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

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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Eastern Boys GFT Monday 8–Thursday 11 December, 2014

Eastern Boys15 GFT Monday 8–Thursday 11 December, 2014 Buy on line The sophomore feature from director Robin Campillo (who wrote and directed the original Les revenants in 2004) is alternately a tense thriller and tender love story. The ‘Eastern Boys’ of the title are the young men who hang around the Gare du Nord train […]

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Tomorrow Is Always Too LongN/C 18+ Sunday 7 December GFT

Tomorrow Is Always Too LongN/C 18+ Sunday 7 December GFT Buy tickets online This new film from artist Phil Collins, specially commissioned for Festival 2014, is a modern day city symphony and a musical love letter to Glasgow, shot on locations ranging from an antenatal class, to Barlinnie prison, and Frampton’s night club. With a […]

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Me, Myself and Mum Friday 5–Thursday 18 December GFT

Me, Myself and Mum15 Friday 5–Thursday 18 December GFT Buy tickets online This cheerful and inventive comic confessional from director Guillaume Gallienne tells the story of his upbringing, his relations with his mother, and his eventual embracing of his inner heterosexual after growing up as a female-identified boy whom everyone assumes is gay. The 41-year-old […]

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence + Jan Harlan in Conversation12 Wednesday 10 December GFT

A.I. Artificial Intelligence + Jan Harlan in Conversation12 Wednesday 10 December GFT Buy tickets online The touching story of an android child who finds himself adrift in a dystopian future longing for the love of his human ‘mother’. Stanley Kubrick started development on this film project in the early 1970s, but unfortunately never saw it […]

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The Homesman Friday 5–Thursday 11 December GFT

The Homesman Friday 5–Thursday 11 December GFT   Buy online The latest directorial outing for veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones (following 2005’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and 2011’s The Sunset Limited) is a revisionist western in the model of Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff. Putting the female experience front and centre, the film focuses […]

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The Grandmaster, GFT, 5 – 11 December, 2014

The Grandmaster Friday 5–Thursday 11 December Buy online The latest film from acclaimed auteur Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love, Happy Together ) is a rich, luscious martial arts epic recounting the complicated life of Ip Man – the legendary Wing Chung grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee. Kar-wai reteams with his frequent star Tony […]

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Electric Gardens, 23 Jan – 15 February, 2015 Botanic Gardens

GREEN LIGHT FOR BOTANIC GARDENS EVENT West End Festival organisers have been given the green light to put on a spectacular light and sound experience in the Botanic Gardens next year. The Electric Gardens will run from Friday, 23 January to Sunday, 15 February. Walking Tours with Dramatic Lighting The unusual experience consists of a […]

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Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, GFT, 23 November – 10 December, 2014

Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder The BFI’s season Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder is a three-month celebration of film and television’s original blockbuster genre which arrives at GFT this September. Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder will include screenings of classic and contemporary science fiction films and include exciting special events, kicking […]

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Christmas Market Project Cafe Sunday 14 December, 2014

Christmas Fair Project Cafe Sunday 14th December   134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST  Christmas market featuring the work of award-winning jewellers Merlin Planterose and Barbara Macleod, as well as some other brilliant makers. Pop along for gorgeous gifts and the usual stellar homebaking,   10am-5pm.  The Project Cafe will be host to several makers who will be selling […]

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Glasgow Clarion Cycling Club, Meeting STUC 11 December, 2014

Formal meeting to allow us to fully constitute, pay subscriptions and plan out rides for 2015. The meeting will take place next Thursday the 11th December, at 6.30pm.at the STUC. Agenda items 1) Constitution (which will be sent in advance) 2) Financial report 3) Forward Planning 2015 Please note Subscriptions can be paid on the […]

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Spinal Tap, The Glad Cafe, Tuesday 9 December 2014

 Spinal Tap   The Glad Cafe  Tuesday 9 December  Southside Film Festival  Finishing The Glad Cafe music season on Tuesday 9 December is a film that needs no introduction: This is Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner’s cult mockumentary about the British heavy metal band is interspersed with powerful performances of Tap’s mesmerising music and profound lyrics, as the film candidly […]

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Nights at The Project Cafe, Open Mic and Pizza, 5 December

        Nights at The Project Cafe Friday 5th December 2014 at 5:30pm – 10:00pm Open Mic and Pizza Got that frosty Friday feeling? Come on down to The Project Cafe and bathe in the warmth of the players, performers and poets and sharing their talents. Oh and not forgetting the best pizza in town!!!! […]

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Faiul Better Second Time Around, McChuills, December, 11th

         Fail Better Second Time Around Thursday, December 11 2014 8:00pm McChuills Glasgow A second wind our world spins. Fail Better for another year. An so to celebrate: HOWIE REEVE revealed inside a piano words to tear from ELLEN MCATEER HARRY GILES in firm farm form rhythmic mouthworder CAT HEPBURN something something caberet words […]

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Sangs an Clatter, The Glad Cafe 2nd December

The Village Storytelling Centre presents: Sangs an Clatter – Storytelling Evening Tuesday 2 December- 7.30 p.m. The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Sangs an’ Clatter is a performance night from The Village Storytelling Centre, all about mixing traditional and contemporary forms of storytelling. This December’s Sangs an’ Clatter is guest-curated by storytelling Dada folk band Dangle Manatee […]

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Mother India at Home, Book Launch, Waterstone’s 6 Dec.

Mother India at Home Recipes Pictures Stories Monir Mohammed and Martin Gray Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Saturday 6 December,  2014 1.00 p.m. Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 and specialises in dishes such as ginger and green chilli fish pakora, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils, and Delhi-style Scottish […]

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Vagabond Voices Celebrate Christmas CCA, 11 December, 2014

Aye-Aye BooksVagabond Voices Thu 11 December 2014 CCA 7pm, Free Celebrate Christmas with Glasgow Publisher, Vagabond Voices. A chance to meet six Glasgow-based authors – Chris Dolan, Lewis Gordon, Peter Gilmour, Peter Kerr, Gerry Loose and Allan Cameron – for readings, chat and wine. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

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Book Works Publication Launch Fri 5 December 2014 CCA

Book WorksNew Work with Sarah Tripp, Isla Leaver-Yap and The Happy Hypocrite Fri 5 December 2014 CCA 7pm, Free, TheatreAges 18+ An evening to launch two new Book Works publications: You are of vital importance by Sarah Tripp and The Happy Hypocrite – Heat Island edited by Isla Leaver-Yap. Performances and presentations by Katrina Palmer, […]

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Mirrorball Showcase, CCA 4 December, 2014

St Mungo’s Mirrorball Mirrorball Showcase 7 Thu 4 December 2014 CCA 7pm, £5 on the door, SMM members free, ClubroomAll ages   An excellent evening of poetry in store with three wonderful poets. Award winning poet Colette Bryce, originally from Northern Ireland, is joined by poet, writer and land artist Gerry Loose and Marion McCready, […]

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