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

Deadbeat Ragdolls Friday, November 21 The Record Factory

Deadbeat Ragdolls   Friday, November 21  8 p.m. The Record Factory        This gig is a huge one as we were booked by DF Concerts (The biggest Music Promoters in Scotland) as a trial to get a gig at King Tuts. The fact that PMCJ events are involved with the gig, is good news for us. […]

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Creative Scotland: Literature Sector Review (2014) Online consultation open now

Creative Scotland: Literature Sector Review (2014) Online consultation open now Deadline for feedback: 14th November 2014 (at 5pm) As part of Creative Scotland’s strategy for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland, Creative Scotland has commissioned Nordicity in association with Drew Wylie Ltd. to conduct a sector review for literature and publishing. This review is […]

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Africa in Motion Film Festival Jogo De Corpo Body Games CCA Fri 7 November 2014

Africa in Motion Film FestivalJogo De CorpoBody Games CCA Fri 7 November 2014 6pm, £4.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Africa in MotionTownship Cafe: Capoeira Demonstration & Class with Mão No Chão Friday 7 November 2014 This film presents a sensual tapestry of combat games from […]

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Africa in Motion Film Festival 1994: The Bloody Miracle CCA Tue 4 November 2014

Africa in Motion Film Festival1994: The Bloody Miracle CCA Tue 4 November 2014 6pm, £4.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 As South Africa celebrates its 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it’s difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly didn’t happen. In an orgy of countrywide […]

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Serena GFT Until Thursday 6 November

Serena15 GFT Until Thursday 6 November Buy tickets online American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook co-stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence reunite for acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier (Love is All You Need) in this depression-era tale of entrepreneurial-minded Serena Pemberton and her timber magnate husband George. Following a devastating miscarriage, the forthright and determined […]

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NT Live: Frankenstein – Jonny Lee Miller as Creature, GFT Friday 7 November

NT Live: Frankenstein – Jonny Lee Miller as Creature15 GFT Friday 7 November http://www.glasgowfilm.org/buy_tickets/6685_nt_live_frankenstein_-_jonny_lee_miller_as_creature Don’t miss another chance to catch Oscar-winner Danny Boyle’s sensational 2011 production, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation in these two encore screenings. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s […]

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Frightfest Halloween ‘The Dark Heart of Cinema’ All-Dayer 2014, GFT Saturday 1 November

Frightfest Halloween ‘The Dark Heart of Cinema’ All-Dayer 2014 N/C 18+ GFT Saturday 1 November Buy tickets online Frightfest once again returns to the GFT this Halloween for an all-day event guaranteed to rattle your senses, leaving you shocked and terrified for another year. Beginning with the World Premiere of Last Shift, the latest from […]

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers GFT Friday 31 October – Sunday 2 November

Invasion of the Body Snatchers GFT Friday 31 October – Sunday 2 November Book online Don Siegel’s classic 1956 adaptation of Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers remains one of the most chilling and powerful depictions of alien invasion, and has been remade and remodeled countless times over the years. Focusing on small-town doctor Miles […]

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SWC presents: Women of the Beat Generation Friday, November 14 at 5:30pm The Project Cafe

SWC presents: Women of the Beat Generation Friday, November 14 at 5:30pm        The Project Cafe     Scottish Writers Centre presents: Maggie Graham and Ellen McAteer Name a Beat writer. Allen Ginsburgh?, Gregory Corso? Jack Kerouak? Gary Snyder? Peter Orloffsky? How about Diane Di Prima, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, Janine Pomy Vega or Ruth Wiess? […]

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Hallowe’en Extravaganza The Village Storytelling Centre, Glasgpw 31 October 2014

Hallowe’en Extravaganza The Village Storytelling Centre 31 October 2014, 6.30 p.m. Ghost stories and games galore this Halloween. Come along to our centre on the scariest night of the year, for the Halloween Extravaganza Party! It’ll be a rootin’, tootin’ drop-in shindig for all ages, with:Deliciously dark and spooky talesLIve traditional musicA beautifully-equipped “dress up […]

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Scottish Writers’ Centre Red Squirrel Book Launches Tue 11 November 2014 CCA

Scottish Writers’ CentreRed Squirrel Book Launches Tue 11 November 2014 CCA 7pm, Free, ClubroomAges 16+ Sheila Wakefield of leading independent poetry publisher Red Squirrel Press presents an evening of poetry readings to celebrate the release of new books from three Scottish poets: Colin Will, Nikkia Magennis and William Bonar. Widely published Edinburgh-born poet with a […]

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Shambolic Friday 31 October, 2014 The Project Cafe – 7 p.m.

Shambolic Friday 31 October, 2014 The Project Cafe – 7 p.m. They say that Val Doonican Rocks – But Gently! tore up the rule book after the bland musical orthodoxies of the nineteen sixties. We like to think DisComBoBuLaTe did the same for literature. But DisComBoBuLaTe metamorphosed – at precisely 8.27pm on Friday Sept 26th – […]

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Magick and the Occult Symposium Fri 31 October 2014 CCA

Magick and the Occult Symposium Fri 31 October 2014 CCA 7pm, Free,All agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Gregor WrightDinosaur Expert I’m Feeling Lucky Fri 19 September — Sun 2 November 2014 Come along for an All Hallows’ Evening exploring ideas of magick, witchcraft and the occult. Linking to Gregor Wright’s exhibition […]

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Dialogue in Fiction Day School Saturday 1st November, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow

Dialogue in Fiction Day School Saturday 1st November 10am-4pm St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow This is a practical one day course that focuses on dialogue in fiction. The following questions will be addressed: How is successful dialogue constructed? What techniques do writers use to create dialogue? Why is some dialogue flat and unconvincing. What […]

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The Babadook Until 6 November, 2014 GFT

The Babadook From Until 6 November GFT An imaginative and tense horror from debut feature director Jennifer Kent. A young child’s nightmares begin to seep into reality in this unnerving, original tale of love and loss. ✮✮✮✮✮…a brilliantly-designed new monster who could well become the break-out spook archetype of the decade. Empire  http://tickets.glasgowfilm.org/public/show_events_list.asp?shcode=5276 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB.

