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

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..

Glasgow Comic Con Batman Thu 2 July 2015

Glasgow Comic ConBatmanThu 2 July 2015 7pm, £4.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online/ 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events BHPGlasgow Comic Con 2015Tue 30 June — Sun 5 July 2015BHP ComicsComic Book Summer SchoolMon 3 August — Fri 7 August 2015 Before Leto, before Ledger, even before Hamill, there was Nicholson. The original […]

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Thursday, June 11, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema

Glasgow Comic Con Where the Wild Things Are CCA Wed 1 July 2015

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Glasgow Comic ConWhere the Wild Things Are CCA Wed 1 July 2015 1pm, £4.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAll ages (PG)Buy online/ 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events BHPGlasgow Comic Con 2015Tue 30 June — Sun 5 July 2015BHP ComicsComic Book Summer SchoolMon 3 August — Fri 7 August 2015 Heartfelt direction meets a cherished […]

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GRAMNet A View from Here / The Faces of Our European Cities Wed 17 June 2015 CCA

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GRAMNet A View from Here / The Faces of Our European Cities Wed 17 June 2015 CCA 6pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAll ages Book online  / 0141 352 4900 A View From Here documents the heritage of the high rise flats in two iconic districts of Glasgow and the shared and disparate experiences of refugees, […]

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West GFT Friday 12–Thursday 18 June, 2015

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West15 GFT Friday 12–Thursday 18 June, 2015 For single mother Nelly and son Alexej, making the journey from East to West Germany proves easier than anticipated. However, what they find in West Germany is a less than welcoming environment. Having to go through a series of invasive interviews to gain her citizenship, Nelly is uncertain […]

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Night Train GFT Wednesday 17 June, 2015

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Night Train12 GFT Wednesday 17 June, 2015 8.30 p.m. Buy tickets online An intimate psychological study and a poetic tale of loneliness, Night Train brings together two voyagers on a train, with their subtle emotional game playing out against a microcosm of human experience. Elsewhere on the train is a coquette who is attempting to […]

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Second Coming GFT Monday 15–Thursday 18 June, 2015

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Second Coming15 GFT Monday 15–Thursday 18 June ‘Heralds the emergence of a major new filmmaking talent in Debbie Tucker Green’ – Little White Lies Jackie (Nadine Marshall), her husband Mark (Idris Elba) and their son JJ (Kai Francis Lewis) form a hard-working, tight-knit middle-class family in London. Having not had sex with Mark in months, […]

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The Dead Lands GFT Friday 12–Sunday 14 June, 2015

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The Dead Lands15 GFT Friday 12–Sunday 14 June httpBuy tickets online Pre-colonial New Zealand is the setting for this savage, bloodthirsty coming of age story that is timeless in its themes of honour, respect and revenge. When his tribe is slaughtered, the chieftain’s teenage son Hongi (James Rolleston, star of Boy) sets out to avenge […]

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The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead GFT Saturday 13 June, 2015

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The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead18 GFT Saturday 13 June, 2015   8 p.m. From Lemmy filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first UK punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. This new film charts the band’s complex history, leading up […]

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Queen and Country GFT Friday 12–Thursday 18 June, 2015

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Queen and Country15 GFT Friday 12–Thursday 18 June, 2015 Stalwart British filmmaker John Boorman returns to the story and characters of one of his greatest successes, the multiple Oscar-nominated Hope and Glory. Picking up in 1952, and again light-heartedly based on Boorman’s own life experiences, the film follows the now grown-up Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) […]

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The Look of Silence, GFT, 12 -18 June, 2015

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The Look of Silence15 GFT Friday 12–Thursday 18 June Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing was a shocking and revelatory look at a forgotten chapter in world history – the atrocities committed by Indonesian death squads in the mid-1960s. Oppenheimer has created a companion piece focusing on Adi – an ophthalmologist whose brother was killed […]

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Slow West Friday 26 June – Thursday 2 July, 2015 GFT

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Slow West15 Friday 26 June – Thursday 2 July, 2015 GFT Buy Tickets →   The directorial debut of Scottish filmmaker John Maclean (formerly of The Beta Band) is a brazen and pronounced revisionist Western, pivoting around the relationship between the young lovelorn Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and grizzled bounty hunter Silas (Michael Fassbender). Travelling […]

