CLIC Sargent – World Book Day Fundraiser
Young Lives Against Cancer Fundraiser Get Into Good Books this World Book Day! All this week (Until 7 March, 2021) more than 60 well-known authors are offering YOU the chance to win exclusive prizes to raise money for young lives against cancer. With CLIC’s Good Books auction you could name a character in a book, […]
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Spring Fling Queen Margaret Drive
22 – 28 March, 2021 Queen Margaret Drive Community and Teresa Lowe Online event Free Spring forward with the QMD Community this March for a fabulous Spring Fling featuring a range of fun and free online activities for all including: Window Wonderland Artist Shop Window Takeover! Sun 28th March 11-4pm Online Street Festival featuring music performances, workshops […]
How Poets See The World – Paisley Book Festival 2021 review by Pat Byrne
Paisley Book Festival At Home With poets and writers: Brian Whittingham, Basia Palka, Sean McMenemy, Jim Ferguson and Kay Metcalfe It was lovely to sit down with a coffee in my living room and catch this Paisley Book Festival event on YouTube. Brian Whittingham introduced the event by telling us that : ‘a poet’s job […]
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Friday, February 26, 2021 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
How Poets See The World – Paisley Book Festival Online 2021
How Poets See The World with Brian Whittingham 22 February, 2021, 5 p.m. Free. Book Tickets Join Renfrewshire’s Tannahill Makar Brian Whittingham for an hour of readings from Paisley connected poets, who share their visions of the world and make some projections for its future. Featuring Jim Ferguson, Basia Palka, Kay Metcalfe and Sean McMenemy, […]
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Thursday, February 18, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
New Patterns for Paisley, Paisley Book Festival
Poetry and Publishing 23 February, 20217 p.m. Round table event discussing transformational effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Scottish writing and opportunities this presents for Paisley writers. Panellists include: John Scally, National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland; Linda Jackson: writer, editor and creative writing tutor; Jim Ferguson: poet, novelist and […]
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Breaking Boundaries: Main Reading Vahni Capildeo and Mark Waldron
Sunday 21st February – 8.00pm-9.00pm Tickets: £5 – Book Online – Brewery Arts Centre Vahni Capildeo’s seven books and five pamphlets extend from prose poetry into immersive theatre. Capildeo’s work is intimate yet full of humour, far-ranging and far-reaching and always fearless in its challenge to the boundaries of poetry and what it can do. Mark […]
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
More premieres and guests announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2021
GFF21 Online from 24 February until 7 March Tina GFF will host UK premiere of Tina, a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, on 5 March. Further Details – Tina First Cow Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow will receive its UK premiere at GFF on 5 March. Further Details […]
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What It Means To Overcome – Paisley Film Festival
(What it Means) to Overcome: Poems and short stories with Charlie Gracie, Donal McLaughlin & Mairi Murphy 23 February, 2021 5 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free Charlie Gracie, Donal McLaughlin & Mairi Murphy are three local writers with strong Irish roots. One emigrated to Paisley as a child, whilst two are second generation. The […]
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Sunday, February 14, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Truman and Tennessee
GFT At Home 1 – 4 March, 2021 Book Online £9.99 Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were friends for the best part of 40 years. Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s poignant documentary captures the complexity of a relationship that journeyed from fond regard to bitchy disdain and back again. A wealth of archive material confirms the two literary giants […]
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The World I Fell Out Of – Melanie Reid
Paisley Book Festival 20 February, 2021 – 4 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free In 2010, award-winning writer and The Times columnist Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back. Paralysed from the top of her chest down, she was to spend almost a full year in hospital, determinedly […]
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Crossways Literary Festival 2021 – Online
12 – 14 February, 2021 Crossways: The Irish Scottish Cultural & Literary Festival The first two Crossways Festivals took place in the Merchant City, Glasgow, in the spring of 2018 and 2019. Due to the ongoing Pandemic, this year’s Festival must be a virtual one. Although online, Virtual Crossways 2021 will nonetheless be a substantial series of […]
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Saturday, February 13, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Valentine's Day 2021, Valentines Day Glasgow, Zoom and online events
Vivian French and The Giant’s Tea Party
Paisley Book Festival – 20 February, 202 10 a.m. Family Event Age 5 – 10 years Tickets are Free – Book Online Beloved children’s author and picture book expert Vivian French brings us a rollicking new fairytale adventure, The Giant’s Tea Party, which tells the story of Prince Max as he ventures into the valley […]
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Spring Blossom, Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Online
Available on Glasgow Film At Home from Sunday 7 until 10 March, 2021 £9.99 Buy Online Oh to be young and in love. The UK premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s dreamy, remarkably assured directorial debut provides the perfect conclusion to the 2021 Glasgow Film Festival. The daughter of Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon, Lindon emerges as a force […]
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Thursday, February 11, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Valentine's Day 2021, Valentines Day Glasgow, Zoom and online events
Jumbo, Glasgow Film Festival Online 2021
Available: 27 February until 2 March, 2021 £9.99 buy online Love is where you find it in Jumbo, a quirky charmer of a debut from Zoé Wittock, ‘inspired’ by a true story. Awkward, painfully shy Jeanne (Noémie Merlant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire) lives with her blowsy mother (Emmanuelle Bercot) and works as a cleaner at an […]
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Preparations To Be Together, Glasgow Film Festival Online
