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. Free Online Course, University of Glasgow: Robert Burns: Poems, Songs and Legacy
Celebrate Robert Burns with this free online course. This free course from the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, will introduce you to the life, works and global celebrity of Robert Burns. You’ll examine poems, songs, manuscripts, and objects used to commemorate the poet. You’ll also develop your understanding of Robert Burns’s posthumous reputation – […]
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | Filed under: Burns Events, Courses
Burns Night, Inn Deep
25 January, 2019 7.30 p.m. Inn Deep and That’s Yer Dinner present…………. Burns!!!! Join us for a 5 course experience as our host Sa MSmall takes us on a poetic journey through the works of the bard. Each course will be paired to one of his poems and will aim to give you a […]
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| Filed under: Burns Events, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End
Nichol Wheatley’s art depicting the tale of Tam O’Shanter at OranMor
Yesterday, 14 January, 2019, Nichol Wheatley‘s ten wonderful bespoke canvases depicting the tale of Burns’ Tam O’Shanter were on display at Òran Mór in Glasgow’s West End. The paintings will hang in the Victorian and Whisky Bar and will migrate back to the Auditorium each year when Burns events are celebrated. Nichol worked closely with […]
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The Enduring Appeal of Mary Queen of Scots – University of Glasgow Research
(The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots by Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798)held in The Hunterian’s Collection) New Research Project by Glasgow University Dr Steven Reid, a Scottish Historian based at the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts, and Anne Dulau-Beveridge, a curator at The Hunterian have been awarded funding for a two-year research network project on […]
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Monday, January 14, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow
Curtain Set to Rise on Celtic Connections 2019
17 January – 3 February, 2019 The world-leading annual music festival Celtic Connections begins Thursday (17 January) with around 100 young musicians from across Scotland and Showcase Scotland partner-country Galicia taking to the stage of the Main Auditorium at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, alongside some of the most well-respected Scottish musicians to have emerged since […]
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Glasgow Girls Kings Theatre
15 – 19 January, 2019 The life-affirming, song-and-dance-filled, Scottish musical drama, based on the true story of seven feisty Glaswegian teenagers, whose lives change forever when their school friend and her asylum-seeking family are forcibly taken from their home to be deported. They are galvanised to fight for her rights, inspiring a whole community to […]
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Sunday, January 13, 2019 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Blueprint: Theorum CCA
Sat 19 January — Sun 20 January 2019 Blueprint – Scottish Independent Cinema presents Theorem; a free, pop up feature film festival celebrating Scotland’s truly independent cinema. Solution orientated, with a punk rock attitude, these filmmakers will write their own pages in the future history of Scottishcinema. Related CCA Events Blueprint: Theorem presents Cleek Fri 19 January […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Collette, GFT
12 – 24 January, 2019 This exhilarating dramatisation of the life of groundbreaking French novelist Colette is the exact opposite of the average biopic: it’s fast-moving, funny and thrillingly relevant. Keira Knightley impresses in a wide-ranging role as Colette, who we meet in 1892 as a young wife who “just wants to be part of […]
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Saturday, January 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Coach to Vienna + Fruit of Paradise | Ester Krumbachová Film Programme
Wed 16 January 2019 CCA, Glasgow 6pm + 7:20pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ Coach to Vienna Book: Coach to Vienna Karel Kachyňa Costume design: EsterKrumbachová One of the roles of Iva Janžurová’s life was as the heroine in Kočár do Vídně (Coach to Vienna), a psychological drama by director Karel Kachyňa and screenwriter Jana […]
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Conny Plank The Potential of Noise
Wednesday 16 January, 2019 Konrad “Conny” Plank is undoubtedly one of the most innovative sound designers of his time. The recordings realized in his sound studio near Cologne between the ‘60s and ‘80s revolutionised the music world. He was the pioneer of “Kraut-rock”, “Neue Deutsche Welle” and paved the way for the revolutions of electronic […]
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NT Live The Tragedy of King Richard II
15 January, 2019 Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas. This visceral new production about the limits of power will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell at the National Theatre. Richard II, King of England, […]
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The Favourite, GFT
30 December, 2018 2 – 17 January, 2019 Living up to its name, this dark and riotously entertaining period drama is currently the movie to beat as we enter awards season. Featuring three phenomenal performances from Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, it centres on the grotesque goings-on of the 18th Century court of Queen Anne (Colman). The capricious and highly unpredictable […]
CANCELLED She’s En Scene Women’s Screening: The Surprise Film CCA
Monday 14 January 2019 7pm, £4.00 (£3.00) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 She’s En Scene is a Glasgow community cinema screening films made by women. We are a not-for-profit cinema with social aims. We host film screenings, discussions, workshops and events which aim to empower, encourage film discussion, creation […]
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Friday, January 11, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Tell It Slant Express Yourself on Burns Night
25 January, 2019 – 7 p.m. What’s this, Tell it slant are hosting a Burns Night, complete with haggis, neeps and tatties. Aye. Veggie Haggis cos The Project Cafe is veggie. Fantastic array of poets wanting to share poetry with everyone. It’s BYOB (wine & beer only) and as always a raffle with poetry prizes. […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Burns Events
UK Jewish Film Zuzana: Music Is Life CCA
