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. 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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Sunday, March 7, 2021 | Filed under: Free Events, International Womens Day, Zoom and online events
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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| 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
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
Andrew Painting & Jim Crumley: #Wee Nature Fest
FRIDAY, 26 MARCH 2021 AT 19:00 UTC Andrew Painting is involved in the largest rewilding project in Scotland at the Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms. In the second of our #WeeNatureFest events, he’ll be discussing the work being done there and the stunning new book, Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land with author and […]
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February Noise – Refuweegee
Event by Refuweegee, Sounds in the Suburbs and Alan Hendry Online: refuweegee.co.uk Thursday 25 February, 2021 at 8 PM UTC Price: Free Register for Zoom Link and Details Sounds in the Suburbs is hosting Refuweegee fundraiser gigs, usually on the last Thursday of every month. Andy White, Findlay Napier, Gillian Tuite, Darden Smith and Lilly Hiatt all confirmed for February […]
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Monday, February 22, 2021 | Filed under: Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, Zoom and online events
Rymour Books: Cultivating the Literary Arts
RYMOUR BOOKS – is an independent Scottish publisher founded in 2020 by Ian Spring and Ruby McCann. They have a team of writers and editors dedicated to cultivating the literary arts in all its forms and genres. They are committed to discovering and publishing new work. [February, 2021: Rymour Books is one of seven Scottish […]
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
International Mother Language Day 21 February 2021
Four Exciting Events INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY was established by the UN General Assembly in 2002 to “promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world” Featuring wonderful guest speakers, musicians, poets and performers Session 1 – Bhasha Andolon (Bangla Language Movement) Dr Moniruzzaman, Ahmed Rafiq, Mafizur Rahman Laltu, and […]
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Glesga Banter: Celebration of Weegie Culture
Thursday, 25 February, 2021 at 6 p.m. Online Event by Bhasha Glasgow Language Festival and Thriving Places Govanhill Free Sign up for event An hour of wee stories, poetry, and song Hosted by Marion Nisbet a community councillor in Govanhill, an antiracist, antipoverty feminist who enjoys growing food, community and resistance. Marion will be joined by her […]
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Friday, February 19, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, Pat's Home Page Blog, Poetry, Zoom and online events
How Poets See The World – Paisley Book Festival Online 2021
How Poets See The World with Brian Whittingham 22 February, 2021, 5 p.m. Free. Book Tickets Join Renfrewshire’s Tannahill Makar Brian Whittingham for an hour of readings from Paisley connected poets, who share their visions of the world and make some projections for its future. Featuring Jim Ferguson, Basia Palka, Kay Metcalfe and Sean McMenemy, […]
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Thursday, February 18, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
New Patterns for Paisley, Paisley Book Festival
Poetry and Publishing 23 February, 20217 p.m. Round table event discussing transformational effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Scottish writing and opportunities this presents for Paisley writers. Panellists include: John Scally, National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland; Linda Jackson: writer, editor and creative writing tutor; Jim Ferguson: poet, novelist and […]
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In Conversation with Dean Atta and gainAgain
Govanhill Queer Community Banner Project Event by Govanhill Baths Community Trust Online with Facebook Live Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 18:00 UTC Free Join poet Dean Atta and artist gainAgain (Drew Taylor Wilson) for this special in conversation event, celebrating the Govanhill Queer Community Banner Project in honour of LGBT+ History month. The banner weaves together […]
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month, Zoom and online events
Breaking Boundaries: Main Reading Vahni Capildeo and Mark Waldron
Sunday 21st February – 8.00pm-9.00pm Tickets: £5 – Book Online – Brewery Arts Centre Vahni Capildeo’s seven books and five pamphlets extend from prose poetry into immersive theatre. Capildeo’s work is intimate yet full of humour, far-ranging and far-reaching and always fearless in its challenge to the boundaries of poetry and what it can do. Mark […]
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More premieres and guests announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2021
GFF21 Online from 24 February until 7 March Tina GFF will host UK premiere of Tina, a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, on 5 March. Further Details – Tina First Cow Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow will receive its UK premiere at GFF on 5 March. Further Details […]
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Weird Pleasure by Jim Ferguson review of the launch by Pat Byrne
I think it’s fair to say that most book launches, particularly on zoom, no matter how engrossing, can be fairly staid affairs. Not so the launch of Jim Ferguson’s ‘Weird Pleasure’ – this was a raucous, irreverent and highly entertaining event. There was much praise for Jim’s impressive new poems and Louise Malone’s art work […]
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Greenpeace – Kelvin Way’s Low-Traffic Neighbourhood
Greenpeace Glasgow Group celebrates Kelvin Way’s Low-Traffic Neighbourhood with community art drop. On Valentine’s weekend 2021 volunteers from Greenpeace Glasgow Group hosted a Covid-compliant community art drop on Kelvin Way. The art drop celebrated Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and twinned the Kelvin Way’s bike lane with the Isle Of Arran to promote better-connected transport routes. People […]
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Community event, Community Groups and Charities, Health and Fitness, Local Projects
New Poetries VIII – Online Launches
Launches will run from 18 February until 18 March, 2021 Online Facebook Events – £2 each event. Please join Carcanet Press to celebrate the launch of New Poetries VIII, edited by Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe. From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this eighth volume, the series has showcased some of the […]
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Monday, February 15, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
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