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. ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival 2019 Glasgow Film Theatre
25 March – 29 April, 2019 Glasgow Film Festival, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival brings the best new cinema from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America to Manchester every year; at GFT we are delighted to host a selection of highlights from the main festival through April. From […]
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Friday, April 26, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley Permanent Green Light plus Q & A
Thursday 2 May, 2019 6p.m. – 8 p.m. Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill, Univesity of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ A very special opportunity to see ‘Permanent Green Light’, a film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley + a Q and A after the screening. A young guy wants to explode. He wants to […]
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Beatson Gin and Sing: Grease at OranMor
2nd May, 2019, Doors 7 p.m. Starts 8 p.m. The Venue at Òran Mór Doors 7pm (show starts 8pm) ‘Don’t say we’re not hopelessly devoted to you… you voted for the next Beatson Gin & Sing movie and they listened – Grease is the one that you want!’ OranMor present another evening of singing and dancing. This time, […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
KeanuCon 2019 CCA
KeanuCon 2019 Sat 27 April — Sun 28 April 2019 From the makers of Cage-a-rama Weird Weekend, KeanuCon is Scotland’s first Keanu Reeves film festival. Join Matchbox Cineclub to celebrate the most triumphant Wyld Stallyn himself and trace his career from babe to baba yaga. Expect nine films over two days, special guests and lots of bonus […]
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Eighth Grade GFT
26 April – 2 May 2019 Eighth Grade is everything you would hope for from stand-up comic and YouTube sensation Bo Burnham. Scalpel-sharp in its observations and painfully funny, it follows 13-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she embarks on her incredible journey towards high school. Crippled by self-loathing and insecurity, she creates YouTube advice vlogs that present a calmly confident […]
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Graham Fulton – Glitches of Mortality Book Launch
Saturday 8th of June, 2019 at 7:30 PM Glitches of Mortality published by Pindrop Press which is the 16th book of poems by Graham Fulton Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6ST It’s a free event BYOB. ‘This absolute belter of a book’ Donny O’Rourke
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Express Yourself, Tell it Slant
Friday 26 April, 2019 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. April Express Yourself brings you talent from all over the world this month and you’ll not want to miss it. French poet Dr Claire Trévien will read from her new publication ‘Brain Fugue’. Plus usual 10 poets giving you 10 minutes of poetry and it is just […]
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Choral Concert St Marys Episcopal Cathedral
Saturday June 8th 2019 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road , Glasgow G4 9JB Ayr Choral presents: A Feast of Choral Music A selection of treasured choral gems from the 16th to 21st centuries including music by Tallis, Bruckner, Mozart, Dubra, Fauré, Paulus, Chilcott, Lauridsen and MacMillan Conductor: […]
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The Marbles and Friends Live
17 May, 2019 7.30 p.m. The best music out there – for one night only. The Marbles, Lynnie Carson and Hawking Gimmicks, Lavinia Blackwall & Stilton, Mike and Solveig McCrea, West of Scotland Cricket Club, Hamilton Cres, 40-44 Peel Street, Partick G11 5LU £10 Buy tickets Event on Facebook
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Monday, April 22, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
School for Civic Imagination CCA
3 May, 2019, 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. On The Reasons of Schooling Explore ‘the educational turn’ through analysing the use of school formats within the arts. Moderated by Jason Bowman with Alternative School of Economics, School of Engaged Art, Beta-Local and the School for Civic Imagination. Free (unticketed) / All ages CCA 350 Sauchiehall […]
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Friday, April 19, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Easter 2019 at Glasgow Film Theatre
The central event in the Christian calendar has offered much for filmmakers to ponder over the years, from sorrowful reflection to satirical swiping at organised religion. This Easter weekend at GFT we offer a cinematic selection from the sublime to the ridiculous. 19-20 April Beth Gibbons/Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) […]
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Wild Rose, GFT
12 – 25 April, 2019 If ever a film deserves the accolade crowd-pleasing then it is Wild Rose. A Glasgow story of a young woman’s determination to follow her dream, it has the rousing, heartmelting qualities of The Full Monty or Billy Elliot. Jessie Buckley lights up the screen as Rose-Lynn Harlan. Her impossible dream is to become a county music […]
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Ordet GFT
Sunday 21 April, 2019 ‘Ordet is a difficult film to enter,’ said the great film critic Roger Ebert, ‘But once you’re inside, it is impossible to escape.’ This is a small story of two families in rural 1920s Denmark, whose lives are dominated by religion. Slowly and patiently establishing the characters and their differing views, Carl […]
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3 Faces GFT
19 – 22 April, 2019 In Jafar Panahi’s latest film, which won the Best Screenplay Award in Cannes, actress Behnaz Jafari (playing herself) is distraught when she comes across a young girl’s video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz and filmmaker Jafar […]
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The Gospel According to St Matthew GFT
Sunday 21 April, 2019 In 1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini gathered a non-professional cast (including his mother Susanna Pasolini) and created his take on the life of Jesus Christ, from the point of view of St Matthew. Simultaneously radical (using jump-cuts and switching music from classical to modern blues) and devout (the dialogue is taken from […]
