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. Celtic Connections 2020: This Is Caledonian Soul review by Pauline Keightley
Blue Rose Code: This Is Caledonian Soul at the Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2020 A celebration of outstanding Scottish soul music, covering such artists as the Blue Nile, Del Amitri, Gerry Rafferty, Lewis Capaldi, Travis, KT Tunstall and Annie Lennox. The concert was hosted by the inimitable and very talented Ross Wilson (aka Blue Rose […]
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Celtic Connections 2020, Pauline Keightley
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Special Events
Films in this Festival Strand Total Recall at The Argyle Street Arches (18) 28 February Total Recall at The Argyle Street Arches (18) “If I’m not me then who the hell am I?”. Part of a Festival StrandSpecial Events Tank Girl at The Argyle Street Arches (18) 29 February, 2020 Tank Girl at The Argyle […]
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Monday, February 10, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Special Event: Total Recall
Friday 28 February, 2020 7.30 p.m. Total Recall Argyle Street Arches will be transformed into a futuristic venue and play host to a weekend of special immersive film screenings of sci-fi cult classics from Total Recall to Tank Girl Neo-Glasgow 28 February – 1 March, 2020 Glasgow Film Festival will take over Argyle Street Arches for an epic weekend, […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
No Universal Credit Evictions – Leafletting Partick
Thursday 13 February, 2020 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Hosted by Living Rent Glasgow Universal Credit is causing rent arrears and forcing people into destitution and homelessness. A waiting time of five weeks or more, deductions from payments, sanctions, and inadequate payments are all part of the “Universal Credit experience,” Living Rent’s No Universal Credit […]
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| Filed under: Community event
Old KIlpatrick Art Club Exhibition, Bishopton
12 – 16 February, 2020 Calders Garden Centre, Bishopton, Erskine Bridge, PA7 5PU Art Exhibition at Calders Garden Centre, Erskine Wednesday 12th – Sunday 16th Feb. 10am till 4pm. Please pop in. Event on Facebook
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Sunday, February 9, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Community event
SQIFF Shorts Out of the Archives! CCA
Sat 8 February 2020 6pm – 7.30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 As part of LGBT History Month Scotland 2020, SQIFF presents a programme of short films looking back into largely unseen and undiscovered aspects of the history of queer Scottish representation in the 20th century. Featuring archival documentaries and short films […]
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Friday, February 7, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month
First events announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2020
The first events have been announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2020. The 16th annual festival takes place from 26 February to 8 March, showcasing the best new films from Scotland and around the world. Some Highlights Glasgow Film Festival 2020 The focus of three special strands Retrospective Are We There Yet? – A Retrospective of […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CinemaAttic & Femspectives Mujeres: Women in Film CCA
Thu 13 February 2020 7.30pm – 9.30pm, £7 (£6) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 An alternative Valentine’s with a brilliant evening of short films directed by women. In collaboration with Femspectives, Cinemaattic present a programme of first class short films, directed or produced by Spanish & Latin American women, which challenge assumptions […]
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The Lighthouse, GFT
31 January – 13 February, 2020 Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, directs this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Trapped on the island due to a storm, the men become increasingly desperate as their stark and haunted […]
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Celebrating Women – Fundraiser at Eusebi
16 February, 020 Fundraising Dinner for Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland In Support of Andrew Fairlie Scholarship and Macmillan Cancer Support The evening will bring together women from from across the hospitality & business sector for a night of networking, opera and authentic Italian cuisine. The dinner will also provide a platform for women working […]
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| Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Italian Restaurants
Alasdair Gray – Omnium Gatherum
Exhibition Runs: 07 February – 12 April 2020 Glasgow Print Studio’s long association with Alasdair Gray goes back to the late seventies and in 1981 in celebration of the publication of the seminal novel, Lanark, we published a series of lithographs that were used as illustrations within the book. More recently GPS has published 30 screenprints going […]
Creative Conversations: Niall O’Gallagher
Monday 10 February 2020 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Niall O’Gallaher: Glasgow’s Gaelic Makar/Bard Baile Ghlaschu Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ www.gla.ac.uk/events/creativeconversations/ Glasgow’s Gaelic Makar / Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu: Niall O’Gallagher After studying and then teaching at the University of […]
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Thursday, February 6, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
It’s Time To Talk About Mental Health – Part Two
1 March, 2020 The Ice Box Arts and Music Centre, St Luke’s Business Estate, Gorbals, Glasgow G5 0TS Aimed at Men in Glasgow and Surrounding Area Talks / Comedy / Food / Music It’s time to talk about mental health lads, so come down and join in, or chat to others, or just sit back […]
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Aye Write:Claudia Hammond, The Art of Rest
14th Mar 2020 • 3:00PM – 4:00PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Claudia Hammond discusses ‘The Rest Test’ – the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken. Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we’re busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. The Art of […]
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | Filed under: Aye Write 2020, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: Andrew Greig and Chris Agee
12 March, 2020 7.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7ND Two writers celebrated for depictions of the natural world come together for a unique reading in the shadow of the mounting ecological crisis. Greig will read from his Scottish classic At the Loch of the Green Corrie and other prose. Agee will […]
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Paisley Book Festival: Jenny’s Well Press presents: Writers and Rebellion
