International Women’s Day “Gender Equality- It’s Everyone’s Business”, Jane Gotts, Dumbarton Library, 8 March, 2017
International Women’s Day “Gender Equality- It’s Everyone’s Business” Why the journey towards gender equality matters for everyone. West Dunbartonshire Libraries and Cultural Services will be celebrating International Women’s Day with a special talk by Jane Gotts at 7pm on Wednesday, 8 March at Dumbarton Library. The talk will explore why gender equality in the […]
Fail Better Be Excellent To Each Other, McChuills, 9 March, 2017
McChuills, 40 High Street, G1 1NL Thursday, 9 March, 2017 – 8 p.m. New songs old faces from: EARTHWIRES [delighted peoples] HEIR OF THE CURSED: shatters the soul with music Two songs fae the persuadable: JAMES PEARSE SARA SHARAWI: cuts some new rug and champions The Workers Theatre JIM FERGUSON with new hits after his […]
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Plain Speaking: Real People and Realistic Dialogue with Andi Denny, Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, Tuesday 28 March, 2017
An event for theatre makers from any discipline. Please join us for this talk by playwright, performer, and producer, Andi Denny, founder of the new company The Other Guys Theatre Scotland. Denny has sought to find new ways to write realism. Reflecting, pondering, and sharing, Denny discusses his approach to writing for stage, and how […]
Monday, February 27, 2017 | 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! Vince Cable – After the Storm,Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 12th Mar 2017
12th Mar 2017 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Vince Cable’s After the Storm is a fascinating and urgent intervention from one of the key figures in British politics of the past two decades. Vince Cable’s bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and […]
A Night of Horror – creepy, scary podcasts by Kathleen Kidd
I’ve been enjoying A Night of Horror’s short drama podcasts, made in Scotland by Kathleen Kidd. The podcasts are designed to keep you up at night – you’ll find a selection of spooky stories to listen to on A Night of Horror website. The podcasts are also available to download.. They last between 3 and 15 […]
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Sunday, February 26, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Writing
Louise Wylie & Jan Patience – The Making of George Wyllie, CCA, 12th March 2017
12th Mar 2017 • 1:15PM – 2:15PM • CCA The Making of George Wyllie has been co-written by his elder daughter, Louise Wyllie, and arts journalist Jan Patience. A fascinating insight into the great, quixotic life of George Wylie’ Alan Cumming The Making of George Wyllie has been co-written by his elder daughter, Louise Wyllie, […]
Aye Write! Andrew Martin – Night Trains, Mitchell Library, 12th March 2017
Andrew Martin – Night Trains 12th Mar 2017 • 1:15PM – 2:15PM • Mitchell Library In his book Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. Andrew Martin – Night Trains Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their […]
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Aye Write! Alan Bissett Introduces Luke Kennard & Katie Khan Mitchell Library 12 March, 2017
Alan Bissett Introduces… Luke Kennard & Katie Khan 12th Mar 2017 • 1:15PM – 2:15PM • Mitchell Library G3 7ND Novelist and playwright Alan Bissett will be talking to Luke and Katie about their terrifically imaginative debut novels. Novelist and playwright Alan Bissett will be talking to Luke and Katie about their terrifically imaginative debut […]
Creative Conversations, William Letford, Monday, 27 February, 2017 University of Glasgow
Creative Conversations: Poet William Letford Creative Conversations Monday 27 February 2017 13:00 – 14:00 University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ William Letford has an M.Litt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. He was the recipient of a New Writer’s Award from the Scottish Book Trust […]
Ten Writers Telling Lies – launch of Book and CD at Cottiers Theatre, Thursday 27 April, 2017
Ten Writers Telling Lies Book & CD launch Performance Date: Thursday, 27 Apr 2017 – 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Ten Writers Telling Lies is a unique collaboration between a group of storytellers and poets, and the singer-songwriter Jim Byrne. The writers got together with Jim to create a collection of songs, poems and stories […]
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | 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! Glasgow: A Reading City, The Mitchell Library, 17 March, 2017.
