What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Cubanos: Woman and the Revolution

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Sunday 3rd March, 2019 2-5pm The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, G2 3AU CUBANAS asks what six decades of socialist construction has meant for Cuban women and explores how the legacies of pioneering women revolutionaries such as Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria and Vilma Espin live on in Cuba today. In Britain, women are hit hardest […]

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Sunday, February 10, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

New Traditions: Talisk, Vishtèn and Xabier Diaz at Celtic Connections 2019

Xabier Diaz and JNoró Adufeiras de Salitre

Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2019 These three bands lit up the warm fires of live music! The audience at the wonderful Old Fruitmarket venue was treated to an international line up of award-winning Celtic musicians. They did a fine job interpreting the musical traditions of Galicia, the French Canadian Acadia islands and Scots Celtic. Xabier […]

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Saturday, February 9, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pauline Keightley

David Keenan and Chris McQueer in Conversation

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Monday, 25 February, 2019, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. To celebrate the launch of ‘For The Good Times’, David Keenan and Chris McQueer will be in conversation on February 25th, 2019 at Mono.  Q&A, chaired by Alistair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae!). David Keenan is the author of ‘For The Good Times’ (Faber & Faber) and […]

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Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica in Conversation with Louise Welsh

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University of Glasgow Thursday, 14 March, 2019, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. This is a rare opportunity to share an evening with Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, and one of the most distinguished writers of her generation. Lorna Goodison is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica. She is the recipient of numerous prizes for her […]

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Friday, February 8, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

SQIFF Shorts on Tour presented with STUC LGBT+ Committee, CCA

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Saturday 9 February 2019 1pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 SQIFF and STUC LGBT + Committee present an inclusive selection of LGBTQ + short films from around the world. This is another chance to see the Opening Night films from SQIFF 2018. Headlining the programme is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X […]

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An Impossible Love GFT

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8 – 10 February, 2019 Based on a book by controversial French novelist Christine Angot – Claire Denis’ co-writer on Let the Sunshine In – Catherine Corsini’s film is a profound melodrama exploring dysfunctional family relationships. The film begins in the 1950s, as office worker Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls for the dashing Philippe (Niels Schneider), a Nietzsche-reading […]

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Weekend: Valentine’s Day The Seamore

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Thursday, 14 February, 2019, 7 p.m. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK A one night stand that becomes something more – an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives. Buy tickets

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| Filed under: Cinema, Valentines Day Glasgow

Access Film Club High Fidelity, GFT

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12 February, 2019 GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland is delighted to provide Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. GFT is the first cinema in the UK to receive the Autism Friendly Award 2017. Rob Gordon (John Cusack), is the owner of a failing a record store, and […]

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Roma at Glasgow Film Theatre

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12 February, 2019 The most personal project to date from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to […]

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Film Screening: Les Enfants de Mishwar

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9 February, 2019 Two charities, Music Broth and Mishwar have joined up to raise funds to support young people in their communities by organising a film screening of a documentary on the life in Lebanese Refugee camps for young people (English). The evening will hope to raise awareness of the work being done to support […]

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Thursday, February 7, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

Cinemasters: Margarethe von Trotta GFT

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The first female director to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta has made some of the most trailblazing films of the past five decades. One of the most gifted – but often overlooked – directors to come from the New German Cinema movement alongside Fassbinder and Herzog, von Trotta has never shied away from topics that resonate with […]

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Green Book at Glasgow Film Theatre

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1 – 14 February, 2019 When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class African-American pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then […]

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Destroyer, GFT

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8 – 14 February, 2019 Nicole Kidman inhabits the character of Erin Bell, a world-weary LAPD detective, in this gripping hardboiled crime drama. As a young cop, Bell was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her […]

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Aye Write Raynor Winn & Charlotte Runcie

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Thursday 14th March 2019    6:00PM – 7:00PM   Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN   The Salt and the Sea Just days after Raynor Winn learned that her husband of 32 years, was terminally ill, their home was taken away. With nothing left and little time, they made the brave and impulsive decision to […]

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Glasgow Goes Green

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11th of February, 2019 1 p.m. – 11 p.m. The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow City Centre G3 6PE Free Go Green Week, a UK initiative which promotes climate action across the nation, comes back to Glasgow for a week in February. The student-lead Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability Team (GUEST), along with environmental sustainability officers […]

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Clochoderick Press Presents an Evening of Poetry and Spoken Word

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Friday 1 March 2019  – 7 – 9pm Oxfam Bookshop, 231 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8UD Free entry Local writers Jim Ferguson, Graham Fulton, Mairi Murphy, Tracy Patrick and Fiona Lindsay will be reading with books available to purchase. Drinks and nibbles will be provided and the shop itself will remain open for sales of its […]

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Shopping

Angus Peter Campbell at Aye Write

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Thursday, 14 March, 2019 6 – 7 p.m. The award-winning poet, novelist, journalist and broadcaster discusses his new Gaelic novel, the first event of several which explores Gaelic literature as part of Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival. ‘Constabal Murdo’ is set on Barra and follows the mystery of a valuable historic brooch stolen from Kismuil […]

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Women in Islam Exhibition

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11 – 23 February, 2019 Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP Want to find out more about Women in Islam. Her status, role and rights, why she wears the veil and much more? Don’t miss the exhibition held by Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Community at Hillhead Library.  

