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. St Patrick’s Day Special: The Great Irish Songbook
Wednesday 17 March, 2021 7.30pm GMT From Celtic Connections 2020 Rounder Records recording artists Dervish present The Great Irish Songbook from 2020’s Celtic Connections, online internationally on St Patrick’s Day 2021. Buy tickets
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Friday, March 12, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Celtic Connections 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
The Dance of the Lunar Creatrix – Marianne Wilson
Celebrating Creativity Reflecting on the present, where structure dominates in a bid to contain the chaos, Marianne Wilson’s The Dance of the Lunar Creatrix uses software and computer programming to explore an abstract, geometric world. In constant flux, her animations are ever changing and evolving, shifting their shape and form to sound. It is an exploration of the […]
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Zoom and online events
Writing for Wellbeing Workshops
Three weekly sessions, starting on Thursday 18th March, 2021 11am – 12.30pm. Event by Woodlands Community Join Gerry Loose and Lapidus Scotland for three sessions of online ‘Writing for Wellbeing’ workshops. Sign up for Workshops There are limited spaces for these workshops, sign up is essential. Any questions, Email, Katherine. What am I thinking? What am […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Womens clothing, Zoom and online events
New Writers Showcase 2020 Scottish Book Trust
Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11.30am–3pm Discover some of Scotland’s best new writing on digital showcase Hear our Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardees read their work On Twitter Premiere Use #WriterShowcase Judges Spotlighting some of the finest new writing talent emerging in the Scottish scene, the 2020 awards judges included Abir Mukherjee, Raman Mundair, Michael Pedersen, […]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
Poetry and Creative Writing Classes (Spring 2021) with Linda Jackson
On Zoom Starting March 31 Poets Time Wednesdays 2 – 4 p.m. for six weeks. Email for information. Creative Writing Class Tuesday 30 March, 2021 for six weeks – 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. or Thursday 1 April, 2021 for six weeks – 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Email to book and for information
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Red Skirts on Clydeside #IWD2021
Govanhill Baths Community Trust – 8 March, 2021 The final film in tomorrow’s International Women’s Day Film Festival line-up – and our headliner – is Red Skirts on Clydeside by the Sheffield Film Cooperative. Red Skirts on Clydeside seeks to unearth the details of women’s political involvement with the legendary Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. […]
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Monday, March 8, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, International Womens Day, Zoom and online events
Creative Conversations: Kirstin Innes
Monday 08 March 2021 1 – 2 p.m. Creative Conversations Lunchtime Series hosted by Creative Writing College of Arts, University of Glasgow Kirstin Innes, Writer and Journalist in conversation with Zoe Strachan. Free on Zoom (When you register you will be sent link to attend the event online.) Kirstin Innes is an award-winning writer and […]
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Sunday, March 7, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Creative Conversations 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, International Womens Day, Zoom and online events
Yer Old Faither, Glasgow Film Festival Online
Celebrate Helen Croall’s Wonderful Documentary on International Women’s Day 6 – 9 March, 2021 It’s A Wonderful Life taught us that one man’s life can touch countless others. Glaswegian John Croall was just such a man. He left Scotland for Australia in 1970, settling with his family in Whyalla and becoming the local obstetrician. Hundreds of […]
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Wild Women International Womens Day 2021
Magi Gibson and Gerda Stevenson in Virtual Conversation Join poet Magi Gibson and fellow poet, playwright and actress Gerda Stevenson for this special ‘Wild Women’ event to mark International Women’s Day 2021 Inspired by IWD’s 2021 theme, #ChoosetoChallenge, Magi and Gerda will be reading from a selection of their works, as well as discussing what inspires […]
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Spring Blossom Glasgow Film Festival 2021
Celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, 2021 with Suzanne Lindon’s directorial debut. She also stars in Spring Blossom. Film Available 7 – 10 March, 2021 to view At Home £9.99 Buy Online Oh to be young and in love. The UK premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s dreamy, remarkably assured directorial debut provides the perfect conclusion to […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, International Womens Day, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Soothing Stress and Living Well IWD 2021
International Women’s Day Festival is a time for debate, education, and celebration. At The Mac. Stress at home. Stress in work. Stress even when you’re asleep! 8 March, 2021. 7.30 p.m Register – Pay What You Can Afford Very few of us are currently unaffected by long-term stress. It is normal to experience stress but […]
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International Womens Day 2021 Scottish Women’s Convention
International Women’s Day – Scottish Parliament Digital Event Monday 8th March 2021, from 6pm – 8pm – chaired by Linda Fabiani MSP, Deputy Presiding Officer. For over 10 years, women from throughout the country have come together to celebrate the day in the Scottish Parliament. This occasion is hugely popular. There are 380 places available […]
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International Womens Day 2021 Quiz
Geez A Break Productions, North Ayrshire Libraries and Harbour Arts Centre 8 March, 2021 at 7 p.m. On Facebook Live Celebrating the best way we can, with a good ole Quiz! Prizes to be won
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Unite Industrial Women – #IWD2021
For International Women’s Day, Unite will be hosting a panel of speakers discussing their journeys & experiences as female trade unionists in Scotland. Sign up for the webinar on zoom Or watch it live on Facebook the 8th of March, 2021 7 p.m. If you have any questions you would like to put to the […]
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International Women’s Day – Virtual Book Club
8 March, 2021 6 p.m. We are glad to invite you to our first virtual book club for International Women’s Day. Caroline Criado Perez’ Invisible Women We will be discussion Parts II and IV (‘The Workplace’ and ‘Going to the Doctor’) of Caroline Criado Perez’s bestseller ‘Invisible Women’. Free Online Event Register for Event Join […]
