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. Frank Turner at Aye Write
18th Mar 2019 • 6:30PM – 8:00PM • Mitchell Library Folk-punk icon Frank Turner discusses his new book Songwriter Frank Turner discusses his new book Try this at Home. In Try This at Home, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his song-writing process by taking apart 36 songs from his back catalogue. Find out the stories behind the […]
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Monday, March 18, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Lynn Howarth Featured Artist at The Glasgow Gallery
6 – 27 April, 2019 Glasgow Gallery’s Featured Artist for April! Exhibition opens 6th April and runs through until 27th April! The Glasgow Gallery, 182 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4HG 0141 333 1991 glasgowgallery.co.uk www.lynnhowarth.co.uk
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Andrew O’Hagan Creative Conversations
Monday 18 March, 2019 Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ In 2003 Andrew O’Hagan was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. In 2004 he edited The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, a collection of various […]
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Sunday, March 17, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Launch of The Blame Game C.J. Cooke
Tuesday 19 March, 2019 John Smith’s Bookshop, University of Glasgow Join us to celebrate the publication of Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new novel THE BLAME GAME (as CJ Cooke) on Tues 19th March at John Smith’s Bookshop! Chaired by Louise Welsh, Carolyn – who convenes the MLitt Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow – will talk […]
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Saturday, March 16, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Hannah Aldridge and the Goat Roper Band
Friday 26 April 2019, Nice n Sleazy £13 plus booking fee TicketScotland With special guests, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band Sassy, sexy and soulful, and on the way up. Born in Muscle Shoals, the daughter of Alabama/Nashville Hall of Fame writer Walt Aldridge, Hannah is a chip off the old block in terms of talent […]
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Music Broth Grow With Music Youth Project
Enrolment Session, 24 March, 2019 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Music Broth – Scotland’s 1st Musical Instrument & Equipment Library has secured funding from the GCDT Youth Activity Grant to deliver an 8 week music programme for up to 30 young people aged 12 – 17 years. The programme will offer different music activities (i.e. […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Community event, Courses, Kids and young people
Ras Digby (Sir Jessus Soundsystem) The Rum Shack
Saturday, 6 April, 2019 The Rum Shack, 657 – 659 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB Ras Digby, the Revival Champion, returns to the Rum Shack! Bass Warrior are delighted to welcome Ras Digby back to Glasgow – if you missed him last time, don’t make the same mistake twice! This will be a night of […]
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Girl GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Victor Polster makes an unforgettable screen debut as a teenager determined to make their dreams a reality. 15-year-old Lara (Polster) was born a boy and now longs for the day when she can have gender reassignment surgery. Her ambition is to become a ballet dancer. The daunting physical demands of the […]
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Friday, March 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Astro Black GSFF at CCA
14 – 17 March, 2019 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Titled in tribute to cosmic jazz artist Sun Ra’s 1972 album, Astro Black is an ongoing multi-channel video cycle with the musician as its central figure. Comprised entirely of samples from film and music sources, Soda_Jerk’s work takes us on an alternate history tour of political resistance […]
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
Thu 14 March — Sun 17 March 2019 Open 11am – 7pm, Free (unticketed), Intermedia All ages 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GSFF19 | Scottish Competition 1: Continuous Thunder Thu 14 March 2019 Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019 Thu 14 March — Sun 17 March 2019 GSFF19 | The EthnoFictions of Laura Huertas Millán Thu 14 March 2019 […]
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First Reels 2: Scottish Women Filmmakers of the 1990s CCA
16 March, 2019 First Reels (1991–1999) was the first of the short film production schemes introduced by the Scottish Film Council (later Scottish Screen), in partnership with Scottish Television. It was launched with the aim of giving aspiring filmmakers the means to embark on – or complete – their first project. Whilst giving talents such as […]
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Wuthering Heights, Glasgow Film Theatre
18 – 20 March, 2019 You wouldn’t expect Andrea Arnold to take a conventional approach to period drama, but her earthy style feels particularly apt in this bold and sensual adaptation of the windblown romance. Arnold said she was keen to honour the spirit of Bronte’s ‘strange, dark’ book, and she does so with a […]
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GSFF19 | Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts
CCA 14 – 17 March, 2019 Celebrating the ingenuity and hard work of local indie filmmaking talent, Blueprint shines a bright light on the fringes of Scottish film culture. Blueprint returns to GSFF with a special focus on emerging cinematographer Alan McLaughlin, the first Scottish filmmaker nominated for the prestigious Debut Cinematographer Award at Camerimage, the International […]
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Accents, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
16 March, 2019 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY A new work of film/music by Glasgow’s UNESCO City of Music artist-in-residence Richy Carey. A live performance event at the Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, Accents brings together communities to sing a live soundtrack to a film exploring the sounds of identity and place. Using the […]
