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 Shape of Water, GFT
14 February – 5 March, 2018 From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) comes a stylish other-worldly fairy tale, set in 1960s America at the height of the Cold War. Lonely mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) lives an isolated life, working in a hidden high-security government laboratory. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia […]
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Friday, February 16, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Valentines Day Glasgow
Soundtracking, Edith Bowman with Lynne Ramsay, GFT
24 February, 2018 Started in 2016, Edith Bowman’s unique podcast features interviews with directors, actors, producers and composers, discussing the music that inspired them and how they use music in their films, from their current release to key moments in their career. For this special live Glasgow Film Festival episode, Bowman will be interviewing celebrated Glasgow-born director Lynne […]
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Sweet Country, Cineworld Glasgow
26 and 27 February, 2018 Director Warwick Thornton attends the screening on Mon 26 Feb Warwick Thornton’s ravishing, agonising western is inspired by true events and set in Australia’s Northern Territory in 1929. Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) works the land for kindly Christian preacher Fred Smith (Sam Neill). When vicious war veteran Harry Morris (Ewen Leslie) returns […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2018, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Breadwinner, GFT
23 and 24 February, 2018 Director Nora Twomey attends the screening on Fri 23 Feb Irish animator Nora Twomey (The Secret of Kells) makes her solo feature debut with this exquisite, heartrending adaptation of Deborah Ellis’s beloved novel. When the Taliban rulers of Kabul imprison a teacher, his 11-year-old daughter Parvana (Saara Chaudry) disguises herself as a […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2018
Working Girl, GFF 2018
23 February, 2018 ‘I have a head for business and a bod for sin.’ Melanie Griffith dons a sharp suit and climbs the corporate ladder in the cut-throat working world of Manhattan in Mike Nichols’ ‘80s classic. Put on your shoulder pads, backcomb your hair and join us in the Former College of Building and […]
FrightFest, Glasgow Film Festival: challenge to aspiring Scottish filmmakers
Submissions need to be in for 13 February,2018 FrightFest, in association with Glasgow Film Festival, are delighted to announce an exciting new initiative to discover the next wave of emerging Scottish talent. FrightFest has always championed new film-makers since its inception in 2000. Now, for the very first time they are encouraging talent to rise […]
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Thursday, February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2018
LGBT History Month, Film Screening and Discussion, STUC
STUC LGBT+ Committee Thursday 22 February, 2018 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. An evening of short films and discussion as part of LGBT+ History Month! Screening some short films (BBC Queer Britain, My Lesbian Mums + TBC) followed by a lively panel discussion on the themes of the film, featuring Kate Adair and others. This […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Ballad of Lefty Brown, GFT
22 February, 2018 Actor Bill Pullman will be in attendance at this screening Bill Pullman heads a fantastic ensemble cast (including Peter Fonda, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel and Tommy Flanagan) in a flinty, beautifully composed western, filmed on stunning locations in Montana. Always the grizzled sidekick and never the hero, Lefty (Pullman) is considered an unreliable loser but […]
Deniro – the Bulldog from Netherburn cast as Rufus in Legally Blonde, Glasgow
Deniro will star alongside Eastender’s Rita Simmons, Eurovision singer Lucie Jones, Emmerdale’s Bill War at the King’s Theatre from Monday 25 – 28 April, 2018. King’s Theatre, 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JN Hopeful pups in Glasgow today lined up at Theatre Royal to audition for the role of Rufus in Legally Blonde the Musical which […]
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45s for 45 All Day Fundraiser, Old Toll Bar, Glasgow
Sunday 4 March, 2018 Old Toll Bar, 1 – 3 Paisley Road West, G51 1 LF – 1.00 p.m. 10.00 p.m. Raising funds for Glasgow SE and SE Food Banks. After a 5 year hiatus, charity night 45s for 45 return with a huge 9hr, 2 floor, over 20 DJs event! Hosted in the ornate […]
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events
The Blue Arrow Club – New Home of Jazz in Glasgow
The Blue Arrow Club, 323 Sauchiehall Street. Glasgow G2 3HW Glasgow’s new home of Jazz, will officially launch on Sunday 18th February, 2018 Listings A basement Jazz venue in the heart of the city, the Blue Arrow is decorated with deeply coloured Timorous Beasties wallpaper, wood panelling and red theatre lights washing the brick walls. Cabaret […]
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| Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Off Balance by Magi Gibson – a poem for Valentines
Off Balance You have knocked me off-balance! I walk like a drunk, tripping Over dogs, falling off kerbs, walking out in front of cars and trucks. This is so physical, this disorientation, this disintegration. A woman is at the door returning a leg I left at the local store. I look in the mirror, […]
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Love Sticky Lick by Jim Byrne, a love poem
Love sticky lick You, me, sticky toffee pudding Runny honey, salt and pepper Chocolate creams and tea Tart, tacky, treacled fingers Shandy, candy, juice and jelly Sticky licks, ice cream and lemonade…. Fuck. With you and me, everything rhymes. Jim Byrne, February, 2016.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Writing
The Shires, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
DF Concerts Present The Shires Accidentally On Purpose UK Tour 2018 Sunday 27 May, 2018 – 7.30 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Support Andy Brown + Sinead Burgess Additional Charges £1.50 per ticket for tickets priced £23.50 and £29.50. £2.00 per ticket for tickets priced £33.50. Transaction Charges apply […]
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Valentine Haiku by Leela Soma
Haiku The gurgling feadan beside us We watch the landskein paint the sky Last kiss shared, she left. Leela Soma, Glasgow Writer
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Monday, February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentines Day Glasgow
A Poem for Valentine’s Day: I’m Counting by Rona Fitzgerald
