What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

Cottiers Black Friday Christmas Ceilidh

Cottiers presents the fabulous Black Friday Christmas Ceilidh, Friday 22nd December 2017. Ceilidh 9.30 – 11 p.m then DJ until 2 a.m. Avoid the Christmas Day hangover and dance the night away on Christmas Eve’s Eve’s Eve Tickets £20.00 Cottiers, 93 –95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU www.cottiers.com  

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Jack and the Beanstalk, SEC, Gary Tank Commander and The Dolls

FROM SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER 2017 UNTIL SUNDAY 7 JANUARY 2018 Starring Gary: Tank Commander and The Dolls  SEC Armadillo, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW Information and Tickets

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Alice in Weegieland, The Tron

TRON THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS ALICE IN WEEGIELAND 1st December 2017 – 7th January 2018 Have I gone mad?  I’m afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are. Alice is bored!  All this talk of Brexit, Trump and yet another series of Celebrity Big Brother is beyond depressing.  And then if […]

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Jock and the Beanstalk,The Shed

Jock and the Beanstalk: 15 –17 December, 2017 Family Panto at the SHED evening and matinee performances Poor Jock lives with his Maw and both of them are skint. Then one day he meets an old man who gives him magic beans which grows into a giant beanstalk. At the top of the beanstalk lives […]

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Celebrate Solstice at North Kelvin Meadow

Thursday 21 December, 2017 4 m. – 10 p.m. North Kelvin Meadow, Sanda Street, Kelbourne Street, Clouston Street, North Kelvinside, Glasgow  G20 8PR The longest night approaches! Come together and honour the time-old tradition of the mid-winter celebration, which Christmas was born out of. Bring firewood, instruments, food and drink to warm on the open […]

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Glasgow Dynamic City with Linda Jackon, La Bodega

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Blueprint – Scottish Independent Cinema The Gaelic King, CCA

Tue 19 December 2017 7.30pm, £6.50 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Blueprint collaborates with Fellowship Film to continue its promotion of super independent Scottish feature films. The Gaelic King is set in the dark ages of 800AD Scotland and tells the story of young warrior-king Alpin mac Eachdach. When his family is murdered […]

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Rare Exports, Access Film Club, GFT

12 December, 2017 – 6 p.m. GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland is delighted to provide Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. GFT is the first cinema in the UK to receive the Autism Friendly Award 2017. Read FAQs here. 486 metres deep in the depths […]

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The Singing Ringing Tree, GFT

  Unique East German Fairytale Saturday 9 December, 2017 A haughty princess says that she will marry a wealthy prince only if he presents her with the mythical ‘singing ringing tree’. Can the singing ringing tree live up to its name and bring this mismatched couple everlasting love? GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

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The Deputy, GFT

  12 December, 2017 During Spain’s transition to democracy following the death of General Franco a communist politician is elected to parliament. As the country opens up to new ideas he slowly comes to terms with his sexuality; embarking upon an affair with a juvenile delinquent. Slowly he realises that his actions expose him to manipulation from the extreme right-wing forces still loyal […]

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Bridgit, Adulteress

LUX Scotland presents: This screening brings together two recent works by Glasgow-based artists Jamie Crewe and Charlotte Prodger, Adulteress (2017) and BRIDGIT (2016) respectively, based in queerness, rurality, communality, care, and time. The screening is accompanied by a new publication designed by the artists, titled BRIDGIT, ADULTERESS, containing transcripts of each video and new elements […]

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Tangerine, GFT

13 December, 2017 A perfect antidote to traditional yuletide snowy sentimentality, GFT is delighted to bring back Sean Baker’s (The Florida Project) breakthrough film for the holiday season. On Christmas Eve, rambunctious trans sex worker Sin-Dee Rella is released from a 28-day stint in prison to discover her pimp boyfriend has been sleeping with someone […]

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The Disaster Artist, GFT

8 – 14 December, 2017 James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disaster-piece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, see […]

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Maze, GFT

8 – 14 December, 2017 Maze is based on the extraordinary true story of the 1983 mass breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze high-security prison in Northern Ireland. As Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) schemes his way towards pulling off this feat, he comes into contact with prison officer, Gordon Close (Barry Ward). Larry […]

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The Rio Reunion Party, Glasgow

20 December, 2017 – 7.00 p.m. till midnight. A big old reunion party…..April feels like an age ago! Fantastic live funk/soul/jazz from RARE GROOVE BAND plus DJ Paul Puppet playing the tunes! The Rio Pop Up Venue, 323 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3HW Event on Sauchiehall Street With Paul Puppet. 

