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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..

Wake Up Dead Man at GFT

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26 November – 4 December, 2025 Knives Out Series Contemporary cinema’s favourite detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns in Rian Johnson’s sharply penned and devilishly fun reinvention of the classic whodunit. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in […]

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Friday, November 21, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema

The Running Man at GFT

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21 – 27 November, 2025 Edgar Wright and star Glen Powell team up for a spirited take on Stephen King’s dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man’s charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and […]

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Film Night at The Arlington: Paul and Paulette Take A Bath

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Saturday November, 22, 2025 at 5.30 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that grows around a dark game; […]

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Testimony at GFT

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22 – 27 November, 2025 etween 1922 and 1996 10,000+ girls and women were imprisoned in Ireland by The Magdalene Laundries, operated by religious orders with state complicity. Survivors endured forced labour, physical and emotional abuse, and the lifelong stigma of being labelled “fallen.” These Magdalene women and the children of the Mother & Baby […]

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The Thing With Feathers at GFT

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21 – 27 November, 2027 Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing with Feathers, adapted from the award-winning debut novel by Max Porter. Following the death of his wife, a young father’s hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. […]

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Jay Kelly at GFT

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20 – 27 November, 2025 In this new drama from Oscar-nominated director Noah Baumbach, famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) embarks on a journey of self discovery confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler). Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street,G3 6RB

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Views of Glasgow: A Window into Communities at The Hunterian

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5 December 2025–26 April 2026 Hunterian exhibition explores Glasgow through a community lens Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free entry The Hunterian and members of the Woodlands community are delighted to present a new collaborative exhibition which explores the evolving story of Glasgow through the lens of community, […]

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow

Glasgow’s Winter Wonderland 2025

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Fun for all the family 21 November 2025 – 4 January 2026 This Christmas, experience the season like never before – in true Glasgow style!  Featuring two prime locations, our Winter Wonderlands on Glasgow Green and St Enoch Square, are bursting with festive fun, family attractions and seasonal entertainment.  It’s the perfect way to soak […]

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

Clarice Pears Christmas Celebration G12

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Saturday, November 22nd, 2025, 12–4 p.m. Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow, 90 Byres Rd, G12 8TB Free event. Get ready to jingle all the way and enjoy some festive magic on Byres Road. Open to everyone – no ticket required. Brought to you by the Byres Road & Lanes Business Improvement District and The […]

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Snow White and the Magnificent Eight

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Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23 November, 2025 Good Year Social Club, 307 Duntreath Avenue, Drumchapel G15 6SA A Spellbinding Panto Adventure – Drumchapel Amateur Panto Club Get ready for a magical, laugh-out-loud panto packed with singing, dancing, and dazzling costumes! Join us as Drumchapel Amateur Panto Club brings a hilarious twist to the classic fairytale, […]

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Paper Birds – Workshop Book Week Scotland

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Tuesday 18 November, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 232-242 St Vincent Street, G2 5RJ Join illustrator Helen Kellock for an afternoon of crafting and companionship inspired by beautiful volumes of the Birds of America by John James Audubon. Free book your place Come along on the […]

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Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett

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Saturday November 15, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW BBC Scotland’s Bryan Burnett is joined by two crime writers extraordinaire as they peel back the layers of a good mystery. Described as “crime-writing royalty” by none other than Ian Rankin, Denise Mina draws us into the world of blood […]

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Aye Write 2025: The Pen is Mightier: Edward Tudor Pole with Teddy Jamieson

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Saturday 15 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, Norh Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Edward Tudor Pole takes to the Aye Write stage to discuss his autobiography, The Pen is Mightier. In a series of amusing, nostalgic and sometimes outrageous stories, all told with candour and wit, Tudor Pole recounts his pre-punk youth, the time […]

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Alasdair and Others: Willy Maley at ARC University of Glasgow

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18 November, 2025, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW By The Alasdair Gray Archive Announcing the First Event in the New Themed Programme: Alasdair & Others The Alasdair Gray Archive is delighted to launch the first event in their brand new themed programme, Alasdair […]

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The Arlington Baths Club

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61 Arlington Street Glasgow, G3 6DT Telephone:0141 332 6021 info@arlingtonbaths.co.uk www.arlingtonbaths.co.uk Learn To Swim At The Arlingon Baths Club News at the Arlington Arlington wins Doors Open Day Award The Iconic Arlington Baths Club The Arlington Baths Club is one of Glasgow’s hidden gems. It is thought to be the first Victorian swimming club in […]

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‘That famed place of aquatic gamboling’ : Swimming in Victorian Glasgow

