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. The Bird Cage, Pop Up Restaurant, Tontine Lane Glasgow
The Birdcage will be popping up in Tontine Lane throughout the duration of the European Championships. This speciality Chicken restaurant’s menu includes everything from coriander, chilli and lime chicken wings, to pulled chicken bao buns, to jerked spatchcock chicken and southern fried chicken. There will also be a range of vegetarian options on offer. Tontine […]
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Thursday, August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Festival 2018
The Happy Prince, GFT
3 – 9 August, 2018 Rupert Everett’s directorial debut is a poignant dramatization of Oscar Wilde’s final years, and the ghosts that haunted him. In late 19th Century Paris, Wilde is out of prison but a pariah. He swings between grief and a determination to wrest whatever pleasure he can from the time he has left. His body ailing and heavy, his […]
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The Pieman Cometh review by Pat Byrne
The Pieman Cometh by Bryan Jackson and David Belcher directed by Frank Miller. ‘There’s more to the pie than meets the eye’ Jim and I went through to Edinburgh to catch Bryan Jackson and David Belcher’s play at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I’d heard a lot of positive comments when it played at OranMor in Glasgow […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Brooklyn On Tour Comes To Glasgow
Brooklyn Brewery will be bringing ‘Brooklyn On Tour’ to Glasgow Saturday 4th August, 2018 – 3pm – 10pm The award-winning brewery have scoured the city to unearth the best up-and-coming street food chefs, DJs and artists and will be collaborating with Glaswegian legend Julie’s Kopitiam, DJ collective Frogbeats and street-artist Rouge-One to host the city’s […]
Merchant City Festival 2018
Open 4-5 August and 9-12 August. Merchant City Festival, back for 2018 presenting the best in Scottish and international arts and entertainment, showcasing Glasgow as a UNESCO City of Music and the unique cultural and creative hub that is Glasgow’s Merchant City. Fabulous programme of events with street art, music, dance, design, film, comedy, carnival […]
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Merchant City Festival
Festival 2018 Glasgow
2 – 12 August, 2018 Festival 2018, is the fabulous cultural programme of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. Glasgow and areas hosting sport across Scotland will feature live music, circus, dance, theatre, visual art and much more at city-centre venues and in communities, bringing a carnival atmosphere to the 11 days of sporting action. Full […]
GO Live at Glasgow Green 2018
GO Live at the Green Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street, Glasgow, G40 1AT Find out more at Festival 2018 at GO LIVE! and Big Top at GO LIVE! The Kitchen Garden Bring your appetite to the Kitchen Garden Food Village, bringing together a blend of fresh, local delicacies, live cooking demonstrations from top Scottish chefs, tasting sessions and healthy eating […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Festival 2018, Merchant City Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
George Square, Glasgow 2018
George Square is being transformed into a spectacular playground as the beating heart of Glasgow 2018 Whether it’s the chance to view a stunning 14 metre wide handshake between giant friends, or to experience the thrill of an athlete’s race to glory, Glasgow’s George Square has been transformed into a spectacular playground as part of […]
Royston Youth Action, Community Fun Day 2018
Saturday 4 August, 2018 12 – 4 p.m. Free Inflatables, Face Painting, Food, Raffle and much more. Donations for raffle welcome. Glenconner Park, Royston, Glasgow Event on Facebook On Twitter @RYA_YOUTHCLUB
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Monday, July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people
Cafe Flicker, Glasgow Open Screen for Indie Filmmakers
(Image: ‘Bridge’, Iain Robertson, prizewinner July, 3018) Thursday 2 August, 2018 – 7 p.m. GMAC Films, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Submissions are now open for August’s Cafe Flicker! If you’d like to submit a film, please send it over via wetransfer.com to cafeflicker@gmacfilm.com including a submission form Come along to the next Café Flicker! Glasgow’s open […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cryptic Sonica in Glasgow 2018 – Portal, Pivot and Visaurihelix
Cryptic’s renowned Sonica returns to Glasgow this summer with three major new, free sonic art installations to delight all ages. Part of Festival 2018, (2 – 12 August, 2018) Robbie Thomson’s invites audiences to take an unforgettable subterranean odyssey through the Clyde Tunnel and Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey’s turns George Square into a playground with giant, […]
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Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 2018
16 – 26 August, 2018 Celebrating diversity with a fabulous programme of events After the success of last year’s inaugural event, Govanhill International Festival and Carnival returns with a spectacular showcase including: Parade, Music, Dance, Walks Talks, Workshops and Community Activities. Come along and celebrate the amazing cultural, ethnic , religious and community diversity of […]
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Activity and Nature Discovery Day at Bowling Harbour
Saturday, 4 August, 2018 11 – 4 p.m. Fun day of activities including canoeing, paddle boarding and zorbing at BHive at Bowling Harbour’s Activity & Nature Discovery Day. BHive Activity HubArch 1 Bowling Harbour, Bowling G60 5AF Special discounts on canoeing, paddle boarding and zorbing, plus free natural crafts and games. A mini-bioblitz will be […]
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Film for family and local history, National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall
Wednesday 29 August – 2 p.m. Family and Local History Workshop National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW Find out how archive film can enhance your family or local history research. Learn about the range of material preserved by the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive from all […]
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Friday, July 27, 2018 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Renata Rosa, Cottiers
