What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Glasgow Doors Open Day 2021 – Arlington Baths Club

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18 Tours will take place on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September, 2021 Booking essential Tours Saturday and Sunday @ 10am, 10:30am, 11am, 11:30am, 12pm, 12:30pm, 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm, 4pm, 4:30pm Tour duration: 30 minutes Book at EventBrite Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G3 6DT The Arlington Baths Club […]

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Big Tunes at the Bandstand – Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Big Tunes at the Bandstand – Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Saturday 11 September, 2021 1-5pm Event by Halo Arts and West End Festival Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre West End Festival is back at the Kelvingrove Bandstand for an afternoon of live traditional music from renowned musician Chris Stout and a team of session performers known for their work on Celtic Connections. Sit back, relax and enjoy this unique, […]

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Poetry Launch Party – Jim Ferguson and Kirsty Taylor

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Saturday 18 September, 2021 7 p.m. – 10p.m Whirlpool Press and Scotland in Europe invite you to the launch of  12 Dead Keys by Jim Ferguson and Turbulent Twenties by Kirsty Taylor. The Old Toll Bar, 3 Paisley Road West, Glasgow G51 3LF Free entry – All welcome Also celebrating Jim Ferguson’s 60th birthday. Music […]

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Do The Right Thing, Glasgow Youth Film Festival

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Sunday 19 September, 2021 4pm Do the Right Thing + Introduction It’s the hottest day of the year on a street in Brooklyn and racial tensions are high enough to boil over into violence. Punctuated by the anthemic refrain of Public Enemy’s ‘Fight the Power’, Spike Lee’s masterpiece is a landmark in American cinema, as […]

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Our Ladies, GFT

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Until 9 September, 2021 Lock up your loved ones. The girls of Our Lady Of Perpetual Succour are heading to the big city and nobody is safe. Michael Caton-Jones’ adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel The Sopranos does not disappoint. A school trip to an Edinburgh singing competition is just the ticket for a group of rowdy, vodka-fuelled Highland girls in search […]

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Annette, Glasgow Film Theatre

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7 – 16 September, 2021 Captions available  If you loved Edgar Wright’s new documentary, The Sparks Brothers, you won’t want to miss Annette. Director Leos Carax (in his English-language debut) collaborated with Ron Mael and Russell Mael of Sparks on the screenplay, from original story, music and songs created by the band. Henry (Adam Driver) is […]

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Wildfire plus Q & A at Glasgow Film Theatre

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8 September, 2021 Buy tickets Inseparable sisters raised in a small town on the Irish border, Lauren and Kelly’s lives were shattered with the mysterious death of their mother. When Kelly abruptly disappears, Lauren is left to pick up the pieces. A year after going missing, Kelly returns home and Lauren is suddenly confronted with […]

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Sweetheart, Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2021

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Friday 17 September, 2021 – 5.45 .m. Glasgow Youth Film Festival Opening Film Opening Gala screening of Marley Morrison’s knockout debut SWEETHEART – a sharply observed coming-of-age story that will make you wince and laugh in painful recognition of universal truths. For 17-year-old AJ, a family holiday at a caravan park in Dorset is her […]

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Glasgow Fancy Women Bike Ride

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19 September, 2021 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. – Starts at McLennan Arch, Glasgow Green, Saltmarket, Glasgow G1 5J Glasgow’s first ever Fancy Women Bike Ride! – World Car Free Day Cycle Positive  Glasgow ‘Every year on World Car Free Day, Women in different cities around the world dress up and cycle together. This is […]

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Siobhan Miller at Websters Theatre

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Sunday 5 September, 2021 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ One of Scotland’s foremost singers, Siobhan Miller is an exceptional talent, renowned for her unique vocal style paired with her evocative song-writing. Miller creates music with detail and rich melodies that combine the sounds of indie and alternative music with sounds from […]

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Bill W and Dr Bob, Websters Theatre

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Sweets for Addicts presents Bill W and Dr Bob A powerful and humorous play detailing the events that let to the creation of alcoholics anonymous. 14th, 15th and 16th October 2021 at 19:30 Websters Theatre Great Western Road, Glasgow. G4 9HZ Back once again by popular demand! In 1929, famous New York stockbroker Bill Wilson […]

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Lin Anderson on Bloody Scotland 2021

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(Linn Anderson photo by John Anderson) Bloody Scotland 2021 is just two weeks away! In the run up to the festival,  some members of the board were asked about their must-see events, as well as their best memories of the festival. Lin Anderson Lin Anderson is a co-founder of the Bloody Scotland festival and writer […]

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Bernard Maclaverty Creative Conversations

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Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 15:00 Glasgow University Memorial Chapel – University Avenue – Glasgow G12 8QQ Creative Conversations: Bernard MacLaverty in conversation with Professor Louise Welsh About this event Creative Conversations returns to the University Chapel for the first in-person event for over 18 months. They are delighted to announce their inaugural guest of […]

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Networking Climate Cafe – SCCAN

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2.00pm – 3.30pm Thurs 9 September, 2021 Online Event Join Scottish Communities Climate Change Action Network (SCCAN) members for a virtual café. Come and share your community experience, ideas, challenges questions and cake! About this event Networking Climate Café: a conversation-based meetup. An opportunity to share your concerns about the Climate Emergency and how to […]

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Riverside Festival x Turn The Tables 

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3 – 5 September 2021 Final Tickets Available Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Road, Glasgow G38RS Riverside Festival announce partnership with DJ based homelessness and mental health project  Turn The Tables The homelessness and mental health-focussed social enterprise Turn The Tables will take over one of the biggest stages in electronic music this year as they […]

