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

Digital Desperados Purple Rain CCA Thu 9 June 2016

7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 15+ 0141 352 4900 Purple Rain Dir. Albert Magnoli 1984 111 mins US “Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called Life…” This screening is in honour to Prince on what would have been his 58th birthday on June 7th. Based on aspects of Prince’s real […]

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African Hopes, Beats and Dreams: The Dream of Shahrazad, CCA, Wed 8 June, 2016

Wed 8 June 2016 7pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema Ages: 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Francois Verster | 2014 | English/Arabic/Turkish with English subtitles | Documentary. Opening the ‘African Hopes, Beats and Dreams’ series shedding new light on pertinent and contemporary issues facing Africa, this unique music-led film looks at recent […]

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Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach – Pay What You Can Screening, Sunday 5 June, 2016

A special ‘pay what you can’ show of this career-spanning documentary on Ken Loach. GFT Tickets available on the day only. Sunday 5 June (15.30)Running time: 1h30m To celebrate the release of Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach, on Sunday 5 May, cinema-goers are invited to pay-what-they-can for this matinee screening. Audiences coming […]

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Only Yesterday, GFT, 7 June, 2016

Only Yesterday masterfully examines the worries of childhood and struggles of adulthood. Tuesday 7 June (20.25) Taeko is 27 years of old, unmarried and lives and works in Tokyo. She decides to take a trip to her relatives’ countryside farm and while travelling through the night aboard a sleeper train begins to recall memories of […]

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Hamish, 3 – 5 June, 2016. GFT

Hamish 3 – 5 June (18.40) Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) was a colossal figure in Scottish culture, a man of boundless passion and curiosity whose poems continue to elevate and inspire a nation. Robbie Fraser’s highly anticipated documentary pays tribute to the many contrary forces and diverse facets of Henderson’s life as a poet, soldier, intellectual, […]

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Solaris, GFT, Sunday 5 June, 2016

  Solaris transcends science fiction to portray an unsettling vision of humanity. Sunday 5 June (18.40) Solaris transcends science fiction to portray an unsettling vision of humanity. Widowed psychologist Chris Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting the ocean-covered planet of Solaris, to investigate a series of mysterious incidents among the crew. Finding the […]

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Everybody Wants One!! GFT, 3 – 9 June, 2016

Everybody Wants One!! Richard Linklater’s ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed & Confused. GFT 3 – 9 June, 2016 Applying the same deftness of touch and lightness of tone that he used with 1993’s Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater transports us to a small Texan college for this 1980s set ‘spiritual sequel’. Following the lives of a […]

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West End Festival 2016: Our Natural World: Art, Music, Story-Telling – The Children’s Wood

The Children’s Wood Nature Festival Sunday 5th June Join us for our first West-End Festival community event of the year. We’re excited to be inviting Eco Drama back to perform their unique outdoor theatre production of The Worm an Underground Adventure, Tam Dean Burn will be reading Stick Man and there will be lots of […]

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West End Festival 2016: Wilton Street Garden Fete, Saturday 11 June

Wilton Garden, Wilton Street, G20 6RE Saturday 11 Jun 1:30pm The Wilton Street Garden Fete is back for its third year at WEF! Wilton island Association is again organising its popular annual fete and everyone is welcome to come along for a fun-filled afternoon with kids’ entertainment, BBQ, scrumptious home baked cakes, local artists and […]

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West End Festival 2016: Queen Margaret Drive Street Festival, 5 June

Queen Margaret Dr, G20 8NZ  Sunday 5 June, 2016 From 12.30-5pm. Featuring the Big Street Ceilidh – ‘It’s no Reel!) and Community Street Play event. Fourteen community groups are involved on the day with over forty volunteers. A good opportunity to pop into QM Eye, Opticians – and treat yourself to some stylish new sunspecs

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Greece: Days of Change Sat 4 June 2016, CCA

7.30pm, £8 (£6) + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 CCA Greece: Days of Change follows three Greeks trying to take their destiny in their own hands as the recession continues, asking: Could this crisis be our chance to re-invent ourselves and our society? The film follows Glorgos,who became […]

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Love and Friendship, GFT, Friday 27 May – Thursday 9 June 2016

Love and Friendship Whit Stillman’s new wickedly hysterical and biting adaptation of a Jane Austen novella. Friday 27 May – Thursday 9 June Running time: 1h32m Whit Stillman, who has built a career on chronicling the lives of aimless youths within privileged circles, brings his hilarious and sardonic view to the world of Jane Austen […]

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Lies of the Land – Chris Dolan, Book Launch Review by Pat Byrne

Chris Dolan promised ‘a book launch with a difference ‘ on 1 June, 2016, when he launched his second Maddy Shannon mystery novel with the help of his many talented friends – it certainly worked out that way. There was a great turn out at Glasgow Caledonian University on a beautiful sunny evening and the […]

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STFU 6th Humanity’s Afterparty The Blue Chair Friday 3 June, 2016

The Blue Chair, 85 High Street G1 1NB 7 p.m. #rd June, 2016 STFU – Spoken Word That Leaves A Mark! STFU is back to get its monthly fix of eyeballs and you lot get to sit around and enjoy words and shit. Also, secretly we siphon off your precious bodily fluids and sell them […]

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Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5, OranMor, 3 June, 2016

OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX Friday 3 June, 2016 – 7.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. The Peace, Love & Mustard Tour 2016. N.B. If any Dijuniors want to join in the fun, this is a 14+ (under 18’s accompanied by an adult) gig. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, Henge and Rail Fan […]

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Aye Write! An evening with Tess Gerritsen, Mitchell Library, 21 July, 2016 6.30 p.m.

