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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..

West End Festival Ashton Road car park Market – Sat 6 and Sun 7 June, 2015

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Ashton Road Market Saturday 06 Jun 11:00amSunday 07 Jun 11:00am The successful West End Festival Ashton Road car park Market makes a welcome return, and this year we are delighted to be open for business on both Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June (Parade Day). Come and have a potter around our market stalls where […]

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The Flax Flower by Amanda MacLean Launch CCA Saturday 13 June, 2015

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The Flax Flower By Amanda MacLean Launch CCA Saturday 13 June, 2015 In The Flax Flower, trumpeter to the new Laird of Fyvie, handsome and charismatic Andrew Lamb, and the Miller of Tifty’s beautiful daughter, Agnes Smith, meet in secret in the woods near the Brig of Skeugh. The young lovers have much to lose […]

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Village Green Resurrection Rio Cafe Friday 05 June, 2015 at 7:30pm

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Village Green Resurrection Rio Cafe21 Hyndland Street, G11 5QF Friday 05 Jun 7:30pm Free Event “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society” is the sixth studio album by the English rock group The Kinks, released in November 1968. Come witness it recreated by local bands and artists in its entirety! Featuring: Scunner. Part of […]

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CinemaAttic West Coast: Spanish & Latin-American Short Film Night, CCA Thu 11 June 2015

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CinemaAttic West Coast: Spanish & Latin-American Short Film Night Thu 11 June 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 (£4) + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 12+ CinemaAttic is the platform for Spanish, Iberian and Latin-American cinema in Scotland. Our main purpose is to raise the profile of Ibero-American cinema in Scotland and UK. By collaborating with key […]

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Ashes and Diamonds, Wednesday 10 June, 2015 GFT

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  Ashes and Diamonds12 Wednesday 10 June, 2015 GFT 8.20 p.m. Buy Tickets →   Set on the last night of World War II and the first morning of peace, this film captures a time when the old mixed with the new, as seen through the eyes of young Polish resistance soldier Maciek Che³micki. In […]

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Thursday, June 4, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema

Cry of the City, GFT Sunday 7 June, Tuesday 9 June, 2015

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Cry of the City12A GFT Sunday 7 June, Tuesday 9 June, 2015 Buy tickets online Robert Siodmak’s New York-set film noir is by turns murky and beautiful, with the city itself made into a key character through fantastic location work. The story is a familiar one, focusing on two men who grew up together, now […]

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Moon, GFT Tuesday 9 June, 2015

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Moon15 GFT Tuesday 9 June 17:50 http://www.glasgowfilm.org/buy_tickets/7464_moon Taking inspiration from the greats of the genre, Duncan Jones’ dazzling debut feature is a heady and visually striking sci-fi tale. Starring Sam Rockwell as the lone miner posted on the lunar surface, Moon shrewdly ruminates on the nature of humanity and our place in the universe. Taking […]

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, 5 – 11 June, 2015 GFT

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films18 5 – 11 June, 2015 GFT Buy tickets online Mark Hartley follows his salutes to Ozploitation and Filipino B-movies by celebrating the eclectic legacy of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. This dynamic duo purchased the Cannon Group in 1979 and stormed the Hollywood barricades by funding […]

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Listen Up Philip, GFT Friday 5–Thursday 11 June, 2015

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Listen Up Philip15 GFT Friday 5–Thursday 11 June, 2015 Buy tickets online In his latest film, Alex Ross Perry, director of 2011 independent festival darling The Colour Wheel, takes inspiration from writers such as Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon in this darkly funny tale of a self-absorbed writer who refuses to see any error in […]

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Black Coal, Thin Ice,GFT Friday 5–Thursday 11 June, 2015

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Black Coal, Thin Ice15 GFT Friday 5–Thursday 11 June, 2015 Buy tickets online This brooding, atmospheric murder mystery is set amidst the raw, wintry desolation of Heilongjiang in northern China and tells the story of divorced cop Zhang, who was seriously wounded during a 1999 murder case that ended in death and disgrace. Five years […]

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The Need for Better Regulation in Outer Space, Pippa Goldschmidt: Book Launch, Mono, 10 June, 2015

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The Need for Better Regulation in Outer Space, Book Launch,Mono, 10 June Pippa Goldschmidt launches acclaimed new story collection Pippa Goldschmidt, author of the award-winning and best-selling The Falling Sky, is launching her new story collection with a science theme, The Need for Better Regulation in Outer Space, in Edinburgh and Glasgow next week. Join […]

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The Turner Prize 2015, The Tramway, 1 October, 2015 – 17 January, 2016

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Arguably Europe’s most prestigious visual art award is coming to Tramway and Scotland for the first time this Autumn. The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under the age of 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year.  The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 […]

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow

Wilaya Glendale Women’s Cafe 8 June 2015

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Wilaya Glendale Women’s Café in collaboration with Refugee Festival Scotland and Tramway Monday 8 June, 20156.30pm ​Glendale Women’s Café, 423 Shields Road, Glasgow, G41 1NY ​Women only. No children. Free As part of the Refugee Festival Scotland 2015, the Glendale Women’s Café are screening Wilaya – a film featuring the lives of women in an […]

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Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat at The Tramway, 2 – 4 July, 2015

Tramway Have you booked for National Theatre of Scotland’s latest performance The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark? Coming to Tramway 2 – 4 July. Adapted for the stage for the first time, The Driver’s Seat is one of renowned novelist Muriel Spark’s most gripping and disturbing books. Book tickets and find out more here More […]

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The Children’s Wood, Great Food Festival and Gala, 7 June, 2015

