Aye Write: sex in the afternoon. Kei Miller, Malika Booker and Rachel Mars 18 April
Kei Miller, Malika Booker and Rachel Mars: Sex in the Afternoon 18th Apr 2015 • 4:30PM – 5:30PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow How can we express our desires? What stops us? Sex in all its joy, pain and glory at Aye Write! Join Forward Prize winning writer Kei Miller, spoken word and multidisciplinary […]
Friday, April 10, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Competition Aye Write: Win two pairs of tickets for Helen Lederer Sat. 18 April
Helen Lederer – Losing it Win two pairs of tickets for Helen Lederer’s event on Saturday 18th April at 7.30pm Question: What was the name of Helen’s character in Absolutely Fabulous?A) CatalinaB) CatrionaC) Camilla Please send your answer on an email with the subject ‘Helen Lederer competition’ to ayewrite@glasgowlife.org.uk entries must be received by Monday 13th April. […]
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Scottish Writers Centre: Margaret Elphinstone and Chris Salt, 14 April, 2015
Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Scottish Writers Centre Tuesday 14th April 2015; 7pm to 8.30pm CCA Club Room, Glasgow. . Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Two of Scotland’s finest writers, Novelist Margaret Elphinstone and poet Chrys Salt will discuss the challenge of writing in the voices of other cultures. Does an author have to belong to […]
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Saturday, April 4, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Worldwide Reading in Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Tuesday, April 21
Led by the International Literature Festival Berlin and the Lepsiushaus Potsdam, there will be a worldwide reading from “The Book of Whispers” by Varujan Vosganian to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. In addition to remembering the victims of this horrible event, we also want to raise awareness of the fact that […]
Thursday, April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Verse Hearse Book Launch Special, 31 March, 2015 The Gilchrist Postgraduate Club
The Verse Hearse Book Launch Special: ‘The Road North’ by Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn 31 March, 2015 –8 p.m. The Gilchrist Postgraduate ClubGilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ THE VERSE HEARSE (where poetry comes to die)poetry | booze | banter | open mic | 100% FREE The verse hearse […]
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Fail Better: Prrrrrrrrotest! Thursday, 9 April, 2015, McChuills
Fail Better: Prrrrrrrrotest! Thursday, 9 April, 2015at 8:00pm McChuills Glasgow. 40 High Street, G1 1NL Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It’s not. WHAT THE HECK IS PROTEST? I dinna have a clue, but these folks might: LOKI storms back to the stage punk folk gurgling […]
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SWC: Publishing and Performing Your Poetry, 31 March, 2015
CCA Club Room, CCA Glasgow Tuesday 31st March 2015; 6.30 – 8.30pm Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Publishing and Performing Your Poetry March 31st The Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars are aimed at writers with an interest in publication; they offer advice from industry experts on various aspects of the process. This seminar will explore […]
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Ex Libris Book Fair The Mitchell Library, Saturday 18 April, 2015
Ex Libris Book Fair The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Saturday 18 April 12 – 6pm Free event – drop in We are pleased to welcome the Ex Libris Book Fair to the Mitchell Library foyer. Organised by Ess Publications and Generator Publications and featuring small presses, indie comic creators, and artist book makers, Ex […]
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Whose Voice Is It Anyway? with Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Tue 14 April 2015 CCA
Scottish Writers’ CentreWhose Voice Is It Anyway? with Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Tue 14 April 2015 CCA 7pm, £6 (£3) on the door, Free to members, ClubroomAges 14+ when accompanied by Novelist Margaret Elphinstone and poet Chrys Salt will discuss the challenge of writing in the voices of other times and cultures. Does an […]
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Student Showcase, STUC, Tuesday 31st March, 2015
Featuring readings of work from Centre for Open Studies students. Student Showcase 31/3/15, 6.30-9pm, STUC Price £5 (you can pay on the door) There will also be a cheap bar. All welcome. How to get there Download directions
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World Book Night Party Glasgow Women’s Library April 23, 201
World Book Night Party Glasgow Women’s Library April 23, 2015 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm ‘We love World Book Night! And we’d love to spend it with you! Come along and pick up your free book(s) and try your luck in our World Book Night Quiz. A night of friendly book chat, readings and […]
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Women of the Necropolis Glasgow Women’s Library Event April 12, 2015
Women of the Necropolis Glasgow Women’s Library Event April 12, 2015 @ 2:00 pm, 4:00 p £6.00 / £10.00 Experience a fantastic women’s history walking tour which digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the histories of women buried in Glasgow’s Necropolis, as featured in Clare Balding’s book Walking Home. Tour […]
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Tall Tales and Cocktails, University of Stirling, 9 April, 2015
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Gordon Douglas The Garden is Our Wall Tue 14 April — Sat 9 May 2015 CCA
Gordon DouglasThe Garden is Our Wall Tue 14 April — Sat 9 May 2015 CCA A series of four events inviting collaboration from creative practitioners. The programme draws on authority within designed urban image, and the inherent civic responsibility of communal habitation. Related CCA Events James Harding & Gordon Douglas Nib : Complete Sea Tue […]
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Radiophrenia – 87.9FM Mon 13 April — Sun 19 April 2015 Broadcasting live from CCA
Radiophrenia – 87.9FM Mon 13 April — Sun 19 April 2015 CCA Broadcasting live from CCA, 24-hours a dayTheatre Space Listening Room: 12noon – 4pm (except during sound checks), Free, All agesLive performances: 7pm, Free but ticketed, Theatre, Ages 15+ Related CCA Events RadiophreniaNichola ScruttonSonnets Mon 13 April 2015 RadiophreniaShelly NadashiA Hidden Quiet Pocket & […]
AC Projects Counterflows Festival 2015 CCA 2 – 5 April, 2015
