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. Sunset GFT
31 May – 6 June, 2019 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 take […]
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Freedom Fields, GFT
3 – 6 June, 2019 Football isn’t a matter of life and death, it’s much more important than that in Freedom Fields. Filmed over five years, Naziha Arebi’s documentary follows three friends and their dream of being allowed to play football in Libya. When the promise of the Arab Spring starts to fade, the women face public […]
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Matchbox Cineclub + Backseat Bingo Under The Cherry Moon
CCA Friday 7 June 2019 7pm, Free/£2/£4/£6 and £8, Cinema 15+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Under The Cherry Moon (Prince, 1986) 100mins Once upon a time, in France, lived a bad boy called Christopher Tracy… Backseat Bingo & Matchbox Cineclub present a rare screening of Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon, on His Royal Badness’ birthday. Fashion […]
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Rory’s Way GFT
31st May, 2018 3.15 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with actor Brian Cox. Buy tickets Based on the bestselling novel by José Luis Sampedro, Rory’s Way, starring Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his […]
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Thursday, May 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Library Music Film – DJ and Party
Friday 31 May, 2019 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The Library Music Film screenin in Glasgow! Before the screening join disc jockeys Dr Crawford (Cinema Recorded Music Library) and Mr Divine spinning a library music soundtrack in Saramago (from 5pm-7pm). After-party kicks off at 9pm with Divine and guests spinning all things retro […]
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Saving Private Ryan, GFT
6 June, 2019 A special screening marking 75 years to the day since World War Two’s D-Day Normandy landings, and 21 years since the film was released. Captain John Miller leads his soldiers behind enemy lines to find James Ryan. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their […]
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Glasgow Science Festival 2019
6-16th June, 2019 Glasgow Science Festival (GSF) was grown in 2007 – it has now grown to be one of the largest science festivals in the UK. GSF takes memorable events to venues across the City, with up to 50,000 people of all ages and backgrounds participating in the festival. The festival provides a fantastic […]
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Masterclass with Peter Strickland and Andy Starke, GFT
Saturday, 1 June, 2019 11.15 a.m. Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Team are pleased to introduce a Masterclass Session with In Fabric writer/director Peter Strickland and producer Andy Starke. During this session the duo will discuss their upcoming release In Fabric, their career successes to date, and look at the qualities that make for a successful working relationship between director […]
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Drive Me Home GFT
Sunday 2 June, 2019 – 5 p.m. Conceived during his time working in London and drawing on fellow Italian immigrants’ experiences of long-distance lorry travel, the feature debut from Turin-born Simone Catania tells of two childhood friends who are reunited after many years away from their Sicilian hometown. With echoes of the road movies of […]
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Maker And Producer (sustainable textiles)
Photography – Max Crawford // Hair – Ronnie Gildea //Make-up – Ania Cunningham Monday 3 June 2019 – 7 p.m. Costume and Film CCA Free (unticketed), Theatre All ages 0141 352 4900 Photography – Max Crawford // Hair – Ronnie Gildea //Make-up – Ania CunninghamAlex Begg draws on a century and a half of weaving […]
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Liam Gallagher: As It Was plus Exclusive Live Satellite Performance
6 June, 2019 7.15 p.m. Presenting an honest and unrivalled insight, Liam: As It Was is the story of how Liam Gallagher, one of the most electrifying rock ‘n’ roll frontmen, went from the dizzying heights of his champagne supernova years in Oasis, to living on the edge, ostracised and lost in booze, notoriety and bitter legal battles. […]
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Dan Richards Booked! Festival 2019 review Mary Irvine
Dan Richards ‘Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the World’ Balloch Library Sunday 19th May 2019 This was my favourite event of this year’s festival. The great intrepid British explorer, risking life and limb to go where no man has gone before (or rarely, in this case) is not of a bygone age. […]
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DEGREE SHOW Glasgow School of Art 2019
Image: Keri Hannah, Communication Design 2019 GLASGOW 1 – 9 June The annual undergraduate Degree Show featuring work from graduating students across the School of Design, School of Fine Art, Innovation School and the Mackintosh School of Architecture. The Glasgow Degree Show also comprises MFA Degree Show, MFA at citizenM, Summer Exhibition and Fashion Show. Degree Show in Glasgow is […]
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Glasgow School of Art Master of Fine Art Degree Show 2019
The annual exhibition by graduates of the Glasgow School of Art Master of Fine Art programme. Opening Night Performance 29 May, 2019 The Glue Factory Introducing new works by: Justin Apperley, Darae Baek, Renèe Helèna Browne, Bobbi Cameron, Emily Chudnovsky, Michael Collazo, Jeanne Constantin, Samuel de Lange, Sam Dransfield, Benjamin Duax, Maria Filippou, Alistair Grant, […]
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Fashion Design Students Showcase Degree Show 2019
Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Garment Factory, 10 Montrose Street, G1 1RE Graduating students from Fashion Design will be showcasing their final collections at the Garment Factory on 29 May as part of Degree Show 2019. The event is a celebration of this year’s emerging talent and is an opportunity […]
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SoundRoutes Singers Live, Cottiers
