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

The Overnighters, GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014

The Overnighters12A GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014 Buy tickets online Winner of the special Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Moss’s film The Overnighters has been called a Steinbeck-style story due to its powerful evocation of poverty, migration, despair and hope. The tale of a North Dakota pastor who opens his […]

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Colours Winter Party 2014 Fri 26 Dec 2014 Arches

Colours Winter Party 2014 Fri 26 Dec 2014 Arches | 9.30pm-4am | £30 + £3 BF & £1.50 TF (Web Only) Buy tickets Colours are very proud to present the only Boxing Day party worth attending in 2014. Colours WinterParty is upon us once again and this year we’ve got another amazing line up. Our […]

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A Very Merry Barrowlands Christmas People’s Palace Christmas 2014

A Very Merry Barrowlands Christmas  People’s Palace   23 December & 30 December 1 – 4 p.m. Christmas songs and dance for all the family. People’s Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green  G40 1AT   www.scotlanddebt.co.uk – Events for Children and Families Throughout Scotland

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Mrs Claus Christmas Party Pollok Country Park until 24 December 2014

www.scotlanddebt.co.uk – Events for Children and Families Throughout Scotland Mrs Claus Christmas Party Pollok Country Park Cost: £10 per Child Until  24 Dec 10:00 While Santa is busy, Mrs Claus will be hosting her Christmas party with games, storytelling and a personal escort to her very special grotto. Join Mrs Claus for extra special festive […]

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Scottish Writers Centre Christmas Party CCA, Tuesday 23rd December 2014

Scottish Writers Centre Christmas Party CCA, Club Room Tuesday 23rd December 2014; 7pm to 8.30pm, The Scottish Writers’ Centre closes the year, with a Christmas party comprising open recitals from the floor (particular emphasis will be placed on performance poetry and its influences). Bring along some friends, and a drink or two from the bar, […]

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Pressure: End of Year Party Arches Sat 27 Dec 2014

Pressure: End of Year Party Arches Sat 27 Dec 2014 Len Faki, Blawan, Slam, George FitzGerald, Marquis Hawkes, Silicone Soul | 10pm-4am | Tickets: £22 + £2.20 BF & £1.50 TF (Web only) | 18+ Buy tickets Slam‘s monthly party at The Arches rounds off a fantastic year with a stellar lineup: Orde and Stuart […]

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What We Do in the Shadows GFT Saturday 27–Sunday 28 December, 2014

What We Do in the Shadows15 Saturday 27–Sunday 28 December, 2014 Buy Tickets → This hilarious new mockumentary from the mind of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) chronicles the misadventures of four vampire roommates. Ranging in age from 183 to 8,000 and in appearance from adorably youthful to decrepit à la […]

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Distancia / Distance Film Screening Thu 18 December 2014 CCA

Distancia / DistanceFilm Screening Thu 18 December 2014 CCA 7pm, Free, Cinema Sergio Ramirez’ first full-length film depicts the true story of Tomas Choc, an elderly man in a small town in Guatemala who is searching for his missing daughter, Lucia. Kidnapped as a young girl by the military during the civil war twenty years […]

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Fantastic Voyage GFT Saturday 20 December, Monday 22 December

Fantastic VoyageU GFT Saturday 20 December, Monday 22 December Buy Tickets → In order to save the life of a comatose diplomat after an assassination attempt, a crew of five experts are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his body. With only 60 minutes before they return to normal size, the team captain the […]

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Manakamana GFT Saturday 20 December, Tuesday 23 December, 2014

ManakamanaU Saturday 20 December, Tuesday 23 December, 2014 Buy Tickets → A unique and inventive new film from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Laboratory, who brought us last year’s inimitable Leviathan (2013). In this new work, audiences are brought to a cable car high above a lush green Nepalese forest, sitting face-to-face with passengers on their […]

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Take 2: Home Alone Saturday 20 December GFT

Take 2: Home AlonePG Saturday 20 December, 2014 GFT Buy Tickets → An 8-year-old boy must defend his house against two bungling burglars when he is accidentally left at home by his family at Christmas. Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE to these shows when tickets are […]

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The Great Museum GFT Friday 19–Tuesday 23 December

GFT Friday 19–Tuesday 23 December, 2014 Buy Tickets → An observational document of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum as it reopened its famed Kunstkammer rooms in 2013. Director Johannes Holzhausen approaches the space with informed reverence, following curators and patrons throughout the building and using a distinctively cinematic lens to contextualise the museum’s goal of conserving works […]

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Kon-Tiki GFT Friday 19–Wednesday 24 December

Kon-Tiki15 GFT Friday 19–Wednesday 24 December Buy Tickets → Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s legendary voyage from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 remains the kind of grand adventure that a modern generation can only dream about. This stirring, Oscar-nominated epic tells the true tale with style and breathtaking cinematography. When nobody accepted his theory that South […]

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Sang fur the Wandert, or Song for the Lost by Janet Paisley

  Sang fur the Wandert, or Song for the Lost, is the sixth collection of poetry from the award-winning author, playwright and poet, Janet Paisley. Written in both Scots and English, with some works rendered in both languages, the poems included here focus on Scotland and the world, touching upon personal and international events from […]

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Mr Turner, GFT until 28 December, 2015