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A Deal With The Universe, GFT
23 – 25 April, 2019 This is the debut feature from transgender filmmaker Jason Barker, documenting the true story of a very different kind of pregnancy. Made entirely from personal archive footage and home video diaries, the film follows Jason and his partner Tracey’s incredible story of how he came to give birth to his child, charting over 15 years of the […]
Loro GFT
19 – 25 April, 2019 The great Toni Servillo is at the top of his game playing Silvio Berlusconi in Paolo Sorrentino’s baroque, state-of-the-nation epic. Servillo’s towering performance captures the sly charm and the grotesque menace of a larger than life figure with an insatiable hunger for power. Riccardo Scamarcio co-stars as Sergio, a seedy, ambitious Puglian property developer with […]
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Glasgow Film Festival on Tour
Glasgow Film Festival, alongside Film Hub Scotland, is proud to bring some of the most exciting and groundbreaking films of this year’s festival to venues throughout Scotland. These three highlights from the 2019 edition celebrate the finest local filmmaking as well as championing world cinema at its most vibrant. 23 April, 2019 Harry Birrell: Films of Love and War (N/C 12+) […]
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The Fight GFT
19 – 21 April, 2019 Tina is a mother of three, battling the demons of her past and her overwhelming life. Her daughter is being bullied at school, her parents’ marriage is falling apart and she’s juggling everything with her full-time job in a care home. Looking to regain control, Tina enters an amateur boxing […]
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Thistle Gallery: Vibrant Show Celebrates The Coming of Spring
From Friday 19th April, 2019 Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Thistle Gallery welcomes you this sunny Easter Weekend to see their vibrant new Exhibition which includes over 100 new artworks from some of Scotland’s most popular artists. Several new artists have been welcomed […]
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Thursday, April 18, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, Permanent Green Light, Andrew Stewart Cinema
Tuesday, 2 May, 2019 6 p.m. A very special opportunity to see Permanent Green Light, a film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley + a Q and A after the screening. A young guy wants to explode. He wants to do it in public. He’s only interested in the act’s effect. That he’ll die is […]
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The 33rd Glasgow Jazz Festival 2019
Full Programme Announced Glasgow to be bursting with musical talent for the Jazz Festival Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 June, 2019 The 33rd Glasgow Jazz Festival has unveiled its full programme for 2019, with locations right across Glasgow set to be bursting with jazz talent this June – including iconic new venues House for an […]
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Jazz Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Tailor of Inverness WebstersTheatre
4 May, 2019 – 7.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Dogstar Theatre Company presents THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS Krawiec z Invernessu Written and performed by Matthew Zajac With Jonny Hardie/Gavin Marwick on violin Directed by Ben Harrison Designed by Ali Maclaurin Musical direction by Jonny Hardie & Gavin Marwick Matthew Zajac’s international hit show about his […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair 2019
17 – 19th May, 2019 Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair 17-19th May. The Countdown Is On The countdown is now on with less than four weeks to go to the Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair which takes place in a purpose built marquee in the grounds of the city’s iconic Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle St, Glasgow G3 […]
Seven Song Club, Lynnie Carson , Rebecca Jordan and Bearpit Brothers
Friday 26th April, 2019 – 8.30 p.m. Seven Song Club, Tron Theatre, 65 Trongate, G1 5HB Lynnie Carson Lynnie Carson is a singer-songwriter who hails from the sunny port of Gourock. She has worked as a session vocalist for many great bands and has a voice reminiscent of her musical heroes Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Petanque Club
Glasgow Petanque Club, Willowbank Bowling Club, 36 Dowanside Rd, Glasgow West End, G12 9DW Sun Shines on Inverleith Petanquers New kids on the block Glasgow Petanque Club took on the legends that are Inverlieth in the inaugural head to head in the West End of Glasgow in March, 2019. Two teams of 12 played four […]
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 | Filed under: Community event, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Joe Hullait, Scot Squad Writer at QMU
Tuesday, 16 April, 2019 5.30 p.m.- 7.30 p.m. The writer and creator of BBC Scotland’s Scot Squad will be giving a talk and answering questions about writing TV comedy. Scot Squad is a comedy / mockumentary following the first Unified Scottish Police Force. It is on its fifth series. Scot Squad first aired on 27 October […]
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The Carlton 3, Peat Stew at The Shandon Belles The Buttery
Sunday 21 April, 2019 7.30 p.m. The Buttery, 650 Sauchiehall Street, G3 8UF Danny Mitchell, Lesley O’Brien and Barny Taplin, playing mandolin, guitar and mouthie, singing country blues, bluegrass and Americana Event on Facebook
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Monday, April 15, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Creative Conversations, Kathleen Winter
Monday 13th May, 2019, 1 – 2 p.m. Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Colin J. Herd will be in conversation with award-winning novelist, short story-writer and non-fiction writer, Kathleen Winter. All welcome More about Creative Conversations
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New Writings Showcase, Scottish Writers’ Centre
Tuesday, 23 April, 2019, 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD It takes passion, talent, and craftsmanship to create art with words, and Glasgow writers and poets are brimming with all three. Come along and enjoy these brave new voices. This event is free for all! Event on Facebook scottishwriterscentre.co.uk
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