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. Big Band Dance Nights with Jon Ritchie & That Swing Sensation
Sunday 13 October, 2024 Glasgow Big Band Dance Night Glasgow University Union, 32 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LX The band are delighted to be back with their regular monthly venue for a night of music and dancing . Grab your partner and join Glasgow’s record-breaking dance band, That Swing Sensation, for a great night of […]
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | Filed under: Dance, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Donegal Diaspora in Scotland
Donegal County Council are hosting a series of events in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 3rd & 4th October, they are looking for information from the Donegal diaspora based in Scotland. They are gathering photos & memories of Donegal people who worked in Scotland between 1940 & 1990 for a new exhibition in Letterkenny in 2025. […]
Mary Irvine: My Greek Love Affair
I’ve had an affinity with Greece since childhood, Ancient, Classical and Modern. The first time I flew into Athens and saw an illuminated Acropolis I felt I was coming home. I later tried to express this feeling. Not sure I succeeded. Re- Birth The first time I saw her I knew I’d come home. […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Jim Byrne House Concert at The HillGigs
Saturday, 26 October, 2024 The HillGigs by Charlie Gracie Jim Byrne with friends Kate Kramer, Lesley O’Brien and Graham Mackintosh To book, contact Charlie directly by email, text 07846 296832 or Facebok at https://www.facebook.com/HillGigs You will also be provided with start and end times plus address. Stirling based. “We are delighted to welcome Jim Byrne, […]
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Monday, September 30, 2024 | Filed under: Community event, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: Loving Alasdair by May Hooper
Tuesday 8 October, 2024, 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. New Memoir in the VOICES series Loving Alasdair – the 39 Years of My Life with Alasdair Gray May Hooper’s fascinating memoir about her long and close association with Glasgow writer and artist, Alasdair Gray – wacky, romantic, unrequited, boozy, open, compassionate, loving, a different kind […]
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Sunday, September 29, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Carrie Etter
Monday, 30 September, 2024 at 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Carrie Etter is a celebrated poet, anthologist and academic whose publications include Subterfuge of the Unrequitable: Potes & Poets Press, 1998, Yet: Leafe Press, 2008,The Tethers: Seren Books, 2009, The Son: Oystercatcher Press, 2009, Divining for Starters: Shearsman Books, […]
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Saturday, September 28, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Thursday 3rd October 2024 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Waterstones, 153 – 157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW From the twice-Booker nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the final dazzling instalment in his Gorski Trilogy: A Case of Matricide. Join us for the launch of this extraordinary achievement as Graeme chats all things […]
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Books at the Botanics
Friday 27 September – Monday 30 September, 2024 Books at the Botanics Weekend Book Fair 10 a.m. till 5.00 p.m. in the Hopkirk Building (behind the main range), Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Hopkirk Building, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE Card and cash payments accepted www.booksatthebotanics.co.uk Books at the Botanics on Facebook
Take 2: My Neighbour Totoro at GFT
Saturday 28 September, 2024 11.30 .a.m. Dubbed Screening 12.p.m. Autism Friendly Satsuki and Mei’s mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent hospital, their father moves the two sisters from their home in a city to the countryside. The house they move into is a […]
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
My Own Private Idaho at GFT
Sunday 29 October, 2024 – 7 p.m. Queer Sundays at GFT Buy tickets Introduced by music, film and arts writer Claire Biddles. In 1992, film critic B Ruby Rich coined the term ‘New Queer Cinema’ which defined a decade in film history, where a boom in DIY and independent filmmaking made fertile ground for filmmakers […]
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If Beale Sreet Could Talk at GFT
Thursday, 26 September, 2024 at 8 p.m. Buy tickets Based on the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talkis the story of Tish, a newly engaged young woman in Harlem, and her artist fiancé Alonzo ‘Fonny’ Hunt. When Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit, Tish races against the […]
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Megapolis at GFT
27 September – 10 October, 2024 Buy tickets Francis Ford Coppola returns with a Roman epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero […]
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The Outrun at GFT
27 September – 7 October, 2024 The Outrun is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature to restore life and renew hope, adapted from the bestselling book by Amy Liptrot. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she […]
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A History of Glasgow’s Byres Road by Barclay Price
Byres Road is often seen as the main thoroughfare and the beating heart of Glasgow’s West End. You will enjoy learning of its history as Barclay Price explains how it evolved from a dirt track, recounts his Barclay’s personal memories and reveals some hidden gems. The book also contains many wonderful photographs Byres Road’s ‘development […]
