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. Speakin Cajun CCA
Saturday 13 April, 2019 – 7.30 p.m. Poetry Circus and Speakin Cajun Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Brand new Spring music and spoken word cabaret comes to the CCA in Glasgow with The Jennifer Ewan Band and electrifying Poetry Circus spoken word artists: Katharine Macfarlane, Victoria McNulty – […]
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Jen Fairgrieve at Tchai Ovna House of Tea
Monday 22 April, 2019 . 8 p.m. An evening of song, some originals and covers and of course some Scottish folk music. Look forward to seeing you there. Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, Glasgow G12 8PB Event on Facebook
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
The Big Clothes Swop at the Ice Box
Saturday, 13 April, 2019 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The Ice Box Arts and Music Centre, Unit 2 St Lukes Business Estate, Gorbals, Glasgow G5 0TS Here it is, our giant clothes swap at The Ice Box! We will be holding one of these swap days every six weeks, it’s a great way to get […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Mid90s GFT
12 – 18 April, 2019 In 1990s Los Angeles, life seems to be stacking the odds against 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic). His big brother Ian (Lucas Hedges) regards him as a convenient punch bag and his lonely mother Dabney (Katherine Waterston) can’t provide the comfort he needs. What would it take to become one of the cool […]
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Films of Female Friendship CCA
Little Darlings | Suitable Women : Sat 13 April 2019 Pity Party Film Club presents a rare screening of Ronald F. Maxwell’s cult coming-of-age classic Little Darlings as part of their Suitable Women: Films of Female Friendship series. Two teenage girls, the streetwise Angel (Kristy McNichol) and the well-to-do Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) meet at an Atlanta […]
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Yuli, GFT
12 – 18 April, 2019 The dazzling, rags-to-riches life of ballet superstar Carlos Acosta is beautifully captured by director Icíar Bollaín and writer Paul Laverty in this life-affirming adaptation of his memoir No Way Home. In modern Cuba, Acosta is rehearsing a show dramatising his life in dance. That’s the prompt to recall a childhood where the irrepressible young Carlos would rather have been playing […]
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Earth Echo Affective Reflection Project Ability
Until 27 April Project Ability, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Project Ability is pleased to present an intriguing body of new collage work by Glasgow based artist Pum. Earth Echo Affective Reflection is a solo exhibition accompanied by a sound piece composed and created by Pum and Gordon Kennedy. “The Earth Echo collaged imagery meditates […]
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow
Songs in the South: David Starr, Martha L Healy and Al Shields
Thursday 16 May, 2019, 7.30 p.m. The Glad Cafe Join David Starr (Colorado/Arkansas), Martha L. Healy (Glasgow) & Al Shields (Leith) for an evening of the finest Americana songwriting from both sides of the Atlantic. DAVID STARR “David Starr has a voice you will never forget. His music is authentic, his songs are honest, full […]
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St Louis Jam Sessions
First Sunday of every month. Sundays 4 p.m. – 5 May, 2 June, 7 July, 2019 Hosted by Basil, feel free to come along and enjoy some unique music or if you’re feeling brave – get up and join in! St Louis, 734 Dumbarton Road, Partick, G11 6RD Event on Facebook St Louis Cafe/Bar
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The Sisters Brothers GFT
5 – 18 April, 2019 The west is wild and unforgiving in Jacques Audiard’s subtle, immensely engaging adaptation of the Patrick de Witt novel. Eli Sisters (John C Reilly) and his brother Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) have earned a reputation as ruthless killers. In the early 1850s, they ride to San Francisco on a mission to […]
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Dave Arcari and Sean Oliver, The Record Factory
Sunday 12 May, 2019 – 7.30 p.m. SCOTTISH alt.blues troubadour Dave Arcari is joined by Canadian country/roots songwriter Sean Oliver for a special one-off show. The Record Factory, 17 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 5RD Event on Facebook
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Monday, April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
The Red Light Zone by Jeff Zycinski – Jeff and Suzie Talk Radio
Waterstones Byres Road Thursday, 2 May, 2019 – 7.30 p.m. Join Jeff Zycinski, former Head of Radio at BBC Scotland, when he discusses his new book The Red Light Zone – An Insider’s ‘Laugh ‘n’ Tell of BBC Radio with Nation Radio Scotland’s Suzie McGuire. Hear about what really goes on in those soundproof studios […]
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Glasgow May Day 2019
Sunday, May 5, 2019 Assemble George Square 11 a.m. 11:30 a.m. March leaves George Square, City Centre. 12:00 PM – 2:00 p.m. Rally Event on Facebook #GlasgowMayDay poster is inspired by the Red Clydeside and the 100th anniversary of the 1919 general strike. Thank you to the Glasgow artist Ken Currie who kindly lent STUC use […]
The Great May Day Cabaret 2019 – OranMor
The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation Monday 6th May, 2019, 7.30pm This year’s Great May Day Cabaret is a fund-raiser for the Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation (www.mandelascottishmemorial.org) raising funds to erect a statue of Mandela in Glasgow. An evening of top entertainment celebrating international workers’ day features Rab Noakes, Suzanne Bonnar, folk-legend Arthur Johnstone, […]
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Aye Write 2019! Sara Sheridan introduces Anne Griffin and Anstey Harris
Friday, 22nd March 2019 Mitchell Library Review by Mary Irvine The two authors being introduced were Anne Griffin and Anstey Harris. Both in the fifties, each has recently published her first novel. Anne Griffin is an Irish novelist living in Ireland. She has won recognition for her previous writings but ‘When All Is Said’ is […]
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Sunday, April 7, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
