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. New Year Heralds In Fresh Brush Strokes, Thistle Gallery
By ringing in the New Year the Thistle Gallery resolves to continue to feature an eclectic range of remarkable artwork by many of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists, not just from the Central Belt but also from the Borders, the Highlands and Islands, Fife, Perthshire and Dumfriesshire …to name but a few. ‘Turning Over A New […]
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Monday, January 7, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, interior design
Scottish National Poetry Slam January 2019
Scottish Slam Championships at The Tron Theatre Sunday January 13, 2019 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Winners of slams in the chilly wee nation during the year go head to head for the title of Scottish Slam Champion 2019. Tickets: #8.50 – This gig sells out so buy your tickets. Hosted by Robin Cairns Tron […]
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Saturday, January 5, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
One Cut Of The Dead, GFT
6 and 7 January, 2019 One Cut of the Dead opens in a run-down, abandoned warehouse where a film crew are making a zombie film. But this is no ordinary warehouse. It’s been said that it’s a site where military experiments took place… Out of nowhere, real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew! It may sound […]
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Friday, January 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Donkeyote, GFT
4 – 6 January, 2018 Manolo has a simple life in Southern Spain and two loves: his animals, in particular his donkey Gorrión (“Sparrow”), and wandering through nature. Against the advice of his doctor, he decides to plan one last walk in the US, the brutal 2200 mile Trail of Tears. But not without his […]
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Tides, GFT
4 – 6 January, 2019 Following an unexplained tragic event, four friends embark on a boat trip to navigate birth, love, death and the canals of southern England. Fuelled by booze, drugs and the beauty of nature, their journey becomes an uplifting meditation on what it means to be middle aged in a world that […]
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Fokus: Films from Germany, GFT
Welcome to the fourth edition of Fokus: Films from Germany! This year, Fokus presents a particularly exciting and eclectic snapshot from the contemporary film scene in Germany. From a nostalgic and insightful look back into one of the most significant eras of Germany’s recent musical past in Conny Plank – The Potential of Noise, to In the Aisles, a charming […]
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Alternative Burns Night: Herland Ceilidh, Glasgow Womens Library
(Image: Shamshad Ghani singing Auld Lang Syne in Punjabi at Herland: Alternative Burns Night, Jan 2018 Credit: GWL) Friday 25th January, 2019 at 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm (18+) Tickets £5 – £16 Now available for this unmissable party! (Buy online) Legendary Alternative Burns Night gets a twist, a turn, a birl… ceilidh-ing the night […]
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| Filed under: Burns Events, Dance
Nae Pasaran GFT
Nae Pasaran Wed 2 & Thu 3 January, 2019 In 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride showed their support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out vital inspections of engines for Hawker Hunter planes – the fighter jets were being used by the military junta against the people. The boycott endured for […]
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Thursday, January 3, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Orphee, GFT
2 and 3 January, 2019 A magical retelling of the Orpheus myth turns the lyre-playing singer of Greek legend into a famous left-bank poet in post-war Paris. Fallen out of favour and lost for poetic inspiration, Orphée becomes obsessed with a mysterious black-clad princess who first claims the life of a rival poet, and then […]
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Music and Movies Night, The Seamore, Maryhill
Saturday 12 January, 2019 7 p.m. Three independent Scottish films – one drama & two documentaries – plus live music from Mandulu & Hephzibah. All for just £5 per person – a post-festive season bargain. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Road,Glasgow G20 7YE On Facebook The Seamore
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Charlie Gracie, Meet the Author, Fruin Farm review by Mary Irvine
Meet the Author Charlie Gracie – ‘To Live With What You Are’ The final meeting of the Meet The Author events for 2018 took place once again at the picturesque Fruin Farm, Glen Fruin, Helensburgh G84 9EE This time we welcomed Charlie Gracie, originally from Baillieston but now domiciled at the other side of the Ben. […]
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
From Scotland With Love, Film Screening, Maryhill Burgh Hall
Saturday 26 January, 2019 at 4 p.m. A trip down memory lane at Maryhill Burgh Halls. Part of ‘Going to the Pictures’ community series. Made entirely of Scottish film archive, “From Scotland With Love” is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director Virginia Heath with a beautiful score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A […]
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The Judge, GFT
3 January, 2018 When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts. The […]
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This Is Not A Burns Night, Govanhill Community Baths Trust
Sunday, 20 January, 2019 . 2.30 – 4.30 p.m. The Rum Shack The 6th Annual Govanhill Baths “This is Not a Burns Night” event will be a tribute to our friend Tom Leonard. Entry by donation on the door. Featuring Rab Wilson, Victoria McNulty, Chris McQueer, Jim Ferguson and Tracy Harvey, hosted by Jim Monaghan. […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Burns Events
Caro Ramsay, Plotting Your Novel
January, 15th, 2019 Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD A quick guide to getting it right! A workshop and presentation on how to plot a novel, including lots of questions and answers and troubleshooting the usual stumbling blocks ; the muddle in the middle, the wandering timeline and how to entice an […]
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Thunder Road GFT
31 May – 6 June, 2019 Writer-director-actor Jim Cummings expands his award-winning short into a darkly comic exploration of a cop on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Struggling to control a flood of raw emotions, Jim Arnaud (Cummings) prepares to speak the eulogy at his mother’s funeral and follow it with her favourite Springsteen song. Nothing goes […]
