STFU 6th Humanity’s Afterparty The Blue Chair Friday 3 June, 2016
The Blue Chair, 85 High Street G1 1NB 7 p.m. #rd June, 2016 STFU – Spoken Word That Leaves A Mark! STFU is back to get its monthly fix of eyeballs and you lot get to sit around and enjoy words and shit. Also, secretly we siphon off your precious bodily fluids and sell them […]
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Aye Write! An evening with Tess Gerritsen, Mitchell Library, 21 July, 2016 6.30 p.m.
21st Jul 2016 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, now gives us a gripping stand-alone thriller: Playing with Fire. Tess Gerritsen, the New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, now gives us a gripping stand-alone thriller: Playing with […]
Wednesday, June 1, 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
Book launch: The Wrong Child by Barry Gornell, Cup, Merchant City, Wed 1 June, 2016
Wednesday 1 June at 6.30pm Celebrate the launch of The Wrong Child, Barry Gornell’s brilliant second novel. Cup, Virginia Court, in Glasgow’s Merchant City. The novel is the story of a village where 21 of the 22 children die in a disaster and only the ‘wrong child’ survives. Barry is […]
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Mary Irvine’s Blog: Booked! The Grand Finale
The Grand Finale to a successful festival and who better to ensure it finished on a high than Rhona Cameron, TV personality and comedienne who had her own popular sitcom ‘Rhona’. Another well attended event with over 40 people turning out on quite a dreich night. (Note how I slip into the local patter!) The […]
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Scotland the Best – 12th edition of Peter Irvine’s Bestselling Guide
Essential reading for all Scottish tourists and handy or locals as well. The true Scot’s insider’s guide to the very best Scotland has to offer. Fully revised and updated in Pete Irvine’s own unique style. Includes over 2000 recommendations for every type of adventure. Trusted for over 20 years, this fully comprehensive and independent guide to […]
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Thursday, May 26, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Travel
Fail Better: if you close the door, McChuills, 9 June, 2016
McChuills, 40 High Street, G1 1NL the night could last forever. Keep the sunshine out and say hello to never. All the people are dancing and they’re having such fun, I wish it could happen to YOU Come away from the sunshine and join us in the arched neverland of McChuills to hear some of […]
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The University of Glasgow: Friendly Shelves
The first full, and gloriously illustrated, account of the birth and growth of The University of Glasgow Library from the Renaissance and Reformation; through the emerging Enlightenment; Industrial Expansion & Migration; War, Peace & Opportunity and on to New Horizons is being publicly launched at the University in mid June. This new book of 288 […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre ‘In Process’ Masterclass with John McShane CCA Tue 21 June 2016
7pm, £6/£3 (Free for SWC Members) tickets on the door, CCA Clubroom 18+ Alfred Hitchcock famously stated that three things were needed to make a good movie: the script, the script, and the script. Screenwriting is completely unlike other forms of writing in that the script is not the finished work, but more akin to […]
Monday, May 23, 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 Writers’ Centre ‘In Process’ Masterclass: Gerry Loose Tues 7 June, 2016
Tue 7 June 2016 CCA 7pm, £6/£3 (Free for SWC Members) tickets on the door, Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 On Thursday 26 May Gerry will be a featured guest on Pulse Community Radio with Shirley Whiteside, a professional book reviewer. Shirley will be talking books with Gerry at 2:00 pm on Pulse 98.4 Radio. […]
St Aloysius Primary School – Bookbug Week 2016
Bookbug Week 16–22 May 2016 Angela Proctor visited St Aloysius Primary for a book reading with children from classes P3 – P7 as part of Bookbug Week, 2016. Angela read to them from her book Thumble Tumble and the Ollpheist. This is a children’s novel about a wee witch from the magical Isle of Arran […]
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Friday, May 20, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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 […]
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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