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Wild Women Writing Course with Magi Gibson starts January 2018

New 8 week Wild Women Writing course starting in January. We always have a large focus on poetry, though it’s not the sole focus of the group. Do get in touch at gibsonmagi@gmail.com if you’d like to book or to know more. More info too at magigibson.co.uk 16 January – 16 March, 2018 Glasgow West End

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Tinsel Tales, GoMA

Tinsel Tales Thursday 21 December, 2017 2.30-6pm GoMA Library Glasgow Tinsel Tales event, just before Christmas with poetry and prose. This event will culminate in the inauguration of Marjorie Lotfi Gill, the Federation of Writers Scotland Makar for 2018 (Marjorie Lotfi Gill, who won first prize and a commendation in last year Wigtown Poetry Competition […]

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It’s A Wonderful Life Radio Play, OranMor

The Venue, OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX 12 and 13 December, 2017 at 7.30 p.m. Back by popular demand, for the sixth year in a row. The story of the most inspirational film of all time. The heart-warming American family classic ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is brought to the stage in a Radio […]

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Sting Visits Fairfield Heritage Centre in Govan

Launch of The Last Ship  The Last Ship, Theatre Royal, Glasgow – Monday 18-Saturday 23 June 2018 Sting this morning, Monday 4th December, 2017,  visited Fairfield Heritage Centre in Govan, Glasgow to launch The Last Ship. The Last Ship is inspired by Sting’s 1991 album The Soul Cages and his own childhood experiences. It tells […]

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Christmas Fair, Duntocher Village Hall

Saturday, 9th December, 2017.   1.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Duntocher Village Hall, New Street, Duntocher G81 6DF Selection of stalls including sweets,cakes,Christmas decorations,gifts,handbags ,jewellery ,soapand bath bombs , Santas grotto £2 with a gift for each child ,glitter tattoos, raffle, tombola and much more. In aid of The Duntocher Foundation Charity  Entry fee is £3 which […]

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Peace Education Scotland, Nuclear Savage Film + Skype talk with nuclear tests victim CCA

7pm, £5 via Eventbrite, Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult Book via Eventbrite / 0141 352 4900 It was a Pacific island paradise – until the United States tested nuclear weapons and conducted secret human radiation experiments. Experiments that would remain top-secret for decades, until now… This documentary reveals a shocking political expose, and an intimate ethnographic portrait […]

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The Flight, GFT

5 December, 2017 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Great German actor Armin Müller-Stahl plays a doctor who when he dutifully follows procedure and applies to travel outside the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) to attend a conference is refused permission. Dismayed by the state bureaucracy, he becomes involved with an underground network who promise they can get him out of the country. Given […]

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No Country For Old Men, 2 -4 December, 2017

Arguably the Coen Brother’s darkest and most existential film, their 2007 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel took home multiple academy awards that year, including Best Motion Picture. When Texas hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers two million dollars alongside the remains of several drug runners, he unwittingly finds himself sought by psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh. A grim and cinematically wondrous modern day Western that features one […]

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The Death of Stalin – film review by Calum Maclean

Directed by Armando Ianucci Screenplay by Armando Ianucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows Based on The Death Of Stalin by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin Cast – Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, Paul Whitehouse, Adrian Mcloughlin, Olga Kurylenko, Paddy Considine Running Time – […]

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Kaleidoscope, GFT

4 – 7 December, 2017 Starring Toby Jones, this taut, psychological thriller inspired by the work of Hitchcock and Polanski, explores the inescapability of a destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother. Written and directed by Toby Jones’ brother Rupert Jones, the film delves deep into man’s psyche, asking unsettling questions; can we […]

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Jane, GFT

4  – 7 June, 2017 Award-winning filmmaker Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) uses a trove of 16mm footage unearthed from the National Geographic archives to tell the story of a young, untrained woman whose only dream was to live among animals and learn about them. Featuring an original score from legendary composer Philip […]

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The Ballad of Shirley Collins, GFT

1 – 3 December, 2017 The Ballad of Shirley Collins is a meditative documentary chronicling one woman’s attempts to sing again after a 37-year battle with a debilitating voice disorder. Rob Curry and Tim Plester explore the story behind the icon, and chronicle Shirley’s battle, at the age of 80, to rediscover that voice she […]

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Happy End, GFT

1 – 7 December, 2017 Returning to the director’s chair for the first time since 2012, Michael Haneke reunites Amour stars Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant in this sharp drama. A well-off French family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern France are oblivious to the suffering surrounding them in the nearby port of Calais. […]

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Spangled Cabaret, Queen Margarets Union

4 December, 2017 Monthly alternative variety featuring: BLACK DOVES DEREK MCLUCKIE MS TRUELOVE WAITS KIM KHAOS & LACY RAIN MARKEE DE SAW & BERT FINKLE THE CREATIVE MARTYRS THE GREAT AZIZ  OBIE THE COMEDIAN  THE MEN’S CHOIR FOR WOMEN FREE ENTRY- DONATIONS WELCOMED Queen Margaret Union, 22 University Gardens, G2 8QN Event on Facebook

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Soul Jazz Fridays, Partick

1 December, 2017 West of Scotland Cricket Club, 44 Peel Street, Partick G11 5LU Following on from successful opening night in November with lots of regulars and some new faces giving it serious dancefloor action, another soul jazz night for December.  ‘We ask only a few things of you: Come down early,respect to the Goodfoot […]

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