What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Take 2: Wolfwalkers at GFT

wolf walkers

Saturday 30 November, 2024 at 11.30 a.m. n a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her […]

Read the full article: Take 2: Wolfwalkers at GFT

Friday, November 29, 2024 | Filed under: Film Reviews by Calum Maclean, Kids and young people

Winter Warmer Family Fun Day University of Glasgow

Saturday 14 December, 2024, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW University of Glasgow (ARC) annual, free Winter Warmer Family Day, this year with a focus on Winter Stories. A host of festive activities. All activities are FREE and most are drop-in. You’ll find extra […]

Read the full article: Winter Warmer Family Fun Day University of Glasgow

The Old Govan Fair Christmas

govan christmas

Saturday 30 November, 2024 Programme of Events at various venues See poster:   Further details of events on Facebook  

Read the full article: The Old Govan Fair Christmas

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Christmas Shopping in Glasgow, Free Events

Kelvingrove Christmas Market 2024

tree green

Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December, 2024 Saturday 10 a.m – 5 p.m. & Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free entry – An unmissable festive market in a fabulous venue. Event by Tea Green Pop Up Events Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum will have creative […]

Read the full article: Kelvingrove Christmas Market 2024

Elf – Seamore Neighbourhood Community Cinema

elf seamore community cinema

Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 at 7 p.m. Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema invites you to the screening of Elf! Get ready for a night of laughter and holiday cheer at this classic Christmas movie. The Seamore Neighbourhood Community Cinema, Community Central Halls, 304 Maryhill Road Glasgow G20 7YE Enjoy a fun-filled evening. Bring your friends and family for […]

Read the full article: Elf – Seamore Neighbourhood Community Cinema

Winter Wanderland Kelvinbridge 2024

winter wanderland kelvinbridge

7 – 12 December, 2024 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Gibson St and surrounding area A wonderful wander in the heart of the West End. Tenement windows of Glasgow lit up with marvellous creations. From Gibson st to Great Western Rd, University to Woodlands, everyone can join in and make this a real spectacle. Taking […]

Read the full article: Winter Wanderland Kelvinbridge 2024

Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh creative conversartions

Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh Monday 25 November 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of nine novels, most recently To the Dogs, a campus novel. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the […]

Read the full article: Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh

Saturday, November 23, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Winter Solstice

winter solstice

Sunday 15th December, 2024,  1 – 4 p.m. Woodlands Community Meeting Room, 66 Ashley Street, Glasgow, G3 6HWWoodlands Community Garden, 117 W Prince’s St, Glasgow G4 9BYFlourish House, 23-25 Ashley St, Glasgow G3 6DR This event is free however the*Warm Welcome Café at Flourish House is on a pay what you can basis. It’s the winter […]

Read the full article: Winter Solstice

Run Lola Runar GFT

run lola run

Tuesday 26 November, 2024 – 8,30 p.m. Lola (Franka Potente) answers a red phone the same colour as her punk rock hair. It’s her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), a small time courier for a big time gangster. He is at a pay phone with a big problem. His boss is coming to pick up 100,000 […]

Read the full article: Run Lola Runar GFT

I Am Cuba – 60th Anniversary at GFT

i am cuba

Monday 25 November, 2024, 7.50 p.m. “They’re going to be carrying ravished film students out of the theatres on stretchers.” – New Yorker To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of one of cinema’s most beguiling gems, see this beautiful 4K restoration of Mikhail Kalatozov’s panorama of Cuban life. I Am Cuba’s subject is revolution, with four tales of […]

Read the full article: I Am Cuba – 60th Anniversary at GFT

| Filed under: Cinema

NT Live: Prima Facie

Prima Facie

Sunday, 24, November, 2024, 4.20 p.m. Wednesday, 27 November, 2024, 8.00 p.m. Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; […]

Read the full article: NT Live: Prima Facie

| Filed under: Cinema

Vinicombe Street Christmas Event and Tree Switch On

Festival of Kindness

Sunday 24 November, 2024 Festive fun, live music, and the magical tree switch-on! Vinicombe Street will be alive with a Christmas Market from 11 a.m. – amazing vendors offering unique gifts Free face painting and balloon modelling Live music from 12 Noon with Sabrina Mandulu, The Rock Choir and more…. Social Bite and their Festival […]

Read the full article: Vinicombe Street Christmas Event and Tree Switch On

A Christmas Carol R.S.N.O.

a christmas carol rsno

1 – December, 2024 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont Street, Glagow G2 3NW ’Tis the season to be jolly! R.S.N.O. Children’s Classic Concerts (CCC) need your help to save Scrooge from his surly ways (what the Dickens is that all about?). Can the magic of the festive season take away those ‘bah humbugs’ and […]

Read the full article: A Christmas Carol R.S.N.O.

