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..

Budapest Cafe Orchestra at Websters Theatre

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Friday 22 June, 2018 – 8 p.m. Tickets £16.50 Adults/£15.50 Concessions (ticket prices incl. £1.50 per ticket admin fee which will be added at the checkout) (fee applicable to all tickets, including tickets bought on the day) The BCO is a music-driven phenomenon, a specialist performance-entertainment outfit, certified to enthral audiences everywhere. The infectious energy of the […]

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Seven Song Club: XAN TYLER / BARRY NEILSON The Tron

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18+ Admittance Only Friday 22nd June 2018 Born and raised in South London, Xan initially signed to Alan McGee’s Creation Records as one half of duo Technique.  She then collaborated with Mad Professor on Mission Control releasing album Dub Showcase on Poptones which featured a guest vocal from reggae icon Lee Scratch Perry. A show […]

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All Dayer OranMor, West End Festival 2018

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Òran Mór’s West End Festival All Dayer is back for it’s 7th year on Sunday 24th June and with another great line-up in store! 15 BANDS – 3 STAGES – 1 VENUE Full Line-Up: VESSELS MALCOLM MIDDLETON JOHN BRAMWELL (I AM KLOOT) BE CHARLOTTE MAN OF MOON BOY AZOOGA CARLA J. EASTON AVA LOVE WUH OH […]

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Museum of the Moon, West End Festival 2018

 Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL   Tuesday 29 May 10:00am until Sunday 24 Jun 10:00am Museum of the Moon is an artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Measuring an impressive seven metres in diameter, the moon features detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface.  The internally lit sphere […]

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West End Festival – What a Start

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It’s been an amazing start to #WEF2018 with such fabulous events and of course, the weather has been amazing! There are still three weeks of the festival and plenty to see and do. With more gala days, another outdoor ceilidh coming up, gigs, walks and talks… there’s something for everyone and many events are free. The […]

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The 5th Annual Champipunship, OranMor

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Tuesday, 10 July, 2018 7 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX The Annual Champipunship is back! Eight competitors are raring to go. The house band- The Pun Lovin’ Criminals are getting ready to bring a whole new host of pun based songs. Also going to be doing a big charity raffle. It’s […]

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Cindigo, Poets at West End Festival

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30 June, 2018  2.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. Hillhead Library, 348  Byres Road, G12 8AP Stuart Paterson is looking forward to being part of this Glasgow West End Festival event – 5 poets from the Cinnamon and Indigo Dreams publishing houses performing together in the sumptuous surroundings of Hillhead Library. ‘I will, of course, be giein […]

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Indepen-dance Summer Shindig 2018

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Back by popular demand, It’s the Summer Shindig!!! THE ADULT WEEK (17+) will be 16th July – 20th July 10am-2pm THE YOUTH WEEK (8-16 years) will be 23rd July – 27th July 10am-2pm Maryhill Community Education Centre . 35 Avenuepark Street, G20 8TS Last summer, lots of moves were learned, friends were made and dances […]

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Glasgow Jazz Festival 2018

Festival Opens in Style GLASGOW JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE HEADLINE ACTS Wednesday 20th– Sunday 24th June 2018 Glasgow Jazz Festival have announced their headline acts for 2018 – Mr Jukes, The Georgie Fame Family Trio and Orchestre Poly-Rythmo will all play the iconic Old Fruitmarket as part of this year’s annual jazz festival. The festival will […]

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Botanic Gardens: Sandyford To Kelvinside

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Walk with Ewen Donaldson, Thursday 21 Jun 7:00pm Ewan Donaldson is the General Manager of the Botanic Gardens. Join him on a walk from the old to the new location of Botanic Gardens.  Tickets £7.50 From Waterstones, 351 Byres Road, G12 8AU In 1817, the new Botanic Gardens, founded by James Hopkirk, was laid out […]

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OranMor, Summer Panto 2018

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Pure Freezin’ Monday, 02 July, 2018 — Saturday, 21 July, 2018 By Andy McGregor Cast: George Drennan, Hannah Howie, Rebekah Lumsden, Tom Urie Widow Swanky has never been prouder. Her darling daughter Elsie is to become Lord Provost of Glasgow and nothing, not even the scheming Mayor of Cumbernauld, is going to get in her […]

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Pride Glasgow 2018

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14 and 15 July, 2018 Kelvingrove Park, Kelvin Way G12 Pride Glasgow is Scotland’s largest festival of LGBTI celebration returning in 2018 for a 2 day festival weekend at Kelvingrove Park. The Festival takes place on 14 and 15th July 2018 with the site opening from 12pm – 10pm on the Saturday and from 12pm […]

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Explore Wellspring Writing, Laura T. Fyfe, Scottish Writers

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Tuesday, 19 June, 2018 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD If you’re feeling creatively or motivationally challenged, The Scottish Writers Centre has just the cure for you this June. Ignite your imagination and fire up your creative cylinders with a session from award-winning writer, tutor, publisher and professional nag, Laura T Fyfe. In an unpretentious, […]

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Through Our Eyes screening and Q & A with Samir Mehanovic

Tuesday 19 June, 2018 Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh,EH3 9BZ In sequences filmed over four years, director Samir Mehanovic (The Fog of Srebrenica) gives us a wholly fresh and personal insight into the human catastrophe of the Syrian conflict. A Muslim refugee himself, Mehanovic fled Bosnia in the 1990s and settled in the UK. Drawing […]

