Extreme drug discovery: finding new medicines from extreme environments , Prof Marcel Jaspars, 6 January 2016
The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow LecturesStrathclyde University, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow, G4 0NG Wed 6 Jan 2016 Free / 0141 548 3444 Extreme drug discovery: finding new medicines from extreme environments Prof Marcel Jaspars, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Aberdeen. Informed, Intelligent talk and Discussion If you enjoy listening, discussing, debating, intellectual challenge, […]
Monday, December 28, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Theresa Talbot’s debut novel ‘Penance’
Inspired by the girls of Glasgow’s Magdalene Institution in Maryhill Theresa talks about her book: In 1958 Glasgow’s Magdalene Institution in Maryhill was closed-down after the inmates staged a 3 day ‘riot’. The girls of Lochburn House claimed they were beaten, doused in freezing water and verbally and emotionally abused. The riot consisted of a […]
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow: Writing Fiction: the short story 12/o1/16 – 15.03.16
Writing fiction: the short story 12/01/16 – 15/03/16 Tuesdays 19.00 – 21.00 Tutor: Alan McMunnigall This course will focus on the discussion of students’ writing and will look at a range of approaches to the creation of fiction. Literary techniques will be examined in order for students to use them to develop their own […]
Thursday, December 17, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, Classes and Workshops, Courses, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
From Page to Opera Stage: ‘The Devil Inside’ Prof Louise Welsh and Stuart MacRae Wednesday, 13 January 2016
From Page to Opera Stage: ‘The Devil Inside’ Prof Louise Welsh and Stuart MacRae Wednesday, 13 January 2016 from 17:30 to 19:30 Free Event Register online Seminar Rooms A&B Sir Charles Wilson Building, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 World Premier Event at the Theatre Royal From Page to Opera Stage: ‘The Devil Inside’ Prof Louise Welsh […]
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 | 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 Have Yourself a Literary Christmas, 22 December, 2015
Scottish Writers’ Centre Have Yourself a Literary Christmas Tue 22 December 2015 CCA 7pm, Free, Clubroom Ages 18+ Hosted by Robin Cairns. It’s that time of year again and we’re rocking the SWC Christmas Party with live readings from our members and guest host, Robin Cairns. Please join us, bring along something to read, perform, […]
Sunday, December 13, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Tinsel Tales, GoMA Thursday, December 17, 2015
Tinsel Tales Thursday, December 17, 2015 2 PM – 6 PM Gallery of Modern Art Created for Federation of Writers (Scotland) GoMA Library Glasgow Federation of Writers (Scotland) are holding our usual Christmas event at GoMA on 17 December.Slots and places fill up fast so please book early! To book yours anytime […]
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Sunset Song Various dates between 12 November and 17 December GFT
Sunset SongCTBC Various dates between Thursday 12 November and Thursday 17 December GFT Buy tickets online Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel comes to the screen in this long-awaited adaptation from peerless British director Terence Davies. In the fictional Aberdeenshire town of Kinraddie, Chris Guthrie works on her father’s farm, struggling to reconcile her desire for […]
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Friday, December 11, 2015 | 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
Eveline Pye, The Rio, Middle Monday, Monday 14 December, 2015
Middle Monday The Rio Monday, 14 December, 2015 8 PM The Rio Cafe Evelyn Pye headlines at The Rio this Middle Monday. A series of poems comprising statistics, Africa, hippos and locusts. First hour is mic of the open variety. What do you say? Cairns comperes. The Rio Cafe27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5QF Event […]
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Loud Poets: Jagged Little Poet Thursday, December 17, 2015 Broadcast
Loud Poets: Jagged Little Poet Thursday, December 17, 2015 7:30 PM Broadcast427 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LG WHO’S READY FOR POETRY!! We here at Loud Poets are excited to bring you another night of spoken word brilliance, our last before the new year (cue pantomime gasps) It’ll be a night so good Alanis Morissette might […]
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Thursday, December 10, 2015 | 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 Poetry and Spoken Word Winter Social/’The Poet Party’ 13 December, 2015
