I have a Jaunt round the Glasgow West End notice boards to see what’s going on in the centre of the universe but I also rely on mailing lists and you getting in touch with your events. The listings are free for charitable organisations – small charge for profit making events. The Golden Spurtle at GFT
12 – 25 September, 2025 ★★★★ “A palate-pleasing celebration of the noble oat” – The Guardian Dating back to neolithic times, few culinary traditions have survived as long as the hearty bowl of morning porridge. Despite its simple recipe of oats, salt and water, a lot can vary. Each year the sleepy highland village of Carrbridge […]
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Friday, September 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event
From Ground Zero at GFT
12 – 17 September, 2025 Wistful, heartbreaking, hopeful and urgent. Palestine’s official entry to the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, brings dozens of emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people under siege. Each film, ranging in length from 3 to 6 minutes, presents a unique perspective on […]
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Take 2: The Smurfs at GFT
Saturday, 13 September, 2025 STANDARD SCREENING: 11:30AM AUTISM-FRIENDLY SCREEing 12PM When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe. How […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ballad Lines – Major New Scottish Folk Musical
LIVE CONCERT EVENT IN GLASGOW 15 SEPTEMBER, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Buy tickets Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU A NEW 17 TRACK ALBUM OF SONGS FROM THE SHOW WILL LAUNCH WITH A FEATURING ARTISTS FROM THE ALBUM INCLUDING GAELIC SINGER OF THE YEAR KIM CARNIE, CATS AWARD WINNER KIRSTY FINDLAY AND DYLAN WOOD, […]
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Thursday, September 11, 2025 | Filed under: Music, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Autumn Fun Day – The Children’s Wood
Friday, 26 September 2025, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. Clouston/Sanda/Kelbourne Street, Glasgow G20 8QW Event by The Children’s Wood and Meadow Science Centre and RSPB Mosaic Workshop Second Hand Book Stall Apple Pressing Charlie’s Harvest Soup Admission Free
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Kids and young people, North Kelvin Meadow and Children's Wood, Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Magi, Ali and Ian at The Stand at Websters
Sunday, 21 September, 2025 , 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Discombobulate with poets Magi Gibson and Ali Whitelock plus author and comedian Ian Macpherson The Stand at Websters, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ Poets Magi Gibson & Ali Whitelock of The Magi & Ali Poetry Show join award-winning standup and novelist Ian Macpherson for a Sunday […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Sirens Calling and On the Scent of the Honeyed Hive, Linda Jackson and Lesley O’Brien
Saturday, 13th September, 2025 1:00pm to 3:30pm Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP Telephone: 0141 550 2267 Seahorse publications presents a GWL launch of Siren Calling by Linda Jackson and Lesley O’Brien’s debut collection, On the Scent of The Honeyed Hive. Linda Jackson writes songs, prose, poetry and publishes poetry. Her recent work – the Siren Project includes an […]
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
A Kick Up The Arts – Nicola Meighan in conversation with Ambrose Parry at The Stand at Websters
Thursday 11 September, 2025 , 2.30 p.m. The Stand, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ To celebrate the legendary Stand in Glasgow moving to its new venue (the old Webster’s Theatre), Nicola Meighan has been invited to bring some guests along for a blether once a month, on a Thursday afternoon. The first event […]
BLOODY SCOTLAND 2025
Bloody Scotland 12 – 14 September, 2025 Full Bloody Scotland Programme and Tickets Friday 12th September – 12:30 – Setting the Crime Scene Opening event with Lin Anderson, Simon Toyne, Allan Gaw Albert Halls, Dumbarton Rd, Stirling FK8 2QL Making a deep incision into the world of crime fiction and science fact, talking forensics with […]
Freshers Equinox Celebration at Woodlands Community Garden
Sunday 21st September, 2025 Woodlands Community Garden, 91-101 West Princes St, G4 9BY Freshers (and everyone), welcome for Freshers Equinox celebration to mark the approaching Autumn. Enjoy a range of activities that build community, nourish and connect people to nature and one another. From seed saving, to mending clothes, cycling and visiting Anti-Racist Library at […]
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Monday, September 8, 2025 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Woodlands Community
Doors Open Days: Maryhill Women’s History Walk with Anabel Marsh
Saturday, 20 September 2025 10:00 – 12:00 a.m. By Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust Heiress, mill worker, Suffragette: learn how Maryhill’s women made history. Maryhill Burgh Halls, 24 Gairbraid Avenue Glasgow G20 8YE Part of celebration for Doors Open Days –guided walk along the canal, hear stories of Maryhill’s women: the heiress who gave the town her […]
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Dandiya Nights 2025
Dandiya nights will take place on Friday 19th & Saturday 20h September, 2025 Back again with the amazing Symphony Live Band who will be performing both nights! This years events have been possible thanks to the following generous sponsors: BYITC Super Maths & English Specsavers Clydebank/Milngavie Reach Pharmacy Moransh Financial Services JRR Heating, Plumbing & Electrical Venues Friday 19th September: Milngavie Town Hall, 71 Station […]
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Sunday, September 7, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
“The Pride o’ Scotland”: Scots Language Awards 2025
The winners of the Scots Language Awards 2025 have been announced at a celebration of Scotland’s indigenous language held at Discovery Point in Dundee. Figures from literature, education, business, and the community were honoured for their outstanding contributions to the Scots leid in everyday life. The seventh annual awards saw writers, teachers, businesses, charities and […]
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Glasgow Doors Open Days 2025
