What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

4/4 (Reprise) Talks & Discussion With The Forgotten Collective, 26 Aug 2015, Trongate 103

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Trongate 103103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Join The Forgotten Collective as they talk about their experiences of working within a photography group, the collective itself, and their current echibition – 4/4 (Reprise). 4/4 (Reprise) is part of the Institute For Photography Scotland’s “Season of Photography” and is supported by Street Level […]

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Young Talent Exhibition, ProjectAbility 4 Sept – 24 Oct, 2015

ProjectAbility’s annual Create Exhibition is back for 2015! Young Talent 4 September, 2015 – 24 October, 2015 Project Ability Gallery, Trongate 103, G1 5HD Young Talent showcases and celebrates the artwork created by children and young people from the Create Programme, now in its 15th year. For 2015 a diverse selection of painting, drawing, sculpture and […]

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Summer Daze, Glasgow Film Theatre, 2 – 30 August, 2015

Great Movies of the Summer GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Is the Scottish summer less than sizzling? Take shelter from the showers and catch some of the most summery times in cinema – from an idyllic American town on Amity Island to a lush Provençal countryside – you really do not have to be […]

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Celebrating Women in Music, Dynamic Meladies, Wed 2 September, Big Mouth Coffee Co, G11

Dynamic Meladies is hosting an evening Celebrating Women in MusicWednesday 2nd September from 7.30 – 10.00pm, Big Mouth Coffee Co, 167Dumbarton Road G11 6AA. All women are invited to join the celebration – whether 35 or 105!) Come along and enjoy the opportunity to raise your own voices in song. Discover more about some of […]

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The Harvest Festival, The Children’s Wood, Sunday 23 August, 2015

Lots of wonderful activities for all the family. Sunday 23rd August, North Kelvin Meadow. Eco Drama at 1 p.m. FREE Event and part of The Harvest Festival. North Kelvin Meadow, between Clouston Street and Kelbourne Street, North Kelvinside, G20 thechildrenswood.com  

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Carlton Jug Band The Lucky Break Clydebank Sunday 23 August, 2015

Carlton Jug Band The Lucky Break Clydebank Sunday 23 August, 2015        Sunday 4:00pm Carlton Jug Band is a Glasgow based loose-knit country collective. Country and Bluegrass are the main inspirations behind the tunes but they ‘aint afraid to let rip with a few Stones or Soul numbers. Carlton Jug Band Facebook The world famous […]

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Let’s Eat Glasgow, Restaurant Festival and Pop Up Market 5- 6 Sept 2015

Let’s Eat Glasgow is Scotland’s first restaurant festival and Pop-up market 5th – 6th September / FREE ENTRY SWG3, 100 Eastvale Pl, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 8QG Delicious fresh food served by Glasgow’s top restaurants under one roof – including Mother India, Stravaigin, Crabshakk, Ubiquitious Chip, Ox and Finch, Cail Bruich and Guys. Seasonal Produce from […]

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Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road Relaunch with Denise Mina, Karen Campbell and Alison Irvine 21 Aug 2015

        Friday, August 21, 2015 6:00pm – 8:00pm Oxfam Byres Road Books Come and join the bookshop relaunch celebration after refurbishment and let Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road share the shop’s new look with you. You can browse the bookshelves, have a drink and sample some Fairtrade food and listen to authors speaking about what […]

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Duncan McCrone Band, Live at the Star Folk Club, Tuesday 25 August, 2015

  Duncan McCrone is a Glasgow-born singer-songwriter with over thirty-five years experience of live performance both solo and with a variety of traditional bands. Duncan performs original songs, traditional ballads and covers. His songs are love songs to life, to places, to the people and things that really matter.   Tuesday 25 August at 8 […]

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StrEAT Glasgow, Launch of Street Food Festival 26 and 27 September, 2015

StrEAT Glasgow Monthly Street Food Festival 26 September 2015 to 27 September 2015     The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ     Street food has been taking off in major cities around the world and now it’s coming to Glasgow. Sure to prove very popular with all the family with a wonderful variety of street food, drinks, […]

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Do the Right Thing GFT Tuesday 18 August, 2015

Do the Right Thing18 GFT Tuesday 18 August, 2015 On the hottest day of the summer in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, Italian-American Sal Fragione opens his pizza parlour in the same way he has for the past 25 years. However, on this day, the simmering racial tensions between Sal’s Italian-American family and the predominately […]

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Theeb GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015

Theeb15 GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015 There are echoes of Kipling and classic westerns in Naji Abu Nowar’s thrilling, award-winning adventure shot on breathtaking locations in southern Jordan. It is 1916 and Bedouin boy Theeb and his elder brother Hussein are largely unaware of the global conflict until British officer Edward (Jack Fox) arrives […]

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Marshland GFT Friday 7–Thursday 20 August, 2015

Marshland15 GFT Friday 7–Thursday 20 August, 2015 Imagine True Detective set in the Andaluz swamplands and you begin to get the measure of Alberto Rodríguez ’s atmospheric, richly textured Spanish murder mystery. It is 1980 and Spain is slowly emerging from the shadows of the Franco era. In the sleepy backwater of Villafranco del Guadalquivir, […]

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#8: Wedding In Blood (with Graeme Macrae Burnet), 20 Aug, 2015

