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..

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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Thursday, January 1, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more

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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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema

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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Monday, December 29, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Poetry, Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog

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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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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Sunday, December 21, 2014 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

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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Friday, December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

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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Thursday, December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema

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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Wednesday, December 17, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema

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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Monday, December 15, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

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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Sunday, December 14, 2014 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

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