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John Waters This Filthy World, Vol. 2, 02 Academy, 14 November

John Waters This Filthy World, Vol. 2 FRI 14 NOV 2014, 7pmO2 Academy, Glasgow121 Eglinton St, Glasgow G5 9NTTickets £25.00 (stbf)Doors 7.00pm  |  Over 18s only  |  All seated (reserved)Special pre-sale status for Glasgay! customers Book now This Filthy World Vol.2 is a celebration of the joyously appalling taste of America’s most notorious filmmaker – […]

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Southside FilmFestival – The Lodger November 2, 8 p.m, Pollokshaws Hall

Southside FilmFestival – The Lodger Sunday, November 2  8 p.m. Pollokshaws Burgh Hall      The Lodger: A Story of the London FogDir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1927, PG, 82 minsSunday 2 November, 2014Pollokshaws Burgh Hall8pm (doors 7.30pm)£8/£6 concession       www.brownpapertickets.com One of Hitchcock’s first ever films is based on the story of Jack The Ripper and stars […]

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Hallowe’en Ceilidh, Cottiers, Friday 31 October, 2014

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Philip Clouts Jazz Quartet, 5 November, Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club

The dancing exuberance of South African Township music, the convivial groove of gospel-influenced soul jazz, the joyful sway of Cuban guaguanco rhythms, the bluesy melodies of middle eastern praise songs and so much more all come together in pianist Philip Clouts’ superbly accomplished quartet. Clouts was born in Cape Town and the music of his […]

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St Louis Partick , Wee Literary Festival, Graham Fulton, 5 November, 2014

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

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Glasgow Girls Wedding Fayre Maryhill Burgh Halls Sunday 9th November

Glasgow Girls Wedding Fayre Maryhill Burgh Halls Sunday 9th November 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. The next Glasgow Girls Wedding Fayre is Sunday 9th November at Maryhill Burgh Halls with FREE ENTRY from 12 – 4pm! There will be LIVE music; stunning Venues to find out about; cakes, cupcakes, cakepops and a candy buffet to […]

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Book Launch Cold City by Cathy Mcsporran, The Libertine, Monday, November 3

Launch Cold City by Cathy Mcsporran The Libertine, Glasgow Monday, November 3 at 7:00pm An outstanding literary debut, Cold City uses speculative fiction to explore one young woman’s mental illness and our darkest feelings about family. Please join us in The Libertine for the launch of this exciting publication. There will be a reading from […]

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Book Week Scotland Monday 24 – Sunday 30 November 2014.

Book Week Scotland  Monday 24 – Sunday 30 November 2014. Book Week Scotland is a week-long celebration of books and reading that takes place every November. During Book Week, people of all ages and walks of life will come together in libraries, schools, community venues and workplaces to share and enjoy books and reading. They […]

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Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, October – December, 2014

Literary Lunchtimes Autumn 2014

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Meet the Author – The Liepzig Affair – Fiona RINTOUL Waterstones, Tuesday, November 11

Meet the Author – The Liepzig Affair – Fiona Rintoul Waterstones Sauchiehall St Tuesday, November 11 at 6:00pm Tickets are FREE and available from the Ground Floor tills or by calling 0141 332 9105 The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned young linguist, is desperate […]

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Ron Athey in conversation. Gilmorehill, University of Glasgow 13 November

Ron Athey in conversation 13 NOV, 7.30PMGilmorehill CentreUniversity of Glasgow,9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQTel 0141 330 2892www.gla.ac.ukFree by ticket Following the fourth installation of his Incorruptible Flesh series, ‘Messianic Remains’, Ron Athey explores the performance lineage of his own post-AIDS body. Previous instalments were presented in collaboration with the late Lawrence Steger, who died […]

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Job vacancy: Museum Curator Glasgow Women’s Library

Job vacancy: Museum Curator Glasgow Women’s Library An exciting and challenging post, we require a qualified, experienced and highly motivated Curator to manage, develop and care for the collections held at Glasgow Women’s Library, make items accessible to broad audiences and train volunteers in Museum related skills. You must be a graduate with an appropriate […]

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Children’s Bookshop in Partick

Children’s Bookshop in Partick Open October 2014 Selling English and Foreign Language Books ‘Running our classes all under one roof; you can even have a seat and a coffee while browsing or waiting.  You can find us at 52 Keith Court, G11 6QW info@thelanguagehub.co.uk  www.thelanguagehub.co.uk   0141 258 2700

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Ghost Tours Theatre Royal Weekdays until 7th November, 2014

Ghost Tours Theatre Royal Weekdays until 7th November, 2014 An empty theatre, out of hours and after dark, is full of dark shadows, unexpected noises, and fleeting glimpses of theatre ghosts – or is that just your imagination? The Theatre Royal, as it stands, dates from 1895 and has a chequered history having been replaced […]

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Rev Rev Rev + The Cherry Wave + Musicians Of Bremen 29 October, 2014 Bar Bloc

Rev Rev Rev + The Cherry Wave + Musicians Of Bremen 29 October, 2014 Bar Bloc Rev Rev Rev (Italy) Hailing from Modena, Italy, Rev Rev Rev’s sound is influenced by first-wave shoegaze, as well as psychedelic rock, re-metabolizing these elements into a loud, woozy, fuzz-driven context.Their live sets comprise kaleidoscopic video projections waving with […]

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