Chris Dolan’s ‘Lies of the Land’ Book Launch, 1 June, 2016, Glasgow Caledonian University
A book launch with a difference…. Lies Of the Land, the second Maddy Shannon mystery by Chris Dolan Glasgow Caledonian University, 6.30 Wednesday June 1st, 2016. Should be fun, and it would be great if you could come along. Celebrate the first day of summer with a mini, all singin’ all dancin’ (well, mibbe not […]
Friday, May 20, 2016 | 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 Writer’s Centre, Speakeasy, CCA, Tuesday 24 May, 2016
Tuesday 24 May 2016: CCA Club Room at 7:00 pm Spring Speakeasy & Open Mic Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD Dust of your gladrags and put on your best prose for a night of song and storytelling. Prohibition-style!!! Join us as we toast the written word with readings in English, […]
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ian Macpherson, The Everlasting Book Tour, The Hidden Lane Gallery, Friday 20 May, 2016.
Ian Macpherson gave up an award-winning career in standup to become a full-time writer. This is the story of his journey from performer to author. Let it be a lesson to you. First performed Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival 2015 ‘Droll, deadpan and devastatingly funny. We are instantly drawn into the sheer absurdity of his crazy, […]
Monday, May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
John Douglas Millar: Brutalist Readings Book Launch CCA Monday 16 May, 2016
6pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom CCA 12+ 0141 352 490 Aye-Aye Books invites you to the launch of Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature, published by Sternberg Press. John Douglas Millar’s Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature is a significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. Featuring […]
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Seeds of Thought, Poetry Night, CCA Friday 13 May, 2016
Fri 13 May 2016 CCA 7.30pm, Free and unticketed, Clubroom Ages 18+ Seeds of Thought poetry night is a fun relaxed evening of spoken word and music. An open mic session invites those who want to join in the fun, or just sit back and take in the performances. No two events are the same […]
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Mary Irvine’s Blog: Booked Festival 2016
West Dunbartonshire Booked! Festival 2016 Sold out! So stated the website from which one purchased tickets for the above annual and most successful event of an eclectic (love these Greek words – wonder why!) mix of authors and their works. Having lost out on the earlier visit of Irvine Welsh to Dumbarton library I ensured […]
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Southside Fringe Festival: The Muse at Finn’s Place, Friday 27 May, 2016
Literary Night hosted by Linda Jackson with the writer Janet Paisley Music from Linda Jaxson and Graham Mackintosh Finn’s Place, Langside Church, 167 Ledard Rd, Glasgow G42 9QU Janet Paisley set up the original Sammy Dow’s Writers night and worked as Writer in Residence in Southside libraries. A huge inspiration […]
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Booked! Festival of Words, Evening of poetry, storytelling and song, Clydebank Town Hall Monday 16 May, 2016.
Booked! at Clydebank Town Hall An evening of entertainment with poetry, storytelling and song. Monday , 16 May, 2016 – 7.30 p.m. £5 – Or full table for eight £30 Buy tickets online Join Rally & Broad, aka poets Jenny Lindsay and Rachel McCrum , for an evening of poetry, storytelling, music, dancing, spraffing, raffling, […]
Booked – West Dunbartonshire Book Festival, 2016
The Festival runs until 20 May, 2016 with events at various libraries and Clydebank Town Hall An award-winning TV comic, a former prisoner, a veteran sports journalist and a popular cabaret club are among the acts coming to West Dunbartonshire for this year’s Booked! Festival of Words. Watch out for books, spoken word and music. […]
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New Material Slam, 21 May, 2016, Carlton Studios
New Material Slam 21 May, 2016 Carlton Studios, Carlton PLace, POETRY SLAM – Open to everyone. But poets must only use pieces which have not been aired at a slam before. So this is the chance to win a slam when you’re not up against all those practised perfectionists who have been peddling the same […]
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Sunday, May 8, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scots’ Rock – Poems by Carolyn Patricia Richardson
