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..

From Lens to Pen, Finnieston

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1 – 3 November,  2019 The Vacant Space The proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to Glasgow City Mission. Why not come along and have a look. 184 Argyle Street, Finnieston,  Glasgow

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Scotland Loves Anime 10 Anniversary at GFT

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11 – 13 October, 2019 This year marks a decade of Scotland Loves Anime, bringing one of its strongest line-ups to date as it continues to bring a varied look at the world of Japanese animation. In 2019 the special guest is Yuhei Sakuragi, who returns to deliver a Q&A session following the UK premiere […]

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American Woman GFT

American Woman GFT

11 – 17 February, 2019 In a blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, Debra Callahan (Sienna Miller) is a grandmother by the age of 32. When her teenage daughter goes missing, she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. American Woman charts one woman’s gruelling 11-year odyssey, from the day her daughter vanishes, through the trials and tribulations […]

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Judy GFT

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4 – 17 October, 2019 30 years have passed since Judy Garland shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz. Now broke, jobless and struggling with addiction she is offered a five-week residency performing at the Talk of the Town in London in the winter of 1968. Judy is a compassionate and revealing dive in to the […]

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48 Hours Film Project Part 1 GFT

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Tuesday 15 October, 2019 8.30 p.m. Scotland’s most popular filmmaking event is back! Come along on 11-13 October weekend to make a film in just 48 hours and get it screened at the GFT. You could win a free trip to Filmapalooza in the Netherlands! Sign up today at 48hourfilm.com Book both screenings for £15/£11. […]

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Her Century: Scottish Women on Film GFT

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Tuesday 15 October, 2019 – 6.15 p.m. Scotland’s women lived through major social change in the twentieth century, challenging their roles in society and fighting for equality: at work and at home, from classroom to croft, and from girlhood to motherhood. Discover their stories and hear their voices in Her Century, a timely collection of […]

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The Relative Worlds GFT plus Q and A

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Saturday 12 October, 2019 – 5.20 p.m. Part of Scotland Loves Anime Shin Hazama is a normal high school boy living an ordinary life in Tokyo… a life that is about to be turned upside-down when he encounters Jin, a boy who looks identical to him but claims to originate from another world entirely. Jin’s […]

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Mòd 2019 CCA

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Monday 14 October 2019  –  Friday 18 October, 2019 In October 2019, Glasgow will play host to An Comunn Gàidhealach’s Royal National Mod – 29 years since it was last held in the city. Mòd Ghlaschu 2019 at CCA 0141 352 4900 Mòd 2019 Gaelic in Glasgow Past & Present: Early Glasgow & Gaelic Mon 14 […]

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European Art House Cinema Day GFT

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By The Grace of God Sunday, 13 October, 2019 – 4 p.m. François Ozon’s gripping true-life drama is an engrossing and topical examination of the Catholic Church abuse scandal, telling the story of three men who come together to dismantle the code of silence and pursue justice for the abuse they suffered as children. Based […]

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The Day Shall Come GFT

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11 –  17 October, 2019 Unstable preacher Moses brings hope to the Miami projects by galvanising a small band of African-American locals. Offered cash to save his family from eviction, Moses has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI, who have hatched a plan to fuel his madcap revolutionary dreams. Based on 100 true […]

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

The Joker, Cineworld Glasgow

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Release date 4th October, 2019 Screenings: Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks — the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to […]

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The Monster and Mary Shelley, Paisley Arts Centre

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The Monster and Mary Shelley – On Tour 2019 An outlandish trip through the mind of one of literature’s most influential imaginations. The Monster and Mary Shelley is going back on the road this coming Autumn. The tour will play a series of dates in Scotland and England over October and November 2019 including at […]

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Story – Party True Dating Stories, Cottiers

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12 November, 2019 at 8 p.m. Have a Real Laugh at Story Party At Story Party you will hear true dating stories that will make you feel better because, let’s be honest, it could be worse. Story Party has played to sold out audiences in over 65 countries because the dating struggle is real worldwide! […]

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Fright Night at Websters Theatre

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24 – 27 October, 2019 Websters Theatre Step inside Dracula’s Castle and witness four unlikely heroes; Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Bride and The Mummy as they battle it out to try and solve the mystery of who done it! Buy tickets online Box Office 0141 347 4000 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 […]

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The Cooncil, Websters Theatre

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18th 19th and 25th, 26th October, 2019 Websters Theatre Upstairs in The Playhouse Hot on the heels of  last sensationally funny, sell-out show ‘Diet’ comes the tale of Boabby and Kenny. Two ‘cooncil’ bosses who must face the fact that times are changing and the old ways of ‘doing business’ are no longer tolerated. Follow […]

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Creative Conversations: Robert Alan Jamieson – Shetlandic Poet and Translator

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Monday 14 October 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 Alan Jamieson was born in 1958 in the crofting community of Sandness on Shetland. After publishing two novels and a collection of poetry, ‘Shoormal’, during the […]

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Thank Funk It’s Friday, South