18 – 21 September 2025 Doors Open Day Festival celebrates Glasgow’s architecture, cultural heritage and encourages civic pride and connection through spaces, stories and shared experiences. The programme facilitates access to more than 150 captivating buildings, hidden spaces, factories, theatres, museum stores and architectural and cultural gems across the city with four days of: Open […]
Storytelling For Adults, Alexandria
Tuesday 23 September, 2025 at 11 a.m. Adult Storytelling with Mary Irvine – The Price of Fish Learn about the true price of fish. Greentree Remedies, 4 Church Street, Alexandria G83 0NP To reserve a place please contact Jo: 07562333731 or Mary: 01389 729279 Free entry /refreshments but donations welcome (This will be the last […]
Highest 2 Lowest at GFT
6 – 11 September, 2025 When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great […]
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Friday, September 5, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Young Mothers at GFT
6 – 11 September, 2025 The Dardenne brothers once again bring audiences a moving portrayal of real lives with their latest social-realist drama Young Mothers, which took home the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes earlier this year. Following five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium, the film is a true-to-life portrait of […]
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Christy at GFT
6 – 18 September, 2025 17-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. Kicked out of his suburban foster home, he moves in with his estranged older brother Shane and his young family. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork’s working-class Northside. Shane wants […]
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Boogie Nights at GFT
6,7, 8 and 10 September, 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece, Boogie Nights dives into the American sex film industry of the 1970s, propelled by elaborate visuals and a killer soundtrack. Idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in […]
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Take 2: Azur and Asmar: The Princes’ Quest at GFT
Saturday 6 February, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie. Tickets. Every child attending a Take […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Paul & Paulette Take A Bath
5 – 11 September, 2025 An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. The winner of Critic’s Week Audience Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Paul & Paulette Take A Bath follows the titular couple after a chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an […]
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Days of Being Wild at GFT
Saturday 6, September 2025 – 2.15 p.m. Tuesday 9, September 2025 – 8.40 p.m. Wong Kar Wai’s breakthrough sophomore feature represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The first film in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes In the Mood for Love and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong […]
Whiplash plus Allison Gardner at GFT
Sunday, September 14th September, 2026 – 1.45 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Mark a momentous occasion at GFT as the one and only Allison Gardner retires from her dual roles as CEO of Glasgow Film and Director of Glasgow Film Festival after more than 30 years with the organisation. Allison will take […]
Caught Stealing at GFT
12 – 18 September, 2025 Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), barkeeps at a New York dive, and his favourite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbour Russ (Matt […]
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Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Poetry Lunch with Len Pennie
26 September, 2025, 12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Andiamo, Milngavie, 1 Glasgow Rd, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 6AQ Len Pennie in conversation with Gillian Shirreffs Event by Daydreams Bookshop The wonderful, acclaimed poet Len Pennie will be at Andiamo, Milngavie chatting to author Dr Gillian Shirreffs about her book poyums annaw – and for a lunch of […]
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Old Partickhill, Hyndland and Thornwood by Lewis Hutton
Complementary to last year’s Old Partick by the same author, this new illustrated history in the familiar Stenlake Old Towns format covers everything west of the railway line from Partick Station, south of Broomhill Cross and east of Balshagray Road as well as the better understood districts named in the title. The book includes lots […]
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Glasgow’s Craft and Flea Market
Saturday 20 September, 2025 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate,Glasgow,G1 5HZ,GB Craft & Flea brings together the best independent makers, collectors, designers, and creatives from your area. Support small businesses by shopping local at our unique twist on the traditional craft market. With a wide selection of products, including ceramics, illustrations, candles, […]
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Markets, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mill Girls On Tour 2025 – Paisley Launch
7 September, 2025, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. In the historuc Atrium at Anchor Mill, Paisley PA1 1JR A unique depiction of the Renfrewshire mill workers A spell-binding synergy of poetry, performance and musical interludes. Featuring Renfrewshire poets Mo Blake, Kathryn Daly, Gwen McKerrell and Tracy Patrick. Music by Scottish singer / musician and songwriter, […]
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Byres Road Book Festival 2025
26–29 September 2025 All events free. Fabulous programme with talks, readings, workshops, poetry open mic, gaelic events and ‘Glasgow on a Plate’ with top local chefs. Participating authors include: Michael Pedersen, Maisie Chan, Kirsty Logan, Chris McQueer, Rodge Glass and Ross Wilcock, The family friendly festival features Emily Dodd, Alan Windram and Book Swap for […]
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk at GFT
30 August – 4 September, 2025 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective of life in Gaza, told through a series of video calls between filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and young Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona. Their digital dialogue became a vital record, bearing witness to everyday life, loss, and acts of resistance amid escalating […]
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Friday, August 29, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
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