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Gemma Hayes + Andrew Mitchell Oran Mor, Sat 13 June, 2015

 Gemma Hayes+ Andrew Mitchell (Hazey Janes/Idlewild) Oran Mor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 Saturday 13 June, 2015 Entry Requirements: Over 14s General Admission (e-ticket)£16.50 (+£1.65 S/C) Gemma Hayes’ new album, Bones + Longing is a thing of strange and wondrous beauty. It carves out its own spooky spaces, reaching from her heart to your […]

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The Art of Calligraphy – The Art of Calligraphy, Summer Exhibitions in West Dunbartonshire, 2015

“After a very successful 2 week exhibition at the Mitchell Library the Glasgow Scribes will be taking their calligraphy work around the libraries of West Dunbartonshire Council over the summer period as follows:- Dalmuir Library: 8-20 JuneClydebank Library: 23 June – 4 JulyDumbarton Library: 7-18 JulyAlexandria Library: 21 July-1 August Why not visit a library to […]

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow

Bloomsday Celebration: the writing techniques of James Joyce, Centre for Open Studies, 16 June, 2015

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Bloomsday celebration: the writing techniques of James Joyce Centre for Open Studies – University of Glasgow, St Andrews Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH Tuesday from 16 June 2015 18.00–21.00 DAY EVENT Alan McMunnigall BA On the 111th anniversary of Bloomsday, this class will examine some of the major innovations and techniques in the […]

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Scottish Refugee Council The Glasgow Girls: Ten Years On Sun 14 June 2015 CCA

Scottish Refugee Council The Glasgow Girls: Ten Years On Sun 14 June 2015 CCA 5pm, Free but ticketed, Donations of £5 to Scottish Refugee Council welcome, Cinema Ages 12+ Tickets via Eventbrite. Ten years on since five remarkable teenage friends, Amal (from Somalia), Roza (a Kurd, from Iraq), Ewelina (a Roma gypsy from Poland), Emma […]

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Wilton Street Garden Fete, Saturday 13 June, 2015

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Wilton Gardens Saturday 13 Jun 1:30pm part of www.westendfestival.co.uk Free Event. After last year’s success, the Wilton Street Garden fête is back! The Wilton Island Association is organising its second WEF event with special performances from the Sirens of Titan choir. An afternoon of fun for all with local artists, masseuse, kids’ entertainment, barbecue, cakes […]

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Refugee Week Scotland screening: Can’t Be Silent Tuesday, 16 June, 2015, The Glad Cafe

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Refugee Week Scotland screening: Can’t Be Silent Tuesday, 16 June, 2015         The Glad Cafe  8 p.m.    Can’t be Silent (2013, 85 mins) tells the story of musicians from Africa, the Balkans and Iran who are asylum seekers living in Germany. The film chronicles their journey in finding a shared language through music. Watch the […]

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Colleen Brown, West End Festival, 26 June, 2015

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Queen Margaret Union, University of Glasgow, G12 26 June, 2015 “The talents of this Edmonton-based musician shine like a beacon. Her boldly written originals… have the good bones and great melodic rhythm of classic big-screen pop songs from the sixties and seventies.” – The Globe and Mail Music: http://bit.ly/colleen-brown-samplerVideo: https://youtu.be/ucLEyeTHayE Colleen Brown has spent the […]

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, West End Festival 2015

Bdy Prts and Le Thug, Stereo, 12 June, 2015

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Don’t miss the triumphant return of Bdy_Prts w/ support from Le Thug Stereo Cafe Bar  Friday 12th June, 2015 Bdy Prts, an alliance of two of Scotland’s most talented female musicians. Stereo, 22-28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow G2 6PH

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Let It Shine – Yorkhill Charity Concert, )2 ABC, Friday 12 June, 2015

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  Let It Shine – Yorkhill Charity Concert Raising donations for YorkHill Children’s Hospital. Venue: O2 ABC Glasgow Friday 12th June 2015 GENERAL: 07:00PM VIP: 06:30PM Entry Fee STANDARD £10.00 (inc. GBP 1.25 fees) VIP £12 (inc. GBP 1.50 fees) VIP includes – Meet and Greet (all acts) – Get to the front before others […]

