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. Samina Chaudry at Avant Garde
Monday 10 June, 2019 Linda Jackson hosts a special evening of music and readings featuring Samina Chaudry, winner of Next Chapter Award 2019, Scottish Book Trust. Also: Maggie Graham, Jim Ferguson and Sean McMenemy and Gordon Dickson on Saxaphone. Avant Garde,34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Starts 7.45 p.m. Food will be served 6.00 p.m. […]
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Friday, May 24, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn Tour, The Mitchell review Pat Byrne
Lowborn – Poverty in Britain Today It really is absolutely hellish: ‘We live in the world’s sixth-richest economy but one-fifth of us live in poverty’. Kerry Hudson. Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn Tour isn’t your usual book launch – her book ‘Lowborn – Poverty in Britain Today’, alongside tour events, aims to inform people about just what […]
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Electric Frog and Pressure Riverside Festival
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May, 2019 RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL GLASGOW 2019 12noon – 11pm (Subject to licence) 100 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow G3 8RS TICKETS SATURDAY: Denis Sulta‘s Sulta Selects & La Cheetah Club 10 (a>z): Denis Sulta, Eclair Fifi, FJAAK (live), HAAi-, Helena Hauff, Job Jobse, Mella Dee, Midland, Nightwave, Objekt b2b DJ Stingray, Omar […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Gorbals Fair 2019
Saturday, 1 June, 2019 The Barn Community Centre at 10.45am. (37 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow, G5 9QS) St Francis Community Centre – fun and games, local stalls and entertainment at from 11.45am. (Cumberland St, Glasgow G5 0SE) Gorbals Fair returns on Saturday 1st June this year. This is the biggest event in the Gorbals calendar, so make sure you […]
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
The Dark Carnival: Unplugged
1st June, 2019 VANISHING POINT AND A NEW INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION Newcomers to the afterlife discover that death is not actually the end. THIS PRODUCTION TAKES PLACE AT SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL MUSEUM (225 SCOTLAND STREET, G5 8QB) The Dark Carnival: Unplugged is an intimate music and theatre show: with songs, storytelling and a free (though not compulsory!) glass of […]
Seeds of Thought – Creative Writing
Tuesday, 21 May, 2019, 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Creative writing – a chance to explore the power or fun of words. All welcome beginners and veterans. Free! Look forward to seeing you there! Event on Facebook
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Monday, May 20, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops
Richard Holloway ‘Waiting for the Last Bus’ review Mary Irvine
Tuesday 14th May 2019 Booked! Festival of Words, West Dunbartonshire For several years now the ‘Booked! Booked! West Dunbartonshire Festival of Words has commenced its series of events with the Alistair Pearson Lecture at the Millennium Hall, Gartocharn. This year a tribute to this extraordinary man was given by James Macrea who gave a brief […]
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| Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Electric Honey Records Showcase – OranMor
Artwork: Michael William Hassard Oran Mor Thursday 30 May, 2019 7:00pm £7 subject to booking fee Part of West End Festival Electric Honey Records (now at Glasgow Kelvin College) and Oran Mor proudly present the annual showcase of the world famous student run record label for the West End Festival.The night will include performances from […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, West End Festival Glasgow
Look Who’s Talking Now with Des Dillon
Tuesday 21 May, 2019 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre So you’re a novelist wanting to try poetry or drama. Or a dramatist thinking about short stories. You want to try something else. Or writing for the first time. Des Dillon discusses how he moves from one medium to another and one […]
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Sunday, May 19, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Helen Fitzgerald and Doug Johnstone at Waterstones Sauchiehall St
Thursday, 27 June, 2019 at 7 p.m. Helen Fitzgerald and Doug Johnstone in conversation discussing their new novels ‘Worst Case Scenario’ and ‘Breakers’. This event is free but places are limited so please register via the ticket link on Facebook Page asap. Doors will open at 6:30 PM for a 7 PM start. Helen FitzGerald […]
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Yikes Film Club presents Grand Budapest Hotel
Thursday, 23 May, 2019 The Flying Duck,142 Renfield Street Glasgow G2 3AU ‘Join YiKES! Film Club on the 23rd of May as we check in at The Grand Budapest Hotel (or The Flying Duck in this case) as we explore the mad world of Wes Anderson with a cast filled to brim with talent featuring […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Book Launch: ‘this exquisite corpse’ Tawnya Renelle
Tuesday, 28 May, 2019 6pm – 8 pm This exquisite corpse book launch and poetic sexploration Katie’s Bar, 17 John Street, Glasgow G1 1HP Tawnya Renelle launches her new book “this exquisite corpse” in Glasgow. She will be reading from her book and asking you to participate in an interactive second half of the evening […]
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Dialogue: Niven Govinden and Season Butler
Thursday May 23, 209 11 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. John Smith Book Shop, University of Glasgow, The Fraser Building, 65 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QF Exciting event with Niven Govinden and Season Butler launching new books by Dialogue Books (a publisher of books for, about, by #BAME #LGBTQI+ #disability & #workingclass communities.) Praise for Niven […]
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Saturday, May 18, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, LGBT Glasgow
Wild Festival and Gala, Children’s Wood
Saturday, 1 June, 2019 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. The Children’s Wood, Clouston, Kelbourne, Sanda Street, N. Kelvinside G20 8QW ‘It’s that time of year again when our community comes together for the West End Festival. There will be gardening and planting, a Bioblitz of species with the RSPB, outdoor cooking, street play and our […]
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The Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite / Petrushka Live
