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. Transatlantic Sessions Celtic Connections 2019 review and photography by Pauline Keightley
The unique blend of Shetland fiddle and West Virginia song, dubro and Irish pipes is always a joy to hear at the Transatlantic Sessions. Warm fires appeared to chase away the winter chill at the Glasgow concert hall and this concert is always a major highlight at Celtic Connections – celebrating folk and roots music from […]
Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley
Full Programme Announced Glasgow Film Festival
GFF2019 Across 12 days, the city-wide celebration of cinema will host 7 world premieres, 102 UK premieres and 49 Scottish premieres Guests including Sir Michael Palin, Carol Morley, Matt Bomer, Carlos Acosta, Alice Lowe, Simon Amstell and legendary music video director Lance Bangs will attend the 15th annual festival Six out of the ten nominees […]
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Aye Write: Frank Quitely The Comics That Made Me
15th Mar 2019 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The Comics That Made Me Frank Quitely, legend in the world of comics, talks about the comics that have most inspired and entertained him throughout the years. Quietly grew up in Rutherglen and studied at the Glasgow School of Art before launching the […]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: What You Need To Know About Character
Creative Writing: with David Pettigrew BA MPhil Character – Creative Writing University of Strathclyde 14th Mar 2019 • 6:00PM – 8:00PM • Mitchell Library Character – Creative Writing Characters are one of the main ingredients of a good story, and even for writers of non-fiction a key skill is the ability to bring people to […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019
Tracey Thorn at Aye Write
14 March, 2019 – 6 p.m. Mitchell Library, Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things and not going to the disco. Long before she would conquer the charts in Everything but […]
Glasgow Film Festival: Mother’s Instinct
GFT / Thu 21 (18.30) & Fri 22 Feb, 2019 (10.45) There are echoes of Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith in this luscious, devilishly entertaining Belgian thriller. Suburban neighbours Alice (Veerle Baetens) and Celine (Anne Coesens) are the very best of friends. Their inseparable sons are more like brothers than chums. When tragedy strikes, they both […]
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Open Mic Tuesdays at Queen Margaret Union
Every Tuesday 8p.m. Champions Barr, QMU, 22 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QN Open Mic is back at the QMU // takes place every Tuesday at 8PM in Champions Bar // max 10 mins per act // free drinks for performers // anything goes (music, spoken word, stand up, etc) // bringing your own […]
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Lola in Slacks Single Launch at Websters
2 March, 2019, 7.30 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ After a series of attention grabbing performances around Glasgow, louche bohemians Lola in Slacks release their new single ‘Postscript in Blue’ with a live show at the bijou ‘Webster’s Theatre’ in Glasgow’s West End. Fronted by spellbinding chanteuse Lou Reid, Lola […]
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Monday, February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Cubanos: Woman and the Revolution
Sunday 3rd March, 2019 2-5pm The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, G2 3AU CUBANAS asks what six decades of socialist construction has meant for Cuban women and explores how the legacies of pioneering women revolutionaries such as Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria and Vilma Espin live on in Cuba today. In Britain, women are hit hardest […]
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Sunday, February 10, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
New Traditions: Talisk, Vishtèn and Xabier Diaz at Celtic Connections 2019
Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2019 These three bands lit up the warm fires of live music! The audience at the wonderful Old Fruitmarket venue was treated to an international line up of award-winning Celtic musicians. They did a fine job interpreting the musical traditions of Galicia, the French Canadian Acadia islands and Scots Celtic. Xabier […]
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Saturday, February 9, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pauline Keightley
David Keenan and Chris McQueer in Conversation
Monday, 25 February, 2019, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. To celebrate the launch of ‘For The Good Times’, David Keenan and Chris McQueer will be in conversation on February 25th, 2019 at Mono. Q&A, chaired by Alistair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae!). David Keenan is the author of ‘For The Good Times’ (Faber & Faber) and […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica in Conversation with Louise Welsh
University of Glasgow Thursday, 14 March, 2019, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. This is a rare opportunity to share an evening with Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, and one of the most distinguished writers of her generation. Lorna Goodison is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica. She is the recipient of numerous prizes for her […]
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Friday, February 8, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
SQIFF Shorts on Tour presented with STUC LGBT+ Committee, CCA
Saturday 9 February 2019 1pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 SQIFF and STUC LGBT + Committee present an inclusive selection of LGBTQ + short films from around the world. This is another chance to see the Opening Night films from SQIFF 2018. Headlining the programme is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
An Impossible Love GFT
8 – 10 February, 2019 Based on a book by controversial French novelist Christine Angot – Claire Denis’ co-writer on Let the Sunshine In – Catherine Corsini’s film is a profound melodrama exploring dysfunctional family relationships. The film begins in the 1950s, as office worker Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls for the dashing Philippe (Niels Schneider), a Nietzsche-reading […]