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Under the Silver Lake GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Steeped in the worlds of Hitchcock, David Lynch and Raymond Chandler, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a quirky trip through the city of dreams. Andrew Garfield’s Sam is a horny, 30-something LA slacker distracted by his beautiful neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough). Just when they are getting to know each other, she disappears. Trying […]
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Everybody Knows GFT
Until 21 March, 2019 Director Asghar Farhadi heads to the dusty backroads north of Madrid for a drama steeped in secrets and lies. Her sister’s wedding brings Laura (Penélope Cruz) back to the small town where she was born. She is accompanied by her teenage daughter and son, but not by her husband who has remained in […]
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St Patrick’s Festival Family Fun Day
Saturday 16 March 2019 12 – 5 p.m. Merchant Square, 71 Albion St, Glasgow G1 1NY Celtic Music Radio are once again proud to come to you live from St Patrick’s Festival Family Fun Day From 12 till 5pm from Merchant Square in Glasgow Saturday 16th March 2019 The event was attended by over 6,000 people […]
Aye Write 2019 Angela Chadwick & Sarah Davis- Goff
Feminist Dystopian Fiction Saturday 16th March, 2019 Mitchell Library, North Street,Glasgow G3 7DN 6:30-7:30pm Ticket Price £6 Book online 0141 353 8000 Angela Chadwick – XX When Rosie and Jules discover a clinical trial that enables two women to have a baby, they jump at the chance to make history. In a toxic political climate […]
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Aye Write: Helena Kennedy QC
16th March 2019 • 8:00PM – 9:00PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall How British Justice is Failing Women In ‘Eve Was Shamed’ Helena Kennedy forensically examines new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% […]
Aye Write: Lesley McDowell Introduces Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & Laura Shepherd-Robinson
15th Mar 2019 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • Mitchell Library Debut Author Series Journalist and novelist Lesley McDowell introduces a remarkable pair of new voices as part of the debut author series: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu is an epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, which vibrantly brings to life a colourful Ugandan family by blending oral […]
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Aye Write: Stuart Cosgrove & Ken McNab
15th Mar 2019 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 1969: Death of the Sixties A momentous year in musical history has given rise to two new books. Stuart Cosgrove completes his trilogy with ‘Harlem 69: The Future of Soul’ in which a Rabelaisian cast of characters including Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Stevie […]
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Aye Write: Louise Welsh Introduces… Temi Oh & Bridget Collins
17th March 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library Louise Welsh, the prize-winning novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow introduces two genre-busting debuts. In Temi Oh’s ‘Do You Dream of Terra-Two’, four decorated astronauts and six teenagers leave a dying Earth to find a habitable planet in a nearby […]
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Phil Differ: Me OranMor
Part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival 23 March, 2019 Doors 7 p.m. 8 p.m. start The new show ‘Me’ is about what makes us, us, the ‘us’ in this case being me. So, basically, what I’m saying is, it’s a show called ‘Me’ and by sheer coincidence, me is what ‘Me’ is all about. Having […]
In For A Penny, Websters Theatre
28 – 31 March, 2019, 8.30 p.m. Websters Part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival Libby McArthur (River City, The Steamie) in a hilarious one woman show about how she nearly went to prison for six weeks… FOR PARKING TICKETS! A play about how easy it is for any of us to free-fall out of our cosy existences […]
News Hacks, Oran Mor
21 March, 2019 7 pm. start 8 p.m. OranMor Part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival Putting the satire back into the Saltire. From Rikki Brown the writer of the long running hit topical radio show Watson’s Wind Up, a fresh take on the news and those making the news, with a smattering of side swipes at life in […]
Sean McLoughlin: Hail Mary, Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2019
15 and 16 March, 2019 Fresh from opening for Ricky Gervais and Bill Burr on tour, Sean McLoughlin (“the best comedian you haven’t heard of yet” Time Out) takes his acclaimed, smash hit show, Hail Mary, on the road. The human race is at a crossroads: On one path lies the future, with its twitchy […]
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Rich Hall’s Hoedown Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2019
15 and 16 March 2019 The Garage Hall’s precision dismantling of the tenuous relationship between two countries is as freewheeling and deadly accurate as ever. His BBC Four documentaries have built him a new legion of followers, as have appearances on Have I Got News For You and QI. But if you’ve only ever seen […]
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Aye Write: Monisha Rajesh
15th March 2019 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM • Mitchell Library Around the World in 80 Trains When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But it wasn’t long before she was carefully plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles from London’s St Pancras […]
Love Music Hate Racism at The Blue Arrow
Saturday 16 March, 2019 The Blue Arrow on Sauchiehall Street, 323 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3HW To coincide with UN Anti Racism Day. LINE UP: Heir of The Cursed – Beldina Odenyo Onassis – A.K.A Heir of the Cursed – is one of Glasgow’s most captivating contemporary talents. Combining intricate guitar work with mellow melodies that […]
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GSFF: Opening Screening Terror Nullius
13 March, 2019 8.30 p.m. At once satire, eco-horror and road movie, this political revenge fable offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a wilful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways. The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee […]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
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