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. Red Squirrel Press: Poets Read from New Publications
Tuesday, 9 October, 2018 – 7 p.m. The Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST Red Squirrel Press invites you to join them in supporting new writing with the launch of three new publications from writers Brian Whittingham, Matthew Macdonald and Mary Johnston. Entry to this event is free. Red Squirrel Press is an independent […]
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Outside The Narrative: Stephanie Young and Tom Leonard
Wednesday, 24 October, 2018 The Poetry Club, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3 8QG An exciting evening of poetry featuring Tom Leonard and Stephanie Young. Hosted by Colin Herd. Tom Leonard is a hugely influential and dynamic presence in contemporary poetry, internationally renowned for his political, lyrical, expansive writing, which includes Outside the Narrative (Poems 1965 […]
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Monday, October 1, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Talks at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
(Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Photograph by Jim Byrne) André Lhote’s painting ‘Head of a Woman’ Tuesday 2 October, 2018 2 p.m. – 2.15 p.m. Explore one of the recent changes to the French Art Gallery. Curator of European Art Pippa Stephenson will discuss this early French Cubist painting and the controversies that surround it. […]
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| Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Galleries
Society Zero Swap Shop Woodlands
Saturday 10 November, 2018, 3p.m. – 7 p.m.First swap shop is confirmed! Woodlands Workspace Bring your clothes, jewellery and books that you were going to donate or sell, dig out your ‘used-once-and-left’ or unwanted gift toiletries and swap them for something new to you! With the party and gift season coming up, there’s no better […]
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Sunday, September 30, 2018 | Filed under: Community event, Woodlands Community
Fail Better Samhain Special
28 October, 2018 Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, Glasgow G1 1LG For a day and night of absolute belters and spooky entertainment in the best basement in the city. It’s that magical time of year so don yer most gruesome gladrags and best dookin for apples grins and come Fail Better for Halloween! Weans are welcome […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Forrest Can’t Run Cottiers
Sunday 7 October, 2018 7.30 p.m. With support from Wasted Summers, The Super Moons and St. Clements. Forrest Can’t Run’ are an up and coming Edinburgh based pop punk band that have been performing together since 2017. The five guys are fresh off of recent support slots for Canadian rockers ‘Carousel Kings’ and other […]
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Saturday, September 29, 2018 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Nostalgic Cottiers
Thursday, 25 October, 2018 7.30 p.m. Cottiers Nostalgic were formed in mid-2016. They are a 4 piece band comprising of Iain McIntosh – Bass and Vocals, Allan Loughlin – Drums, Joel Loughlin – Guitar and Stephen Armour – Guitar and Vocals. A unique Post Punk tribute band playing songs from an era of music that […]
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National Poetry Day Slam
Thursday, 4 October, 2018 The Mitchell Library Poetry slam to celebrate National Poetry Day with poets from the Beyond Boundaries project and the Mitchell Poetry Reading Group. This event is open to all and everyone is invited to participate in the reading of their favourite poem(s)! The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Event […]
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Friday, September 28, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Pre-loved Clothes Sale at Offshore
Saturday the 29th of September, 2018 3 Gibson Street, Glasgow G12 8NU In a world full of fleeting fashion, find your own style… It’s that time again guys ECO WARRIORS , people of STYLE, PHILANTHROPISTS of the world – UNITE! After the success of their last preloved clothes sale Offshore is hosting yet again another […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Shopping, Vintage and Retro Clothing
SQIFF 2018
5 – 9 December, 2018 SQIFF 2018 – FIRST EVENTS ANNOUNCED AND ON SALE! Opening Night Shorts– Wednesday 5 December – an exciting and boundary-pushing night of contemporary LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world, all seen in Scotland for the first time. Headlining is VISIBLE, created by SQIFF favourite Campbell X and Kayza Rose, who […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, LGBT Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Brian Whittingham: Walking Between Worlds
Book Launch of poems WALKING BETWEEN WORLDS published by Red Squirrel Press Tuesday 9 October, 2018, Tuesday 7 p.m. The Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew St. / Glasgow G36ST Also at 3rd November, 2018 – 1 p.m. The Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton Close / Edinburgh EH8 8DT
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Scalamara Radical Home Secret Screening Glasgow
Saturday 29 September, 2018, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Special Secret Screening Meeting at Kelvinbridge Subway Station at 5.45pm to head to secret venue Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes. This event aims to break down the boundaries between public and […]
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Thursday, September 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
CTL LUX Scotland presents 24 Lateral Views
30 September. 2018 This screening explores the relationship between the human body, motion and technological reproduction, and features Thom Andersen’s Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) and Maya Deren’s outtakes from A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945). Andersen’s biography of Muybridge is a re-animation of the latter’s sequential photographs and an examination of their philosophical implications. Deren’s outtakes, meanwhile, offer […]
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Wajib GFT
2 – 4 October, 2018 Abu Shadi is a divorced father and school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. His daughter’s wedding is a month away, after which point he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father to hand-deliver the wedding invitations to […]
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2018 – Audience Figures Doubled
Glasgow Youth Film Festival 10th Anniversary Edition Doubled Audience Figures from 2017. One of the most innovative youth film festivals in Europe, Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) took place 14 – 16 September 2018, celebrating both its 10th anniversary edition and Scotland’s Year of Young People. Programmed by GYFF Young Programmers aged 15 – 19, […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Francis Macdonald at Seven Song Club
