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. Some Highlights: Glasgow 850 Celebrations Events
Events celebrating Glasgow’s 850th birthday will run throughout 2025. Clyde Chorus (29-30 May): Launching with a procession around Pacific Quay led by the Lord Provost, this three-day multi-genre musical event with a focus on homegrown and local talent, will take place at iconic venues along the River Clyde, including the SEC Armadillo, SWG3, The Briggait, […]
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Call for Palestinian Artists to Perform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
CALL OUT FOR PALESTINIAN ARTISTS TO PERFORM AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE Opportunity for artists in Palestine and the diaspora to perform in Scotland at the world’s largest arts festival. Looking for Palestinian musicians, theatre-makers, dancers, story-tellers, children’s performers, poets and comedians to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Fringe Palestine. Deadline to […]
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Friday, January 17, 2025 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Dance, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog
Celtic Connections on Campus, Glasgow Caledonian University
20 – 24 January, 2025 Glasgow Caledonian University in the GCU Students’ Association building from 20th to 24th Jan each day at 12:30. Glasgow Caledonian University Campus, N Hanover St, Glasgow G4 0BA Celtic Connections on Campus 2025 as part of Celtic Connections here at Glasgow Caledonian University: Mon 20th January, 2025 – Meallan – To The Wild […]
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Thursday, January 16, 2025 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2025, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Celtic Connections: Lyle Lovett and his acoustic group
Saturday 19 January, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Celtic Connections proudly presents Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group with special guest Jon Muq A singer, composer and actor, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums. Coupled with his […]
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The Nature of Distance – Film Screening – ARC
Wednesday 29 Januaary 2025, 6 p.m. Atrium, Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow G11 6EW As with any start to a new year there is an unspoken universal rule to look ahead, to visualize and plan in hope for change, new memories and adventure. Yet, many of us are bound to […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Free Events
Winter Wander Springburn Winter Gardens
Friday 17 January, 2025, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Creative Wander around Springburn Winter Gardens and Park with Stephanie Whitelaw, Community Engagement Artist. Springburn Park, Mosesfield St, Glasgow G21 3UD Stephanie is developing a creative engagement project with Springburn Winter Gardens Trust with a focus on walking, eco-therapy and exploring local ecology. The walk will […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Free Events, Friends of People's Palace and Winter Gardens at Glasgow Green, Pat's Home Page Blog, Peoples Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green, Walks and Tours Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Woodlands Community Ant-Racist Library
The Anti-Racist Community library will open fortnightly on Sundays in Woodlands Community Meeting Room and Events Terrace, 66 Ashley Street, G3 6HW. Meeting January 26 at 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. The library has books for people of all ages – children, young people, adults. There are fiction and non-fiction books, serious and light-hearted but […]
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | Filed under: Community event, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Woodlands Community
Tidelines Book Festival Scrievin’ and Scran 2025
Friday 24 January, 2025 7.30 p.m. Harbour Arts Centre 114-116 Harbour Street , KA12 8PZ Irvine A warming evening of poetry and prose, with a half-time hot pie included in the ticket price, this is the Tidelines-recommended recipe for warding off those January blues. Scrievin & Scran 2025 will be hosted by local professional actor […]
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Creative Conversations Kirsty Mackay
Photographic artist in conversation Monday 20 January, 2025 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Kirsty Mackay is an photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker. Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South […]
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Babygirl at GFT
17 – 30 January, 2025 Nicole Kidman shines as a high-powered CEO who puts her life’s work on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern in this erotic thriller from Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies). Also showing the short film Hen Do (2 min) from Alia Ghafar ahead of all […]
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Monday, January 13, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Secrets and Lies at GFT
Wednesday 15 January, 2025, 5.40 p.m. An expert observer of unembellished humanity, writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy with this exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships. When Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth […]
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tell it slant at Locavore
Friday 30 January 2026 @ 7 p.m. Express Yourself – Tell it Slant at Locavore, 349 Victoria Rd, Glasgow G42 7SA Come along to Tell it Slant poetry bookshop for a wonderful, fun monthly open mic. The first of the year. Each poet gets a spot on the microphone to “express themselves”. No theme, no […]
Candlelight Poetry Slam, Old Toll Bar
3 February, 2025 at 7.30 p.m. The Old Toll Bar, 1 Paisley Rd W, Kinning Park, Glasgow G51 1LF Come along – all welcome. The floor will be open to all who fancy a little bit of (absolutely meaningless) competition. Here are the rules: 1. 3 Rounds – Rounds 1 + 2 have a 2 […]
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Burns Night Ceilidh and Dinner at Cottiers
Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January, 2025 Cottiers’ annual Burns’ Night celebration – a three-course meal followed by a fantastic ceilidh, led by Cottiers’ favourites The Big Stupit’ Ceilidh Band. Doors will open at 7pm for the traditional Burns’ Supper meal, followed by a night of dancing to all of your favourite Scottish ceilidh classics. […]
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Friday, January 10, 2025 | Filed under: Burns Events, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
John Smith and Georgia Ruth, Cottiers, Celtic Connections
