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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..

Into The New 2015 The Arches, Mon 12 – Thu 15 Jan 2015

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The Arches present Into The New 2015 A festival of cutting edge performance The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, G2 8DL Mon 12 – Thu 15 Jan 2015 | 6pm – 10pm | Festival Pass: £16 Day pass: £5 (call 0141 565 1000 to book) Into The New 2015 – […]

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Glasgow Writers’ Group Meeting Wed 14 January — Mon 16 February 2015 CCA

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Glasgow Writers’ Group Meeting Wed 14 January — Mon 16 February 2015 CCA 6.30pm, Free, ClubroomAges 18+       This event brings together a group of writers working in Glasgow who share an interest in the relationship between creative writing and the visual arts. Established following a recent symposium on collaborative working practices held […]

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Glasgow Film Festival GFF15 Festival Club Thu 19 February — Sat 28 February 2015 CCA

  lasgow Film FestivalGFF15 Festival Club Thu 19 February — Sat 28 February 2015 CCA     Freewww.glasgowfilm.org/festivalclub The Festival Club will be open in the Terrace Bar every night during the festival for anyone with a GFF ticket: come and meet fellow cineastes, rub shoulders with visiting stars, or get into a debate about […]

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Professor Lynda Morris Picasso and Modern Africa 1945­ – 1973 Tue 10 February 2015 CCA

Professor Lynda MorrisPicasso and Modern Africa 1945­ – 1973 Tue 10 February 2015 CCA 7pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAll agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 This talk will look at Picasso’s challenge to the idea of ‘primitivism’ in Modern Africa between 1945-73. Lynda Morris is preparing a text for the exhibition of the Royal Tuveren […]

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Glasgow British Athletics International Match Saturday 24 January, 2015 Emirates Arena

Glasgow British Athletics International Match Saturday 24 January, 2015 Emirates Arena Buy tickets online Ticketmaster on 08000 556056 The Emirates Arena will celebrate its third year of hosting world-class athletics, as the Sainsbury’s Glasgow International Match returns to Glasgow on Saturday 24 January. Just over six months on from the Commonwealth Games held in the […]

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Wiston Writers Workshop with Gerry Loose, 23 January, 2015

Writers workshop at Wiston with Gerry Loose January 23, 2015 – January 25, 2015 Wiston Lodge A weekend of writing for all ages and stages, led by Gerry Loose, “slow moving nomad, poet, writer and land-artist who works with subjects from the natural world” set in the magnificent location of Wiston Lodge. Cost £130 includes […]

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Aye Write Announces 2015 dates and Bob McDevitt – new guest programmer

17th – 25th April, 2015 ​Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival announces 2015 dates and new guest programmer ‘Aye Write! Glasgow’s premier book festival will return for its tenth year from 17th – 25th April 2015, with a new guest programmer at the helm, Bob McDevitt.  The festival will bring more than 100 renowned authors and […]

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The Garden A Short Opera The Citz 22 January – 24 January

The Garden A Short Opera performed in the Circle Studio, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Thursday 22nd Jan – Saturday 24th Jan 2015 Composer: John HarrisLibretto and Direction: Zinnie HarrisCast: Pauline Knowles and Alan McHughCommissioned and produced by: Sound Festival, Aberdeen, ScotlandDuration: 40 minutes Book online “The Garden” is a gentle tale of love and hope, set in a […]

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The Connection, GFT Friday 29 May – Thursday 11 June, 2015

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The Connection15 GFT Friday 29 May – Thursday 11 June Buy tickets online GFT favourite and Oscar-winning star of The Artist Jean Dujardin is the charismatic magistrate at the centre of this beautifully-styled true crime epic. It’s no accident that the title evokes William Friedkin’s genre standard The French Connection: this is the gallic flipside, […]

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Sunday, January 4, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema

Mànran Celtic Connections, The Arches, 31 January, 2015

Mànran Saturday 31 January, 7.30 p.m. Part of Celtic Connections – support tbc The Arches  (Under 16s must be accompanied by an 18+ adult) £15 Buy tickets online From seeing in the New Year as house band on BBC ALBA Hogmanay, to a sellout show at Celtic Connections, a special performance at the London Olympics […]