Glasgow Poetry and Spoken Word Winter Social/’The Poet Party’ 13 December, 2015 The Blue Chair85 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NB Booze. Christmas songs. Party games. Booze. ‘Networking’. The drunken settling of old scores. Booze. Food. Special guests. And a visit from Santa Claus himself*. It can only be the Glasgow Poetry and Spoken Word Winter […]
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Fail Better: PLAY FOR PALESTINE Thursday, December 17, 2015
Fail Better: PLAY FOR PALESTINE Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 8 PM McChuills Glasgow 40 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NL It was a wish of mine to tell youA story of a dead nightingaleIt was a wish of mine to tell youThe storyWere it not for this lip they cut – Samih […]
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Centre for Open Studies, Creative Writing, Fiction Showcase 8 December, 2015
Student Showcase 8 December, STUC, 7 P.M. Over the years, the Centre for Open Studies has produced many notable, award-winning and widely published writers. These writers have enhanced the reputation of the Centre. Each year, new and returning students produce excellent work during their time at the Centre. This event showcases work written by students […]
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Teenage Book Club Tuesday 15th December, 2015 Waterstones, Byres Road
Teenage Book Club Tuesday 15th December , 2015 16.00 – 17.00 Waterstones, Byres Road Discussion of “Mosquitoland” by David Arnold at Waterstones’ Teenage Book Club Byres Road ‘We hope to see you there!’ 351-355 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8AU www.waterstones.com/bookshops/glasgow-byres-road
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Sunday, December 6, 2015 | 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
An evening with Robert Beedham: author of “Imagine” Tuesday 8th December, 2015 Waterstones, Byres Road
An evening with Robert Beedham: author of “Imagine” Tuesday 8th December 19:30 – 21:00 Waterstones, Byres Road After 20 years in advertising in London and Scotland, Robert Beedham decided to follow his childhood dream, and started to write stories that he passionately believed in. Stories that would restore something lost…wonder.One result is Imagine, a genuinely […]
REWINDItalia: Early Video Art in Italy – Book Launch Fri 18 December 2015 CCA
Studio Azzurro, Vedute (quel tale non sta mai fermo) [Views (that bloke never stays still)], 1985, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice. ©[/caption] REWINDItalia: Early Video Art in Italy – Book Launch Fri 18 December 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 CCA Italy was a vibrant centre of video art […]
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The C Word, Scottish Writers’ Centre, CCA Tuesday 8 December, 2015
The ‘C’ Word Tue 8 December 2015 7pm, £6 (£3 concessions) on the door, Free to SWC members, Clubroom Ages 18+ CCA The ‘C’ Word: A talk on cross-media collaboration followed by a reading from Les Animots: A Human Bestiary, with Douglas Robertson and Gordon Meade. Gordon Meade is a Scottish poet based in the […]
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St Mungo’s Mirrorball Poetry Showcase 10 December, 2015 CCA
St Mungo’s Mirrorball – Poetry Showcase 10th December 7pm The last St Mungo’s Mirrorball event of the year will be this Thursday 7pm on 10th December in the clubroom at CCA. It would be great to see everyone prior to the festive period From 6.15pm in the same room members of the Mirrorball will […]
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Christmas Shopping: Books for Syria, Waterstones, Byres Road
Buy Books for Syria at Waterstones Waterstones, Byres Road have a fabulous range of books in stock – great gifts for all the family. Watch out for the sticker on a selected range of Books for Syria – for each book purchased 100% of sales goes to Oxfam towards their Books for Syria Campaign. […]
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Federation of Scottish Writers: Tinsel Tales 17 December, 2015 GOMA
17 December, 2015 2:00pm – 6:30pm Gallery of Modern Art – GoMA Library Royal Exchange Square Glasgow, Glasgow G1 3AH Federation of Writers (Scotland) are holding our usual Christmas event at GoMA on 17 December. Slots and places fill up fast so please book early! To book yours anytime after […]
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Christmas in Glasgow
Bothying in Scotland Ian R. Mitchell
