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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..

Ali Whitelock and Skye Loneragan – Scottish Writers Centre

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Tuesday, 19 May, 2020  7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Whilst celebrating the work of two gifted writers, this event intends to explore and celebrate social and cultural connections between Scotland and Australia as well as the difficulties and rewards facing writers living and working in other […]

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Friday, March 6, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Aye Write: Ferlie Leed – The Rhymer on his Hoalidays

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Saturday March 14th, 8pm The Scottish band FERLIE LEED celebrate the centenary of Edwin Morgan’s birth with an exuberant selection of his work as a translator. Although Morgan is well known as a poet in his own right, he had a vigorous career as a translator of poets from across Europe. Ferlie Leed have composed […]

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2020. Literary Legends Book Stall – International Women’s Week

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Monday 9 – 13 March, 2020 Throughout International Women’s Week you will find a book stall on Level 3 of the library with a selection of female literary legends! Each day one of the writers will be featured on screens around the library, and you’ll be able to pick up their books from the stall. […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Women Make Film

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How many women film directors can you name? Agnes Varda? Jane Campion? Ida Lupino? Mira Nair? May Miles Thomas? The list is endless but how many of them have received the attention they truly deserve? Mark Cousins landmark 14 hour documentary ( screening  in five programmes) is nothing less than a radical realignment of conventional […]

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International Women’s Day Glasgow 2020 – Bike for Good

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Friday 6 March, 2020 – 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Bike for Good Glasgow South, 539 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 8BH Join Bike for Good for a screening of a selection of short films about women on bikes to celebrate International Women’s Day! Free Event – Register About this Event Our screening will include: ‘Pedal […]

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International Women’s Day 2020 Gathering and March Glasgow

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Sunday 8 March, 2020 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. La Pasionaria Custom House Quay, Clyde Street, Glasgow Rousing march with street theatre, music, and an open mic. The march will head through Glasgow City Centre to Buchanan Street Steps. The event is initiated by the Outreach Workers of Industrial Workers of the World, but all […]

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| Filed under: International Womens Day

Govanhill International Women’s Day 2020

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6 March, 2020 10 a.m. – 3.30 p.m. At The Point, 180 Queen’s Drive, G42 8QD Govanhill will be celebrating International Women’s Day on Friday the 6th of March. Local women will be marking the annual event with a day long programme of talks, workshops, arts activities and more. The event will highlight the truly […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Close Up – Susan Wood Exhibition

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Susan Wood: Close Up shows exemplary work from an art and film icon Review by Fionnuala Boyle (Exhibition runs until 8th March, 2020 –The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU Attending Susan Richardson Wood’s exhibition of work at The Lighthouse on February 24, 2020, I had no preconceptions. I wasn’t familiar with Susan’s work, […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Billie

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7/8 March, 2020 Cineworld, Renfrew Street, G2 3AB ‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Before her mysterious death in 1978, Lipnack Kuehl had taped over 200 hours of interviews. The tapes have never […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Anderson Falls

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Saturday 7 March, 2020 The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Julien Seri. After his wife’s sudden suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore of the X-MEN franchise) becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his ongoing investigations, he finds out that she was indeed the victim of a heinous crime. And although no […]

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Glasgow Film Festival: A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio

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7 March, 2020 More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! As the host of a popular horror-themed radio show, disc jockey Rod Wilson shares tales of terror with his eager listeners. But tonight the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first he thinks it’s a bad joke […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Our Ladies

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8 March, 2020 GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G12 0AP Lock up your loved ones. The girls of Our Lady Of Perpetual Succour are heading to the big city and nobody is safe. Michael Caton-Jones’ adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel The Sopranos does not disappoint. A school trip to an Edinburgh singing competition is just the ticket for a group […]

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Seven Song Club The Tron Duncan McCrone

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Friday 27 March, 2020 8 p.m. Seven Song Club, Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, G1 5HB £8 Buy tickets Duncan McCrone and Cy Jack Duncan McCrone and Cy Jack have been performing and writing together since they’d prefer not to say… From the days of influential folk-rock outfit Dapplegrim, through years with TV, radio and live […]

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Glasgow Film Festival: Romantic Comedy + Live Score by Summer Camp

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Saturday 7 March, 2020 7 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX Romantic comedies have shaped the hearts and minds of millions across the globe. Director Elizabeth Sankey’s holds a complicated relationship with the genre: she knows many set up an unreliable narrative to human behaviour, yet she just keeps coming back for more. Her warm […]

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Aye Write 2020: Humans of Scotland

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Wednesday 18 March,2020 – 6 p.m. _ 7 p.m. Waterstones, 53-157 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EW Humans of Scotland is an inspiring storytelling project from the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE). Humans of Scotland puts the voices of disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers at its heart. It […]

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Befriending Food Experience, Games and Grub

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Sunday 15 March, 2020, 3 p.m. – 8 p.m. Come along and join the fun Good Grub and Games with Befriending Food Experience – traditional board games and cards plus Santino’s special Mediterranean food. Elderpark Centre, 82 Elderpark St, Glasgow G51 3ST £5 at door (booking essential as numbers limited) – Phone Ann: 07872 549650 […]

