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. Gunda, GFT
5 – 10 June, 2021 If Babe stole your heart and changed your eating habits, then wait until you meet Gunda. Master director Viktor Kossakovsky’s labour of love is a beguiling ode to sow Gunda (the name means female warrior) and her adorable newborn piglets. Filmed in black and white on farms in Norway, Sweden and the UK, […]
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema
Sound of Metal GFT
5 – 8 June, 2021 Riz Ahmed is superb in Sound of Metal, the remarkably assured feature debut from Darius Marder about a heavy metal drummer who is forced to re-evaluate his place in the world after losing his hearing. Ex-addict Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is on tour with his girlfriend and band-mate Lou (Olivia Cooke), hammering out ferocious sets […]
After Love, GFT
5 – 10 June, 2021 Mary Hussain (Joanna Scanlan) converted to Islam when she married her husband Ahmed, and has a close and loving relationship with both her husband and his family. When Ahmed dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Mary finds herself a widow in her early 60s. A day after burying her husband, she discovers […]
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Creative Conversations: David Robertson
Monday 07 June 2021 – 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. On Zoom Creative Conversations with Indigenous Canada co-hosted by Creative Writing and the Hunterian Associates Program Free Tickets at Eventbrite This event will be hosted on Zoom and you will be sent a link to attend the meeting once you book on Eventbrite. David A. […]
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Aye Write on Demand 2021
Aye Write Online Events are available to stream on demand for three weeks after original broadcast date. For £50 for Festival Pass you can view 69 events with 120 authors. Book Festival Pass Or buy tickets for individual events at £5 each. Browse Individual Events
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Friday, May 28, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Refugee Festival Scotland 2021
14 June – 20 June, 2021 Whatever the weather, Glaswegians can expect a warm welcome at Refugee Festival Scotland – and a packed programme of colourful events showcasing refugee arts and culture. From live music and dance to online art shows, film screenings, gaming marathons and family-friendly picnics, the festival has something for everyone. The […]
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Riverside Festival Glasgow 2021 – Online
28 May 2 p.m. unti 30 May at 11 p.m. Riverside Festival 2021 Online event – Free Event on Facebook Details Event by UK Music festival Event RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL 2021 May 28/29/30 FRIDAY: Jamie xx + much more ————– SATURDAY: Disclosure + much more ————– SUNDAY: Amelie Lens + much more –LAST ENTRY– 7pm on […]
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Before Now – Memoir of a Toerag by Moira McPartlin
Memories can mend more than broken bones ‘A brilliant depiction of family, the highs and lows of growing up, and a wonderful narrator who feels like a friend. I flew through it.’ Ross Sayers, author of Daisy on the Outer Line In Praise of Moira McPartlin ‘Moira McPartlin’s prose is rich but unpretentious, her storytelling […]
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Glasgow Jazz Festival 2021
Three Dat Digital Festival – Friday 18 and Sunday 20 June, 2021 Musical talent from across Scotland will perform at the 35th Glasgow Jazz Festival this June. Glasgow Jazz Festival has announced the first bill of artists who are set to perform as part of their three-day digital festival for 2021, taking place between Friday […]
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Jazz Festival, Zoom and online events
ProjectAbility – Online Exhibition ‘Altered Space’
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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| Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Bob Law: Gardens of Eden
Walks and Photography Glasgow Parks During our long year of Covid 19 local parks have been more important than ever to escape into especially for people/families without a decent sized garden or those living in flats or tenements. At the moment, in May 2021, many are at their best with tulips, bluebells, azaleas and rhododendrons […]
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Monday, May 24, 2021 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Walks and Tours Glasgow
SWG3 Opens New Gallery – Yard Life
Opening on Thursday 27th May, 2021 A new urban arts gallery for the graffiti and street art community SWG3, Scotland’s leading multi-disciplinary arts venue, has announced the launch of its new urban arts gallery – Yard Life. Opening on Thursday 27th May, the gallery marks the first exciting step in SWG3 and Yardworks’ bold plans […]
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| Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow
Slow Nature Walk, Woodlands Community
Sunday, 30 May, 2021 at 11 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Kelvinbridge, Underneath Kelvinbridge, next to Inn Deep, Glasgow G12 8HH Join Katrina Caldwell for a Slow Nature Walk, taking in your surroundings along the Kelvin Walkway About this event Since the start of the pandemic, Woodlands Community has been encouraging people to spend time in […]
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Scotland’s Untold Story of Colonialism, Slavery and Resistance
