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. Vahni Capildeo at Creative Conversations review by Pat Byrne
4 December, 2017 It was a pleasure to see Vahni Capildeo back at University of Glasgow, performing at Creative Conversations. Vahni is a poet and prose writer from Trinidad, who now lives near Edinburgh. A few years back she taught for a spell on the M.Litt Creative Writing Course at Glasgow. I was lucky enough […]
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Monday, January 1, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
An Alternative Burns Night with Linda Jackson at La Bodega
12 January, 2018 Linda Jackson hosts and evening of readings, music and dance.
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A Celebration of the Isle of Harris Gin at Finsbay
Tuesday, 30 January, 2018 8 pm. – 11 p.m. First gin event of the year is a celebration of Isle of Harris Gin. Finsbay is playing host to brand ambassador Emma O’Bryen from Isle of Harris Distillery. With its stunning bottle and award winning taste Harris Gin has won fans all over the world. You […]
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| Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Yes Bar Glasgow, Hogmanay 2017
14 Drury Street, G2 5AA 31 December, 2017 8 p.m. til 1 a.m. 1 January, 2018 Event on Facebook
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Sunday, December 31, 2017 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Hogmanay, Hogmanay Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Hogmanay Websters Glasgow 2017
31 December, 2017 Update!! Tickets are now reduced to £50pp 🤑 Join us for your Hogmanay celebrations! Make your last meal of 2017 be a feast! Serving up a 4 course meal with a glass of fizz this Hogmanay with live music from 10pm- open until 2am! For more details please contact bistro@webstersglasgow.com or call 0141 […]
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 | Filed under: Glasgow Hogmanay, Hogmanay Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Merchant Square, Hogmanay Party Glasgow 2017
31 December, 2017 Merchant Square, Candleriggs. Event on Facebook
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A Real Glasgow Hootenanny at Hogmanay
31 December, 2017 40 Howard Street, G1 4EE Event on Facebook
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Hogmanay, Hogmanay Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Hogmanay 2017, Lock In Waxy O’Connors, Glasgow
31 December, 2017 Buffet Complimentary Drink Air Guitar Competition What a belter of a day …..the online ticket sales have been dinging the bell all day! Still a few left. Best value for money in the city – ticket price includes door entry, welcome drink, late night buffet, 2 Rock DJ’s and more laughs than […]
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Ashton Lane Hogmanay Street Party 2017
Sunday, 31st December, 2017 In association with Whitley Neil the Ashton Lane Hogmanay Street Party is back and is bigger and yet better than ever! Join us under the twinkling fairy-lit canopy in the heart of the West End for the festivities, accompanied by the fabulous food and drink ceilidh band pipers and lots more […]
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Hogmanay at Malone’s Glasgow
31st December, 2017 £8 Entry on door Open Until 4am Music: Trad Session 5pm / John Jo 6:30pm / Danny Kelly 9pm / Big Bad Us 11:30pm Table Packages Available: £120 – Smirnoff and mixer plus nibbles for 6 ppl £150 – Morgans / Gordons / Jagermeister / Jack Daniels / Jameson and mixer or […]
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| Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Hogmanay Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
A Swinging Hogmanay, Swing Glasgow
31 December, 2017 Swing’s Hogmanay party is one of the hottest tickets in town with the outstanding 6 piece funk, soul and blues band, Melisa Kelly & The Smokin’ Crows. Seated SOLD OUT, Standing STILL AVAILABLE Join us for a thrilling night of live entertainment in our intimate atmospheric surroundings. Swing, 183a Hope Street, G2 […]
Hogmanay, 2017, OranMor Whisky Bar
31 December, 2017 The Main Bar and Whisky Bar at Òran Mór are one of the West End’s most poplar destinations, with the Whisky Bar boasting over 250 malts. On Hogmanay The Main Bar and Whisky Bar will be open during the day from 11.00am ’til 6.00pm. From 7.00pm ’til 3.00am celebrate the New Year […]
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| Filed under: Hogmanay Glasgow
Jill Creighton’s take on celebrating Hogmanay
How to Celebrate New Year – Scottish Style Thanks to Rabbie Burns and his universally sung (and rarely understood) Auld Lang Syne, Scots sorta feel that we invented New Year’s Eve or, as we call it – Hogmanay.. The celebration involves some strange practices: We call it The Bells From the middle of December a common question is […]
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No Stone Unturned, GFT
2 – 4 January, 2017 On 18 June 1994 in the village of Loughinisland, County Down, three gunmen burst into a pub, killing six civilians and wounding five. No one has ever spent a day in prison for this. From the producers of Bobby Sands: 66 Days and award-winning director Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology […]
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Marjorie Prime, GFT
2 – 4 January, 2017I n the near future, a time of artificial intelligence, 86-year-old Marjorie’s mind is a jumble of disparate, fading memories. But she has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband, and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and […]
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Friday, December 29, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
A Relaxed Performance of The Sleeping Beauty, Kings Theatre, Glasgow 2017
FRIDAY 5 JANUARY,2017 11AM THE KING’S THEATRE PRESENTS A RELAXED PERFORMANCE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY The National Autistic Society Scotland helped launch the Relaxed Performance of Cinderella at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow today. Ruaraidh Berry, who is attending the Relaxed Performance on Friday 5 January met with stars of the show Elaine […]
