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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..

The Doghouse Roses and Joseph Parsons Duo The Hug and Pint 8 April, 2016

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Friday, April 8, 2016  8 PM The Hug and Pint A special double bill featuring Scotland’s Doghouse Roses and from the U.S.A, the Joseph Parsons duo featuring Freddie Lubitz on guitar. Doghouse Roses celebrate the release of their third album ‘Lost is not Losing’, their first in 5 years. This album see’s the duo’s trademark […]

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Tally’s Blood, Glasgow Caledonian University, GCU Celebrates 25 years, Wednesday 24 February, 2016.

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Tally’s BloodGlasgow Caledonian UniversityWednesday, 24 February 2016 from 19:30 to 22:00 GCU celebrates 25 years of classic play with BAFTA-winning actor Juliet Cadzow Playwright Ann Marie Di Mambro’s family’s cafe Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is to celebrate 25 years of the classic Scots play Tally’s Blood, written by GCU Professor Ann Marie Di Mambro, with […]

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Sculptor to create Mary Barbour Statue has been announced.

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(Photo by Eddie Middleton) Andrew Brown is the name of the successful sculptor chosen to create the statue of Mary Barbour. The Remember Mary Barbour Association (RMBA) said: “The successful sculptor was announced from the stage of the hugely successful Gala Concert in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket, on 21 February.2016. Maria Fyfe, Chair of the Remember […]

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The Winter’s Tale Webster’s Theatre, 24 – 27 February, 2016

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The Winter’s Tale  24/02/2016 – 27/2/20167:30 pm – 10:00 pm Webster’s Theatre, Glasgow West End The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare Tickets £10 Adults, £6 Concessions (inc. booking fee).  Schools discount available on request. Strathclyde Theatre Group In a fit of jealousy Leontes orders his wife, Hermione, and baby daughter to be killed. Saved by […]

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Helen MacKinven Glasgow Women’s Library Story Cafe´Special, Thursday 25 February, 2016.

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Story Café Special: Helen MacKinven February 25, 2016 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm    GWL’s Story Café provides a uniquely intimate way of hearing from some of the best Scottish women writers. Helen MacKinven will chat about her fierce and funny debut novel, Talk of the Toun. An uplifting black comedy of love, family life […]

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White: Live at Queen Margaret Union, 20 February, 2016 – review by Calum Maclean

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White live at QMU, University of Glasgow,  20/02/16 For a group embarking on their first headline UK tour, Glaswegian five piece White displayed no nerves during their blistering forty five minute set last night.  I arrived at the show familiar with five songs, Future Pleasures, Private Lives, Blush, Be the Unknown and Living Fiction, but […]

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Just Comedy, Thursday 25 February, 2016 at The Wild Cabaret with Janey Godley

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8:30pm-11pm(reservations from 6:30pm)   Janey Godley curates the best comedy evening in Glasgow. Join her British comedians for a unique night of laughs that will set you up nicely for the weekend.  with Jamie Dalgleish Susan Mccabe Thursday, 25th February, 2016 Comedy and Curry £10  Book online Wild Cabaret 18 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1LD

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The Angel and The Manse, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, OranMor, 22–27 February, 2016

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THE ANGEL AND THE MANSE Mon, 22 February, 2016 — Sat, 27 February, 2016 Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre, OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 By George Docherty | Directed By Liz Carruthers Featuring Helen Logan, Ewan Petrie and Alan Steele Produced in Association with Aberdeen Performing Arts A stormy night in a manse on the outskirts […]

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Meg Rosoff, Aye Write! 19 March, 2016.

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Meg Rosoff – Jonathan Unleashed 19th Mar 2016  •  4:30PM – 5:30PM    Mitchell Librar, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold over one million copies and was recently made into a film. Meg will be discussing her first novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. Meg Rosoff grew up in (a […]

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Locust Honey String Band, Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club, 15 March, 2016

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Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club,  10 Chamberlain Road, Glasgow, G13 1QE Telephone 0141 959 1428. Tue 15, 2016 Esteemed North Carolina-formed, now Nashville-based old-time/bluegrass trio Locust Honey String Band announce extensive February-March UK & Ireland tour; in support of acclaimed new album Never Let Me Cross Your Mind. Acclaim for Never Let Me Cross Your […]

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Limmy – ‘Daft Wee Stories’ Aye Write! 2016 Friday 11 March.

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  LIMMY   Daft Wee Stories   11 March, 2016   19.30 – 20.30   £10   Daft Wee Stories is Limmy’s first book. It is a collection of stories. There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down stories. There are normal-way-up stories. There […]

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St Mungo Mirrorball Poetry Open Mic Aye Write 17 March, 2016

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  ST MUNGO’S MIRRORBALL POETRY OPEN MIC   Aye Write!   Thursday 17 March, 2016   18.00 – 19.00 p.m.   Glasgow’s Poetry Network host their popular open mic session, an opportunity for budding and established poets to read their own work. So whether you have a number of poetry collections out or are reading […]

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Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel: Glasgow

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  Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel: Glasgow Sunday 21 February, 2016  7:30 PM – 8:30 PM   The Glad Cafe Tickets £6 Book at Buy tickets online Harry’s got a problem. Maybe you do too. He keeps buying things to feel better, but they just make him more miserable. So he […]

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Louise Welsh at Aye Write! introducing Andrew Michael Hurley and Lorna Gibb 19 March, 2016

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Louise Welsh introduces Andrew Michael Hurley and Lorna Gibb 19 March, 2016. 4.30 – 5.30 p.m. The Mitchell,  Louise Welsh introduces two debuts with a gothic feel. In Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney, two brothers and their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney every year. […]

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Louder Than Bombs, GFT 21 and 22 February, 2016.

