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

UWS & Creative Futures Institute Pubmonkey Screening & Seminar CCA Sat 22 November 2014

UWS & Creative Futures InstitutePubmonkeyScreening & Seminar CCA Sat 22 November 2014 1pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 (Photograph by Paul Slattery) We are offering a one-off chance to see the new darkly comic British independent film Pubmonkey as part of a national tour. This free event will be followed […]

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Future Shorts Glasgow Fri 21 November 2014 CCA

Future Shorts Glasgow Fri 21 November 2014 CCA 7.30pm, £5, CinemaBook online Future Shorts Glasgow returns for another grand spanking selection of some of the best short films produced in recent years. Represented in this season’s selection is the award-winning animation Marilyn Myller by the makers of previous FS featured short The Eagleman Stag, Werner […]

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Aya Distribution Touba Sun 16 November 2014 CCA

Aya DistributionTouba Sun 16 November 2014 CCA 6pm, £4 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 12+Book online / 0141 352 4900 With unprecedented access, Touba reveals a different face of Islam, one which is so essential to these divisive times. The film chronicles the annual Grand Magaal pilgrimage of one million Sufi Muslims to the holy […]

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Between Dog and Wolf: The New Model Army Story Thursday 20 November GFT

Between Dog and Wolf: The New Model Army Story Thursday 20 November GFT Buy Tickets → A punk and alternative rock group formed in 1980, New Model Army were famous for breaking the rules and perceptions of how music should sound, as well as for their controversial songs which criticised the political system. This documentary […]

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Under Milk Wood Saturday 15–Sunday 16 November GFT

Under Milk Wood12A Saturday 15–Sunday 16 November GFT Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood is one of the most celebrated radio plays of all times, premiering on BBC radio in 1954, shortly after the great poet’s premature death, with his friend Richard Burton in the lead role. This 1972 film adaptation has Richard Burton reprising his […]

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French Film Festival 2014, Glasgow

Bienvenue and welcome to the 22nd edition of the French FilmFestival UK, your annual showcase of the best of Francophone cinema. From Normandy via Paris to the Riviera and the Camargue, this year’s films focus on all kinds of subjects and in all manner of styles. Our festival this year features directors such as Jean-Luc […]

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Self Made Wednesday 19 November GFT

Self MadeCTBC Wednesday 19 November GFT Premiering to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, Self Made tells the story of two women – one Israeli, the other Palestinian – who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite […]

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Luna Tuesday 18–Thursday 20 November GFT

Luna15 Tuesday 18–Thursday 20 November GFT The new film from Dave McKean (Mirrormask), brings together live action and gorgeous animation for a dreamlike contemplation of art, birth, death and relationships. A couple trying to deal with the death of their infant visit an old artist friend and his younger girlfriend on the rugged British coastline. […]

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Glasgow Council on Alcohol Festive Bake Morning, 2nd December, 2014

Come along and enjoy some festive treats at Glasgow Council on Alcohol Festive Bake Morning   in partnership with #GivingTuesday. Tuesday 2nd December 10am-1pm At 2nd Floor 14 Claremont Street Glasgow G3 7LE All funds raised will go towards providing counselling, support and education to those affected by alcohol misuse. Can you donate any mince […]

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Happy birthday Mr. Stevenson

On this day in 1850, one Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born into the noted Stevenson family, at 8 Howard Street, Edinburgh. Engineering & design was very much the Stevenson game & it`s easy to imagine young Smout (or `Runt`as he was known at a young age due to his lack of size) being lost […]

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The Grosvenor, Ashton Lane, Listings From 13 November, 2014

The Grosvenor, Ashton Lane, G12 8SJ To book: 0845 166 6002 Listings Interstellar Fri 07 Nov 2014 – Thu 20 Nov 2014 PLAY POLAND 2014: Life Feels Good The story of a boy suffering from cerebral palsy and his troubled growing up during Poland’s transition in the l980s and 90s. Thu 13 Nov 2014 18:45 […]

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Chiara E Berardelli, My Big Mouth EP Launch, Saturday 15 Nov, Old Hairdressers

        Chiara E Berardelli – My Big Mouth EP Launch Saturday  15 November The Old Hairdressers Playing songs from her new EP accompanied by some great musicians. Paul Tasker supporting with some special guests. Kicks off at 8pm £5 entry£10 with EP The Old Hairdressers20 – 28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow G2 6PH

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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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