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. Glasgow: Michael Pedersen in conversation with Fern Brady, Waterstones
Wednesday 25 March, 2026, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW Michael Pedersen and Fern Brady at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street for the paperback launch of Muckle Flugga.Join Edinburgh’s Makar, Michael Pedersen as he launches the paperback edition of Muckle Flugga in conversation with Fern Brady. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES FICTION BOOK OF THE […]
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Saturday, March 21, 2026 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Anti-Empire Film Club: Palestine 36
Sunday, 22 March, 2026, Doors 7.30 p.m. Film at 8 p.m. The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG Showing Palestine 36 as the first screening of the Anti-Empire Film Club! Palestine 36 is set in the 1930s during the British Mandate period in Palestine, and focusses on the anti-colonial struggle against the British […]
Arco at GFT
20 and 22, 28 March – 2 April, 2026 Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. A 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and, […]
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema
The Love That Remains
Thursday 26 March, 2026 From Godland director Hlynur Pálmason comes a tender portrait of a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film captures the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons. Icelandic, English and French with English subtitles Buy tickets […]
Dead Man’s Wire
20 March – 2 April, 2026 It’s 1977, and Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) is at the end of his tether with the mortgage firm he believes is exploiting him. He walks into their offices and takes the boss’s son (Stranger Things’ Dacre Montgomery) hostage, using a shotgun rigged with ‘dead man’s wire’. Holed up in his […]
Byres Road Community Hub Day: A Prescription for Change
Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 pm to 4 pm UofG Byres Community Hub Byres Community Hub, Clarice Pears BuildingGlasgow, 90 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TB Welcome to the Byres Hub Community Day 2026: A Prescription for Change Join School of Health and Wellbeing staff, students and Byres Hub community groups between 12noon and 4pm on Saturday 28th March for the […]
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Biodiversity Workshop Woodlands Community
Tuesday 24th March, 2026, 10 a.m. – 12 Noon Biodiversity Roadshow Workshop: Guardians of the Bog in partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. Woodlands Community Meeting Room, 66 Ashley Street, G3 6HW Free. Donations Welcome. Come along to this Biodiversity Roadshow Workshop happening in partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. Learn about biodiversity, climate change […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Community event, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Woodlands Community
Soul Jazz Sundays Easter Party
Sunday 5 April, 2026, 5 p.m. – 11 p.m. Event by Nick Peacock and Mark Robb McCrea West of Scotland Cricket Club, 40-44 Peel St, Glasgow G11 5LU Lots of incredible new tunes ready to be played! “Latin, Soul, Jazz, Funk, Edits you know how we roll!” Only £7 on the door, no presale, cash only. As ever […]
Earth’s Greatest Enemy film review Pat Byrne
Earth’s Greatest Enemy Director: Abby Martin, Mike Prysner Cast: Abby Martin I’ll be 80 this year – ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ is the most disturbing and revealing documentary I have ever seen. The scale of environmental devastation being wrought globally by the U.S. Military is terrifying and incomprehensible. In the documentary Abby Martin captures the tragedies […]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Pat's Home Page Blog
Family Fun Day – St Patrick’s Day Festival Glasgow 2026
Saturday 14 March, 2026, 12 noon – 5 p.m. Event by St Patricks Fest Glasgow Merchant Square, 71 Albion St, Glasgow G1 1NY ***FREE NON-TICKETED EVENT*** The Family Fun Day returns for another instalment of great craic in Merchant Square !!! The Festival in conjunction with Tourism Ireland presents a day of family celebration with music, […]
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Friday, March 13, 2026 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival Takeover Day 2026 review Pat Byrne
GFF’s annual Community Takeover Day is a free cinema event created with, and for, communities around Glasgow. The film chosen to be screened at Glasgow Film Theatre for the Community Takeover Day 2026 was Super Nature, which had its Scottish Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival on 28 February. Super Nature is a unique film – […]
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Mermaids at GFT – Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Movie – Sunday 15 March, 2026 4.40p.m. New England…the early 1960s. Cher stars as an unpredictable single mother of two who is a source of constant embarrassment to her confused 15-year-old daughter (Winona Ryder), who’s trying to deal with her own sexual awakening and not having an easy time of it. Based on a novel […]
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Monday, March 9, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Mothers' Day, Pat's Home Page Blog
Couture Glasgow Film Festival 2026 review by Pat Byrne
Alice Winocour’s film sees Angelina Jolie starring as Maxine, a filmmaker at Paris Fashion Week to shoot the film which will launch the show. She is on top of her game but working to a very tight schedule; there are a few hitches but she is not too vexed by clashes of opinion within the […]
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| Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Effi O Blaenau review Pat Byrne – Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Marc Evans’ Welsh language film Effi O Blaenau had its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2026. An adaptation of Gary Owen’s critically acclaimed play, Iphigenia in Splott, Evans shifts the location to Blaenau Ffestiniog, a rundown town in rural North Wales. This is where we meet Effi (Leisa Gwenllian) an angry young woman who spends […]
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Friday, March 6, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026, Pat's Home Page Blog
Super Nature Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Saturday 7 March 1 p.m. GFT then Adelaide Place Super Nature will also be screened at free cinema event, created with and for communities around Glasgow, with a special screening of Ed Sayers’ stunning debut nature documentary Super Nature, plus food, music and activities! The event is completely free, just collect your ticket from Garnethill […]
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Glasgow Film Theatre Announces Programme for March 2026
Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) – the city’s home of cinema for over 85 years – has revealed its programme for March 2026, following Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) which runs from 25 February – 8 March. Highlights include: A season celebrating the work of British filmmaker John Schlesinger Programmes from Glasgow Short Film Festival and Catalan […]
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Thursday, March 5, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Palestine solidarity volunteer bike ride
Sunday 29 March, 2026, 11 a.m. -3 p.m. For Great Ride of Return Event by Woodlands Community G3 6HW Glasgow, Meet at 11am departure back at 3pm Meet at Woodlands Community Meeting Room, 66 Ashley St, G3 6HW FREE A Palestine Solidarity group bike ride. Bring your Palestine flags and your solidarity. This ride will be […]
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Earth’s Greatest Enemy at GFT
Tuesday 24 March, 2026, 7.40 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Inclinations Film Club presents the Scottish premiere of Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a film that uncovers a shocking blind spot in the climate conversation: the U.S. military. Book now to grab the last few tickets for the Scottish premiere of Earth’s Greatest Enemy. Buy tickets […]
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Easter School Holiday Club, Platform
7 th – 17th April, 2026 – 10 a.m. – 2.30p.m. Platform Cafe Bar, The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow G34 9JW Free food and packed programme of activities over Easter School Holidays. Children and families can come along to the Platform Café Bar and enjoy a free breakfast & lunch. The meals are drop […]
Iona with Love, Barbara Sellars, book launch
Saturday 7 March, 2026, 2.30 p.m. Exhibition runs until 9 April,2026 Lillie Art Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ Launch of Photographer Barbara Sellars new book Iona with Love Opening times Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 1pm & 2pm – 5pm Admission is free. Closed Easter Weekend: Friday 3 April and Saturday 4 April Photographs […]
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Jaripeo at Glasgow Film Festival 2026
1st March (4.15 p.m.) and 2nd March(8.15 p.m.) Glasgow Film Thetre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB The world of jaripeo – a traditional Mexican-style rodeo, which sees many from the Mexican diaspora return to visit family – might seem like a hypermasculine space where machismo rules supreme. Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig guide us into another world beneath […]
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Sunday, March 1, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People)- Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Sunday 1 March (3.45 p.m.) & Monday 2 March (2 p.m.) Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Join Scottish Gaelic psalm precentor Rob MacNeacail on an uplifting musical journey from his Carlops singing group in the Borders across Scotland and Ireland as he celebrates the cultural heritage of psalm singing. In addition to lifting […]
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Friday, February 27, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2026
It’s A Fine Thing To Sing – Songs and Singers of Inishowen Peninsula Documentary
Thursday 26 March, 2026 The Deep End Venue Space – Govanhill Baths Community Trust21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Event by Paula Larkin and Irish History Group Bob Gallagher, Documentary, 60 min, Ireland, 2023 This 60 minute documentary features Ian Lynch (Lankum), Ye Vagabonds and The Henry Girls arranging and singing six songs from Clonmany and Buncrana singers: […]
Midwinter Break – Glasgow Film Festival 2026 Review
Based on the novel of the same name by Glasgow based, Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty, the film follows Stella and Gerry, a retired teacher and architect living in Glasgow, as they go on a city break to Amsterdam. Apart from taking in the sites Stella reflects on past trauma experienced during ‘The Troubles’, problems […]
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Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026, Pat's Home Page Blog
Hope – Fundraiser for Scottish Writers Centre
Hope | SWC Fundraising Competition: Poetry & Flash Fiction ByScottish Writers’ Centre The SWC is hosting their first ever fundraising comp! You are warmly invite you to share your creativity and submit an entry inspired by Hope! Hope | SWC Fundraising Competition: Poetry & Flash Fiction Deadline 28th February 2026. 23.59 p.m. All proceeds will […]
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Irish musician Mairtin O’Connor and Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Celtic Connections 2026 – Review by Pauline Keightley Mairtin O’Connor performed with Julie Fowlis and Scottish Chamber Orchestra playing some powerful and emotive tunes. O’Connor has performed with Boys of the Lough and Riverdance. We were treated to two celebrated musicians and composers – Mairtin O’Connor and Julie Fowlis both brilliantly backed by the SCO. […]
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Julie Fowlis with Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Celtic Connections 2026
Review by Pauline Keightley The touching, mystical and lyrical beauty of these well-crafted Gaelic songs surrounded by live trad folk music Julie Fowlis performed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – Celtic Scots and Irish traditional folk voices were enhanced by the depth of sound of the classical orchestra. As well as Julie’s crystal clear voice […]
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Everybody to Kenmure Street – GFF2026 Review
Everybody to Kenmure Street – Documentary by Felipe Bustos Sierra Felipe Bustos Sierra is a Glasgow based, BAFTA winning documentarian; his powerful film ‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ opened Glasgow Film Festival 2026. The film recreates the spontaneous response by neighbours and activists who came together in this multi-cultural community in Glasgow’s Pollokshields on 13 […]
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026, Pat's Home Page Blog
Big vs Small, Film Night, Arlington Baths Club
Saturday March 21, 2026, 6pm to 8.30pm Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT When champion Portuguese big wave surfer Joana Andrade has to conquer her fear of drowning, she finds herself locked in combat with long-buried demons from her past under a frozen Finnish lake. BIG vs SMALL stretches from raging monster […]
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema
Pam Hogg: Style, Defiance and the Art of Being Seen
28 March, 2026 – Doors 7.30 p.m. Paisley Art Festival, Paisley Town Hall, Abbey Cl, Paisley PA1 1JF Born in Paisley, Pam Hogg was one of Britain’s most fearless and original designers, a figure whose work blurred the lines between fashion, performance, music and protest. Refusing convention and self-taught, Pam built a body of work […]
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