Fun Bat Walk, Glasgow Green
Friday, 25 August, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Another FREE event hosted by Friends of People’s Palace Winter Gardens Glasgow Green. Meet at 7.30p.m. at The McLellan Arch, Main Entrance to Glasgow Green at Saltmarket, Glasgow G1 5DB Come along to this interesting and informative Talk and Walk by the Bats Conservation Trust and […]
Doon the Watter with Friends of People’s Palace Winter Gardens & Glasgow Green
17th July, 2023 – 12 Noon until 3 p.m. Fair Monday Afternoon – Free, Fun Event for All the Family All activities plus refreshments are free – remembering the Glesga Fair when families all went” Doon The Watter” on the great Clyde steamers. Come along and bring kids and grandchildren. Face Painting Balloon Modeller Super […]
Glasgow Mela 2023
Sunday 25 June, 2023, 12 noon until 8 p.m. Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow West End Free multi-cultural festival brings music, dance, arts and vibrancy to the heart of Glasgow’s West End. With two live music stages, a funfair, delicious food stalls with tasty bites from across the globe and loads more, it’s Scotland’s biggest Mela! Mela […]
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Saturday, June 24, 2023 | Filed under: Community event, Dance, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Lincoln Laughs
Thursday 22 June, 2023 at 8 p.m. Lincoln Inn Bar, 2131 Great Western Road, Knightswood, Glasgow, G13 2XX Come along to the Lincoln Inn’s fabulous and cosy wee Lounge on Thursday 22 June . Come see Emerging and Experienced stand up acts try out their newer stuff on a Thursday Evening in Lincoln Inn’s lovely […]
Wilton Street Garden Fete, Glasgow West End
Saturday 17 June, 2023, 1.30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Wilton Street Garden Fete with its usual range of fantastic stalls, live music, great food, kids’ entertainment, local artists and craft workers and cakes – did we mention cakes? Free Entry. Everyone welcome! Wilton Street, North Kelvinside, G20 Part of WestFest
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Ashton Lane Street Party
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June, 2023 Free, fun event for all the family Food and drinks from all venues on the lane including: Brel, Innis & Gunn, Vodka Wodka, The Grosvenor Cafe, The Gardener, Jinty McGinty’s, Ramen Dayo, Ubiquitous Chip & Ashoka Entertainment including: DJs Face Painters Balloon Artists Market Stalls Event on Facebook
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Paintings on Railings at West Fest
10th June, 2023, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Mansfield Park, G11 5QW 11th, 17, 18, 24, 26 June at: Railings at Botanic Gardens, Queen Margaret Drive, G20 8NZ. The annual display of local artists showing their paintings, drawings, ceramics and jewellery for sale. Please note – weather dependent! To exhibit, please contact Selma (Modest […]
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, 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
SCAP Writers – Donald Murray on Zoom
Thursday 15th June, 2023 at 7pm. Hosted by Linda Jackson and Donna Campbell. Special guest Donald Murray Also featuring: Bobby Motherwell, Hannah Nicholson and Judith Taylor. SCAP – Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications Donald S Murray is a Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright from Ness in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Robert Burns Photography Exhibition – A Window On Ukraine
2nd June – 16th July 2023 Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road G12 8AP Part of WestFest 2023 A Window on Ukraine offers distinctive observations and reflections of the country over several years by Glasgow-based photographer Robert Burns, who has been visiting Ukraine since 2007. Whilst on holiday in Crete in 2006, a chance meeting by Robert Burns […]
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Free End of Term Golf For Glasgow School Children
Thousands of kids from across Glasgow and South Lanarkshire invited to Come Play Around this summer with FREE Topgolf sessions More than 2,000 Glaswegian and South Lanarkshire children and young people are swinging into the end of term with free Topgolf sessions at Glasgow’s biggest and most exciting interactive golf experience. Youngsters from more than […]
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| Filed under: Free Events, Kids and young people, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow
Lids Open Night ( Summer ) 2023
21 June, 2023 4.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Mackintosh Queens Cross Church, 870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow G20 7EL Come and play the beautiful Steinway piano on stage under ‘GAIA’ as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of MQC and the 10th anniversary of our piano project starting life in 2013. Full details on the Glasgow […]
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Sunday, June 4, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Vinicombe Street Gala 2023
Saturday 3 June, 2023 – Noon until 5 p.m. Come and celebrate the first Saturday of WestFest at the fabulous Vinicombe Street Gala. At the Piazza, top of Byres Road, (opposite Waitrose). Enjoy an afternoon of live music, dancers, circus performers and the fantastic SambaYaBamba! Also street theatre, balloon artists, face-painting and lots more. Free […]
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Friday, June 2, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
The Big Sunday at the Bandstand
Sunday 4 June, 2023 from 11 a.m. Kelvingrove Bandstand, off Kelvin Way, Glasgow West End. After the success of the Big Weekend last year, WestFest is excited to be back at Kelvingrove Bandstand in 2023 for a jam-packed programme of free, community events in partnership with Glasgow Music. Come and join the afternoon gala then […]
Dragon Boat Festival – University of Glasgow
Friday 2 June, 2023, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – Confucius Institute, University of Glasgow All are welcome to join the Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – crafts, tea ceremony, sticky rice dumpling making, music. Tickets free, but limited! Book your ticket. Kelvin Gallery Gilbert Scott Building University Avenue (Gilchrist Postgraduate Club […]
