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

Southside Film Festival’s Fundraising Film Quiz! Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The Glad Cafe

Southside Film Festival’s Fundraising Film Quiz! Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The Glad Cafe at 8:00pm          £3 per person to enter-all proceeds go directly to support Southside Film Do you know your Big Lebowski from your Big Sleep? Your Hunger Games from your La Règle du jeu? Join your hosts Ruth Marsh and […]

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The Bare Facts – Lifting the Lid on Politics Cottiers, 30 April, 2015

Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland St, G11 5PU  30 Apr 2015 – 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets £6 (inc. booking fee). The Bare Facts.  Lifting the lid on politics. For our final event before the general election we are pulling out all the stops.  Going bigger and better than ever. We’ve taken one of […]

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Aye Write 2015 Competition

Aye Write Customer Survey Win a £100 gift card If you didn’t manage to complete a paper copy of the survey during Aye Write here’s another chance, with the online version. Take a few minutes to let us know what you thought of this year’s festival and you’ll have the opportunity to enter a prize […]

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Dance International Glasgow 24 April – 6 June, 2015

Tramway April 24 – June 6 www.tramway.org Dance International Glasgow (DIG) is the new biennial dance event for Glasgow and Scotland. DIG, produced by Tramway, is a growing collaboration between dance artists, promoters, venues and communities. From the end of April, through May to the first weekend of June DIG will feature new work ranging […]

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Keiran Sinclair, Jayz Bar, 1 May, 2015

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Glasgow Film Theatre Launches Deaf and Hard of Hearing Film Club

Visible Cinema at GFT Glasgow Film Theatre has announced the launch of Visible Cinema, a monthly Film Club for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. The first initiative of its kind in Scotland, Visible Cinema will launch on Tuesday 24 March (18.00) with a captioned screening of Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum […]

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Soul Jazz Sundays May Bank Holiday Party – 3rd May 2015

May 3rd Soul Jazz Sundays May Bank Holiday Party Hosted by Nick Peacock and Mark Robb West of Scotland Cricket Club 40-44 Peel Street, G11 5LU Glasgow

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CD Launch: Fram’s album Against Nature, Old Hairdressers 8 May, 2015

Can you please add this gig to your what’s on section.  It is a launch for Fram’s album ‘Against Nature’ at the Old Hairdresser’s on the 8 May.  We’ll be selling CD copies of the album on the night for a reduced price of £5.

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Aye Write: Showcase of Debut Authors, Sara Baume and Margaret Montgomery

Review by Ciara MacLaverty Tramp Press and Cargo Publishing have enticing names in the world of independent publishers. They sound hip and intriguing, as if they know how to bag a cult novel when they find one. In this Aye Write Showcase their debut authors – Sara Baume (Tramp) and Margaret Montgomery (Cargo) exude a […]

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Booked! Creative Writing Workshops with Allan Wilson

Creative Writing Workshops with Allan Wilson Tuesdays 12th and 19th May Parkhall Library 7:00 pm Allan Wilson is one of the most highly regarded emerging writers in Scotland. His debut short story collection Wasted in Love was described as being ‘a terrific debut anthology’ by Tom Leonard and Alan Bissett said that Allan Wilson ‘might […]

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Scotland’s Midsummer Festival of Arts, Perth 19 – 21 June, 2015

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Abbamania, Paisley Town Hall, Thursday 30 April, 2015

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Glasgow May Day, Glasgow Clarion Cycle 1 May, 2015

Glasgow Clarion Critical Mass May Day Cycle Friday 1 May at 4:30pm – 6:30pm Glasgow Green, Saltmarket Celebrate International Workers Day by cycling together through the city for an hour, wear red make some noise! Cakes and refreshment after. Meet at the car park at the Charlotte Street entrance. See programme Glasgow May Day Events

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]

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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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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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