American Idiot, Kings Theatre Glasgow
28 May – 1 June Green Day‘s explosive rock musical, American Idiot, returns to Glasgow marking the show’s 10th anniversary and the 15th anniversary of the Grammy Award winning original album. American Idiot the musical returns to mark the show’s 10th anniversary and the 15th anniversary of the Grammy Award winning original album. A tale […]
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Saturday, April 6, 2019 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Rites of Spring, Thistle Gallery
6 April – 26 May, 2019 Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com ‘Rites of Spring’ features the work of 30 contemporary Scottish artists including: Ann Armstrong, Samantha McCubbin, Jackie Henderson, Michael Murison, Alison Dickson, Fiona Millar, James Somerville Lindsay, Ruth Corbett and Pamela Grace. […]
Sleaford Mods, CCA screening and Q and A
Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain Wednesday 10 April 2019 7pm, £5 (£3) + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain shows the most relevant and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice […]
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Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Kaifinama plus Q & A with Shabana Azmi GFT
10 April, 2019 6 p.m. Kaifinama looks at the life and art of the Urdu progressive poet Kaifi Azmi. Kaifi Azmi was both a poet for social change as well as one of the foremost lyricists in the Hindi film industry. Not content to limit himself to fine writing, he worked ceaselessly throughout his life as […]
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Yikes Film Club – Brass Eye Tapes
7 April, 2019, 5.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Additional screening 2 p.m. 4 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Plus Q & A with Director Michael Cumming ‘THESE ARE THE HEADLINES… GOD I WISH THEY WEREN’T’ Presented by Yikes Film Club Join us at YiKES FIlm Club on the 7th Of April (Located at The […]
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White Shroud by Antanas Skema – music and words with Merope
Wednesday 17th April, 2019, Doors open 7 PM, event until 9:30 PM Savings Bank, Glasgow An evening of music and words in celebration of cult Lithuanian novel WHITE SHROUD by Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian avant-garde writer from the mid-20th century. Evening is presented in collaboration with Lithuanian Culture Institute and Vagabond Voices. Ask any well-read Lithuanian who […]
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Book launch, readings and music at Avant Garde
The Launch of Glasgow: Justice/Just Is 13 May, 2019 Host Linda Jackson Have you heard this man, Van Vuuren play guitar? Have you heard Magi Gibson read? Now, have you read Charlie Gracie’s new novel? You will. Come on down to Avant Garde. Book launch of new Seahorse publication. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow […]
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Event ‘Resurrection Men’ by David Craig
Saturday 6th April, 2019 Good Press Gallery David Craig will be hosting a book event at Good Press to promote his Glasgow-based debut novel, Resurrection Men. He will be discussing the book, Glasgow in the Victorian era, and reading a short extract from his book. Copies will be on sale, signed on requested. ‘Resurrection Men’, […]
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Jimmy Fast Keys – A Tribute
20 April, 2019 1p.m. – 5 p.m. The Clutha Bar Hosted by Declan Hegarty The Clutha, 167 – 169 Stockwell Street, G1 4SP Event on Facebook
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Nick Harper: 58 Fordwych Road
Friday, 12 April, 2019 – 8 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD 58 Fordwych Road is an all new show that centres around a living room in a flat in Kilburn, London in the 1960s . The abode of up and coming singer songwriter Roy Harper and his wife Mocy was an after […]
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Pieman Cometh by David Belcher and Bryan Jackson, OranMor
7 June, 2019, 7.30 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX The Pieman Cometh A comedy by Bryan Jackson and David Belcher about the addiction and insanity of Scottish Football based on the experiences of being the Administrator of 7 football clubs. Alan Ledger didn’t want the limelight…..he didn’t want the praise. Unfortunately he […]
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Lolita Jackson at The Blue Arrow
30 May, 2019, 7.30 – 10.30 p.m. The Blue Arrow, 323 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3HW Lolita Jackson, a Manhattan-based vocalist, has been a musician since childhood. Originally a classically trained bass clarinetist and tenor saxophone player starting in elementary school, she permanently switched to vocals during her time at the University of Pennsylvania as a […]
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Monday, April 1, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Let Me Entertain You, Fundraiser Kilbryde Hospice
Friday 5th April at 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. Rhoderick Dhu To raise money and awareness for Kilbryde Hospice and for our guests to enjoy themselves The night will include singers, games, auctions, an exciting raffle with exclusive prizes and a hot buffet The event is being run by effortless events – Events Group at […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Aye Write 2019! Frank Tallis and Laura Mucha
The Facts of Love 31st Mar 2019 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM The Mitchell, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Love is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of love’s madness. In The Incurable Romantic, Psychologist Dr Frank Tallis shares the stories of some of his […]
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Sunday, March 31, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: Emily Cutts with Carol Craig
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY 31st March 2019 • 1:15PM – 2:15PM • In The Dear Wild Place campaigner Emily Cutts recounts her community’s successful David and Goliath struggle against housing development in Glasgow’s North Kelvin Meadow, also known as ‘the Children’s Wood’. Emily talks about the importance of green space […]
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