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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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Islets of Silence – using theatre to talk about cancer
Wednesday 24 May, 2023, 1.30 p.m. – 3. p.m. The Mitchell Library North Street Glasgow G3 7DN By TramDirect with Macmillan@Glasgow Libraries Background The play was written and directed by Isobel Barrett after losing her husband to Pancreatic Cancer through misdiagnosis. Her husband died after only 3 weeks. Her main aim in writing the play is to […]
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Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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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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 […]
Mary Irvine: Review of ‘Gods of the Crossroads’ by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Helensburgh based Robin Lloyd- Jones is the author of some 18 books, fiction and non-fiction, many receiving prizes, including his biography of W.H. Murray ‘The Sunlit Summit’, which won the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Award in 2003 His first historical novel, ‘Lord of the Dance’, 1982, set in sixteenth-century India was the […]
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Sunday, May 14, 2023 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Reading and Conversation with Dr Samantha Walton
Tuesday 16 May, 2023 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 A reading and conversation with Dr Samantha Walton, hosted by Maria Sledmere, plus performances from Strathclyde students Creative Writing at University of Strathclyde Free Event Register at EventBrite
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events
Robin Lloyd Jones Launch: Gods of the Lost Crossroads
Robin’s first two historical novels were nominated for the Booker Prize. Hoping to go further this time … You are cordially invited to the launch of Robin’s novel GODS OF THE LOST CROSSROADS There will be two launch events: Tuesday 23rd May at Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 6.15 – 8.00 pm […]
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SCCAN. Member Networking Meeting: Community Food
Friday, 12 May, 2023, 11 a.m.- 12.30 p.m. Online Scottish Communities Climate Action Network(SCCAN) invites you to join fellow climate activists and community workers for a networking event on community food growing – how can food growing contribute to both climate and community resilience, build skills, reduce the carbon footprint of a community and initiate […]
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Friday, May 5, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Lids Open Day – Spring 2023
Friday May 5th 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Recital Room, City Halls, 100 Candleriggs, Merchant City, Glasgow, G1 1NQ A little known gem of a piano If you have never heard or played the Steinway Concert Grand in the Recital Room, then you are in for a treat. It is 15 yrs since Glasgow […]
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Monday, April 24, 2023 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Friends of People’s Palace, Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green at ByGoneCon
Saturday 29 April, 2023 East Kilbride Library, The Olympia Shopping Centre, Churchill Ave, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 1PG (The Library is located at the Ice rink and Cinema end of the shopping arcade.) Friends of People’s Palace, Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green (FPPWGGG) have been invited back to the library by South Lanarkshire Libraries Heritage […]
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Sunday, April 23, 2023 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Friends of People's Palace and Winter Gardens at Glasgow Green
May Day Glasgow 2023 – Maryhill Integration Network
2 May, 2023 – 5 p.m. until 7.30 p.m. Flourish House 23-25 Ashley Street Glasgow G3 6DR Find out about the origins of the famous political slogan “Bread and Roses” and learn how to make bread from across the world. Free event – register at EventBrite ‘Bread for all, and Roses too!’ a bread making workshop […]
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Spring Into The Wild Escape at The Hunterian
Hunterian Zoology Museum Graham Kerr Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Free entry, drop-in basis! Bring your little explorers down to ‘The Wild Escape’ at the Hunterian Zoology Museum this spring holiday where you can explore the animals, enjoy arts and crafts, activities and follow the endangered animal children’s trail! With the help of their […]
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
International Roma Celebration at The Rum Shack
Friday 7 April, 2023 8 until 11 p.m. A special event for International Roma Day The Rum Shack, 657-659 Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2AB Members of the Ukrainian Roma group Rom Som will be performing songs and dances to start off the evening. This group has arrived in the UK as a result of the […]
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In Conversation with Noam Chomsky at University of Glasgow
Wednesday, 5 April, 2023, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. At: St. Andrews Building, Room 213, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow, School of Education 11 Eldon Street Room 213 Glasgow G3 6NH Free book tickets at EventBrite You can also attend virtually by selecting an online ticket. Join the University of Glasgow Sociology Society in welcoming […]
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Spring Fling at The Arc, University of Glasgow
3 – 14 April, 2023 Free Events For All Ages Throughout The Easter Holidays University of Glasgow – See Programme Details on Facebook From sports to song, film to foraging, and games to gardening, this special programme of events speaks to the new season, considering sustainability, climate health and nature in engaging ways. There’s something […]
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
