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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..

Take 2: The Wizard of Oz

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Saturday, 19 September, 2026, 11.30 a.m. Buy tickets Dorothy Gale dreams of a land “somewhere over the rainbow” and, after a tornado rages through her hometown, her dream comes true. Joined by her dog and a band of unlikely friends, Dorothy sets out to find the enigmatic Wizard of Oz. This screening is part of […]

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Bad Apples at GFT

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18 September – 1 October, 2026, 8.20 p.m. GFT, 12 Ros Street, Glasgow G 6RB Captioned screening, Audio Description available Saoirse Ronan gives a career best performance as Maria, a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds who is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in […]

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Woodlands Anti-Racist Film Club – Everybody to Kenmure Street

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Tuesday 29 September, 2026, 5.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. G.A.M.H. Flourish House, 23 – 25 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3 6DR By Woodlands Community 5.30pm – doors open6pm – screening starts8pm – discussion Tickets are based on a Pay What You Can sliding scale. You can choose to pay £0-15. Below are suggestions on how to […]

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Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2026

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19 – 24 October, 2026 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB All screenings captioned with BSL. GFT welcomes SQIFF back for its 11th edition, presenting a euphoric programme that embraces experimentation, plays with expectations, and creates new mythologies. Come along for a journey into the fantastical, with audacious performances, innovative filmmaking and […]

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Pippa Blundell at Cottiers

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Thursday 12 November, 2026 Drawing influence from the storytelling lineage of folk music, whilst also bringing in ambient sounds and classical vocal influences, Pippa’s music draws inspiration from the likes of Anna B Savage, Laura Marling, This Is The Kit and The Weather Station. Pippa Blundell is a rising singer-songwriter already recognised by the Scottish […]

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Borscht Film Club: Polish Comedy Shorts & Q & A

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24 September, 2026 – 6.10 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G 6RB An evening of inventive, witty and wonderfully off‑beat Polish short films, showcasing a wide range of comedic sensibilities — from dry observational humour to surreal, absurdist storytelling. This curated selection highlights the creative freedom and bold imagination that define Poland’s contemporary short‑form cinema. […]

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The Album Club, Niall Connolly at The Glad Cafe

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Saturday 19 September, 2026 – matinee (1.30 p.m) The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2HG Album Club began as “a book club… only with albums”. In 2019, composer & musician MJ McCarthy – former member of Zoey Van Goey, as well as occasional accordionist with Aidan Moffat, Trembling Bells, Lord Cut Glass & […]

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BFI London Film Festival 2026 at GFT

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Wednesday 7 until Monday 19 October, 2026 LFF is returning to GFT for its 70th edition — and everyone is invited. Take your pick from a thrilling line-up of new films and previews, including this year’s Opening and Closing Night Galas: Elsinore and The Debut, as well as Danny Boyle’s latest film Ink, and this […]

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Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival at GFT

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6 – 11 October, 2026 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Samisdat Scotland’s festival of cinema from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus is back at GFT . Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in communist states, returns for its 5th edition, bringing an ever-eclectic mix of […]

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The People’s Palace and Winter Gardens – Building Stories

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Building Stories for New Glasgow Society New Glasgow Society is a civic project is a civic society promoting, protecting and raising interest in the City of Glasgow, through campaigning, discussion, projects, talks and exhibitions. Building Stories is a project highlighting Glasgow’s derelict buildings. Friends of People’s Palace Winter Gardens & Glasgow Green The People’s Palace […]

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La Femme Infidèle at GFT

La Femme Infidèle at GFT

13, 15, 17 September, 2026 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB A leading member of the French New Wave, who came to be regarded as the ‘French Hitchcock’, for many years Claude Chabrol’s classic thrillers have been missing from UK screens. A mid-career masterpiece within Chabrol’s remarkable run of bourgeois psychological thrillers, La Femme […]

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Saturday, September 12, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema

Take 2: The Rugrats Movie at GFT

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Saturday 12 September, 2026 11.30 a.m. Take 2 Access: The Rugrats Movie Take 2 Access screenings take place on the second Saturday of every month and offer a film in a relaxed and welcoming environment for neurodivergent children and families. All are welcome. The Pickles family welcome a new arrival, Dil, whose constant crying and […]

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The Two Roberts – An Evening With Damian Barr

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Friday 25th September 2026, 6.30 p.m. Celebrate the paperback launch of The Two Roberts, a beautiful story of creativity, passion, and discrimination based on the real history of two remarkable Scottish artists. Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde first met in 1933 as bold young students at the Glasgow School of Art, and from then on […]

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Preview: Bel plus Q & A

Bel

10 September, 2026 8.10 p.m. This preview will feature a Q&A with Louise Lockwood and Leah McAleer (director and Bel’s sister) and Arusa Quereshi as interviewer. Please note: this Q&A will will be live captioned and feature no audience questions. In the summer of 2021, Kenyan-Scottish, singer and songwriter Beldina Odenyo is on the cusp of stardom.  Hailed as a fierce, uncompromising artist […]

