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. Scottish Writers Centre, Day of the Dead
Tuesday, 6 November, 2018 – 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Dove Tales will be celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead by honouring the courage of conscientious objectors. Larry Butler will be talking to Robin Lloyd-Jones about his own experience during the time of the Vietnam War, when he helped many […]
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Thursday, November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Week Scotland: In Conversation with Graeme Macrae Burnet, GOMA
22 November, 2018 – 6 p.m. Award-winning author Graeme Macrae Burnet at the Library @ GoMA! One of Scotland’s brightest literary talents, Graeme will discuss his novels and share his experiences of the writing process. Library at GoMA, Royal Exchange Square, G1 3AH Free (unticketed) If you have any questions or for more information, please […]
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Young Writers, What does it take to be a writer?
24 November, 2018 – 1.15 p.m. until 3.45 p.m. Free event – lunch included . Register online. Scottish Youth Theatre, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF So you’ve written a poem? If you’re an emerging writer aged16-18, come along and put your questions to the panel of writers and publishing professionals. Meet other writer and find […]
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| Filed under: Kids and young people
Book Week Scotland, Stuart Cosgrove, Motherwell Library
Tuesday 20 November, 2018 at 7 p.m. Motherwell Library, 35 Hamilton Rd, Motherwell ML1 3BZ Well-known Scottish TV & Radio star Stuart Cosgrove (@Detroit67Book) is visiting #MotherwellLib for #BookWeekScotland to discuss his Soul Trilogy. Will be high demand for places so please book in advance. Call 01698 332626. Book Week Scotland 19th – 25th November, 2018 […]
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
KIDS Guitar Lessons, Glasgow West End + Bearsden
WestEndGuitar has been providing elite, one on one guitar lessons for children since 2004. I’m Paul, professional guitar tutor for children. Aside from providing the absolute best guitar lessons created just for children – parents gain valuable time, save effort and cost by having guitar lessons come to THEM. They don’t have to rush dinner, […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Kids and young people
Book Week Scotland: Glasgow’s Jewish Rebels
22 November, 2018 – 5.30 p.m. The Gorbals was the centre of Jewish life in Glasgow – crowded, radical and full of activity. Come and learn about this fascinating piece of Scottish history through songs, poetry, and stories of early twentieth century Jewish life. All welcome Moir / Dyer Room, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 […]
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Life’s A Drag, Stereo
Wednesday 21 October, 2018 ‘Come with us on All Hallow’s Eve for a special show!’ For this special Hallowe’en show usual suspects: Serpentina, Frida, Pacific and Raven, plus phenomenal House of Knives (Serpentina’s drag family). Mother of the house, and one of the baddest b*tches in the Glasgow drag scene, the bearded beauty Bearberry McQueen […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Celebrate John Maclean Centenary / Living Rent Benefit at Stereo
Saturday 1 December, 2018 – 7 p.m. Celebrate the Centenary of great John Maclean coming home to the Clyde! Featuring JAMES KELMAN | HEIR OF THE CURSED | DECLAN WELSH and more Stereo Cafe/Bar, Renfield Lane, G6 A party to mark 100 years since John Maclean returned to Glasgow. Having suffered imprisonment, hard labour and […]
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Monday, October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Tawona Sithole, Poet and Musician at Creative Conversations
Monday 29 October 2018 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Creative Conversations University of Glasgow Memorial, Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Tawona Sithole is from Zimbabwe, born to a large family with strong traditional roots. The moral values of his ancestral family, Moyo Chirandu, passed down from his […]
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Sunday, October 28, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
King Keich at OranMor by Louise Welsh review by Pat Byrne
King Keigh, A Play, A Pie and A Pint Directed by Paul Brotherstone Beyond absurd, King Keich brought mayhem to the stage at Play, Pie and Pint, OranMor. We meet the flamboyant Keich, game-show host (Grant O’Rourke) as he prepares for his ‘Open the Box’ television show. When he boasts of the large audience his […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Jonas Staal The Scottish-European Parliament Exhibition CCA
Tuesday 23 October — Sunday 11 November 2018 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Mon-Wed: 11am-6pm // Thu-Fri: 11am-8pm // Sat: 11am-6pm // Sun: 12noon-6pm Free entry Jonas Staal‘s The Scottish-European Parliament is centred around a visual model that transforms a decommissioned oil rig in the North Sea into a new transnational parliament, assembling pan-European organisations […]
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Bomb, Mount Florida Screenings, CCA
Tuesday 30 October, 3018 CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Mount Florida Screenings thirteenth event on Tuesday 30th October @ CCA cinema. The event will take place from 6:30pm-8:00pm, where we will be screening works by: Gilly Booth Alex Culshaw Alexandre Estrela Ashleen Lewis Mandy McIntosh Rhys Morgan Jaakko Pallasvuo & Anni Puolakka François Pisapia […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Never Sleep Over Again – Burnt Church Film Club
Saturday 27 running into Sunday 28 October, 2018 Celebrate Halloween at Burnt Church Film Club, 146 Renfield St, Glasgow City Centre Films Showing Saturday 27th October 2018 from 5 p.m. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS THE EXORCIST CARRIE DOGGED DARK DITTIES presents: THE OFFER 17:00-02:30 (please remember the clocks go back at […]
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Friday, October 26, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Shining GFT
27 and 28 October, 2018 Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror is widely considered to be one of the most terrifying movies of all time. Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, this tale of a family man and would-be writer going mad as winter caretaker of the cursed Overlook Hotel is a seminal work of […]
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The Fog, GFT
