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 […]
Friday, February 24, 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
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 […]
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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 & […]
Aye Write! David Hepworth – 1971 – Rock’s Golden Year, The Mitchell Library, 18th Mar 2017
David Hepworth – 1971 – Rock’s Golden Year 18th Mar 2017 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library 1971 saw the release of more monumental albums than any year before – Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye and Carole King. Legendary rock journalist David Hepworth will be here to tell […]
Aye Write – Mary Edward & Michael Keating – A Wealthier, Fairer & More Diverse Scotland? The Mitchell Library, 19th Mar 2017
Mary Edward & Michael Keating – A Wealthier, Fairer & More Diverse Scotland? 19th Mar 2017 • 4:45PM – 5:45PM • Mitchell Library How can Scotland use its new and existing powers to create a brighter economic and socially inclusive future? Mary Edward & Michael Keating – A Wealthier, Fairer & More Diverse Scotland? How […]
Aye Write – John Burnside – New Poetry and Prose, The Mitchell Library, 19th Mar 2017
John Burnside – New Poetry and Prose Aye Write 19th Mar 2017 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library For Aye Write this year we have two new books from John Burnside – A poetry collection Still Life with Feeding Snake, and a novel Ashland & Vine. John Burnside – New Poetry and Prose It’s […]
Book launch: Spearment & Rescue by Mark Russell, Tell it Slant, Tuesday 14 February, 2017
Mark Russell’s new book, Spearmint & Rescue has it’s launch at Tell It Slant in The Project Cafe from 7 -10pm. With readings from Mark and special guests Vicki Husband, Duncan Muir and Ciara MacLaverty, complemented with music from Johnny McBrier. Tell it Slant, Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew St, Glasgow G3 6ST
Jim Ferguson hosts Speakeasy and Open Mic, Scottish Writers Centre, What’s Love Got To Do With It, CCA Tuesday 14 February, 2017
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Speakeasy & Open Mic Hosted by Jim Ferguson Love and Betrayal Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Tuesday, 14 February, 2017 . Winter Speakeasy & Open Mic with poet, Jim Ferguson. ‘Love and Betrayal’ is an evening of true love tales told live! You can […]
Saturday, February 11, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Valentine's Day in Glasgow 2014, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Vinegar Valentines at The Mitchell, 14 February, 2017
Vinegar Valentines: The Spiteful Rhymes and Cruel Caricatures of Victoria: “Hate Mail” The Mitchell’s collection of 19th century mock Valentines printed by Bell and Bain of Glasgow. In the 1900s Valentine’s Cards weren’t always sent as tokens of love, affection and admiration – sometimes they were nasty and mocking. Come along to The Mitchell Library […]
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The Gruffalo (Board book) Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler 12 February, 2017 1 p.m. Waterstones Sauchiehall Street.
The Gruffalo (Board book) Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler 12 February, 2017 1 p.m. Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Come along and meet the Gruffalo! We have a very special visitor coming along on Sunday the 12th of February. Join us in store for some Guffalo arts and crafts and a reading of the terrific tale! You might […]
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | Filed under: 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
Deliciously Ella with Friends by Ella Mills Woodward, Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, Thursday 9 February, 2017
Deliciously Ella with Friends: Healthy Recipes to Love, Share and Enjoy Together (Hardback) Ella Mills Woodward Thursday 9 February 7 p.m. Waterstones Sauchiehall Street Join inspirational bestselling food writer Deliciously Ella for a special event to celebrate the release of her latest book, Deliciously Ella with Friends: Healthy Recipes to Love, Share and Enjoy Together. […]
