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ProjectAbility – Online Exhibition ‘Altered Space’

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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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Scotland’s Untold Story of Colonialism, Slavery and Resistance

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The Hunterian, University of Glasgow 2 June, 2021 at 12 noon – 1.30 p.m. Free Event – Register for Ticket Old Ways New Roads event, featuring a film screening of ‘1745’ and discussion around colonialism, slavery and resistance About this event In 1745, while the Jacobites were fighting for the restoration of the Stuarts to the […]

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Sunday, May 23, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Free Events, Zoom and online events

Composting and food waste reduction workshop

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Woodlands Community Garden Sun, 23 May, 2021 and  Sun, 13 June, 2021 – 3 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. Event by Woodlands Community Anyone on or off Facebook Woodlands Community Compost Project As a way to support increased home composting Woodland Community Gardens are piloting a new Woodlands Community Compost Project. Project participants will receive a 220 […]

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Smokehead Sessions – Dave Arcari Wildcats

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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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University of Glasgow: Care, Rights and Covid – Discussion

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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

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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

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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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Living Our Dying – anthology pre-sale launch

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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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Joan Eardley Centenary – Writers Celebrate her work

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Writers celebrate the work of Joan Eardley in this special event to mark her centenary and launch a new call for work for an anthology. 18 May, 2021 at 7.30 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. Online – Free – Register at Eventbrite About this Event “All becomes art, and as if she was incensed By the […]

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Maryhill Matters May Day Matters

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Saturday 1 May at 12 p.m. Event by Maryhill Matters The Whitehouse 1641 Maryhill Road Price: free · Duration: 4 hr Facebook Join the event over a coffee for a completely informal networking opportunity linking local organisations with the community • Find out what’s going on in Maryhill • Feed in your ideas • Enjoy […]

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The Joan Eardley Centenary Celebration

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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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Lizzie Reid at Stirling Tolbooth Shindig Online

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22 April, 2021 7 p.m. Online Tolbooth Facebook Free Tolbooth Shindig is back for 2021 with a brand new series of concerts that have been filmed live in Tolbooth Stirling, and will be broadcast weekly on a Thursday from Tolbooth Facebook. They are free to enjoy, and until we can all come together again in […]

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Carlton Sessions

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The Stellar Matrix10 April 2021 at 9 p.m. Free online gig by  Carlton Studios Online with Facebook  Price: free Public  · Anyone on or off  Glasgow band The Stellar Matrix were formed in 2018. The bands many influences include Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors, The Eels, Leonard Cohen and Pink Floyd. Their alternative sound cooks […]

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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | Filed under: Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Zoom and online events

St Patrick’s Day Online Quiz

17 March, 2021, 9 p.m. Event by The Stayin’ Inn Free A  whole 12 months of these quizzes, so another celebration and once  again raising money for the Beatson Cancer Charity. You’ll get one raffle entry for every £5 you Donate at Just Giving  Prizes • An overnight stay for 2 with Breakfast at the […]

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Red Skirts on Clydeside #IWD2021

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Govanhill Baths Community Trust – 8 March, 2021 The final film in tomorrow’s International Women’s Day Film Festival line-up – and our headliner – is Red Skirts on Clydeside by the Sheffield Film Cooperative. Red Skirts on Clydeside seeks to unearth the details of women’s political involvement with the legendary Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. […]

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Creative Conversations: Kirstin Innes

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Monday 08 March 2021 1 – 2 p.m. Creative Conversations Lunchtime Series hosted by Creative Writing College of Arts, University of Glasgow  Kirstin Innes, Writer and Journalist in conversation with Zoe Strachan. Free on Zoom (When you register you will be sent link to attend the event online.) Kirstin Innes is an award-winning writer and […]

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Wild Women International Womens Day 2021

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Magi Gibson and Gerda Stevenson in Virtual Conversation Join poet Magi Gibson and fellow poet, playwright and actress Gerda Stevenson for this special ‘Wild Women’ event to mark International Women’s Day 2021 Inspired by IWD’s 2021 theme, #ChoosetoChallenge, Magi and Gerda will be reading from a selection of their works, as well as discussing what inspires […]

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Unite Industrial Women – #IWD2021

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For International Women’s Day, Unite will be hosting a panel of  speakers discussing their journeys & experiences as female trade unionists in Scotland. Sign up for the webinar on zoom Or watch it live on Facebook the 8th of March, 2021 7 p.m. If you have any questions you would like to put to the […]

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International Women’s Day – Virtual Book Club

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8 March, 2021 6 p.m. We are glad to invite you to our first virtual book club for International Women’s Day. Caroline Criado Perez’ Invisible Women We will be discussion Parts II and IV (‘The Workplace’ and ‘Going to the Doctor’) of Caroline Criado Perez’s bestseller ‘Invisible Women’. Free Online Event Register for Event Join […]

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Book Launch – Peter May: The Night Gate

Thursday, 18 March 2021 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Online Event by Wee Three Indies, The Edinburgh Bookshop and 2 others Free Tickets £5-£20 Get Your Tickets From: Edinburgh Book Shop Madding Crowd Linlithgow Atkinson-Pryce At EventBrite Ticket holders will receive the event link the day before. (Note: Early pre-orders for the book from one of the […]

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Introductions to birding in Glasgow – with Scott Rogers Part IV(Nature Recovery)

Woodlands Community 3 March, 2021 5.30 p.m. Bird Watch – Online Workshop Event by Woodlands Community Online Event. Register for this event. Free · Duration: 1 hr Have you been finding solace in appreciating the birds during lock down? What to find out more identification tips and tricks to develop knowledge of how to bird […]

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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 […]

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The Knitting Station by Kirsti Wishart – book launch

Friday 5 March, 2021 6 p.m. Event by Rymour Books Free Online Event BOOK LAUNCH – March 5 2021 @6:00 pm. Rymour Books invites you to the launch of The Knitting Station, a very Scottish saga of counter espionage, knitting, sheep and the debut novel of writer, Kirsti Wishart. Join the Event The Zoom link […]

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Zero Waste Sunday Social – fast fashion and textile waste

Sunday 28 February, 2021 – 3 p.m. Woodland Community – Online Waste is a huge problem for our local and global environment. Most of our waste goes to landfill and creates harmful greenhouse gasses – CO2 and methane – which contributes to global warming accelerating climate change as well as the plastic particles polluting our […]

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February Noise – Refuweegee

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Event by Refuweegee, Sounds in the Suburbs and Alan Hendry Online: refuweegee.co.uk Thursday 25 February, 2021 at 8 PM UTC Price: Free Register for Zoom Link and Details Sounds in the Suburbs is hosting Refuweegee fundraiser gigs, usually on the last Thursday of every month. Andy White, Findlay Napier, Gillian Tuite, Darden Smith and Lilly Hiatt all confirmed for February […]

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Monday, February 22, 2021 | Filed under: Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, Zoom and online events

How Poets See The World – Paisley Book Festival Online 2021

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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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Creative Conversations: Scarlett Thomas

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Monday 22 February, 2021 at 1 p.m. Creative Conversations Lunchtime Series hosted by Creative Writing College of Arts, University of Glasgow  On Zoom – Free Register at EventBrite You will be sent the link to attend the meeting Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of the Worldquake series and nine novels […]

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The World I Fell Out Of – Melanie Reid

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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

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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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Street Level Photography: In Focus, Brexit Tears

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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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