Thursday, 13 June, 2019 Part of West End Festival SoundRoutes Singers Live! features a choir of 60+ singers performing an inspiring blend of pop, gospel, folk and reggae songs. Creative arrangements generate a powerful sound with energising harmonies. The programme includes a carefully crafted selection of popular songs, surprise numbers and special guest, BBC broadcaster […]
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, West End Festival Glasgow, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
13 THE MUSICAL, Websters Theatre
6 – 8 June, 2019 7.15 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. A hilarious, coming-of-age musical about discovering that ‘cool’ is sometimes where we least expect it. Geek. Poser. Jock. Beauty Queen. Wannabe. These are the labels that can last a lifetime. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer, Jason Robert Brown, (Parade, The Last […]
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Monday, May 27, 2019 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Mary Irvine review: Polly Clarke – the tiger lady! Booked! Festival
Booked! Festival Alexandria Library Friday, 17th May, 2019 Polly Clarke – the tiger lady! Polly Clarke, born in Toronto, now domiciled in Helensburgh and London (where she does her writing on a houseboat) sashayed down the aisle in a stunning, single-tiger print dress which she later confided had been discovered on the Internet – a […]
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Saturday, May 25, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Taking Tea with a Trailblazer, NLS Kelvin Hall
Wednesday 29th May, 2019 2pm – 3.30pm Storyteller Jan Bee Brown leads a celebration of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Scottish explorer and botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982). Spending her childhood on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Isobel went on to take on solo travels across Iceland, Greenland, and Alaska. In this session, discover the stories of […]
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Friday, May 24, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Vice of Hope, GFT
28 May, 2019 5.50 p.m. Edoardo De Angelis’ fourth feature unfolds in the infamous, eerily dilapidated coastal town of Castel Volturno (around 20 miles north of Naples) which has for several years been the site of violent clashes between Italian and migrant crime gangs. The story centres on Maria (Pina Turco), a young woman involved […]
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Tolkein GFT
24 – 30 May, 2019 Tolkien explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the […]
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DOCMA DocKlub, CCA
Wednesday 29 May, 2019 CCA DocKlub: Scotland’s Collective of Documentary Filmmakers. Come along and meet your doc peers, share works-in-progress, watch films & make docs together. Established in Edinburgh in 2015, DocKlub has hosted dozens of filmmakers screening their works-in-progress. These have included directors from around Scotland, presenting in person, as well as Skype sessions with filmmakers […]
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Take 2: The Secret of Kells
Saturday, 25 May, 2019 . 11.30 a.m. Celebrate ten years of this beautiful animation about the origin of the famous Book of Kells. Filled with Celtic references, the film follows young Brendan trying to escape the boring life of the monastery by helping Brother Aiden finish the Book of Kells, a task that becomes harder […]
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Shoplifters GFT
28 May, 2019 8.20 p.m. After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money […]
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Daughter of Mine, GFT
Thursday 30 May, 2019 8.20 p.m. Laura Bispuri’s transgender-themed 2015 feature Sworn Virgin was one of the most ground-breaking Italian debuts of the past decade, and the director makes an eagerly-awaited return with this Sardinian-set film. It follows a 10-year-old girl’s changing relationship with her biological and adoptive mothers as they become rivals for her affections. Bispuri […]
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Cleo from 5 – 7 GFT
25 May, 2019, 3.20 p.m. In celebration of Agnès Varda, pioneering feminist filmmaker of the French New Wave, join us for a screening of Cleo from 5 to 7. Varda skilfully captures Paris at the height of the 1960s in this intriguing tale, expertly presented in real time, about a singer whose life is in turmoil as she awaits […]
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Beats GFT
24 – 30 May, 2019 The much-anticipated screen version of Kieran Hurley’s award-winning play is a gallus, bittersweet coming-of-age rollercoaster: imagine Fellini’s I Vitelloni set to a throbbing techno beat. It is 1994 and new legislation effectively outlaws raves or “public gatherings around amplified music characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”. The party is […]
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Ash Is Purest White GFT
27 – 30 May, 2019 In a bleak industrial city, young dancer Qiao (played by Zhangke’s long-time collaborator, Zhao Tao) falls in love with mobster Bin (Liao Fan). When Bin’s ballroom dancing-obsessed boss is killed, he takes on leadership of the ‘Jianghu’, a brotherhood of honourable criminals. But the old codes of honour are out […]
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Befriending Food Experience Sunday Lunch
Sunday 9 June, 2019 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Sunday Lunch with Board Games at Elderpark Community Centre £3 BYOB and your favourite board game. 82 Elderpark St, Glasgow G51 3ST Please get in touch via Facebook to say if you’ll be coming along to join in the fun. Event on Facebook
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Open Mind Fest – Journalism and Mental Health
Saturday 25 May, 2019 . 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. 15 New Street, Paisley PA1 1EZ Open Mind Fest is a youth-curated strand of SMHAF based in Paisley. The festival explores mental health through everything from music, film and art, to theatre, poetry, and journalism. For ages up to 25. A Workshop that looks at […]
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