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

In Process Masterclass with Chris Agee Scottish Writers Centre Tuesday 20th January 2015

In Process Masterclass with Chris Agee Scottish Writers Centre Tuesday 20th January 2015; 7pm to 8.30pm, CCA Cinema Room, Glasgow: Chris Agee was born in San Francisco, 1956, and grew up in Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University and has lived in Ireland since 1979. Chris has authored three poetry collections: […]

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Doris and Dolly, A double D, February, OranMor

OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow, G12

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Rabbie The Man, The Shed 23/24/25 January, 2015

Looking for something more than the traditional Burns supper then come along to The Shed. £8. To book please call Isobel on 0141 637 0778 or email manager@tramdirect.com  

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Janet Paisley: Sang Fur The Wandert, St Louis, Partick, 28 January, 2015

  734 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD

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A Play A Pie and A Pint, Spring– Summer Programme, 2015

Glasgow’s wonderful  lunchtime theatre at OranMor OranMor (Top of Byres Road), G12. Show Times Monday – Saturday 1pm(Doors 12pm/12.30pm on Mondays) Ticket Prices Monday £12.50 Tuesday £12.50 Wednesday £10 Thursday £12.50 Friday £12.50 Saturday £14 Ticket price includes a drink (beer, wine or soft drink) plus a pie or vegetarian quiche. Book online Box Office […]

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Raymond Carver: A tribute night, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, Wed 11 Feb, 2015

Raymond Carver: A tribute night Wednesday 11th February, 2015 6.30pm-9pm STUC Building, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG Considered by many critics to be the most important short story writer of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver (1938-1988) continues to influence new generations of writers. Stories such as Cathedral, Will You Please be Quiet, Please? and […]

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Beyond the Rage, Michael J Malone book launch Waterstone’s 4 February, 2015

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Meet the author Stuart MacBride Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street

Meet the author Stuart MacBride The Missing and the Dead – Logan McRae 9 Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Saturday, 24 January 2015, 7:00PM Tickets are FREE and available by calling 01413329105 The new Logan McRae novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of CLOSE TO THE BONE and A SONG FOR THE DYING. One mistake can […]

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Mic Clark Open Mic Night – Wednesdays The Pacific, Partick

Mic Clark Open Mic Night – Wednesdays – 9 p.m. The Pacific Bar Restaurant 562 Dumbarton Rd, Partick, Glasgow G11 6RH Phone:0141 334 9000 ‘To be specific it’s gonna b a crackin night, lot of good music, food till 11pm, bar open till midnight with free drinks for performers, loads of sailor jerry for all […]

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Jewish Film Club Carl Lutz: The Forgotten Hero CCA Sun 18 January 2015

Jewish Film ClubCarl Lutz: The Forgotten Hero CCA Sun 18 January 2015 3pm, £5.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 14+ when accompanied by an adultBook online / 0141 352 4900 A screening of the film telling the story of the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, who saved tens of thousands of persecuted Jews in Budapest during […]

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Wednesday 21 January GFT

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas18 Wednesday 21 January GFT Dr Gonzo and his crazed attorney, hell-bent on mayhem and armed with a suitcase chock full of narcotics, head to Vegas in Terry Gilliam’s outrageous, unhinged adaptation of Hunter S Thompson’s infamous 1970s novel. A hilarious, savage and wildly entertaining descent into the dark heart […]

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Paper Souls Friday 16–Thursday 22 January GFT

    Paper SoulsN/C 12 Friday 16–Thursday 22 January GFT A supernaturally festive dramedy about a low-spirited Parisian funeral oration author and former novelist who gets a new lease of life when he meets a young widow who commissions him to write an unusual piece of prose for her eight-year-old son. A tale of death, love […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2015 First Events Announced

Glasgow Film Festival 2015 First Events Announced Glasgow Film Festival 18 February – 1 March, 2015 Glasgow Film Festival is delighted to announce that tickets are now available for the first six events from its 2015 programme. The festival has grown a reputation for unique screenings in unusual venues – pop-up cinema events that bring the […]

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Death Watch (12A) Southside Film Festival Tues 20th January, 2015

Death Watch (12A) Southside Film Festival Tues 20th January, 2015 The Glad Cafe1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands, G41 8pm (doors 7.30pm) £6, £5 conc Buy tickets “the best dystopian sci fi you’ve never seen” -Cine-Vue Before Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror or David Cronenberg entered the Videodrome or Big Brother, Bertrand Tavernier came to Glasgow to film […]

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Nights at The Project Cafe, Friday 16th January, 2015

Nights at The Project Cafe Friday 16th January, 2015 We have an open house tonight – welcome welcome one and all. BYOB! We will be constructing pizzas (£4.50) and wholesome-ness (price varies), and warmth (free), and we just got a new projector so are open to suggestions for our first film screening! The microphone will […]

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Foxcatcher GFT, Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015

Foxcatcher15 GFT, 12 Rose St, G3 6RB Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015 Buy Tickets → 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). […]

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The Grosvenor Cinema, Listings