I’m counting the crocuses are out, purple and yellow, encircled with slender snowdrops, soul lanterns on the Ganges. the sparkle is back in your eye, another spring taking bloom. I’m glad we weathered twenty one. that even when the wolf gnawed my soul, I could see light, feeling the consolation of words I still hear […]
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Ian Bell New Writing Award, Meet the Judges at Aye Write
Melanie Reid, Michael Gray & Iain Macwhirter,The Importance of Good Journalism 17th Mar 2018 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Join the distinguished judges of Ian Bell New Writing Award for a discussion on the need for good journalism (never more so than in these turbulent, confusing times) […]
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Sunday, February 11, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Sonnet Youth at The Drygate, 21 February, 2018
Sonnet Youth is a spoken word house party. A literary rave. A real life piss up in a brewery – bringing together poets, authors, rappers, comedians and musicians for a night of no holds barred performances. And for the first time Sonnet Youth will now take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh! Curated and hosted by Kevin […]
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Call Me By Your Name, GFT
16 – 20 February, 2018 An aching and gorgeous drama, adapted from Andre Aciman’s novel. Italy, summer 1983: Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is a precocious 17-year old American-Italian boy, innocent and uninformed about matters of the heart. Oliver (Armie Hammer) is a charming American scholar on a residential placement assisting Elio’s academic father. Amid the sun-drenched […]
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Saturday, February 10, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Phantom Thread GFT
2 February – 21 February, 2018 Master filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) re-teams with Oscar-winning leading man Daniel Day-Lewis, for what is reportedly the actor’s final film. In 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are dressing royalty, movie stars, and more with the distinct […]
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The Florida Project, GFT
16 – 21 February, 2018 From the acclaimed director of Tangerine, The Florida Project tells the story of precocious six-year-old Moonee (newcomer Brooklynn Prince). Living in pastel-coloured motel The Magic Castle, in Florida, Moonee and her friends’ summer break is filled with childhood wonder and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 at CCA
Glasgow Film Festival Anti-Villains presented by Physical Impossibility Thu 22 February 2018 If you’re tired of Rebel Heroes, try an Anti-Villain! While GFF celebrates the former, Physical Impossibility considers the latter – the love-to-hate them, so-bad-they’re-good, well-meaning scum of the cinematic earth. They’re the charismatic antidote to the basic brave. They’re the pitiable something-to-proves versus […]
Loveless, GFT
9 – 21 February, 2018 Leviathan director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2017 with this tense, hypnotic thriller. Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even […]
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Friday, February 9, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Valentines Day Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Film Screening – Moonlight and Carol double feature, LGBT History Month QMU
QMU, University of Glasgow LGBT History Month Thursday 22 February 2018 – 18:00 – 22:00 Queen Margaret Union, Jim’s Bar, 22 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 QN The QMU’s Social Committee is using one of its February film screenings as an opportunity to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. They’ll be screening a double feature of Moonlight and […]
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UKJF Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema, CCA
CCA Sun 11 February 2018 2.45pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Much has been written about the Jewish immigrants to the USwho built Hollywood but there is little documentation of the equally impressive involvement of Jews in making Bollywood the huge phenomenon it is today. This fascinating documentary […]
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Aye Write! Denise Mina introduces… Danny Denton & Mick Kitson 18 March, 2018
18th Mar 2018 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The popular author and broadcaster, and recent winner of The McIlvanney and Gordon Burn prizes will be introducing: Danny Denton & Mick Kitson. Denise Mina introduces… Danny Denton and Mick Kitson Ticket £6 The popular author and broadcaster, and recent winner of The McIlvanney and […]
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Denise Mina at Creative Conversations review Pat Byrne
Denise Mina in conversation with Zoe Strachan. University of Glasgow Chapel Denise Mina was in sparkling form talking about her latest book ‘The Long Drop’, – based on true crime the subject being the serial killer Peter Manuel, who created terror in Glasgow and Lanarkshire in the 50s. She kicked off by telling the audience […]
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Bill Pullman, 23 February Glasgow Film Festival 2018
From loyal sidekicks to inspirational Presidents, romantic charmers to unnerving killers, Bill Pullman has proved to be one of the most versatile and unpredictable actors in modern American cinema. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with a stunning array of filmmakers from David Lynch and Mel Brooks to Nora Ephron and Wim Wenders. […]
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Beth Orton at Celtic Connections 2018 review and photographs by Pauline Keightley
Short stories with some beautiful sounds Beth Orton the Brit award-winning, English singer-songwriter, known for her fusion of folk and electronica sounds (folktronica), performed a concert at the O2 ABC at Celtic Connections 2018. She played guitar and was backed by Grey McMurray, on electronic keys, guitar and bass. During her set she was brightly […]
Hearts for Art’s Sake, Valentine’s Gifts at Thistle Gallery
Looking for an unusual and original gift for your loved one this Valentine’s Day …then look no further than Thistle Gallery in Glasgow’s West End. Situated in Park Road…….here you will find unique and exquisite gifts from contemporary paintings by Alison Cowan, Jackie Henderson, Suzanne Forrest, Ross Muir and Stanley Bird, delightful ceramic hearts by […]
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Shopping, Valentines Day Glasgow
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