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. Glasgow Comedy Festival Short Attention Span Theatre
Tuesday, 26 March and Wednesday 27 March 2019 CCA Short Attention Span Theatre have been producing short plays in Glasgow and Edinburgh since 2015. For this show they present four longer pieces created for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The plays are written by Karen Barclay, Tom Brogan, Catriona Duggan and acclaimed author Chris McQueer. £10/£8 Book tickets online 0844 […]
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 | Filed under: Glasgow International Comedy Festival, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Aye Write – celebration of writing from community based literacy and creative writing learners
22 March, 2019 12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Royal Concert Hall Aye Write festival is celebrating the things in life that make us happy and give us a laugh. Expect a lively event where community-based adult literacy and creative learners from across the city come together to share their writing on the theme of happiness. […]
Neil Oliver at Aye Write 2019 review by Mary Irvine
Aye Write Festival 2019 Neil Oliver 11.30 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Saturday, March 16th Strathclyde Suite Royal Concert Hall Having driven through heavy snow (Alexandria), meeting heavy sleet (Dumbarton), being overcharged by Scotrail, then very cold rain (Glasgow) I finally arrived at the Royal Concert Hall for my first 2019 visit to the prestigious ‘Aye Write’ […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Edwyn Collins at Monorail Music
Tuesday 9 April, 2019, 5.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Monorail Music We’re thrilled to announce that Edwyn and his band will be joining us on Tuesday April 9th for a short instore performance. Edwyn’s latest album, Badbea, is released on march 29th through his own AED Records label, and is already one of our favourite […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Book Launch: Welcome to the Heady Heights by David Ross
Wednesday 20 March, 2019 Waterstones Welcome back David Ross with his fantastic new novel Welcome to the Heady Heights. This event is free to attend but please register via link. A hilarious, dark and heart-warming drama about the elusivity of stardom, in an age when `making it’ was `having it all’ … `A real new […]
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Woodlands Community Garden’s 9th Birthday Celebration
Sunday 24 March, 2019 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Woodlands Community Garden 91 – 101 West Princes Street G4 9BY Celebrate Woodlands Community Garden’s 9th birthday both in the garden and the Workspace building – expect cake, food, songs, dancing, children’s games, poetry and a photo exhibition. This is a free drop-in event – all […]
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Frank Turner at Aye Write
18th Mar 2019 • 6:30PM – 8:00PM • Mitchell Library Folk-punk icon Frank Turner discusses his new book Songwriter Frank Turner discusses his new book Try this at Home. In Try This at Home, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his song-writing process by taking apart 36 songs from his back catalogue. Find out the stories behind the […]
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Monday, March 18, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Lynn Howarth Featured Artist at The Glasgow Gallery
6 – 27 April, 2019 Glasgow Gallery’s Featured Artist for April! Exhibition opens 6th April and runs through until 27th April! The Glasgow Gallery, 182 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4HG 0141 333 1991 glasgowgallery.co.uk www.lynnhowarth.co.uk
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Andrew O’Hagan Creative Conversations
Monday 18 March, 2019 Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ In 2003 Andrew O’Hagan was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. In 2004 he edited The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, a collection of various […]
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Sunday, March 17, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Launch of The Blame Game C.J. Cooke
Tuesday 19 March, 2019 John Smith’s Bookshop, University of Glasgow Join us to celebrate the publication of Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new novel THE BLAME GAME (as CJ Cooke) on Tues 19th March at John Smith’s Bookshop! Chaired by Louise Welsh, Carolyn – who convenes the MLitt Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow – will talk […]
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Saturday, March 16, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Hannah Aldridge and the Goat Roper Band
Friday 26 April 2019, Nice n Sleazy £13 plus booking fee TicketScotland With special guests, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band Sassy, sexy and soulful, and on the way up. Born in Muscle Shoals, the daughter of Alabama/Nashville Hall of Fame writer Walt Aldridge, Hannah is a chip off the old block in terms of talent […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Music Broth Grow With Music Youth Project
Enrolment Session, 24 March, 2019 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Music Broth – Scotland’s 1st Musical Instrument & Equipment Library has secured funding from the GCDT Youth Activity Grant to deliver an 8 week music programme for up to 30 young people aged 12 – 17 years. The programme will offer different music activities (i.e. […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Community event, Courses, Kids and young people
Ras Digby (Sir Jessus Soundsystem) The Rum Shack
Saturday, 6 April, 2019 The Rum Shack, 657 – 659 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB Ras Digby, the Revival Champion, returns to the Rum Shack! Bass Warrior are delighted to welcome Ras Digby back to Glasgow – if you missed him last time, don’t make the same mistake twice! This will be a night of […]
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Girl GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Victor Polster makes an unforgettable screen debut as a teenager determined to make their dreams a reality. 15-year-old Lara (Polster) was born a boy and now longs for the day when she can have gender reassignment surgery. Her ambition is to become a ballet dancer. The daunting physical demands of the […]
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Friday, March 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Astro Black GSFF at CCA
