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Sol Summer Season of Classic Cuts at Òran Mór, Until 20th June, 2015

PHILOCTETESby SophoclesAdapted by Benny YoungDirected by Liz CarruthersFeaturing George Docherty, Daniel Portman and Benny Young Running at PPP Oran Mor from 15th – 20th June. ‘Those whom the Gods would punish first drive mad. Those whom the the Gods would test – suffer. Sophocles’ drama about betrayal, deceit and prophesy. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.’ […]

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Vintage Bus Service, West End Festival, 28 June, 2015

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE  EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED FROM SUNDAY 21 JUNE TO SUNDAY 28 JUNE. Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust: Vintage Bus Service Riverside Transport Museum, West End, Hyndland, Victoria Park, Anniesland and Botanic Gardens.Riverside, Glasgow, G3 Sunday 28 JunE, 2015 11:30am www.gvvt.org Free vintage bus service. Travel on our restored historic buses and coaches […]

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RSPB – Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival, 1 – 31 July, 2015

Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival returns, with worm charming, photography workshops, a city-wide bioblitz, and much more!The Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival has launched its programme for 2015, offering over 70 exciting events at sites around the city from July 1-31. Download programme (PDF) Now in its second year, the festival is a collaborative effort between RSPB […]

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Glasgow Mela 25th Anniversary Sunday 14th June, 2015

25th Anniversary Sunday 14th June, 2015 Kelvingrove Park, Kelvin Way, G12 Free and open to all. Glasgow Mela is Scotland’s biggest free multicultural festival. It takes place annually, and is open to all ages. Come along and enjoy the atmosphere and entertainment with a diverse programme of colourful performances representing cultures from across the world. […]

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Raintown and Guests C C Music Otago Street, 14 June, 2015

Raintown and Guests C C Music33 Otago Street, G12 8JJ Sunday 14 June 2:00pm Free Event. www.ccmusicshop.co.uk Eight awards in 3 years, including the recent British Country Music Award’s (BMCA) for ‘Entertainer of the Year’ and ‘Female Vocalist of the Year,’ ‘Raintown’ are fast gaining the reputation as one of the hottest Country acts in […]

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Launch of Jim Carruth’s Killochries, Thursday, June 18, 2015 6:30pm Tell it slant

Launch of Jim Carruth’s Killochries        Thursday, June 18 6:30pm Tell it slant Join Glasgow’s current poet laureate for the launch of his stunning collection, Killochries. Killochries is a stunning verse novella, tracking the relationship of two very different men working a remote sheep farm over the course of twelve months. As the winter breaks, […]

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Bard in the Botanics: Love’s Labour’s Lost, West End Festival 24 – 27 June, 2015

Bard in the Botanics : Love’s Labour’s Lost FESTIVAL DATES: 24 – Sat 27 June – 7:45pm Tickets £17.50 (£10 conc). Phone 0141 429 0022 for bookings www.bardinthebotanics.co.uk In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King of Navarre and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for […]

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West End Science 13 June, 2015

West End Science Barratts Newagent 263 Byres Road, G12 8LT Saturday 13 Jun 2:00pm All tickets £7.50. Please get a ticket in advance from Barretts Newsagent, 263 Byres Road from May 5. This tells you where to start the walk! A stroll with Glasgow author Ian R Mitchell around places associated with eminent scientists who […]

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Read It In A Different Language The Language Hub Children’s Bookshop Sunday 14 June 2015

Read It In A Different Language The Language Hub Children’s Bookshop Sunday 14 June 20151.30-3.30      Another chance to find out what your favourite children’s books sound like in another language. Suitable for children aged 3-7 and their grown ups. Promises to be fun and interactive: 1.30 – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt […]

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Na Neonachain: Alien’s Love Underpants (3-5 yrs) An Lèanag, Saturday 20 June, 2015

    Na Neonachain: Alien’s Love Underpants (3-5 yrs) An Lèanag, 32 Mansefield Street, Partick, Glasgow, G11 5QP   Saturday 20 June, 2015   part of West End Festival   In this Scottish Gaelic fun session, for ages 3 to 5 years, we focus on the story of Na Neonachain. We learn about space and the […]

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11 Seconds, M.Litt GSA Fine Art Practice Interim Show, Iota, Hyndland St, 13 – 20 June, 2015

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Linda Jaxson Blues Trio The Howlin’ Wolf, July 11 2015

Free The Howlin Wolf, 100 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 2EN

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Scottish Mussel World Premier – Edinburgh Film Festival

World Premier – Edinburgh Film Festival 26 June, 20:50 at Cineworld 8 Buy tickets online 27 June, 15:40 at Cineworld 8 Buy tickets online Ednburhg Film Festival runs from 17 – 28 June, 2015 www.edfilmfest.org.uk/ Scottish Mussel There are mussels a-plenty in this Highland comedy. The romantic comedy as filmed in and around Dunoon during […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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