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..

Macbeth, David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

Macbeth

Sunday 23 March, 2025 – 4.30 p.m. David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen. After its sell-out success at GFT in February, it’s […]

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Friday, March 21, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog

Hundreds of Beavers on tour 2025 plus Q & A

hundreds of beavers

Saturday 22 March, 2025, 7.15 p.m. Having taken the world by storm in 2024, the beavers are back and now on tour with star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews presenting special screenings in person. At GFT for one night only! A slapstick frostbitten battle between a drunken applejack salesman and diabolical beavers – hundreds of them […]

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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

just another girl at the irt

21 – 26 March, 2025 The only feature film to date by writer/director Leslie Harris is an intense exploration of the complexities of life and difficult choices faced by an ambitious Black teenager from the Brooklyn projects. Each screening will have a special introduction, facilitated by film programmer, critic and curator Liz Chege. Brooklyn teenager […]

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Oh My Goodness – Just Ciel!

oh my goodness juste ciel!

21 – 27 March, 2025 The local Nursing Home is falling to pieces, but five crazy nuns have taken it upon themselves to do absolutely anything to save it. This includes entering a bicycle race in the hope of winning the prize money. The only drawback: they are terrible cyclists. And to make matters worse, […]

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Flow at GFT

Flow

21 March – 3 April, 2025 Wunderkind director Gints Zilbalodis has taken the animation world by storm with his beautifully crafted sophomore feature Flow, winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The mystical world he creates in Flow is in peril. There are traces of human inhabitants, but they are now nowhere to be seen as water […]

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Field Arts at CinemaARC University of Glasgow

Monday, 7 April, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Last year, FieldARTS brought together a dozen artists and researchers for a week of collaborative fieldwork along the Clyde River Corridor, tracing the sedimentary, infrastructural, and colonial lineaments of a manufactured waterway once recognised as the […]

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Seed Swop Glasgow

seed swop

Saturday 29 March, 2025, 12 noon – 2 p.m. Gathering Ground, Old Basin House, 5-7 Applecross St, Glasgow G4 9SP Getting ready to sow this Spring? Looking for seeds or have some you’d like to swap? Pop into Gathering Ground, where you’ll find a wide variety of free open-pollinated vegetable, herb and flower seeds to […]

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Glasgow International Comedy Festival at OranMor

Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2025

12 – 30 March, 2025 Oran Mor Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8QX Shows at OranMor include: Gray Matters: A Laugh for Glasgow’s 850 years Òran Mór – Auditorium Sunday 23rd March 2025 Show time: 6:00pm Get Tickets Join Ashley Storrie, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Alan Bissett for three different performances as they use comedy to celebrate […]

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David Rovics – Lynch’s Bar, Glasgow

David Rovics

Sunday, 6 April, 2025, 2 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. DAVID ROVICS in concert Lynch’s Bar, 179 London Rd., G40 1PA Tickets Door tickets (cash only) from 2pm Email to reserve tickets  Running order. Support Acts –  David Featherstone; Gavin Paterson. David Rovics radical, subversive singer-songwriter returns to Glasgow. Advocates Palestinian rights against Zionism & Imperialism The […]

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Would You Kill For Your Country? – an evening of literature and music

dove tales would you kill for your country

Monday 24 March, 2025, 7 p.m. Dove Tales at The Vic, Glasgow School of Art Student Union Bar The Art School, 20 Scott St, Glasgow G3 6PE An evening of literature and music on themes of war and peace. Dove Tales are concerned about the constant talk of conscription for young people in this country […]

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The Outrun – Film Club at The Arlington Baths

the outrun

Saturday 29 March 2025, 6pm Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT Rona returns to Orkney after more than a decade away living to excess in London. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her childhood merge with the more recent challenging events that have set her […]

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David Rovics in concert Galgael

David Rovics

Friday 4th April, 2025 7.30-10.30 p.m. Galgael, 16 Fairley St., G51 G51 2SN Running Order Support Acts Chris Fear; Doctor Normal. Plus David Rovics  David Rovics radical, subversive singer-songwriter returns to Glasgow. Advocates Palestinian rights against Zionism & Imperialism Tickets Advance tickets via Eventbrite. Door tickets (cash only) from 7pm Or email to reserve tickets […]

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Barry Paton Photo Gallery: Dance

Dance piece In the Picture. Edinburgh 1989 Backdrop. Photo inspired by one by Henri Cartier Bresson.

This series of photos was taken in the late 1980’s in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Many  were taken at Mayfest, an annual arts event with major International dance artists and choreographers featured. It was a very busy and exciting time. Barry didn’t know much about the dancers or choreographers but his partner, Fiona Alderman, also a […]

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SCOWTH – Poetry Event

scowth 23 march 2025

Sunday 23 March, 2025 – 2 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Anniesland Mansions, 1601 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G13 1LT Featured Poets Donna Campbell, Charlie Gracie and Ross Wilcock Plus Open Mic Slots Scowth is a Scots word which means freedom of expression. Scowth sessions run over a couple of hours, feature two or three named […]

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Night Idiot – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

night idiot play pie and pint

31 March – 5 April, 2025 Monday – Saturday 1pm (Doors 12pm/12.30pm on Mondays) OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX A darkly comedic by Zoe Bullock, a rip-roaring theatrical ride about one woman’s quest for impossible answers. Dani has it all. Great job, new flat, perfect boyfriend Paul…until one morning, she wakes up […]