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Weekend: Valentine’s Day The Seamore
Thursday, 14 February, 2019, 7 p.m. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK A one night stand that becomes something more – an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives. Buy tickets
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| Filed under: Cinema, Valentines Day Glasgow
Access Film Club High Fidelity, GFT
12 February, 2019 GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland is delighted to provide Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. GFT is the first cinema in the UK to receive the Autism Friendly Award 2017. Rob Gordon (John Cusack), is the owner of a failing a record store, and […]
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Roma at Glasgow Film Theatre
12 February, 2019 The most personal project to date from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Film Screening: Les Enfants de Mishwar
9 February, 2019 Two charities, Music Broth and Mishwar have joined up to raise funds to support young people in their communities by organising a film screening of a documentary on the life in Lebanese Refugee camps for young people (English). The evening will hope to raise awareness of the work being done to support […]
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Thursday, February 7, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Cinemasters: Margarethe von Trotta GFT
The first female director to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta has made some of the most trailblazing films of the past five decades. One of the most gifted – but often overlooked – directors to come from the New German Cinema movement alongside Fassbinder and Herzog, von Trotta has never shied away from topics that resonate with […]
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Green Book at Glasgow Film Theatre
1 – 14 February, 2019 When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class African-American pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then […]
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Destroyer, GFT
8 – 14 February, 2019 Nicole Kidman inhabits the character of Erin Bell, a world-weary LAPD detective, in this gripping hardboiled crime drama. As a young cop, Bell was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her […]
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Aye Write Raynor Winn & Charlotte Runcie
Thursday 14th March 2019 6:00PM – 7:00PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN The Salt and the Sea Just days after Raynor Winn learned that her husband of 32 years, was terminally ill, their home was taken away. With nothing left and little time, they made the brave and impulsive decision to […]
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Glasgow Goes Green
11th of February, 2019 1 p.m. – 11 p.m. The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow City Centre G3 6PE Free Go Green Week, a UK initiative which promotes climate action across the nation, comes back to Glasgow for a week in February. The student-lead Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability Team (GUEST), along with environmental sustainability officers […]
Clochoderick Press Presents an Evening of Poetry and Spoken Word
Friday 1 March 2019 – 7 – 9pm Oxfam Bookshop, 231 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8UD Free entry Local writers Jim Ferguson, Graham Fulton, Mairi Murphy, Tracy Patrick and Fiona Lindsay will be reading with books available to purchase. Drinks and nibbles will be provided and the shop itself will remain open for sales of its […]
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Shopping
Angus Peter Campbell at Aye Write
Thursday, 14 March, 2019 6 – 7 p.m. The award-winning poet, novelist, journalist and broadcaster discusses his new Gaelic novel, the first event of several which explores Gaelic literature as part of Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival. ‘Constabal Murdo’ is set on Barra and follows the mystery of a valuable historic brooch stolen from Kismuil […]
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Women in Islam Exhibition
11 – 23 February, 2019 Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP Want to find out more about Women in Islam. Her status, role and rights, why she wears the veil and much more? Don’t miss the exhibition held by Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Community at Hillhead Library.
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Monday, February 4, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: Handle with Care and other stories by Ann MacLaren
Thursday 14th February, 2019 at 7.30 pm. Waterstones Byres Road, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU Thursday 21st February, 2019 at 6pm. Hillhead Library, Byres Road, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP Rose wants a baby, but she’s too old. Adam’s musical career is on the line. Newly widowed Evie wonders if it’s time to move on. […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Celtic Connections: Lizzie Reid at King Tut’s
Lizzie Reid and her band at King Tut’s, Glasgow part of Celtic Connections 2 February, 2019 For a twenty-one year old, Lizzie Reid is mighty impressive. What a joyous gig at King Tut’s. Playing to a house full of adoring fans, Lizzie (vocals and guitar) and her band: James Harker (guitar), Chris Dickie (drums), Bobby […]
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| Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews
Dave Arcari and Andres Roots
Saturday 2 March, 2019 8 p.m. Buchanan Memorial Hall, Milton of Buchanan, By Drymen G63 ESTONIA’S top blues guitarist Andres Roots joins Dave Arcari for an exclusive double-bill show at Memorial Hall, Milton of Buchanan, by Drymen Event on Facebook
Wassail Queens Park
Sunday 10 February, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m. South Seeds, 514 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 8BG With Propagate and South Seeds Glasgow What’s a Wassail?! It’s a centuries old tradition to wake up apple trees after a winter sleep, chase away bad spirits and ask for a good harvest. Propagate is working with South Seeds and […]
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