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. International Women’s Day March, Govanhill, Glasgow
8 March, 2022 – 12 Noon Event by Govanhill Baths Community Trust Govanhill Park Coplaw Street, Glasgow, Glasgow G42 7DB Local activists are taking to the streets with other activists who are challenging stigmas in their communities, their workplaces and in their everyday lives. Together they will be marching for a more equal world; a world free of bias, […]
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Friday, February 25, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Free Events, International Womens Day, Pat's Home Page Blog
Angela Davis in conversation – live and online
14 March, 2022 at 23.00 UTC Event by Toronto Public Library American political activist, philosopher, academic and author Dr. Angela Y. Davis joins Black Lives Matter Canada co-founder Sandy Hudson for a special in-conversation event. Register for live event on 14 March Angela Davis has spent more than 50 years at the forefront of Black Liberation, […]
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| Filed under: Zoom and online events
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Glasgow Film Theatre
Sunday 27 February, 2022 at 7 p.m. Live from Leith Theatre – A First from National Theatre of Scotland Within the century-old walls of historic Leith Theatre, something sinister is stirring. A gothic tale of double lives and inner demons, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes on its own hybrid identity in this […]
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Thursday, February 24, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
In the Family at Glasgow Film Theatre
Sunday 27 February, 2022 at 3.45 p.m. Patrick Wang’s directorial feature debut is an extraordinarily accomplished slice-of-life drama, told with warmth, humour, sensitivity and heart. Featuring an excellent ensemble cast, In the Family explores the dynamics of love, loss and family with a keen sense of truth. In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six-year-old, […]
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Petrov’s Flu at Glasgow Film Theatre
25 – 28 February,2022 From controversial Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, this Cannes prize-winner is a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia, based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov. The film details a surreal and fantastic day in the life of a comic book artist and his family. With the city in […]
The Godfather, 50 Anniversary at Glasgow Film Theatre
25 February – 1 March, 2022 Consistently named as one of the greatest films ever made, The Godfather has maintained its status and allure for five decades. Screening to mark the film’s 50th anniversary, we witness the transfer of power from an ageing Don Corleone, head of the family, to his reluctant but ruthless son Michael. With […]
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La Mif, Glasgow Film Theatre
25 February – 2 March, 2022 Fred Baillif’s award-winning third fiction feature is a bristling, contemporary drama set in a teenage girls’ residential care home in Geneva. Drawing on his own past experience as a street social worker, Baillif works with an ensemble cast composed of non-professional actors. La Mif follows the fallout of an incident which triggers […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Duke at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 25 February – Thursday 17 March, 2022 In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on […]
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Michael Pederson Creative Conversations
Monday 28 February, 2022 1 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, writer, & animateur. He has published two highly acclaimed collections of poetry (Polygon Books) with a prose debut, Boy Friends, forthcoming with Faber. Pedersen was awarded the John Mather Trust Rising Star of Literature […]
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Kiss the Ground, Film Screening plus Disussion
Thursday, 3 March 2022 – 5.30 – 8p.m. (6 p.m. start) Woodlands Community Climate Action Team & special guests Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3 6DR Register for Event – Free About this event Woodlands Community will screen KISS THE GROUND, a documentary that provides a solution to heal our planet and keep our […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Community Groups and Charities, COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Woodlands Community
Repair Cafe, Govanhill
5th March, 2022, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. The Deep End Govanhill Baths The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Important: Covid Requirements **UPDATED INFO: Can we please ask that anyone coming along to our the event on Saturday 5th March take a LFT test and ensure they are negative before visiting. This […]
Gray Day at OranMor 2022
Friday 25 February, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX with Canongate Books, Neu! Reekie!, The Alasdair Gray Archive, and Òran Mór GRAY DAY returns for a second year with a day-long celebration and a live event at Òran Mór featuring readings, film and music. The annual celebration of the late […]
Greater Glasgow Climate Action Network South Seeds’ Croft
Thursday 10th March, 2022 – 10.00am-12.00pm Hosted at South Seeds’ Croft, 381 Langside Road, G42 8DA on Queen’s Park recreation ground in Glasgow’s Southside. An in-person meeting held safely outside undercover. Hot drinks and cake will be offered to each participant. After recent meetings exploring a climate action in the Greater Glasgow area, this is […]
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An Evening With Louise Welsh – The Second Cut
Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, 17 February, 2022 – review by Pat Byrne Twenty years ago Louise Welsh’s debut crime novel, The Cutting Room, was launched at Waterstones Book Shop, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. The prize winning book introduced us to Rilke, a Glaswegian auctioneer and coincidental amateur detective. On 17 February, 2022, there was a strong sense […]
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Sunday, February 20, 2022 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Festival for Free
Making the cinematic experience more accessible for all, Glasgow Film Festival 2022 features several free or budget-friendly screenings including 1962 Retrospective. What better way to start your day than with a free screening of a stone cold classic like Lawrence of Arabia or Dr.No preceded by an introduction from GFF Festival Co-Director Allan Hunter? Glasgow […]
