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. No Home Movie at GFT
Saturday 26 April 5 p.m. and Wednesday 30 April, 8.20 p.m. Chantal Akerman’s poignant, yet deceptively radical, final film is a profoundly moving portrait of her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor, in the months leading up to her death. It comprises a series of vignettes that Akerman ‘composed’ by setting down a digital camera in […]
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
His Girl Friday at GFT
25 April – 1 May, 2025 Following its premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, we’re delighted to screen the new 4K restoration of Howard Hawks’ dazzling screwball comedy for a week at GFT. Unprincipled editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) convinces Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) — his ex-wife and star reporter — to take on […]
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ARC Conversations and Identities Journal: Global Dignity and Seeing Others
Monday, May 12, 2025, 4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. Professor Michèle Lamont from Harvard University reflects on how we equip ourselves to think across different levels of analysis. Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Global Dignity and Seeing Others How can we equip ourselves to think across different levels […]
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WW1 Commemorative Plaque Unveiling at Maryhill Burgh Halls
Friday 25 April, 2025 11 a.m. Maryhill Community to Honour Local WWI Fallen at Commemorative Plaque Unveiling On Friday 25th April at 11:00am, the Maryhill community will gather for a solemn ceremony to unveil a bronze memorial plaque commemorating local men who lost their lives in the First World War. To attend please book. The […]
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G20 Youth – Kilt Walk
Saturday 26 April, 2025 G20 Youth, 21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow G20 8HS G20 youth project will be taking part in the Kilt walk. ✨ To raise funds for G20 project. 🫶🏻 They will be walking the 14 mile big stroll from Clydebank to Balloch on Saturday 26th April. If you would like to join them and […]
Michael Pedersen in conversation with Nicola Sturgeon
Sunday 25 May, 2025, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153 – 157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW Join the award winning writer and poet, Michael Pedersen, as he launches his debut fiction title, Muckle Flugga, in conversation in store. ‘Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger’s arrival, testing bonds […]
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Arran Rock n Blues Masterclass
Saturday 3 May, 2025 – 11 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Ormidale Pavilion, Ormidale Park, Brodick, Isle of Arran In this masterclass, Krissy Matthews will talk about his equipment, how he looks for his tone in a live setting, his approach to music/ songwriting and will show you some of his licks. You will all jam […]
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Punks for Palestine Weekender
Friday 2nd – Saturday 3rd May 2025 Benefit Gig in Glasgow at McChuills, 80 High St, Glasgow G1 1NL Great to see the punk scene everywhere* standing up in support of Palestinian human rights – here’s another upcoming benefit gig – nice one Glasgow punx! All procceeds to Viva Palestina Scotland. The Scottish Sex Pistols […]
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Monday, April 21, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Picnic – Glasgow for Europe at the Botanics
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 3 – 4 p.m. Glasgow Botanic Gardens Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road Glasgow G12 0UE Spring is in the air – meet-up in Glasgow’s Westend for a ‘Europe’ themed picnic in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens The plan is to meet south of the Kibble Palace anytime from 3 pm. Hope you […]
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Sunday, April 20, 2025 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Strange Broth – A gathering to make, learn, play and share stories for commons and commoning
Friday 25 April and Saturday 26 April, 2025. 9 a.m. – 6.30 p.m. GalGael Trust, 15 Fairley Street Glasgow G51 2SN A gathering for the commons and commoning across Scotland and beyond £5 – Tickets and Programme Hosted by GalGael and Future Natures and brewed with commoners near and far. The world is on fire. Illegal “wars” rumble on. […]
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Games Night: Space and Place
Friday, April 18, 2025, 6 p.m.- 8.30 p.m. Part of the Spring Fling: Space and Place collection A games night with a difference as you explore how games and gaming help imagine space and place. Free – reserve a spot Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW
Take 2: The Extra-Terrestrial
Saturday 19 April, 2025, 11.30 a.m. Screening as part of GFT Easter programme! Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free tickets for their accompanying adult. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by […]
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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
18 – 24 April, 2025 In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books […]
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Tree Planting at Springburn Winter Gardens
Friday 18 April, 2025, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Springburn Park, Mosesfield St, Glasgow G21 3UD An afternoon session of tree planting in Springburn Park, Glasgow! We’re teaming up with Propagate to plant fruit trees in the gardens and have creative activities for you to enjoy. Take away goat willow cuttings and enjoy refreshments. Meet […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre: Hand on the Baton
Tuesday, 22 April, 2025 , 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. ‘Break out your poetry, fiction and song…We’re back.’ SCW will present a night of thanks, celebration and looking forward. It would be impossible to thank Scottish Writers Centre’s outgoing co-chairs Sheila Wakefield and Christie Williamson enough but they’ll give it a good go! Sheila and […]
