Aye Write: Neil Lancaster, Carole Johnstone and Fulton Ross – Something Dark Up North
Saturday 27 May, 2023 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In Neil Lancaster’s The Night Watch a lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, […]
Friday, May 26, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Ones to Watch – Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott, Wiz Wharton
Saturday 27 `May, 2023 11 a.m. – 12 noon The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott and Wiz Wharton will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which platforms some of our best new writers. On […]
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World Environment Day 2023 – Partick
Sunday, June 11, 2023 10am at Partickhill Bowling and Community Club, 46 Partickhill Rd, Glasgow G11 5BY Celebrate World Environment Day by attending a morning conference on the theme of Green Partickhill. Hear speakers from Spot-a-Bee (University of Glasgow) Sustrans (National Clyde Network) Zero Waste Scotland, and Glasgow City Council Join in the conversation about […]
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| Filed under: Community event, COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Full Time at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 Full Time follows Julie, a single mother whose hectic daily routine comes under fire. To reach an interview for a job that will help her provide for her family, she must contend with a national transit strike in a nail-bitingly frantic race against time. Led by Laure Calamy‘s gripping performance, Full Time serves as a sobering reminder […]
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Sisu at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June , 2023 Captions and audio description available From Jalmari Helander, director of Rare Exports and Big Game, Sisu is a bloody Second World War action epic that pits one hard-to-kill Finn against Nazi soldiers in Lapland. After a solitary prospector strikes gold in the wilderness, he runs into a retreating detachment of Nazi soldiers […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Jim Carruth and Liz Lochhead – The Tannahill Event
A Happy Makar Birthday Sunday 28 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Stgreet, Glasgow G2 3NY Join Glasgow’s two living laureates to celebrate two milestone birthdays. Liz Lochhead has just turned 75 and has been Makar for both city and country and has been awarded the Queen’s Gold […]
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Aye Write 2023 Arthur Snell: How Britain Broke The World
Saturday 27 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Suchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 4NY How Britain Broke The World is by former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell. It critically assesses UK foreign policy over the past 25 years, from Kosovo in 1998 to Afghanistan in 2021, while also scrutinising British policy […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023 – Ones to Watch – Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater
28 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event. Martin Griffin’s The Second Stranger finds a hotel worker trying to […]
Aye Write 2023: Coinneach MacLeod the Hebridean Baker
28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Coinneach MacLeod is a Global TikTok baking sensation known as The Hebridean Baker and he is serving up a fresh selection of exciting new recipes, charming stories and breathtaking photography from the Hebridean Islands. The landscapes, stories, history and […]
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Spring Open Day and Plant Sale
Saturday 3 June, 2023, 2 – 4 p.m. New Victoria Gardens, Glenapp St, Glasgow G41 2LG Doors are once again open for Spring Open Day. Come and have a wander around the beautiful gardens, talk to the plotholders, see some stunning flower displays and what else people are growing. There will be seedlings for sale…as […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
WestFest One Button Benny – Alan Windram
Alan Windram events with WestFest, ARC and The Children’s Wood Sunday, 4 June, 2023 2.30 p.m. Part of WestFest Children’s Book Programme in partnership with the Children’s Wood and ARC, University of Glasgow. ARC, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW Benny and his friends decide they need a bit more ‘robot dancing’ […]
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
AHHH MAY ZINE FAIR – browse and buy zines
Thursday 1 June, 2023, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. BROWSE AND BUY ZINES at AhhhhMayZine Fair! University of Glasgow Union, 32 University Avenue, G12 8LX It’s a fair for the unvanquished and the tireless; artists who engage in the radical act of DIY publishing give platforms to the never-ready-for-prime-time voices. Zines provide both a sacred […]
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Aye Write 2023: Michael Pedersen and Tanya Frank, Memoirs of Love and Humanity
Thursday, 25 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. In Boy Friends he […]
Aye Write 2023! Lennie Goodings ‘A Bite of the Apple’
Tuesday 23 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Lennie Goodings joined Virago in the 1978 when “women wanted a voice, women wanted to understand their history, women wanted to see themselves on the page.” As an editor, she has worked with many of the finest writers of the last half-century, including Angela Carter, Maya Angelou, […]
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Aye Write 2023. Dave Rich – Everyday Hate
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Antisemitism is supposed to have disappeared long ago, but despite our abhorrence of racism and oppression in all its forms, this ancient prejudice continues to thrive. At a time of economic, political, and social turmoil, fuelled by conspiracy theories on your smartphone or conflict in the […]
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Friday, May 19, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Stuart Cosgrove – Hey America!
