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..

The Greatest Showman, Glasgow Film Theatre

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7 May, 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 […]

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Friday, May 4, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

A Day Out, The Lighthouse

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18 May 2018 – 22 July, 2018 Review Gallery Graphic design studio A Day Out is Graham and Malcolm: a twenty-nine-year-old skateboarder and a retiree of the Stockholm hardcore punk scene. They love working with people who have a firm foot in the unknown. Together they make brand identities and other visual tools that help […]

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Jot and Tittle Expo, citizen M Glasgow

Until 7 May, 2018 citizenM is proud to debut an exhibition by Graphic Designers Kerr Vernon and Ed Watt of Cause + Effect, two of Glasgow’s leading creatives, who are also responsible for the renewed visual identity of GI 2018. A key component of the festival is to extend the arts experience across the city […]

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Sparkle & Shine! Nativity! The Musical Seeks Children Across The UK For Star Roles           

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Are you a young, budding performer who sparkles and shine on stage? Well, today’s your lucky day because the producers of Natvity! The Musical are on the look-out for children aged 9-12 star in the Scottish leg of the production’s 2018 UK tour. Bright, young stars from across the country will have a chance to […]

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Glasgow Jazz Festival Programme and New Initiative Announced

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Wednesday 20th – Sunday 24th June 2018 Glasgow Jazz Festival has launched their full 2018 programme for this year’s summer festival.  Organisers have also announced a brand-new partnership with the Keychange Project –striving to achieve a more inclusive music industry, encouraging festivals to achieve a 50:50 gender balance by 2022. SEE FULL LISTINGS Glasgow Jazz […]

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Listings Glasgow Jazz Festival 2018

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  Listings Wednesday 20th – Sunday 24th June 2018 www.jazzfest.co.uk Buy tickets Rose Room Orchestra Fantastique featuring Konrad Wiszniewski Wednesday 20 June 2018 7.30pm St Luke’s Mr Jukes with Rebecca Vasmant DJ Wednesday 20 June 2018 7.30pm Old Fruitmarket Buy tickets John Etheridge and Vimala Rowe Wednesday 20 June 2018 7.30pm City Halls, Recital Room […]

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Glasgow’s Big Feed, Govan, 4 and 5 May, 2019

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Glasgow’s favourite MULTI AWARD winning Street Food Market 4/5th May, 2019 SAT 12-10pm SUN 12-7pm 249 Govan Road NO EXPENSIVE TICKET NEEDED NO BOOKING REQUIRED FREE PARKING Still only £2 entry (under 10’s free) NHS staff (with ID card) FREE www.bigfeedstreetfood.com NO EXPENSIVE TICKET NEEDED NO BOOKING REQUIRED FREE PARKING Still only £2 entry (under […]

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Wee Write Literary and Book Festival for schools and children 2018

 Family Days and Wee Write! Schools Programme All set to go ahead with rescheduled dates after cancellation due to heavy snowfall courtesy of the so-called ‘Beast from the East’. Here are the rescheduled dates: Family Days 19th and 20th May, 2018 Everything from T-Rex to Robots and you can try and solve the biggest mysteries in the […]

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Glasgow Piano City, Lids Open Day, Museum of the Moon, Mackintosh Church

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Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at Mackintosh Queens Cross A Unique Lids Open Day during the installation of Museum of the Moon.  Mackintosh Queens Cross Church,870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow G20 7EL  You will find a 7 metre diameter globe hanging from the ceiling, lit with incredible NASA quality images of the lunar surface to inspire you. There […]

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Tectonics Music Festival Glasgow

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – New and Experimental Music Festival 5-6 May, 2018 Curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell, proudly presented by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. City Halls, Glasgow Bringing the best improvisers and new music practitioners from around the world to Glasgow, to collaborate together and with local performers and artists. This year […]

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Guitar Journey at the Blue Arrow Club

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Wednesday 9th May, 2018 Sounds in the Suburbs Giorgi Serci and Jonny Phillips – Guitar Journey Blue Arrow Club, 323 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3HW Tickets Alan 07944354459 soundsinthesuburbs@hotmail.co.uk Twitter @suburbs1

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Folklub – Kirsty Law plus Suas, The Old Hairdressers

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17 May, 2018 Kirsty Law is an innovative Scottish singer and song-maker who draws on Scots musical traditions whilst collaborating with artists of different mediums. Her latest album project ‘Young Night Thought’ is an audiovisual exploration of the ‘inner child’ concept through folklore song and film. Working with Kirsty on this exciting venture are filmmaker […]

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World Disco Soup, CCA, Glasgow

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Saturday 28 April, 2018 5:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A new year has arrived and guess what? We’re back! The World Disco Soup is a gastronomic, musical and artistic experience which aims to unite people against food waste across the planet. Last year there were more than […]

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Bill Viola: The Road To St Paul’s, GFT

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29 April, 2018 This film follows the husband and wife team of Bill Viola and Kira Perov on their twelve-year odyssey to create and install two permanent video installations, Mary and Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) on either side of the High Altar in St Paul’s Cathedral. Made by the award-winning arts documentary director Gerald […]

