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. Views of Glasgow: A Window into Communities at The Hunterian
5 December 2025–26 April 2026 Hunterian exhibition explores Glasgow through a community lens Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free entry The Hunterian and members of the Woodlands community are delighted to present a new collaborative exhibition which explores the evolving story of Glasgow through the lens of community, […]
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Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow
Glasgow’s Winter Wonderland 2025
Fun for all the family 21 November 2025 – 4 January 2026 This Christmas, experience the season like never before – in true Glasgow style! Featuring two prime locations, our Winter Wonderlands on Glasgow Green and St Enoch Square, are bursting with festive fun, family attractions and seasonal entertainment. It’s the perfect way to soak […]
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Clarice Pears Christmas Celebration G12
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025, 12–4 p.m. Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow, 90 Byres Rd, G12 8TB Free event. Get ready to jingle all the way and enjoy some festive magic on Byres Road. Open to everyone – no ticket required. Brought to you by the Byres Road & Lanes Business Improvement District and The […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas Shopping in Glasgow, Kids and young people, Markets
Snow White and the Magnificent Eight
Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23 November, 2025 Good Year Social Club, 307 Duntreath Avenue, Drumchapel G15 6SA A Spellbinding Panto Adventure – Drumchapel Amateur Panto Club Get ready for a magical, laugh-out-loud panto packed with singing, dancing, and dazzling costumes! Join us as Drumchapel Amateur Panto Club brings a hilarious twist to the classic fairytale, […]
Paper Birds – Workshop Book Week Scotland
Tuesday 18 November, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 232-242 St Vincent Street, G2 5RJ Join illustrator Helen Kellock for an afternoon of crafting and companionship inspired by beautiful volumes of the Birds of America by John James Audubon. Free book your place Come along on the […]
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Saturday, November 15, 2025 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett
Saturday November 15, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW BBC Scotland’s Bryan Burnett is joined by two crime writers extraordinaire as they peel back the layers of a good mystery. Described as “crime-writing royalty” by none other than Ian Rankin, Denise Mina draws us into the world of blood […]
Aye Write 2025: The Pen is Mightier: Edward Tudor Pole with Teddy Jamieson
Saturday 15 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, Norh Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Edward Tudor Pole takes to the Aye Write stage to discuss his autobiography, The Pen is Mightier. In a series of amusing, nostalgic and sometimes outrageous stories, all told with candour and wit, Tudor Pole recounts his pre-punk youth, the time […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, 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
Alasdair and Others: Willy Maley at ARC University of Glasgow
18 November, 2025, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW By The Alasdair Gray Archive Announcing the First Event in the New Themed Programme: Alasdair & Others The Alasdair Gray Archive is delighted to launch the first event in their brand new themed programme, Alasdair […]
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‘That famed place of aquatic gamboling’ : Swimming in Victorian Glasgow
Tuesday November 18, 2025 7.30 p.m.- 9 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT Part of the Arlington Talks collection Overview How stories and poems are revealing the watery world of the 19th century residents who enjoyed swimming in Glasgow’s rivers. On sunny days in 19th century Glasgow, city-dwellers flocked to the Clyde and […]
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Friday, November 14, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Chiels and Quines – A Tribute to Sheila Templeton
Tuesday, 2 December, 2025 at 7 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Host: Linda Jackson Seahorse Publications launch a new collection of poetry, Chiels and Quines, by Sheila Templeton, AC Clarke and Maggie Rabatski. There will be memories, music and poems. Performers include: Lesley Benzie, Ann MacKinnon and Keeks Mc
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Thursday, November 13, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mirrorball Showcase CCA
Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. St Mungo’s Mirrorball presents: Another great night of poetry with renowned Scottish poet Robert Crawford joined by Vicki Husband, David Kinloch, Finola Scott and Eloise Birtwhistle Tickets CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowG2 3JD
Die My Love at GFT
13 – 20 November, 2025 Lynne Ramsay’s blistering depiction of a woman engulfed by love and madness, featuring stunning performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. A hopeful young and loving couple (Grace and Jackson) move from New York to an inherited house in the country. Grace tries to find her identity with a new baby in the isolated […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Fantasia
Saturday 15 November, 2025 11.30 p.m. Walt Disney’s timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free […]
Alpha at GFT
14- 20 November, 2025 After winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau returns with another nightmarishly weird offering. 13-year-old Alpha lives with her mother, a doctor working on the front-lines of a mysterious epidemic. When Alpha returns from a party with a fresh tattoo on her arm, her mother’s fears take hold and their world begins to […]
Left Handed Girl at GFT
14 – 20 November, 2025 Buy tickets Shih-Ching Tsou’s dynamic solo debut, co-written with Sean Baker — director of the Academy Award-winning Anora — follows a family of women returning to Taipei to begin a new chapter in their lives. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” […]
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Bugonia at GFT
