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. May Day Glasgow, 30 April, 2017
11.00 a.m. George Square – 11.30 a.m. March to Kelvingrove Bandstand Guest speaker Paul Laverty – screenwriter I Daniel Blake. Event on Facebook – let them know you’re going. Night before at STUC, Park Road The night before Glasgow May Day. With all profits going to Better than Zero and the famous Better than Zero […]
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Monday, April 10, 2017 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Great May Day Cabaret, OranMor, 1 May, 2017
Another stellar line-up for the sixth annual Great May Day Cabaret celebrating International Workers’ Day and the May Day holiday. This year’s headliners are the acclaimed and award-winning Edinburgh-based roots collective Southern Tenant Folk Union. Ably supported by Leicester singer-songwriter and activist Grace Petrie, the welcome return of Marxist magician Ian Saville, folk legend Arthur […]
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Sunday, April 9, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
TeenCanteen ‘Sirens’ E.P. review by Stephen Watt
The featherless daughters of river Gods distressed hordes of men at sea who were besotted by sweet songs and fabled charms which fatally lured them to their deaths. Applying a superlunary magnetism, TeenCanteen’s ‘Sirens’ EP release draws in the unsuspecting listener with a sweet-tempered kindliness cloaked in nostalgia belonging to anyone’s first love, but wrenches […]
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Seven Star Club, Mosa Funk Club, Eddie Beggan and Daffy, 28 April, 2017
The Mosa Funk Club is a funky collective from the heart of the east end. Eddie Beggan is a widely respected singer songwriter and great to have him back at the club with a new band and set of songs. Also really looking forward to Daffy playing 7 songs live for the first time from […]
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Saturday, April 8, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
A Night With Rosie Kane, Fundraiser Women’s Support Project, Webster’s Theatre, 28 April, 2017
Time to book tickets for our fundraising comedy night on 28th April. If you book from Women’s Support Project direct you can save the online booking fee – tickets £6 and £12. Email enquiries@womenssupportproject.org.uk
The Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time. GFT 9 April, 2017
Bolshoi Ballet – A Hero Of Our Time 9 April, 2017 GFT Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passions. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him… “Give me everything, it is still not enough.” […]
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Friday, April 7, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Eagle Huntress, GFT 11 April, 2017
The Eagle Huntress 11 April, 2017 GFT Using breathtaking aerial cinematography and intimate verité footage, this spellbinding documentary follows the 13-year old Aisholpan, a Mongolian nomad who is fighting to become the first female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family. Not only an exploration of the young girl’s astonishing pursuit of her […]
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Free Fire, 31 March – 13 April, 2017 GFT
Free Fire 31 March – 13 April, 2017 GFT Ben Wheatley returns with all guns blazing in a blackly comic shoot-em-up that would make John Carpenter proud. The setting is Boston in 1978 and a deserted warehouse where Provisional IRA members Frank (Michael Smiley) and Chris (Cillian Murphy) arrive to buy enough assault rifles and […]
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Neruda, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017.
Neruda 7 – 13 April, 2017 GFT Described by prolific director Pablo Larraín (The Club, Jackie) as “more of a ‘Nerudian’ film than it is a film about Neruda”; this latest provocative work weaves an exuberantly irreverent fantasy around events in the life of the poet and politician. In the early days of the Cold […]
CinemaAttic presents Novo Cinema Galego, CCA, 12 April, 2017
CCA Wed 12 April 2017 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 These short film fanatics are back with the finest contemporary films from Spain and Latin American countries. An exciting film movement has been born: Novo Cinema Galego. The talk of town since its […]
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Raw, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017.
Raw 7 – 13 April, 2017 GFT Preceded by DepicT! Award-winning film Impacts (1m44s) by director Petra Balekic. A Cannes Critics’ Week prizewinner, Julia Ducournau’s debut feature is a surreal and deliriously twisted coming-of-age story. Attending her first year at veterinarian college, shy vegetarian Justine is forced into eating raw liver as part of a […]
What Do Short Stories Look Like, Scottish Writing Centre and Red Squirrel Press, CCA, Tuesday, 11 April 2017
In Partnership with Red Squirrel Press Tuesday, 11 April 2017: Club Room at 7:00pm CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD Red Squirrel Press: What Do Short Stories Look Like? That’s for you to decide! Red Squirrel Press are keeping it fresh and continues to open many unexpected doors to the […]
UK Jewish Film The Pickle Recipe, CCA, Wed 19 April 2017
Wed 19 April 2017 7.30pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events UK Jewish Film Keep Quiet Sun 12 March 2017 Seeing his precious sound equipment trashed in a freak accident, Joey Miller, aka the king MC of Detroit’s (Jewish) party scene, is in dire need […]
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I Am Not Your Negro, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017
I Am Not Your Negro GFT 7 – 13 April, 2017 Fifty years after the Civil Rights movement, race remains a defining issue in America. James Baldwin’s final book ‘Remember This House’ was due to address the lives and assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The unfinished manuscript […]
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Lipstick Under My Burkha wins Audience Award at Glasgow Film Festival 2017
27 Feb 2017 The winner of the third annual Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival has been announced as Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha. Shrivastava was presented with the award by Doctor Who and Broadchurch star David Tennant at the Glasgow Film Theatre before the festival’s Closing Gala, the World Premiere of Mad […]
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Dragged Up, Musical Comedy at The Shed, 24 – 26 May, 2017
Part of the Southside Fringe Tickets £12/£10 plus booking fee www.tramdirect.com or telephone 0141 637 0778
