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

Common Fest, in support of Common Weal, 17 April, QMU, Glasgow Uni

It’s finally time – the first batch of tickets for CommonFest are going on sale!  CommonFest on the 17th of April, 2015  a celebration of Common Weal ideas in the run-up to the General Election on the 7th of May. The event will include musicians, comedians and speakers including Kid Canaveral (performing an acoustic set), Suspire, […]

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Owen Dudley Edwards & David Torrance, The Mitchell, 28 March

Owen Dudley Edwards & David Torrance The Psyche of Political Leaders Saturday 28 March, 20151.30-2.30pm | £9 (plus transaction fee)* The Mitchell Library How well do we know our political leaders? Can we trust them to do the right thing on our behalf? Do we and they fully or even adequately understand the complexities of […]

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Give Art Glasgow – Children and the Arts

Andy Peutherer of Scottish Landscape Painting has teamed up with with Greater Maryhill Foodbank & Art Retail Network to launch a city wide campaign to provide art supplies and creative materials to children and young people who rely on food banks. The founder of Give Art, Andy Peutherer describes his motivations for the project: “Most […]

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Glasgow Film Festival Margaret Tait Award – Nominations for 2015 now open

Glasgow Film Festival are delighted to announce that nominations are now open for the sixth year of the Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and LUX. The aim of the Margaret Tait Award is to support experimental and innovative artists working within film and moving image, providing a high profile platform for them to […]

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Eddie Reid and The Special Agents, The Lucky Break 22 March

Eddie Reid And The Special Agents  Sunday 22 March, 2015 The World Famous Lucky Break 4 p.m.        The Lucky Break Snooker Club26-30 Glasgow Road, Clydebank, G81 1se

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Glasgow Southside Film: March, 2015

February screening is the music documentary Hit So Hard about the celebrated drummer from the band Hole, Patty Schemel. Given a video camera just before Hole’s infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything; the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen… until now. […]

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Happy 25th Birthday King Tuts

King Tut’s 25 years old. Try their quiz to win some merchandise.

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Nite Against Poverty & Inequality, 19 March, 2015

Unite Against Poverty & Inequality Thursday 19 March, 2015, 7.30 p.m.  Dalmuir CE Centre, Duntocher Road, Clydebank, G81 – resist benefit cuts– outlaw poverty pay & Zero Hours Contracts– demand £10 NOW as a living minimum wage Poverty and inequality scar the face of Scotland. A million are below the breadline – including 220,000 kids – […]

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Magners Summer Nights 2015, Kelvingrove Bandstand

The Kelvingrove Bandstand Kelvingrove Park , Kelvin Way, Glasgow G12 8NR King Creosote -From Scotland with Love * on sale Friday 20 March The Kelvingrove Bandstand , Glasgow Doors 6pm £25.00 Roddy Frame The Kelvingrove Bandstand , Glasgow Doors 6pm £28.50 Glasvegas * on sale Friday 20 March The Kelvingrove Bandstand , Glasgow Doors 6pm […]

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Circles of Focus, CCA , 3 April – 17 May 2015

Christine Borland & Brody CondonCircles of Focus Fri 3 April — Sun 17 May 2015 Tue – Sat: 11am – 6pm // Sun: 12noon – 6pm // Free // Preview: Fri 3 April, 7pm – 9pmAll ages Related CCA Events Christine Borland & Brody CondonCircles of FocusOpen Air Firing Sat 21 March 2015 Circles of […]

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Polly Toynbee and David Walker, Write On!

Polly Toynbee & David Walker Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink Write On! Saturday 28 March, 2015 4.30 – 5.30pm The Mitchell, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN As we prepare for a new government we welcome back two of our finest commentators to deliver their verdict on the Conservative led coalition. […]

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The only way to do it is to do it: The Hunterian, 27 March – 4 October, 2015

The only way to do it is to do it 27 March – 4 October 2015 Hunterian Art Galler, University of Glaagow, 82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Admission free Works by Josef Albers, John Cage, Willem de Kooning, Raydale Dower, G.O.D.S, Robert Motherwell, Ciara Phillips and Ossip Zadkine. The only way to do it […]

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John Lafferty: Barca to Borrheid

Charity Cycle ‘This year I am undertaking the biggest cycle ride of my life so far. (that leaves the option of bigger ones later) I’ll be leaving for Barcelona with my bike in a box on 9th March and after a night in the city I’ll be heading home via Blanes, Figueres, Perpignan, Narbonne, Beziers, […]

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Unread Writers Society, Magazine Launch, 19 March, 2015

Unread Writers Society Thursday, March 19, 2015 7 p.m. Waterstones Argyle Street New UWS student creative magazine – launch Cost of magazine £4 Waterstones Argyle St, 174-176 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8BT www.facebook.com/unreadwriterssociety

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Alex Salmond, Waterstone’s Sauchiehall St, 28 March 2015

Alex Salmond discussing his new book The Dream Shall Never Die – 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever Saturday 28 March 7 p.m. Waterstone’s, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW Tickets now on sale. £15 with book £5 without book. Call 0141 332 9105 for details.