Bothying in Scotland One of the projects Ian Mitchell has been working on in 2015 is a feature film about the history of bothying in the Scottish mountains, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Mountain Bothies Association, the charity which renovates and maintains the many bothies in the Highlands. Ian was involved in both […]
Mslexia Women’s Short Story Competition 2016
Women’s Short Story Competition The Mslexia 2016 competition welcomes writers of all levels of experience, writing stories on any subject – in any style. Up for grabs is a sumptuous £2,000 first prize, publication in the June 2016 issue of Mslexia and the fantastic exposure that this competition gives its finalists. So if you’ve got a story – or […]
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Friday, December 4, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
GRAMNet Film Series I am Kuba and For Ailsa CCA Wed 9 December 2015
GRAMNet Film Series I am Kuba and For Ailsa CCA Wed 9 December 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network I am Kuba When their family business goes bankrupt Kuba and Mikołaj’s parents are forced to leave Poland to find work abroad. […]
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Bob Law: The Winter Wonders of Oban
The Scottish Western Highlands, with a scattered population, can sometimes seem cold, barren and rather bleak in November with endless days of rain, mist covered mountains and little obvious nightlife. The busy sea port of Oban bucks that trend however with ferries travelling from the mainland to various offshore islands, and the town, which lies […]
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games: a pictorial memory with Robert Rogerson, The Mitchell
Saturday 28 November 2015 13:30 – 14:30 The Mitchell Library Robert Rogerson celebrates the success of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, arguably the second largest multi-sport event in the world attracting more than 4000 athletes from the 71 nations and territories across the globe. For 12 days in mid-2014, the city of Glasgow basked in some of […]
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The Only Way is Ethics: Our Dream City Saturday 5 December, 2015
Hosted by The Dream Machine and On the Corner Saturday 5 December, 2015 3:00pm – 8:00pm 253-257 London Road, Glasgow G40 1PE Would you like to play a part in building something new and exciting for the communities of Glasgow? The Only Way is Ethics: Our Dream City is a day of conversation, exploring issues […]
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Tips for Girls Glasgow Women’s Library December 1, 2015
Tips for Girls Glasgow Women’s Library December 1, 2015@ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Free Is it proper for a single girl to have dinner in a bachelor’s apartment without a chaperone? Why don’t boys make passes at girls who wear glasses? How can I get a fuller bust? Whether you want advice on […]
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Thursday, November 26, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Getting More Out of the Poems We Read and Write, Hillhead Library 2 p.m. Sun 29 November, 2015
Getting More Out of the Poems We Read and Write Hillhead, Library Glasgow Free, ticketed Sunday 29 November 2015 14:00 – 16:00 What, if anything, do all really good poems have in common? How best can we excavate familiar, old poems and explore less well known, new ones? Where do excellent poems come from and […]
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Alexander McCall Smith, The Mitchell, Wednesday 2 December, 2015
Wednesday 2 December, 2015 Tickets are £5 from the Mitchell Library box office or buy online Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law, then, after the publication of his highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which […]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
An Evening with Helen MacKinven, Waterstones Byres Road 30 November, 2015
An evening with Helen MacKinven: Author of ‘Talk of the Toun’ Monday 30th November 19:00 – 20:30 at Glasgow – Byres Road Talk of the Toun (Paperback) An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship. Talk of the Toun is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, […]
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
St Andrew’s Day Poetry Night Scottish Huntington’s Association 29 November, 2015
St Andrew’s Day Poetry Night Scottish Huntington’s Association Fundraiser Scottish Song and Story featuring Tom Leonard Wellington Church £10 (Concessions £5) 0141 848 0308 or send message on Facebook www.facebook.com/ScottishHuntingtonsAssociation/ 29th November, 2015 29th November 2015 – SHA St Andrew’s Day Poetry Night in Glasgow Wellington Church, University Avenue, G12