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Orlando Julius & the Heliocentrics with Trinity Roots, The Arches, 24 January

Orlando Julius & the Heliocentrics with Trinity Roots Sat 24 Jan 2015 | 7.30pm-10pm | £15 + £1.50 BF & £1.50 TF (Web Only) | 14+ (Under 16s must be accompanied by an 18+ adult) Buy tickets The legendary Nigerian singer, songwriter and saxophonist Orlando Julius has won renewed international recognition as a pivotal Afro-pop […]

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Dancing With Dakota.Dead Beat Rag Dolls.Trash Can Party.5 Second Warning.Aperture, 31 January, Ivory Blacks.

Dancing With Dakota.Dead Beat Rag Dolls.Trash Can Party.5 Second Warning.Aperture. Saturday, January 31 – 7:00pm        Ivory Blacks Fantastic 5 Band Bill at Ivory Blacks to start 2015 with a bang . www.facebook.com/dancingwithdakotawww.facebook.com/pages/TrashCan-Party/197378846999282www.facebook.com/5SecondWarningwww.facebook.com/deadbeatragdolls?pnref=lhc Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, G1 4PL

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Cancer Support Scotland Jumble Sale 31 January, 2015

Calman Cancer Support Centre 75 Shelly Road, GLASGOW, G12 0ZE 31 January, 2015 Cancer Support Scotland is a local charity, providing a range of counselling and complementary therapies to those affected by cancer, including family/friends and carers. The fundraising volunteers are holding a Jumble Sale on 31 January 2015 between 11am and 2pm, entry £1, tea […]

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Mother India At Home, Recipes Pictures Stories, review by Pat Byrne

Mother India at Home Recipes Pictures Stories by Monir Mohammed & Martin Gray Mother India at Home takes the reader right to the heart of Glasgwegians’ love of Indian Restaurants. Beautifully illustrated and introduced by the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Martin Gray, it tells the story of Monir Mohammed and his much loved Mother India restaurants […]

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Celtic Connections 2015, Acts Announced

Opening Acts Announced There will be some amazing opening acts from around the world at Celtic Connections 2015. Southern A brother and sister duo from Belfast, will be supporting Hudson Taylor in Oran Mor on 31st January. Southern perform a mixture of blues, alternative rock, pop and hip hop. The band has been championed by […]

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Dave Arcari and special guest Lee Patterson, Saturday, January 17, 2015 Buchanan Memorial Hall

Dave Arcari and special guest Lee Patterson Saturday, January 17, 2015        Buchanan Memorial Hall, Creityhall Road, Milton of Buchanan, by Drymen    Tickets Available www.wegottickets.com         ** No bar – bring your own bottle **Awesome old-school village hall show…Doors: 7.30pm. Showtime: 8pm **OAK TREE INN, Balmaha (less than a mile from the hall!) […]

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The Rambling Boys Friday, January 16 Celtic Connections The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

The Rambling Boys       Friday, January 16 Celtic Connections The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall        As part of Celtic Connections sharing the stage with the Qristina & Quinn Bachand The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY www.celticconnections.com/

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The Spangled Cabaret 12 January, 2015 The Art School

The Spangled Cabaret 12 January, 2015 – 8.30 p.m. The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow        SPANGLED CABARET KICKS OFF 2015 WITH A TRIP BACK TO THE 1980S!THE CREATIVE MARTYRSKIM KHAOSRUBY QMISS HELL’S BELLETHE GREAT AZIZTOM HARLOWTOOTSIE ANNIEWILD CARD KITTYMISS LEGGY PEEMARKEE DE SAW & BERT FINKLEWEIRD SCIENCE DJS+ SPECIAL GUESTS FREE ENTRY (DONATIONS […]

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Sherpa GFT 2 – 7 January, 2016

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Sherpa 2 – 7 January, 2016 Sherpas are Nepalese mountaineers who often act as guides for those wanting to scale the Himalayas, the highest mountains on earth. In 2014, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Peedom set out to make her third feature about the Nepalese people, just days before a deadly avalanche took the lives of 16 […]

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Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, GFT 3 January, 2016