Sunday 13 January, 2018 2:45pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 12+ / F-rated 0141 352 4900 Zuzana Ruzickova, who passed away in 2017 aged 90, survived three concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and decades-long oppression and harassment under the totalitarian regime in her native Czech Republic to become a world-famous harpsichordist and the only musician to […]
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Shoot the Craw, Farewell Gig
Saturday, 2 February, 2018, 5 p.m. *** FAREWELL GIG ANNOUNCEMENT *** The Clutha Bar , 167 Stockwell Street, Glasgow G1 4SP ‘It is with much sadness to have to announce our last ever show. We’ve done so much in the 7.5 years we’ve been together since that first gig on 9th September 2011. We hope […]
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Thursday, January 10, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Fiskur and Lizzie Reid, King Tuts
Saturday Feb 2 2019, 8:30 PM King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut 272A St Vincent StreetGlasgow G2 5RL £11.00 – Buy tickets Ages 18+ Fiskur on Facebook ‘We are getting ready to play a super cool full band show at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut on Feb 2nd! We don’t always do this so it will be a treat […]
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Rachael Allen, Creative Conversations
Monday 14 January, 2019 1 p.m. Poet Rachael Allen Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Rachael Allen was born in Cornwall and studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College. She is the poetry editor at Granta, co-editor at the poetry press Clinic […]
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My Life In London, ProjectAbility
12 January – 27 February, 2019 ProjectAbility is delighted to be hosting My Life in London by ActionSpace artists Thompson Hall and Ian Wornast as their first exhibition of 2019! My Life in London is the culmination of a year of creative explorations by ActionSpace artists Thompson Hall and Ian Wornast, funded by an Unlimited […]
Three Leaps of the Gazelle, Playwrights Studio
By Jack Dickson – Rehearsed Reading 17 January, 2019 CCA Email hayley@playwrightsstudio.co.uk to reserve your seat. ‘That’s why we do this job, Jo-Jo. That’s why we’re here. To help people. Cos if we’re not helping, what the fuck are we doing?” (Lance Corporal Christine McGuire) In an increasingly uncertain world, opinions polarise. We cling to […]
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A Wee Exhibition, Photography, Old Hairdressers
Thursday, 10 January, 2019, 6 p.m. Old Hairdressers ‘A wee exhibition’ is here to showcase some of our photography that we’ve been working on over the last year and to welcome us into a new one.’ The exhibition will consist of a collection of images by the Glasgow Kelvin College HND 2 students. Free entry […]
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Big Fish the Musical
17th – 19th January, 7:30pm Big Fish. Brian Cox Studio, Scottish Youth Theatre, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow G1 1TF Epilogue Theatre proudly presents Big Fish the musical in aid of the Village Storytelling Centre An epic tale about a farmer’s son from Alabama who wanted to see the world: Epilogue Theatre are delighted to present Big […]
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
New Year Heralds In Fresh Brush Strokes, Thistle Gallery – THISTLE GALLERY NOW CLOSED
By ringing in the New Year the Thistle Gallery resolves to continue to feature an eclectic range of remarkable artwork by many of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists, not just from the Central Belt but also from the Borders, the Highlands and Islands, Fife, Perthshire and Dumfriesshire …to name but a few. ‘Turning Over A New […]
Monday, January 7, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, interior design - archived
Scottish National Poetry Slam January 2019
Scottish Slam Championships at The Tron Theatre Sunday January 13, 2019 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Winners of slams in the chilly wee nation during the year go head to head for the title of Scottish Slam Champion 2019. Tickets: #8.50 – This gig sells out so buy your tickets. Hosted by Robin Cairns Tron […]
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Saturday, January 5, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
One Cut Of The Dead, GFT
6 and 7 January, 2019 One Cut of the Dead opens in a run-down, abandoned warehouse where a film crew are making a zombie film. But this is no ordinary warehouse. It’s been said that it’s a site where military experiments took place… Out of nowhere, real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew! It may sound […]
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Friday, January 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Donkeyote, GFT
4 – 6 January, 2018 Manolo has a simple life in Southern Spain and two loves: his animals, in particular his donkey Gorrión (“Sparrow”), and wandering through nature. Against the advice of his doctor, he decides to plan one last walk in the US, the brutal 2200 mile Trail of Tears. But not without his […]
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Tides, GFT
4 – 6 January, 2019 Following an unexplained tragic event, four friends embark on a boat trip to navigate birth, love, death and the canals of southern England. Fuelled by booze, drugs and the beauty of nature, their journey becomes an uplifting meditation on what it means to be middle aged in a world that […]
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Fokus: Films from Germany, GFT
Welcome to the fourth edition of Fokus: Films from Germany! This year, Fokus presents a particularly exciting and eclectic snapshot from the contemporary film scene in Germany. From a nostalgic and insightful look back into one of the most significant eras of Germany’s recent musical past in Conny Plank – The Potential of Noise, to In the Aisles, a charming […]
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Alternative Burns Night: Herland Ceilidh, Glasgow Womens Library
(Image: Shamshad Ghani singing Auld Lang Syne in Punjabi at Herland: Alternative Burns Night, Jan 2018 Credit: GWL) Friday 25th January, 2019 at 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm (18+) Tickets £5 – £16 Now available for this unmissable party! (Buy online) Legendary Alternative Burns Night gets a twist, a turn, a birl… ceilidh-ing the night […]
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| Filed under: Burns Events, Dance
Nae Pasaran GFT
Nae Pasaran Wed 2 & Thu 3 January, 2019 In 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride showed their support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out vital inspections of engines for Hawker Hunter planes – the fighter jets were being used by the military junta against the people. The boycott endured for […]
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Thursday, January 3, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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