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Monday, February 4, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Book Launch: Handle with Care and other stories by Ann MacLaren

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Thursday 14th February, 2019 at 7.30 pm. Waterstones Byres Road, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU Thursday 21st February, 2019 at 6pm. Hillhead Library, Byres Road, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP Rose wants a baby, but she’s too old. Adam’s musical career is on the line. Newly widowed Evie wonders if it’s time to move on. […]

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Celtic Connections: Lizzie Reid at King Tut’s

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Lizzie Reid and her band at King Tut’s, Glasgow part of Celtic Connections 2 February, 2019 For a twenty-one year old, Lizzie Reid is mighty impressive. What a joyous gig at King Tut’s. Playing to a house full of adoring fans, Lizzie (vocals and guitar) and her band: James Harker (guitar), Chris Dickie (drums), Bobby […]

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Dave Arcari and Andres Roots

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Saturday 2 March, 2019 8 p.m. Buchanan Memorial Hall, Milton of Buchanan, By Drymen G63 ESTONIA’S top blues guitarist Andres Roots joins Dave Arcari for an exclusive double-bill show at Memorial Hall, Milton of Buchanan, by Drymen Event on Facebook

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Wassail Queens Park

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Sunday 10 February, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m. South Seeds, 514 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 8BG With Propagate and South Seeds Glasgow What’s a Wassail?! It’s a centuries old tradition to wake up apple trees after a winter sleep, chase away bad spirits and ask for a good harvest. Propagate is working with South Seeds and […]

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Tandem at The Tron

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Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 February, 2019 After selling out their first night on Tuesday 5th February, Tandem Writing Collective  are now bringing the show back. Buy tickets After three years of putting on pub theatre events, their nights of short new theatre and live music are now part of the Tron Theatre 2019 programme! […]

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OK Fest – Kilmacolm’s Festival of Sound

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2nd March, 2019, 2 – 4.15 p.m. Free Poetry and Literature Readings Kilmacolm Old Kirk This year’s festival’s theme will be the importance of joy in its broadest sense. Performers at the event: Renfrewshire’s Makar – Brian Whittingham Jack Hastie – author of ‘Scattered Dreams, Forgotten Nightmares’ Dr Anne Pettigrew – author of ‘Not the […]

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Our Time Theatre Group Fundraiser, Websters

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15 March, 2019 – 7 p.m. Our Time Theatre Group presents “Five” brand new short plays from writer Alan Brady. Only a “FIVER” admission on the door, on the night. Come along, bring some friends, make a night of it, have a few beers and a few real belly laughs. More about Websters Theatre Websters […]

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Sunday, February 3, 2019 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy

Waiting for Godot, Websters

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27 – 30 March, 2019 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Half.Wits Theatre returns with a very rare staging of Samuel Beckett’s surrealist and iconic comic masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, voted the “most significant English language play of the 20th century” by the National Theatre. Bringing together charm, absurdity, high comedy and touching humanity,Waiting for Godot promises to […]

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Bend It Like Brattbakk, Websters Theatre

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6 – 10 March, 2019 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm It was May 1997 and D:Ream were back in the charts telling us that “Things can only get better” which is what all Celtic fans were hoping as Rangers had made it 9 in a row and were hot favourites to make it 10 in […]

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Stepping Out The Musical Websters Theatre

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22nd and 23rd February, 2019 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm If you like doing it just 1 night a week ——Stepping Out the musical is for you . This feel good musical, set in the drab church hall where Tap Attack by Mavis takes place, attracts people from all walks of life. Through their laughter […]

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Pucinni’s La Bohème in Paisley

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3, 7 and 9 January, 2019 Paisley Opera University of West of Scotland Puccini’s romantic masterpiece is brought to life in a spectacular production by Paisley’s own community opera company. The company’s professional soloists and orchestra join our community chorus in a new production set in Paisley, and sung in English in a specially-commissioned translation […]

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Saturday, February 2, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Barras Food Truck Fest

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Saturday 30 March, 2019 Barras, Moncur Street, G40 2SB On the 31st of March, as the clocks go forward, Barras Food Trucks celebrate the start of summer time in the only way they know how – cranking up the BBQ and having a celebratory feast outdoors for all to enjoy. The best of Scotlands food […]

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