Mr Turner12A GFT Various dates between Friday 31 October and Tuesday 28 December, 2014 Buy online ‘What a glorious film this is, richly and immediately enjoyable, hitting its satisfying stride right away’ – Peter Bradshaw Mike Leigh’s latest, a historical biopic exploring the last quarter century in the life of the legendary painter J.M.W Turner, […]

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Northern Soul GFT Saturday 27–Sunday 28 December

Northern Soul15 GFTSaturday 27–Sunday 28 December Buy tickets This is a story of a youth culture that changed a generation and influenced songwriters, producers, DJs and designers for decades to come. This film tells the tale of two Northern boys whose worlds are changed forever when they discover black American soul music. Northern Soul was […]

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Join the audience for The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer, Glasgow

The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer University of Glasgow 9th January, 2015 BBC Radio Scotland’s The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer comes live from The Senate Room, Glasgow University (main building) on Friday 9th January 2015 and we’re looking for members of the public to take part in the audience.The Big Debate programme has been […]

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Mother’s Ruin, 4 January, 2015, The Lismore

Mother’s Ruin The Lismore, 4 January, 2015 206 Dumbarton Road, G11 6UN, Partick

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Queen Jane, Sharptooth, Catholic Action, 16 December, Bar Bloc

Tuesday 16 December 9 p.m. QUEEN JANE, SHARPTOOTH, CATHOLIC ACTION Bar Bloc http://queenjanemusic.bandcamp.com/ Cumbernauld 4-piece. Comparisons made to Bombay Bicycle Club and Maccabees. Confident, uplifting indie pop. Sharptooth “SHARPTOOTH are just as adept creating a powerful wall of sound as they are creating a chilling atmosphere and they demonstrate the ability to let loose as […]

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Teenage Riot – United Fruit, Bar Bloc, 20 December, 2014

Yes. United Fruit are doing us the pleasure of playing Bloc which will probably be their last gig of 2014. Having had an exceptional year with their new material making a lot of people pay attention…FINALLY, then it is now time for them to let off some steam on the Bloc+ stage. With various radio […]

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Lizzie & The Banshees + Talk of the Town, Ivory Blacks 26 Dec

Lizzie & The Banshees + Talk of the Town Ivory Blacks 56 Oswald Street, Glasgow G1 4PL 26th Dec 2014 7:00pm Last Entry: 9:00pm Lizzie & The Banshees and special Guest Talk of the Town Christmas special Scotland’s ultimate tribute to Siouxsie and the Banshees with special guest Talk of the Town the UK’s only […]

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Christmas Workshops Glasgow on Ice 2014

 Christmas Workshops Glasgow on Ice  George Square  13 & 20 December 12noon – 4pm – Niks’ Creative Christmas   Perfect for children aged 3 and up, Niks’ Creative Christmas will transform the Workshop into an imagination station! Activities will include candy cane mice or reindeer, Santa mask, Santa sweetie bag holders or Santa tree decorations. Santa Storytime […]

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Charity Book signing of The Seven Sisters of Carbeth, 12 & 19th Dec

 Charity Book signing of The Seven Sisters of Carbeth Friday 12th and 19th December, 2014 – 11am – 2pm.  Dalmuir Credit Union, 15 Abbotsford Road, Clydebank, G81 1PA For all Faerie, Elf and Pixie lovers, a lovely addition for your Xmas stocking! A delightful book based on tales from the heart of Scotland for teens […]

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Glasgow Wind Band, Hyndland Church, 15 December

Glasgow Wind Band Hyndland Parish Church  Monday 15 December 2014 Doors Open at 7:00PMStarts at 7:30PM Tickets £8, £5 concessions, under-12s free. Available online, in advance from band members or on the door. Buy tickets Hyndland Parish Church, 81 Hyndland Road, Glasgow G12 9JE

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Linda Jaxon Blues Project, Christmas Party at St Louis, 27 December, 2014

St Louis, 734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD

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Literary Lunchtimes, Wednesday 10 December, 2014

This autumn’s series of “Literary Lunchtimes” concludes with Shetlanders Christine de Luca (the Edinburgh Makar) and Robert Alan Jamieson Bar Gandolfi, 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, G1 1NY Sponsored by School of Humanities – University of Strathclyde Wednesday 10th December at 1 p.m.          

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Heaney, Irish Pages, Festive Glasgow Launch, Tell It Slant, 12 December

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Centre for Open Studies Creative Writing Evening STUC Tues Dec 9th

Creative Writing University of Glasgow Centre for Open Studies Come along and hear creative writing students reading their work Tuesday, 9th December, 2014 – 7 p.m. STUC, Glasgow. £5 – Please telephone 0141 330 1835 for tickets (come early if paying at door) STUC, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG www.glasgow.ac.uk/openstudies

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Nordic Film Festival 2014, GFT

Nordic Film Festival 2014 Glasgow Film Theatre 8 – 22 December, 2014 Nordic Film Festival returns to Glasgow this winter for the 3rd edition of the festival. With some of the freshest and most vibrant filmmaking talent from the Nordic region, the festival programme features a diverse mix of films some of the top names […]

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Franco German Film Series, CCA

Franco-German Film Series:Home Wed 10 December 2014 7pm, £3 (£2 students and members of Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française), + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Franco-German Film Series:Absurdistan Wed 14 January 2015 Franco-German Film Series:Under the Rainbow Wed 4 February 2015 Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française’s upcoming winter screenings […]

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