Riverside Festival Glasgow 2021 – Online
28 May 2 p.m. unti 30 May at 11 p.m. Riverside Festival 2021 Online event – Free Event on Facebook Details Event by UK Music festival Event RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL 2021 May 28/29/30 FRIDAY: Jamie xx + much more ————– SATURDAY: Disclosure + much more ————– SUNDAY: Amelie Lens + much more –LAST ENTRY– 7pm on […]
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Glasgow Jazz Festival 2021
Three Dat Digital Festival – Friday 18 and Sunday 20 June, 2021 Musical talent from across Scotland will perform at the 35th Glasgow Jazz Festival this June. Glasgow Jazz Festival has announced the first bill of artists who are set to perform as part of their three-day digital festival for 2021, taking place between Friday […]
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Jazz Festival, Zoom and online events
ProjectAbility – Online Exhibition ‘Altered Space’
Altered Space is an online exhibition launching on 28th May 2021 x3 continues with online exhibition, “Altered Space”, hosted by Glasgow studio Project Ability Leading disability arts organisations across the UK are working together on a series of online exhibitions showing work by learning-disabled artists. The exhibitions – part of a project titled ‘x3’ – […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Celebrating 40 Years of Lanark
23 May, 7.15pm £5 buy ticket Since 1986, the National Library of Scotland has held some of Alasdair Gray’s most valuable and rarely seen writing. From personal diaries to correspondence, from illustrations and sketches to drafts of his internationally celebrated novels, the archive is a treasure trove for lovers of contemporary Scottish literature and art. […]
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Sunday, May 23, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Brit Bennett chaired by Nicola Sturgeon
Saturday 22 May, 2021 – 8.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Brit Bennett Chaired by Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister of Scotland £5 Buy your ticket The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape […]
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Saturday, May 22, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Aye Write A Renewable Energy Revolution
22 May, 4.45pm In the first and only book to explore Scotland’s part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, ‘Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power’ – And Where it Goes From Here, Todd Westbrook refutes common arguments against wind power with hard facts and a wry sense of […]
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Aye Write 2021 – How To Stop Fascism, Paul Mason
22 May 11.45am How To Stop Fascism Paul Mason chaired by Ruth Wishart The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again – and […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Rodge Glass introduces Fiction Debuts
22nd May 10.30am The novelist and biographer Rodge Glass introduces six vivid new voices in fiction – featuring: Helen Fisher (Space Hopper), Dantiel W. Moniz (Milk Blood Heat), Megan Nolan (Acts of Desperation), Mateo Askaripour (Black Buck), Fiona Scarlett (Boys Don’t Cry) and Caleb Azumah Nelson (Open Water). *This performance is live and will […]
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Friday, May 21, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Salena Godden and Courttia Newland – Immersive, Poetic Fiction
Friday 21 May 2021 at 3.30 p.m. £5 All ages Book here Immersive, Poetic Fiction – Salena Godden and Courttia Newland chaired by Lee Randall Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, […]
Aye Write 2021 Eco Tips for Your Home and Family
Nancy Birtwhistle & Jen Gale chaired by Frankie Burr 21 May, 11.45 a.m. Eco Tips for Your Home and Family Nancy Birtwhistle won the fifth series of The Great British Bake Off in 2014. Nancy worked as a GP practice manager in the NHS for thirty-six years until she retired in 2007. Motivated by protecting […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Welcome Home Shuggie Bain
Friday 21 May, 2021 at 4.45 p.m. Douglas Stuart with Janey Godley It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her […]
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Smokehead Sessions – Dave Arcari Wildcats
MONDAY, 7 JUNE 2021 from 8 p.m. Event by Dave Arcari Group · Dave Arcari’s Wildcats Online at Dave Arcari Music Price: free · Duration: 30 min First of four weekly 30-minute livestreams through June presented by Dave Arcari in conjunction with Smokehead Islay Single Malt Whisky. Each episode features a whisky tasting with a different edition […]
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Zoom and online events
Wee Write Family Day 2021 Online
Saturday 12 June, 2021 Aye Write book festival launches free online events for its Wee Write For Schools Wee Write Family Day digital programme to take place on Saturday 12 June, to follow the main online book festival currently running. Aye Write is produced by Glasgow Life, the charity which delivers culture and sport in […]
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Monday, May 17, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
University of Glasgow: Care, Rights and Covid – Discussion
Discussing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Human Rights of Care Experienced people in Scotland. May 18, 2021 12:00 PM Come along to hear from: Megan Sutherland, Vice-Chair of Who Cares? Scotland Fiona Duncan, Chair of the “The Promise” Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland Carly Elliott. Director of Influencing, Who Cares? […]
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Greater Glasgow Climate Action Network
Friday, 11 June 2021 from 13:00 – 15.30 Free – Online Register at Evenbrite Are you working on tackling climate change within your community? Whether you are working on food, energy, low carbon transport, waste, campaigning or anything related to reducing our climate impact, join the Greater Glasgow Climate Change Network and Propagate to explore […]
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An Evening with Lesley Benzie
Thusday 20 May, 2021 – 8.30 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Unwind for an evening of poetry and conversation, as Dr. Linda Jackson speaks with poet Lesley Benzie about her new collection, FESSEN/REAR. Free – Online Register at Eventbrite About this event In Lesley’s new collection, FESSEN/REAR, she writes about about pain and loss on both a […]
