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..

Aye Write: Peter Conradi and Mark Logue

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Sunday 17th March, 2019 – 6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. The King’s War Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN The George VI broadcast that formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech – was the product of years of hard work with the speech therapist Lionel Logue. Yet the relationship between […]

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Maiden GFT

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9 – 14 March, 2019 Maiden is the inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. Tracy’s dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make […]

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The Kindergarten Teacher, GFT

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9 – l4 March, 2019 Based on the critically acclaimed 2014 film of the same name from Nadav Lapid, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Lisa Spinelli, a devoted kindergarten teacher fed up with her career, her oblivious husband and teenage kids who largely ignore her. When she discovers that five-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) in her class […]

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The White Crow + Ralph Fiennes Satellite Q&A

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12 March, 2019 Glasgow Film Theatre, 6.45 p.m. The extraordinary early life and mercurial brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev are the inspiration for a richly atmospheric biography from actor/ director Ralph Fiennes. Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko makes an astonishing debut as the young Nureyev. Arriving in Paris in the early 1960s with the Kirov Ballet, Nureyev […]

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Knickerbocker Glory Glasgow University Feminist Society

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13 March, 2019 The Poetry Club, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3 8QG GU FEMINIST SOCIETY PRESENTS: KNICKERBOCKER GLORY🍬🍦🍧 £4 entry, all proceeds go to Glasgow Rape Crisis x Featuring the likes of Babestation Boosterhooch DoubleHoop & Horreurscopes!! ‘FemSoc will be down early if you wanna come hang with us before we boogie, as always everyone’s […]

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Aye Write 2019 Brian Allaway

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Firefighters of Belfast Sunday 17th March, 2019, 3:00-4:00pm Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Belfast firefighters responded to every incident during the Troubles, wherever it was located, seeing the best and worst of humanity. The years 1969 to 1994 were particularly difficult for Northern Ireland, and they would test the firefighters to their limits. Firefighters […]

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Celebrating women artists at Nancy Smillie

On International Woman’s Day Nancy Smillie showcases some of the inspiring women artists that make the shop so special.   This fabulous shop in Glasgow’s West End sells products made by local woman designers and artists plus by women from around the world. Nancy Smillie Nancy studied at Glasgow School of Art specialising in Ceramics. She worked […]

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Aye Write 2019 – Bethan Roberts & Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

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Presley & Capote: Musical and Literary Icons Sunday 17th March, 2019 Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN 8:00-9:00pm From the moment she first holds him, after his twin brother is stillborn, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis ferociously. Graceland by Bethan Roberts is a heart-breaking portrait of a mother’s love and a son’s devotion. When […]

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Erskine Bike Meet 2019

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26th May 2019 The Erskine Bike Meet started in 2006 after a group of bikers who were veterans, paid a visit to Erskine hospital. Having finished a tour, they decided to do something to fundraise. The Erskine Bike Meet was born. The Bike Meet is organised by volunteers who enjoy putting together a day that […]

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Public Lecture ‘On Blackness and Borders’ University of Glasgow

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Tuesday 19 March 2019, 4-6pm Professor Kaiama Glover, Columbia University Public Lecture: ‘On Blackness and Borders’ Launch event of the new Arts Lab theme Decolonizing Glasgow and the Post/Colonial Led by Rachel Douglas, Christine Whyte, Stephen Mullen Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Abstract This lecture considers the ways in […]

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International Womens Day The Blue Arrow

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Friday, 8 March, 2019 11 p.m.- 3 a.m. The Blue Arrow, 323 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3HW International Women’s Day – A Celebration of The Biggest, Baddest Females in RnB, Soul, Funk and Jazz. (Hosted by Kitti with special guests) What comes to mind when you picture strong independent women in music? RnB, Soul, Jazz, […]

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The Opera Boys Cottiers

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14 March 2019 8:00 pm – 10:10 pm During the last 5 years The Opera Boys have performed over 1000 concerts to 10s of thousands of delighted audience members worldwide! They are a small, elite team of opera boys who are truly some of the UK’s finest classically trained voices with training from London’s Royal […]

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St Andrews Chamber Orchestra at Cottiers

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10 March 2019 – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm The University of St Andrews’ Town/Town Chamber Orchestra is joined by Soprano Jemma Brown, in a performance of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. This concert also includes Russian Music by Mussorgsky and Shostakovich (Symphony No.9). Tickets are £13.30 adults/ £11.50 concession/ £6.50 student including a £1.50 ticket admin fee […]

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Thursday, March 7, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music

Aye Write presents Doddie Weir

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Sunday, 24 March, 2019 1.15 p.m. – 2.15 p.m. Glasgow Concert Hall,  2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY In a rugby career which had huge highs and shocking lows, Doddie Weir faced some of the greatest players in the game, from Jonny Wilkinson to Jonah Lomu, Brian O’Driscoll to Scott Quinnell and Martin Johnson to […]

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Jack Lukeman OranMor

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Friday 8 March, 2019 OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX Cutting his teeth on the bohemian busking circuit around Europe Jack Lukeman first came to prominence in the summer of 1995 when he and The Black Romantics took up a residence at The Da Club (Dublin Arts Club) in Dublin. The band played mostly Jacques Brel […]

