Stuart Cosgrove, Govanhill Book Festival
Friday 28 August, 2020 at 7 p.m. Online on Facebook Stuart Cosgrove is a well know writer and broadcaster. His “Soul Trilogy” Detroit 67, Memphis 68 and Harlem 69 weave a wonderful story of soul music set against a backdrop of civil rights, the war in Vietnam and disaffected youth. They are particularly relevant today […]
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White Riot, Govanhill International Festival
Friday 21 August, 2020, 7. p.m. – 10 p.m. Screening, Q & A and Afterparty Watch Online Glasgow Film is delighted to be partnering with Glasgow Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR), Smoking Bear and Modern Films on the opening event of the Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 2020. It’s three years since the first Govanhill […]
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Zine Making, Govanhill Book Festival 2020
Community Building and Anti-racism: Zine-making with Glasgow Zine Library Monday 24 August, 2020 6:00pm Register Online Zines are a creative and effective way to express yourself and to share a message. They are used by groups to organise and activate others, and as a platform to create communities in marginalised groups seeking alternative DIY methods […]
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Denise Mina, Govanhill Book Festival 2020
Monday 24, August, 2020 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Denise has published 12 novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels. In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame. Denise presents TV and radio programmes as well as regularly appearing in the media, and has made a film about […]
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Govanhill International Festival 2020
21 until 31 August, 2020 Govanhill International Festival – now in its fourth year, is an anti-racist festival. It celebrates the contribution immigrants have made to the diversity, culture, community and the rich history of the area. Elven days of film, music, books, talks, walks, art, kids activities and more! Join in and celebrate the […]
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Take One Action 2020
Take One Action 2020 announces full programme All films will be available to stream from 16 – 27 September. The UK’s leading global change film festival returns with an online programme of nearly 30 feature length and short documentaries and dramas The 13th annual festival will showcase 6 UK premieres, with 75% of features & […]
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Edinburgh Festivals Past 1954 – 1969
National Library of Scotland Kelvin Hall Until 20 August, 2020 2020 , ’ #, National Library of Scotland . , . , , , , ’ – ’ . # : 1954 1969, ve Choose which decade you want to visit by selecting a film from the list below: () https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/1493 This film covers Edinburgh’s […]
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Glasgow Short Film Festival Online
17 August, 2020 at 19:00 – 23 August, 2020 at 22:00 Hosted by Glasgow Short Film Festival Online event Get Tickets #GSFF20online is a special online-only event. See the full programme The 12th GSFF should have taken place back in March – you can now catch a modified version online. Passes are on sale now […]
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Monday, August 17, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Marian Keyes – Edinburgh Book Festival Online
Marian Keyes: Family Matters Wed 19 August, 2020 19:00 – 20:00 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Captioned event. Marian Keyes didn’t start writing until her twenties, she felt that she was ‘all washed up at 30.’ But readers have had a love affair with Keyes that has lasted over two decades […]
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Philippe Sands with Ian Rankin: On the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
Edinburgh Book Festival Online 2020 Tuesday 18 August, 2020 19:00 – 20:00 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Philippe Sands’s much celebrated memoir East West Street, which won the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize, expertly interwove the personal story of his ancestors in the Ukrainian city of Lviv with a professional interest in the establishment […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Online: THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE EVENT
Mon 17 August, 2020 14:30 – 15:30 Michele Hutchison & Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: Reap What You Sow The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by ‘Great art doesn’t just reinforce or reassure: the authors we love challenge us; they illuminate new perspectives, make us question our certainties. They discomfort us.’ From its […]
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Get Adventurous with Lily Dyu & Helen Skelton
Edinburgh Book Festival Tuesday 18 August, 2020 16:00 – 17:00 Baillie Gifford Children’s Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by AGE 8+ Would you like to race across mountains, fly into space or journey to Antarctica? Well, why don’t you? In this live event you’ll be inspired to get active and get adventurous after hearing the […]
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Val McDermid – Portrait of a Criminal
Edinburgh Book Festival Online Sat 15 Aug, 2020 17:30 – 18:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Captioned and BSL interpreter viewing options. Use the toggle on the videoplayer page to choose which version to watch. BSLEvent With Val McDermid’s iconic detective soon set to hit our screens, it couldn’t be a […]
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Stuart Cosgrove ‘The Soul of Muhammad Ali’
Edinburgh Book Festival Monday 17 August, 2020 11:30 – 12:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Following on from his acclaimed Soul Trilogy about the American soul music scene in the 1960s, much-loved Scottish broadcaster and writer Stuart Cosgrove returns to the American post-war era with his highly topical new book. In Cassius […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival The New York Times Book Review Live
THE NEW YORK TIMES SERIES Sunday 16 August, 2020 17:30 – 18:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by ‘There is an intimacy to reading: it’s just us and the author; our subjective response and their generous, imaginative understanding of a world that we share but may struggle to articulate. Yet […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Books for Sale
Bookshop is Now Online The Edinburgh International Book Festival Bookshop is now open for business! The Bookshop offers titles from every author in the 2020 programme and showcases a range of books from Scottish publishers. You can search by genre and title and also browse by events in the programme, making it easy to find the […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt
Sat 15 Aug, 2020 10:00 – 10:50 Gruffalos, Conjurors and Teeny Weeny Genies with Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt Baillie Gifford Children’s Theatre Online Free, online In the first of two bumper Book Festival shows from the award-winning author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson treats you to some lively storytelling from her magical book, The Teeny Weeny […]
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Celebrating Diversity Festival
17 August, 2020 at 18:00 – 23 August, 2020 at 18:00 Hosted by Sheba Arts A week of celebration showcasing original work including: poetry, animation, digital theatre, discussion, visual arts and online crafts for children. Enjoy the festival from your own home. Further information at Sheba Arts at Facebook. including participants including: Parham Ghalamdar (Iranian-born […]
SHA Virtual Kiltwalk Weekend 2020
11 – 13 September, 2020 Join Kiltwalkers across the country in coming together virtually this September to make a difference for Scottish Huntington’s Association. Families living with Huntington’s disease have faced severe additional challenges during this pandemic but because of the incredible fundraising efforts of our supporters, it’s possible to make sure no one has […]
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Friday, August 7, 2020 | Filed under: Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Starchild Sunflower Sanctuary – Autism
Starchild’s dream has been to build a sanctuary for families and children affected by autism. The stigmas and myths that surround disabilities in Uganda are frankly horrendous with many being locked up, chained up, ridiculed, raped and abused. In many communities, they believe them to be cursed by the devil and the mother also. With […]
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Starchild
Sound & Vision Drive-In Summer 2020
Glasgow Film Festival and Electric Frog Music and Movie Drive-In 30 July– 9 August, 2020 Two of Glasgow’s best loved festivals are joining forces to create a special movie and music drive-in taking place in July. Sound & Vision Drive-In is a unique collaboration between Scotland’s creative electronic music and film festivals: Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) […]
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Monday, July 13, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Bloody Scotland 2020 – Debut Shortlist and McIlvanney Prize Longlist
Debut shortlist & McIlvanney Prize longlist 2020 announced! 23rd June, 2020 There will be no Bloody Scotland gathering in Stirling in September but the prizes must go on! The shortlist for the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the Year and the longlist for the McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year […]
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Saturday, July 4, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, New Books by Scottish Writers
Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival Rouken Glen
25 and 26 July, 2020, 1 p.m. – 9 p.m. Tickets from Skiddle Rouken Glen Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival celebrates all that’s good about Scotland’s thriving urban food and drink culture. In Glasgow’s leafy south side award winning park, Rouken Glen Park, some of Scotland’s best food trucks, street food operators and independent […]
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Sunday, June 28, 2020 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
World Refugee Day Saturday 20 June, 2020
Tomorrow is World Refugee Day Kiki K Yoga – Yoga for Kindness, 20 June, 2020 at 6 p.m. Celebrate #WorldRefugeeDay with a gentle Yoga for Kindness practice. This 45-minute practice is based on classes taught to a group of refugee and asylum seeking women who find it hard to access mainstream yoga classes. It is […]
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Friday, June 19, 2020 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Refugee Festival Scotland, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
French Film Festival UK November – December 2020
French Film Festival UK reveals early programme plans The organisers of the French Film Festival are delighted to announce the current programme for this year’s 28th edition with plans to run the Festival across November and December 2020. The programme, which is still a work in progress, will feature films which include classics like Costa-Gavras’ nailbiting thriller The Sleeping Car Murders, running […]
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Stuck in the Suburbs – Refuweegee
Refuweegee Benefit Gig – June 25, 2020 – 8 p.m. Line Up Dean Owens, Christine Bovill, Tam Dean Burn, Sarah MacDougall and Tim Dowling and chums so please do join on Zoom. The show will run from 8.00 and last for around an hour. https://www.refuweegee.co.uk/ Refuweegee is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Details […]
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Friday, June 12, 2020 | Filed under: Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Zoom and online events
‘A Handful of Dates’ Africa in Motion Online
Friday 5 June, 2020 In a mythical Sudanese village between the desert and the Nile, a young boy enjoys an idyllic childhood, taking pleasure in the fertile fruits of the land and basking by the river. But the boy’s precious world begins to unravel when he learns the disturbing truth behind his family’s fortune, and […]
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The Atom: A Love Affair GFT watch online
GFT care offering ustomers £1 off the rental price to watch The Atom: A Love Affair. They receive a percentage of profits from each rental using thir discount code, so you can watch a fantastic film and support GFT at the same time. Use the code GFTATOM at checkout, or purchase the film by clicking THE DIRECT […]
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
BAKOSÓ: AFROBEATS DE CUBA FILM – Africa in Motion
12 June, 2020 at 7 p.m. What does ‘Está Rico’ by Marc Anthony, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with ‘Made For Now’ by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both hijacked Afrobeats and did not give the genre’s origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite, following DJ Jigüe to his hometown of Santiago de […]
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Live from a Tenement – Chiara Berardelli
31 May, 2020 at 8 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. ‘I know, I know, just as we start going outside I’m asking you to stay in! Well you don’t want to overdo that sunshine do you? Got to pace yourself.’ Join Chiara Berardelli and hear some new, and old, tunes. Event on Facebook Raising funds for […]
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