What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

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..

First events announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2020

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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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CinemaAttic & Femspectives Mujeres: Women in Film CCA

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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

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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

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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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Alasdair Gray – Omnium Gatherum

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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 […]

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Creative Conversations: Niall O’Gallagher

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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The Three Gospels of Jimmy Reid by Kevin P. Gilday

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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

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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

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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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Living Rent Writers’ Circle

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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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Lin Anderson at Weegie Wednesday

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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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Are We Being Deported Now?

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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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Campire Club Rousing Rebels, Paisley

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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 […]

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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

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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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Cuba Libre Valentine’s Day Fiesta at Cottiers

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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

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(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

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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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The Workers Theatre Festival

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020 The Glad Cafe, 1006 Pollokshaws Road, G41 2GH SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN presents a night of song, dance, play and puppetry. Performances from: Lewis Sherlock Lazy of the Night Sean Wai Keung Ruxy Cantir and PINLIGHT Tickets in advance and on the door. Unwaged – £3 Trade Union Discount – £8 […]

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Poets in the Library – Paisley Book Festival

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(Brian Whittingham) Hear from some of Scotland’s foremost radical writers including Graham Fulton, Linda Jackson, Tracy Patrick, Sheila Templeton, Brian Whittingham and Ross Wilson. Friday 21 February, 2020 7pm-9pm Paisley Central Library (located at Lagoon Leisure Centre) FREE – ticketed – Book online (Linda Jackson photo Dini Power) (Tracy Patrick) Graham Fulton You’ll be treated […]

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365: Stories and Music Paisley Book Festival

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365: Stories and Music POP – Feb. 21, 2020, 10 a.m. –5 p.m. Free Event – Drop In Experience this very special sound installation of contemporary Scottish stories and music by acclaimed author James Robertson and musician Aidan O’Rourke. Collaboration between artists steeped in tradition but constantly breaking new ground. paisleybookfest.com/events/1173599471/

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Nicky Melville: Poet and Artist at Creative Conversations

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Monday 03 February 2020, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Nick-e Melville makes found, visual, process and sometimes even ‘proper’ poetry. Since 2010 he has had ten publications released, including a poster poem and a badge; […]

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Aye Write: Bernardine Evaristo

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14th Mar 2020  •  4:45PM – 5:45PM  •  Mitchell Library Girl, Woman, Other explores Britain as it has never been told before. This is Britain as you’ve never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the […]

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Aye Write: Adam Rutherford, How to Argue with a Racist

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14th Mar 2020  •  1:15PM – 2:15PM  •  Mitchell Library Geneticist and Radio 4 presenter Adam Rutherford discusses his latest book. Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise – and increasingly part of the public […]

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