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Thursday, April 17, 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
WestFest 2025
WestFest is back for its third annual festival 1st – 29th June After a hugely successful 2024 festival, comprising 131 events and reaching total audience numbers of 110,000 WestFest – Glasgow’s biggest community led, cultural festival today (Thursday 12 April) launches the programme for its 2025 festival. WestFest captures the imaginations of participants, residents and visitors […]
Weaving Song Workshop
Tuesday 22 April, 2025 6 p.m – 8 p.m. Discover songs and poetry from Paisley’s mill heritage – create a song to remember Paisley’s mill workers. Come along and help write a radical weaver’s song with poet Jim Ferguson and musician Rebecca Maria Witherspoon Building, 10 Stone Street, Paisley PA1 2AR To book email […]
G20 Weekly Gardening Sessions
G20 Youth Glencloy Street, Glasgow, G20 Every Wednesday 12 – 2 p.m. starting 30 April, 2025 Come and help G20 create a mini Children’s Wood and garden at their G20 Community Garden in Maryhill. They’ll be building raised beds, planting, taking part in conservation activities and creating a mud kitchen. They’ve already cleared up the […]
The Return at GFT
Until 17 April, 2025 The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in this adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey that sees Fiennes’ Odysseus return to a very different kingdom from the one he left. 20 years after he went to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes back up on the shores of Ithaca. The decades have taken their […]
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Saturday, April 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Holy Cow at GFT
Until 17 April, 2025 Eighteen year-old Totone spends most of his time drinking beer and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends until reality catches up with him when he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He sets out to make the […]
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Record Store Day at GFT
Saturday 12 April, 2025 Celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday with three music-themed modern classics: a 30th anniversary screening of Empire Records on 35mm; a 25th anniversary screening of Almost Famous on 4K; and a free family screening of School of Rock. The brilliant Assai Records on GFT’s doorstep, at 233 Sauchiehall Street, so make sure you pay them a […]
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Friday, April 11, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2 at GFT: School of Rock
Saturday 12 April, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. A special edition of GFT’s regular Take 2 programming to mark Record Store Day on Saturday 12 April! Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where […]
Four Mothers at GFT
4 – 17 April, 2025 Four Mothers James McArdle stars in this comedy charmer as a Young Adult novelist and carer who finds his hands full when three mates ditch their mums with him for the weekend. We’ll be welcoming James McArdle to GFT for a Q&A following the screening on Sunday 6 April at […]
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Friday, April 4, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Sebastian at GFT
5 – 10 April, 2025 Sebastian Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories […]
Les rendez-vous d’Anna (Meetings with Anna)
Sunday 6 and Monday 7 April, 2025 Les rendez-vous d’Anna (Meetings with Anna) An accomplished filmmaker makes her way through a series of Western European cities to promote her newest release, passing through a succession of exquisitely shot brief encounters, which gradually reveal her detachment from the world. The screening on Sun 6 April will […]
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Take 2: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Saturday 5 April, 2025 11.20 a.m. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free tickets for their accompanying adult. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Additional tickets and/or tickets purchased […]
Tummy Monster + Q & A Tour
In Cinemas Throughout The UK Spring 2025 Ciaran Lyons’ dark comedy debut feature film starring Lorn MacDonald (Bridgerton) and Orlando Norman (Silo) to tour cinemas across the UK in Spring 2025 with director Q&As and workshops Debut feature film Tummy Monster from Glasgow-based Irish/Scottish filmmaker Ciaran Lyons is making its way to cinemas throughout the […]
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Tummy Monster plus Q & A at GFT
1 May, 2025, 8.30 p.m. Rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald (Beats) stars as a self-centred tattoo artist whose fixation on getting a selfie with a famous client embroils him in a bizarre and dangerous game. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Writer/Director Ciaran Lyons. Glasgow-based director Ciaran Lyons makes a virtue of […]
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Special Screenings to Celebrate Autism Friendly Club’s 10th Anniversary at GFT
World Autism Acceptance Month Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) has announced two special screenings to mark World Autism Acceptance Month in April, which coincides with the 10th anniversary of Access Film Club, the cinema’s autism-friendly programme. From 7th April. Delivered in partnership with the National Autistic Society Scotland, GFT’s monthly Access Film Club screenings are designed […]
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Chris McQueer and Michael Pederson – Paisley Book Festival
Saturday 26th April, 2025, 6:30-7:30pm Paisley Town Hall, Abbey Cl, Paisley PA1 1JF Tickets – £10/£12 Hear from two of Scotland’s most popular and exciting writers about their latest and upcoming work. Glasgow-based Chris McQueer is a writer, performer, and social media sensation best known for his darkly funny Scots-language short story collections Hings and HWFG. He returns for his […]
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