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Monday, April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Catalyst Conversations on the Experimental Essay, Workshops, Submissions by 7 April, 2017
Experimental and Genre-Bending Essays Elizabeth Reader, Creative Writing Tutor, University of Glasgow is organizing a pair of catalyst conversations and workshops around Experimental and Genre-Bending Essays. This is a call for participants. Elizabeth is seeking people who are interested in looking at experimental, cross-discipline forms as a way to finding the best way to […]
CHANNELING JABEZ, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, OranMor, Mon 3 April – Sat, 08 April, 2017
CHANNELING JABEZ Mon, 03 April, 2017 — Sat, 08 April, 2017 By Giles Croft | Directed By Liz Carruthers OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Cast: Giles Croft A play in 22 attempts Produced by A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Òran Mór, presented in association with the Traverse Theatre. Jabez Wolffe; Channel swimmer, […]
Saturday, April 1, 2017 | 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
Chris Brookmyre, Aye Write, Mitchell Library, 20 April, 2017
Chris Brookmyre – Want You Gone 20th Apr 2017 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library A special event to launch his new novel: Want You Gone. We are pleased to welcome the winner of the McIlvanney prize for a special event to launch his new noel Want You Gone. Sam Morpeth is growing up […]
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Jo Nesbo, The Thirst, Aye Write, Mitchell Library, 18 April, 2017
18th Apr 2017 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library Harry Hole is back! We are incredibly pleased to welcome back the number one best-selling author of The Snowman and Police with his latest novel The Thirst. Harry Hole is back! We are incredibly pleased to welcome back the number one best-selling author of The […]
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Russkaya Cappella’s Summer Concert ‘The Centenary of the Revolution, Hyndland Parish Church, Sunday 11th June 2017
Part of West End Festival 2017 Russkaya Cappella’s Summer Concert ‘The Centenary of the Revolution: Music from the Time of the Earthquake’ Sunday 11th June 2017, 7.30pm Hyndland Parish Church, 79 Hyndland Road, Glasgow G12 9JE £10 / £8 concession, accompanied school age children free, available on the door The Centenary of the Revolution: Music […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Eastwood Theatre, Giffnock 9 – 12 May, 2017
Priscilla Queen of the Desert Based on the smash-hit movie, PRISCILLA is the heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship, and end up finding more than they could have ever dreamed of. With a dazzling array of outrageous costumes and a hit parade of dancefloor […]
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Eriska, Cottiers Theatre, 14 April, 2017
Cottiers, 14 Apr 2017 – 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Eriska – with Gazing and Triptych Eriska is a six-piece Glasgow-based folk band established in 2016. The band’s lineup includes members from the traditional music, jazz, and classical courses at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The members draw upon their disparate backgrounds and combine rock, […]
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A Tale of Two Cities, Thistle Gallery, Park Road, 8th – 23 April, 2017
Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com A Tale of Two Cities Eleven Glasgow artists portray their city in oils, acrylics and photographs featuring the work of Cecilia Cardiff, Paul Kennedy, Kristina Dickson, Peter Nardini, Irene Gall, James Somerville Lindsay, Leanna Dawson, Stephen Murray, Michael […]
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Friday, March 31, 2017 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
McSmörgåsbord by Lesley Riddoch, Book Launch, Serenity Cafe, Edinburgh, 18 Aprol, 2017
18 April 2017 6.30 p.m. McSmörgåsbord book launch with journalist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch. The Nordic countries have a veritable smörgåsbord of relationships with the European Union, from in to out to somewhere in between. So, what does that mean for Scotland? The unique combination of personal experience and experts’ insights give McSmörgåsbord its hands-on […]
Nineteen Eighty-Four, GFT, 4 April, 2017
Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 April, 2017 GFT On 4 April 2017, cinemas across the USA will jointly screen this highly praised adaptation of George Orwell’s seminal novel – commemorating the great John Hurt and recognising the threat that US free speech faces as liberal voices are silenced. April 4th is the date that Winston […]
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GLITCH Film Festival El Canto del Colibrí , CCA, Sat 1 April 2017
CCA Sat 1 April 2017 12noon, Free (unticketed), Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GLITCH Film Festival Fri 24 March — Sat 1 April 2017 Much like the seldom-heard song of the hummingbird, the voices of Latino fathers are rarely heard addressing LGBTQ issues. But in this film, these […]
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GLITCH Film Festival Mommy is Coming, CCA Fri 31 March 2017
Fri 31 March 2017 6pm, Free (unticketed), Theatre, 18+ F-Rated 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GLITCH Film Festival Fri 24 March — Sat 1 April 2017 Another classic from groundbreaking director Cheryl Dunye – this time revelling in a camp B-Movie aesthetic reminiscent of Bruce la Bruce – touches on taboos and offers up […]
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The Handmaiden: Director’s Cut, GFT, 2 April, 2017
Inspired by Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel ‘Fingersmith’, the latest film from visionary director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst, Stoker) is a ravishing, epic and sensual rollercoaster ride. 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation: a new girl, Sookee is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko who lives a secluded life on a […]
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The Colour of Whisky + Roseanne Reid, The State Bar, 31 March, 2017
Yellowroom Music presents: The Colour of Whisky & Roseanne Reid General Admission (e-ticket) £5.00 (+£1.00 S/C) “If ABBA wrote folk songs…” No member of The Colour of Whisky lives or, to the best of our available knowledge, has ever lived near the sea but it’s a recurring reference in lyrics and music for this new […]
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