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Ghost Stories, GFT

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27 April – 3 May, 2018 Paying homage to such classic Amicus horror anthologies as From Beyond the Grave and Ealing’s Dead of Night, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s smash hit stage show comes to the big screen to terrify in a whole new thrilling and chilling dimension. Professor Philip Goodman (Nyman) is a renowned sceptic of the supernatural and clairvoyant. When an […]

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Another News Story, GFT

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2 and 3 May, 2018 Since 2015 the current refugee crisis has flooded every news and media outlet across the globe. Another News Story takes a unique approach to capturing this narrative. While still giving a groundfloor perspective of migrants fleeing Syria and Turkey and their struggle to find a country where they are welcome, director Orban Wallace simultaneously turns the […]

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The Old Dark House, GFT

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27 – 29 April, 2018 Frankenstein director James Whale directed this classic dark comedy horror film, an adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel and stage play, Benighted. Seeking shelter from a storm, five stranded travellers stumble upon a strange old house, and find themselves at the mercy of the highly eccentric, and potentially dangerous, Femm family. […]

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Beast, GFT

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27 April – 3 May, 2018 Earning comparisons with Andrea Arnold and Jane Campion, director Michael Pearce emerges as a striking new voice in British cinema with this smouldering, sexy thriller set on Jersey. Moll (Jessie Buckley) has always been considered the black sheep of her family, but when she meets rugged, blue-eyed stranger Pascal (Johnny Flynn) it marks the […]

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Western, GFT

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27 April – 3 May, 2018 Travel can broaden the mind but sometimes it just cements prejudices. In Western, a German construction team head to Bulgaria to install a waterpower facility. The boisterous incomers set up camp and raise the national flag but laconic loner Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) is more curious about the local community. He […]

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Loki in partnership with Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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An Evening with Scottish Rapper Darren McGarvey 23 May, 2018 In partnership with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, join us for an evening of rap, comedy and spoken word. Darren’s bestselling book “Poverty Safari” explores the themes of poverty and social equality and the effects these can have on our emotions. Snap up your […]

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Selected 8 New film & video from across the UK, CCA

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The Blushing Valley, Gery Georgieva, 2018 Tuesday 1 May 2018 CCA 6:30pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 18+ 0141 352 4900 Afro-Glitch, Kamile Ofoeme, 2017 Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in May-July 2018, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video. Nominated by the artists shortlisted […]

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RE:search Glasgow Science Festival

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7  – 15  June, 2018 The Briggait RE:search is an exhibition featuring Glasgow-based artists Jonathan Meuli, John Robertson and Jonathan Wade in dialogue with Prof Paul Soler and Prof Aidan Robson of the University of Glasgow and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. The work incorporates themes from astro-physics, earth-sciences, waves, evolution, quantum theory and the processes of […]

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Love, Simon GFT

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27 April – 3 May, 2018 Teenage years can be tricky enough without having a secret that you’re not sure whether to share. 17-year-old Simon (Nick Robinson) is gay but hasn’t told any of his friends or family. He is starting to fall in love with an equally closeted, anonymous classmate that he has met […]

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Radical Film Network 6818 Launch, Glasgow

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May Day – Tuesday 1 May, 2018 at 7 p.m. citizenM, 60 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3BW Radical Film Network Scotland commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, a tumultuous year in politics and cinema. Anti-Vietnam protests rocked the world and students rioted with workers in Paris, as tanks rolled into Prague to quell its spring. […]

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The Doll Doctor Govanhill Theatre, Southside Festival 2018

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Govanhill Theatre Presents THE DOLL DOCTOR by Glenwyn Parry 14th – 19 May 20187:30pm – 9:15pm The English language premiere of the ‘Saer Doliau’, translated by David Brown. Jones goes about his business mending dolls in his workshop until The Girl arrives unannounced. Taking control of running the workshop, she appoints an apprentice The Boy. Both […]

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Lost Glasgow, More Than Memories Exhibition, Arlington Baths

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Saturday 28th April until 3rd June, 2018 Open to the public plus free guided tours of Glasgow’s first swimming club (1871). A Bigger Splash The Arlington Baths Club is delighted to host the latest outing for the Lost Glasgow collection of photographs celebrating the city’s history. The expanded selection of images includes period pictures of the […]

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Linlithgow Folk Festival – Keep Matt McGinn Singing

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  The Seventeenth Keep Matt McGinn Singing Linlithgow Folk Festival NEW DATE SATURDAY 28 APRIL, 2018 7.30 p.m. Linlithgow Academy, Braehead Road, Linlithgow EH49 6EH www.linlithgowfolk.com Tickets £12 Get tickets llfamatt@hotmail.co.uk Telephone: 01506670229 At Far From The Madding Crowd, 20 High Street and Post Office, 266 High Street  

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Glasgow May Day March and Rally 6 May, 2018

May Day March and Rally. Poster from the wonderful Lorna Miller celebrating 100 years of the votes being won for some women/men & 50 years since the Ford Dagenham strikes for Pay Equality. 11 a.m. George Square, 11.30 a.m. march to Rally 12 noon at Royal Concert Hall. Event on Facebook

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Friday, April 20, 2018 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

Memento, GFT

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23 April, 2018 Due to a violent attack, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) suffers from a rare disorder which means that he can no longer form new memories. Christopher Nolan’s neo-noir psychological thriller unfolds in reverse chronological order, following Leonard’s attempt to track down his attacker and his wife’s killer using photographs and a complex system […]

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