Sunday, 21 May, 2023, 9.15 – 10.15 p.m. Stuart Cosgrove’s Hey America! is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong’s spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt’s stormy encounter with […]
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Aye Write 2023: Timothy Phillips – The Curtain and the Wall
Sunday 21 May, 2023 – 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In The Curtain and the Wall Timothy Phillips tells the tale of a landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain – from the Arctic Circle to Turkey’s eastern border – tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live […]
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Aye Write 2023 Politics: A Survivor’s Guide – Rafael Behr
Sunday 21 May, 2023, 4.15 – 5.15 p.m. We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go, but politics stays divided and toxic. It is tempting to switch off the news, […]
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Aye Write 2023: Ryan Love, Fran Littlewood and Lynsey May
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Ryan Love, Fran Littlewood and Lynsey May will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which explores personal journeys in families. Ryan Love’s Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out tells the story of a grandfather and […]
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Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Scottish – Egyptian Audio Visual Collaboration – I was in the tide, the tide was in me
6 – 21 May, 2023 UK Premiere of I was in the tide, the tide was in me at The Pipe Factory , 42 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2LA The new AV collaboration by Egyptian artist Ghada Eissa and British vocalist Nik Rawlings uses film and music to explore experiences of bipolar disorder, memory and […]
SCCAN: The Oil Machine – can we be break the addiction
Monday, 22 May, 2023 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Online Oil has been an invisible machine at the core of our economy and society. It now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? THE OIL MACHINE explores the complexities of transitioning away from oil and […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 23 – Revisited
It’s impossible to see everything that GFF has to offer, but now here’s your chance! This May, the GFT are welcoming back four festival favourites, so now’s your opportunity to catch some titles you might have missed. The Eight Mountains 12 – 25 May Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, The Eight Mountains is […]
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
New Writers Showcase with University of Glasgow Lifelong Learning
Wednesday, 21st June, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Lecture Theatre 639, James McCune Smith Building University Avenue, University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QW FREE – BOOK TICKET Join the lifelong learners at the University of Glasgow as they share the best of their new creative writing. From poems and short stories to true tales and drama, […]
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mansfield Park Street Festival 2023
Saturday 10 June, 2023, 12,00 – 5 p.m. Come along and enjoy a fun filled gala day where there will be something for everyone! Catch some live music from samba drummers, choirs, cover bands and community groups from across the West End. There will also be the Partick Farmers Market, street theatre, pop-up workshops, face […]
Gaia Installation Launches CRM Society’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Programme of Events include concerts by Lost Map Records, Siobhan Wilson and Glasgow Jazz Festival; talks, exhibitions and film nighys in Mackintosh’s only built church. Gaia – named after the Greek Goddess of Earth – will be open to the public from Saturday 13th May 2023 and run until 24 June, 2023. The Charles Rennie […]
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Monday, May 15, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Val McDermid in conversation with Louise Welsh
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY The Queen of Crime writing discusses her latest Allie Burns thriller 1989, set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series. 1989 – The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie […]
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Aye Write: Janey Godley with Nicola Sturgeon
26 May, 2023 at 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Janey Godley in conversation with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP. Janey Godley’s Nothing Left Unsaid tells the story of Senga and Sharon spanning Glasgow in 1976 and 2019. Glasgow, 2019. Sharon has rushed home at the news her […]
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Beat 6 – dine out and donate to Beatson Cancer Charity
Scotland’s first restaurant with 100% of profits donated to Beatson Cancer Charity Beat 6, 149 Milngavie Rd, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 3DY (Nearest train station: Hillfoot) The Story Beat 6 is a social enterprise founded by Nico Simeone, the owner of Six by Nico, and his wife, Valentina. Many years ago Valentina was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s […]
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write 2023 – Billingham and Brookmyre’s Dirty Weekend
20 May, 2023, 7.45 – 8 45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of […]
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B.A. Acting – Macbeth at Webster’s Theatre
7 – 9 May, 2023, 7.30 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Websters – Theatre | Bar | Playhouse416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Welcome to Macbeth, an exciting production that reinterprets Shakespeare’s classic tragedy from a female-centric viewpoint while embracing the nuances of queer relationships. A dedicated ensemble aims to address the gender imbalance in theatre […]
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