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. Slow Food Glasgow Food, Class and Transformation in Glasgow
Wednesday 22 May 2019 – 7 p.m. Project Cafe After directing a dozen documentaries about food, agriculture and sustainability since 2008, focusing on Scotland over the last couple of years, Zev Robinson is now developing one looking at the transformation of the culture of food in Glasgow. He will film and interview restauranteurs, chefs who […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Havana Glasgow Film Festival Bailando Con Margot: An Encore Screening CCA
Friday 17 May 2019 7:30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 To mark the six-month countdown to HGFF19 we are hosting an encore screening of Arturo Santana’s 2015 film, Bailando Con Margot. It’s Havana late 50s, Revolution is brewing, Bailando Con Margot follows the story of wealthy widow and femme […]
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Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock n Roll GFT
22 May, 2019 – 8.05 p.m. Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘n’ Roll tells the story of the long-troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community. A once storied seaside resort, Asbury Park erupted in flames during a summer of civil unrest, crippling the town for the next […]
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Donbass GFT
21 – 23 May, 2019 This satirical drama follows a series of events during the separatist conflict in the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, in 2014. In the Donbass, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. War is called […]
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Submissions Glasgow Film Festival
Submissions for Glasgow Film Festival 2020 are now OPEN. Click the button to submit now! Accepting submissions exclusively through FilmFreeway ‘Thank you for considering Glasgow Film Festival. We are committed to supporting emerging talent and providing audiences with the opportunity to see the best of world cinema. We’re currently on the lookout for fiction, documentary, animation […]
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Robin Lloyd-Jones ‘A life in books’ Helensburgh Library
Wednesday 29th May, 2019 7 p.m. An Evening with local author… Robin Lloyd-Jones A life in Books’ at the Helensburgh Library Free entry/refreshments Since June 2018 a group of friends have gathered once a week in the Helensburgh Library to encourage and support each other in their writing. It is not a club so has no membership […]
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Wild Rose Review Pat Byrne
Wild Rose, directed by Tom Harper, screenplay by Glasgow born Nicole Taylor, was one of the films I’d marked out as a ‘must see’ at Glasgow Film Festival but it wasn’t to be. It’s back at Glasgow Film theatre and I was determined to catch it this time round. (The film runs until 25 April, 2019). […]
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Aye Write presents Paul Mason
16th May 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The author and broadcaster introduces Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism. How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of […]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Carnival of the Dark Arts
Saturday, 22 June, 2019 7 p.m. – 10.45 p.m. The Ice Box Arts and Music Festival Welcome to the the All-New Monthly Carnival of the Dark Arts! ‘We knew we had to have something special for the first show when we moved to monthly offerings, and something special we have! You want music? We’ve got […]
Henry Bell, Booked Festival 2019
Wednesday, 15 May, 2019 7 p.m. Henry Bell at Dalmuir Library 10 Lennox Pl, Clydebank G81 4LX Henry Bell “John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside “ Historical topics are a perennial favourite of Booked! and this year they feature Henry Bell exploring the life of the Red Clydeside legend, John Maclean. He will look at the […]
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley Collaborative Writing Workshops
The Collaboration Process and Inspiration Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley have been working and writing together since meeting as PhD students at the University of Glasgow. Their essays and short fiction have been published in a variety of places including Gutter Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. Together they co-edited the collection Writing Creative […]
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Polly Clark, Booked Festival 2019
Alexandria Library – Friday 17 May 2019 Polly Clark presents her latest novel “Tiger”. Polly visited Siberia so that she would have a direct experience of the extraordinary environment that this apex predator reigns over. Alexandria Library Gilmour Street, Alexandria, G83 0DA Last few tickets remaining Book Festival Events Eventbrite www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/booked2019
Dialogue Road Show
23 May, 2019 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Discover Dialogue with the SWC and Dialogue Books · Hosted by Scottish Writers’ Centre Spearheaded by publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Dialogue Books is home to a variety of stories from illuminating voices often excluded from the mainstream. The imprint has built its foundations on the idea that through storytelling […]
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Anne Donovan Scottish Writers Centre
Image credit: Alan Dimmick. Tuesday, 4 June, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Anne Donovan will read from her work and talk about the importance of voice in her fiction, and the process of writing in different Scots voices. Anne Donovan is the author of the short […]
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Sid Griffin and Peter Case Doublet Bar
Sunday 19 May, 2019 ‘No sooner has Sid unpacked his suitcase after the April European dates then Our Hero puts out the clean socks and ironed shirts for a May tour of the UK with his longtime L.A. buddy Peter Case. The dynamic duo will perform eight shows on these shores wherein Sid goes […]
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Kathleen Winter, Creative Conversations