The Grosvenor, Hillhead – Cinema Listings 0845 166 6002 Ashton Lane/ Hillhead/ Glasgow West End/ G12 8SJ Cinema Showings From 16 January, 2015 Birdman This wild, savagely funny black comedy is not at all your usual kind of superhero movie. Riggan Thomson (Keaton, BATMAN) is a washed-up actor who made his name starring in an […]

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Butterfly OranMor A Play A Pie and A Pint Mon, 26 January, 2015 — Sat, 31 January, 2015

Butterfly OranMor A Play A Pie and A Pint Mon, 26 January, 2015 — Sat, 31 January, 2015 By Anne Hogg Directed by Stasi Schaeffer Featuring River City stars Paul James Corrigan and Frank Gallagher It’s March 1987 and Jamie Cassidy is facing redundancy. This, in an area already ravaged by factory closures, is bad […]

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Burns Week with Vagabond Voices, 29January, 2015

29 January | CCA Glasgow | An Evening of Film, Music & Words This Burn’s Week the Vagabond invites you to a special evening of film, music and words, featuring VV authors alongside a selection of Scotland’s finest artists and performers. Iain Rankin said it: “Chris Dolan knows crime – Potter’s Field is very good indeed.” […]

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Curlers Rest Burns Supper 24 January, 2015

The Curlers Rest Celebrates Burns Night 24 January, 7.30 p.m. – 8 p.m. starts prompt 256 – 260 Byres Road, G12 8SH £18 Enjoy traditional fare of haggis, neeps  tatties to the tunes of the piper, ‘The Address to a Haggis’ and a dram. Book early.This menu is for bookings only, please book by phone […]

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Burns Celebrations Events for all the Family, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, 17/18 January, 2015

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, Argyle Street, Glasgow West End Celebrate the Bard at Kelvingrove With an afternoon of songs, rhymes and craft activities for all the family. Discover the wonderful characters created in the poems of Robert Burns. 1 – 4 p.m. Sat and Sun 17/18 January.

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St Silas Burns Night Family Ceilidh 24 January, 2015

Wear the tartan and bring the kids. All money raised goes to RSPB. £7 adults, £3 in advance from Ticketsource.co.uk Children under five go free. Disco and Broomhill Ceilidh Band Bring your own snacks and drinks. 24 January, 6.30 – 9.30 p.m. St Silas Chruch, Woodlands Road, adjacent to entrance to Kelvingrove Park.

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Burns Night The Ubiquitous Chip, Saturday 26 January, 2015

Burns Supper 25th January, 6:30 pmUbiquitous Chip Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ A nicht of cheerful chantin’ and reelin’ Sumptuous 4 course dinner with coffee and sweetmeats and obligatory dram to toast the haggis. View the menu. Piper and Orator, live music and ceilidh with The Last Tram to Auchenshoogle Tickets £49.95 per person Call […]

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Burns Supper Trades Hall, Glasgow. 24 January, 2015

Saturday, 24th January, 2015 – £20  7 p.m. Back with another Burns Night Celebration, Glasgow Young Professionals are hosting a night of feasting, frolicking and darn good dancing at Trades Hall in memory of that radical poet fella, Robert Burns.  Come down for a night to remember and enjoy a meal followed by a traditional […]

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Cottiers Burns Night Ceilidh

The famed night of January is nearly upon us when all Scots and Brits alike unite for a raucous olde romp to commemorate the late, great poet radical Robert Burns. Celebrate Burns Night 2015 in true Scottish fervour at the Cottiers Theatre. There’ll be a 3 course dinner full of traditional treats to nosh and […]

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Big Garden Birdwatch RSPB – 2015

Count the wildlife that’s counting on you Join thousands of others and pick an hour over the weekend to discover the wildlife in your garden. Register now to receive your FREE PACK and exclusive £5 RSPB Shop discount*. Register now

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An Evening with Stuart MacBride Thursday 14th January, 2015 Sloans Grand Ballroom

An Evening with Stuart MacBride Thursday 14th January, 2015 19:00  Sloans Grand Ballroom, 62 Argyll Arcade, Glasgow, G2 8BG Come and meet #1 bestseller Stuart MacBride as he celebrates the launch of his latest book ‘In the Cold Dark Ground’. £3 Tickets are available to purchase instore ar Waterstones www.waterstones.com/bookshops/glasgow-argyle-stree

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Indigo Cell, Danny Kyle Stage, Celtic Connections, 23 January, Royal Concert Hall

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Chuck the Librarian, Charlie Hebdo! by James Christie

I surely hope that despite the slaughter on Rue Nicolas-Appert, publication of Charlie Hebdo shall not cease. The satirical magazine’s raison d’être was to challenge the powers that be, hearkening back to the grand French tradition of taking the piss out of the Establishment via graphically illustrated scandal sheets exposing all the illicit shagging going […]

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Inaugural Herland – Alternative Burns, Glasgow Women’s Library 29 January, 2016

Herland: Alter Native Burns Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street Glasgow, G40 1BP 29th January, 2016 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm    | £7.50 / £10 A new irregular evening at Glasgow Women’s Library’s. Herland distils the essence of GWL; learning, pleasure, the historic and the cutting edge. Sharing ideas and making connections, where established […]

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