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Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction The two films that launched the career of director Quentin Tarantino. Sunday 3 January (17.00)Running time:1h40m/2h34m plus 45m intermission   Before The Hateful Eight comes to GFT, we revisit the two films that launched the career of director Quentin Tarantino (and kickstarted the careers of many others). With their dizzying […]

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Older Than Ireland 10 January, 2016, Blackfriars

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Older than Ireland        Sunday, January 10, 2016  at 5 PM – 9 PM Movies at Blackfriars To mark the 100 year anniversary of Eire’s Independence. Blackfriars will be showing two very engaging & celebratory documentari OLDER THAN IRELAND (78 mins) “Both wry treat and testament to the efficacy of modern medicine, Alex Fegan’s documentary rounds […]

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Things I`ve Learned In France, Stuart Paterson

There are no taxis in Fontainebleau You gather a group of pals for a good night out in a local, buzzing tourist hotspot. Some pizza cooked in front you by a handlebar-moustachioed Italian lunatic, followed by a couple of top gigs (Cyrille Aimee & Les Doigts de l’Homme, since you asked) at a beautiful old […]

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Rebecca Birch Great Northern Film Screening CCA Thu 15 January 2015

Rebecca BirchGreat NorthernFilm Screening CCA Thu 15 January 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema,All ages Great Northern Shot during the winter period of 24 hour darkness, in Inuvik, ‘a typical Canadian town’ inside the Arctic Circle. Restricted by the extreme cold to interior shooting, the film attempts to record an experience of the landscape only […]

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Sunday, December 28, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema

Franco-German Film Series: Absurdistan CCA Wed 14 January 2015

Franco-German Film Series:Absurdistan CCA Wed 14 January 2015 7pm, £2.40 (£1.40 Students, Members of the Goethe-Institut / Alliance Française) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Franco-German Film Series:Under the Rainbow Wed 4 February 2015 Aya (Kristýna Maléřová) and Temelko (Maximilian Mauff) have been betrothed since childhood. Their first night of […]

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Leviathan15 Glasgow Film Theatre 30th December

Leviathan15 Glasgow Film Theatre 30 December, 2014 A critical hit at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest film is a sober and thoughtful reworking of the biblical Book of Jobs, as told in a small Russian town off the coast of the Barents Sea. When a corrupt mayor tries to take his land […]

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Foxcatcher15 GFT Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015

Foxcatcher15 GFT Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015 Buy tickets online This compelling and powerful drama from Capote director Bennett Miller tells the true and tragic story of Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz (played by Channing Tatum), taken under the wing of eccentric millionaire John du Pont (an electrifying Steve Carell). Miller won the Best Director […]

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The Green Ray GFT Sunday 4 January, Tuesday 6 January, 2015

The Green Ray12A GFT Sunday 4 January, Tuesday 6 January, 2015 Buy tickets The fifth film in director Eric Rohmer’s ’Comedies et Proverbes’, The Green Ray is a subtle rumination on the summer of Delphine. Disenchanted following a recent break-up, Delphine finds herself alone in Paris after the rest of the city-folk abscond to holidays […]

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We Are the Giant, GFT Saturday 3 January, Monday 5 January, 2015

We Are the Giant15 GFT Saturday 3 January, Monday 5 January Buy tickets Exploring what it means to take part in collective political action, this new documentary is comprised of insightful portraits of activists. From a twenty-one-year-old who fought against Gaddafi’s forces in Benghazi, to sisters Maryam and Zainab who became pivotal opposition figures against […]

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Enemy15 GFT Friday 2–Thursday 8 January, 2014

Enemy15 GFT Friday 2–Thursday 8 January, 2014 Buy tickets Based on the novel by Nobel prize-winning author José Saramago, the latest film from Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) is a hypnotic psychological thriller about the powerof subconscious and what happens when we come face-to-face with ourselves. Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a glum, dishevelled history professor […]

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Joyeux Noel12A GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014

Joyeux Noel12A GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014, Buy tickets Based on the First World War Christmas truce, director Christian Carion’s tri-lingual production follows soldiers in the British, French and German armies as they face each other across No Man’s Land during Christmas of 1914. Brought together through the singing of shared carols, the soldiers […]

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