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. The Lucky Sparrow Games Cafe Open Day
Lucky Sparrow Games Café, 1091 Pollokshaws Road, G41 3YG Saturday 25 January, 2020 – 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. Come along to the Lucky Sparrow open day for a chance to learn some new games, find out about upcoming events, and get the chance to win a few prizes! The event will run from 1pm […]
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Thursday, January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Cafes and Bistros, Community event, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Launch of Glasgow Historical City
Wednesday, 29 January, 2020, 7.30 p.m. St Louis cafe bar on Dumbarton Road. Free but you will need to book to guarantee a seat. Call 0141 339 1742. Music by Gavin Paterson Readers include Lesley Benzie, Ruby McCann, Stuart Paterson, Dini Power and Danielle Redmond. Host Linda Jackson. St Louis Cafe Bar, 734 Dumbarton Rd, […]
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Petticoats and Pinnacles, NLS Kelvinhall
Wednesday 4 March 2020, 6 – 7 p.m. NLS Kelvinhall, 1445 Argyle St, G3 8AW Paula Williams, Curator of Maps, Mountaineering and Polar collections, will discuss Scottish women mountaineers. In another chance to hear this popular illustrated talk, Curator Paula Williams will explore the National Library of Scotland’s collections to uncover the hidden history of […]
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Eight Songs For A Mad King at Cottiers
Tuesday 25 February, 2020 . 7p.m. – 9 p.m. Pre-Concert Performance: The Worshipful Company of Aviarists Pre-concert performance is FREE ticket-holders only 6pm – 7pm “Enter the compelling world from which Maxwell-Davies drew his remarkable 8 Songs For A Mad King. Founded by King George III in 1817, the Worshipful Company of Aviarists served to source […]
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Monday, January 13, 2020 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Dove Tales: Home Front Celtic Connections 2020
29th January 2020 5.30pm A 50 minute mixed media performance evoking war and the losses of war. Poet/ performer Chrys Salt MBE reads from her collection Home Front/Front Line (Roncadora. 2013) and Mr Kalashnikov Regrets…( Hatterick’s House 2020) which includes a dialogue in poetry and letters between Chrys and her son, then a paratrooper in […]
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Jolly Beggars Banquet Cheeky Besom Productions
Tuesday 28 January, 2020 Glasgow Literary Lounge at The Calton Bar ‘Jolly Beggars Banquet’ showcases the work of featured singer/songwriter and clarsach player, Pauline Vallance and editor and Burns researcher Kevin Gallagher. Host for the evening is Jim Ferguson. Calton Bar 415 London Road Glasgow G40 1AG Come on down to the Glasgow Literary Lounge @Calton Bar Glasgow. […]
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Switch Off – Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing
Mon, February 3, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM GMT Deeprose Lecture Theatre, Govan Mbeki building (Glasgow Caledonian University), Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA This event in Glasgow aims to help you to learn about and discuss one of the most important issues for the health of Scotland’s children. Register for Tickets at EventBrite About this […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Health and Fitness, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Night at the Museum, Burns On Water, University of Glasgow
Friday 24 January, 2020 The Hunterian and The Centre for Robert Burns Studies are delighted to bring you ‘Burns Night at the Museum’, part of Scotland’s Winter Festival programme. In recognition of 2020 being Visit Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the theme this year is ‘Burns on Water’. Bringing an atmospheric setting of The […]
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Sunday, January 12, 2020 | Filed under: Burns Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Little Women, GFT
Until 13 January, 2020 Lady Bird writer/director Greta Gerwig’s take on the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms as they come of age in the aftermath of the American Civil War – is both timeless and timely. The star-studded cast includes Saoirse Ronan, […]
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Saturday, January 11, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema
Knives Out GFT
29 November – 12 January, 2019 Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in Knives Out, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive […]
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Calamity Jane Singalong GFT
12 January, 2020 2 p.m. Starring Doris Day as the titular gun-toting, whip-cracking Wild West whirlwind, Calamity Jane is a classic Golden Age musical. Screening with sing-along subtitles so you can join in with the Oscar-winning musical numbers. Deadwood City, deep in Dakota territory, is largely the abode of men. But Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful […]
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Jojo Rabbit GFT
2 – 16 January, 2019 This provocative anti-hate satire from writer/director Taika Waititi (Thor Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) was one of the most talked-about films on the autumn festival circuit. In the dying days of the Second World War, a lonely German boy discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl […]
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Seberg GFT
1 – 17 January, 2020 Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of À bout de souffle (Breathless) star and darling of the French New Wave, Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by the illegal FBI surveillance programme COINTELPRO. Seberg’s political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal made her […]
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El Topo GFT
15 and 16 January, 2020 Jodorowsky himself plays ‘The Mole’: a black-clad, master-gunfighter in this Mexican acid Western. The film opens with El Topo journeying across a desert dreamscape with his young son to duel four sharp-shooting Zen masters, who each bestow a Great Lesson before they die. El Topo’s journey sees him become the […]
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Friday, January 10, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema
Hitler’s Hollywood, GFT
15 January, 2020 – 5.55 p.m. Rüdiger Suchsland’s film takes a closer look at the thousand feature films made in Germany between 1933 and 1945, examining how stereotypes of the enemy and values of love and hate managed to be planted into the heads of the German people, through the cinema screens. While these German […]