14 – 17 March, 2019 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Titled in tribute to cosmic jazz artist Sun Ra’s 1972 album, Astro Black is an ongoing multi-channel video cycle with the musician as its central figure. Comprised entirely of samples from film and music sources, Soda_Jerk’s work takes us on an alternate history tour of political resistance […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
Thu 14 March — Sun 17 March 2019 Open 11am – 7pm, Free (unticketed), Intermedia All ages 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GSFF19 | Scottish Competition 1: Continuous Thunder Thu 14 March 2019 Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019 Thu 14 March — Sun 17 March 2019 GSFF19 | The EthnoFictions of Laura Huertas Millán Thu 14 March 2019 […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
First Reels 2: Scottish Women Filmmakers of the 1990s CCA
16 March, 2019 First Reels (1991–1999) was the first of the short film production schemes introduced by the Scottish Film Council (later Scottish Screen), in partnership with Scottish Television. It was launched with the aim of giving aspiring filmmakers the means to embark on – or complete – their first project. Whilst giving talents such as […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Wuthering Heights, Glasgow Film Theatre
18 – 20 March, 2019 You wouldn’t expect Andrea Arnold to take a conventional approach to period drama, but her earthy style feels particularly apt in this bold and sensual adaptation of the windblown romance. Arnold said she was keen to honour the spirit of Bronte’s ‘strange, dark’ book, and she does so with a […]
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GSFF19 | Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts
CCA 14 – 17 March, 2019 Celebrating the ingenuity and hard work of local indie filmmaking talent, Blueprint shines a bright light on the fringes of Scottish film culture. Blueprint returns to GSFF with a special focus on emerging cinematographer Alan McLaughlin, the first Scottish filmmaker nominated for the prestigious Debut Cinematographer Award at Camerimage, the International […]
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Accents, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
16 March, 2019 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY A new work of film/music by Glasgow’s UNESCO City of Music artist-in-residence Richy Carey. A live performance event at the Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, Accents brings together communities to sing a live soundtrack to a film exploring the sounds of identity and place. Using the […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Classes and Workshops
Under the Silver Lake GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Steeped in the worlds of Hitchcock, David Lynch and Raymond Chandler, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a quirky trip through the city of dreams. Andrew Garfield’s Sam is a horny, 30-something LA slacker distracted by his beautiful neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough). Just when they are getting to know each other, she disappears. Trying […]
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Everybody Knows GFT
Until 21 March, 2019 Director Asghar Farhadi heads to the dusty backroads north of Madrid for a drama steeped in secrets and lies. Her sister’s wedding brings Laura (Penélope Cruz) back to the small town where she was born. She is accompanied by her teenage daughter and son, but not by her husband who has remained in […]
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St Patrick’s Festival Family Fun Day
Saturday 16 March 2019 12 – 5 p.m. Merchant Square, 71 Albion St, Glasgow G1 1NY Celtic Music Radio are once again proud to come to you live from St Patrick’s Festival Family Fun Day From 12 till 5pm from Merchant Square in Glasgow Saturday 16th March 2019 The event was attended by over 6,000 people […]
Aye Write 2019 Angela Chadwick & Sarah Davis- Goff
Feminist Dystopian Fiction Saturday 16th March, 2019 Mitchell Library, North Street,Glasgow G3 7DN 6:30-7:30pm Ticket Price £6 Book online 0141 353 8000 Angela Chadwick – XX When Rosie and Jules discover a clinical trial that enables two women to have a baby, they jump at the chance to make history. In a toxic political climate […]
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Aye Write: Helena Kennedy QC
16th March 2019 • 8:00PM – 9:00PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall How British Justice is Failing Women In ‘Eve Was Shamed’ Helena Kennedy forensically examines new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% […]
Aye Write: Lesley McDowell Introduces Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & Laura Shepherd-Robinson
15th Mar 2019 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • Mitchell Library Debut Author Series Journalist and novelist Lesley McDowell introduces a remarkable pair of new voices as part of the debut author series: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu is an epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, which vibrantly brings to life a colourful Ugandan family by blending oral […]
| Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019
Aye Write: Stuart Cosgrove & Ken McNab
15th Mar 2019 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 1969: Death of the Sixties A momentous year in musical history has given rise to two new books. Stuart Cosgrove completes his trilogy with ‘Harlem 69: The Future of Soul’ in which a Rabelaisian cast of characters including Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Stevie […]
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Aye Write: Louise Welsh Introduces… Temi Oh & Bridget Collins
17th March 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library Louise Welsh, the prize-winning novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow introduces two genre-busting debuts. In Temi Oh’s ‘Do You Dream of Terra-Two’, four decorated astronauts and six teenagers leave a dying Earth to find a habitable planet in a nearby […]
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Phil Differ: Me OranMor
Part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival 23 March, 2019 Doors 7 p.m. 8 p.m. start The new show ‘Me’ is about what makes us, us, the ‘us’ in this case being me. So, basically, what I’m saying is, it’s a show called ‘Me’ and by sheer coincidence, me is what ‘Me’ is all about. Having […]
In For A Penny, Websters Theatre
28 – 31 March, 2019, 8.30 p.m. Websters Part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival Libby McArthur (River City, The Steamie) in a hilarious one woman show about how she nearly went to prison for six weeks… FOR PARKING TICKETS! A play about how easy it is for any of us to free-fall out of our cosy existences […]
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