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. Where Does A Body End, GFT
Monday, 4 November, 2019, 7.50 p.m. Where Does a Body End? is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS. They began as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band, emerging from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna), and made an ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the 90s indie-rock goldrush. […]
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Irishman GFT
15 – 17 November,2019 Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran (Robert DeNiro) is a man with a lot on his mind. In the 1950s, he falls in with Russell Bafalino (Joe Pesci) and his Pennsylvania crime family, climbing the ranks to become a top hitman. Martin Scorsese’s epic saga of organised crime in post-war America recounts the […]
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Samhain: fire and jam session Halloween, North Kelvin Meadow
31 October, 2019, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Community Gathering at The Meadow North Kelvin Meadow, Sanda St, Kelbourne St, Clouston St, Glasgow G20 8PR Community fire and open jam session. Contributions of firewood, decorations (especially candles and natural decorations), entertainments, vegetarian food, warm drinks, instruments etc. welcome. There may be time for stories, rituals […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
On A Magical Night, GFT
4 November, 2019 – 5.45 p.m. After more than 20 years of marriage, college lecturer Maria (Chiara Mastroianni) comes clean to her husband Richard about her many affairs. Deliciously and deliberately theatrical, Christophe Honoré serves up a French farce unfolding over the course of a single snowy night. Chiara Mastroianni’s sensational performance as jaded adultress […]
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Words and Music: The Sound of Young Scotland
21 November, 2019 7 p.m. Dick Institute, Elmbank Ave, Kilmarnock KA1 3BT An evening full of some of the finest young Scottish talent in Chris McQueer, author of Hings and HWFG; Julie Rea, author and scriptwriter of the David Bowie inspired play John, I’m Only Dancing and Stephen Watt, the current Makar for the Federation of […]
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Halloween at GFT 2019
This year for Halloween GFT is turning to some of the classic actors who have defined horror on the big screen – Christopher Lee, Vincent Price… and Nicolas Cage? Guaranteed chills and thrills in the cinema, and remember – it’s only a movie… Films in this Season 31 October The Wicker Man: The Final Cut […]
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Ghost Stories from Around the World, Britannia Panopticon
Friday, 8 November, 2019 7.30 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. The Britannia Panopticon, 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD ‘As Hallowe’en approaches, the nights become darker, and there’s a chill in the air, it’s time to prepare yourself for an evening of ghostly tales at the world’s oldest (and probably most haunted) surviving music hall.’ Get your […]
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| Filed under: Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Express Yourself Halloween Party 2019 Project Cafe
31 October, 2019 – 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6ST Tell It Slant Halloween Party Get your costumes ready because we are throwing an Express Yourself Halloween party. Halloween 3 course meal, live music, fancy dress, poetry, byob, fun, games and laughter Free event Details on Facebook
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Hallowe'en in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: The Siren Awakes by Linda Jackson
4th November, 2019 Avant Garde Linda Jackson launches the first of three memoirs – The Siren Awakes With special guest Charlie Gracie and music by Linda Jaxson Band Free entry – book will be available to buy on the night. Show starts 7.15 p.m. Book table for dinner at 6 p.m. (2 course plus glass […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre Dove Tales: Dia de los Muertos
Tuesday 5 November 2019 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900CCAWith readings from Dove Tales members, the event will be hosted by writer Jean Rafferty of Dove Tales. Readers include: AC Clarke, Ray Evans, Lesley Benzie, Caroline Johnstone, Allan Cameron. Music: Linda Jaxson and Jim Byrne Dove Tales was formed by a group of […]
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Night of Scripts, Music and Song
Friday 15 November, 2019 With Host Linda Jackson Finns Place, 167 Ledard Road, Glasgow G42 9QU Further details on Facebook
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Penetrate: Translate Reading Group: Five Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo CCA
(Performance for Ban: Loveland Colorado, Bhanu Kapil 2012) Monday 11 November 2019 CCA 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Free but ticketed, Clubroom 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Five Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo is a piece of prose-poetry that speaks about the complex alienation of the expatriate, finding solace in language and ‘not one particular language’. Penetrate: Translate is […]
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Adura Onashile: Artist and Playwright, Creative Conversations
Monday 04 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 Adura Onashile is an award winning Glasgow based artist. She has been a part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase and has worked with companies such as Untitled Projects, […]
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Monday, October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
SongWriters Uncovered Series 2019
Shelagh McKay Jones presents Songwriters Uncovered Thursday 7 November, 2019, 7 – 10 p.m. Beacon Arts Centre, Custom House Quay, Greenock PA15 1HJ Line-up! Martha L. Healy www.marthalhealy.com www.facebook.com/marthalhealy Elaine Lennon www.elainelennon.com www.facebook.com/elainelennonmusic Lisa Kowalski www.lisakowalski.co.uk www.facebook.com/lisakowalskimusic Brian Johnstone www.brianjohnstone.com/ www.facebook.com/brianjohnstone.musician Tom Kater & David Halliday www.eclecticguitar.co.uk www.facebook.com/eclecticguitar Tickets £8 (£6 concessions) Event on Facebook
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Short Story Collection with Adam McNelis, Glasgow Literary Lounge
