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. Befriending Food Experience Celebrate St Andrew’s Day
1 December, 2019, 4 p.m. – 10 p.m. St Andrews Cultural Community Event The Befriending Food Experience at Elderpark Centre, 82 Elderpark St, Glasgow G51 3ST The Befriending Food Experience hosts another spectacular event at Elderpark Community Centre to celebrate St.Andrew with all our communities. A mash up of food from around the world buffet. […]
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Glasgow Hospitals Christmas Concert 2019 Royal Concert Hall
Friday 6 December, 2019 7.30 p.m. Opera Bohemia’s Musical Director, Alistair Digges, conducts a fun packed Christmas concert for all the family to enjoy! Guest performers include Sally Magnusson, Jamie MacDougall, Aitkenhead Primary Choir and Glasgow Chamber Orchestra. The evening is packed full of your favourite Christmas songs and carols, with opportunities to sing along […]
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Book launch: The Light Acknowledgers by Gerry Cambridge
2 December, 2019, 7 p.m. The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, Glasgow G2 5AR Join Gerry Cambridge & guests Cheryl Follon and Gerald Mangan at the launch of Gerry Cambridge’s new book, The Light Acknowledgers & Other Poems, his first for seven years. With an introduction (and no doubt a poem) by poet & animateur Michael Pedersen. […]
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Telling Invents Told Lis Rhodes
7 December, 2019 LUX Scotland and Good Press Good Press, 32 St Andrews Street, G1 5PD An afternoon of readings and discussion, organised in partnership with Glasgow Women’s Library and introduced by Maria Palacios Cruz (LUX/The Visible Press) the second of our events to launch the publication of Telling Invents Told, the first collection of writings by […]
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Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction, Great Western Auction
29 and 30 November, 2019 Day One – Friday 29th November commencing 10.00am Lots 1-499: Asian & Ethnic Art, Silver, Coins, Militaria, Collectables, Sporting Memorabilia, Whisky & Wine, Ceramics, Clocks & Decorative Arts Day Two – Saturday 30th November commencing 10.00am Lots 500-964: Jewellery & Watches, Furniture, Rugs & 20th Century Design, Paintings, Watercolours & Prints Our […]
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Monday, November 18, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas Shopping in Glasgow, Shopping
Thomas A Clark: Poet Artist Curator at Creative Converstions
Monday 18 November 2019, 1 – 2 p.m. 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/ Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland. His poetry has been consistently attentive to form and to the experience of walking in the landscape, returning […]
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Sunday, November 17, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Charlie Gracie, Donal McLaughlin and Finola Scott CCA
Scottish Writers’ Centre Red Squirrel Press Tuesday 19 November 2019 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 Red Squirrel Press joins forces with Diehard Press, to bring Finola Scott, Donal McLaughlin and Charlie Gracie together for an evening of poetry and short fiction. Finola and Charlie launch new poetry publications as Donal reads from established and developing work. Finola Scott’s […]
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Artists Moving Image Festival The Tramway
16 and 17 November, 2019 ‘Hanging Out’, this year’s artists’ moving image festival, is programmed by artists Emmie McLuskey, Ima-Abasi Okon and Kimberley O’Neill. As part of their ongoing conversation, the programmers have continually returned to what it means to ‘hang outside’ typical moving image conventions and social structures. The work included in the festival […]
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Saturday, November 16, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
The Lying King – Glasgow Christmas 2019
13 – 15 December, 2019 Family panto with plenty of song, dance & audience participation! Join Princess Nala as she seeks to find her one true love! However, Scarf, the baddie, is going to make sure she’ll never fall in love because his jungle juice changes everybody! All is not lost as Dame Nellie Pants […]
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Friday, November 15, 2019 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
First a Girl, GFT
19 – 20 November, 209 Aspiring actors Victor (Sonnie Hale) and Elizabeth (Jessie Matthews) both want a part in a musical show, but the casting people are quick to turn Elizabeth away. Victor, meanwhile, gets offered the role of a man who disguises himself as a woman. However, when he unexpectedly loses his voice, he […]
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool GFT
15 – 17 November, 2019 Miles Davis: horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial. Genius. The very embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart. The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on […]
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2040 at GFT
16 and 17 November, 2019 Concerned about the planet his 4-year-old daughter would inherit, award-winning director Damon Gameau embarked on a global journey to meet innovators and changemakers in the areas of economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, education and sustainability. Drawing on their expertise, he sought to identify the best solutions, available to us now, […]
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Pity Party Film Club I Shot Andy Warhol CCA
Wed 20 November 2019 8pm, £6 + £1.06 booking fee via Eventbrite, Cinema 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Pity Party Film Club presents a screening of Mary Harron’s 1996 debut, I Shot Andy Warhol. Mary Harron has made movies about power-crazed murderers (American Psycho) and iconic sex symbols (The Notorious Bettie Page), but her first feature […]
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Queer Classics & Matchbox Cineclub City of Lost Souls CCA
Monday 18 November 2019 7.30pm, Free/£2/£4/£6/£8 via Matchbox Cineclub, Theatre 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900Rarely screened punk musical about Berlin’s queer cabaret community, with an introduction by local drag performer Pollyanna! Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD
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Alan Ereira ALUNA – screening and talk CCA
Sunday 17 November 2019 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900Director/Producer Alan Ereira presents and talks about ALUNA, the follow up to his 1990 film The Heart Of The World. Alan Ereira’s influential film From The Heart Of The World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning, brought global attention to the Kogi people of Colombia, […]
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UK Jewish Film Festival 2019 at GFT Glasgow