9 Aug 2018 – 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm A rare visit to the UK for this deeply expressive Brazilian singer- songwriter and her band. Renata plays the rabeca, a fiddle from Northeastern Brazil and northern Portugal, and calls it her ‘second voice’. With it she delves into polyphonic harmonies and unearths musical influences from […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
United States of Americana, Cottiers
Monday 30 July, 2018 Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU 0141 357 5825 www.cottiers.com/ TICKETS Tickets: Discounted tickets available for the United States of Americana event! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/united-states-of-americana-tickets-46305745732? Promo code: Americana
Glasgow European Championships 2018
European Championships – 2 – 12 August, 2018 Tickets for Glasgow 2018 are on sale now. Don’t miss your chance to be part of history at the first ever European Championships from 2 – 12 August 2018. Schedule and Tickets www.glasgow2018.com/ The European BMX Championships Coming to Glasgow as part of the first-ever European Championships with […]
‘Cityscapes’ on the Horizon, Thistle Gallery
Thistle Gallery from 5 August – 26 August, 2018 Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Part of Looking Out To New Horizons New – Summer Exhibition at The Thistle Gallery ‘Cityscapes on the Horizon’ is a unique collection of original artworks by several leading […]
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Kissing Cousins, GFT
Aoife McArdle makes an eye-catching feature debut with a stylish, seductive drama poised between harsh realities and inviting escapism. 17-year-old Candice (an impressive Ann Skelly) feels trapped in a gloomy seaside town riven with violence, and a life defined by chronic seizures. Everything brightens when she meets a handsome young man who is the spitting image of […]
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Iceman, GFT
27 July – 2 August, 2018 5000 years ago: A man lives with his woman and their children in the Ötztals Alps. Coming back to his hut after hunting one day, he finds his family murdered, the shed burned down and a holy amulet stolen. Full of rage, he decides to challenge the freezing mountains […]
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Generation Wealth, GFT
27 – 29 July, 2018 In The Queen of Versailles (2012), director Lauren Greenfield documented how an American billionaire family faced the economic crisis. Her fascination with materialistic, image-obsessed culture continues to bear rich fruit in Generation Wealth. Simultaneously photographic journey, memoir, and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom–bust economy, the corrupted American Dream […]
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Apostasy, GFT
27 July – 2 August, 2018 Daniel Kokotajlo’s intelligent, gripping drama is set among a close-knit community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Oldham. Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran) is a true believer and has raised two teenage daughters to follow her values. Luisa (Sacha Parkinson) is at college and facing bad influences and irresistible temptations. Fears for her […]
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Georgia Cecile Smith, The Blue Arrow, Glasgow
8 September, 2018 ‘Best Vocalist’ finalist at this year’s Scottish Jazz Awards, Georgia Cécile has been captivating audiences with her engaging delivery of self-penned songs and arrangements of classic standards. Tipped as ‘One To Watch’ by BBC Music Introducing, and showcasing her original material at BBC Radio Scotland ‘Quay Sessions’, her ‘stock’ firmly on the […]
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Doghouse Roses and Joseph Parsons, The Doublet Bar, Glasgow
Wednesday, 25th July, 2018 The Doublet Bar, 74 Park Rd, Glasgow G4 9JF The collaboration between Scottish duo Doghouse Roses and U.S. (Philadelphia) native Joseph Parsons began in the dark corner of a smoky bar in Berlin in 2015. There is a shared spirit of eclecticism and bold creativity in the music of both bands […]
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Monday, July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Opera Bohemia, St John’s-Renfield Church, Glasgow
Sunday 19 August, 2018 Falstaff Opera Bohemia St John’s-Renfield Church (Beaconsfield Road, G12 0NY Scotland’s professional touring company, Opera Bohemia, is returning to Glasgow with Verdi’s comic masterpiece, The company continues in it’s mission to bring more opera to more people around Scotland and to provide opportunities for young professional singers and musicians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5s0OtSl9xo Tickets […]
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Antigone, Websters Theatre
28 and 29 July, 2018 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ Rebel Cow Theatre brings you a brand new adaption of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy, Antigone, set in the fictional small American town of Thebes in the 1940’s . Chronicling Antigone as she defies her uncle Creon’s stern instruction that her recently […]
Clydebuilt Festival 2018
Glasgow 15th and 16th September, 2018 A festival of Boats, Folk and Our Shared Heritage Castle to Crane will run on the Saturday – 15th of September Once again the festival will offer something for everyone: whether you are young or old; an old salt or a determined land lubber, come along to see, smell, taste […]
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Sunday, July 22, 2018 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Summer, 1993 at GFT
22 – 26 July, 2018 In Carla Simón’s touching autobiographical film, six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin Anna welcome her with open arms, it’s only very slowly that Frida begins to get […]
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Rear Window, GFT
29 and 31 July, 2018 James Stewart plays L.B. Jeffries, a photographer confined to his apartment with a broken leg. Whilst recuperating he spends his time observing his neighbours across the courtyard and believes he witnesses a murder. Enlisting the help of his girlfriend and nurse he begins to investigate in spite of the fact […]
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The Receptionist, GFT
23 – 26 July, 2018 Jenny Lu’s directorial feature debut is based on a true story. Unable to find a job, Tina, a Taiwanese recent graduate living in London, starts working in an illegal massage parlour as a receptionist. As she gets to know the women who work there, she sees how they struggle to […]
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