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. Series of Creative Writing Masterclasses
Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover, 10 Dumbreck Rd, Glasgow G41 5BW Saturday, 5 October, Saturday 2 November, 2019, Saaturday 7 December, 2019 This series of workshops will explore some of the fundamentals of creative writing, in the special context of the Studio Pavilion as art space. Participants are encouraged to follow the […]
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Classes and Workshops
Stories from the Southside – Govanhill Book Festival
Saturday, 10 August, 2019 – 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Launch of Stories from the Southside, a new collection of short stories and poems focusing on the fascinating people and places that make South Glasgow. We’ll hear local writers reading from their work, and copies of […]
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Mind and Draw Live Music and Poetry Art Sessions at WEvolution
Various dates in August, 2019 Thursday 8th August, 2019, 6 – 8 p.m. Thursday 15th August, 2019, 6 – 8 p.m. Thursday 22nd August, 2019, 6 – 8 p.m. Thursday 29th August, 2019, 6 – 8 p.m. All sessions from 6pm-8pm. Free – Select Date and Register These sessions will be led by visual artist […]
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Monday, July 22, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Classes and Workshops
G20 Youth Festival – Raising Funds
Background to establishing youth base in Maryhill ‘Having a base will enable us to give young people in Maryhill the chance to learn skills, make friendships and raise aspirations. Let’s support young people to be their best and make Maryhill a great place to grow up in.’ (July, 2019) Please help the G20 Festival to […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, G20 Festival, Kids and young people
Govanhill Carnival Parade 2019
Saturday 3 August, 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Govanhill Park, Coplaw Road, Glasgow G42 A colourful celebration of the unique diversity of Govanhill, the carnival parade will include a pipe band, a brass band, dancers, singers, choirs, Chinese lion dancers, roller skaters, drummers, flags, banners and costumes, community groups, refugee groups, campaigns and performers. […]
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Govanhill International Festival 2019
The third Govanhill International Festival and Carnival will run from 1st to 11th August., 2019, The festival programme is here. With over 50 events, there is something for everyone – including the UK’s first ever Roma film festival, walking tours of food and faith, workshops, plays, films, the first Govanhill Book Festival and of course, […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Mother Courage and Her Children by Tom Leonard
Sunday 11 August, 2019 7 p.m. A rehearsed reading of Brecht’s 1939 antiwar play, in a new translation by Glasgow poet Tom Leonard, who sadly passed away this year. Directed by and featuring Tam Dean Burn, with musical direction by Leo Condie. Full of memorable characters, sardonic humour and wonderful songs, set by Paul Dessau. […]
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Africa in Motion Africa 3.0: Vanity CCA
Saturday 27 July — Sunday 28 July 2019 On loop in CCA foyer / Free (unticketed) Africa in Motion Film Festival | Africa 3.0: Vanity These films are part of Africa 3.0 a touring package of films that shows obsession as represented in cinema from across the African continent and the diaspora, focused on joy, vanity and infatuation. Vanity: In the age […]
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Saturday, July 20, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
My Friend the Polish Girl at GFT plus Q & A
26 July, 2019 at 6.15 p.m. This unique fiction film takes the form of a first-time filmmaker’s documentary told through the eyes (and lens) of amateur filmmaker Katie: an American rich kid following Alicja, an erratic unemployed Polish actress. The film is intentionally provocative, challenging the audience to consider if they are comfortable with what […]
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Obsession: Double Bill Safe/To Die For GFT
Sunday 28 July, 2019 at 1.45 p.m. This double bill brings together two mid-90s arthouse classics that each centre on very different kinds of obsession, and connect with each other in fascinating ways. In Todd Haynes’ Safe, the main character Carol becomes obsessed with possible (and actual) infection from her surroundings, neighbours and family. Meanwhile in To […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Africa in Motion Film Festival Foreign Body CCA
Saturday, 27 July 2019 7pm, £6(£3) + £1 booking fee, Theatre / 12+ F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 In the fourth feature from acclaimed Tunisian director Raja Amari (Satin Rouge), a young illegal immigrant creates a new life for herself in France while becoming the centre of tangled romantic relationships. Seeking refuge from her radical Islamist […]
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind plus Quiz GFT
28 July, 2-19 6.30 p.m. In the midst of a series of unexplained events, electrical lineman Roy Neary encounters a UFO on a deserted road whilst investigating a large-scale power outage. Roy becomes increasingly obsessed with UFOs and subliminal messaging following his experience, distancing himself from his wife and children but drawing him closer towards […]
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Only You GFT
19 – 25 July, 2019 Spending Hogmanay in Glasgow is the beginning of a beautiful romance for office worker Elena (Laia Costa) and PhD student Jake (Josh O’Connor). A chance encounter and an instant attraction soon starts to feel like something more meaningful. Is this the real deal? A relationship develops in which the modest age gap […]
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Friday, July 19, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Tell It To The Bees GFT
19 – 25 July, 2019 The Scotland of 1952 is no place for the faint-hearted. When mill worker Lydia (Holliday Grainger) is abandoned by her philandering husband, she struggles to pay the rent and feed herself and son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk). Local doctor Jean (Anna Paquin) is one of the few to help and a friendship develops […]
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Our Time, GFT
19 – 21 July, 2019 Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time charts the relationship of Juan and Esther, who live on a ranch in the rugged territory of Eastern-central Mexico. Esther runs the ranch with power and grace, while Juan, a world-renowned writer, gives himself to the task of raising the beasts. Reygadas’ most accessible work to date; Our Time is […]