17th Mar 2017 • 4:00PM – 5:30PM • Mitchell Library Join doctoral students from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Stirling and Glasgow Caledonian to hear about their latest research, and take part in the discussion on Glasgow’s love for books Glasgow: A Reading City Join doctoral students from the University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, […]
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Dianne Watters – St Peter’s, Cardross, Mitchell Library, 9th Mar 2017
Diane Watters will present an illustrated talk which looks at the story of an architectural failure which morphed into a tragic modernist myth. For the past three decades, the ruin of St Peter’s College has sat, crumbling, graffiti snaking across its walls and nature reclaiming its concrete. It has gained a mythical, cult-like status among […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre New Voices in Literature, CCA, Tue 14 March 2017
Tue 14 March 2017 CCA 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 What does it take to be a writer? It takes talent! It takes passion! It takes University of Glasgow Masters Students! In partnership with Glasgow University Writing Masters Programme, the Scottish Writers Centre will be showcasing students work. Hosted by SWC, Director […]
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Transatlantic Literary Women Series & Scottish Writers’ Centre, CCA 28 February 2017
Transatlantic Literary Women Series with Host Carolyn Jess-Cook Transatlantic Literary Women Series & Scottish Writers’ Centre 28 February 2017: Club Room at 7:00pm CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, G2 3JD In the lead up to International Women’s Day, and in light of the recent US elections and the effects of […]
Uncovered Artistry: Let’s Talk, A Night of Readings at Project Cafe, 23 March, 2017
Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST Colin Herd, David Linklater, AK Thaysen and Kirsty Dunlop, as well as our guest poet, John Birtwhistle. Fundraiser in aid of survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. In the second of a series of fundraiser events hosted by Uncovered Artistry in celebration of creativity, we move to the […]
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Christopher de Bellaigue – The Islamic Enlightenment, Mitchell Library, 18 March, 2017
18th Mar 2017 • 3:00PM – 4:00PM • Mitchell Library Christopher de Bellaigue’s book shows us how to look beyond sensationalist headlines to foster a genuine understanding of modern Islam and Muslim culture. Christopher de Bellaigue – The Islamic Enlightenment The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt. […]
Kapka Kassabova & Garrett Carr – Hard Borders, Mitchell Library 18th Mar 2017
18th Mar 2017 • 1:15PM – 2:15PM • Mitchell Library Kapka Kassabova and Garrett Carr will be discussing their very topical books about the eastern and western borders of the EU. Kapka Kassabova & Garrett Carr – Hard Borders When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured […]
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Travis Elborough & Malachy Tallack – Improbable Places and Undiscovered Islands, Aye Write! Mitchell Library, 18 March, 2017
18th Mar 2017 • 11:30AM – 12:30PM • Mitchell Library Two young travel writers will be discussing their unusual books of improbable places and undiscovered islands. Travis Elborough & Malachy Tallack – Improbable Places and Undiscovered Islands In his Atlas of Improbable Places, Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful […]
Louise Welsh, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow Chapel, Monday, 20 February, 2017
Monday 20 February 2017 13:00 – 14:00 Public lectures Louise Welsh Events – Creative Conversations University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Louise Welsh is the author of seven novels, most recently Death is a Welcome Guest (John Murray 2015). She is the editor of Yonder Awa, a […]
Sunday, February 19, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book launch: No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey, The Lighthouse Monday 20 February, 2017
Book launch: No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey, The Lighthouse Monday 20 February, 2017 7 p.m. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age The Lighthouse Jane McAlevey is an organizer, author and scholar. Her first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” […]
Saturday, February 18, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: Nasty Women, Waterstones Argyle St, Monday 6 March, 2017