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Old Partick – Lewis Hutton
‘Old Partick’ by Lewis Hutton provides extensive information about the history of this still vibrant part of Glasgow’s West End. It’s a book that will provide many hours of pleasure with its wonderful photographs (55) of bygone days and fascinating historical details. To avoid duplication with other Stenlake books, this one does not cover the […]
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Book Launch: Medicine, Money and Murder by Anne Pettigrew
Thursday 3 October, 2024, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU Medicine, Money and Murder follows two female Glasgow medical students on summer placement in 1971 New Jersey, USA. It is Anne Pettigrew’s fourth literary medical crime novel, a thought-provoking tale of cultural clashes, ethical dilemmas, romance and humour that emphasises how fortunate […]
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Kiss
30 September – 5 October, 2024 A brand new GLASWEGIAN MUSICAL, from the writer of The TOMMY BURNS Story & PORNO, featuring songs by artists connected with the GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD! SIMPLE MINDS, TEXAS, PRIMAL SCREAM, The BLUEBELLS, AC/DC, GUN, GERRY CINNAMON, The SILENCERS and many more! Contains plenty of cracking music, laughter, […]
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Sunday, September 22, 2024 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Creative Conversations: Andrés N. Ordorica
Monday 23 September 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to […]
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Saturday, September 21, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: Red Threads, A History of the People’s Flag
3 October, 2024, 8 p.m. McNeills, 106 Torrisdale St, Glasgow G42 8PH There will be a couple of readings by Henry Bell and friends, some songs, and a chance to buy a copy/have a pint and assure that you’ll order the book from the library. There is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and […]
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Book Launch: ‘After this Rain’ Mairi Jack
Wednesday 25 September, 2024 Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT A Posthumous Collection of Poems byt Mairi Jack Come along and celebrate this talnted poet and much-loved woman Fun, friends and family plus music from Duncan McCrone Band with Cy Jack Poems from the Ironing Board This will follow on from Poems from […]
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Friday, September 20, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film, GFT
Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 September, 2024 Buy tickets Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film celebrates the centenary of the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) with a season of films that present an intimate portrait of this 20th century icon in Europe and an award-winning adaptation of his exquisite […]
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The Substance at GFT
Friday 20 September – Thursday 3 October, 2024 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by […]
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The Three Daughters at GFT
Friday 20 – Thursday 26 September, 2024 From Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters — played by Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne — who come to be with him in his final days. Continuing his astute exploration of […]
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Kill at GFT
Friday 20 – Thursday 26 September, 2024 Buy tickets Stalking for deer in the remote Scottish wilderness, three brothers plot to put an end to their violent and abusive father, the man responsible for the recent death of their mother. They bury him in a shallow grave, but what should be a new beginning could […]
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Preview: The Outrun
Monday 23 September, 2024, 8.10 p.m. Buy tickets Presented by Reclaim the Frame and introduced by Sandra Kinahan from Reclaim the Frame, with a pre-recorded on-screen introduction by author / screenwriter Amy Liptrot and producer Sarah Brocklehurst. The Outrun is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature. After a decade […]
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The Quiet American
Saturday 21 – Thursday 25 September, 2024 This adaptation of the seminal Graham Greene novel is set in 1950s Saigon, as it struggles to emerge from colonial rule. Cynical British journalist Fowler (Michael Caine) falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve US official also begins vying for her […]
The Great Gatsby plus Q & A with Craig Armstrong
Wednesday 25 September, 2024 – 7 p.m. Luhrmann’s star-studded adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel won Oscars for its costumes and production design, and is an absolute feast for the senses. Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his mysterious neighbour, Jay Gatsby, and his world of parties and glamour. […]
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Sonica: The High Frontier
Tuesday, 24 September, 2024 – 7 p.m. As Earth’s population grows and resources dwindle, the idea of relocating to Mars gathers momentum. John Butler’s four animated films explore the journey from a collapsing Earth to a technofeudalist Martian society, where a hyper-wealthy founding class may create an unjust new world. The films will be followed […]
Kneecap at G.F.T.
22 – 25 September, 2024 Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue. […]
Take 2: The Lego Batman Movie
Saturday 21 September, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Screening on Batman day, The Lego Batman Movie sees a cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free […]
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