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. West End Festival 2016: Drawing Day for Flower Fairies, Saturday 11 June, Thistle Gallery
DRAWING DAY FOR FLOWER FAIRIES Saturday, June 11th at 2pm Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Why not come along to The Thistle Gallery in Park Road, where sisters Jackie and Jilly Henderson will be involving visitors in their unique and quirky Moment Keeper […]
Book Launch: Buy Buy Baby by Helen MacKinven, 7 July, 2016 – Falkirk
Buy Buy Baby Helen MacKinven Behindthewall, 14 Melville Street, Falkirk, FK1 1HZ 7 July, 2016 – 7 p.m. What price tag would you put on a baby? Set in and around Glasgow, Buy Buy Baby is a moving and funny story of life, loss and longing.Packed full of bitchy banter, it follows the bittersweet quest […]
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book launch: This Far Back Everything Shimmers by Vicki Husband, Thur 30 June, Waterstones Byres Road
THIS FAR BACK EVERYTHING SHIMMERS by Vicki Husband Book launch on Thursday 30th June – at Waterstones Books, 351 – 355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU The universe has never been depicted so intimately, nor the mundane so infused with stellar significance as it is in the poetry of Vicki Husband. This debut collection is […]
Monday, June 6, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Kew Terrace Secret Gardens, Saturday 11 June, 2016
Garden Opening, Homemade Teas and Plant Stall Kew Terrace Secret Gardens, Off Great Western Road G12 0TG in the heart of Glasgow’s West End June 11th 2:00pm – 5:00pm. Great chance to wander around Kew Terrace, in and out of several private gardens, indulge in delicious homemade teas and buy some home grown plants at […]
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The Paul Alger Band, Sister John and Helen Reeves, The Glad Cafe, Sat 11 June, 2016
Saturday 11 June, 2016 7.30 p.m. The Glad Cafe on the 11th June – another incredible lineup including The Paul Alger Band, Sister John and Helen Reeves. Tickets are £8 and available from Brown Paper Tickets UK or they will also will be on the door on the night. The Paul Alger BandPaul writes and […]
The Sma’ Shot Slam 2016, Paisley Town Hall, Saturday 2 July, 2016
The Sma Shot Slam 2016 Saturday 2 July, 2016 7.30 p.m. Paisley Town HallSecond annual Sma’ Shot Festival poetry slam event.COMPETITORS vie for £50 prize money and a place in the Scottish Slam Finals in Edinburgh in March 2017.AUDIENCE get entertained by top performance poets with musical interludes.EVERYONE can visit the well stocked licenced bar.And […]
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West End Festival 2016: Dave Arcari, Hug and Pint, Saturday 11 June
Buzz Records presents Dave Arcari Hug and Pint 171 Great Western Road, G4 9AW £8 adv / £10 door http://www.davearcari.com Alt blues troubadour Dave Arcari’s sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues. Expect gravel-laden vocals accompanied by bottleneck National steel guitar, banjo and stomp box and […]
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Sunday, June 5, 2016 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, West End Festival 2016, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
West End Festival: So It Begins, Degree Show 2016, Kelvin College, Art, Fashion, Jewellery
Glasgow Kelvin College final year students present their 2016 Degree show in Fashion, Jewellery and Art. Open from 11am to 5pm. West End Campus Glasgow Kelvin College 75 Hotspur Street Glasgow G20 8LJ www.glasgowkelvin.ac.uk Part of West End Festival
Mini Musicals Season at A Play, A Pie and A Pint, June – July, 2016
OranMor, Lunch Time Theatre JUST ANNOUNCED… Father and son team Dave Anderson and Davey Anderson will be playing together in The Day I Found the Blues, along with top musician and harmonica player Fraser Speirs. Angela Darcy (Janis Joplin: Full Tilt) will team up with Jimmy Chisholm, Harry Ward and George Drennan in Mack the Knife by Morag Fullarton. Third up is […]
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West End Festival 2016: Vinicombe Street Party, Sunday 5 June, 2016
Vinicombe Street Party Sunday 5 June, 2016 12 pm. – 6 p.m. A great day out, come one, come all! bars al fresco, street food stalls, outdoor ping, facepainting, live music stage, DJs and hopefully a decent dose of scottish sunshine… Hillhead Book Club and VinYard 28 will combine forces in closing Vinicombe Street for […]
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Saturday, June 4, 2016 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, West End Festival 2016, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on Glasgow: Students
Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, Ten Writers Telling Lies at West End Festival
At this year’s West End Festival Ten Writers are participating in an event with musician Jim Byrne. Of the ten five attend Alan McMunnigal’s Creative Writing Classes at Glasgow University. Some have also studied at Glasgow University’s M.Litt in Creative Writing. They include writers whose work has been published in Germany and by Legend Press, […]
Love’s Long Road by G D Harper
Set in and around Glasgow’s West End in the 1970s, Love’s Long Road is GD Harper’s debut novel. Described by the Sunday Post as ‘a gritty summer read’, it is the story about a young woman leading a double life because of fear and guilt about her past. The eBook is on promotion with Amazon […]
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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Friday, June 3, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on Glasgow: Students
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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 […]
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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