The 23rd UK Jewish Film Festival takes place from 6-21 November 2019, bringing the best of contemporary Jewish cinema from around the world to a diverse range of UK audiences. At GFT we have selected three titles from UKJFF’s wide-ranging programme: cinematic stories that provide stimulating, interesting and unique views of Jewish life and culture. […]
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Leona GFT
20 November, 2019 Ariela (Naian González Norvind, Best Actress winner at the Morelia International Film Festival), a twenty-something Jewish mural painter in Mexico City falls for charming, non-Jewish Ivan. Struggling with her family’s disapproval of the relationship, Ariela is torn between the man she loves and the community she can’t leave behind. As she tries […]
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Depeche Mode Spirits in the Forest
21 November, 2019 Across 2017/2018 Depeche Mode embarked on their Global Spirit Tour, in which they performed to more than 3 million fans at 115 shows across the globe. This new visually-striking film, directed by award-winning filmmaker and longtime artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn, captures the energy and spectacle of the band’s performance from the tour […]
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Michael Hutchence: Mystify GFT
18 – 21 November, 2019 This feature-length theatrical documentary, written and directed by Richard Lowenstein, offers an intimate journey into the heart and soul of Michael Hutchence, the internationally renowned lead-singer of INXS. Deftly woven from an extraordinary archive of rich imagery, the film delves beneath the public persona of the charismatic ‘Rock God’ and […]
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Havana Film Festival 2019
Wednesday 13 November — Saturday 16 November 2019 hgfilmfest.com Related CCA Events HGFF 2019 New Cuban Shorts Wed 13 November 2019 HGFF 2019 Screening: Se Vende / For Sale Fri 15 November 2019 HGFF 2019 Screening: De Vuelta al Barrio / Back to the Neighbourhood World Premiere Fri 15 November 2019 HGFF 2019 La Muerte de un […]
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Christmas Tree Light Switch On & Street Market 2019 Glasgow West End
Festive Fun at Vinicombe Street Christmas Market 1 December, 2019 – Noon – 6 p.m. Christmas Tree Light Switch On 5.30pm Local traders selling gifts, crafts, food and drink. Entertainment on the main stage and Ashton Lane and Cresswell Lane and Ruthven Lane. Winter Wonderland Ashton Lane Street Party Further details on Facebook
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Thursday, November 14, 2019 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas Shopping in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Mary Irvine: Book Week Scotland 2020 – Events in West Dunbartonshire
Recommended events in Libraries in West Dunbartonshire Karen Campbell Crime novelist 18th November, 2019 7 p.m. Parkhall Library, Hawthorn Street G81 3EF David Pratt War Correspondent 19th November, 2019 7 p.m. Dalmuir Library, Lennox Place G81 4LX Paul Murdoch (Alexandria’s very own!) ‘Old Bloke Goes Running’ – a funny/serious approach to getting fitter… 20th November, […]
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Irish fiddle player Michael Gorman Cd launch and Concert to celebrate his Glasgow connection
Saturday 23rd November, 7.30 – 9.30 Panopticon Music Hall, 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow Admission £5 which can be reclaimed against a Cd purchase. Remembered by David Attenborough in a recent interview as “the great fiddle player” , Michael Gorman was a very influential Irish musician who in partnership with singer and banjo player Margaret Barry […]
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees OranMor
Saturday, 16 November, 2019, 7 p.m. Martin Stephenson & The Daintees Autumn 2019 Tour The Venue, Òran Mór, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8QX The tour comes after a busy period for Martin and the band that saw the 9th Daintees album Chi Chi And The Jaguar released in August. The album, named after Japanese surf guitarist […]
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Santaland and Season’s Greetings Websters
12th, 13th 14th December, 2019 Two outrageous dark comedy plays by David Sedaris Websters Theatre, Playhouse, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Santaland – Thirty something layabout, David, finds himself out of work and takes a job as a Christmas Elf at Macy’s. What follows is more Jingle Hells than Jingle Bells. Season’s Greetings – Candycane […]
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Sunday, November 10, 2019 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow
Julesbasar – Norwegian Christmas Fair Glasgow 2019
Saturday 16 November – 11.30 – 13.30 Kelvinside Hillhead Church, Observatory Road, Glasgow G12 9AR The Julebasar, the Norwegian Christmas Fair, is only a week away and we hope you will come and stock up on Norwegian food like “brunost”, “fiskeboller” and “lefse” and meet up with friends over coffee and “smørbrød”, cake and waffles […]
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Panto-Crime, Murder Mystery at Websters with Dinner & The Logans
30 November, 2019 6.30 p.m. – 11 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow G4 9HZ Christmas Panto & Fundraiser Difference By Design has organised this launch event to raise funds for local elderly which would not be possible without contributions from Whodunnit Events and the Logan Sisters, featured in the brand new […]
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Nina Allan Speculative Fiction Writer – Creative Conversations
Monday 11 November 2019, 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 Nina Allan is a writer and critic, active in the field of speculative fiction. Her work has been awarded the Grand Prix de L’imaginaire, the British […]
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Saturday, November 9, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
After the Wedding, GFT
8 – 14 November, 2019 Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabel (Michelle Williams) travels to New York to meet with Theresa (Julianne Moore), a wealthy benefactor. When Theresa and her husband invite Isabel to their daughter’s wedding, their seemingly unconnected worlds collide in an unexpected and deeply emotional journey that will alter each […]
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Friday, November 8, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Luce, GFT
8 – 14 November, 2019 Certain to be one of the most talked-about films of the year, Luce is a smart psychological thriller that will leave audiences breathless. An all-star high school athlete and accomplished debater, Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr) is a poster boy for the new American Dream. As are his parents (Naomi Watts and Tim […]
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