Tuesday 29 October, 2019 – 7 p.m. The Calton Bar, 415 London Road, Glasgow G40 1AG CALLING ALL CREATIVES– Open Mic Calton Bar Theme for the night is the ‘Feast of Samhain’ ‘We still have a couple of slots left for our Open Mic – Speakeasy Style after McNelis’s presentation! Our theme for the night […]
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Sunday, October 27, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Hallowe'en in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CLIC Sargent Christmas Concert 2019
Friday 6 December, 2019 – 7.30 p.m. – 9.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3NY The concert this year sees the debut of our brilliant young conductor Alistair Digges leading the choir from Glasgow hospitals and friends. Now in its 41st year, the event has raised over £1million for the charity […]
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Webinair: How to talk to children about Climate Change
Tuesday 5 November 2019 1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Tuesdays4Climate Online:How2talk to children abt climate change This WEBINAR is for parents who would like space to explore + think with others about how we listen and speak to our kids on climate change. This 90 minute call will make space for 6-10 parents to share […]
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Frightfully Fun Halloween Spooktacular
Sunday 27 October, 2019 12 Noon. Hosted by Muddy Adventures Strathclyde Country Park, 366 Hamilton Rd, Motherwell ML1 3ED Attention all ghouls , boys and frogs !!! Muddy adventures is having a frightfully fun halloween spooktacular! Bring the oldies for some hocus pocus , pumpkin carving, mummy making and spooky green fire! This event is […]
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Pumpkin Display Toryglen, Halloween Glasgow
30 October, 2019, 5.30- 8.30 p.m. Cornerstone Community Hall, 22 Glenmore Avenue, Glasgow G42 Cornerstone Hall is hosting a carved Pumpkin Display for Halloween this year 👻 🧙♀️! We welcome all of Toryglen (and yer pals) to carve a pumpkin with your family and drop it off to us before 4pm on Wednesday 30th October […]
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Fairytale of Glasgow
Saturday, 7 December, 2019 – 7 p.m. until midnight. Hosts Angus Dixon and Warren Starry Sky A festive night celebrating the music of Kirsty MacColl and friends In what would have been her 60th year, Duglas from the BMX Bandits, Attic Lights, Carla J Easton & Eugene Kelly, Sister John, The Parsonage Choir, Celia Garcia, […]
Art Exhibition at The Arlington Baths Club
7 – 22 November, 2019 An exhibition of work by Arlington Baths Club’s very talented members. There’s still space for anyone in the club who’d like to exhibit, just ask for details in the poolside office. Funds raised will go towards Restoration Fund at Arlington Baths. Update – who’s involved ‘As you can imagine the […]
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Thursday, October 24, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Document Human Rights Film Festival 2019
Thursday 24 October — Sunday 27 October 2019 documentfilmfestival.org Document is Scotland’s human rights film festival. Each year it foregrounds innovative documentary cinema as a way to explore and refresh our relationship to human rights and visual representation. This seventeenth edition, across a series of interconnected strands, the festival looks particularly at the growing movement for climate justice […]
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Non-Fiction, GFT
18 – 31 October, 2019 Juliette Binoche shines as Selena, an actress at the centre of a complicated love triangle, in this irreverent and witty new film from French iconoclast Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria). When Selena’s publisher husband Alain refuses to publish her lover Léonard’s latest masterpiece, their personal and professional conflicts […]
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Monos at GFT
20 October, 2019 – Preview 25 – 31 October, 2019 High in the mountains of South America, a ragtag band of child soldiers brandishing guns stand guard over a ‘conscripted’ milk cow and a kidnapped American engineer. Awaiting instructions, the kids stave off boredom with feral teenage raves, until an attack forces them to abandon […]
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Cinemasters at GFT: Quentin Tarantino
8 – 30 October, 2019 Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is one of the biggest hits of 2019, so this month GFT is looking back at the movies that made Tarantino’s name. And since QT is such an outspoken advocate for physical film, they are delighted to have the opportunity to screen […]
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Connect, GFT
25 October – plus Q & A with writer/director/producer Marilyn Edmond 26 -27 October, 2019 Brian (a soulful Kevin Guthrie) has lost someone close to him. Outwardly, he keeps calm, goes to work and carries on, and nobody talks about the loss. He never feels that it’s possible to share his feelings, until care home owner […]
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco GFT
25 – 31 October, 2019 Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family […]
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Chained for Life, GFT
25 – 29 October, 2019 Director Aaron Schimberg’s second feature is a multi-layered, meta film within a film that challenges the portrayal and treatment of disabilities on screen and on set. When Mabel (Jess Weixler) takes the role of a blind woman in a hospital-based horror directed by an eccentric German auteur, she never would have imagined that […]
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DocKlub Glasgow, CCA
Collective Documentary Filmmakers Thursday, 31 October 2019 7.30pm – 10pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 12+ 0141 352 4900 DocKlub: Scotland’s Collective of Documentary Filmmakers. Come along and meet your doc peers, share works-in-progress, watch films & make docs together. Established in 2015, DocKlub meets every month in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. It has hosted dozens of filmmakers screening their […]
Last Night I Saw You Smiling, GFT
Document 2019 Saturday 26 October 2019 3.45pm, £0/2/4/6/8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult Book online / 0141 352 4900 The White Building in Phnom Penh, an iconic apartment block originally built in 1963, emptied by the Khmer Rouge, and subsequently the centre of a thriving artistic community, has been sold to Japanese […]
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