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

Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

GFF15, Glasgow Short Film Festival, CCA, 12 – 15 March

Glasgow Short Film Festival Thu 12 March — Sun 15 March 2015 CCA Tickets via Glasgow Short Film Festival Glasgow Open Dance SchoolAfro Fusion Workshop with Nandi Bhebhe Sun 15 March 2015 Glasgow Short Film FestivalScottish Competition 2: Dark Days Fri 13 March 2015 Glasgow Short Film FestivalScottish Competition 1: Parenthood Thu 12 March 2015 […]

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Thursday, March 12, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2015

Write On! The Mitchell, 28 March, 2015

A Day of Engagement and Debate Saturday 28 March, 2015 The Mitchell Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival always engages with the big issues. Current affairs and social themes run through our programming ever year, and the passion and erudition of our audiences ensures that these events are never anything less than lively, at times challenging, […]

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Celebrating the Centenary of the Glasgow Rent Strikes

Maria Fyfe & J.David SimonsCelebrating the Centenary of the Glasgow Rent StrikesSaturday 28 March, 201512.00 – 13.00 The Mitchell Library ​April 1915 saw a mass organized protest of more than 30,000 Glaswegian tenants, as they refused to pay the crippling increases imposed on them by their landlords. At the forefront of these peaceful demonstrations were […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2015 Critics’ Choice. Top Ten Films

  Inaugural Critics’ Choice  Glasgow Film Festival today (5 March, 2015) announced their inaugural Critics’ Choice: a list of the ten films which scored most highly in a vote from GFF’s accredited press corps. All accredited reviewers attending the festival were invited to submit their three favourite films from the whole programme, with numerical values assigned […]

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Book Launch: Alex Gray, Keep the Midnight Out, 19 March 2015

Keep the Midnight Out – DCI Lorimer 12     Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 19 March 2015, 6:30PM Tickets free – available from the ground floor tills or by calling  0141 332 9105 Come and meet Alex as she reads from and takes a Q&A about her latest stunning novel.When the body of a red-haired young […]

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Book Launch: Anna Smith, A Cold Killing, Waterstone’s

Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 26 March 2015, 6:30PM Tickets free – available from the ground floor tills or by calling  0141 332 9105 Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs […]

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Gutter, 12th edition, February 2015

The Magazine of New Scottish Writing  Forthcoming Title Another sparkling issue with contributions from the likes of Scottish Makar Liz Lochhead, former Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin, Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth, Jonathan Falla, William Letford, Mark Buckland and Vicki Jarrett. Gutter magazine is the outstanding independent literary magazine publishing fiction and poetry from writers born and […]

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Exhibition of Concrete Poetry, Project Cafe through March, 2015

The exhibition of concrete poetry has finally arrived. Opens at 5pm 28 February, 2015 – runs for one month. Including a wine reception with an introduction by poet Martin Robinson.  Three of each prints are for sale at £12! Already proving very popular at  the sneak preview so come on down and have a look […]

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The Women’s Unit, Group Show, Castlemilk, March, 2015

The Women’s Bridges, Castlemilk Group Show Open 10am to 5pm, Tuesday and Wednesday. Congratulations to all the artists involved. The Women’s Unit, 17b Castlemilk Arcade. Between the Pawn and the Poundshop. Two small flights of stairs. The Women’s Bridges, Facebook

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Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, Glasgow Feb – Mar, 2015

Literary Lunchtimes The new spring series of “Literary Lunchtimes” resumes Wednesday 18th February, 2015 at Bar Gandolfi, 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow. Spring Programme 2015 Donal McLaughlin  and Karen Campbell – will be reading from their work on Wednesday, 18 February at 1.00 pm Rodge Glass – will read on 25 February, 1 p.m. […]

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Monday, March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Glasgow Memory Clinic, Help Shed Light on Alzheimers

Help shed light on Alzheimers Glasgow Memory Clinic is seeking healthy participants between 65 and 83 to take part in their research. Find out if you are suitable for Free Memory Screening – telephone: 0141 948 0206 www.glasgowmemoryclinic.com www.tommorrowstudy.com/

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Leviathan, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, 9 – 14 March, 2015

Leviathan OranMor, Top of Byres Road Mon, 09 March, 2015 — Sat, 14 March, 2015 By Matthew Trevannion | Directed By Rachel O’Riorden Featuring Claire Cage, Siw Hughes and Gwawr Loader “Will you look at the day? Beautiful, ah? Summer throws you one of these just before it all goes west.” As three generations of […]

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Glasgow Police Museum, Talk at GOMA, Friday 13 March, 2015

Curator of Glasgow Police Museum Alastair Dinsmor will give a talk on the Museums 175 years of history. The Museum of Glasgow’s 1st Police Force, Library@GoMA Friday 13 March, 2pm.   Please phone or call into Library@GoMA to book your place 0141 287 3010. GOMA, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH  

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Alan Gillis, Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, 11 March, 2015

Literary Lunchtimes Bar Gandolfi Irish poet Alan Gillis 11 March at 1 p.m. Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973 and lives in Scotland where he is Lecturer in English at The University of Edinburgh. His debut poetry collection, Somebody, Somewhere, won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection in 2004, […]

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Sunday, March 8, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Writing for 8-12 Year Olds

Scottish Writers Centre, CCA Club Room, Glasgow:Tuesday 17th March 2015; 6.30 – 8.30pm, Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Writing for 8-12 Year Olds 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 what […]

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UWS Creative Media Academy MA Programme Launch and Symposium: Creativity and Form