Saturday, 18 January, 2025 Born in Essex, raised by the Devon seaside, and making his bones in the bars and clubs of Liverpool, John Smith has released six studio albums and played to audiences worldwide, barely pausing for breath during his eighteen years as a full-time troubadour. Taking his cue from Richard Thompson, John Martyn and Ry […]
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2025, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Songwriters in the Round – Celtic Connections
Friday 17 January, 2025, 7.30 p.m. John Douglas, Kirsten Anderson and Boo Hewerdine Celtic Connections 2025 Proudly Presents Songwriters In The Round: John Douglas, Kirsten Adamson & Boo Hewerdine Buy tickets Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Celtic Connections 16 January – 2 February, 2025
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| Filed under: Celtic Connections 2025, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Community Fayre and Volunteer Celebration
Wednesday, 29 January, 2025, 4.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. The Whiteinch Centre, 1 Northinch Court, Glasgow, G14 0UG Community Fayre and Volunteer Celebration at The Whiteinch Centre to find out about the range of community based services and volunteering opportunities in your local communities . Free event. Provide services? – does your organisation provide services and/or […]
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Loud Poets Slam Heat Glasgow
Saturday 11 January, 2025 Drygate Brewing Company. 85 Drygate Glasgow G4 0UT The prestigious Loud Poets Slam Series returns for its third year! Watch Glasgow’s top poets compete in one of 10 heats taking place across Scotland and England for the biggest prize in UK slam poetry. The winner will take home £200 and qualify […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Matthias and Maxime at GFT
Sunday 26 January, 2025, 2 p.m. Queer Cinema Sundays screening for January brings a rare chance to see Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime, a great film that fell between the cracks during its UK release, going straight to streaming at the height of the COVID pandemic in the summer of 2020. After the film, the […]
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow
Claire Wilson – Creative Conversations
Monday 13 January, 2025 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her crime books are based on her day job as an Intelligence Analyst in a Scottish Prison. She loves gritty crime and grew up […]
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Monday, January 6, 2025 | 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
BMX Bandits Celebrate 40 Years
Wednesday, 29 January, 2025 St Luke’s and The Winged Ox, 17 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2JZ BMX Bandits kick off their 40th year celebrations with a special show for Frets Concerts and Celtic Connections. They will play a set of BMX pop favourites from over the past 4 decades and their album Dreamers on the […]
Nosferatu at GFT
2 – 20 January,. 2025 The most hotly anticipated film of 2025 on Letterboxd and certain to be a big contender this awards season, Robert Eggers’ (The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. […]
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Thursday, January 2, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
We Live In Time at GFT
2 – 16 January, 2025 Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together – falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family – a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a […]
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Mrs Robinson at GFT
January 28 2025 8 p.m. A reforming constitutional lawyer and senator in her early career, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. Later, as a crusading UN High Commissioner, she built a lasting legacy; fearlessly challenging perpetrators of human rights abuses all over the world. To this day, […]
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The Girl With A Needle
10 – 16 January, 2025 A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, The Girl with the Needle is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world. Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn’s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to survive in […]
Maria at GFT
17 – 30 January, 2025 The new film from Pablo Larraín (Jackie and Spencer), Maria tells the glamorous, moving story of the iconic opera singer, Maria Callas. Paris, 1977: Once the world’s greatest soprano, Callas now hides in an apartment, having lost her voice and retreated from the world. She dreams of returning to the stage, but can her […]
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Take 2: An American Tail
Saturday 4 January, 2024 11.30 a.m. Every child attending a Take 2 Access screening receives a free ticket for themselves and two free tickets for their accompanying adult. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Additional tickets and/or tickets […]
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Spirited Away at GFT
2 – 9 January, 2025 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, experience Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s masterpiece in all its magical beauty on the big screen. This listing is for our Subtitled screenings — Dubbed Screenings information. Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the […]
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Monday, December 30, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Dead at GFT
Thursday 2 January, 2025 at 5.20 p.m. John Huston’s adaptation of the James Joyce short story, things begin to unravel after a convivial holiday dinner party when a couple address some prickly issues in their marriage. The feast of Epiphany is one of the highlights of the season in Dublin. Kate and Julia Morkan and […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Vermiglio at GFT
17 – 23 January, 2025 1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of the Second World War, […]
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Related Pages
- ARC Conversations: Failure, Collaboration and the Culture of Research
- Celtic Connections 2026: Opening Night World Connections
- Celtic Connections: Celebrating 60 years of Scotland’s Traditional Music and Song Association.
- Grant-Lee Phillips at Cottiers
- Partick Youth Theatre
- Louise Welsh in conversation with Chris Brookmyre – The Cut Up
- Hamnet at GFT
- Fiction Burns Supper (15th anniversary edition)
- Duo Marier, Billiard Room Session
- Take 2: Spy Kids
- Becoming Victoria Wood at GFT plus Q & A
- I Swear Screening at The Pyramid
- GFF2026 Opening Film ‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’
- Inclinations Film Club – Resisting Militarism
- Zique in Glasgow Celebrates Fiesta de Tres Reyes
- Peter Hujar’s Day at GFT
- California Schemin’ to close Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Eleanor the Great at GFT
- Take 2: Back to the Future
- Breathless at GFT
