd from the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing Programme. Creative Conversaions […]
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Friday, April 13, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
A Fiction Reading. with Sheila Llewellyn and Andrew Meehan, Crossways Festival review by Pat Byrne
Crossways Festival Irish/Scottish, Literary and Cultural Festival, Glasgow, 2018 A Fiction Reading. with Sheila Llewellyn and Andrew Meehan. 11th April 2018 at The Tron Theatre I always enjoy discovering new authors so Crossways Festival provided an excellent opportunity in the intimate and atmospheric Victorian Bar at The Tron Theatre. Sheila Llewellyn ‘Walking Wounded’ First up […]
Glasgow Zine Fest SQIFF Presents: Live in DIY Queer Filmmaking Conversation! CCA
Saturday 14 April 2018 SQIFFs Helen Wright presents a screening-performance looking at the work of DIY queer filmmakers Krissy Mahan and Nakshatra Bagwe whilst joined by the filmmakers via the interwebs for a live conversation. Krissy Mahan and her alter ego Faggotgirl – based in New York – have been making movies using humour as a feminist […]
Thursday, April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mandarin Translations – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon at Fudan University in Shanghai, announced the new Mandarin translation of The Prime of Jean Brodie. The First Minister has written the foreword to the book which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Muriel Spark. The event at the University celebrates both the 100th anniversary of Muriel Spark’s […]
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Fail Better at McCHuills, April 12th, 2018
April Shower o’ Bastirts Anyone else got some pent up anger about the world we’re in? I haven’t updated my subscription to the reality for a while, so it’s been all polystyrene snow & toxic farts fae Putin’s arse. Get down to McChuills this April & rant yer self sane. Mhuill’s,40 High Street, G1 1NL […]
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
David Mach ‘Against the Tide’ Cass Art, Glasgow
The Art Space, Cass Art, 63 – 67 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3EN Installation: 3rd – 15th April, 2018 Exhibition continues: 16th – 27th May, 2018 David Mach, In Conversation with Rab Noakes, 11 April, 2018 Artist David Mach will be coming to Glasgow in spring 2018 to make a colossal installation ‘Against the Tide’ within The Art […]
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Tom Russell, Tales From Inside The World of Rock, Bishopton Library
Wednesday 11 April, 2018 7 p.m. Bishopton Community Library, 11 Greenock Rd, Bishopton PA7 5JW
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Glasgow Museums and Libraries, Civilisations Festival 2018
The Mitchell Library – Stephen Mitchell’s Legacy With Alison Young, Librarian, Glasgow Libraries Monday 9, Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 April, 12.30-12.45pm Hear the story of the man who founded The Mitchell Library and how his legacy has benefitted Glasgow’s citizens and visitors for over 140 years. The Portrait of Jean Duff 12 April, 20186-7pm, […]
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Sunday, April 8, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Writers’ Centre Short Films for Creatives, with Lesley Traynor, CCA
Tuesday 10 April 2018 7pm, £6 (£3) on the door, Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 After the success of their first event last year, Lesley Traynor of Fierce Poetry in Motion will host an evening where making a short film of your creative work will be discussed, the production process explained and how it can […]
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Crossways Irish/Scottish Festival Fiction Reading & Poetry at The Tron
11th – 14th April, 2018 Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB A Fiction Reading Sheila Llewellyn and Andrew Meehan Wednesday, 11 April, 2018 3.00pm – 4.30pm Free Book Tickets The Irish-in-Scotland Reading Donal McLaughlin, Donny O’Rourke and Miriam Gamble Wednesday, 11 April, 2018 8.30pm – 10.00pm Free – Book Tickets A Fiction Reading Rodge Glass […]
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