        Thursday, August 20, 2015 7:00pm – 11:00pm        The Old Hairdressers Our August screening, presented in association with Alliance Française Glasgow, is Claude Chabrol’s Wedding in Blood (Les Noces Rouges, 1973). It’s a rare chance to see Chabrol’s classic portrait of an amour fou with deadly consequences in provincial France, starring Stéphane Audran […]

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The Cage – Live From Gaza – Al Qafas Monday 17 August, 2015 Edinburgh Fringe

The Cage – Live From Gaza – Al Qafas Monday 17 August, 2015 – 8 p.m. Edinburgh Fringe       Stand in the Square (Venue 372) St Andrew Square EH2 2AD        Welcome To The Fringe is Delighted to announce that on Mon 17th of August we have a Live satellite broadcast from GAZA of ‘THE […]

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Mistress America GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015

Mistress America15 GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015 Buy tickets online While We’re Young director Noah Baumbach reteams with his Frances Ha writing partner and star Greta Gerwig for this warm, delightful and sharp examination of youthful longing and female friendships. When college freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) moves to New York, she finds the hip […]

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Fun Day Clydebank, West Thomson Street, Sat 15 August, 2015

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Yorkhill Sponsored Walk – Saturday 5 September, 2015

  Saturday 5th September 2015 Join the fun at the Yorkhill Sponsored Walk! Now in its 3rd year, the Walk is a wonderful opportunity to get the whole family together to raise money to help the babies, children and young people who are treated at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. This year’s walk is […]

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Glasgow Blues Club, Record Factory, Byres Road, Glasgow G12

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FAIL BETTER goes Doune the Rabbit Hole! Thursday 13 August, 2015 – 8 p.m. McChuills

FAIL BETTER goes Doune the Rabbit Hole! Thursday 13 August, 2015 – 8 p.m. McChuills Glasgow On the 21st – 23rd of August amidst the glorious ancient oak trees of the Cardross Estate the yearly phenomenon of DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE festival takes place. Fail Better will be on all weekend in the Casa Caliente […]

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Linda Jaxson Band, St Louis Cafe Bar, Partick, Saturday 29 August, 2015

St Louis Cafe Bar, 734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD www.stlouis-cafebar.co.uk/  

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Lotte Fisher’s Soupstate @ The Project Cafe August 15 – September 15, 2015

Lotte Fisher’s Soupstate @ The Project Cafe       August 15 – September 15, 2015 Exhibition opening from 7-9 on Saturday the 15th at the Project Cafe on Renfrew Street, Glasgow. The exhibition runs for one month, be sure to have a peek! theprojectcafe.weebly.com/events.html lottefisher.com

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Hyndland Gala Day, Sat 22 August from 12 p.m.

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Urban Creek at The World Famous Lucky Break Sunday 16 August, 2015

  Urban Creek at The World Famous Lucky Break  Sunday 16 August, 2015 4:00pm Lucky-Break Clydebank26 Glasgow Road, Clydebank G81 1SE 

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Alasdair Gray: Sixty Years of Prints, The Hidden Lane Gallery, until end of August 2015

The Hidden Lane Gallery Alasdair Gray Sixty Years of Prints Extended until end August, 2015 Following on from the huge success of Alasdair Gray’s 2014 retrospective at Kelvingrove, this new exhibition covers his prints from his days at Glasgow School of Art in the 1950′s to the present day. Described by Anthony Burgess as ‘the […]

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Lanark : A Life in Three Acts by Alasdair Gray Citizens Theatre, 15 August – 19 September, 2015

(Artwork: Night Street Self-Portrait by Alasdair Gray (1953) )   Citizens Theatre 15 Aug 2015 to 19 Sep 2015 A new adaptation by David Greig of Alasdair Gray‘s seminal novel Lanark, directed by Graham Eatough. Full details and tickets A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn’t know who […]

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Free Fun Activity Sessions for Glaswegians from Glasgow ParkLives

Glasgow ParkLives has launched hundreds of new free activity sessions, from giant twister to fitness bingo, in local parks including Bellahouston, Kelvingrove and Queens Park. With 17 different activity types to try entirely free of charge, and activities taking place every day, There’s plenty for the whole family to get involved with. Alongside the more […]

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Lifted, work from Glasgow based Playwrights, Free Fringe, Ediburgh Festival 6 – 20 August, 2015

Sara Shaarawi and Henry Bell Lifted    Free Fringe    Aug 6 at 2:30pm to Aug 20 at 3:30pm The Argyle Bar & Cellar Monkey15-17 Argyle Place, Edinburgh EH9 1JJ ,     New work from Glasgow-based playwrights Sara Shaarawi and Henry Bell, starring Ikram Gilani. Lifted is a play about Scotland, identity, immigration, police violence, racism, […]

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Lola in Slacks: Single Release, Friday, August 28, 2015 CCA

 Lola in Slacks,  Single Release  Friday, August 28, 2015  at 7:30pm        CCA Glasgow  tickets-scotland.com In celebration of forthcoming debut single ‘Tramlines’ on Stereogram Recordings (31/08/15), we are pleased to announce a special live performance at the CCA Glasgow on Friday 28th August @ 7.30pm. With special guest: Roy Moller – The Outsider polymath and ‘Bard of […]

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Party: Soul Jazz Sunday 30 August, 2015

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