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. Cottiers – Bar, Restaurant, Theatre, Glasgow West End
Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU 0141 357 5825 www.cottiers.com/ Cottiers Bar and Restaurant is a most attractive and flexible venue in Glasgow’s West End. Previously, Dowanhill Church, it is one of only three surviving Scottish churches famously decorated by Daniel Cottier, the revolutionary artist-designer when it was built in 1865. Food and Drink […]
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Filed under: Bob Law: photographer, walker and writer, Book Week Scotland=2023, Celtic Connections 2016, Clubs in Glasgow, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2014, The Glasgow Keelie, Writing for the Festive Season
Chasing the Light – screening at CCA
Saturday 8 November, 2025, 5 p.m. -7 p.m. CCA., 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival 2025 An idealistic dream becomes a world-renowned centre of Tibetan Buddhist practice on an Irish peninsula in Chasing the Light, a hopeful and inspiring feature documentary from director, Maurice O’Brien. Set amongst the spiritual community […]
Wee Scottish Arts Group Clydebank Exhibition
Until 31 October, 2025 Gallery 5, Clydebank Town Hall, Hall St, Clydebank G81 1UB Looking for something inspiring to do over the next month? Pop into Gallery 5 at Clydebank Town Hall and explore the beautiful work of the Wee Scottish Arts Group! A wide range of stunning local artworks are on display and available […]
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| Filed under: Art, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow
Bookface Sip and Swop with Gillian Shirreffs
Saturday 25 October, 2025, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Saints of Ingram, 158 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1EJ Come along for a fun and cosy afternoon at Saints of Ingram in Glasgow on Saturday 25th October from 3-6pm. when Bookface is hosting a luxury raffle to support Beatson Cancer Charity. Following the success of her […]
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Scottish Handmade Crafts, Gifts and Artists at Janet & John Glasgow
Janet & John – promoting Scottish creativity. A haven for Scottish Handmade Crafts Upper Floor De Courcy’s Arcade Cresswell Lane T: 07731 768373 Delightful gifts handcrafted by Scottish artisans Janet & John Website Always Something New at Janet and John Halloween at Janet and John Lovely Gifts Wild Swimming Hairy Coo Ashton Lane – […]
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Melting Pot Halloween – One Night at the Museum
1 November, 2025 – from 7 p.m. Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS This Halloween, the spirits of disco rise once more… Clear your crypts – Melting Pot’s Halloween Party is back!! Melting Pot returns to the Riverside Museum on Saturday, November 1st to host annual Halloween spectacular!! Party amongst the vintage museum […]
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Mary Doll Poppins – Panto at OranMor 2025
25th November, 2025 – 4 December, 2025 By Martin McCormick OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX A hilarious, Glasgow twist on the story of everyone’s favourite magical flying (sort of) Nanny. What happens when the Clydebankses, a not-so-perfect family, stop finding the joy in life and forget the true meaning of Christmas? They need […]
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SWC Flash Fiction Online Feedback Group with Eveline Pye
Sunday 5 October, 2025, 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. Meeting Monthly Online – Join via Eventbrite Scottish Writers Centre is supporting a new online flash fiction feedback group suggested by acclaimed writer and poet Eveline Pye and they’d love you to join! This is a unique opportunity to join a small, supportive group focused on providing […]
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Sunday, September 28, 2025 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Writing
Gentle, Angy Women at GFT
Wednesday 1 2.10 p.m. and Thursday 2 October 3.10 p.m., 2025 A new generation of young female activists awakens to a powerful, forgotten chapter of women’s history. As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism, three young women – Poppy (16), Xanthe (17), and Evie (19) – discover the remarkable Greenham Common […]
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Saturday, September 27, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
The Lost Bus at GFT
26 September – 2 October, 2025 From director Paul Greengrass and inspired by real events, The Lost Bus is a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires as a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno. ‘White knuckle riveting’ — Roger Ebert Buy tickets GFT […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025
Friday 26 until Sunday 28 September, 2025 This year’s Glasgow Youth Film Festival programme is bursting with special screenings and educational events. See full programmme GYFF 2025 Opening Film On Friday 26 September, GYFF25 opens with the Scottish Premiere of Plainclothes, the Sundance award-winning romantic thriller starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey. Closing Event […]
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Friday, September 26, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Fantastic Mr Fox at GFT
Saturday 27 September, 2025 11.30 a.m. Fantastic Mr Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family. Part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Brides at GFT
26 September – 2 October, 2025 ‘A poignant and purposeful attempt to look behind the headlines’ – Deadline Teenage best friends Doe and Muna are setting off on what appears to be the adventure of a lifetime. Doe, quiet and observant, hasn’t travelled since arriving in the UK as a Somali refugee at the age of […]
Reality Is Not Enough at GFT
At GFT until 2 October, 2025 One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he undergoes a remarkable trip to find new meaning in his work, life and legacy. Irvine Welsh is at a crossroads. After experiencing the huge success of several film adaptations and six million books […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Andrew O’Hagan In Conversation with Kirstin Innes
Thursday, 16 October, 2025 7 p.m. Waterstones Sauchiehall St 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EW Glasgow From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends. If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with […]