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Stuart MacBride, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
CRIME WRITER STUART MACBRIDE Creative Conversations 7 January 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free & Open to the Public Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow but grew up in Aberdeen. He is the bestselling author of several novels […]
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Monday, December 31, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Emily Punton , Websters
Saturday, 5 January, 2019 7.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. The Acoustic Affair presents … Young Scottish songwriter Emily Punton headlines her first show to kick of the new year in style ! With support from RJ is a creator and singer/songwriter of his own music. With just himself and his guitar, he can truly put […]
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Friday, December 28, 2018 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Fibro My Arth! Extended, Websters
16 March, 2019 7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Presented as part of Glasgow’s International Comedy Festival: Having been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis in March 2017, Hebridean born comedian Carina MacLeod decided the best way to cope with her illnesses was to write a stand up show about them. After selling out her original show […]
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New Works Festival, Cottiers
18 February 2019 – 20 February, 2019 New Works is a festival of brand new writing from Student Theatre at Glasgow (STAG). Each night consists of one short and one long play; written, directed and performed by STAG members. New Works is an opportunity for writers and directors to unleash their imagination, with no restriction on theme or […]
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Cage-a-rama 2: Cage Uncaged, CCA
Fri 4 January — Sun 6 January 2019 Europe’s longest-running Nicolas Cage film festival returns to Glasgow! Matchbox Cineclub present nine films over three days – all wild at heart and weird on top – from the earliest classics to the very latest. Exploring Cage’s Nouveau Shamanic acting technique and enjoying the “Cage Rage” in full effect. Plus! […]
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EVENT PASSED 2018 Mary Poppins Returns – meet and greet Grosvenor Cafe plus screening
DECEMBER 2018 – show passed Monday 31st December, 2018 . 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Mary Poppins Returns is just as magical and joyous as the original movie. It is a perfect family holiday film, so we felt it was only fitting to give the little ones a chance to meet the world’s most famous […]
| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
RBG plus Q & A at Glasgow Film Theatre
30 December, 2018 At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to […]
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Thursday, December 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Back to Berlin, GFT
27 – 30 December, 2018 In the summer of 2015, 11 motor bikers went on a mission to take the Maccabiah torch from Israel to the site of the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, for the first Jewish Olympic Games on German soil. Such an event, at a German venue, was once inconceivable. The bikers retraced […]
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Lizzie, GFT
27 – 30 December, 2018 Based on the infamous 1892 axe murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts, this layered, shocking drama creates a portrait of Lizzie Borden for the modern day. Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) lives a repressed existence, attempting to resist the iron rule of her authoritarian father. When new housemaid Bridget […]
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John Martyn Remembrance Gig with Alan Murphy
Saturday 9 February, 2019 Mugdock Country Park, Craigallian Road, Glasgow G62 8EL Alan Murphy plays an evening of John Martyn Classics in the intimate theatre in beautiful Mugdock Country Park. All proceeds to Social Bite. Tickets available through website only www.easyblu.es Event on Facebook
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Monday, December 24, 2018 | 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
Control Social Club at Broadcast
Wednesday 26th December, 2018 @ Broadcast, 147 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LG Control Social Club presents: Boxing Day Special. One final showcase to close the year out featuring one of Glasgows breakthrough acts The Vanities and some the best new comers. The Vanities spotify:track:2xcXQ3l2NlPqKoCppzLmLq Fiendz https://www.facebook.com/FIENDZ110/videos/vl.2144362045614040/1964033427237360/?type=1 The Roly Mo https://soundcloud.com/ther0lymoglesga Two Tone Television https://soundcloud.com/two-tone-television +++ […]
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Sunday, December 23, 2018 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Sensational Alex Harvey Experience, Audio, Christmas 2018
21 December, 2018, 7 p.m. The UK’s number 1 tribute to The Sensational Alex Harvey Band come to Glasgow for their Annual Christmas Party. This year it’s at Audio, Glasgow and the band will be performing a bumper set of SAHB material, classics and also some lesser known tracks for the diehard fans, and the […]
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Friday, December 21, 2018 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Gig Guide plus Club Events
White Christmas, GFT
14 – 22 December, 2018 This true Christmas classic is full of laughter, dance and of course the beloved holiday song, ‘White Christmas’. A romantic, dazzling musical starring Bing Crosby, it has delighted audiences for more than 60 years and never fails to entertain. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose St, G3 6RB
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas, OranMor
19 – 30 December, 2018 OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX Back by popular demand… the delightful Doris, Dolly & The Dressing Room Divas! The sell out hit of 2016s Edinburgh Festival returns home to Òran Mór festooned with 5 star reviews for 10 evening performances in December… “one of the most brilliant […]
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Thursday, December 20, 2018 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
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