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El Cantante sessions Elvis Presley appreciation night and Preshow , Jayz Bar, 10 June, 2015

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El Cantante sessions Elvis Presley appreciation night and Preshow ( fundraising for let it shine ) yorkhill hospital 10 June, 2015 5.45 p.m. Jayz Bar and Restaurant 87 Kilmarnock Road, Shawlands, Glasgow G41 3YR         Following the success of our BB King Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen events. Every Wednesday we will show our […]

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An evening with Huey Morgan Waterstone’s, Wed 10 June, 2015

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An evening with Huey Morgan Waterstone’s Wednesday 10th June 18:00 at Glasgow – Sauchiehall Street Huey Morgan’s Rebel Heroes: The Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them (Hardback) The host of BBC Radio 6 Music and Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman will be here to discuss his new book Huey Morgan’s Rebel Heroes, looking […]

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Glasgow Science Festival 4 – 14 June, 2015

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Fun-filled science activities for all the family at various locations including Glasgow Science Centre. Events include: Science Festival at Kelvingrove 6 and 7 June, 2015 Meet leading researchers from across the country and see the world in a new light: compare yourself to elite-level athletes; explore seafood’s journey from ‘Creel to Meal’; discover a glowing […]

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Refugee Festival Scotland, 2 – 21 June, 2015

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Refugee Festival Scotland 2 – 21 June, 2015 Now in its fifteenth year, Refugee Festival Scotland is one of most exciting and vibrant events in Scotland’s cultural calendar. Packed with music, art, film, live performance, community led family events and more. Programme (Download PDF) Refugee Council News and Events

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Michael Simons, Sweeneys in the Park, Friday 12 June, 2015

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  Michael Simons        Friday, June 12, 2015 9:00pm Sweeney’s on the Park 962 Pollokshaws Road,Glasgow G412ET         Slowtrain are on the move again with their unique take on blues and roots classics Michael Simons Facebook

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Saturday, June 6, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Fail Better: The Workers Have No Country, Thursday, June 11, 2015 McChuills Glasgow

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  Fail Better: The Workers Have No Country        Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:00pm McChuills Glasgow Not a Union Flag, a Saltire or a Butterfly in sight at Fail Better, unless they’re on fire. So come join us for a communist cabaret of sangs, words, jokes, dancing, shouting, and stamping your feet. LINE UP […]

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Book Launch: Aliyyah, Chris Dolan at CCA 19th June, 2015

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Launch of Aliyyah – Vagaband Voices Friday 19 June, 2015,  6.30pm CCA 350 Sauchiehall St. Glasgow G2 3JD The book looks awesome, with an absolutely beautiful cover and delightful illustrations. The launch also appears to be an event not to be missed: Half an hour or so of music and words and art. Wonderful Gaelic […]

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Winter Stay Autumn: The Debut Album From Sorren Maclean

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Glasgow Shows: BBC at the Quay festival, Glasgow, 7th JuneLove Music instore, 4 Dundas Street, Glasgow, G1 2AQ, 8th June Sorren Maclean presents his debut album Winter Stay Autumn, available from Monday 8 June 2015. Released by Middle of Nowhere Recordings, Winter Stay Autumn is Sorren’s first full length release as a solo artist. The […]

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Friday, June 5, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

G20 Heritage Exhibition, Kibble Palace, 9 – 25 June, 2015

Launch of the G20 Heritage Exhibition at The Kibble. The sun was shining on the beautiful Kelpies for the opening of this exhibition G20 Heritage Exhibition Launch

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Here and There (7 documentaries), Japan Desk, 9th, 10th and 11th June, 2015, University Chapel

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Here and There (7 documentaries) University ChapelUniversity Avenue, G12 8QQ 12.30 – 2.30 p.m. Free Event. Seven documentaries made by Glasgow-based Japanese journalists. Tues 9th: “Our Scotland: a Japanese perspective” and “Our Japan: Bucharest students’ view”. Wed 10th: “The bird, the tree, the bell and the fish of Glasgow” and “Live a tradition in Maramures, […]

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