Scots’Rock is unleashed on the world! Enjoy. Poetry about Music and more. Tuesday 10 May, 2016 Favourites are all there..Deacon Blue, Jim Byrne ,The Proclaimers, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Jim Kerr, Paulo Nutini, Linda Jaxson, Sharleen Spitieri and the Average White Band. Also some Gaelic and a personal reminiscence about Hogmanay. Newly written poems are […]
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Red Squirrel Press Publication Launch, CCA, Tuesday 10 May, 2016
EVENT POSTPONED Red Squirrel Press Publication Launch Tue 10 May 2016 CCA 7pm, Free & unticketed, Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 Scottish Writers’ Centre and Red Squirrel Press celebrate the launch of four new publications: William Bonar’s poetry pamphlet, ‘Offering’; Graham Fulton’s latest full-length poetry collection, ‘Brian Wilson in Swansea Bus Station’; Carolyn Patricia […]
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Our Boys: rehearsed reading, Old Hairdressers, 25 May, 2016
25 May, 2016 – 7 -p.m. Free Rehearsed reading of a one hour play with short discussion after. All female production. “Absolutely brilliant. Really tense, morally complex, so many shades of grey… I actually had goosebumps at points.” Alan Bissett. Written by Magi Gibson, directed by Sacha Kyle, with Anita Vetesse, Michele Gallagher and Nalini […]
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This Changes Everything – CCA 7 May, 2016
This Changes Everything: An Avi Lewis Film of the book by Naomi Klein Sat 7 May 2016 CCA 6pm, Free and ticketed, Theatre All Ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? ‘This Changes Everything’ is an epic […]
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Friday, May 6, 2016 | 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
Overheard in the West End, Talented Barstewards, Siempre Cafe, Thursday 5 May, 2016
Overheard in the West End Hosted by Traffic Cone Records 5 May, 2016 – 7 p.m. Siempre Bicycle Cafe – Partick Free Talented Barstewards Tales from across the bar from the people who sell you refreshments and sometimes even refuse you booze. What goes on in their tender little bar tender heads while you party […]
My Bonnie Scotland, Jim Ferguson, 19 May, 3016, The Clutha
Tapsalteerie Press cordially invite one and all to the launch party for ‘My Bonnie Scotland’: a new pamphlet of poems by Jim Ferguson. The Clutha, Thursday 19th May, 2016 – 7.00 p.m. With guest readers Calum Rodger and Kathryn Metcalfe (other poets and music to be announced). An evening of serious enjoyment. Signed copies of […]
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Glasgow Launch, The Waves Burn Bright 19 May, 2016 Waterstones Byres Road
Glasgow Launch, The Waves Burn Bright by Iain Maloney Thu May 19 at 7:30 PM Waterstones Byres Road ‘The Glasgow launch of my third novel, The Waves Burn Bright, which is about a family coming to terms with the Piper Alpha disaster.’ Waterstones Byres Road, 351–355 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8AU.
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Monday, May 2, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
For There Is Hope A Scottish / Polish Oyssey, Martin Stepek, Sunday 15 May, 2016 Sikorski Polish Club
Saturday, April 30, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
TalkSeePhotography Geneva Sills CCA, 9 May, 2016
TalkSeePhotography Geneva Sills Mon 9 May 2016 > 7pm, Free and unticketed, Cinema All Ages 0141 352 4900 CCA TSP’s May event presents photographic artist Geneva Sills. Sills explores the questionable nature of autobiography through highly aestheticised images which she stages carefully. Her practice is interwoven with historical and contemporary political concerns that playfully utilises […]
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St Mungo’s Mirrorball Poetry Showcase 1 CCA, Thursday 5 May, 2016
St Mungo’s Mirrorball Poetry Showcase 1 Thu 5 May 2016 7pm, £5 (free to members), Tickets on the door, Clubroom All Ages 0141 352 4900 CCA A Poetry Showcase for the mentor and mentees of the Clydebuilt poets mentoring programme featuring the following: Gerry Cambridge: a poet, essayist and editor, with a substantial interest in […]
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Animal, Sara Pascoe, The Stand Comedy Club, 20 June, 2016