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Saturday, March 15, 2025 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy

The Return – Preview plus live broadcast Q & A with Ralph Fiennes

the return

Wednesday 9 April, 2025, 6.15 p.m. A special preview of The Return, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, directed by Uberto Pasolini. The screening on 9 April will be followed by a discussion, broadcast live from the British Museum, with Oscar-nominee Ralph Fiennes, British Museum’s Keeper of Greece and Rome, Tom Harrison, and Curator: Reception […]

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Friday, March 14, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema

The Queen of My Dreams – Anti-Racist Film Club

the queen of the dreams

Tuesday 25th March 2025, 5.30 – 9pm 5.30pm – doors open 6pm – screening starts 8pm – discussion Woodlands Community Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3 6DR Tickets Tickets are based on a Pay What You Can sliding scale. Book at Eventbrite About the Film The Queen Of My Dreams, (2023) Running time 98 […]

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Ramadan Iftar Dinner – Woodlands Community

ramadan iftar

Community Iftar Dinner on Sunday 23rd March, 2025 6-9pm Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3 6DR Cooked by incredible chef Luna Issa! With a delicious vegan/halal menu of lentil soup, green beans in tomato sauce, vermicelli rice followed by almond & apricot cake with cardamom custard dessert. These meals are drop-in. Food is provided […]

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‘Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature’

Derek Jarman's Modern Natuyre

Until 4 May, 2025 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ Our new contemporary art exhibition ‘Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature’ is now open at the Hunterian Art Gallery and we can’t wait for you to see it! The exhibition features works from across Jarman’s career, focusing […]

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The Last of England plus Introduction

the lat of england

Sunday 16 March, 2025 at 7.30 p.m. Introduced by James Mackay (co-producer, The Last of England). In June 1987, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government won its third term in power by a landslide. Derek Jarman’s antipathy to its values was well-established before the AIDS crisis, but his diagnosis as HIV positive in December 1986 deepened his sense […]

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Away at GFT

Away

15 – 17 March, 2025 Away ≠ short Saturday 15 March, 2025 – 11.30 a.m. A boy and a little bird are on a journey across a strange island trying to get back home. Away is a dialogue-free fantasy adventure and the debut animated feature from Golden Globes winner, Gints Zilbalodis, whose latest film Flow will also screen […]

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Silent Midnight

Silent Midnight

14 – 20 March, 2025 A newly arranged marriage. An oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are awkward and alone-together. Unpredictable Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai […]

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The Last Showgirl

The Last Showgirl

March 14 – 20 March, 2025 When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, glamorous showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the life she has built as she plans her next act whilst also striving to repair the relationship with her […]

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‘Kings’ – Film Night, Grace’s Irish Centre

Kings film night Glasgow Irish Festival

Wednesday 19th March, 2025 from 7 – 9pm,  Conradh Na Gaeilge Glaschú Grace’s Irish Centre, (next door to Grace’s Irish Bar) 18 Candleriggs,  Glasgow G1 1LD In partnership with Glasgow St Patrick’s Festival & Grace’s Irish Centre: Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú are delighted to be hosting a screening of the acclaimed 2007 bilingual film: KINGS […]

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Catalan Film Festival – Polvo serán

Sunday 16 March, 2025 – 5.20 p.m. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB When Claudia, a vibrant septuagenarian, is diagnosed with an incurable illness, she decides to end her days in a clinic in Switzerland. Flavio, her inseparable husband of over 40 years, feels unable to face life without her. Meanwhile, their daughter […]

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Jessie Stephen, Maryhill’s Suffragette

jessie stephen

11 March – 13 June, 2025 Exhibition: Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10-24 Gairbraid Avenue, Glasgow, G20 8YE, This exhibition brings to light the remarkable story and achievements of Jessie Stephen (1892-1979), a working-class woman who became a powerful force of social change. Born in 1893, Jessie Stephen was a fearless campaigner and one of the few […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2025 wraps up

Make it to Munich with Allison Gardner credit Eoin Carey

GFF25 marked the final festival under director Allison Gardner The 21st edition of Glasgow Film Festival finished in style on Thursday 9 March with the sold-out World premiere of Scottish documentary Make it to Munich. The winner of the 2025 Audience Award was announced and a heartfelt farewell went out to Glasgow Film Festival director […]

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On Falling at GFT

on falling

10 – 20 March, 2025 Laura Carreira’s film shows a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy, in a world designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection. It tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse picker in Edinburgh, Scotland. Trapped between […]

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Creative Conversations: Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne

Monday, 10 March, 2025, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. American Poet Laynie Browne in Conversation University of Glasgow, 42 Bute Gardens (916), Glasgow G12 8RT Laynie Browne was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Brown University. She is the author of […]

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Nocturnal at Glasgow Film Festival

7 and 8 March, 2025 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Gritty thriller follows a former gang member whose fresh start is threatened after his brother’s death. While investigating, he discovers an author had disturbingly predicted the circumstances of his demise. Former gang member Min-tae (Ha Jung-woo) has made a fresh start […]

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Macbeth

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