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Govan Stones Music Festival

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Sunday 29 August, 2021 Live music in Scotland’s oldest churchyard About this event The Churchyard of Govan Old breathes life back into your hearts with an exquisite, electrifying, eclectic line up. ERISKA plays vibrant funky folk THE GLASGOW BARONS STRING QUARTET plays Mozart & covers from Bridgerton THE MODERN VINTAGE DANCE BAND delights with jazz […]

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Aya Films – showcasing new Scottish curatorial talent

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15 – 19 September 2021 Emerging curator short film programme coming to Scottish audiences online this Autumn This September, Aya Films presents a showcase of exciting new Scottish curatorial talent. Over the last 18-months we have all become more aware of how digital spaces operate – can online networks operate outside structural boundaries of the […]

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Autumn Creative Writing Courses – Dr Tawnya Selene Renelle

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Dr. Tawnya Selene Renelle – Experimental writer, performer and educator Courses start 20 and 21st September, 2021.  12 week course – Sign up for full course or select specific weeks. All workshops are writing intensive and designed to get you experimenting in your writing. Hybrid and Experimental Memoir Classes in Family, Fiction, Essay and Research, […]

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Parents and Toddlers Outside, Woodside Garden, Maryhill

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Gardening and Wildlife Sessions  Parents & Toddlers Gardening & Wildlife Sessions will be continuing at Woodside Community Garden, 65 Cedar St, G20 7NT (between the multi-storey flats) in Maryhill!! Woop! Fridays, arrive any time from 9.30am, with activities between 10am and 12 noon. First session, 3rd September, 2021 FREE, but please register in advance if […]

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Magi Gibson – Audacious Women Festival

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Monday 20 September, 2021 at 7 p.m. Online Buy tickets Magi will read from and talk about her latest poetry collection, ‘I Like Your Hat’ in which she ‘rips up the linoleum and lays bare the world. Profound, heartrending & at times hilarious, these are extraordinary poems from the heart of an extraordinary poet’ (Ali […]

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Riverside Festival 2021

3 – 5 September 2021 Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Road, Glasgow G38RS  Buy tickets. Riverside Festival will be the first Scottish festival to welcome back fans since 2019 Organisers behind Glasgow’s Riverside Festival have confirmed that, more than two years since it was first forced to reschedule due to Covid restrictions, fans will finally be […]

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Sounds in the Suburbs – Refuweegee Show

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Thursday 26 August, 2021 at 8 p.m. Sounds in the Suburbs 16th Refuweegee virtual fundraising gig is on Thursday 26th August at 8pm GMT. Best ZOOM Hour of the Month!! Another all star line up With, formerly of the Christians, Henry Priestman, Les Glover, formerly of TV21, Norman Rodger, Rod Picott and Norrie McCulloch. Get […]

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Local Food at COP26 – Open Meeting

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23 August, 2021 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm On Zoom Are you part of local food group?    Could you help make food for volunteers and civil society members at #COP26 this November?    Attend this meeting hosted by COP26 Coalition and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland on 23 August to find out more! Zoom link Organiser:Stop Climate […]

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Glasgow Connects, Glasgow Science Festival 2021

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1 – 30 September, 2021 GSF is back throughout September with Glasgow Connects, featuring a programme of events inspired by the international COP26 climate conference. With socially distanced activities at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens (4th to 12th Sept, 11-2pm daily) and at the Paisley Rd West Festival (24th to 26th Sept). As well as popping […]

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The Insect Embassy, Victoria Park

Sunday 22 August, 2021, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Outdoor Event For Families – Theme: Nature and Biodiversity The Fossil Grove, Victoria Park, Victoria Park Drive South, Whiteinch, Glasgow  G14 9NW The Insect Ambassador to COP26 is proud to announce the inaugural opening of the Insect Embassy at Victoria Park in Glasgow on Sunday 22 […]

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Walking and Writing in the Botanics with Gerry Loose

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25 August, 8 September, 2021, 1.30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Creative Writing inspired by Glasgow Botanic Gardens About this event A series of mystery walks where you will discover the hidden treasures of Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens, where you can stroll, talk, stand & stare, read & write – moving slowly through Summer to Autumn . […]

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Walking and Writing with Lesley O’Brien, Glasgow Green

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Creative Writing Workshops in Glasgow Green Spark My Words with nature, song and stories Free Dates: 2 September, 2021 (11 a.m. – 1 p.m) Book at Eventbrite A Series of Min-Adventures A series of mini-adventures exploring the familiar in a new way to spark your imagination and creative writing. Meeting Place The rendez-vous point is […]

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The Carlton Jug Band and The Rulers of The Root

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27 August, 2021 Ivory Blacks, Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald St, G1 4PL. (Nr. Central Station) Music starts at 8.00pm with The Rulers of the Root playing a brand new set of new songs and old favourites. The magnificent Carlton Jug Band will be onstage at 9.15 to play those ‘down home’ favourites.  

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It’s Quiz Night with Duglus T Stewart

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24 August 2021 at 7 p.m. Free Event by BMX Bandits JOIN ON FACEBOOK Duglas and his best monkey friend are back with a brand new end of Summer quiz.. Quiz fans won’t want to miss this one. Go on, give your brain a good workout while having top fun. Here is the link for donations: paypal.me/duglast Thank […]

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Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2021 – Programme Announced

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17-19 September, 2021 Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) returns for its 13th edition The festival will open on 17 September with a preview screening of Marley Morrison’s Sweetheart, and will close on 19 September with a special screening of indie gem Heart Beats Loud. Special guests will include Everyone’s Talking About Jamie director Jonathan Butterell, […]

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