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. Celtic Connections: Kirsty Law Young Night Thought, Part 1 – 31 January, 2017
Celtic Connections Strathclyde Suite, Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, G2 31 January, 2017 – 8pm This show invites the audience to come and witness the opening chapter of Kirsty Law’s exploration of the concept of the ‘inner child’ through folklore, song and film. Working with filmmaker Daniel Warren, producer Ben Seal and painter […]
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2017, 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 Glasgow Cabbie – Glasgow’s Hidden Gem by Jane Sweeney
King of the Courts – The Glasgow Cabbie – raising money with the help of Andy Murray People Make Glasgow – Glasgow Cabbie’s welcome on the Tour Bus Glasgow is a city of surprises, if you look beyond the beautiful buildings to the empty spaces you find all sorts of delights, including poems! It […]
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Monday, January 9, 2017 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Glasgow West End Local characters, Jane Sweeney: Blogging about Glasgow and its hidden gems., People: Local Glasgow West End Characters
Aye Write, Speakeasy and Open Mic, Mitchell Library, Thursday 9 March, 2017
9 March, 2017 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers’ Centre: 6:00 – 7:30 pm St. Mungo’s Mirrorball: 7:30 – 8:45 pm Calling all writers! Dust of those works in progress and put on your best prose for a night of literary readings, and creating. The Scottish Writers’ Centre in partnership with Aye Write are […]
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West End Festival, New Writing Showcase, CCA, 14 March, 2017
Calling all writers and poets – the New Writing Showcase is back. 14 March at the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Submission Deadline 26 February, 2017 If you would like to read at this event then submit a synopsis/abstract (200 words max) of what you would intend reading plus […]
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West End Youth Theatre at Hillhead Library
West End Youth Theatre at Hillhead Library starts back on Sunday 22nd January. Now have a group for 12-16 year olds as well as the junior youth theatre. Email info@wearehaloarts.com to reserve a place!
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Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band: Ceilidh Nights at Òran Mór 23 January and 27 March, 2017
Concerto Caledonia Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band: Ceilidh Nights at Òran Mór Party like it’s 1799! Celebrate the roots of ceilidh dancing in tunes and dances from 18th-century Scotland. Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band: Ceilidh Nights reinvent the 18th-century ceilidh, bringing together early music group Concerto Caledonia with some of the leading lights in Scottish traditional music, […]
The Primevals, Combat Rock, Carlton Jug Band, McChuills, Friday 10 February, 2017
10 February, 2017 7 p.m. – 12 a.m. McChuills, 40 High Street G1 1 NL Event on Facebook
Saturday, January 7, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Writing Historical Fiction with Catherine Hokin, CCA, 31 January, 2016
Writing Historical Fiction with Catherine Hokin This talk centres on defining the genre of Historical Fiction and where the writer, Catherine Hokin fits within that genre. Hokin will discuss her writing process and why it pays to have an angle, and why she chose to write about rediscovering lost female voices. Hokin will address the […]
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Overhaul, Ivory Blacks, 14 January, 2016
First concert of 2017 and first concert since 2014 and first concert with Mintit Promotions. Let’s make this a great little night. £6 Buy tickets Event on Facebook 56 Oswald Street, Glasgow G1 4LP
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Dumb Instrument with special guests Djana Garbrielle / Martha L. Healy, Seven Song Club, Friday 27 January, 2017
Dumb Instrument with special guests Djana Garbrielle / Martha L. Healy Seven Song Club The Tron, 63 Trongate, G1 5HB Friday 27 January, 2017 Event on Facebook
Friday, January 6, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CinemaAttic: Do You Remember , CCA, Friday 13 January, 2017
Fri 13 January 2017 7.30pm, £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 These Short Film fanatics are back with the finest independent films from Spain And Latin American countries. In January Cinemaattic get back with a night focused on the power of the Memory. Idols and individuals […]
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The Dance of Reality, GFT, 9 and 10 January, 2017
The Dance of Reality GFT 9 and 10, 2017 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the legendary director of El Topo and Santa Sangre, returned in 2013 with this, his first feature in almost a quarter of a century. With typical joyous idiosyncrasy, The Dance of Reality is an exercise in imagined autobiography (the first in a series which […]
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In Pursuit of Silence, GFT, Sunday 8 January, 2017
In Pursuit of Silence GFT Sunday 8 January, 2017 In society’s race towards modernity, amidst technological innovation and the rapid growth of cities, silence is now quickly passing into legend. From the Desert Fathers of the third century AD who became the model for Christian monasticism to John Cage’s seminal work 4’33”, which would go […]
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Futher Beyond GFT 9 – 10 January, 2017
Further Beyond GFT 9 – 10 January, 2017 By way of two intertwining stories of Irish immigration and displacement, a poetic journey is made into the idea of the cinematic location and the transformative power of travel. Directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy explore the extraordinary story of misfit and adventurer Ambrosio O’Higgins, expanding upon […]
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Hunt For The Wilderpeople GFT 10 January, 2017
GFT 10 January, 2017 6 p.m. Raised on hip-hop and in and out of foster homes, rebellious city kid Ricky (newcomer Julian Dennison) gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home he goes on the run with his gruff guardian, Hec (Sam […]
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The Dreamed Ones, GFT 6 and 7 January, 2017