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Kittlin and the Carlton 3, West End Festival

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Thursday 21 June 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Kelvinside Hillhead Church, Saltoun Street, Observatory Road Glasgow G12 9AG Event on Facebook www.westendfestival.co.uk

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The Big Sunday, West End Festival

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  Sunday 17 June, 2018  12 p.m. – 8 p.m. Kelvingrove Park, Kelvin Way, Glasgow G3 A community led festival day out, for all the family. With live bands, music, food, and a BMX showcase Event on Facebook  

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Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Calum Gardner, SWG3 Poetry Club

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Tuesday 19 June 2018, 19:00 – 21:30 Dodie Bellamy writes genre-bending works that focus on sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, essay, and poetry. Her most recent collection is When the Sick Rule the World, from Semiotext(e). Her chapbook, The Beating of Our Hearts, was published in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin […]

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Saturday, June 16, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Ghostbusters, GFT

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17 June, 2018 If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood – who ya gonna call? Why, the Ghostbusters of course! When three university parapsychologists lose their research grant and credibility, they decide to go into business for themselves, setting up as professional supernatural eliminators. Starting out with only a converted fire station and a beat-up […]

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Friday, June 15, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

That Summer, GFT

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19 – 21 June, 2018 Summer, 1972: photographer Peter Beard and Jackie O’s socialite sibling Lee Radziwill work together on a film about her relatives and the sisters’ childhood in the Hamptons. After the project was abandoned, Albert and David Maysles made The Beales of Grey Gardens. Lost for decades, this extraordinary footage, which focuses on a vibrant and profoundly influential creative community […]

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Studio 54 GFT

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15 – 18 June, 2018 Manhattan’s Studio 54 was the epicentre of ‘70s hedonism – a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolise an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind […]

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Take One Action Film Festival Not Without Us, CCA

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Sat 16 June 2018 5:30pm, £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 12+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A rousing documentary immersing viewers in the moving, personal journeys of seven grassroots campaigners from around the world as they attempt to harness the only force that can prevent catastrophic climate change: the will of the people. […]

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Into The Woods, Websters Theatre

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16 and 17 June, 2018 Theatre Studio are a local Theatre School in the West End of Glasgow and are delighted to bring ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ and ‘Into The Woods’ to Websters Theatre, Glasgow. Shakespeare’s famous play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ sees the plight of 4 young lovers, a group of madcap amateur dramatics, […]

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Grey Gardens GFT

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19 – 21 June, 2018 Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The eccentric duo manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait and widely considered to be a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking, […]

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The Piano GFT

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15 – 21 Jun, 2018 Jane Campion’s multi Oscar-winning masterpiece is set in 1851: mute Ada (Holly Hunter) arrives in New Zealand, with her young daughter (Anna Paquin) and piano, for an arranged marriage to wealthy landowner Stewart (Sam Neill). When Stewart sells the prized piano to Baines (Harvey Keitel), Baines agrees to return it to Ada in […]

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Ismael’s Ghosts, GFT

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18 and 19 June, 2018 Just before he is about to start shooting his new film, director Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) finds his life turned upside down by the reappearance of his wife Carlotta (Marion Cotillard), who vanished without trace 20 years ago. Carlotta’s presence brings confusion and chaos, throwing Ismael’s tentative new romance with Sylvia […]

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The Ciambra, GFT

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31 May – 21 June, 2018 The outskirts of Gioia Tauro, a coastal town in the southern Italian region of Reggio Calabria is the setting for Jonas Carpignano’s second feature, the middle film of a planned trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea. Romani teenager Pio (Pio Amato), one of the supporting characters in the first picture takes centre […]

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Thursday, June 14, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

Gina Chavez, The Doublet, Sounds in the Suburbs

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Wednesday 13 June, 2018 Gina Chavez, making her Scottish debut. Gina is an award winning bilingual Latin-folk singer and songwriter who has been performing since 2004, releasing her first recording in 2007. Chavez holds a unique style of mixing the content of her music and visuals and is an eight-time Austin Music Award Winner. She […]

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All The Wild Horses, GFT

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8 – 14 June, 2018 The Mongol Derby is the longest, toughest horse race in the world. Riders are expected to cover a thousand kilometres, stopping at twenty-five horse stations and selecting a new mount at each one. Ivo Marloh’s thrilling documentary follows an eclectic group of competitors, from an American firefighter to two Irish jump jockeys, as […]

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Monday, June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

McQueen, GFT

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8 –  14  June, 2018 McQueen celebrates the brilliant, unpredictable, designer Alexander McQueen – a radical figure of profound influence in the fashion industry. An exploration of McQueen’s personal and professional world, this documentary is both a dazzling visual album of his ground-breaking collections, and a moving portrayal of the mind behind them. Never-before-seen home movies and a wealth […]

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Light up Gaza, Glasgow

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16 June, 2018 An evening of live performances from Unite! Fight! Sing! and Glasgow’s very own Highwaisters. Authentic Palestinian Tapas will be served as part of a cultural mix of local and Palestinian artists. Tickets cost £12 waged/£6 unwaged and will be available at the door. Families welcome. All money raised will go to Medical […]

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