Sara Pascoe is a human animal, and so are you. The show is a mixture of completely true stories about Tony Blair, Oedipus Rex and the wildlife of Lewisham, plus a load of stories that don’t sound true at all about Jason Donovan, Henry the Hoover and when God took over the tannoy in Sainsbury’s. […]
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For All, e-book published by Glasgow Film Theatre featuring Glasgow writers
Glasgow Film Theatre is excited to announce the publication of For All, a free e-book exploring equality and featuring new work by Glasgow based writers, animators and musicians. Funded by Creative Scotland’s Promoting Equalities Programme (PEP), and published by Ringwood Publishing, the book is the end product of GFT’s ‘For All’ project, which began […]
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Riverkeep by Martin Stewart, Book Launch, Waterstones Byres Road, Friday 29 April, 2016
Waterstones, Glasgow – Byres RoadFriday 29th April 19:30 Martin Stewart’s debut fantasy novel – Riverkeep has been inspired by the rivermen of Glasgow and has already been compared to Game of Thrones, Gormenghast and Earthsea. Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family’s mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous […]
Sunday, April 24, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cooking Pot – CCA until 30 April, 2016
Cooking Pot CCA – Until Sat 30 April 2016 Related Events {group theory} / Michael Tyburski: Brooklyn Farmer Thu 21 January 2016 Alliance Francaise: Steak (R)Evolution Thu 28 January 2016 Slow Food Youth Network Scotland: Sensory Supper Thu 4 February 2016 MILK Cafe: A Night in Eritrea Fri 5 February 2016 Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability […]
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The East Dunbartonshire Comic Con Saturday 11 June, 2016.
The East Dunbartonshire Comic Con Saturday 10 June, 2016 Raising Awareness for Autism Free entry Woodhill Evangelical Church30 Westercleddens RoadBishopbriggsGlasgowG64 2NH
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Sunday, April 17, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
P.K. Lynch talking about her book Armadillos on the Ross Owen Show, listen tonight 15 April, 2016 at 8 p.m.
Friday 15 April, 2016 – 8 p.m. www.therossowenshow.com/ P.K. Lynch is an actor and writer. Married to actor Robin Laing, she began her professional life playing Lizzie in the seminal film of the Irvine Welsh novel, Trainspotting, and has since worked internationally in stage, film, TV and radio.In 2011 she joined the MLitt Creative Writing […]
Friday, April 15, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Zine Fest 30 April, 2016. Day of film screenings CCA
Glasgow Zine Fest Sat 30 April 2016 CCA 1pm, Free but ticketed via Eventbrite Cinema CCA All ages 0141 352 4900 Join Glasgow Zine Fest for a day of film screenings and talks about representation in DIY culture, featuring works from Gal-Dem.com and Free Pride Glasgow. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 […]
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Picture Hooks Conference, Illustrating Children’s Books, 23 April,2016 CCA
Picture Hooks Conference Sat 23 April 2016 CCA 10am – 4pm, £50 (£25 concessions) + £1 booking fee, Theatre Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Get the hang of illustrating Children’s Books. Leading children’s publishing experts and agents, together with award-winning illustrator Joel Stewart, offer insiders’ view of the industry. Now in its […]
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The Dust of Everyday Life is a free annual symposium on the arts, mental health, stigma, and social justice 2o April, 2016 CCA
The Dust of Everyday Life Wed 20 April 2016 10am, Free but ticketed, Theatre/Cinema/Clubroom Ages: 14+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 CCA The Dust of Everyday Life is a free annual symposium on the arts, mental health, stigma, and social justice, programmed by the Mental Health Foundation and See Me and expanding on the […]
Jacqueline Smith Inspiration from the Common Wealth of Writers to Boost Creativity Tuesday 19 April, 2016
Jacqueline Smith Inspiration from the Common Wealth of Writers to Boost Creativity Tue 19 April 2016 CCA 7:30pm, Free and unticketed, Cinema Ages: 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The launch of Jacqueline Smith’s ‘Inspiration from the Common Wealth of Writers to Boost Creativity’ will involve featured writers, e.g. Brian Whittingham, Liz Niven and […]