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Balloch Open Mic – Interview with Billy Scobie
People often have a strong connection with and a passion for one particular place. Some spend their whole lives in such a place and never feel the need to go elsewhere. In my opinion such a man is Billy Scobie, as his poems reveal and confirm. Some time ago I interviewed Billy via email and […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2021 – Spring Blossom review Pat Byrne
Spring blossom UK Premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s directorial debut At Glasgow Film Festival Online 7 – 10 March, 2021 Tickets to watch at home £9.99 Suzanne Lindon, wrote directed and plays the lead role in this dreamy, very French, story of first love. The 20 year old director, casts herself as the sixteen year old, […]
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Saturday, March 6, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
FrightFest – American Badger review by Danielle O’Neill Young
American Badger FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2021 6 – 9 March – Tickets £9.99 The overall feeling I have after watching this movie is one of bleakness and I would describe it as pretty grim. There are various themes running concurrently; sexual exploitation and abuse of women, child abuse, kidnapping, murder, violence and hopelessness. […]
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Friday, March 5, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Zoom and online events
FrightFest Glasgow 2021 – ‘Vicious Fun’ review Danielle O’Neill Young
Vicious Fun – 5 until 9 March, 2021 Online at FrightFest Right from the ominous opening scene of a dark, dingy motel parking lot and the score at the start, this film immediately gives off 80’s serial killer vibes. The characters as they emerge are the perfect stereotypical horror movie mix which quite frankly we […]
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Glasgow Film Festival – Rosa’s Wedding review by Pat Byrne
UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Online, 5 – 8 March, 2021 Rosa’s wedding is a delightful film. Perfect if you feel taken for granted, have unfulfilled dreams or perhaps think it’s time for some self-love. Rosa (Candela Peña) is turning 45 and is going to change her life. She’s making plans to follow […]
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Book Launch – Peter May: The Night Gate
Thursday, 18 March 2021 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Online Event by Wee Three Indies, The Edinburgh Bookshop and 2 others Free Tickets £5-£20 Get Your Tickets From: Edinburgh Book Shop Madding Crowd Linlithgow Atkinson-Pryce At EventBrite Ticket holders will receive the event link the day before. (Note: Early pre-orders for the book from one of the […]
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Thursday, March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Yer Old Faither review by Pat Byrne
At Glasgow Film Festival 2021 At Home 6 – 9 March, 2021 Order Tickets Online March 2021 Yer Old Faither is a documentary about the life of a remarkable man – John Croall, a Glaswegian doctor, who emigrated to Whyalla in South Australia with his family in 1970. He wanted to live in a sunny […]
Wildland Glasgow Film Festival Online review Pat Byrne
The UK Premiere of Wildland screens online 4 – 7 March, 2021 ‘The embrace of a loving family starts to feel like the grip of a python in Wildland, a dark, chilling crime drama that marks director Jeanette Nordahl as a talent to watch. ‘ Director, Jeanette Nordahl’s chilling debut finds teenager Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) placed […]
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Zoom and online events
Introductions to birding in Glasgow – with Scott Rogers Part IV(Nature Recovery)
Woodlands Community 3 March, 2021 5.30 p.m. Bird Watch – Online Workshop Event by Woodlands Community Online Event. Register for this event. Free · Duration: 1 hr Have you been finding solace in appreciating the birds during lock down? What to find out more identification tips and tricks to develop knowledge of how to bird […]
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Woodlands Community, Zoom and online events
CLIC Sargent – World Book Day Fundraiser
Young Lives Against Cancer Fundraiser Get Into Good Books this World Book Day! All this week (Until 7 March, 2021) more than 60 well-known authors are offering YOU the chance to win exclusive prizes to raise money for young lives against cancer. With CLIC’s Good Books auction you could name a character in a book, […]
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Spring Fling Queen Margaret Drive
22 – 28 March, 2021 Queen Margaret Drive Community and Teresa Lowe Online event Free Spring forward with the QMD Community this March for a fabulous Spring Fling featuring a range of fun and free online activities for all including: Window Wonderland Artist Shop Window Takeover! Sun 28th March 11-4pm Online Street Festival featuring music performances, workshops […]
The Knitting Station by Kirsti Wishart – book launch
Friday 5 March, 2021 6 p.m. Event by Rymour Books Free Online Event BOOK LAUNCH – March 5 2021 @6:00 pm. Rymour Books invites you to the launch of The Knitting Station, a very Scottish saga of counter espionage, knitting, sheep and the debut novel of writer, Kirsti Wishart. Join the Event The Zoom link […]
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Creative Conversations Don Paterson
1 March, 2021 1 p.m. Creative Conversations at University of Glasgow Zoom Event Register at EventBrite You will be sent the link to attend the meeting. Don Paterson is Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, and since 1996 has been poetry editor at Picador MacMillan. He is the author of seven books […]
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Sunday, February 28, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Creative Conversations 2021
Zero Waste Sunday Social – fast fashion and textile waste
Sunday 28 February, 2021 – 3 p.m. Woodland Community – Online Waste is a huge problem for our local and global environment. Most of our waste goes to landfill and creates harmful greenhouse gasses – CO2 and methane – which contributes to global warming accelerating climate change as well as the plastic particles polluting our […]
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How Poets See The World – Paisley Book Festival 2021 review by Pat Byrne
Paisley Book Festival At Home With poets and writers: Brian Whittingham, Basia Palka, Sean McMenemy, Jim Ferguson and Kay Metcalfe It was lovely to sit down with a coffee in my living room and catch this Paisley Book Festival event on YouTube. Brian Whittingham introduced the event by telling us that : ‘a poet’s job […]
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Friday, February 26, 2021 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
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