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Thursday, December 28, 2017 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Menache, GFT
27 – 30 December, 2017 Documentary filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein makes the transition to narrative features with this remarkable, delicate and critically acclaimed account of a widower trying to maintain custody of his son. Shot covertly in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish community with winning, unself-conscious performances by a largely non-professional cast, this charming film is the […]
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Boy, GFT
2 – 4 January, 2018 1984, New Zealand: 11-year-old Boy’s hero, his father Alamein, is the subject of Boy’s daydreams. He imagines him as a deep-sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him), while in reality he’s in prison. When Alamein returns home, Boy has to […]
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Signs of Life GFT
3 January, 2017 Werner Herzog’s rarely-seen debut feature, made when he was just 26, follows Stroszek, a wounded German paratrooper in WWII who is sent to recuperate on the quiet island of Kos with his wife Nora and two other soldiers. Billeted in a decaying fortress, there’s little to do, and slowly, in the heat […]
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Book Fair at the Botanics 28 and 29 December, 2017
Festive Book Fair. Lovely weather for a stroll round Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Take the opportunity to pop into the Book Fair in the Hopkirk Building Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE 10 – 4.30 p.m. Thursday 28 and Friday 29 December, 2017
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A Matter of Life and Death, GFT
2,3 and 4 January, 2017 Fantastical and romantic, A Matter of Life and Death stars David Niven as an RAF pilot who must appeal to a celestial court after accidentally being allowed to evade death. Celebrated filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger cross boundaries of narrative, metaphysics and technology in pursuit of one of their finest tales; an experimental […]
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KIOKO: The Big Gig in aid of Scottish Huntington’s Association
Fundraiser in aid of Scottish Huntington’s Association Saturday 3rd February, 2018 KIOKO – Supported by Fnuf and the Faerielights + DJ This Birmingham band who have appeared at Glastonbury, Belladrum, and headlined at the 02 Academy are playing a charity gig in Glasgow. Their music is a blended mix of Ska and Reggae. Community Central Hall […]
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Bishop’s Wife, GFT
22 – 24 December, 2017 Raising funds for a new cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham has his prayers for divine guidance answered in the form of a guardian angel named Dudley. When Dudley assumes the identity of a guest in their home over Christmas, Brougham’s life is turned upside down, as he believes the charming angel […]
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Friday, December 22, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
The Muppet Christmas Carol Screening and Toy Collection for Shelter Scotland, OranMor
23 December, 2017 at 1 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX The Muppet Christmas Carol (Family Screening) The Muppet characters tell their version of Dickens’ classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on Christmas Eve, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). […]
The Prince of Nothingwood, GFT
16 – 24 December, 2017 Sonia Kronlund’s touching and funny documentary, that screened to acclaim at Cannes 2017, follows Salim Shaheen, the Ed Wood of Afghanistan. A force of nature, Shaheen has managed to make and self-distribute no fewer than 110 films despite the country’s on-going war and conflicts. Keenly aware of the power of […]
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Christmas at GFT, 3 – 23 December, 2017
Christmas at GFT Entertainment for all the family throughout December Details and tickets It’s a Wonderful Life (U) 8-24 December,2017 Details and tickets Elf (PG) A highly entertaining ‘fish out of water’ romp with seasonal bells on 15-23 December, 2017 Details and tickets The Muppet Christmas Carol (U) A merry, magical version of Charles […]
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Blade of the Immortal, GFT
27 – 29 December, 2017 Blade of the Immortal marks Takashi Miike’s (13 Assassins, Audition) 100th film. Based on Hiroaki Samura’s manga series, this film tells the story of Manji, a highly skilled samurai, who becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that fighting […]
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Murder on the Orient Express, GFT
27 – 30 December, 2017 What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone’s a suspect. […]
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New Tenements – Architecture and the Return to the Inner City, The Lighthouse
First of our series of talks on architecture and design in 2018. There will be a short drinks reception from 6pm, with the discussion beginning shortly after. 18 January, 2018 6 – 8 p.m. The Lighthouse, In the last decades city centres have profoundly changed. Not only in Glasgow, but all over Europe inner-city regeneration […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
‘Unwrapped’ Christmas Exhibition & Gifts at Thistle Gallery Glasgow until 24 Dec, 2017
Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Beautiful Gifts for Christmas Make your way to the Thistle Gallery this December for a cornucopia of artistic gifts in a warm & welcoming environment……the Gallery is full to overflowing with the very best of what Scottish contemporary […]
Thursday, December 21, 2017 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas Shopping in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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