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Friday, 29 November, 2019 Titwood Bowling Club, 77 Glencairn Drive, Glasgow G41 4PS Join the South Side’s friendliest funkateers for a feast of funk’n’soul dance-jazz disco-style grooviness. Timeless vintage vinyl 45s hand-spun by seasoned joss-dickeys ; 80-plus years of turntabular experience between them, although they both scarcely look a day over 79. Yours for only […]

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The Drift at The Tron

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NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND PRESENTS THE DRIFT – Black History Month 11th – 12th October 2019 World Premiere Book Online Book by phone ‘My sweet forgetful Caledonia’ The Drift is a journey through history, through Scottishness, through belonging, and through grief. An autobiographical, poetic spoken word show, The Drift sees writer and performer Hannah Lavery exploring her legacy of […]

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Soft Play Area and Clip and Climb Kelvin Hall

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A New Soft Play Area and Clip and Climb Opening Kelvin Hall Monday 14 October, 2019 Clip n’ Climb at Kelvin Hall  Glasgow Club at Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AW With indoor climbing walls, Clip ‘n Climb Kelvin Hall promises an exciting day out full of empowering, action-packed challenges for everybody! There […]

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Sloot – it’s Oot!!! – Book Launch with Ian Macpherson

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Friday 25 October, 2918 Waterstones Byres Road, 351-355 Byres Road, g12 8au Where Comedy, Literature and Ian Macpherson Collide Ian says: Ahead of publication of my forthcoming novel by Bluemoose Books, I keep getting asked what exactly sloot means. Does it refer, for instance, to a deep South African gully eroded by rainfall? No, it […]

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Glasgow’s Welcome University of Glasgow

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Tuesday 15 October, 2018 – 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Hunter Halls. Gilbert Scott Building. University of Glasgow. Glasgow G12 8QQ. Join Louise Welsh and the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, as they celebrate Glasgow’s Welcome, a children’s book about the arrival of a refugee family to Glasgow. (Prof Louise Welsh) Louise Welsh will be in […]

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Bearing Witness: the state of journalism and press freedom across the globe

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Tuesday, 15 October, 2019, 6.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Sogo Art Gallery EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL NOVEMBER Panel Discussion Join David Pratt and Scottish PEN exploring issues around conflict, journalism and press freedom across the globe. Journalists and photographers bear witness to the changing world around us and challenge power on our behalf, but across the […]

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SAFR Takeover/The Primevals/The Reverse Cowgirls

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8 November, 2019,  7.30 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. SAFR Takeover at Flying Duck An evening of fun and love for Refugees at home and abroad. Hosted by Mickey Rooney. With The Primevals and The Reverse Cowgirls Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, G2 3AU Event on Facebook

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Mòd 2019: Gaelic Conversation Café Public CCA

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Hosted by Gaelic Arts and Mod Ghlaschu 2019 Monday 14 – Friday 19 October, 2019 Conversation Café – for Creatives, Gaels and Learners! All welcome. This event will be delivered in Gaelic and in English. Cuiribh eòlas air a’ Ghàidhlig tro sheachdain a’ Mhòid ann an Glaschu – Cafaidh Còmhraidh. Fàilte air a h-uile duine. […]

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Black History Month Street Level Photography Temporary Hoarding Magazine and Anti-Racist Graphics

43 – 31 October, 2019 , Monday to Thursday: 10:00am – 8:00pm Hillhead Library, Byres Road Free event, no booking required streetlevelphotoworks.org Another chance to see the graphics from Temporary Hoarding magazine and anti-racist posterworks related to Rock Against Racism which were last shown in 2017 to augment the fantastic Syd Shelton ‘Rock Against Racism’ exhibition in association with Autograph. […]

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CINE[STHESIA]: Filmichean Gàidhlig/ Gaelic Films Ghlaschu Mod 2019

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Wednesday, 9 October 2019, 6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall To celebrate the return of the Royal National Mòd to Glasgow there will be a specially selected programme of films which highlight the Gaelic content in Moving Image Collections at NLS at Kelvin Hall. An evening of films which celebrate […]

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James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture Black History Month 2019 University of Glasgow

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Black History Month Glasgow 2019 Tuesday 15th October, 2019, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. This year’s James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Blight. David is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, […]

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Black Abolitionists in Scotland, Black History Month 2019

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Talk & Film Screening Thursday 10 October 2019 5.30pm, Free/£2/£4/£6 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book online / 0141 3524900 Professor Bernier, from the University of Edinburgh, will discuss the African American “struggle for liberty” in Scotland by tracing the transatlantic tours of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josiah Henson, Sarah Parker Remond and […]

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PURGATORY Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Two by Alasdair Gray

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Purgatory: Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray ALASDAIR GRAY & DANTE ALIGHIERI ‘In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this sublime […]

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Art For Heart’s Sake, Art Fundraiser at The Store 2019

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Annual Charity Art Exhibition and Sale (ART FOR HEART’S SAKE POSTPONED UNTIL DATE IN SPRING) Due to unforeseen circumstances Art for Heart’s Sake has had to be postponed – it will be back in the Springtime bigger and better than ever. ) This year promises to be the best yet. Showcasing work by Scotland’s Top […]

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