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Glasgay! Cinema, Glasgow, Until 15 November, 2015

Glasgay! – Cinema GFT Until 15 November, 2014 Scotland’s annual celebration of LGBT culture, returns with an exciting selection of previews, premieres and classics from around the world. From John Waters’ film Cry-Baby to exquisite documentary My Prairie Home, this year’s festival has a diverse array of films which both celebrate and explore LGBT culture. […]

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Social or Solitary – Polly Roberts tell it slant Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Social or Solitary – Polly Roberts tell it slant  Wednesday, November 19 at 7:00pm  Pop-up exhibition and book tour After a fantastic response from Norwich Arts Centre and a sell-out of the first run of books, ‘Social or Solitary’ is going on tour. This fun and fearless book follows a 24-year-old English graduate, determined to […]

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The Seven Song Club @ the Tron Theatre Friday 14 November, 2014

The Seven Song Club @ the Tron Theatre Friday 14 November, 7.45 p.m. On Friday 14th November the Seven Song Club will feature  Indigo Cell, the Invisibe Republic, Hunter M Thomson (with JImbo MacKellar). Really looking forward to hearing their seven songs.. Tickets (includes free drink) from Tron Box Office – 0141 552 4267  £7 […]

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Lunchtime Talks, Merchants House Glasgow 2014/2015

Lunchtime Talks The Merchants House Glasgow In Partnership With The University Of Glasgow: Centre For Open Studies, Are Offering The Following Lunchtime Talks Which Will Take Place Between 12.00 – 13.00 p.m. £5 To book call: 0141 330 1853/1860/2772 Eighteenth century pioneers – William Hunter and Captain Cook Dr Sally Anne     Coupar      […]

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UK Jewish Film Festival 2014 The Sturgeon Queens CCA Saturday 15 November 2014

UK Jewish Film Festival 2014 The Sturgeon Queens CCA Saturday 15 November 2014 8pm, £8 + 60p booking fee, Cinema,All ages, Children must be accompanied by an adult Book online Irresistable portrait of the famed New York Lower East Side lox and herring emporium, Russ And Daughters, 100 years old this year, and embarking on […]

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‘Autobiography at Novel’: with Shazia Hobbs and Magi Gibson, 25 November, CCA

‘Autobiography at Novel’:  with Shazia Hobbs and Magi Gibson Tuesday 25th November 2014; 7pm to 8.30pm, CCA Club Room, Glasgow Shazia Hobb’s The Gori’s Daughter is about the life of a young, mixed race woman – daughter of a Kashmiri father and Glaswegian mother – living in a polygamous family household, with her parents and […]

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Fiction for Fearties, Glasgow Womens Library, 17 November, 2014

Fiction for Fearties November 17 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Glasgow Women’s Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP Do you have a favourite short story you’d like to share? Would you like to write a short story of your own? Monday 17th November. 2.30 to 4.30pm (£3/free) Come along to our National Short […]

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Book Launch: Out There – A New Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing Thursday, November 13, 2014 Mono Cafe Bar

Book Launch: Out There – A New Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing Thursday, November 13 at 7:00pm Mono Cafe Bar The anthology features work from celebrated writers including Val McDermid, Carol Ann Duffy, Toni Davidson, Damian Barr, Louise Welsh, Jenni Fagan, Kerry Hudson, Jackie Kay, Ronald Frame- and many more. Damian Barr, author of Maggie […]

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Love Steaks Glasgow Film Festival Thursday 13 November, 2014

Love SteaksN/C 12+ Glasgow Film Festival Thursday 13 November Booking Online Jakob Lass’ celebrated cinematic debut Love Steaks emerged from the FOGMA manifesto – Germany’s answer to the infamous Dogme movement. FOGMA’s ‘Rules Are Freedom’ stipulates that filmmakers must plan the unpredictable, which then allows them to surrender to their impulses whilst shooting. There will […]

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Africa in Motion Film Festival Until 9 November, 2014

Africa in Motion Film Festival Until 9 November, 2014 Welcome to the 9th edition of the Africa in Motion Film Festival. We are back and ready to bring to Scotland a diverse array of inspiring, innovative and challenging stories from across the African continent. This year’s festival theme is ‘Looking back, reaching forward’, drawing inspiration […]