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Stars for Starchild – In Memory of Rony Bridges

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Fundraiser for Starchild Charity EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS Saturday 28 March, 2020, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Netherlee Parish Church, 130 Ormonde Avenue, Netherlee, G44 3SL A very special Starchild event is happening on March 28th. This event is in memory of the lovely Rony Bridges who is dearly missed by all at Starchild. […]

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Days of the Bagnold Summer Glasgow Film Festival

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4 – 5 March, 2020 GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Simon Bird makes a hugely impressive directorial debut with an adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel set to a score by Belle and Sebastian. Fifteen year-old thrash metal fan Daniel (Earl Cave, son of Nick Cave) and his mother Sue (Monica Dolan) share the same […]

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Bacurau, Glasgow Film Festival 2020

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3 and 5 March, 2020 The screening on 3 March will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. A bracing mash-up of genres and political comment, Bacurau offers stinging insights into the state of modern Brazil and the legacy of colonialism. Set in the near future, it follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen) […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Parasite (black and white version announced)

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Thursday 5th March, 2020 – 5.45 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6TB Glasgow Film Festival to host UK premiere of black and white version of multi-Oscar winner Parasite Bong Joon Ho’s Best Picture-winning social satire will be seen in a whole new light at Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) Tickets on sale 12pm Wednesday […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Rocks

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8 March, 2020 3.45 p.m. Rocks is Olushola Joy Omotoso (Bukky Bakray), a London teenager whose life is radically altered when she is left on her own with a little brother who needs her. Fearing they will be separated, she decides to step up to the situation. She tells no one and carries on with a little […]

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Visible Cinema: Films Meditating on the D/deaf experience Glasgow Film Festival 2020

Visible Cinema: How to Deaf Tuesday 3 March, 2020 at 6 p.m. A Q&A will follow the screening with writer/director, Jed Shepherd and actors Lewis MacDougall & Emma Webb. GFF proud to partner with London Short Film Festival to showcase an exquisite collection of short films meditating on the D/deaf experience from an eclectic roster of both D/deaf and hearing […]

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Rabbie: Scotland’s Superstar – Websters Theatre

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7th and 8th May, 2020 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ Captivate Theatre celebrate the life of Robert Burns, Scotland’s ploughman poet, saintly sinner and genius.  Frequently hilarious, often poignant and always witty, this musical celebration takes Rabbie Burns off the shortbread tin and brings him to full-blooded, all action life. See […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Secret Location: Final Destination

Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Secret Location: Final Destination

5 March, 2020 A group of high school students cheat death, and now they can’t escape it! Alex (Devon Sawa) is the only one who can see the fate they have in store, but will he be able to work out death’s plan before it is too late? A staple of the GFF special events […]

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Sunday, March 1, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020

Looking at Mackintosh’s Masterpiece

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Photographer Sylvia Richardson brings a unique exhibition of previously unseen images of Mackintosh’s Masterpiece, The Glasgow School of Art building. Exhibition in Mackintosh Queens Cross Church runs from Opening Evening 6th of March 6-30-9pm then from 9th of March Monday, Wednesday & Fridays 11am-4pm until the 3rd of April 2020. Mackintosh Queen’s Cross Church, 870 […]

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Pete Case and Sid Griffin, Nice n Sleazy

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Sunday, 22 March, 2020 Sounds in the Suburbs presents: Pete Case and Sid Griffin Following last summers sell out tour of nine UK shows Peter Case returns this March where he will again join up with Sid Griffin to play a string of dates across the UK and Europe. Two old L.A. alt-country hepcats (Or […]

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Saturday, February 29, 2020 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Country Strand at Glasgow Fllm Festival 2020 – Iceland Northern Shining Lights

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Catch some amazing films from Iceland at GFF 2020 If you loved Woman At War, Rams, Of Men And Horses or Sparrows then you are already a fan of Icelandic cinema. The land of ‘fire and ice’ has an enviable reputation as a small country whose cinema has made a massive impact on the world stage. Dramatic landscapes forged […]

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Five Ways to Wellbeing Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow

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Wednesdays 4 – 25 March, 2020,  11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Free course The Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow, Kelbourne/Sanda/Clouston Street, G20 8QW Come along to North Kelvin Meadow to a Forest School inspired mental health programme. This slow paced programme will incorporate five different strands which have been shown to support mental health: […]

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The County, Glasgow Film Festival 2020 review by Pat Byrne

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Part of Country Strand: Iceland Northern Shining Lights Grímur Hákonarson’s film is set in a rural community in Iceland. From the outset you gain a sense of the place with shots of a remote farmhouse and frost covered fields. The demanding nature of the farmers’ work is apparent; an early scene shows Inga (Arndís Hrönn […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 at CCA

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Tickets via GFF / 0141 332 6535 Full Programme of Glasgow Film Festival Screenings Glasgow Film Festival You Will Die at 20 Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Simple Women Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Gutterbee Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival […]

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