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Tuesday November 18, 2025 7.30 p.m.- 9 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT Part of the Arlington Talks collection Overview How stories and poems are revealing the watery world of the 19th century residents who enjoyed swimming in Glasgow’s rivers. On sunny days in 19th century Glasgow, city-dwellers flocked to the Clyde and […]

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Chiels and Quines – A Tribute to Sheila Templeton

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 Tuesday, 2 December, 2025 at 7 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Host: Linda Jackson Seahorse Publications launch a new collection of poetry, Chiels and Quines,  by Sheila Templeton, AC Clarke and Maggie Rabatski. There will be memories, music and poems. Performers include: Lesley Benzie, Ann MacKinnon and Keeks Mc

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Mirrorball Showcase CCA

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Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7 p.m.  – 9.30 p.m. St Mungo’s Mirrorball presents: Another great night of poetry with renowned Scottish poet Robert Crawford joined by Vicki Husband, David Kinloch, Finola Scott and Eloise Birtwhistle Tickets CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowG2 3JD  

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Die My Love at GFT

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13 – 20 November, 2025 Lynne Ramsay’s blistering depiction of a woman engulfed by love and madness, featuring stunning performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. A hopeful young and loving couple (Grace and Jackson) move from New York to an inherited house in the country. Grace tries to find her identity with a new baby in the isolated […]

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Take 2: Fantasia

Saturday 15 November, 2025 11.30 p.m. Walt Disney’s timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free […]

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Alpha at GFT

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14- 20 November, 2025 After winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau returns with another nightmarishly weird offering. 13-year-old Alpha lives with her mother, a doctor working on the front-lines of a mysterious epidemic. When Alpha returns from a party with a fresh tattoo on her arm, her mother’s fears take hold and their world begins to […]

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Left Handed Girl at GFT

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14 – 20 November, 2025 Buy tickets Shih-Ching Tsou’s dynamic solo debut, co-written with Sean Baker — director of the Academy Award-winning Anora — follows a family of women returning to Taipei to begin a new chapter in their lives. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” […]

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Bugonia at GFT

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Until 13 November, 2025 Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, The Favourite) and Emma Stone are reunited for a fourth time in this gripping, darkly funny and satirical environmental comedy-thriller. Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO (Stone), believing she is an alien intent on destroying […]

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Havana Film Festival Glasgow 2025

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11 – 16 November, 2025 (Download full programme (PDF) Some Highlights Feminist Film Making Sunday 16 November, 2025,  3 p.m. The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow, G1 1TF Book tickets Vietnam Through The Eyes of Santiago Alvarez Saturday 15 November, 2025, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Buy tickets Three […]

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French Film Festival 2025 at GFT

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Discover some of the most anticipated new releases: French Film Festival runs from 6 November – 14 December, 2025 All of the French Film Festival on sale now. Screening to mark the UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, catch a special preview of Kaouther Ben Hania’s acclaimed drama The Voice of Hind […]

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Living With Rain – Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow

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Launch of Report by Andrew Hoolachan 3 December, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Collective Architecture, 13 Bath Street, G2 1HY Overview Launch of Dr Andrew Hoolachan’s report ‘Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow’ You’re walking through Glasgow in the height of summer. A heavy rain shower leaves behind a soaked urban […]

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Book Launch: The Great North Road – Stuart Campbell

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Saturday 22 November, 2025, 2 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP The Great North Road manuscript that Robert Louis Stevenson left unfinished at his death has now been completed by the noted Stevenson scholar and novelist Stuart Campbell. Acting as a literary sleuth he has located a list of twenty-five intended chapter […]

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Battlefield Writers Book Launch – Glasgow Tales

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Part of Book Week Scotland 17 – 23 November, 2025 17 November, 2025 – 6 p.m. – 7p.m. plus Second date on 13 November at 6 p.m. Couper Institute Library presents the launch of Glasgow Tales. Join the Battlefield Writers for the launch of their new collection Glasgow Tales – A Collection of Short Stories and […]

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Woodlands Community – Anti Racist Film Club

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Film Screenings at Woodlands Community Autumn / Winter 2025 Tuesday 25 November, 2025 – Dahomey-Booking and Information at Eventbrite Tuesday 16 December, 2025 – All We Imagine As Light – Booking and Information Come and be a part of Woodlands Community monthly Anti-Racist Film Club! Screening a range of moving, educational and engaging films that […]

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Warm up at the cinema after Glasgow’s Christmas lights switch-on. Follow a trail of sparkling illuminations along Sauchiehall Street to GFT, where we’ll be treating you to a bargain price screening of the cosy winter classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — the perfect way to kick off the […]

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