Seasonal Networking Event: City Food Plan Network and Development Day

food networking event

Friday 22 November, 2024 10.30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Part of the Seasonal Networking Events collection City Food Plan Network and Development Day: A focus on Community Food and Urban Agriculture Kinning Park Complex 43 Cornwall St Glasgow G41 1BA Glasgow Community Food Network would like to invite community members involved with food and growing activities in the […]

Read the full article: Seasonal Networking Event: City Food Plan Network and Development Day

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events

Scotland – Independence Day by David Lee Knight

Scotland Independence Day

Scotland – Independence Day Scottish Independence is finally here. Well at least, in fiction, in the shape of David Lee Knight’s recently published novel Scotland – Independence Day. When the protagonists in this intriguing thriller come to realise that independence is not achievable by political means alone, they embark on a far riskier journey into […]

Read the full article: Scotland – Independence Day by David Lee Knight

Weans in the Woodlands, OranMor

weans in the woodlands

26 November, 2024 – 5 January, 2025 OranMor, Top of  Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX They go by many names.  Kids, bairns, children, sprogs, rugrats, naïve idiots who still believe in Santa…And then there’s plain old ‘Weans’.  And who’d have them, eh?  But there’s Weans and then there’s Weans in the Wood(lands). Best pals- but they […]

Read the full article: Weans in the Woodlands, OranMor

Peter Pan at The Kings Theatre, Glasgow

peter pan

23 November, 2024 – 5 January, 2025 Kings Theatre, 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JN, UK Join Peter Pan and the characters you know and love this Christmas in this swashbuckling pantomime adventure, based on the original by J M Barrie. Starring the return of pantomime legends Elaine C Smith as Mrs Smee and Johnny Mac as Smee, this family treat […]

Read the full article: Peter Pan at The Kings Theatre, Glasgow

Keep Talking – Literary Charity Evening Glasgow

literary charity event

Tuesday 19 November, 2024, 7.30 p.m. With Jim Carruth CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Keep Talking – An Evening With Some Of Scotland’s Leading Writers A special literary charity evening in Glasgow featuring some of Scotland’s leading writers for a 24/7 help line that offers a free health counselling support for the farming community […]

Read the full article: Keep Talking – Literary Charity Evening Glasgow

Marjorie Lotfi Creative Conversations

Marjorie Lofti

Monday 18 November, 2024 – 1 – 2 p.m. University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Marjorie Lotfi is the author of The Wrong Person to Ask, which was the recipient of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2021, Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2024 (Forward Prizes) and […]

Read the full article: Marjorie Lotfi Creative Conversations

Sunday, November 17, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Rumpelstiltskin Panto at Platform Glasgow

rumpelstiltskin

Tuesday 3 December – Tuesday 23 December 2024 Platform, The Bridge 100 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, Glasgow G34 9JW CHRISTMAS AT Platform Glasgow: RUMPELSTILTSKIN Packed full of songs, jokes and larger than life characters, Rumpelstiltskin is on at Platform, Easterhouse, this Christmas. A family friendly, joyful show from the team that brought you Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty […]

Read the full article: Rumpelstiltskin Panto at Platform Glasgow

The Kings and Theatre Royal Charity Panto Giveaway

panto charity giveaway

PANTO CHARITY GIVEAWAY If you haven’t heard the good news, to celebrate their 60th anniversary of panto at The King’s, tickets are being offered to local charities for first week of shows. Charities can apply for tickets performances from Sat 23 – Thu 28 Nov, 2024 and look forward to a high-flying adventure this festive […]

Read the full article: The Kings and Theatre Royal Charity Panto Giveaway

The Wizard of Oz- A Wicked Glesga Panto!

wizard of oz

 Friday 20th December 2024 – Sunday 22nd December 2024  Maryhill Community Central Halls, 292 – 316 Maryhill Road, Glasgow, G20 7YE Join Halo Arts this December for their fab new festive community panto Book tickets £16 adult/£14 child.

