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Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

What It Means To Overcome – Paisley Film Festival

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(What it Means) to Overcome: Poems and short stories with Charlie Gracie, Donal McLaughlin & Mairi Murphy 23 February, 2021 5 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free Charlie Gracie, Donal McLaughlin & Mairi Murphy are three local writers with strong Irish roots. One emigrated to Paisley as a child, whilst two are second generation. The […]

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Book Launch: The Stone in My Pocket by Matthew Keeley

Launch on YouTube Sunday 28th February 4pm  Join the book launch on You Tube The Stone in My Pocket ‘Powerfully evokes all of the emotions you want when you read a good novel.’ – The Independent  A poignant coming-of-age story following a teenage journey into mediumship, independence, 90s pop culture, and a new millennium. The […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Truman and Tennessee

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GFT At Home 1 – 4 March, 2021 Book Online £9.99 Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were friends for the best part of 40 years. Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s poignant documentary captures the complexity of a relationship that journeyed from fond regard to bitchy disdain and back again. A wealth of archive material confirms the two literary giants […]

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GFT – Away

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20 – 23 February, 2021 Away is the story of a  boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reflects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part […]

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Baby Done, GFT at Home

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22 and 23 February, 2021 Executive produced by Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jojo Rabbit) and directed and scripted respectively by husband and wife team Curtis Vowell and Sophie Henderson, Baby Done is a pleasingly deadpan, tremendously charming romantic comedy about one couple’s response to imminent parenthood. When awkward New Zealander Zoe (Rose Matafeo) and her sensitive […]

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Creative Conversations: Scarlett Thomas

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Monday 22 February, 2021 at 1 p.m. Creative Conversations Lunchtime Series hosted by Creative Writing College of Arts, University of Glasgow  On Zoom – Free Register at EventBrite You will be sent the link to attend the meeting Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of the Worldquake series and nine novels […]

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The World I Fell Out Of – Melanie Reid

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Paisley Book Festival 20 February, 2021 – 4 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free In 2010, award-winning writer and The Times columnist Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back. Paralysed from the top of her chest down, she was to spend almost a full year in hospital, determinedly […]

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Crossways Literary Festival 2021 – Online

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12 – 14 February, 2021 Crossways: The Irish Scottish Cultural & Literary Festival The first two Crossways Festivals took place in the Merchant City, Glasgow, in the spring of 2018 and 2019. Due to the ongoing Pandemic, this year’s Festival must be a virtual one. Although online, Virtual Crossways 2021 will nonetheless be a substantial series of […]

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Vivian French and The Giant’s Tea Party

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Paisley Book Festival – 20 February, 202 10 a.m. Family Event Age 5 – 10 years Tickets are Free – Book Online Beloved children’s author and picture book expert Vivian French brings us a rollicking new fairytale adventure, The Giant’s Tea Party, which tells the story of Prince Max as he ventures into the valley […]

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Winter Art Club for Kids – Paper Bag Portraits

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 – 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.  Online Woodlands Community Development Trust This is the last Winter Art Club of 2021! Keep your eyes peeled for spring… Join Sam Macgregor, a local artist, who will be running a programme of online arts activities for local children and their families during this new period […]

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Online Book Launch: Ruth Thomas: The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line

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Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Online event by  Wee Three Indies, The Edinburgh Bookshop Atkinson-Pryce  Far From The Madding Crowd, Linlithgow Free Event on Facebook To sign up for the event email weethreeindies@gmail.com and we to be sent link. Ruth Thomas on Zoom to talk about her latest novel, Snow and the Works on […]

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Glasgow Greenpeace – Kelvin Way Valentine’s Day

We <3 Our Bike Lane 14 February, 2021 – Kelvin Way Greenpeace Glasgow are working on some socially distant happenings to show support for the Kelvin Way being closed to cars (and to all the pop up bike lanes and continued active travel developments across the city as a whole). This is not an outdoor […]

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Multi-talented and Versatile – Laura Turnbull Fyfe

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Laura jokes that she has a low boredom threshold. Ten years ago, she went part-time as a teacher and since then has honed plate-spinning to a fine art. A mother to five-year old Riley, she also fits in part-time teaching, facilitation of writing communities and leads writing workshops – all around writing her own novels and poetry.  […]

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Spring Blossom, Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Online

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Available on Glasgow Film At Home from Sunday 7 until 10 March, 2021 £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 the 2021 Glasgow Film Festival. The daughter of Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon, Lindon emerges as a force […]

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Jumbo, Glasgow Film Festival Online 2021

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Available:  27 February until  2 March, 2021 £9.99 buy online Love is where you find it in Jumbo, a quirky charmer of a debut from Zoé Wittock, ‘inspired’ by a true story. Awkward, painfully shy Jeanne (Noémie Merlant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire) lives with her blowsy mother (Emmanuelle Bercot) and works as a cleaner at an […]

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Preparations To Be Together, Glasgow Film Festival Online

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Available 2 March, 2021 £9.99 Book Online. ‘a multi-layered rumination on love, fate and the blurry lines between desire, obsession and reality.’   Lili Horvat’s striking noir-tinged second feature is pitched somewhere between the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock and Krzystof Kieslowski. Marta (Natasa Stork) is a 40-year-old neurosurgeon. At a medical conference in New Jersey, she meets […]

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Rosa’s Wedding, Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Online