Nasty Women, Waterstones Argyle St – 6 March, 2017 – 7 p.m. – Free entry Nasty Women in Glasgow to launch Nasty Women in style! Laura Lam, Claire Heuchan, Mel Reeve and Jen McGregor will be chatting and reading from Nasty Women alongside the team behind 404. Don’t miss this fantastic chance to look at […]
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Aye Write! Helen Sedgewick and Kevin MacNeil – 404 INK A New Publisher for Scotland, The Mitchell Library, 9 March, 2017
Helen Sedgewick and Kevin MacNeil – 404 INK A New Publisher for Scotland 9th Mar 2017 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • Mitchell Library Publishers 404 Ink present a night of eclectic readings and entertainment from a selection of authors including Helen Sedgwick and Kevin MacNeil Helen Sedgewick and Kevin MacNeil – 404 INK A New […]
Aye Write! Laurence Rees – The Holocaust: A New History, The Mitchell Library, 16th Mar 2017
Laurence Rees – The Holocaust: A New History In conversation with J. David Simons 16th Mar 2017 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • Mitchell Library Laurence Rees’s The Holocaust: A New History attempts to answer two of the most fundamental questions in history – how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees’s The Holocaust: A […]
Words Work Well For All, Creative Writing Workshop, Glasgow Women’s Library, Saturday 18 March, 2017
DIP INTO A DAY OF CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS, ROUNDED OFF WITH A READING FROM WILD WOMAN POET MAGI GIBSON, FOLLOWED BY A LIVELY OPEN MIC SESSION. NEVER WRITTEN BEFORE? COME ALONG. ALREADY WRITING? THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED! Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow G40 1BP Workshop Programme Out Of The Box: Writing in […]
Friday, February 17, 2017 | 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
Vaseem Khan & Abir Mukherjee – The Jewel in the Crime , Mitchell Library, 10th Mar 2017
Vaseem Khan & Abir Mukherjee – The Jewel in the Crime 10th Mar 2017 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM • Mitchell Library This session brings together two young crime writers, Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee who have chosen India as the setting for their novels. Vaseem Khan & Abir Mukherjee – The Jewel in the Crime […]
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2017, Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival 2017, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write! Gulwali Passarlay – My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee, CCA, 9th Mar 2017
Gulwali Passarlay – My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee 9th Mar 2017 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • CCA In his extraordinary memoir The Lightless Sky Afghan refugee Gulwali Passarlay tells his story. Gulwali Passarlay – My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age […]
Aye Write! CL Taylor & Sarah Pinborough – Gripping Psychological Thrillers, Mitchell Library, 19th Mar 2017
CL Taylor & Sarah Pinborough – Gripping Psychological Thrillers 19th Mar 2017 • 3:00PM – 4:00PM • Mitchell Library CL Taylor and Sarah Pinborough will be reading from and discussing their gripping psychological thrillers. In CL Taylor’s The Missing, when fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames […]
Chris Fleet & Margaret Wilkes – Scotland: Mapping the Islands, Mitchell Library, 19th Mar 2017
Chris Fleet & Margaret Wilkes – Scotland: Mapping the Islands 19th Mar 2017 • 3:00PM – 4:00PM • Mitchell Library This stimulating and informative book reproduces some of the most beautiful and historically significant maps from the National Library of Scotland’s magnificent collection. Chris Fleet & Margaret Wilkes – Scotland: Mapping the Islands This stimulating […]
Aye Write! Craig Robertson & Stav Sherez – Online Crime, Mitchell Library, 18th Mar 2017
Craig Robertson & Stav Sherez – Online Crime 18th Mar 2017 • 8:15PM – 9:15PM • Mitchell Library The internet is constantly providing new opportunities for crime, and the parameters of what is possible are explored in these two topical crime novels. Craig Robertson & Stav Sherez – Online Crime The internet is constantly providing […]
Aye Write! Mike Heron & Andrew Greig – Tuning Into the 1960s, The Mitchell Library, 18th Mar 2017
Mike Heron & Andrew Greig – Tuning Into the 1960s 18th Mar 2017 • 8:15PM – 9:15PM • Mitchell Library This singular book offers two harmonising memoirs – Mike Heron writes vividly of his time in The Incredible String Band and Andrew Greig of being a schoolboy when he heard their songs. Mike Heron & […]