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Varda by Agnes GFT
19- 21 July, 2019 Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Agnès Varda was a visual storyteller who eschewed convention and prescribed approaches to drama. In Varda by Agnès — Varda’s final film — she offers a personal insight into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to illustrate her unique artistic visions and ideas. Why We Love […]
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Back to the future: 1979-1989 Film Screenings at Kelvin Hall
Yoof TV – Archive film screening – a 1980s BBC ‘playlist’ you won’t want to miss! Saturday, 20 July, 2019 (1.45pm) 1.30pm: Doors open 1.45pm: Showreel of 80s footage from the Moving Image Archive 2pm: Yoof TV Kids from Greenock and Aberdeen tell it like it is about their lives in the 1980s in this […]
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African Film Touring Programme Summer 2019
Africa 3.0 shows obsession as represented in African cinema. The season will screen in cities across the UK this Summer and forms part of the Film Feels: Obsession season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Films in the programme adhere to three relatives of obsession – 1.0 Vanity, 2.0 Joy and […]
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Dance with a Stranger, GFT
24 July, 2019 – 5.55 p.m. Plus Discussion Champions of women in cinema, Reclaim The Frame present this classic British noir starring Miranda Richardson and written by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey). It tells the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain following her conviction for the murder […]
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Gwen, GFT
22 – 24 July, 2019 William McGregor’s atmospheric gothic period drama features a breakout performance from newcomer Eleanor Worthington-Cox alongside BAFTA-nominated Maxine Peake. In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl, Gwen, tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching […]
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Matchbox Cineclub + Sad Girl Cinema Der Fan
CCA Sunday 21 July 2019 7pm, £0/2/4/6/8 via Matchbox Cineclub, Theatre 18+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A rare screening of the cult ‘80s German horror exploring the extremes of pop obsession. Der Fan, released in 1982, is an adaptation of the director Eckhart Schmidt’s own novel of the same title. Schmidt’s film became a […]
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Gregory’s Girl, Back to the Future at Kelvin Hall
Wednesday, 24 July, 2019 5.45pm Back to the future: 1979-1989 Film Screenings at Kelvin Hall – Gregory’s Girl (Cert 12A) 5.30pm: Doors open 5.45pm: Showreel of 80s footage from the Moving Image Archive 6pm: Gregory’s Girl Football, love, Cumbernauld… come and have your heart warmed by this classic Bill Forsyth romantic-comedy. (Ranked No 30 in British […]
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University of Glasgow Short Courses Open Evening 2019
21 August 2019, 5.30-7.30pm University of Glasgow, St Andrews Building, 11 Eldon St, Glasgow G3 6NH Great opportunity to talk to tutors, and learn about the 250+ short courses on offer each year at the University of Glasgow. This event, being held in the St Andrew’s Building, is for anyone wanting to learn for pleasure […]
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| Filed under: Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, Classes and Workshops, Courses
Gypsy Music Short Course
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD 7th, 14th, 21st September, 2019 at 5 p.m. Host Ando Glaso And Glaso is inviting musicians to join a unique month long short course of traditional Gypsy music. Each weekend participants will meet different tutors showing them various dialects of this colourful tradition, including Transylvanian, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, […]
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Thursday, July 18, 2019 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops
Of Fish and Foe GFT
26 July – 1 August, 2019 A surprising and often funny look at contemporary eco-activism on the Scottish Seas, new documentary Of Fish and Foe follows brothers Kevin and John Pullar, who are struggling to sustain the family business of net fishing for wild Atlantic salmon off the coast of Scotland. Watching their every move, animal activist groups […]
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Special Events at Glasgow Film Theatre July 2019
SPECIAL EVENTS This July, acclaimed director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Viceroy’s House) will attend GFT for a Q&A following a preview screening of her latest feature Blinded By the Light, (16 July) a film inspired by British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir Greetings From Bury Park, where a teenager learns to find his own […]
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The Mask 25 year anniversary The Seamore
10 August, 2019 7 p.m. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, community central halls, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK The Seamore becomes the Coco Bongo as we celebrate 25 years of THE MASK. Stanley Ipkiss, a bank clerk with self esteem issues, becomes emboiled with gangsters, nightclub singers and the law as he comes into […]
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Dark Vanilla Jungle Websters
22 July 2019 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets only available from: COMAR Andrea keeps getting asked if she’s ashamed. Is she ashamed of what she did to the soldier? Is she ashamed of what she did to the baby? But Andrea’s not ashamed at all. And she wants to tell you why… A beautiful and […]
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Sunday, July 14, 2019 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Scarred GFT
14 July, 2019 – 3 p.m. A domestic tragedy turned courtroom drama of sorts, this is the Naples-set story of Assunta Spina (Magnani), whose face is scarred by her brutish husband when she shows signs of dissatisfaction. Scarred was the third film adaptation based on this original story, which was initially a novel by Salvatore Di Giacomo, […]
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Friday, July 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Brink GFT
12 – 14 July, 2019 When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an […]
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