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. Glasgow May Day Events 2015
Sunday 3rd May Organised by Glasgow Trades Union Council Assemble 11.00 for 11.30 at George’s Square Rally at 02 Academy, Eglinton Street 12.30 Download Full programme (PDF) Events Include: Glasgow Clarion Critical Mass May Day Cycle 1st May From Calton to Catalonia – launch 1 May Download Full programme (PDF) Glasgow May Day Celebrations
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Wee Literary Festival, St Louis, Graham Fulton, Jim Byrne 29 April, 2015
Another great night at St Louis with host extraordinaire Linda Jackson. A wee birdie told me that also on the bill will be the amazing poet, Stephen Watt . www.grahamfulton-poetry.com/ www.songsbyjimbyrne.com www.stlouis-cafebar.co.uk/ St Louis, 734 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Arches Commons: The New Bill Sun 26 Apr 2015
The Arches & Behaviour 2015 present The Arches Commons: The New Bill Sun 26 Apr 2015 The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8DL If young people are the future, when are they allowed to shape it? The New Bill is a research collective directed by Stephanie Katie Hunter. Since undergoing a placement with Sarah […]
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Annual Coffee Morning South Glasgow Parkinson’s Support Group 25 April 2015
South Glasgow Parkinson’s support group are having their annual coffee afternoon on Saturday 25 April in the Southern General hospital Day hospital in the Medicine for the Elderly building. All welcome so come along if you can between 2 and 4pm. There will be cake and tombola Raffles, home baking and bric a brac too. […]
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Live at The Star, April – May, 2015
All Gigs are held in The Admiral Bar, Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 7DA and start at 8.00pm. Tannahill Weavers 28th April, 2015 The Tannahill Weavers are one of Scotland’s premier traditional bands. Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, and original ballads and lullabies. Their music demonstrates to old and […]
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Friday, April 24, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Star Folk Club
From Calton to Catalonia, Willy and John Maley, launch 1 May, 2015
Sunday 10 May at 7.30pm in the Beacon Studio Theatre. Tickets £10 (Concessions £8) See programme May Day Events
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Navigators Screening & Discussion Thursday 30 April 2015 CCA
GMB Glasgow General APEX BranchThe NavigatorsScreening & Discussion Thursday 30 April 2015 CCA 7.15pm, £5 (£4 concessions) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GFT Ken Loach’s The Navigators is the powerful story of a group of railway track workers at the time of the privatisation of […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
WORKING ILLEGALLY – Glasgow Launch Event CCA Wed 29 April 2015
Standoff FilmsWORKING ILLEGALLY – Glasgow Launch Event CCA Wed 29 April 2015 7pm, Free, CinemaAll ages Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge. Many are asylum seekers and other migrants who have […]
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The Man from Laramie, GFT Sunday 26 April, 2015
The Man from LaramieU GFT Sunday 26 April, 2015 3 p.m. Buy tickets online During the 1950s, James Stewart and director Anthony Mann collaborated on a series of lean, flinty westerns that helped redefine the genre and pave the way for the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. The partnership reached a creative peak with The […]
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Smoke that Thunders, poems by Eveline Pye – Glasgow Readings 2015
7 pm Thursday 28th May, 2015CCA Clubroom350 Sauchiehall Street,Glasgow G2 3JD 8pm Monday 1st June, 2015Sammy Dow’s69 Nithsdale Road,Glasgow G41 2AJ Eveline Pye’s African poems are wonderful. Scorchingly vivid, they transport us so we too are right there among people and voices and unfamiliar flora and fauna, among unflinchingly recorded sounds and smells and sights, […]
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Bypass, GFT Friday 24–Sunday 26 April, 2015
GFT Friday 24–Sunday 26 April Buy tickets online The second feature from writer/director Duane Hopkins (following his 2008 debut Better Things) is an eloquent, moving and stylised look at a young small-time criminal named Tim (Sunshine on Leith’s George McKay) pushed into adulthood when his older brother is sentenced to 18 months in prison. Attempting […]
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence,GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence12A GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May Buy tickets online Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Roy Andersson’s masterful reflection on the human condition unfolds in thirty nine meticulously composed tableaux vivants. One constant through this magical mystery tour of suffering, indulgence […]
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Solas Showcase at Project Cafe, Friday 24 April, 2015
7:30pm – 10:30pm Sunny days are finally upon us, meaning that it can’t be long till Solas Festival- Scotland’s mid-summer, weekend-long celebration of the arts- sets up camp in the beautiful site of The Bield in Perthshire. For a little taste of what you can expect from the festival, which runs from19 – 21 June, […]
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Sexology Season, Glasgow 18 April – 31 July 2015
Various venues across Glasgow 18 April – 31 July 2015 Explore sexology, the interdisciplinary study of human sexuality, through this eclectic season of 37 events. Our partners are Glasgow Women’s Library, The Arches (Behaviour Festival), conFAB, Fun Palaces and Aye Write Festival . The programme offers something for anyone prepared to undress their mind and […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015
Aye Write 2015: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan review by Maggie Graham
Maggie Graham John Coyle & James McGonigal: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan. Chaired by Jim Carruth. As the editors of Edwin Morgan’s correspondence, John Coyle and James McGonigal could have made this event a dry academic treatise, but it was much more. McGonigal who studied with Morgan at Glasgow University, is his […]
Mary Irvine’s blog: Margaret Harrison 1918 – 2015 Safe with her Saviour.