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How well can we really know those closest to us? GFT / Sun 21 (17.35) & Mon 22 Feb, 2016 (15.30) Joachim Trier’s English-language debut is an intelligent, well-acted and elegantly crafted exploration of family ties and the way we never entirely know the people we consider our nearest and dearest. Three years after her […]

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Land of Mine, Glasgow Film Festival Sunday 21 and Monday 22 February, 2016

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A tense, powerful dramatisation of true events from the summer of 1945. GFT / Sun 21 (15.30) & Mon 22 Feb, 2016 (10.45) The residue of war is anger and bitter resentment in Land of Mine , a tense, powerful dramatisation of true events from the summer of 1945. Following the German surrender, Sergeant Rasmussen […]

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Stuart Cosgrove, Aye Write! 11 March, 2016.

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Stuart Cosgrove Young Rebel Soul 11  March, 2016 6 p.m. Well known from his many appearance on TV and Radio (especially his opinionated weekly stint on BBC Radio Scotland’s Off the Ball), Stuart Cosgrove is appearing at Aye Write! this year as the author of Young Soul Rebels a compelling and intimate story of Northern […]

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Aye Write! Tasha Kavanagh and Laura Powell Saturday 12 March, 2016

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Unsettling, Obsessive Fiction 12.00 – 13.00 Saturday 12 March, 2016 £6 A pair of eerie and deeply moving novels that will appeal to fans of books that leave you emotionally drained and just a little bit spooked. Tasha Kavanagh was shortlisted for the 2015 COSTA First Novel Award for Things We Have in Common, a […]

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The Science of Dr Who, Wee Write! The Mitchell, 5 March, 2016

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5th Mar 2016  •  3:30PM – 4:30PM  •  Mitchell Library Take a fun-filled journey through the fantastic worlds of The Doctor.The Science of Doctor Who Space and time, Cybermen and Daleks, Utopias and killer computers: take a fun-filled journey through the fantastic worlds of The Doctor.With raps, facts and much merriment and mirth, join author […]

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Guest cancellation at Glasgow Film Festival, 2016. Peter Greenaway won’t make 19 and 20th

GUEST CANCELLATION Glasgow Film Festival regrets to announce that, due to illness, Peter Greenaway will no longer be attending the festival in support of the UK premiere of Eisenstein in Guanajuato on 20/02/16, or to take part in an In Person event on 19/0 A spokesman for Axiom Films, the film’s UK distributor, said: “Peter sends his […]

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The Hunterian at the Kelvin Hall, New Museum District for Glasgow

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The Hunterian at Kelvin Hall New Museum District For Glasgow The multi-million pound revamp of the iconic Kelvin Hall in the city’s west end, will be completed in summer 2016 and opened to the public in September. The Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, with over 1.3 million objects in its collections will benefit […]

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Noir at the Bar, Aye Write! 13 March, 2016, The Mitchell

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 Part of Aye Write! 13th Mar 2016 Time 7:30pm – 9:00pm Based on a popular format imported from the States, Noir at the Bar Glasgow is delighted to bring its occasionally chaotic, always entertaining series of author appearances – along with a special pop-up bar – to Aye Write and the Mitchell Library. Run by […]

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Outer Shapes, Inner Pictures, Exhibition at Thistle Gallery, 27 February – 13 March, 2016.

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Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art, Park Road, Glasgow Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com A vibrant new exhibition will open at Thistle Gallery on Saturday, February 27th. It will run  until Sunday, March 13th, 2016. The exhibition will feature  an exciting array of work […]

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University of Glasgow – Plans for a World Changing Campus

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Exhibition Wolfson Medical Centre The University of Glasgow is about to reach a major milestone in the journey to invest in its World Changing Campus at Gilmorehill.  A Masterplan has been designed for the existing campus and the Western Infirmary site, which the University takes over from the beginning of April, 2016. The University intends […]

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Peace Feather Disco, Glasgow, Saturday 9 April, 2016.

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CND Fundraiser Grab your tiny dancers & join this original family dance party!Expect :– a fluffy dance floor full of feathers & colours– funky tunes & games – peace tattoos & badges– photo booth with props & crafts section – free snacks – parents’ corner with free tea/coffee All ages and fancy dresses welcome Tickets: […]

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Ziggy Stardust and Spiders from Mars, GFT 20 Februar, 2016

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  Ziggy Stardust and Spiders from Mars D A Pennebaker’s concert film is regularly recognised as one of the greatest ever. GFT / Sat 20 Feb, 2016 (23.15) Festival for a Fiver Running time:1h28m An immortal document of one of the most enigmatic, striking and excessive periods in music, D A Pennebaker’s concert film is regularly […]

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Urban Hymn, GFT 19 and 23 February, 2016

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 Urban Hymn   A heartrending, human story about the bond between two damaged individuals. GFT / Fri 19 (20.20) & Tue 23 Feb, 2016 (10.45)  Win tickets to the Friday Night Screening and Q and A Michael Caton-Jones makes a hugely welcome return with this poignant drama set in the aftermath of the London riots […]

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