30 October, 2018 A terrible fog descends upon the small coastal town of Antonio Bay exactly 100 years after a ship disaster that claimed the lives of those on board. Now the spectral mariners return to claim what is rightly theirs and seek retribution from the residents. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Never Been Kissed Rum Shack Halloween Fundraiser
What happens when you cross Never Been Kissed with the best event of the year? Saturday, 27 October, 2018 The Rum Shack, 657 – 659 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB The most ballin’ 90s/00s Halloween party Glasgow has ever seen! Look out your snazzy halter necks and snapbacks, twist up those rave buns, frost your […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Paisley Spooktacular Halloween Festival
Weekend starting Friday 26 October, 2018 Beware the witching hour, when supernatural creatures and ghostly figures gather their powers to scare even the bravest of souls at Halloween. On Saturday 27 October, Paisley’s hugely popular ‘spooktacular’ Halloween Festival returns to the town centre. Inspired by Paisley’s dark and deathly 17th century witch history, the Halloween Festival […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Bamboo Horror Story Glasgow Halloween
Saturday, 27 October, 2018 10.30 p.m. Welcome to a BAMBOO HORROR STORY! Bamboo 51a West Regent Street, G2 2AE Saturday 28th October as part of our huge Halloween Weekend! OPEN TILL 4AM – £1.50! Fancy Dress optional! No tickets needed – just arrive as early as possible :)! Event on Facebook
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| Filed under: Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Halloween Pug Ball at St Luke’s
Saturday 27 October, 2018, 12 – 2 p.m. Halloween Pug Ball at Saint Lukes, Glasgow St Luke’s, 17 Bain Street, Glasgow G40 2JZ Best dressed pug competition with winner receiving £50 cash prize. Bring your pug along and meet other pugs, its going to be a fun afternoon with Music, Pug Activities, Selfie Station, fancy […]
Choreography – The Simpson Board Training hosted by Indepen-dance
20 November, 2018, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pearce Institute, 840 – 860 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 3UU Lisa Simpson is a choreographer, workshop leader and Director of Lisa Simpson Inclusive Dance. As a non-verbal communicator with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, Lisa creates dance work using a choreography tool called The Simpson Board. This is […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Dance
Africa in Motion: Between the Land and the Sea, 29 October, 2018
Monday 29 October 2018 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 This short film programme is thematically linked around the relationship between memory and water. Using the sea as a starting point, these films interrogate the data and trauma that water can hold and how this relates to memory. Films included […]
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Thursday, October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Matchbox Cineclub CCA
Beyond the Black Rainbow Sat 27 October 2018 7pm, £4 + £1 booking fee, £10 for all four #WeirdHorror screenings (use discount code ‘Matchbox’ at checkout), Cinema 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Matchbox Cineclub & She’s En Scene Blood and Donuts + Director Q&A Fri 26 October 2018 Matchbox Cineclub The Witch + Kate […]
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Bad Reputation, GFT
26 – 28 October, 2018 Bad Reputation chronicles the life of Joan Jett, from her early teenage years as founding member of The Runaways to her enduring presence over four decades later as a Rock ‘n’ Roll icon. The film shows the evolution of a young girl with a radical notion that girls could play electric guitars, into a woman whose place in […]
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Utoya – July 22 GFT
26 October – 1 November, 2018 On July 22nd 2011, more than 500 youths at a political summer camp on an island outside Oslo were attacked by an armed, right-wing extremist. Earlier that day he bombed a Government building in Oslo before making his way to Utøya. In this first fictional movie about the attack […]
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Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot, GFT
26 October – 1 November, 2018 Based on a true story, this poignant, funny drama about forgiveness and the healing power of art is adapted from cult cartoonist John Callahan’s autobiography. Following a car accident that left him paralyzed, Callaghan (Joaquin Phoenix) reluctantly attends a 12-step meeting to get sober, run by a charismatic and […]
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An Evening With Beverley Luff Linn GFT
26 October – 1 November, 2018 Lulu Danger sees a TV commercial for the magical event of the film’s title, and is stunned when she recognises a mysterious man from her past. Fleeing her scheming husband, she enlists a bumbling ‘hitman’ and together they go in search of the mysterious Beverly Luff Linn. Set in […]
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The Guilty GFT
26 October – 1 November, 2018 This Danish box office hit is a nerve-racking single-location thriller, packed with twists and featuring an intense central performance from Jakob Cedergren. He plays Asger, a police officer who has been taken off active duty to man a phone in an emergency call centre. When he picks up a call […]
Fahrenheit 11/9 GFT
26 October – 1 November, 2018 Bowling for Columbine director Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 is a provocative look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: “How did we get here, and how do we get out?” GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets online
World Power Lifting Championships 2018 Glasgow
Saturday NOVEMBER 3rd, 2018 – Doors 7.30 p.m. starts 8.00 p.m. 2018 WORLD POWERLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS to be held at the Craigholme Sports Complex, 97 Haggs Road, Glasgow G41 4RD See event on Facebook Father and son Paul and Ryan Rutherford will compete Team Rutherford Instagram Ryan Rutherford – the prodigal son Paul Rutherford Instagram Team […]
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Dementia Friendly ‘Still Alice’ Theatre Royal
(Photograph: Eva Pope, Sharon Small & Ruth Ollman in STILL ALICE, credit Geraint Lewis) Thursday 15 November, 2018 2.30 p.m. Theatre Royal Glasgow, 282 Hope St, Glasgow G2 3QA Theatre Royal, Glasgow is to hold a Dementia Friendly performance of Still Alice next month as part of the venue’s ongoing commitment to providing an accessible […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
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