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Friday, February 18, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Brian Whittingham Memorial Fundraiser
9 August, 1950 – 19 January, 2022 PLEASE DONATE AT JUST GIVING Brian Whittingham, the first Tannahill Makar, accomplished poet, writer, playwright and creative writing tutor started his working life as a steelworker before becoming a successful writer. He was one of life’s “Good Guys” His morals, values and integrity were reflected in his love […]
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Moorcroft, The Tron
Runs until 5 March, 2022 WORLD PREMIERE A team. A team of wit? A team of players. A bunch of mates coming the gither to huv a kick aboot. Wits new? Garry’s turned 50 but doesn’t feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive ‘the glory days’ trying to […]
Once Upon A Time in Uganda – Glasgow Film Festival 2022
5 and 6 March, 2022 UK Premiere For years maverick Ugandan filmmaker Isaac Nabwana, has been creating over-the-top, low budget action films from his home in Wakaliga, affectionately known as Wakaliwood. Mesmerised by Isaac’s work, film-lover Alan Hofmanis moves to Uganda and quickly becomes his right-hand man, as well as a Ugandan film star in his own […]
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Thursday, February 17, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Her Way Glasgow Film Festival 2022
5 and 6 March, 2022 UK Premiere Call My Agent star Laure Calamy shines in this compelling first feature from director Cécile Ducrocq. Marie (Calamy) is a confident, optimistic sex worker in Strasbourg who is determined to provide a better life for her 17-year-old son, Adrien (Nissim Renard). He is a bottomless pit of apathy and negativity whose only […]
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Wild Men – Glasgow Film Festival 2022
(Image: Rasmus Weng Karis) 11 – 12 March, 2022 UK Premiere If the Coen brothers made a film in Danish it might look a little like Wild Men. Thomas Daneskov’s immensely entertaining crime story/mid-life crisis caper is marbled with comic moments and set amidst some spectacular scenery. Martin (Rasmus Bjerg) has fled his family and the modern world to […]
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Partick Pop Up Indoor Market
25 – 27 February, 2022, 11 am – 5 pm 412 – 418 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G11 6SB Event by Green Living Glasgow A new artisan market in Partick Showcasing over 30 vendors selling local produce, crafts, gifts, food & drink, fashion, art, vegan products, jewellery, pet supplies and much more! Come along and support small […]
In Conversation with Armando Iannucci GFF2022
6 March, 2022 at 5.45 p.m. At Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Glasgow Film Festival Glasgow-born Armando Iannucci has been the inspirational creative force behind some of our favourite things, from The Day Today to The Thick Of It and The Death Of Stalin, to The Personal History Of David Copperfield. Iannucci’s […]
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a-ha the movie at Glasgow Film Festival 2022
UK Premiere – 4 and 5 March, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB a-ha were the first Norwegian stars to break through into international fame. Their iconic synth-pop single ‘Take on Me’ catapulted them onto the world stage and garnered them adoring fans across the globe. With new band interviews and unreleased behind […]
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – Theatre Royal
1 – 5 March, 2022 Theatre Royal, 282 Hope St, Glasgow G2 3QA Direct from London, the acclaimed production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is coming to Glasgow. Step through the wardrobe into the magical kingdom of Narnia for the most mystical of adventures in a faraway land. Join Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Flight of the Dragonfly Open Word
22 February, 2022 at 7.30 – 9.30 pm Online – Free A fabulous evening of poetry and prose Excited to be back in 2022 with a wonderful array of talented readers and amazing guests – Linda Jackson and Andy Breckenridge Register for Event seahorsepublications.com
Big screen talent attending GFF2022
Many famous folk expected in town for this years film festival Walking the red carpet between 2 – 13 March will be: Alan Cumming, Jack Lowden, Martin Compston, Lulu, Armando Iannucci, Sienna Guillory and Anders Danielsen Lie. Directors attending Premieres Directors including Ruth Paxton, Iciar Bollain, Thomas Robsahm and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic will attend their […]
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022
Scottish Writers Centre: Flooers fae thi fillin-stayshun
Words from the heart SWC Speakeasy Tuesday, 22 February, 2022 at 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD BOOK NOW SWC’s First Speakeasy and Event of 2022. Come and share your work! 12 readers at 5 mins each. Contact John for a slot! or more information. Cunningly avoiding the feasts and frolics of […]
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A Valentine’s Day Poem by Rizwan Akhtar
The Train ever since that day a memory keeps shivering on a white table sheet with a stain of a cup’s bottom discovered a small wish silence swallowed I nabbed your hands like a desperate commuter though the last train is totally empty symptoms pointed paradoxes kept for the rest of the journey a dream […]
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Monday, February 14, 2022 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentines Day Glasgow
The Carrbridge Rose – Brian Whittingham
A poem about love: THE CARRBRIDGE ROSE The Packhorse Bridge arches its back like a grey stone rainbow over the hard flowing river hurtling past banks of snowy ice. We explore chatting holding hands ever so slight as if young love though we are not. Our pasts ensure we tread warily. Not knowing where these […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Valentines Day Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, writers, Writing
On the West Highland Line – Linda Jackson
(Image: Alan Mitchell / A Glasgow – Fort William train climbs onto Rannoch Moor – Wikipedia) A poem about the vulnerability of loving First published Dec 2021 in Wanderlust Women, available from www.seahorsepublications.com On the West Highland Line Linda Jackson Lost, my love there standing, Lochaber light and wildness capturing his rush to know everything. […]
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