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. ‘Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature’
Until 4 May, 2025 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ Our new contemporary art exhibition ‘Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature’ is now open at the Hunterian Art Gallery and we can’t wait for you to see it! The exhibition features works from across Jarman’s career, focusing […]
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The Last of England plus Introduction
Sunday 16 March, 2025 at 7.30 p.m. Introduced by James Mackay (co-producer, The Last of England). In June 1987, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government won its third term in power by a landslide. Derek Jarman’s antipathy to its values was well-established before the AIDS crisis, but his diagnosis as HIV positive in December 1986 deepened his sense […]
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Away at GFT
15 – 17 March, 2025 Away ≠ short Saturday 15 March, 2025 – 11.30 a.m. A boy and a little bird are on a journey across a strange island trying to get back home. Away is a dialogue-free fantasy adventure and the debut animated feature from Golden Globes winner, Gints Zilbalodis, whose latest film Flow will also screen […]
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Silent Midnight
14 – 20 March, 2025 A newly arranged marriage. An oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are awkward and alone-together. Unpredictable Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai […]
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The Last Showgirl
March 14 – 20 March, 2025 When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, glamorous showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the life she has built as she plans her next act whilst also striving to repair the relationship with her […]
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
‘Kings’ – Film Night, Grace’s Irish Centre
Wednesday 19th March, 2025 from 7 – 9pm, Conradh Na Gaeilge Glaschú Grace’s Irish Centre, (next door to Grace’s Irish Bar) 18 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1LD In partnership with Glasgow St Patrick’s Festival & Grace’s Irish Centre: Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú are delighted to be hosting a screening of the acclaimed 2007 bilingual film: KINGS […]
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Catalan Film Festival – Polvo serán
Sunday 16 March, 2025 – 5.20 p.m. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB When Claudia, a vibrant septuagenarian, is diagnosed with an incurable illness, she decides to end her days in a clinic in Switzerland. Flavio, her inseparable husband of over 40 years, feels unable to face life without her. Meanwhile, their daughter […]
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Jessie Stephen, Maryhill’s Suffragette
11 March – 13 June, 2025 Exhibition: Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10-24 Gairbraid Avenue, Glasgow, G20 8YE, This exhibition brings to light the remarkable story and achievements of Jessie Stephen (1892-1979), a working-class woman who became a powerful force of social change. Born in 1893, Jessie Stephen was a fearless campaigner and one of the few […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2025 wraps up
GFF25 marked the final festival under director Allison Gardner The 21st edition of Glasgow Film Festival finished in style on Thursday 9 March with the sold-out World premiere of Scottish documentary Make it to Munich. The winner of the 2025 Audience Award was announced and a heartfelt farewell went out to Glasgow Film Festival director […]
On Falling at GFT
10 – 20 March, 2025 Laura Carreira’s film shows a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy, in a world designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection. It tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse picker in Edinburgh, Scotland. Trapped between […]
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Creative Conversations: Laynie Browne
Monday, 10 March, 2025, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. American Poet Laynie Browne in Conversation University of Glasgow, 42 Bute Gardens (916), Glasgow G12 8RT Laynie Browne was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Brown University. She is the author of […]
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Nocturnal at Glasgow Film Festival
7 and 8 March, 2025 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Gritty thriller follows a former gang member whose fresh start is threatened after his brother’s death. While investigating, he discovers an author had disturbingly predicted the circumstances of his demise. Former gang member Min-tae (Ha Jung-woo) has made a fresh start […]
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Thursday, March 6, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2025, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Neon Dreaming at Glasgow Film Festival 2025 review by Pat Byrne
Neon Dreaming is written and directed by Marie-Claire Marcotte It is the story of an eight year old girl, Billie (Maélya Boyd), who lives with her father and grandmother and is preoccupied by thoughts of her absent mother. She treasures a photograph of a ballet dancer, whom she believes is her mum.When she has to […]
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2025
Sri Lankan Curry Night – Fundraiser for G20 Youth
Friday 7 March, 2025, 6 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. Sri Lankan Curry Night to Raise Funds for Taking Young People Abroad G20 Youth Project, 21 Dunbeith Place, G20 8HS The G20 will be taking on the epic adventure of travelling across Sri Lanka to raise money for the G20 Youth Project 20th – 30th March 2025. […]
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Mistress Dispeller at Glasgow Film Festival review by Pat Byrne
I ‘m not sure that it will catch on here! Mistress Dispellers are hired in China as undercover professionals, their job it is to intervene when a partner is cheating on a spouse, bring the affair to an end and repair the damage done to relationships. Elizabeth Lo’s documentary has full consent of the three […]
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Monday, March 3, 2025 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2025
The Tenementals: Popular Music as Academic Research + Drinks Reception