February, 24, 2020, 5:30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Show is AVAILABLE Literature often embodies rebellion as a cultural response to events that are happening in society. Renfrewshire’s only independent publisher, Jenny’s Well Press, presents five Scottish writers – Jim Ferguson, Fiona Lindsay, Tracy Patrick, Dave Manderson and Carl MacDougall – whose fictional characters go against the […]
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Aye Write: Stewart Ennis and Okechuwu Nzelu
Saturday 21 March, 2020, 1.15 – 2.1 p.m. The Mitchell Library North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Roland Gulliver, Director of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto introduces a pair of strikingly original debut novels. Blessed Assurance by Stewart Ennis is an exploration of family, friendship, faith, loneliness and grief, and the compromises that sometimes […]
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Rootsy Rammy
Thursday 27 February, 2020, 7 – 10 p.m. Poetry Slam, as part of the Roots Festival. Hosted by Shaun Moore Open invite performance poetry competition in bespoke central Paisley music venue. With judges, musical interludes, guest performances, and prizes. Free entry, though donations for performers are welcome. Callums Cavern, 66 Old Sneddon Street, Paisley PA3 […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Three Gospels of Jimmy Reid by Kevin P. Gilday
Fair Pley presents The Three Gospels of Jimmy Reid by Kevin P. Gilday. A rehearsed reading as part of the Theatre at The Bungo programme. Thursday, 27 February, 2020 at 7.30 p.m. The Bungo, 17 -21 Nithsdale Road, G41 2AL Three speeches.1971, 1972. and 2007. Three pivotal moments in the life of a divisive and […]
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Muse at the Playhouse with Linda Jaxson
Valentine’s with a difference February 13th,2020 at The Playhouse, Upstairs in Websters 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ (adjacent to Kelvinbridge Underground) Erotic Poetry, Burlesque Dancing and Songs with and Edge. Music from Linda Jaxson, Vocalist, Mike Bryan, Guitar, and Gordon Dickson on Saxophone. Princess Yaddick Readers: Lesley Benzie, Donna Campbell, David Chinn, Sean […]
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More Than Words – Poetry Night with Imogen Stirling
Mondays at The Flying Duck Inaugural event: Monday, February 17, 2020 at 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, G2 3AU February – a dreich month with not a lot happening. Cue a bright new poetry night at the glowingly cosy basement of The Flying Duck. More Than Words is a […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Living Rent Writers’ Circle
Thursdays 6th, 13, 20 and 27 February, 2020 – 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. John Smith House, 145-165 West Regent Street, G2 4RE ‘Living Rent’s writing circle is a space to collectively develop radical creative writing, grounded in the everyday experience of struggle and solidarity as we try to understand and change the world around […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Joiners Corner
Lin Anderson at Weegie Wednesday
Lin Anderson is guest speaker for February. The Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST Wednesday, 19 February, 2020 7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Weegie Wednesday with host Jacqueline Smith Free entry. Lin is now best known as a tartan noir crime novelist, with forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod featuring in fourteen novels and a novella […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events
Are We Being Deported Now?
Websters Theatre 12, 14 and 15 February, 2020 £7.47 – £8.54 Buy Tickets Box Office 0141 357 4000 Are We Being Deported Now? is a four person ensemble with different ethnical, sexual, religious and financial backgrounds performing monologues about IDENTITY, including identity in modern day Britain after Brexit. With both candour and subtle, wit and […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Campire Club Rousing Rebels, Paisley
Sunday 23 February, 2020 11 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. Wevolution Renfrewshire SRG Hub, 25 Moss street, Paisley PA1 1DJ Oak Tree Art A creative writing club for ages 3-5 The club is a fusion of traditional storytelling with role-play and creative writing. Gather around the very special indoor campfire and join the adventure, exploring stories […]
Celtic Connection 202: Beerjacket review Fionnuala Boyle
Beerjacket kicked off the last weekend of this year’s Celtic Connections on 31st January, 2020 with the Cairn String Quartet and support from Keeley Forsyth. A packed out CCA played host to the singer-songwriter and the immensely talented musicians whose presence added that wee bit extra to what was already sure to be an enchanting […]
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Thank Funk It’s Valentine’s Day
14 February, 2020 Titwood Bowling Club, 77 Glencairn Drive, G41 4PS Join the South Side’s friendliest funkateers for a feast of funk’n’soul dance-jazz disco-style grooviness. Timeless vintage vinyl 45s hand-spun by seasoned joss-dickeys ; 80-plus years of turntabular experience between them (although they both look considerably older) Yours for only a fiver. Attractive bar prices! […]
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Monday, February 3, 2020 | Filed under: Dance, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Valentines Day Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cuba Libre Valentine’s Day Fiesta at Cottiers
14 February, 2020, 7.30 p.m. – 1 a.m. Cottiers, 93/95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Valentine’s Day Salsa Party – For a taste of those legendary Havana nights. Cuba Libre is a vibrant Latin fiesta and it’s returning to Cottiers this Valentine’s Day! Enjoy authentic Cuban food and dancing with live music by Kubanishe and professional […]
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Paisley Book Festival: Opening Night: Radical Renfrewshire
(Maggie Craig) Paisley Arts Centre – Theatre GA – Feb. 20, 2020, 7 p.m. 7pm-9pm £10/£6+bkg fee Fabulous line up for opening night of Paisley Book Festival 2020, where you’ll be treated to an exclusive reading from Scottish radicalism expert Maggie Craig, poetry from Renfrewshire born Jim Carruth, and music from Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Heir of […]
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What’s This Script with Jenny Lindsay, Paisley Book Festival
22 February, 2020 at 8.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Paisley Arts Centre New Street, Paisley PA1 1EZ At once a poetic memoir taking in #MeToo, sex, porn, love and ageing in a gendered world, This Script is Jenny Lindsay’s powerful response to many current feminist conflicts, replete with a trademark wit and lyrical dexterity that […]
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