Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Close Up – Susan Wood Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Tuesday, March 3, 2020 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Starchild, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Days of the Bagnold Summer Glasgow Film Festival
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
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)
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
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
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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Monday, March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
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
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 […]
Pete Case and Sid Griffin, Nice n Sleazy
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
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
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
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
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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Friday, February 28, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Heroic Losers
29 February and 2 March, 2020 Ricardo Darín is reunited with The Secret In Their Eyes author Eduardo Sacheri and his Chinese Take-Out director Sebastián Borensztein for an irresistible, Robin Hood-style heist caper set in 2001. Darín plays retired footballer Fermin, who is determined to revitalise a sleepy region outside of Buenos Aires, so he persuades his friends and […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Luz the Flower of Evil
1 and 2 March, 2020 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The screening on 2 March will be followed by a Q&A with the director Juan Diego Escobar Alzate. Widowed preacher and leader of a small mountain community, El Señor has preached to his followers that a new messiah will appear and shepherd them […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Run
Monday 2 March, 2020 3.30 p.m. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen, writer/director Scott Graham (Shell, Iona) has crafted a howl of anguish for all the broken dreams we abandon along life’s highway. Finnie (Game Of Thrones’ Mark Stanley) never imagined he’d wind up in a dead end job in a Fraserburgh fish factory. His teenage son Kid (Anders […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Disco
3 and 4 March, 2020 Faith requires absolute devotion in Disco, a tough, disturbing drama on the all-consuming demands of Christian cults. Mirjam (Josefine Frida Pettersen) is the teenage stepdaughter of a pastor in an evangelical movement. She is also a world champion disco freestyle dancer who is the pride of her church. When she […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Master Cheng
1 and 2 March, 2020 The screening on 1 March will be followed by a Q&A with director Mika Kaurismäki. Director Mika Kaurismäki has made one of the most charming, delightful features of his long career. There are echoes of Local Hero in Master Cheng as a widowed chef and his son arrive in a remote Finnish village. Far from his home […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Industry Focus
2 March until 7 March, 2020 GFF20: Industry Focus Double Tree by Hilton Glasgow Central, 36 Cambridge St, G2 3HN Full Industry Programme Some of the areas of focus in 2020 are sustainability in production, working practice and mental health, positive actions being taken with accessibility, distribution, and music in film and television, with increased […]
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EVENT CANCELLED Cheeky Besom Productions – ‘Artists With Attitude’ Presents Linda Jackson
Tuesday 26 March 2020 The Calton Bar, 415 London Road, Glasgow, G40 1AG (Tuesday 7:00 – 10:30-pm) CHEEKY BESOM PRODUCTIONS ‘Artists With Attitude’ Presents Glasgow Literary Lounge – A Monthly (4th Tuesday) East End Showcase of Literary Arts & Culture Memoir Writing – ‘The Siren Awakes’ with Linda Jackson Creative Writing lecturer, Linda Jackson will […]
Thursday, February 27, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events
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