Friday, March 14, 2025, 6.00-7.20pm (Drinks Reception 7.30-9.00pm) Popular Music as Academic Research: Four Papers on The Tenementals Advanced Research Centre, Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow G11 6EW The Tenementals is a wild research project which has one foot in the university sector and one foot in Glasgow’s vibrant music scene. It runs on the […]
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Tessa Berring, Creative Conversations
Monday, March 3, 2025- 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Tessa Berring’s ‘Joke Book’ was published at the start of this year with The Silent Academy. She is also the author of Bitten Hair and Folded Purse (Blue Diode Press) ‘Putty’ (If a Leaf Falls Press) […]
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Saturday, March 1, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Tornado – Glasgow Film Festival 2025 review by Pat Byrne
The World Premiere of ‘Tornado’ will be screened at the Opening Gala, Glasgow Film Festival 26 February, 2025. Director John Maclean’s exciting survival thriller is set in 1790s UK. Tornado (Kōki,) is a young Japanese woman travelling with her father (Takehiro Hira) – both are performers in his Samurai puppet show. When she seizes the […]
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2025, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CinemARC Gipsy Queen
Thursday 20 March, 2025 – 6 p.m.- 9 p.m. Film Screening and Concert Advanced , Research Centre,University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane (Off Byres Road), Glasgow G11 6EW Free – Reserve a Spot at Eventbrite The ARC is excited to be partnering with CineRoma, the UK’s first Roma film festival, for a screening of Gipsy […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Free Events, University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre
Boogie Bingo Night at G20 Youth
Saturday 1 March, 2025, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. 15-17 Shakespeare St. G20 9TA A night of fun and games at our boogie bingo night !Dj, Party Buffet, Raffle, Tambola & More.. Tickets – £10 ( Buffet & Bingo Included ) Buy tickets Or buy tickers G20 Cafe HopeFrom Reception. The Mackintosh Halls 15-17 Shakespeare […]
I Do Not Come To You By Chance
3 March, 6 p.m. and 4 March, 1.15 p.m. Glasgow Film Festival 26 February – 9 March, 2025 Kingsley has the smarts but no prospects for a job after university. Burdened with family responsibilities, he turns to his charismatic uncle, who lures him into a web of deceit – a decision that will change the […]
Ebony and Ivory, Glasgow Film Festival
Wednesday 3 March, 2025, 6.15 p.m. Thursday 4 March, 2025, 1.15 p.m. A cinematic document of the first meeting between Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder at a Mull of Kintyre farmhouse ahead of their potential collaboration on what may in fact become a global chart-topping plea for racial harmony. It topped the charts and earned […]
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Monday, February 24, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2025, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
September Says at GFT
24 – 26 February, 2025 Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different – September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them. When September is […]
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Stationed at Home, Glasgow Film Festival 2025
Sunday 9 March, 2025 The lives of a group of strangers intersect with cab driver Ralph, who is eagerly awaiting the sight of the International Space Station, in this humorous and humanistic offbeat drama. It’s Christmas Eve 1998 in Binghamton, New York, and cab driver Ralph (Erik Bjarnar) can’t wait to finish his night shift, […]
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Spilt Milk at Glasgow Film Festival 2025
Friday 28 February, 2025, 3.20 p.m. An 11-year-old searches for his missing brother in 1980s Dublin, in this ambitious debut that views the harsh realities of housing estate life through a child’s eyes. In 1980s Dublin, 11-year-old Bobby (Cillian Sullivan) dreams of being a detective, just like his TV idol, Kojak. Offering to hunt down […]
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Zero at Glasgow Film Festival 2025
Thursday 6 March, 2025, 6 p.m. Friday 7 March, 2025, 3.45 p.m. Buy tickets The clock is ticking in this break-neck thriller. Two Americans wake up with bombs strapped to them and face a twisted treasure hunt to stop them detonating 10 hours later. Two American strangers are about to join up for a life-or-death […]
Gazer at GFT
Saturday, 1 March, 2025 – 8.15 p.m. and Sunday, 2 March, 2025 – 5.30 p.m. Nerve-jangling indie thriller sees a woman, who suffers from a degenerative disorder that means she loses track of time, become mixed up in a dangerous mystery that could prove deadly. Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni, who co-writes) suffers from a degenerative brain […]
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The Popcorn Archive – Glasgow Film Festival
During Glasgow Film Festival, come and share your favourite cinema memories at The Popcorn Archive and grab some free popcorn while you’re at it! The Popcorn Archive is a participatory project by local artist Sean Wai Keung, who will be offering freshly popped popcorn in exchange for your memories of GFT, Sauchiehall Street, and cinema in […]
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The Craft– Special Event GFF2025
Thursday 6 March, 2025 at 8 p.m. Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Have you ever heard of invoking the spirit? Come along to Cottiers and unleash your inner witch with a very special screening of Andrew Fleming’s feminist horror classic. When troubled new girl Sarah Bailey befriends a group of local, teenage witches, […]
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Dookin’ Oot – A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Monday, 24 February, 2025 — Saturday, 01 March, 2025 Dookin’ Ott By Éimi Quinn Directed by Jennifer Dick | Cast – Janette Foggo, Kyle Gardiner, Helen McAlpine OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX A riotous black comedy about a wild money-making scheme in an Easterhouse cooncil flat and going out wi’ a bang! […]
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Sunday, February 23, 2025 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
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