19 May, 2019 – 3.45 p.m. Carmen is as sultry as ever, as the passionate and free-spirited woman in this one act ballet. Presented alongside Petrushka, a new creation of the Bolshoi which encapsulate the soul of Russian Ballet. Choreographer / ComposerAlonso / Bizet, Shchedrin Choreographer / ComposerClug / Stravinsky GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Friday, May 17, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Arctic GFT
17 – 23 May, 2019 Stranded in a bleak, unforgiving frozen wilderness would you have what it takes to survive? Joe Penna’s intense, slow-burning adventure yarn tells of endurance against impossible odds and is all the more chilling for virtually dispensing with dialogue. Mads Mikkelsen plays Overgard, the sole survivor of a plane crash who has refused to surrender to despair. […]
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Birds of Passage
17 – 23 May, 2019 A gripping tale of narcos set among Colombia’s Wayúu people, Birds of Passage spans three decades of a family pushed to the brink by the drug trade. Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra follow up their Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent with an unusually clear-eyed and empathetic depiction of indigenous peoples and the impact of outside […]
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Slow Food Glasgow Food, Class and Transformation in Glasgow
Wednesday 22 May 2019 – 7 p.m. Project Cafe After directing a dozen documentaries about food, agriculture and sustainability since 2008, focusing on Scotland over the last couple of years, Zev Robinson is now developing one looking at the transformation of the culture of food in Glasgow. He will film and interview restauranteurs, chefs who […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Havana Glasgow Film Festival Bailando Con Margot: An Encore Screening CCA
Friday 17 May 2019 7:30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 To mark the six-month countdown to HGFF19 we are hosting an encore screening of Arturo Santana’s 2015 film, Bailando Con Margot. It’s Havana late 50s, Revolution is brewing, Bailando Con Margot follows the story of wealthy widow and femme […]
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Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock n Roll GFT
22 May, 2019 – 8.05 p.m. Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘n’ Roll tells the story of the long-troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community. A once storied seaside resort, Asbury Park erupted in flames during a summer of civil unrest, crippling the town for the next […]
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Donbass GFT
21 – 23 May, 2019 This satirical drama follows a series of events during the separatist conflict in the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, in 2014. In the Donbass, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. War is called […]
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Submissions Glasgow Film Festival
Submissions for Glasgow Film Festival 2020 are now OPEN. Click the button to submit now! Accepting submissions exclusively through FilmFreeway ‘Thank you for considering Glasgow Film Festival. We are committed to supporting emerging talent and providing audiences with the opportunity to see the best of world cinema. We’re currently on the lookout for fiction, documentary, animation […]
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Robin Lloyd-Jones ‘A life in books’ Helensburgh Library
Wednesday 29th May, 2019 7 p.m. An Evening with local author… Robin Lloyd-Jones A life in Books’ at the Helensburgh Library Free entry/refreshments Since June 2018 a group of friends have gathered once a week in the Helensburgh Library to encourage and support each other in their writing. It is not a club so has no membership […]
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Wild Rose Review Pat Byrne
Wild Rose, directed by Tom Harper, screenplay by Glasgow born Nicole Taylor, was one of the films I’d marked out as a ‘must see’ at Glasgow Film Festival but it wasn’t to be. It’s back at Glasgow Film theatre and I was determined to catch it this time round. (The film runs until 25 April, 2019). […]
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Aye Write presents Paul Mason
16th May 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The author and broadcaster introduces Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism. How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of […]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Carnival of the Dark Arts
Saturday, 22 June, 2019 7 p.m. – 10.45 p.m. The Ice Box Arts and Music Festival Welcome to the the All-New Monthly Carnival of the Dark Arts! ‘We knew we had to have something special for the first show when we moved to monthly offerings, and something special we have! You want music? We’ve got […]
Henry Bell, Booked Festival 2019
Wednesday, 15 May, 2019 7 p.m. Henry Bell at Dalmuir Library 10 Lennox Pl, Clydebank G81 4LX Henry Bell “John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside “ Historical topics are a perennial favourite of Booked! and this year they feature Henry Bell exploring the life of the Red Clydeside legend, John Maclean. He will look at the […]
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley Collaborative Writing Workshops
The Collaboration Process and Inspiration Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley have been working and writing together since meeting as PhD students at the University of Glasgow. Their essays and short fiction have been published in a variety of places including Gutter Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. Together they co-edited the collection Writing Creative […]
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Polly Clark, Booked Festival 2019
Alexandria Library – Friday 17 May 2019 Polly Clark presents her latest novel “Tiger”. Polly visited Siberia so that she would have a direct experience of the extraordinary environment that this apex predator reigns over. Alexandria Library Gilmour Street, Alexandria, G83 0DA Last few tickets remaining Book Festival Events Eventbrite www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/booked2019
Dialogue Road Show
23 May, 2019 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Discover Dialogue with the SWC and Dialogue Books · Hosted by Scottish Writers’ Centre Spearheaded by publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Dialogue Books is home to a variety of stories from illuminating voices often excluded from the mainstream. The imprint has built its foundations on the idea that through storytelling […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
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