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Amplify Guitar Slam – Guitar Taster for Kids
Saturday – 11 October, 2025, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Amplify Music Academy, 90 Seaward Street, Glasgow G41 1HJ FREE Guitar Taster for Kids! Register for event Do you know a young ‘Rocker’ in the making? GUITAR SLAM SATURDAY is a completely FREE drop-in taster session for kids who want to plug in and play […]
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Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett
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 […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Love Letters To A Murder – The Mythology of Madeleine Smith
Saturday 18th October, 2025, 3:00pm The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Kirsten MacQuarrie and Lesley McDowell The love letters which Madeleine Smith wrote to Emile L’Angelier during their clandestine affair of 1855-57 were essentially a work of Victorian fiction. That is not to say they were fabrications of letters. But they were performances […]
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Reclaim the Clyde – Poetry and Music to celebrate our river
Thursday, 25th September, 2025. 7pm Event by Glasgow Branch CND The Wee Dram, 232 Woodlands Road, Glasgow G3 6ND FREE Poets: Alan Riach, Amy Rafferty, Ellen McAteer Readings of new works by the above and selected readings of works by a range of modern Scottish and international poets. Music: Traditional Scottish music from fiddlers Karen Barber […]
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Monday, September 22, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Glasgow Shanty Festival
Saturday 11th October 2025, 12.30pm to 7:30pm Aboard the Tall Ship Glenlee in Glasgow, Riverside Mueseum,150 Pointhouse Rd, Stobcross Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS FREE EVENT The Glasgow Shanty Crew are delighted to announce that the Glasgow Shanty Festival will be back for another celebration of Songs of the Sea on Saturday 11th October with guest […]
Terry Neason Songs and Words
9 October, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Cottiers Theatre, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Award Winning Music, Poetry & Humour Edinburgh Fringe Angel Award Winner, Terry Neason performs some of her best highly acclaimed repertoire of Songs and Poetry… Be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster. She includes her own songs and other Originals, as well […]
The Boys by Ella Hickson
Tuesday, 30 September, 2025 – 7.30 p.m. An amatuer production – the first play produced by Northern Assignment. Five bedrooms, five chairs and four boys. The Class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn’t want them, these boys […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Gift, Barrowland Ballet at The Citizens Theatre
6 – 28 December, 2025 A Barrowland Ballet production – Created and choreographed by Natasha Gilmore Winner of Best Production for Children and Young People at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2023 A mountain of discarded wrapping. A lonely child with an active imagination. It’s often the cardboard boxes, not the gifts inside […]
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Falling Out and Fighting Back
Thursday, October 2 , 2025, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Listen Gallery, 60 York Street Glasgow G2 8JX Dean Spade and writer Hannah Proctor in conversation with artist Winnie Herbstein as they discuss collective strategies for working together through conflicts past and present, personal and organisational. This event marks the launch of two new publications: […]
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Sunday, September 21, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
A Kick Up The Arts – In Conversation with Denise Mina
Thursday 9 October, 2025 – 2.30 p.m. The Stand Comedy Club, Websters, 420 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Nicola Meighan, A Kick Up The Arts will be chatting with award winning author, Denise Mina. “Well then. I always love chatting with Denise Mina, and I can’t wait to have a blether with her about […]
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Saturday, September 20, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
There Will Be Blood at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 A sprawling epic about family, faith, power and oil, There Will Be Blood chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. He takes a chance when he hears of a […]
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Friday, September 19, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Can I Get A Witnss at GFT
19 – 24 September, 2025 Can I Get a Witness, a film by Ann Marie Fleming starring Sandra Oh, is a radical eco thriller set in the not-too-distant future, which imagines a healing planet, but at what price for humanity? In the near-future, climate change is mitigated, global poverty is eradicated, and all species on the planet can […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Islands at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 ★★★★★ ‘A scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight.’ The London Standard Between drinking sessions and one-night stands, washed-up tennis pro Tom (Sam Riley) clings to a job coaching holidaymakers at a hotel in Fuerteventura. When an English couple (Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing) arrive, their presence sets off a chain of events that […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Happyend at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 Set in a dystopian near-future Tokyo, Neo Sora’s striking debut feature explores a group of teenagers rebelling against societal expectations. The film offers a vivid coming-of-age portrait, following best friends Yuta and Kou as they confront a world where AI surveillance is tightening under the yoke of oppressive authoritarianism. Infused with raw […]
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Steve at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 Set in the mid-1990s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. Cillian Murphy stars alongside Emily Watson and Simbi Ajikawo (Little Simz) as a headteacher at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken its students. As Steve fights to protect the school’s integrity and impending closure, we witness him grappling with his […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
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