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EMA’s Movie Classics Weekend 7 –9 November, 2014 Glasgow Film Theatre

EMA’s Movie Classics Weekend 7 –9 November, 2014 Glasgow Film Theatre Viacom International Media Networks is proud to be hosting the MTV EMA’s in Glasgow for the very first time! To celebrate, Viacom’s fast-growing Paramount Channel has partnered with Glasgow Film to present three iconic movie classics. Paramount Channel brings classic films into the present, […]

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Oscar Cordoba Band, Avant Garde, Friday 28 November, 2014

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Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, November – December, 2014

Sponsored by the School of Humanities University of Strathclyde All events will be introduced by Chris Agee, the Keith Wright Literary Fellow at University of Strathclyde. Programme Tom Leonard Wednesday 12 November – 1 p.m. One of Glasgow’s great literary sons will read from his uniquely versatile work Kathleen Jamie Wednesday 26 November – 1 […]

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PREVIEW Mike Nelson Exhibition, Friday, November 14 Tramway 5.

PREVIEW Mike Nelson       Friday, November 14 Tramway 5. Mike Nelson is best known for his labyrinthine architectural installations that unfold as narrative structures, where the viewer moves through rooms like a reader turns pages in a novel. For Tramway, Nelson presents a recent work, Eighty Circles through Canada (the last possessions of an […]

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The Possibilities Are Endless12A GFT Sunday 2–Thursday 13 November

The Possibilities Are Endless12A GFT Sunday 2–Thursday 13 November, not 3, 4, 5, 6 Buy Tickets → This is the incredible story of Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who had the contents of his mind effectively deleted after experiencing a stroke. Placed inside Edwyn’s mind, we embark on a remarkable journey from the brink of death […]

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Jim Dick: Life is Dutiful! The Arches Thursday 13 Nov – Wednesday 3 Dec 2014

Jim Dick: Life is Dutiful! The Arches Thursday 13 Nov – Wednesday 3 Dec 2014 Launch event 13 November, 7 – 9 p.m. Free “Every time people perform an activity they have not themselves defined and do not themselves control, every time they pay for goods they produce with money they received in exchange for […]

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St Mungo’s Mirrorball Mirrorball Showcase 6 Thu 20 November 2014 CCA

St Mungo’s MirrorballMirrorball Showcase 6 Thu 20 November 2014 CCA 7pm, £5 on the door, SMM members free, ClubroomAll ages An excellent evening of poetry in store with three wonderful poets A former homelessness worker, Ian Duhig has written six books of poetry, most recently Pandorama (Picador 2010) and has won the Forward Best Poem […]

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Africa in Motion Township Cafe: Acoustic Sounds Session with Omar Afif and Seeds of Thought Sun 9 November 2014 CCA

Africa in MotionTownship Cafe:Acoustic Sounds Session with Omar Afif and Seeds of Thought Sun 9 November 2014 CCA 3pm, Free, ClubroomAll agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 Come along to this afternoon of live music hosted by Omar Afif and CCA regulars Seeds of Thought. Seeds of Thought is a Glasgow based collective which since […]

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The Xcerts 7 November, 2014 The Venue, OranMor

The Xcerts 7 November, 2014 The Venue, OranMor Doors Open: 7:00 pm This event is brought to you by DF Concerts Tickets: £8.50 Telephone: 0141 204 5151 ticketmaster.co.uk/ thexcertsband.com   OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12

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TalkSeePhotography CCA Mon 10 November 2014

TalkSeePhotography CCA Mon 10 November 2014 7pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAll agesBook Online TalkSeePhotography’s November event will see Finnish Curator Mika Hannula present his ideas behind the thought-provoking book Tell It Like It Is – Contemporary Photography and the Lure of the Real. The book bring together discourses which have relevance to our understanding of […]

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Africa in Motion Film Festival African Gothic CCA Thu 6 November 2014

Africa in Motion Film FestivalAfrican Gothic CCA Thu 6 November 2014 5.45pm, £4.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 After witnessing a horrific crime, two siblings try to bury their traumatic past by constantly re-enacting it. When an outsider pays them a visit he gets caught up in their twisted […]

