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

Wild Tales GFT Friday 27 March – Thursday 9 April

Wild Tales15 GFT Friday 27 March – Thursday 9 April Buy tickets online Damían Szifrón’s zesty black comedy weaves together six short tales of individuals on the verge of a complete meltdown. Frustrated by petty bureaucracy, incensed by a cheating husband, emboldened by extreme road rage or sickened by a desperately unfair society, various individuals […]

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CinemaAttic West Coast: Spanish & Latin-American Short Film Show CCA Thu 9 April 2015

CCA Thu 9 April 2015 7.30pm, £5 (£4) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 CinemaAttic West Coast:Spanish & Latin-American Short Film Show Thu 5 March 2015 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 […]

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Sunday Night Open Mic Jayz Bar

Jayz Bar, 87 Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow G41 3YR Every Sunday–  8pm til midnight All performers and music lovers welcome, acoustic guitar, jam session options, a free drink for performers and good vibes provided! www.jayzbar.co.uk Jayz Bar Restauant on Facebook Phone: 0141 649 8737 Open Mic Nights Glasgow

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Worldwide Reading in Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Tuesday, April 21

       Led by the International Literature Festival Berlin and the Lepsiushaus Potsdam, there will be a worldwide reading from “The Book of Whispers” by Varujan Vosganian to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. In addition to remembering the victims of this horrible event, we also want to raise awareness of the fact that […]

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May Day Week-end in Glasgow, Saturday 2 – Monday 4 May, 2015

Gary Lewis and Tommy Sands lead MayDay festivities Great Mayday Festivities – OranMor The headliners for this year’s Mayday festivities have been announced.The now hugely successful Great MayDay Cabaret, organised by Glasgow Friends of MayDay (GFoMD), celebrates its third anniversary at Oran Mor on the Mayday Monday (4) evening.  This year’s headliner is celebrated Irish […]

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Give Art Fundraiser, Record Factory, Sunday 5 April, 2015

Sunday, 5 April 2015 from 19:30 to 23:00 Join us at Record Factory for an evening of comedy & music to raise funds for GIVE ART, a community project for children and young people, providing creative supplies to those who rely on food banks. Tickets £5 Buy tickets Record Factory, 17 Byres Road, Glasgow G11 […]

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The Verse Hearse Book Launch Special, 31 March, 2015 The Gilchrist Postgraduate Club

The Verse Hearse Book Launch Special: ‘The Road North’ by Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn     31 March, 2015 –8 p.m. The Gilchrist Postgraduate ClubGilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ THE VERSE HEARSE (where poetry comes to die)poetry | booze | banter | open mic | 100% FREE The verse hearse […]

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Fail Better: Prrrrrrrrotest! Thursday, 9 April, 2015, McChuills

Fail Better: Prrrrrrrrotest! Thursday,  9 April, 2015at 8:00pm McChuills Glasgow. 40 High Street, G1 1NL     Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It’s not. WHAT THE HECK IS PROTEST? I dinna have a clue, but these folks might: LOKI storms back to the stage punk folk gurgling […]

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SWC: Publishing and Performing Your Poetry, 31 March, 2015

CCA Club Room, CCA Glasgow Tuesday 31st March 2015; 6.30 – 8.30pm Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Publishing and Performing Your Poetry March 31st The Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars are aimed at writers with an interest in publication; they offer advice from industry experts on various aspects of the process. This seminar will explore […]

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Ex Libris Book Fair The Mitchell Library, Saturday 18 April, 2015

Ex Libris Book Fair The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Saturday 18 April 12 – 6pm Free event – drop in We are pleased to welcome the Ex Libris Book Fair to the Mitchell Library foyer. Organised by Ess Publications and Generator Publications and featuring small presses, indie comic creators, and artist book makers, Ex […]

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Whose Voice Is It Anyway? with Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Tue 14 April 2015 CCA

Scottish Writers’ CentreWhose Voice Is It Anyway? with Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Tue 14 April 2015 CCA 7pm, £6 (£3) on the door, Free to members, ClubroomAges 14+ when accompanied by Novelist Margaret Elphinstone and poet Chrys Salt will discuss the challenge of writing in the voices of other times and cultures. Does an […]

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Student Showcase, STUC, Tuesday 31st March, 2015

Featuring readings of work from Centre for Open Studies students. Student Showcase 31/3/15, 6.30-9pm, STUC Price £5 (you can pay on the door) There will also be a cheap bar. All welcome. How to get there Download directions

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World Book Night Party Glasgow Women’s Library April 23, 201

World Book Night Party Glasgow Women’s Library April 23, 2015 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm ‘We love World Book Night! And we’d love to spend it with you! Come along and pick up your free book(s) and try your luck in our World Book Night Quiz. A night of friendly book chat, readings and […]

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Women of the Necropolis Glasgow Women’s Library Event April 12, 2015

Women of the Necropolis Glasgow Women’s Library Event April 12, 2015 @ 2:00 pm, 4:00 p £6.00 / £10.00 Experience a fantastic women’s history walking tour which digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the histories of women buried in Glasgow’s Necropolis, as featured in Clare Balding’s book Walking Home. Tour […]

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Tall Tales and Cocktails, University of Stirling, 9 April, 2015

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Gordon Douglas The Garden is Our Wall Tue 14 April — Sat 9 May 2015 CCA

Gordon DouglasThe Garden is Our Wall Tue 14 April — Sat 9 May 2015 CCA  A series of four events inviting collaboration from creative practitioners. The programme draws on authority within designed urban image, and the inherent civic responsibility of communal habitation. Related CCA Events James Harding & Gordon Douglas Nib : Complete Sea Tue […]