With Special Guest Lenzie Moss Friday 28 September, 2018 Francis Macdonald drums with Teenage Fanclub and makes music for filmmakers/TV. Clash magazine describes him as “a composer of rare skill and subtlety”. In 2017 he released “Bonjour” an album of ‘art pop’ songs in collaboration the London artists Harry Pye – “Odd but good” ★★★★Mojo […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Stars for Star Child, Shawlands Academy 4 November, 2018
Another great fundraising event for Starchild 4 November, 2018 10 a,m. – 5 p.m. A fabulous opportuity to meet and be photographed with the ‘Stars’. Shawlands Academy, Moss Side Road, Glasgow G41 3RT
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Starchild
A Northern Soul, GFT
2 October, 2018 – 6.15 p.m. Following 2015’s award-winning A Syrian Love Story, director Sean McAllister returned to his hometown, Hull, as creative director of the opening of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Reflecting on changes to a city hit by cuts in public spending and divided by Brexit, Sean was drawn to the fringes […]
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“20 Seaward Street” Rehearsed Singing, The Drygate Glasgow
6th and 7 October, 2018 Drygate, 85 Drygate, Glasgow G4 0UT “20 Seaward Street” is an unconventional fusion of opera, musical hall and jazz performed in Glaswegian vernacular by an international cast exploring what it is to be migrant. Set in 1960 it follows the fate of one family as they prepare to migrate from […]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | 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
Soft Cell One Final Time, Live from London, GFT
Sunday 30 September, 2018 The final and sold-out concert from synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell will be broadcast live from London to cinemas across Europe on Sunday 30 September. This landmark event celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary and will be their last ever show. One of the most influential groups to emerge from the UK electronic […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
‘thi wurd’ #3 at The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
3 October, 2018 6.30 .m. until late The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, G2 5AR Entry £2 thi wurd issue 3 is being launched at The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, City Centre 6.30pm till late, on October 3rd, 2018 The magazine is 125 pages long and features a lengthy interview with James Kelman as well as […]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
William Hunter Tercentenary Exhibition The Hunterian
(Attributed to George Michael Moser, after Mason Chamberlin, William Hunter, After 1769.) New exhibition marks Hunter Tercentenary (and reveals how he helped shape modern museums) William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum is at the Hunterian Art Gallery from 28 September 2018 – 6 January 2019 A major new exhibition at The Hunterian, […]
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Jane Harris Creative Conversations University of Glasgow
Monday, 1 October, 2018 – 1 p.m. NOVELIST JANE HARRIS Creative Conversations University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Jane Harris’s first novel The Observations was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 and was shortlisted for the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. Her second novel Gillespie and […]
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Broadway in the Bar, OranMor
7 October, 2018 at 4 p.m. – Start time 5 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX Insideout Productions proudly present BROADWAY IN THE BAR an afternoon of the best of Broadway! Join a first class professional cast as they sing songs from Wicked, Les Miserables, Grease… and more. Brought to you by the […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Sixth Jimmy Reid Annual Memorial Lecture 2018
THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER, 2018 A future after Brexit. Unions and the Scandinavian Model of Social Democracy. Speaker FRANCES O’GRADY GENERAL SECRETARY, TRADES UNION CONGRESS Chairperson LYNN HENDERSON PRESIDENT SCOTTISH TRADES UNION CONGRESS This year marks the 150th anniversary of the formation of the TUC. As in 1868, workers and their organisations are under sustained attack […]
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Monday, September 24, 2018 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Nathan Bell and Lynnie Carson, Glasgow Americana
7 October, 2018 St Andrews in the Square Nathan Bell He picked up glowing 5-star reviews for his album, I Don’t Do This for Love, I Do This for Love – a CD that deservedly won him huge media exposure. And, Nathan Bell ended 2017 on another high after being voted Male Performer of the […]
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Sunday, September 23, 2018 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events
The Little Stranger, GFT
21 September – 4 October, 2018 Director Lenny Abrahamson returns after his Oscar-winning Room, with this tense supernatural mystery, adapted from Sarah Waters’ novel. When Dr Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) visits a crumbling estate from his childhood, Hundreds Hall, the Ayres family steps once more into his life. Hundreds Hall holds childhood memories for Faraday, where his mother worked as a maid, […]
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Saturday, September 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Greatest Showman Sing-a-long, Glasgow Film Theatre
24 September, 2018 Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Inspired by the true story of P.T. Barnum’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’, the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Michael Gracey’s directorial debut is a spectacular blend of song and dance from the lyricists behind La La Land. Starring Hugh Jackman as Barnum, […]
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‘Young Solitude’ Review by Lola Rose
‘Young Solitude’ ‘Young Solitude’ (‘Premieres Solitudes’) devised by the French filmmaker Claire Simon and a group of young film students is a stylised, passionate, fly-on-the-wall documentary. In other words it’s very much a French picture – introspective, beguiling, truthful and emotional all in one. The film is centred upon troubled adolescents trying to cope with […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Lola Rose: aspiring writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
Blueprint Independent Shorts GFT
27 September, 2018 Blueprint is Glasgow Short Film Festival’s quarterly programme celebrating the DIY heroes of Scottish filmmaking who let nothing stand in their way. Highlights include a bloody serious comedy and a kinetic, kaleidoscopic drama that deconstructs the most basic of human actions, the slap. This edition also features the Glasgow results of the UK-wide […]
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