Thursday, March 12  9:30am – 5:00pm Film City Glasgow401 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2QJ Join colleagues and industry practitioners from University of the West of Scotland’s Creative Media Academy for a free one day symposium on the question of ‘Creativity and Form’ at the UWS seminar space in Film City Glasgow to mark the launch […]

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Magda, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015, CCA

‘Magda’ Premiere at Glasgow Short Film Festival        Thursday, March 12 at 9:15pm CCA Glasgow Please join Raisah and I for the premiere of our short film ‘Magda’ at Glasgow Short Film Festival ‘Magda’As Magda and Haris pack up the life they had together the memory of a missing box unpacks everything they held back […]

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Saturday, March 7, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema

Magical Ice Festival, Glasgow Hydro, 26 – 29 March, 2015

Disney On Ice presents Magical Ice Festival Hits the UK The Show that features an Enchanting Mix of Disney Royalty First Disney On Ice show featuring much-loved sisters Anna and Elsa from the number one animated film of all time Disney’s Frozen Show also features everyone’s favourite characters from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Tangled and […]

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The Hellfire Club, Album Launch, Songs for Fallen Stars, 14 March, Stereo

The Hellfire Club’s album Songs for Fallen Stars, will be released on 15 March , 2015 and available from all good digital retail outlets.  Launch event at Stereo on Saturday 14 March, 2015 with songs performed from the album and a CD version available to buy at a special one-off price of £5.  To make […]

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Friday, March 6, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Cocktail @ Glad Cafe Saturday 7th March, 2015

Cocktail: fear, pain, power is a new work by writer Rachel Jury and Composer Andrew Cruickshank based on interviews with people who have experienced intra-Christian sectarianism in Scotland contemporary performance in style with singing, movement, a live four piece band and an intergenerational cast of eight with a mix of professional and community performers. Humorous, […]

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Teenage Riot, Bar Bloc, 6 March, Club Night 11 p.m.

Alternative monthly club night from the United Fruit boys sometimes featuring special live guests. Club style: beastie boys sonic youth m83 mars volta death grips at the drive-in gang of four fugazi and you will know us by the trail of dead minutemen felix da housecat mudhoney slint mogwai battles melt banana shellac future of […]

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The Daddy Naggins at The Lucky Break 8 March, 2015

The daddy naggins this sunday afternoon at the world famous lucky break.. Sunday Afternoon, 8 March, 2015  The Lucky Break Snooker Club 26-30 Glasgow Road, Clydebank

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Thursday, March 5, 2015 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

The Rio Cafe 9th Birthday Party! 14 March, 2015

 The Rio Cafe 9th Birthday Party!     Saturday, March 14 at 8:00pm DJ ADAM WELSH & DJ PAUL PUPPET lead us through an epic celebration!We’d like you all to get involved and share your memories/photos/video clips from the last 9 years! Please share on our facebook page!  The Rio Cafe27 Hyndland street, Partick, Glasgow G11 […]

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The Tales of Hoffmann, GFT Sun 8 March, Tues 10 March, 2015

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were among the most audacious, visionary filmmakers in British cinema history. A glorious 4K restoration of The Tales of Hoffmann with previously unseen footage offers breathtaking testimony of their dazzling visual imagination and boundless artistic daring. Their Oscar-nominated adaptation of Offenbach’s opera is a feverish swirl of colour and intense […]

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema

First Snowfall, GFT Saturday 7 March, 2015

Set amidst the staggering beauty of the remote Alpine area of the Mocheno Valley, First Snowfall offers a tender tale of the shared humanity that binds us all together. Dani is an African refugee struggling to make a new life for himself and his daughter as he works for elderly carpenter Pietro. Pietro’s 11-year-old grandson […]

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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, GFT, Friday 6 March, 2015

Winner of the European Film Award for Best Comedy and the David Di Donatello for Best New Director, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer is an inspired, coming of age comedy that pays heartwarming tribute to all of those who have fallen in the struggle against the Mafia. Arturo is born into a family where […]

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White Bird in a Blizzard, GFT Friday 6–Thursday 12 March, 2015

The latest film from Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, Kaboom) is a dreamy and emotionally intense adaptation Laura Kasischke’s novel of the same name. In 1988, Eve (Eva Green) disappears, leaving a family shattered by her loss. Teenage daughter Kat (Shailene Woodley) faces a coming of age marked by a haunting confrontation with love, death and […]

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Appropriate Behaviour, GFT, 6 – 12 March, 2015

Friday 6–Thursday 12 March Lena Dunham’s Girls have got nothing on lead character Shirin in this outrageously entertaining, quasi-autobiographical first feature from writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan, creator of the cult web series The Slope. Shirin is a bisexual Brooklynite with an amazing ability to sabotage everything she touches. A bitter break-up with girlfriend Maxine leaves her […]

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Focus on Ukraine, CCA, 12 March, 2015

Glasgow Short Film FestivalFocus on UkraineProgramme 1: Babylon ’13 CCA Thu 12 March 2015 7pm, £6 (£5), CinemaAges 15+Tickets via GSFF Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art presents two specially curated programmes of new work from Ukraine. The first programme showcases the work of Babylon ’13, a collective making web-docs in response to current events, […]

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Luca George: I Am The Wheel, CCA, 8 March, 2015

Luca George:I Am The Wheel CCA Sun 8 March 2015 7pm, Free, CinemaAll ages A new film from Luca George. What is faith? Who is guilt? And where is love? Climb the tree of life. Spin the wheel of time. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

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