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Available: 5 March, 2021 £9.99 book online Treat someone you love or treat yourself The latest film from Icíar Bollaín (Yuli) is the feel-good comedy that we all need right now. Hard-working seamstress Rosa (Candela Peña) is the Cinderella of her family. A born people-pleaser, everyone turns to her for childcare, cheeky favours and financial help. She […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Industry Focus Progamme

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Full programme announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Industry Focus Monday 1 – Saturday 6 March, 2021 Events include Spotlight interviews with 1917 writer Krysty Wilson- Cairns and The Mauritanian director Kevin Macdonald MUBI Ambassador programme for filmmakers under 30 with Ben Sharrock, John MacPhail, Eva Riley and Rachel Jackson Glasgow Film Festival (GFF)Industry Focus […]

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Balloch Open Mic – One From The Archives

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Alan Riach – One from the archives . . . The June 2019 Open Mic drew a large crowd. George Gibson’s review says it all. Sometimes when you invite a guest headliner along to the open mic, no matter their reputation, you’re not sure what you’re going to get, except it’s probably going to be […]

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Virtual Guided Tour of Barcelona’s Picasso Museum and the Gaudi

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Sunday, 14 February 2021 from 23:00 -02:00  Event by Visit in the World at Home and Virtual Tour – Live Online event on Facebook Price: free · Duration: 3 hr Public  ·  Facebook Travel to one of most popular cities in Spain to virtually explore two of the most celebrated museums in the world! #virtualtourlive PICASSO MUSEUM (uayebt, […]

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Newtopia: Women With Fierce Words, Paisley Book Festival

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18 February, 2021 9.30 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free Newtopia is a multimedia performance of writing emerging from women’s disrupted lives as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is presented by Women With Fierce Words – an inclusive collective of established women writers. They will be joined from India by the award-winning poet, […]

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Paisley Book Festival 2021 – Online

18 – 27 February, 2021 During Lockdown books and reading have been a great source of comfort for so many people. The Paisley Book Festival has a fabulous programme lined up with something for everyone on their digital stage. Radical New Futures: Launch Event 18 February, 7 p.m. Hannah Lavery, Laura Waddell and Alan Bissett […]

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Street Level Photography: In Focus, Brexit Tears

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4 February, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. Online Event by Street Level Photoworks Price: free · Duration: 1 hr Public  · Anyone on or off Facebook In Focus: Calum Colvin and Robert Crawford ‘Brexit Tears’. Livestreamed through Facebook. Join artist Calum Colvin and poet Robert Crawford who will present excerpts from their project ‘Brexit Tears’. It tells the story […]

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BMX Bandits at St Luke’s

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Sunday 31 January, 2021 at 8 p.m. Independent Venue Week Bellshills own BMX bandits are live from Saint Luke’s as part of Independent Venue Week 2021. Tune in from 8pm to hear Kurt Cobain’s favourite band play their show recorded and streamed worldwide in 2017 with a special Intro from BMX bandits front man Duglas […]

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Sunday, January 31, 2021 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events

Tidelines Festival Winter Warmer Poetry Events

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Winter Warmer Poetry Friday January 29th and February 5th, 2021  at 7.30pm for Winter Warmer Poetry season. Welcoming a range of talented poets,  many of them from Ayrshire, who will feature at Tidelines Winter Warmer Events – some on 29 January and some on February 5th. Sign up on Tidelines YouTube Channel and set alerts […]

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James McAvoy Edinburgh Youth Theatre – Masterclass

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1 February, 2021 8.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. In a unique series of Arts Masterclasses. Scottish actor JAMES MCAVOY gives live online Q&A about his compelling career! BSL interpreted About this Event MASTERCLASS MONDAYS – Each month, Artistic Director and renowned Scottish actor, Shauna Macdonald, hosts a conversation with a different distinguished guest, who will […]

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GFT – Film resources for primary school children at home

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Learning from home: Room on the Broom and The Mars Generation GFT’ has a weekly schools blog; bringing teachers and families new learning at home materials, all focused on film. This week  Primary school films are: Room on the Broom (available on iPlayer) and the inspiring STEM documentary, The Mars Generation (available on Netflix). Room on the Broom […]

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The Scribbler’s Union – Vol.1 Book Launch (2 Nights!)

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8 & 9 February, 2021 at 7 p.m. Celebrate the launch of The Scribbler’s Union Vol.1 – an anthology of new work from the emerging artists of the Scribbler’s Union. Hosted by Kevin P. Gilday, the festivities will stretch over two nights of performances – 8th & 9th February – with both shows kicking off […]

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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events

Paisley Book Festival – A Kist of Thistles

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25th February, 2021 a 5 p.m. Authors From Home Tickets: Free A Kist of Thistles is a new anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Scotland published by Culture Matters, which includes new and previously published work from a diverse range of poets from Scotland and beyond. This collection includes Renfrewshire based poets, new working class poets, […]

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Film Festival Institut Francais

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Before the Night 23 – 25 January, 2021 SEE FULL PROGRAMME AND BOOK ONLINE FRI 22 JAN – 15:30 | CINÉ KIDS Fritzi – a Revolutionary Tale FRI 22 JAN – 18:30 | FILM Touki Bouki SAT 23 JAN – 18:30 | FILM Waiting for Happiness SAT 23 JAN – 14:00 | CINÉ KIDS Fritzi […]

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