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

Udance School of Performing Arts Presents: ‘Welcome to the Jungle’, Mitchell Library 9 May, 2015

Saturday 09 May 2015, 7.00pm Mitchell Library, North St Glasgow Tickets: £12 Book online UDance School Of Performing Arts is based in the of North Glasgow, Milton. We teach styles such as Jazz, Commercial, Lyrical, Ballet, Singing and Gymnastics. Principle teachers are Jade Lowther and Cheryl Lowther. Our Singing and Ballet teacher Aimee has been […]

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Southside Film Festival: Bring your Own archive & free screening of ‘Glasgow 1980’

The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Sunday 10 May, 2015 17:00 This year’s film festival focuses on cinema going heritage of the Southside and films made in the Southside and who want to see your films and hear your memories of going to the cinema in the Southside before the last cinema closed in 2001. Rummage in […]

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Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World CCA Sun 10 May

Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion     CCA Sun 10 May 2015 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the […]

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Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion

Sun 10 May 2015 CCA 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the band tell their side of the story. It includes archive footage of the band at […]

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Live at Glasgow – Heaven Adores You, Sat 9th and Sun 10th May, 2015 GFT

Live at Glasgow – Heaven Adores You12A Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May GFT Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose to mainstream prominence in 1998, with his classic soundtrack to the film Good Will Hunting, for which his song ‘Miss Misery’ was Oscar nominated. Smith tragically took his own life in 2003, and in this all-new documentary […]

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Scottish Writers’ Centre: ‘In Process’ Masterclass with Janice Galloway, CCA 12 May

Tuesday 12 May, 2015 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Janice Galloway is one of the UK’s most versatile and gifted writers. She has authored novels, short stories, and non-fiction; Janice also regularly collaborates with visual artists and musicians, to produce syncretist pieces (her latest offering is a collection of poems for Calum Colvin’s […]

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Far from the Madding Crowd, GFT 1 – 14 May, 2015

Far from the Madding CrowdU GFT 1 – 14 May 2015 Buy tickets online John Schlesinger’s original 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale of passion and tragedy in 19th century rural England is as gripping and striking now as it was on first release. Julie Christie stars as Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who inherits […]

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The Foghorn Stringband, CCA 17 May, 2015

Globally renowned old-time quartet The Foghorn Stringband announce Ireland & UK Tour for May in support of new album Devil In The Seat Appearing:  CCA, Glasgow on Sunday May 17, 2015 “There’s gospel, fiddle music, square dance, early country and bluegrass but most of all, it’s got a sense of wonder and adventure in its […]

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Ahmadiyya & Yorkhill 5k Fun Run & Family Day – 24 May, 2015

11am – 3pm Fifth annual Ahmadiyya Muslim Community & Yorkhill 5k Fun Run   Taking place in Kelvingrove Park, this fun run is for all the family.  So whether you plan to walk, jog or run your way around this beautiful park, dust off your trainers, look out the sweatband and join us in raising […]

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A Retrospective: The Wait Anna Krzystek, The Tramway, 12 – 14, May, 2015

Tue 12 – Thu 14 May 7:30pm  Part of Dance International Glasgow £11/ £8 or DIG Special Offer. Buy tickets from our box office on 0845 330 3501 No End is … controlled, brave and unpretentious; an honest exploration from a performer of great commitment. I hope there is no end to Krzystek’s exploring. Mary […]

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Melting Pot – a poem by Leela Soma

Baltimore, Ferguson and other police brutality makes the headlines, but in Buffalo, NY they see it differently. Melting Pot The colours of the mosaic glimmer in the sun Blue pieces against the bright reds and oranges, A tiled beauty that catches the eye, to look again The platter enhances the tasty food on offer A […]

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Glasgow Shawfield Riot of 1725 – Wee Scotch Whisky Tales by Ian R. Mitchell

Wee Scotch Whisky Tales by Ian R. Mitchell (Angels’ Share) 2015 £4.99 Chapter on Glasgow Shawfield Riot of 1725  THE UNION OF 1707, THE MALT TAX -AND WHISKY When Scotland and England unified their parliaments in 1707, there was very little of what we would now call whisky distilled in Scotland, apart from in scattered […]

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Seventies Nite Party, The Lucky Break, Saturday 30 May, 2015

Big seventies party nite  with Trex tribute band and seventies disco Only a fiver a ticket….make sure and get yours. Saturday, May 30 at 8:00pm          The Lucky Break Snooker cCub 26-30 Glasgow Road, Clydebank, G81 1SE         

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Aye Write: A Duo of Debut Authors – Sue Lawrence and Kate Tough review Mary Irvine

A duo of debut authors, Sue Lawrence and Kate Tough. Include the literary agent, Jenny Brown, and the trio was complete for the presentation of ‘Female Friendships in Fiction’. Having worked in the Scottish parliament for some years Kate turned her attention to fiction. Is there a connection there?  Her debut novel is ‘Head for […]

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Western Health and Racquets Club Rally For Bally Event 2015 at Western Health & Racquets Club