21st Jul 2016  •  6:30PM – 7:30PM  •  Mitchell Library The New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, now gives us a gripping stand-alone thriller: Playing with Fire. Tess Gerritsen, the New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, now gives us a gripping stand-alone thriller: Playing with […]

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Book launch: The Wrong Child by Barry Gornell, Cup, Merchant City, Wed 1 June, 2016

    Wednesday 1 June at 6.30pm   Celebrate the launch of The Wrong Child, Barry Gornell’s brilliant second novel.   Cup, Virginia Court, in Glasgow’s Merchant City.   The novel is the story of a village where 21 of the 22 children die in a disaster and only the ‘wrong child’ survives. Barry is […]

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Balkanarama’s annual SPECIAL, Glasgow 4 June, 2016

  TWO ROOMS \\\ FORTY PERFORMERS \\\ ONE GIGANTIC BIRTHDAY BAKLAVA CAKE oooopaaaaa!! Balkanarama is always a colorful flamboyant vivacious affair, but Balkanarama’s annual SPECIAL truly is an experience not to be missed! We are delighted to announce that this Birthday Celebration will welcome two beautifully accomplished bands: Faith i Branko (Serbia/UK) and Errichetta Underground […]

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Hugh Reed and The Velvet Underpants, McChuills, 20 August, 2016

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Mary Irvine’s Blog: Booked! The Grand Finale

The Grand Finale to a successful festival and who better to ensure it finished on a high than Rhona Cameron, TV personality and comedienne who had her own popular sitcom ‘Rhona’. Another well attended event with over 40 people turning out on quite a dreich night. (Note how I slip into the local patter!) The […]

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Whispers E.P. new release from Michael Clark Music

Whispers EP new release from Michael Clark Music Mic Clark is an accomplished musician – well known to many in the Scottish music scene through his band Acoustic Butterfly – one of Glasgow’s most popular and busiest acoustic bands.   He is also the charming host of some great Open Mic sessions in Glasgow. He […]

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint: DEL GESU’S VIOLA Mon, 30 May, 2016 — Sat, 04 June, 2016

OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Del Gesu’s Viola Mon, 30 May, 2016 — Sat, 04 June, 2016  By Hector MacMillan | Directed By Liz Carruthers  Featuring Peter Kelly, Eileen Nicholas, Finlay Welsh and Elisabeth Flett on Viola. Violins made 300 years ago now change hands for several million pounds each. When a hitherto unknown […]

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Last Monday at Rio, 30 May, 2016

Last Monday at Rio 30 May, 2016 – 8 p.m. Can’t recommend our topliner this month enough – Claudia Daventry – purveying wit, erudition and maybe even a bit of torchy Iberian song! First hour is open mic. Get in there. Cairns comperes. 27 Hyndland Street, Partick G11 5QF

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Street Level Photoworks Departures 28 May – 9 July 2016 Hillhead Library

STREET LEVEL PHOTOWORKS DEPARTURES Saturday 28 May – Saturday 9 July 2016 Hillhead Library, Glasgow Departures is an exhibition of work by New Photographers Guild, a photographic mentoring initiative led by Claire Stewart (lecturer – City of Glasgow College) and Elaine Livingstone (photographer and photo editor) in association with Street Level Photoworks. The nine participants, […]

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Summer Fair Dunard Street Primary School, Thursday 2 June, 2016

Free Event – All Welcome 65 Dunard Street Glasgow G20 6RL

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Yoga for Musicians, Sunday 29 May, 2016

Seasonal Yoga Academy 46 Darnley Street,Glasgow G41 2TY Sunday, 29 May, 2016 3.00 p.m. – 5 p.m.  Part of the South Side Fringe Festival 2016 This two hour workshop is aimed at musicians of all levels and styles, whether you’re an instrumentalist or a singer. Prior experience of yoga is not required, only an open […]

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Andrei Rublev, GFT, Sunday 29 May, 2016

Andrei Rublev Widely regarded as Tarkovsky’s finest film, this ambitious historical drama focuses on the life of the great icon painter Andrei Rublev. Sunday 29 May (18.15) Widely regarded as Tarkovsky’s finest film, this ambitious historical drama focuses on the life of the great icon painter Andrei Rublev. During a tumultuous period in 15th century […]

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Digital Desperadoes: Weekends 2 June, 2016 at CCA

Thu 2 June 2016 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 12+ 0141 352 4900 Weekends Dir. Lee Dong-ha 98 mins South Korea 2016 This uplifting documentary tells the story of G-Voice, Korea’s first gay chorus. Charting the up and downs of members lives, loves and back stage dramas, director Lee Dong-ha succeeds in giving an insight into […]

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GFT, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Tuesday 31 May, 2016

Kiki’s Delivery Service (U) Kiki is a trainee witch who moves to the big city with her chatty black cat to learn more about magic. Tue 31 May,2016 (18.20) Running time: 1h43m Kiki is a trainee witch who moves to the big city with her chatty black cat to learn more about magic. They move […]

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Johnny Guitar GFT Sunday 29 May, 2016

Joan crawford stars as vienna, a savvy saloon owner who teams up with semi-retired gunslinger johnny guitar in order to face off against some angry locals. Sunday 29 May (15.50) Joan Crawford stars as Vienna, a savvy saloon owner who teams up with semi-retired gunslinger Johnny Guitar in order to face off against some angry […]

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