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Radiophrenia – 87.9FM Mon 13 April — Sun 19 April 2015 Broadcasting live from CCA

Radiophrenia – 87.9FM Mon 13 April — Sun 19 April 2015 CCA Broadcasting live from CCA, 24-hours a dayTheatre Space Listening Room: 12noon – 4pm (except during sound checks), Free, All agesLive performances: 7pm, Free but ticketed, Theatre, Ages 15+ Related CCA Events RadiophreniaNichola ScruttonSonnets Mon 13 April 2015 RadiophreniaShelly NadashiA Hidden Quiet Pocket & […]

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Fat Alice, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, week beg. 30 March, 2015

Fat Alice A Play, A Pie and A Pint, OranMor, Top of Byres Road Mon, 30 March, 2015 — Sat, 04 April, 2015 By Alison Carr | Directed By Joe Douglas Featuring Richard Conlon and Meg Fraser “I’ve given you every little piece of me to keep you happy, fed you every last morsel to […]

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Hunter Hayes, OranMor Tues, 26 May, 2015

Hunter Hayes, OranMor Tues, 26 May, 2015 at 7:00pm OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Hailed as a “country-rock-blues guitar hero in the making” by the Los Angeles Times, five-time GRAMMY nominee and CMA Award-winning artist Hunter Hayes is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who roared onto the music scene in 2011 with his Platinum-selling, […]

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The Foz, Album Launch, Stereo, 10 April, 2015

Stereo, 22-28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow G2 6PH

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AC Projects Counterflows Festival 2015 CCA 2 – 5 April, 2015

AC ProjectsCounterflows Festival 2015 Thu 2 April — Sun 5 April 2015 CCA Full programme at www.counterflows.comBook online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events CounterflowsOpening Launch ReceptionCounterflows & Novas Frequencias Thu 2 April 2015 CounterflowsChinese Cookie Poets & Negro Leo with GuestsPlus DJ Sets at Saramago Thu 2 April 2015 CounterflowsRichard Youngs’ Experiment for […]

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The Style Councillors OranMor, Thursday, 02 April, 2015

The Style Councillors OranMor, top of Byres Road, G12 Thu, 02 April, 2015 at 7:00pm The worlds only tribute to the mighty Style Council, a full 11 piece lineup replicating the very best from probably the best pop group in the world! The Style Councillors Thursday 2nd April Doors 7.00pm Tickets £13.50 available here http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/…/the-style-councillors-t…/161493 […]

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Aye Write 2015: St Mungo’s Mirrorball: Open Mic Poetry Corner

St Mungo’s Mirrorball: Open Mic Poetry Corner 24th Apr 2015  •  6:30PM – 7:30PM     Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Glasgow’s Poetry Network and Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, Jim Carruth, host their popular open mic session St Mungo’s Mirrorball – Glasgow’s Poetry Network – and Jim Carruth (Poet Laureate for Glasgow) host their popular […]

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New album: ‘Music for String Quartet, Piano & Celeste’ by Francis Macdonald

(Photo by Niall Webster) New album by Francis Macdonald from Teenage Fanclub ‘Music for String Quartet, Piano & Celeste’ Featuring musicians from the renowned Scottish Ensemble CD, Digital and Limited Edition 12” White Vinyl LP – Monday 30th March 2015 “Sublime, minimal classical music” (CLASSIC FM) Scottish BAFTA-nominated composer and songwriter Francis Macdonald drums with […]

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Jam City @ Stereo, Glasgow, 22 April, 2015

Synergy Concerts presents: Jam City Wednesday 22 April 8 p.m.@ Stereo, Glasgow Jam City returns to Glasgow to showcase his new album, Dream a Garden, out now on Night Slugs. Tickets: £9.50 Buy online https://soundcloud.com/jam-cityhttp://nightslugs.net/jam-city Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, G26PH Glasgow

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Hue and Cry: ‘September Songs Weekend’ 02 ABC, 25-26 September, 20125

Tickets for  ‘September Songs’ weekend at the O2 ABC in Glasgow are now on sale. Book online Friday, September  25th – Stripped With Strings Show A never seen before live addition to the Friday night ‘stripped’ performance – we will be joined on stage by a string quartet to perform renditions of a selection of […]

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Owen Jones discusses The Establishment, 17 April, 2015

Owen Jones  Talking about his book The Establishment        Friday, April 17, 2015 7:30pm St George’s Tron Church of Scotland163 Buchanan Street, Glasgow G1 2JX Come and meet Owen Jones as he discusses and signs copies of his book The Establishment at the St George’s Tron church on Buchanan Street. £5 Tickets available now: Buy […]

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NYOS Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow Concert: ‘Scottish Connections’

          Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 7:30pm        Glasgow City HallsCandleriggs, G1 1NQ Glasgow, United Kingdom www.glasgowconcerthalls.com During the spring course the Orchestra will also explore Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2, a masterpiece widely considered to be the epitome of the Romantic symphony. For the spring programme the Orchestra will be put through its […]

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Scottish Poetry Library Appeal 2015

Scottish Poetry Library Appeal aims to raise £20,000 towards the final £120,000 for a building renovation that will hugely improve capacities. You can donate  through Just Giving, so please help them reach their goal by donating £5 or more today. Donate online Your gift will help create more space … for noisy and silent activities […]

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Book Launch ‘The New Mrs D’ by Heather Hill

  Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street Thursday 30th April 2015 6.30-8pm. Waterstone’s, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3EW

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