This image requires an alt attribute. Rally For Bally 2015 Western Tennis Club are delighted to announce they are organising another Celebrity Tennis Event on 6th June 2015. This year they will again be raising money for The Elena Baltacha Tennis Foundation (www.ebatuk.org/elena-baltacha-foundation/) and also for Playlist for Life www.playlistforlife.org.uk. In addition they will be […]

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Terry Reid, CCA, Sat 16 May, 2015

Saturday, May 16  7:30pm CCA Tickets: www.wegottickets.com CCA< 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD         

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The War Hasn’t Started Yet, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, 4 – 9 May, 2015 OranMor

A Play, A Pie and A Pint OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Mon, 04 May, 2015 — Sat, 09 May, 2015 By Mikhail Durnenkov | Directed By Davey Anderson | Adapted By Davey Anderson Literal translation by Alexandra Smith Featuring Lewis Howden, Anita Vettesse and  Mark Wood Russian troops enter Ukraine. But the war […]

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Linsey Aitken and Ken Campbell, Mugdock Park Theatre, 14 May, 2015

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Glasgore 6 May, 2015

Glasgore! Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group Wednesday 6 May 6.30 p.m. GFT This group meets on the first Wednesday of each month in GFT’s Learning Room to discuss horror and cult cinema. Meet other genre fans in a friendly atmosphere to exchange thoughts and opinions about your favourite schlocky flicks. Discuss anything from Italian Giallo to […]

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Cryptic Nights Numbercult Articulations: An Evening of Visual Music CCA Thu 7 May 2015

Cryptic Nights Numbercult Articulations: An Evening of Visual Music CCA Thu 7 May 2015 8pm, £7.40 (£4.40) + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 14+ when accompanied by an adult Book online / 0141 352 4900 Artist and musician Craig Ritchie Allan (Numbercult) orchestrates a synchronized ballet of geometry and sound. Inspired by the work of […]

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Red Skirts on Clydeside GFT Saturday 2 May, 2015

Red Skirts on ClydesideN/C 12+ GFT Saturday 2 May, 2015 3 p.m. Buy online In 1915, a year into WWI, landlords in Glasgow put up tenement rents. Women in Govan responded with a rent strike. In Red Skirts on Clydeside, directors Jenny Woodley and Christine Bellamy chart the careers of Jean Ferguson, Mary Barbour and […]

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Crossing the Line: White Shadow Sunday 3 May, 2015 GFT

Crossing the Line: White Shadow15 Sunday 3 May, 2015 GFT Buy tickets The feature debut of artist-turned filmmaker Noaz Deshe is a stunning portrait of a young albino on the run from witchdoctors who want to harvest his body parts. Based on true accounts, the underground trade of albino body parts exists today and the […]

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Fruit of Paradise Tuesday 5 May, 2015 GFT

Fruit of Paradise12 Tuesday 5 May, 2015 GFT Buy online Often regarded as a long-lost masterpiece, this 1970 film from Vera Chytilová was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. One of the most experimental films of the Czech New Wave, it starts as a baroque and daring modern retelling […]

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Argerich Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015 GFT

ArgerichPG Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015 GFT Buy tickets Martha Argerich is considered by many to be one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century, with numerous awards and international acclaim. This film, by her daughter Stéphanie Argerich, is an intimate portrait filmed over two decades that reveals the everyday […]

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence GFT Thursday 7 May, 2015

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence12A GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015 Buy tickets 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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Samba GFT Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015

Samba15 GFT Friday 1–Thursday 7 May Buy tickets online Samba (Omar Sy) migrated from Senegal to France 10 years ago, and has since been trying to make a life for himself. Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a timid and burned out chief executive who helps immigrants find work. They each find a kindred spirit in one […]

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The Falling, GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015

The Falling15 GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015 Buy online Carol Morley’s follow up to Dreams of a Life is a feverish exploration of raging hormones and teenage angst set in a girls school in 1969. Generally ignored by her agoraphobic mother, Lydia (Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones) becomes infatuated with […]

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Glasgow Science Festival 4 – 14 June, 2015

4 – 14 June, 2015  Various Venues and fantastic Programme of Events www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk Hunterian Museum: Science Showcase 4-14th June (closed Mondays) Tues-Sat 10:00-17:00, Sun 11:00-16:00 Free Drop-in Glasgow Science Centre on Show Glasgow Science Centre‌ 4th-14th June 10:00-17:00 All ages Drop-in Entry into the science mall £10.50/ £8.50.  Some activities have additional fees. Show times […]

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Open Wednesdays Summer 2015 at The Kelvingrove Bandstand

Open days at the refurbished Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvin Way, G12 Opening May 6th! 10am – 6pm During May, June and July 2015 there will be free and open access on Wednesdays for anyone to attend the amphitheatre.  Eat your sandwiches, meet your friends, sit and relax in the open air! Local bands will […]

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Photography Course – Rosemount Life Long Learning 18 May – 15 June, 2015

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