Available 2 March, 2021 £9.99 Book Online. ‘a multi-layered rumination on love, fate and the blurry lines between desire, obsession and reality.’ Lili Horvat’s striking noir-tinged second feature is pitched somewhere between the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock and Krzystof Kieslowski. Marta (Natasa Stork) is a 40-year-old neurosurgeon. At a medical conference in New Jersey, she meets […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Industry Focus Progamme
Full programme announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Industry Focus Monday 1 – Saturday 6 March, 2021 Events include Spotlight interviews with 1917 writer Krysty Wilson- Cairns and The Mauritanian director Kevin Macdonald MUBI Ambassador programme for filmmakers under 30 with Ben Sharrock, John MacPhail, Eva Riley and Rachel Jackson Glasgow Film Festival (GFF)Industry Focus […]
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Pat's Home Page Blog
Newtopia: Women With Fierce Words, Paisley Book Festival
18 February, 2021 9.30 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free Newtopia is a multimedia performance of writing emerging from women’s disrupted lives as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is presented by Women With Fierce Words – an inclusive collective of established women writers. They will be joined from India by the award-winning poet, […]
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Friday, February 5, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Paisley Book Festival 2021 – Online
18 – 27 February, 2021 During Lockdown books and reading have been a great source of comfort for so many people. The Paisley Book Festival has a fabulous programme lined up with something for everyone on their digital stage. Radical New Futures: Launch Event 18 February, 7 p.m. Hannah Lavery, Laura Waddell and Alan Bissett […]
Street Level Photography: In Focus, Brexit Tears
4 February, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. Online Event by Street Level Photoworks Price: free · Duration: 1 hr Public · Anyone on or off Facebook In Focus: Calum Colvin and Robert Crawford ‘Brexit Tears’. Livestreamed through Facebook. Join artist Calum Colvin and poet Robert Crawford who will present excerpts from their project ‘Brexit Tears’. It tells the story […]
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Tidelines Festival Winter Warmer Poetry Events
Winter Warmer Poetry Friday January 29th and February 5th, 2021 at 7.30pm for Winter Warmer Poetry season. Welcoming a range of talented poets, many of them from Ayrshire, who will feature at Tidelines Winter Warmer Events – some on 29 January and some on February 5th. Sign up on Tidelines YouTube Channel and set alerts […]
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Thursday, January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Paisley Book Festival – A Kist of Thistles
25th February, 2021 a 5 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free A Kist of Thistles is a new anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Scotland published by Culture Matters, which includes new and previously published work from a diverse range of poets from Scotland and beyond. This collection includes Renfrewshire based poets, new working class poets, […]
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Friday, January 22, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Film Festival Institut Francais
Before the Night 23 – 25 January, 2021 SEE FULL PROGRAMME AND BOOK ONLINE FRI 22 JAN – 15:30 | CINÉ KIDS Fritzi – a Revolutionary Tale FRI 22 JAN – 18:30 | FILM Touki Bouki SAT 23 JAN – 18:30 | FILM Waiting for Happiness SAT 23 JAN – 14:00 | CINÉ KIDS Fritzi […]
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How Does It Feel To Be Loved – Virtual Dance Party
Virtual Dance Party Saturday January 23rd, 2021 – 11pm-3am A slightly later running time for the disco this week – 11pm-3am. Celebrating the airing of Teenage Superstars on Sky Arts, sstarting after the film has finished. Come to the aftershow party and dance to The Pastels, BMX Bandits, The Soup Dragons, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, […]
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The Burns Supper Addressed Burns Centre University of Glasgow
Friday 29 January 2021 on Zoom A virtual celebration of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns: “The Burns Supper Addressed.” 2021 marks the 220th anniversary of the first Burns Supper held and experts from University of Glasgow’s world-leading Centre for Robert Burns Studies will explore this long history of celebration. They will also consider the poet’s […]
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COP26 Global Event In Glasgow – Seeks Volunteers
Step Forward and Get Involved – Applications open to Volunteers You can apply to volunteer from Wednesday 20 January, 2021 At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP26 – Taking Place in Glasgow, 1 – 12 November 2021 Glasgow City Council is looking for a team of around 1000 volunteers to support the […]
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Fright Fest Glasgow Film Festival Online 2021
Fright Fest – films available at home 5 & 6 March, 2021 Arrow Video’s FrightFest returns to GFF, delivering your yearly dose of horror-fantasy cinema. Films will screen across the weekend, beginning on Friday 5 March. You can purchase film bundle and hunker down for a weekend of terrifying delights or rent individual films. Rent […]
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Monday, January 18, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2021
Believe in Scotland Virtual Burns Supper
Saturday, 23 January, 2021 6.30 p..m. – 7 p.m. Start £15 – Buy tickets The Believe in Scotland Virtual Burns Supper will take place on Saturday, January 23. All proceeds will be spent on campaigning for Scottish independence – a stellar line up to entertain and enlighten you, ranging from the best Burns and folk […]
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A Virtual Burns Night Edinburgh Castle
MONDAY, 25 JANUARY 2021 AT 17:00 UTC A Virtual Burns Night On the bard’s birthday this January y Edinburgh Castle and Historic Scotland will be celebrating in the glorious halls at Edinburgh Castle. Join them as they explore the life and lines of Robert Burns through song and poetry. Raise a glass with costumed performers Lady Clara and […]
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Janey Godley’s Big Burns Supper Online
Monday 25 January, 2021 7 p.m. on YouTube Details on Facebook With Dumfries Big TV, KT Tunstall, Captain Mustard and Dijon 5, Grant Dinwoodie, Time Lines, The Ukulele Band of G.B. and Janey Godley’s Fan Page
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Bemis – Celtic Connections in the Community
16 January, 2021 at 6 p.m. Tickets £2 only Featuring Brina, Danny Cliff, Ando Glaso Collective, St. Roch’s Trio, and The Cosmic Shruti Box. ‘BEMIS Scotland are the national, ethnic minority led, voluntary sector umbrella body supporting the development of the ethnic minority third sector. The organisation believes in the power of intangible cultural heritage such […]
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Friday, January 15, 2021 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