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Saturday, May 15, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Kicking Off This Weekend
14th – 16 May, 2021 – Online Aye Write’s online book festival kicks off this weekend with award winning writers and stars from stage and screen. The Aye Write online book festival starts this weekend (Friday 14 May to Sunday 16 May) with a packed programme of events including award-winning writers, stars of stage and […]
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Living Our Dying – anthology pre-sale launch
Thursday 13th May, 2021 at 7pm Invitation to pre-sale launch 10th to 16th May is Demystifying Death Week, so fitting that crowd funding appeal is launched on Thursday 13th May at 7pm for an hour. You are invited to a Zoom meeting: Living Our Dying – meet the editors, Larry Butler and Sheila Templeton…and hear […]
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Mel Giedroyc – debut novel
Chaired by Gabriella Bennett 15 May, 2021 4.45pm – 5.45pm Mel Giedroyc has been entertaining the nation for nearly thirty years. A comedian, writer, actor and presenter, Mel is best known for her work with Sue Perkins in the double act Mel & Sue. They have presented many TV shows such as multi Bafta-winning The […]
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Aye Write 2021 introduces Scottish Debuts
14 May, 2021 – 10.30am – 11.30am New Scottish Writing Talent Vikki Reilly from Publishing Scotland introduces a diverse range of new Scottish writing talent including Fiction, Memoir, short stories and crime. Featuring: Ross Macfarlane (Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer), Emma Grae (Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy), Flora Johnston (What You Call Free), […]
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Digging Out A Niche: In Conversation with Graham Lironi and Ian Spring
12 May, 2021 – 7 p.m. Online Event by Rymour Books Free – Register at Evenbrite Graham Graham Lironi and Ian Spring in conversation with Ruby McCann Rymour Books in collaboration with the Still At Home Literary Fringe Festival presents a virtual chat about the craft of fiction writing with writers, Graham Lironi and Ian […]
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Aye Write Programme 2021
Aye Write announces its full cast of authors for the digital book festival 2021 – 14 May to 16 May and 21 to 23 May. Programme and Tickets Aye Write is Glasgow’s Book Festival and is produced by Glasgow Life, the charity which delivers culture and sport in the city. The live book festival, usually held […]
Aye Write 2021 – Helen McClory & Ruth Thomas
15 May, 2021 – 11.45 a.m. – 12.45 p.m. Prize-winning Scottish Authors Helen McClory & Ruth Thomas chaired by Sara Davies Helen McClory’s first collection of stories, On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year. Her latest novel, Bitterhall is a story of obsession told between three unreliable narrators. In […]
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Aye Write 2021 – A City and a Family’s Story of Slavery
Friday 14 May, 2021 – 3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Craig Lamont & Alex Renton with Graham Campbell chaired by Naomi Shoba Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. His book, […]
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Glasgow Trade Union May Day 2021
Saturday the 1st of May, 2021 from 12 noon till around 1 pm. Event by Neil Snuggles Anderson, Jennifer McCarey and Glasgow Trades Council Online with Facebook Live Tomorrow at 12:00 UTC+01 Price: free Glasgow May Day 2021, the event will be held online this year on Register at Eventbrite The theme of this year’s Glasgow may day is […]
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Friday, April 30, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Africa in Motion – Notions of Citizenship
Africa in Motion Launches New Film Series on Notions of Citizenship 29th April – 1st May 2021 With guest filmmakers and speakers including Bazi Gete, Dr Ophira Gamliel, Dr Awol Allo, Victor Opeyokun and Ellie Foumbi. New film series titled Transgressing Citizenship in the Black Imagination. Drawing on the concepts of citizenship, the relationship to […]
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Scottish Communities Climate Action Network Online Meetup
Tuesday, 4 May 2021 from 2.00 p.m. – 3.30p.m. (New members please join the event at 1.30 p.m. for induction and welcome. ) Register at Eventbrite Event by Scottish Communities Climate Action Network and Sccan Secretariat Virtual networking cafe. Bring your community experience, your ideas, your questions and your own cake! SCCAN cafe is a conversation based […]
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The Joan Eardley Centenary Celebration
Tuesday, 18 May 2021 – 3 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. Free Online Event – Register at Eventbrite The Hunterian,University of Glasgow, is delighted to be hosting the Joan Eardley Centenary, in partnership with The Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network About this Event Hosted by BBC Arts Correspondent Pauline McLean, this online event brings together an […]
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Greenpeace Glasgow Group joins nationwide protest against deep sea mining
Over the weekend of 24th-25th April, volunteers from Greenpeace Glasgow Group took part in a nationwide protest calling for the UK Government to ensure our oceans are off-limits to deep sea mining. Volunteers photographed home-made banners along the Kelvin Walkway, Lomond Shores, Balloch and Dumbarton Rock. Images from the Glasgow Greenpeace Group’s protests, along with […]
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Monday, April 26, 2021 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Femspectives Film Festival 2021 announces full programme
Femspectives Online Festival Week 23 – 25 April, 2021 The third annual Glasgow-based feminist film festival will host international feature films, short films, discussions and a Feminist Film Quiz Alongside a programme of international features and shorts, the festival will host a range of live discussions and a special Feminist Film Quiz. Highlights Highlights include […]
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Saturday, April 24, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