Until 13 November, 2025 Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, The Favourite) and Emma Stone are reunited for a fourth time in this gripping, darkly funny and satirical environmental comedy-thriller. Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO (Stone), believing she is an alien intent on destroying […]
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Havana Film Festival Glasgow 2025
11 – 16 November, 2025 (Download full programme (PDF) Some Highlights Feminist Film Making Sunday 16 November, 2025, 3 p.m. The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow, G1 1TF Book tickets Vietnam Through The Eyes of Santiago Alvarez Saturday 15 November, 2025, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Buy tickets Three […]
French Film Festival 2025 at GFT
Discover some of the most anticipated new releases: French Film Festival runs from 6 November – 14 December, 2025 All of the French Film Festival on sale now. Screening to mark the UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, catch a special preview of Kaouther Ben Hania’s acclaimed drama The Voice of Hind […]
Living With Rain – Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow
Launch of Report by Andrew Hoolachan 3 December, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Collective Architecture, 13 Bath Street, G2 1HY Overview Launch of Dr Andrew Hoolachan’s report ‘Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow’ You’re walking through Glasgow in the height of summer. A heavy rain shower leaves behind a soaked urban […]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: The Great North Road – Stuart Campbell
Saturday 22 November, 2025, 2 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP The Great North Road manuscript that Robert Louis Stevenson left unfinished at his death has now been completed by the noted Stevenson scholar and novelist Stuart Campbell. Acting as a literary sleuth he has located a list of twenty-five intended chapter […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Battlefield Writers Book Launch – Glasgow Tales
Part of Book Week Scotland 17 – 23 November, 2025 17 November, 2025 – 6 p.m. – 7p.m. plus Second date on 13 November at 6 p.m. Couper Institute Library presents the launch of Glasgow Tales. Join the Battlefield Writers for the launch of their new collection Glasgow Tales – A Collection of Short Stories and […]
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Woodlands Community – Anti Racist Film Club
Film Screenings at Woodlands Community Autumn / Winter 2025 Tuesday 25 November, 2025 – Dahomey-Booking and Information at Eventbrite Tuesday 16 December, 2025 – All We Imagine As Light – Booking and Information Come and be a part of Woodlands Community monthly Anti-Racist Film Club! Screening a range of moving, educational and engaging films that […]
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Warm up at the cinema after Glasgow’s Christmas lights switch-on. Follow a trail of sparkling illuminations along Sauchiehall Street to GFT, where we’ll be treating you to a bargain price screening of the cosy winter classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — the perfect way to kick off the […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema, Kids and young people
A Kick Up The Arts Sanjeev Kohli in conversation with Nicola Meighan
Thursday, 13 November, 2025, 2.3o p.m. (Doors 1.30 p.m.) The Stand Comedy Club, 420 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ Join writer and BBC broadcaster Nicola Meighan for a late lunch live recording of her Scottish arts and culture podcast, A Kick Up The Arts, with some of our best loved actors, musicians, artists, comedians and […]
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Monday, November 10, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write: Blitz: Robert Elms with Stuart Cosgrove
Tuesday 11 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW Acclaimed author and broadcaster Robert Elms makes his Aye Write debut to discuss his new book, Blitz: The Club That Created the 80s. The short-lived Blitz club in London’s Covent Garden was more than just a place to hang out […]
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Dragonfly at GFT
8 – 13 November, 2025 Have we become a nation of strangers? In Dragonfly, neglected pensioner Elsie (Brenda Blethyn) finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour Colleen (Andrea Riseborough). Over time, Elsie gains a friend and the troubled Colleen finds a fresh purpose in life as she shops, cleans and cares for her. It […]
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Saturday, November 8, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
The Magnificent Ambersons + introduction
Sunday 9 November, 2025 at 1.40 p.m. Orson Welles’ second feature chronicles the fall of a wealthy Indianapolis family during the American industrialisation boom of the early 20th century. Isabel Amberson’s spoiled son stands in the way of both her personal happiness and the advancement of their family fortune. Intricate camerawork and expressive mise-en-scène chart […]
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Take 2: Grand Prix of Europe
Saturday 8 November, 2025 11.30 a,m.-Standard ScreeningG 12.00 noon- Autism Friendly Screening Edda, a young mouse and the daughter of fairground operator Erwin, dreams of becoming a race car driver. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the European Grand Prix, Edda gets the opportunity to meet her idol, racing star Ed, and to help her […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland 2025
Friday 7 – Thursday 13 November, 2025 The festival presents a selection of contemporary Taiwanese cinema that delves into the intricate tapestry of identity, memory, and societal transformation. It serves as a luminous platform of encounter, where Taiwan’s cinematic imagination dialogues with Scotland’s cultural landscape, and where local stories refract global questions of belonging, resilience, […]
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Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write 2025 – Jeanette Winterson
On Aladdin Two Lamps Friday 14 November, 2025, 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont Street, G2 3NW Literary trailblazer Jeanette Winterson at Aye Write for the first time. Forty years on from her era-defining debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps. Weaving together fiction, magic and […]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
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