(Larry D. Moore [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Monday 13 May, 2019 1 – 2 p.m. An extra-curricular #CreativeConversations event for May! @colinjherd will be in conversation with award-winning novelist, short story-writer and non-fiction writer, Kathleen Winter (@supremetronic) on Mon 13th May, 1-2 Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill […]
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Saturday, May 11, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mackintosh Still Life Drawing
30 June, 2018 Mackintosh Queens Cross Church With summer in full bloom, why not come and try your hand at a relaxing Mackintosh themed still life drawing session. Be inspired by the botanical watercolours of Mackintosh & his Glasgow Style contemporaries, drawing from a beautiful floral still life arrangement in a stunning Mackintosh venue. All […]
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80 Years of Cinema Glasgow Film Theatre
80 Years of Cinema celebrated at GFT Thursday 9 May – Sunday 12 May Glasgow Film Theatre will hold a weekend of special free screenings, open to all. Glasgow Film Theatre is celebrating 80 Years of Cinema on Rose Street with a selection of special screenings, free to audiences, to mark the anniversary of Scotland’s original […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Vox Lux GFT
3 – 11 May, 2019 An electric and powerful sophomore feature from Brady Corbet (Childhood of a Leader) merges tragedy and satire through the incredible life story of a pop superstar. The film charts the life of Celeste (a career-defining performance from Natalie Portman), who survives a school shooting at the age of 13 to find early success as a teen […]
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Amazing Grace GFT
10 – 16 May, 2019 In 1972, Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, brought producer Jerry Wexler, her backup singers and the legendary Atlantic Records rhythm section to The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, to record an album of gospel music before an enthusiastic live audience. The result, ‘Amazing Grace’ went […]
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Nobody Knows GFT
13 May, 2019 5.45p.m. Four children are left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment by their scatterbrained and selfish mother. Their well-being and survival depends on the oldest son, 12-year-old Akira. Filmed over the course of a year, Kore-eda’s heartbreaking study of childhood destroyed by neglect and societal indifference boasts superb naturalistic performances. […]
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The Legend of Hamish MacInnes GFT
Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes 10 – 16 May, 2019 Legendary mountaineer Hamish MacInnes is no stranger to a challenge. He has pitted himself against the elements and conquered the highest peaks. More recently, he fell ill, was declared a danger to himself and sectioned. Final Ascent follows his determination to regain his freedom, reclaim his past and […]
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Woman at War GFT
3 – 16 May, 2019 Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson makes a welcome return with a playful, wonderfully quirky charmer that addresses urgent issues with the lightest of touches. Halla (Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir) is a mildmannered choirmaster secretly waging war on the heavy industry that is ruining the rugged landscapes of her beloved Iceland. Her acts of sabotage grow increasingly […]
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High Life GFT
10 – 16 May, 2019 In deep space, Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his daughter Willow live together aboard a spacecraft, in complete isolation. A man whose strict self-discipline is a shield against desire, Monte fathered her against his will. His sperm was used to inseminate the young woman who gave birth to her. They were […]
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Madeline’s Madeline GFT
10 – 16 May, 2019 Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard) has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theatre troupe. When the workshop’s ambitious director (Molly Parker) pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother (Miranda July) into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin […]
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NT Live: All My Sons GFT
Tuesday, 12 May, 2019 6.45 p.m. Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons. America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have […]
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Preview: Sunset GFT
Sunday 12 May, 2019 – 7 p.m. 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. Young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. But those hopes are quickly dashed when the new owner, Oszkár Brill, refuses to […]
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Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates 80 Years of Cinema
Thursday 9 May – Sunday 12 May 2019 Free screenings include Booksmart preview, Mulholland Drive in 4K and family favourite The Wizard of Oz in 4K. Glasgow Film Theatre will celebrate 80 Years of Cinema with a weekend of free screenings open to all. In 1939, Scotland’s first art-house cinema and only the second purpose-built […]
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May 2019 at Glasgow Film Theatre
NEW RELEASES This month, as Glasgow Film celebrates 80 Years of Cinema at Rose Street, the GFT programme is packed with hotly anticipated new releases, including: Brady Corbett’s follow up to Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux, starring Natalie Portman; Aretha Franklin in the spectacular documentary Amazing Grace, directed by Oscar-winner Sydney Pollack and Alan […]
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Thoughts and Reflections in Poetry and Song with David Nicoll
Tuesday 28 May, 2019 Glasgow Literary Lounge, Calton Bar May’s monthly featured showcase at the Glasgow Literary Lounge with poet and musician, David Nicoll who recently returned to Scotland after living in South Africa for more than thirty-six years. Nicoll will be launching his new publication, Thoughts & Reflections Volume 3, (Amazon KDP, 2019). In […]
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