Read the full article: The Wizard of Oz- A Wicked Glesga Panto!

Chiara Berardelli – Archaeology Album Launch

archaeology album launch

23 November, 2024, 7.30 p.m. Mackintosh Halls, 15 – 17 Shakespeare Street,  G20 8TH Chiara Berardelli and her fabulous band launch her latest album, Archaeology, in the intimate surroundings of The Mackintosh Halls.An evening to feed your soul.Support by Ali Stott. Tickets £10 plus booking fee

Read the full article: Chiara Berardelli – Archaeology Album Launch

French Film Festival at GFT

french film festival

Friday 15 – Thursday 28 November, 2024 French Film Festival UK Vive le cinéma! The much-loved French Film Festival UK returns to GFT, bringing  latest and greatest in French cinema as well as some golden oldies. The programme kicks off with Robert Guédiguian’s charming romantic drama And the Party Goes On, and a special screening […]

Read the full article: French Film Festival at GFT

Glasgow Madrigirls University of Glasgow

madrigirls

Sunday 1 December, 20243 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, West Quadrangle The University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Madrigirls much-loved annual concert of music and readings for Advent. This year celebrating the music and poetry of the British Isles – from Cornish wassails to Hebridean lullabies, carols from medieval […]

Read the full article: Glasgow Madrigirls University of Glasgow

Beauty and the Beastie – Panto at The Pavilion

beauty and the beastie panto

28 November 2024 – 12 January, 2025 The Pavilion, 121 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3AX Life in Cludgie on the Cobbles is quiet and peaceful.  Beauty passes her days helping her mother, Professor Porridge and their neighbours Dame Dolly Drumchapel and her son, Hector.  Up in Cludgie Castle, however, things are not so tranquil.  The […]

Read the full article: Beauty and the Beastie – Panto at The Pavilion

Peter Panto and the Incredible Stinkerbell

Peter Panto and the Incrfedible Styinkerbell at The Tron

22 November 2024 – 5 January, 2025 The Tron, 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB FOR AGES 7yrs+ WINNER OF THE UK PANTOMIME AWARD 2024 FOR BEST PANTOMIME (UNDER 500 SEATS) FOR AGANEZA SCROOGE. With a blast of magic from the mighty Stinkerbell, Peter Pan whisks West End Wendy away from the safety of her Byres […]

Read the full article: Peter Panto and the Incredible Stinkerbell

Jill Jackson at Gartmore

Jill Jackson

Wednesday, 20 November, 2024 7.30 p.m.  Black Bull Gartmore Presents Black Bull Gartmore, Main Street Gartmore FK8 3RW Jill Jackson is one of Scotland’s leading singer songwriters and an acclaimed artist within the thriving international Americana music scene. Her latest album ‘Curse Of The Damned’ was released to much acclaim earlier this year (2024). Introduced […]

Read the full article: Jill Jackson at Gartmore

Polite Society at GFT

Polite Society

Monday 11 November, 2024 at 6 p.m. Access Film Club – Autism Friendly We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor directs this wickedly funny crowd-pleaser brimming with hi-jinks, high kicks and some Bollywood style razzle-dazzle. Back at GFT following its sold-out screening as Glasgow Film Festival Closing Gala 2023. British Pakistani schoolgirl Ria (Priya Kansara) is an […]

Read the full article: Polite Society at GFT

Hattie Crissell at University of Glasgow

Hattie Crissell

Monday, November 11, 2024 5 – 7pm Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place Glasgow G11 6EY Hattie Crisell: Reading and in Conversation Hattie Crissell, author of In Writing (Granta) and host of Podcast In Writing – a freelance writer based in London, who produces and hosts the podcast In Writing with Hattie Crisell, interviewing […]

Read the full article: Hattie Crissell at University of Glasgow

Sunday, November 10, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

wolf walkers

Copyright Glasgow Westend 2009 thru 2017

Contact Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End | About Pat Byrne | Privacy Policy | Design by Jim Byrne Website Design