It was a privilege to have known you, Margaret. My first sight of Margaret was of a physically frail, elderly lady, walking with the aid of a frame, coming through the door of a room at the Community Centre. It was my inaugural visit to the Alexandria’s Writers’ group. I quickly learned, at subsequent meetings, […]
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Aye Write 2015: Kate Hamer & Lisa O’Donnell: Family Secrets, Fri 24 April
6:00PM – 7:00PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Two authors visit Aye Write! for the first time to discuss their new work.Kate Hamer & Lisa O’Donnell: Family Secrets Lisa O’Donnell won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize with her last novel ‘The Death of Bees’ and her latest, ‘Closed Doors’, is set in Rothesay and is […]
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Ryze, Trampoline Park, Glasgow – opens Friday 2015
New trampoline park opens in Glasgow’s South Side. 124 Portman Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow, G41 1EJ Opening times and tickets www.ryzeglasgow.com/ Fill in disclaimer online jump@ryzeglasgow.com 0141 6285532
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| Filed under: Kids and young people, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow
Aye Write 2015 Free Events
Free Events Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival is delighted to host this series of free and community events that will be running throughout the festival. Glasgow’s Learning will present a series named If I Could, I Would… with workshops and talks celebrating adult learners writing. We welcome back Amnesty International for their popular talks […]
Aye Write 23 April: Jackie Kay, Zoe Strachan, Allan Radcliffe & Kerry Hudson: Out There – Scottish LGBT Writing
23rd Apr 2015 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Contributors to the first new anthology of LGBT writing from Scotland in over a decade share some of the highlights ‘Out There’ is the first new anthology of LGBT writing from Scotland in over a decade. By turns provocative, moving and hilarious, […]
Partick Memories Exhibition, raising money for Yorkhill
Partick Memories Exhibition Partick Glass Studio and The Tenement bar have joined forces to raise money for Yorkhill sick children’s hospital. The Tenement have donated old Partick / Glasgow framed photographs that they had in their cellar to us, and we have put them up on display for sale in our studio. All money raised […]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Poetry Events Aye Write 2015
There’s a brilliant selection of poetry events to choose from at Aye Write All events at The Mitchell Library – tickets now on sale. Friday 17th April – 7.30pm John Coyle & James McGonigal: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan Saturday 18th 4.30pm Kei Miller, Malika Booker and Rachel Mars: Sex in […]
A Little Chaos, Friday 17–Thursday 30 April, 2015 GFT
A Little Chaos12A Friday 17–Thursday 30 April GFT Buy tickets online It has been far too long since Alan Rickman directed a film but right-royal romp A Little Chaos has been worth the wait. Rickman stars as King Louis XIV, a monarch with a penchant for the lavish statement. He commissions architect André Le Nôtre […]
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Aye Write 2015, James Morton – review by Mary Irvine
Did you know that medium eggs weigh c. 55grms? I didn’t but I do now, thanks to the talk given to a large and receptive audience at the Aye Write! festival on Saturday, April 18th by James Morton. James, who qualifies as a doctor this year and was runner-up in the 2012 Great British Bake-off, […]
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Restart: Album release from One Last Secret, 24 April, 2015
On Friday 24th April, Ayrshire Rock Pop outfit One Last Secret release their exciting debut album Restart at the infamous Broadcast, Glasgow with support from the very talented Between Mockingbirds and Start Static The 4 piece have been working on the brand new record, produced by 12 Inch Audio for more than 12 months and […]
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Clyde Stride Fundraiser 9th May, 2015
Register online
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Wee Theaters Glasgow@Tue 21st April in Sloans Bar
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 7:00pm in UTC+01 Three Rooms. Three Stories. No Stage.Come for a beer and a laugh to Sloans Bar and join the #WTGexperience Wee Theaters Glasgow is coming back on Tuesday the 21st of April,a night of theatre, comedy and fun.The evening sees 3 different shows performed in 3 different timeslots […]
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RollerStop opens in Glasgow 21st April, 2015
139 Middlesex Street, Kinning Park from 10am. Rollerstopdisco Facebook
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Monday, April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
X + Y, Glasgow Film Festival 2015 review Pat Byrne
Now showing GFT I went along this morning (Friday 13 April) to the GFT for the press screening of X + Y. I’m not a huge fan of coming of age films and the subject matter didn’t sound terribly appealing – Nathan is a teenager with autism, who is also a maths prodigy, pursuing a […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Saturday Night at The Griffin, 18 April
Michael Simons supports John Hinshelwood 18 April, 2015 The Griffin 266 Bath Street,Glasgow 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB.
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
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