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Manuel Chavajay & Rebecca Wilcox This Might Be a Place for Hummingbirds, CCA Saturday 15 November 2014 – Sunday 18 January 2015

Manuel Chavajay & Rebecca Wilcox This Might Be a Place for Hummingbirds Saturday 15 November 2014 – Sunday 18 January 2015 CCA Glasgow Free. As a follow up to the double solo show of Mounira al Solh and Sarah Forrest in 2013, CCA presents two practices that seemingly have no initial links. In an attempt […]

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Aonghas MacNeacail, Literary Lunchtimes in Glasgow. Review by Pat Byrne

Glasgow has some fabulous literary events and I go along to quite a few book launches and performances. I’m not so often to be found at poetry events but I had a wonderful time at Bar Gandolfi’s Literary Lunchtimes last Wednesday (29 October, 2014), when I went along to see Aonghas MacNeacail. It was very […]

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Snack Family + Herbert Powell + Antique Pony 5 November Bar Bloc

Snack Family + Herbert Powell + Antique Pony 5 November Bar Bloc Snack Family“Sleazier than Waits out on the pull with the Fat White clan, SF make the kind of leather-clad perv-rock that should be filed somewhere between The Amazing Snakeheads and Lurie’s 1980s art-jazzers The Lounge Lizards.” NME “If Nick Cave was the lead […]

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Ruth Nicol Three Rivers Meet RGI Exhibition runs 8 until 29 November 2014

Ruth Nicol Three Rivers Meet RGI Exhibition runs 8 until 29 November 2014 Ruth Nicol, inspired by Alexander Moffat’s 1980’s painting ‘Poets’ Pub’, investigates thelandscapes of the seven great Scottish poets; Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Morgan,Norman MacCaig, Sorley Maclean, George Mackay Brown, Robert Garioch andIain Crichton Smith.  Ruth has captured the vast and varied landscapes of Scotlandduring an intense […]

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Christmas Craft Fair and Fair Trade Breakfast At St Silas Church, Woodlands Saturday 29 November

Christmas Craft Fair and Fair Trade Breakfast At St Silas Church, Woodlands Saturday 29 November 10am-3pm Join us for ethical Christmas gifts, second-hand books and DVDs, nearly new Children’s clothes and coffee, tea and refreshments. Fair trade breakfast from 10am to midday. St Silas, 69 Park Rd, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G4 9JE

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life, OranMor, Mon 3rd – Sat 9th Nov

The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life By Catherine Grosvenor OranMor, top of Byres Road, G12 Directed by Caitlin Skinner Featuring Ross Allan, Steven Duffy and Cat Grozier Mon 3rd – Sat 9th Nov  Brendan Smillie leads a quiet life, closely monitored by his protective older brother, Liam. But Brendan has a secret Liam knows […]

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Shoot The Craw The Rock, Hyndland 21 November, 2014

Shoot The Craw The Rock, Hyndland 21 November, 2014 “Shoot the Craw” is a powerhouse 5 piece all live band fronted by a dynamic female vocalist , playing classic and modern Rock with Glasgow grit. Superb music with attitude.   shootthecraw.wordpress.com/ The Rock. 205 Hyndland Road Glasgow, G12 9HE Also at: The Swan Inn,  Lennoxtown,  Friday 12th […]

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Chordella Dance Derby Wednesday, 5 November, 2014 Old Fruitmarket

Chordella Dance Derby Wednesday, 5 November, 2014 Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, Glasgow Merchant City. This Wednesday we have the wonderful Company Chordelia as part of ‪#‎FruitmarketNights‬. They performed Dance Derby at macrobert arts centre and here is what some of the audience had to say: “Innovative, inspiring, energetic and thought-provoking with a heart-breaking undertone. Thank you!” […]

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Glasgow and around: Firework Displays 2014

Fireworks, Funfairs, Barbeques and Entertainment.  Various locations in and around Glasgow. Let me know about any other firework displays and I’ll be happy to add them to the web page. Email Pat Dalmuir Park Fireworks Display Tuesday 4 November, 7.30 p.m.   Spectacular fireworks display Dalmuir Park Free Event Dalmuir, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, G81 Further details: Telephone: […]

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