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Uncut Gems GFT
11 – 16 January, 2020 Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a charismatic New York City jeweller always on the lookout for the next big score. When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family and encroaching adversaries […]
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Celtic Connections 2020 – Fionnuala Boyle
Celtic Connections 2020 kicks off on 16th January and runs until 2nd February, 2020, bringing with it some of the best new and established Celtic talent from around the world. Taking place in venues across the city such as Drygate Brewery and Old Fruitmarket, the festival will play host to an eclectic mix of Celtic […]
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Thursday, January 9, 2020 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2020, Fionnuala Boyle, blogging about culture, arts and other stuff, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Benny Lynch Heritage Trail, Calton Bar
Tuesday 25 February, 2019 Glasgow Literary Lounge Peter Mortimer is back at the Glasgow Literary Lounge, and he’s taking us on The Benny Lynch Heritage Trail with Christina Milarvie Quarrel. This story is about the extraordinary life of a Scottish icon. Benny Lynch who was the people’s champion. From growing up in the Gorbals to […]
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Scottish Writers’ Centre Periodical Publishing with Gerry Cambridge, Joy Hendry & Henry Bell
Tuesday 14 January 2020 CCA 7pm – 8.30pm, £5 (£3) on the door / Free for SWC members, Clubroom / All ages 0141 352 4900 Join three Goliaths of Scottish periodical publishing to discuss the work of creating and sustaining a publication and how that interacts with their own writing. Gerry Cambridge is the founder-editor of the internationally regarded […]
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Val McDermid Crime Writer – Creative Conversations
Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Monday 13 January 2020, 1 – 2 p.m. www.gla.ac.uk/events/creativeconversations/ Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages, sold over 16 million copies worldwide. Val […]
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Monday, January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Americana City Halls, Celtic Connections 2020
Saturday, 18 January, 2020 Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre Frequent Celtic Connections visitors who also honeymooned in the Highlands, the made-in-heaven banjo union of Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn surely count now as honorary Scots. Following their self-titled, Grammy-winning 2014 duo debut, 2017’s Echo in the Valley – just them […]
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Breabach @15 Celtic Connections 2020
17 January, 2020 7.30 p.m. Seamus Egan Project – Royal Concert Hall Breabach’s Celtic Connections debut was their winning performance on 2005’s Danny Kyle Open Stage. Fifteen years on, they’re securely ranked among Scotland’s most skilled and imaginative folk acts, uniting deep roots in Highland and island tradition with the innovative musical ferment of their […]
Grit Orchestra Opening Concert Celtic Connections 2020
16 January, 2020 The Declaration Five years on from its landmark debut concert at Celtic Connections, the trailblazing Grit Orchestra, an 80-piece ensemble of folk, jazz and classical musician originally founded to perform and celebrate the late Martyn Bennett’s music, breaks yet more new ground with its first performance of newly-composed works. Supported by the […]
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The Snow Queen Scottish Ballet
3 – 18 January, 2020 Theatre Royal, World Premiere Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary year comes to a spectacular close with the world premiere of The Snow Queen. This glittering new production is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved tale – which was also the basis for Frozen. It will be set to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, performed […]
Aquarela GFT
Until 2 January, 2020 Cinema transforms a basic element of life on earth into an exhilarating thrill ride in this astonishing, immersive documentary from Russian master Viktor Kossakovsky. Travelling from the frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to the mighty Angel Falls in Venezuela, he captures all the raw, glorious power of water and its […]
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Monday, December 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Matchbox Cineclub Cage-a-rama 2020
CCA Fri 3 January — Sun 5 January 2020 £0/£2/£4/£6/£8 Single Tickets | £40 Weekend Pass | £20 Day Pass / 18+ Book via Matchbox Cineclub / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Cage-a-rama 2020 Opening Night: Snake Eyes with Marco Kyris Fri 3 January 2020 From the makers of KeanuCon: after two sold-out editions and a 3D party […]
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La Dolce Vita GFT
3 – 6 January, 2019 Federico Fellini’s exquisite tale of celebrity casts an adoring yet critical eye towards post-war Rome. Set over seven decadent days, the film follows Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering journalist, pursuing a happiness that’s always just out of reach. Subject to widespread censorship for its then scandalous sexual frankness and perceived by the […]
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Amanda GFT
3 – 9 January, 2019 What begins as a story of boy-meets-girl is brutally interrupted by a violent terror attack in Paris. David is falling in love with Lena, but when his sister is killed in the attack, his life is turned upside down. In the depth of his shock and pain, he finds himself […]
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Paisley Book Festival 2020
Radical Voices & Rebel Stories 20 – 29 February, 2020 See the full programme Paisley’s inaugural Book Festival will take inspiration from the 200th anniversary of the Paisley Radicals reflecting their spirit with a programme of grassroots activism, new ideas and political conversation. The festival programme includes events for children, young adults and adults with […]
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Thursday, December 26, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Glasgow Libraries Christmas Reading Challenge for Kids
2 December, 2019 – 4 January, 2020 Encouraging young readers to get involved in Glasgow Libraries’ Festive Reading Tradition with this year’s Christmas Reading Challenge. Young readers aged 0-12 are being challenged to read three library books over the festive period. Enjoy books and discover wonderful new worlds during the dark winter nights. Little book […]
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