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Ryan McMullan, Jinty McGuinty’s, Sunday 15 March, 2015

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The Life and Politics of James Connolly, Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre

A talk by the historian John Ford Monday, 16th March 20157.00pm – 9pm Room 10, Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre,6 Daisy St, Glasgow G42 8JL James Connolly (1868-1916) was born in the slums of Edinburgh, where he received only a basic primary education and seemed, like many of his peers, destined to struggle through life, working for […]

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Queen Margaret Union, St Patrick’s Day, T-shirt Party, 17 Mar 15

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint, OranMor, 16 – 21 March, 2015

The Day the Pope Emptied Croy OranMor Top of Byres Road G12 Mon, 16 March, 2015 — Sat, 21 March, 2015 By Martin McCormick | Directed By Emma Callander Featuring Sean Purden Brown, Nathan Byrne, and Keiran Gallacher There aren’t too many places in Scotland where you are the only ‘Prod’ in town. But Ranald […]

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Jinty McGuinty’s – St Patrick’s Day, 17 March, 2015

Listings George Donaldson Day at Jinty McGuinty’s Decked in quotes from Irish writers and poets, and soundtracked by the most Emerald-tinged of rock and folk artists old and new, Jinty’s is an Irish pub’s Irish pub. It will, of course, be packed out on St Patrick’s Day, but hopefully you’ll still get a chance to […]

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GSFF Short Com with Greg Hemphill CCA Sat 14 March 2015

Glasgow Short Film FestivalShort Com with Greg Hemphill CCA Sat 14 March 2015 9.15pm, £6 (£5), TheatreAges 15+Tickets via GSFF Short Com is delighted to make its return to Glasgow Short Film Festival for 2015. Short Com is a regular showcase of the finest independent comic shorts around, by new comedic filmmaking talent, chosen from […]

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GFF Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism Sat 14 March 2015 CCA

Glasgow Short Film FestivalSymposium: Short Film (and) Criticism Sat 14 March 2015 CCA 10.30am – 6pm, Free, TheatreAges 15+Register for a place via GSFF A series of discussions considering film criticism in the context of short film: critical writing on short film, short film curation as criticism, and short filmmaking as criticism. The symposium is […]

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Let Glasgow Flourish 2:The Game’s A Bogey, GFT Sun 15 March

Let Glasgow Flourish 2:The Game’s A Bogey Sunday 15 March, 205 GFT In 1985, a collective of young unemployed people living in Cranhill produced Clyde Film, a poetic history of the people of Glasgow told only in music and images, and set against scenes of failed regeneration. The film premiered in Moscow at the World […]

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Book Launch, The Blue Horse by Phil Miller, CCA, 20 March, 2015

www.freightbooks.co.uk 20 March – 6.30 p.m. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

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Let Glasgow Flourish 1: Best Laid Schemes

Let Glasgow Flourish 1: Best Laid Schemes GFT Saturday 14 March, 2015 In 1985, a collective of young unemployed people living in Cranhill produced Clyde Film, a poetic history of the people of Glasgow told only in music and images, and set against scenes of failed regeneration. To mark the 30th anniversary of this quietly […]

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Dreamcatcher, GFT, Sunday 15–Thursday 19 March, 2015

Dreamcatcher  GFT  Sunday 15–Thursday 19 March, 2015 Brenda Myers-Powell is one of the most extraordinary women you will ever meet. A drug-addicted teenage prostitute known as ‘Breezy’, Brenda woke in hospital after a violent encounter with a client and decided that her life had to change. She now runs the Dreamcatcher Foundation, working with hundreds of women […]

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Move More Glasgow

Move More Glasgow offers free physical activity sessions to people living with or beyond cancer to help them enjoy the benefits of being physically active.  The activities are walking, gentle movement, circuit classes and gardening.  We have a walk every Saturday around Kelvingrove Park and a circuit session in Kelvingrove Tennis Pavilion.  We also Have […]

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Steel Magnolias, GFT, 15 March, 2015

Steel Magnolias Mother’s Day Special GFT Sunday 15 March An inter-generational all-star cast of women bring Robert Harling’s 1987 play to the screen, telling the heartwarming tale of a group of women who find hope and friendship with one another in their times of need. Serendipitously meeting at a small Louisiana beauty parlor, the group […]

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Book Launch: Kimberley Clark, The Wronged, Waterstone’s

Also with Anna Smith  Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 6:00PM Tickets free – available from the ground floor tills or by calling  0141 332 9105 Come and meet crime Queens Kimberley Chambers and Anna Smith as they both take questions and discuss their craft as we celebrate the launch of Kimberley’s stunning new […]

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Still Alice, GFT Friday 6–Thursday 19 March, 2015

Julianne Moore stars as Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. She delivers a powerful performance as a woman in retreat from the world as all the memories and feelings that made her unique become lost to her. Husband Alec Baldwin and daughters Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth provide strong support in […]

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