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This family friendly event is perfect for chilling out closer to nature. There will be music, workshops on growing your own vegetables, composting and permaculture, blind fruit and vegetable tasting by Asda, activities by Knit Wild, Great Runner Bean Race, the Annual Dog Show, prizes for the best dressed vegetable and more… Children’s Wood, Clouston […]

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Exhibition & Launch: Being Human, The Arches, Launch 4 June, 2015

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    Exhibition & Launch: Being Human       Launch: June 4 at 6.30 – 8 p.m.         Exhibition runs 4-21 June, 2015 A programme of visual art by Iranian refugee artists living in Scotland that explores a central theme of ‘being human’ and how the refugee experience has influenced their practice. Featuring exhibitions […]

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Our Real Red Selves – Poetry Triptych launch at CCA, 4 June, 2015

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CCA 4 June, 2015, 7 p.m. New Poetry Triptych series with Marion McCready, JL Williams & Harry Giles       Free Event CCA, Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street,  Glasgow G2 3JD

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Art Exhibition – Old Kilpatrick Art Club, Dalmuir Library, 13 June – 11 July, 2015

  Art Exhibition – Old Kilpatrick Art Club         13 June – 11 July, 2015        6:30pm – 7:30pm          Dalmuir Library, Backdoor Library, Lennox Place, Dalmuir, Clydebank, G81 4HR

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow

Dementia Awareness Week, Scotland, 2 – 9 June, 2015

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Dementia Awareness Week – Drop In Pierce Institut Drop-in for a tea and a blether with local Dementia Advisor, Polly Mark, at the Pierce Institute in Govan Wednesday the 3rd of June from 9:30am till 12:30. Pierce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 3UU Tea in The (car!) Park – Clydebank June 8 @ 11:00 […]

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Somethings Old, Somethings New, OranMor Tuesday, June 9, 2015

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 Somethings Old, Somethings New        OranMor Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:00pm Liz Lochhead and Steve Kettley. A West End Festival highlight. Scotland’s Makar Liz Lochhead weaves a spellbinding show mixing poems, monologues and music. Accompanied by the soulful sax of Steve Kettley, she presents an intoxicating mix of some of her best work over the […]

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Mary Queen of Scots Mackintosh Church Friday 05 Jun, 2015

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Mary Queen of Scots Mackintosh Church 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL Friday 05 Jun, 2015 7:30pm Tickets £12 (£10 conc) in advance from Mackintosh Church or at the door www.louisemacdonaldcontralto.com World premiere of new works by Judith Bingham, Dee Isaacs and Eddie McGuire, performed with Schumann’s “Maria Stuart Lieder”. A close look at the letters […]

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Southside Shindig, Saturday 6 June, 2015

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There is a great performance programme at the Queens Park Arena featuring Theatre at Queens, Dholbeats, Glasgow Hong Lok Dragon n Dance Troupe, The Mackintosh Choir, Abhinaya Dance Academy, Spinning Wheel, Glasgow As One and Howlin Radio! 12 noon – 5pm.  

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The Daddy Naggins, Lucky Break, Clydebank Sunday 7 June, 2015

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The Daddy Naggins The Lucky break Sunday 7th June, 2015 2 p.m. This sunday afternoon at the world famous lucky break… The Lucky Break, 26-30 Glasgow Road, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire G81 1SE

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Louise Welsh, Death Is A Welcome Guest, Book Launch, 11 June, 2015

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    Louise Welsh – Death Is A Welcome Guest        Thursday, June 11, 2015      Waterstones Sauchiehall St    153-157 Sauchiehall Street,  Glasgow G2 3EW FREE event call 0141 332 9105 The second instalment in the thrilling new Plague Times trilogy from the author of A Lovely Way to Burn. Magnus McFall was a comic on […]

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Monday, June 1, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

The American Association of University Women Book Sale, Buffalo, New York

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I’ve been to a few book sales in Glasgow, ( even one in my school days, bought Anna Karenina to impress all, never got beyond page 20!) especially ones for charity, but this was astonishingly huge in scale in every way. The number of books, two halls, and number of donations, the volunteers and the […]

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RGI GRADUATE PRIZE Alexander Haukrogh Jensen & Nicola Massie

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RGI GRADUATE PRIZE Alexander Haukrogh Jensen &Nicola Massie 6 – 27 June 2015 Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Each year the RGI awards the New Graduate Prize to two students from the Glasgow School of Art based on their Degree Show work. Last year’s recipients were Nicola Massie & Alexander Haukrogh Jensen, who have […]

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Penny Black presents: Children’s Letter Writing Event – West End Festival

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14 June, 2015 Penny Black welcome children aged 5 to 8 and their families to a workshop on the lost art of letter writing. Children will post notes and drawings of support and friendship to a seriously ill child or their siblings – a scheme championed by “Post Pals”. Participants are provided with writing/drawing materials, […]

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Sunday, May 31, 2015 | Filed under: Kids and young people, West End Festival 2015

Natalie Press, Mono Cafe Bar, 22nd June, 2015

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Natalie Prass – Live in Concert Mon 22nd June – Mono Cafe Bar, Glasgow also Wed 2nd Sept – The Electric Circus, Edinburgh. ‘We saw her supporting Ryan Adams and can confirm that the rumours are true. She is a phenomenal singer, a top guitar player and a dazzling performer. One of the most exciting […]

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Saturday, May 30, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Clutha Trust Festival, Saturday 30 May, 2015

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It’s all happening between 11am – 7pm this Saturday on Clyde Street, next to the pub and will include DJ sets as well as live music from the likes of The Cherry Reds, The Twistettes and Colonel Mustard & the Dijon 5. Tickets are start from £5 and are available from Tickets Scotland with money […]

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Friday, May 29, 2015 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

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