AC ProjectsCounterflows Festival 2015 Thu 2 April — Sun 5 April 2015 CCA Full programme at www.counterflows.comBook online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events CounterflowsOpening Launch ReceptionCounterflows & Novas Frequencias Thu 2 April 2015 CounterflowsChinese Cookie Poets & Negro Leo with GuestsPlus DJ Sets at Saramago Thu 2 April 2015 CounterflowsRichard Youngs’ Experiment for […]
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Monday, March 30, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Aye Write 2015: St Mungo’s Mirrorball: Open Mic Poetry Corner
St Mungo’s Mirrorball: Open Mic Poetry Corner 24th Apr 2015 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Glasgow’s Poetry Network and Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, Jim Carruth, host their popular open mic session St Mungo’s Mirrorball – Glasgow’s Poetry Network – and Jim Carruth (Poet Laureate for Glasgow) host their popular […]
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Sunday, March 29, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Burns Night Glasgow 2015
Owen Jones discusses The Establishment, 17 April, 2015
Owen Jones Talking about his book The Establishment Friday, April 17, 2015 7:30pm St George’s Tron Church of Scotland163 Buchanan Street, Glasgow G1 2JX Come and meet Owen Jones as he discusses and signs copies of his book The Establishment at the St George’s Tron church on Buchanan Street. £5 Tickets available now: Buy […]
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Scottish Poetry Library Appeal 2015
Scottish Poetry Library Appeal aims to raise £20,000 towards the final £120,000 for a building renovation that will hugely improve capacities. You can donate through Just Giving, so please help them reach their goal by donating £5 or more today. Donate online Your gift will help create more space … for noisy and silent activities […]
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Saturday, March 28, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch ‘The New Mrs D’ by Heather Hill
Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street Thursday 30th April 2015 6.30-8pm. Waterstone’s, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3EW
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Prize Winners Keith Wright Memorial Literary Competition 2015
Chris Agee, the Keith Wright Literary Fellow and Editor of Irish Pages, has announced the three winners and runner-up of the 2015 Keith Wright Memorial Literary Competition at Strathclyde. They are: · First Prize: Mark Haw for “The Antelope” · Second Prize: Scott McNee for “Morning Routine” · Third Prize: Stephen Elliott for “Augher, Clogher, […]
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Noctis, Old Hairdressers, Sunday 12 April, 2015
Sunday, April 12 at 7:30pm The Old Hairdressers Come gather around the camp fire kids, it’s story time . . . Black Opal Arts presents NOCTIS, a night of celebration for all things horror. There will be artwork to admire, stories to hear and cake to eat. Event on Facebook […]
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Digital Desperados, GLITCH 19 – 28 March 2015, CCA
Digital DesperadosGLITCH Thu 19 March — Sat 28 March 2015 Free but ticketedFull programme announced in late January GLITCH – a queer film festival! A stunning selection of films, video art, spoken word, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, live music and free haircuts. Digital Desperados’ programming focus is of films by or about people of colour […]
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Friday, March 27, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Glasgow University Creative Writing – Showcase + Open Mic, 27 March
The Project Cafe Friday 27 March, 2015 – 6:00pm – 7:30pm Glasgow University’s undergraduate creative writers close the semester with an evening of fiction and poetry. Join us on Friday, March 27th from 6.00-7.30 p.m. for some music, visual poetry and spoken word. Bring along some friends and a drink or two (3£ corkage fee). […]
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Chris Agee, Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi Wed 25 March 2015
Chris Agee conclude this spring’s series of “Literary Lunchtimes” at 1.00 pm, Wednesday, 25 March at Bar Gandolfi, 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow. This is Chris’s final semester as Keith Wright Literary Fellow and he will be reading from his last book, Next to Nothing, as well as his new Glasgow-based collection, Now and […]
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Saturday, March 21, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Owen Dudley Edwards & David Torrance, The Mitchell, 28 March
Owen Dudley Edwards & David Torrance The Psyche of Political Leaders Saturday 28 March, 20151.30-2.30pm | £9 (plus transaction fee)* The Mitchell Library How well do we know our political leaders? Can we trust them to do the right thing on our behalf? Do we and they fully or even adequately understand the complexities of […]
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Polly Toynbee and David Walker, Write On!
Polly Toynbee & David Walker Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink Write On! Saturday 28 March, 2015 4.30 – 5.30pm The Mitchell, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN As we prepare for a new government we welcome back two of our finest commentators to deliver their verdict on the Conservative led coalition. […]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Unread Writers Society, Magazine Launch, 19 March, 2015
Unread Writers Society Thursday, March 19, 2015 7 p.m. Waterstones Argyle Street New UWS student creative magazine – launch Cost of magazine £4 Waterstones Argyle St, 174-176 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8BT www.facebook.com/unreadwriterssociety
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Sunday, March 15, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Alex Salmond, Waterstone’s Sauchiehall St, 28 March 2015
Alex Salmond discussing his new book The Dream Shall Never Die – 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever Saturday 28 March 7 p.m. Waterstone’s, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW Tickets now on sale. £15 with book £5 without book. Call 0141 332 9105 for details.
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The Life and Politics of James Connolly, Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre
A talk by the historian John Ford Monday, 16th March 20157.00pm – 9pm Room 10, Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre,6 Daisy St, Glasgow G42 8JL James Connolly (1868-1916) was born in the slums of Edinburgh, where he received only a basic primary education and seemed, like many of his peers, destined to struggle through life, working for […]
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