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
Aye Write 2021 – Celebrating 40 Years of Lanark
23 May, 7.15pm £5 buy ticket Since 1986, the National Library of Scotland has held some of Alasdair Gray’s most valuable and rarely seen writing. From personal diaries to correspondence, from illustrations and sketches to drafts of his internationally celebrated novels, the archive is a treasure trove for lovers of contemporary Scottish literature and art. […]
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Maytime Litter Pick, Partick Action on Litter
SUNDAY, 30 MAY 2021 10:00 a.m. – 1 p.m. Maytime litter pick – Meet at Fortrose House, 14 Fortose Street, Glasgow, G11 5NS Sun, 30 May Sun, 27 Jun Sun, 29 Aug Event by Partick Action on Litter Prettify Partick’s pavements! Sweep the scumminess off the sidewalk! Defeat detritus! Be a better neighbour, be a […]
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Saturday, May 22, 2021 | Filed under: Community event
Aye Write 2021 – Brit Bennett chaired by Nicola Sturgeon
Saturday 22 May, 2021 – 8.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Brit Bennett Chaired by Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister of Scotland £5 Buy your ticket The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape […]
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Aye Write A Renewable Energy Revolution
22 May, 4.45pm In the first and only book to explore Scotland’s part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, ‘Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power’ – And Where it Goes From Here, Todd Westbrook refutes common arguments against wind power with hard facts and a wry sense of […]
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Aye Write 2021 – How To Stop Fascism, Paul Mason
22 May 11.45am How To Stop Fascism Paul Mason chaired by Ruth Wishart The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again – and […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Rodge Glass introduces Fiction Debuts
22nd May 10.30am The novelist and biographer Rodge Glass introduces six vivid new voices in fiction – featuring: Helen Fisher (Space Hopper), Dantiel W. Moniz (Milk Blood Heat), Megan Nolan (Acts of Desperation), Mateo Askaripour (Black Buck), Fiona Scarlett (Boys Don’t Cry) and Caleb Azumah Nelson (Open Water). *This performance is live and will […]
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Friday, May 21, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Salena Godden and Courttia Newland – Immersive, Poetic Fiction
Friday 21 May 2021 at 3.30 p.m. £5 All ages Book here Immersive, Poetic Fiction – Salena Godden and Courttia Newland chaired by Lee Randall Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, […]
Aye Write 2021 Eco Tips for Your Home and Family
Nancy Birtwhistle & Jen Gale chaired by Frankie Burr 21 May, 11.45 a.m. Eco Tips for Your Home and Family Nancy Birtwhistle won the fifth series of The Great British Bake Off in 2014. Nancy worked as a GP practice manager in the NHS for thirty-six years until she retired in 2007. Motivated by protecting […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Welcome Home Shuggie Bain
Friday 21 May, 2021 at 4.45 p.m. Douglas Stuart with Janey Godley It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her […]
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – A Pair of Wildly Compelling Novels
21 May, 2021 10.30am Elizabeth Reeder and Elizabeth Haynes Experience the wild beauty of Scotland in both of these novels. Elizabeth Reeder’s ‘An Archive of Happiness’ Set in the Scottish Highlands over the course of one day during the Avens family’s annual get-together. It’s the summer solstice and theirs is a fractured family, broken by […]
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Composting and food waste reduction workshop
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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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Free Events, Woodlands Community, Zoom and online events
Smokehead Sessions – Dave Arcari Wildcats
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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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Zoom and online events
Wee Write Family Day 2021 Online
Saturday 12 June, 2021 Aye Write book festival launches free online events for its Wee Write For Schools Wee Write Family Day digital programme to take place on Saturday 12 June, to follow the main online book festival currently running. Aye Write is produced by Glasgow Life, the charity which delivers culture and sport in […]
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Monday, May 17, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
University of Glasgow: Care, Rights and Covid – Discussion
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
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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Maggie O’Farrell and Kate Mosse at Aye Write 2021
Friday, 21 May, 2021 at 7.15 p.m. Award-winner Maggie O’Farrell and Kate Mosse come together to discuss their latest novels. Aye Write is delighted to welcome these two incredible authors to Glasgow’s Book Festival. Chaired by Zoe Venditozzi. Sponsored by Rathbones This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the […]
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Sunday, May 16, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
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