The Dreamed Ones GFT 6 – 7 January, 2017 Concentration camp survivor and poet Paul Celan met fellow writer Ingeborg Bachmann in 1948, and the two began a long-distance correspondence that would last for 20 years despite the erstwhile couple meeting only once more throughout that time. Documentarian Ruth Beckermann investigates this relationship in an […]
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Krisha GFT 6 – 9 January, 2017
Krisha GFT 6 – 9 January, 2017 Winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at the 2015 South-by-Southwest Film Festival, Trey Edward Shults’ directorial debut Krisha is the story of a woman’s return to the family she abandoned years before, set over the course of one turbulent Thanksgiving dinner. A palpable unease […]
Endless Poetry, GFT, 6 – 12 January, 2017
GFT 6 – 12 January, 2017 The second autobiographical film in legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed cycle of cinematic memoirs (part one, The Dance of Reality, also screens this month), Endless Poetry recounts the artist’s young manhood in 1940s Chile. A young Jodoworosky finds himself drawn into the foremost bohemian artistic circles in Chile […]
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Sounds in the Suburbs present James King and the Lone Wolves + The Veloninos, CCA, 14 January, 2017
Sat 14 January 2017 7.30pm, £12 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 James Kind and the Lone Wolves Nowadays, the Lone Wolves guitars resonate like Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s once did in Television in ‘75 – an unhinged Creedence Clearwater Revival; a Hitchcock-tampered-with The Byrds, and a cerebrally, […]
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Hogmanay at BAaD, Saturday 31 December, 2016
Do something a little different for Hogmanay… BAaD 6.30 P.M. – 1 a.m. At BAaD and A’Challtainn Fish Restaurant & Bar to dine & dance the night away as they team up with some of their favourite friends for a tasty & boozy New Year’s Eve party – bring in 2017 in style! […]
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Friday, December 30, 2016 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The King’s Theatre, Glasgow Programme Autumn 2016 – Spring 2017
See Full Programme of Shows King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JN Cinderella (Fri 2 Dec 2016 – Sun 8 Jan 2017) ‘We’ll all be going to the ball this year as Cinderella, the godmother of all pantos, returns to the King’s. Starring Scottish comedy legends Gregor Fisher and Tony Roper as those awfy […]
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Hogmanay at OranMor, 31 December, 2016
Hogmanay in The Club Room at Òran Mór! Bring in the bells with DJ Bobby Bluebell from 10.30pm Tickets £15 available from the bar or Ticketweb
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The Lions of Lisbon, The Tron, 29 January, 2017
Tron Theatre Ltd., 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB Celebrating 50 years since Celtic’s immortal victory that saw them become the first British team to win the European Cup. Willy Maley and Ian Auld’s hit play The Lions of Lisbon is revived here as a rehearsed reading with music, directed by Martin McCardie and ex-Wildcat mainstay […]
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Thursday, December 29, 2016 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2017, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Brave The Grosvenor, 31 December, 2016 10.30 a.m.
The Grosvenor Ashton Lane G12 31 December, 2016 10.30 a.m. Pixar Animation Studios’ 13th Feature-Length Animated Film Features the Voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane. With a courageous and impetuous heroine leading the way, Disney/Pixar sets out on yet another extraordinary journey-this time across […]
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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Uptight upright upside down The Manchurian Candidate, CCA, Thu 5 January 2017
Thu 5 January 2017 CCA 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Uptight upright upside down Fri 11 November 2016 — Sun 8 January 2017 A screening of John Frankenheimer’s original Manchurian Candidate (1962), the famous ‘Hydrangea’ scene from which is referenced in Marvin […]
A Space Odyssey GFT 27 – 30 December, 2016
Stanley Kubrick’s sublime science fiction masterpiece, scripted by both Kubrick and famed writer Arthur C Clarke, is regularly cited not only as one of the greatest pieces of science fiction, but also as one of the finest works of cinema ever made. Charting the birth and evolution of mankind, as well as our interactions with […]
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The Ardennes 2 – 5 January, 2017 GFT
2 – 5 January, 2017 GFT Robin Pront’s eye-catching debut set in an atmospheric Antwerp follows the consequences of troublemaker Kenny’s release from prison. In Kenny’s absence, his brother Dave has remained on the straight and narrow. He has also begun a relationship with Kenny’s girlfriend Sylvie, who is now pregnant. Any family reunion is […]
Francofonia 29 and 30 December, 2016 GFT
29 and 30 December, 2016 GFT Francofonia combines newsreel footage, floating images from the skyline of Paris and dramatised fantasy sequences to create a portrait of the Louvre Museum that grows into a meditation on France’s devotion to the arts, and how the museum contains the heart and soul of the nation. There are encounters […]
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The Unknown Girl, GFT 29 and 30 December, 2016
29 and 30 December, 2016 GFT Doctor Jenny Davin refuses to open the door of her practice to a mysterious late-night caller. The next morning she learns that the caller was a girl who has now been found dead, and that the police have no way to identify her. Guilt-stricken, Jenny resolves to discover the […]
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Hell or High Water 27 – 30 December, 2016 GFT
27 – 30 December, 2016 GFT Hell or High Water merges a gripping family drama with an action packed Neo-Western. Two brothers, Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) face the foreclosure of their family’s farm and decide to team up for a string of adrenaline filled heists. They soon find themselves on the radar […]
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