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Happy as Lazzaro GFT

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5 – 11 April, 2019 Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes prize-winner is a lustrous, genre-bending gem set in a tiny village that seems cut off from the modern world. Gentle, meek and mild peasant Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) is happy to do the bidding of anyone who asks. His friend Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno) makes him an accomplice in […]

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

A Clockwork Orange, GFT

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5 – 7 April, 2019 Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. Set in a flamboyantly stylised near-future where gangs of disenfranchised teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, the film centres on Alex (Malcolm McDowell) […]

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Threebop plus Little Acres at The Blue Arrow

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14 March, 2019 The Blue Arrow, 32 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow  G2 3HW Three of London’s vibrant young jazz voices come together to create their own take on vocal jazz harmony singing. Inspired by the music of bebop legends and the vocalese tradition, Ella Hohnen-Ford, Rosina Bullen and Luca Manning perform their own arrangements with tight […]

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Access Film Club: Can You Ever Forgive Me at GFT

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9 April, 2019 – 6 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB GFT is a proud supporter of Autism Awareness Month, and, together with the National Autistic Society Scotland, provides Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. FAQs: glasgowfilm.org/AFC Melissa McCarthy stars in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the […]

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Earth Echo Affective Reflection ProjectAbility

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7 March – 27 April, 2019 ProjectAbility, 103 Trongate, 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 […]

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The Journey GFT

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10 and 11 April, 2019 Baghdad, 2006. Sara enters the train station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he battles desperately to appeal to her humanity and […]

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Monday, March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

Come Dino With Me, Glasgow Botanic Gardens

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Wednesday 13 March, 2019 10.30 a.m. – Noon. Dippy the Dinosaurs diet is the subject of much debate. Join fern specialist Stevie Jakusz at Glasgow Botanic Gardens as he takes you on a tour of the ferns, cycads and other plants that could have made up the menu. Find out how the plants adapted to […]

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Glasgow School of Art MFA MFA WIP Screening 2, CCA

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Tuesday 9 April 2019 6:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages CCA Tue 9 April 2019 6:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 The GSA Master of Fine Art final year students present a series of three film screenings at the CCACinema space for the run up to their degree show in May this […]

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The Science of Ghosts, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review by Pat Byrne

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The Science of Ghosts is a film directed by Niall McCann, who also directed Lost in France ( 2017).  This new movie has links to Lost in France, which focused on the Glasgow based record label Chemikal Underground; The Science of Ghosts is about Adrian Crowley, the much lauded Dublin based singer / composer,  the only […]

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Silent Disco Party Parade, The Record Factory

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Saturday 27th April, 2019 7pm . Meeting at The Record Factory, 17 Byres Road, Glasgow G11 5RD Gather wireless Bluetooth headphones, something from the fancy dress prop box, tambourines, disco flash sticks to sing and dance your way through the west end with musical statues, dance train and a dance with the locals. Music is […]

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Scotch: The Golden Dram

Thursday, 7th March, 2019 at 6.30pm Grosvenor Cinema Hillhead with Q&A with Andrew Peat, Director Andrew Peat’s handsomely crafted feature documentary tells the story of the Scotch whisky industry through its most ardent enthusiasts. Shot entirely on location in Scotland, Scotch: The Golden Dram tells the story of Uisge beatha, Gaelic for “water of life.” Scotch […]

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

Women’s Suffrage Exhibition, Govanhill Baths

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9- 20 March, 2019 A multimedia exhibition exploring the demographic of Govanhill at that time, including the Irish, Jewish and Italian communities and the jobs working class women would have been employed in. Creative reflections on suffragettes locally, nationally and internationally, examining the importance of: direct action; law breaking; the treatment of suffragettes; links with […]

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Metal Heart Glasgow Film Festival

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Saturday 2 (12.30) & Sunday 3 March,2019 (14.40) Director Hugh O’Conor will attend the screening on Sat 2 Mar Actor turned director Hugh O’Conor has created the kind of cheering, warm-hearted teen comedy that would have made John Hughes proud. Emma (Jordanne Jones) and Chantal (Leah McNamara) are chalk-and-cheese sisters living in Dublin. Goth-loving Emma is the guiding spirit […]

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Book Launch, Poets Republic Joy Hendry and Katy Ewing

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Saturday March 2, 7-9pm. Book publishing debut and to skull our wine at the launch of Bearings 1 – poems by Joy Hendry and Katy Ewing. Tell it Slant, Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew St, Glasgow G3 6ST Event on Facebook

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The Scottish Homebuilding & Renovating Show Returns to the SEC, Glasgow

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1 – 2 June 2019 SEC, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW SNAP UP TWO FREE TICKETS The Scottish Homebuilding & Renovating Show, Scotland’s only dedicated consumer exhibition for self-builders, home renovators and improvers, is back at SEC Glasgow on 1 – 2 June 2019. Visitors, whether they are experienced renovators or self-builders, or planning their first […]

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