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Social Dancing Maryhill Burgh Halls

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Mondays 1 p.m.- 3 p.m. – 21st September and 5th and 19th October, 2026 Maryhill Burgh Halls, 24 Gairbraid Ave, Glasgow G20 8YE New senior social dancing group starting tomorrow! A lovely new senior social dancing group at the Halls, a mix of Ballroom, Latin, Jive, Line and Sequence Dancing. Come along for a bit […]

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Glass and Concrete Project Launch

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Tuesday 22 September, 2026 – 4 p.m. – 9 p.m. Edward House, 203 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3EX Come along to the launch of an interactive arts project exploring the past and future of Charing Cross Launching a programme of stained glass and poetry workshops, walks, film screenings, archive visits and more. Try taster sessions, […]

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The Best of Bublé at Cottiers

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24 September, 2026 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU The Best of Bublé returns for its 2026 UK tour, formerly known as Bublé by Candlelight, featuring Josh Hindle and his sensational live band. Following huge audience demand, this reimagined show is presented as a full production theatre spectacular, delivering the ultimate Bublé experience. […]

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Siskin Green – Living in the Echo at Cottiers

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20 September, 2026, 7.30 p.m. Siskin Green are a contemporary Scottish folk trio, drawing on themes of faith, feminism and justice. They have developed a loyal following across the UK, with listeners drawn to their distinctive blend of fiery protest songs, wistful re-imagined hymns, and original songs – presented in lush vocal harmony with evocative […]

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The Hunter’s Full Moon with Kittlin

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Sunday 25 October, 2026 – 3 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. GalGael Trust, 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow G51 2SN Storytelling the Hunter’s Full Moon, Scottish International Storytelling Festival, Go Local 2026. An afternoon of musical stories from Kittlin folk band and the Moonspinners, Claire McNicol and Linda Williamson. With sweet harmonies, fiddle, flute and guitar from […]

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Cottiers – Doors Open Days 2026

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20 September, 2026, Sunday: 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. Cottiers Tour, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Formerly a church, this unique building stands tall and proud as one of Glasgow’s most unique and magical venues. Cottiers in Glasgow’s West End contains a unique interior of stained glass and decoration by Daniel Cottier. […]

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Bad Co – The Legacy at Cottiers

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Thursday 17 September, 2026.7.45 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Stret, G11 5PU For seven years Robert Hart was the lead singer of Bad Co in its classic rock era. He has also played many years with The Jones Gang with Kenny Jones of The Faces. and currently with Manfred Mann’s Earthband. Dave ‘Bucket’ Colwell, […]

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Women Who Built Scotland – Talk

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Thursday 17 September, 2026 – 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Alf Webster Museum of Stained Glass, 416 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ Speakers will include Dr Karen Mailley and Phyllida Shaw Explore some of the women who help to shape, design and build Scotland. Karen will be giving a short talk on Maude Webster, wife […]

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Take 2: Horton Hears A Hoo at GFT

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Saturday 5 September, 2026, 11.30 a.m. GFT 12 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RB An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his […]

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Super Nature at GFT

Super Nature

4 – 10 September, 2026 GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G 6RB Super Nature celebrates our universal connection to nature, with an intimate gaze, creating a visceral, poetic, personal meditation on the natural world. A global co-creation project, Ed Sayer’s debut feature saw him collaborating with 40 people on 80 different antique Super 8 cameras across land, in […]

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Terminator 2, 35th Anniversary on 4K

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4, 5 and 10 September, 2026 at GFT GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB 35 years later… he’s back! James Cameron’s groundbreaking and Academy Award-winning sci-fi classic returns to the big screen in 4K. In this sequel set eleven years after The Terminator, young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization’s victory over a future robot […]

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The Incomer at GFT

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4 – 17 September plus 23 September, 2026 GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G 6RB A stranger arrives on a remote Scottish island… and an odd little world gets even odder. The tiny island’s sole inhabitants are a pair of siblings who live a stripped‑back life shaped by superstition and rules no outsider is meant […]

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Late Fame at GFT

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4 – 10 September, 2026 GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB The great Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer (Edmund Donovan) appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of […]

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma at GFT

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4,5,6 and 8 and 9 September, 2026 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into […]

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Ross Wilcock Poetry Workshop at Byres Road Book Festival

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Sunday 27 September, 2026, 5 p.m. Curlers Rest, 256-260 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8SH Part of the Byres Road Book Festival 2026 collection Poet Ross will lead a workshop, offering writers a quiet space to write. Writers will be offered a quiet space to write, including a prompt workshop station where a set of poems will be […]

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Ando Glaso Roma Fest – Symposium University of Glasgow

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Friday 4 September, 2026, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. 32 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ A major free-to-attend symposium presented by Ando Glaso (Scotland’s leading Roma-led arts organisation) and facilitated by the Roma Rights Forum is taking place at University of Glasgow from 1-5pm this Friday 4 September, as part of Ando Glaso Roma Fest, […]

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