Tall Tales and Cocktails, University of Stirling, 9 April, 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
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 & […]
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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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Book Launch, The Blue Horse by Phil Miller, CCA, 20 March, 2015
www.freightbooks.co.uk 20 March – 6.30 p.m. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD
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Friday, March 13, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: Kimberley Clark, The Wronged, Waterstone’s
Also with Anna Smith Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 6:00PM Tickets free – available from the ground floor tills or by calling 0141 332 9105 Come and meet crime Queens Kimberley Chambers and Anna Smith as they both take questions and discuss their craft as we celebrate the launch of Kimberley’s stunning new […]
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Thursday, March 12, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Write On! The Mitchell, 28 March, 2015
A Day of Engagement and Debate Saturday 28 March, 2015 The Mitchell Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival always engages with the big issues. Current affairs and social themes run through our programming ever year, and the passion and erudition of our audiences ensures that these events are never anything less than lively, at times challenging, […]
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Celebrating the Centenary of the Glasgow Rent Strikes
Maria Fyfe & J.David SimonsCelebrating the Centenary of the Glasgow Rent StrikesSaturday 28 March, 201512.00 – 13.00 The Mitchell Library April 1915 saw a mass organized protest of more than 30,000 Glaswegian tenants, as they refused to pay the crippling increases imposed on them by their landlords. At the forefront of these peaceful demonstrations were […]
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Book Launch: Alex Gray, Keep the Midnight Out, 19 March 2015
Keep the Midnight Out – DCI Lorimer 12 Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 19 March 2015, 6:30PM Tickets free – available from the ground floor tills or by calling 0141 332 9105 Come and meet Alex as she reads from and takes a Q&A about her latest stunning novel.When the body of a red-haired young […]
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: Anna Smith, A Cold Killing, Waterstone’s
Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 26 March 2015, 6:30PM Tickets free – available from the ground floor tills or by calling 0141 332 9105 Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs […]
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Gutter, 12th edition, February 2015
The Magazine of New Scottish Writing Forthcoming Title Another sparkling issue with contributions from the likes of Scottish Makar Liz Lochhead, former Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin, Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth, Jonathan Falla, William Letford, Mark Buckland and Vicki Jarrett. Gutter magazine is the outstanding independent literary magazine publishing fiction and poetry from writers born and […]
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Exhibition of Concrete Poetry, Project Cafe through March, 2015
The exhibition of concrete poetry has finally arrived. Opens at 5pm 28 February, 2015 – runs for one month. Including a wine reception with an introduction by poet Martin Robinson. Three of each prints are for sale at £12! Already proving very popular at the sneak preview so come on down and have a look […]
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Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, Glasgow Feb – Mar, 2015
Literary Lunchtimes The new spring series of “Literary Lunchtimes” resumes Wednesday 18th February, 2015 at Bar Gandolfi, 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow. Spring Programme 2015 Donal McLaughlin and Karen Campbell – will be reading from their work on Wednesday, 18 February at 1.00 pm Rodge Glass – will read on 25 February, 1 p.m. […]
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Monday, March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Glasgow Police Museum, Talk at GOMA, Friday 13 March, 2015
Curator of Glasgow Police Museum Alastair Dinsmor will give a talk on the Museums 175 years of history. The Museum of Glasgow’s 1st Police Force, Library@GoMA Friday 13 March, 2pm. Please phone or call into Library@GoMA to book your place 0141 287 3010. GOMA, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH
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Alan Gillis, Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, 11 March, 2015
Literary Lunchtimes Bar Gandolfi Irish poet Alan Gillis 11 March at 1 p.m. Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973 and lives in Scotland where he is Lecturer in English at The University of Edinburgh. His debut poetry collection, Somebody, Somewhere, won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection in 2004, […]
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Sunday, March 8, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Writing for 8-12 Year Olds
Scottish Writers Centre, CCA Club Room, Glasgow:Tuesday 17th March 2015; 6.30 – 8.30pm, Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Writing for 8-12 Year Olds 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 what […]
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