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

Maps to the Stars, GFT Friday 17–Thursday 23 October

Maps to the Stars18 GFT Friday 17–Thursday 23 October http://www.glasgowfilm.org/buy_tickets/6622_maps_to_the_stars ‘Hollywood dreams turn queasy in David Cronenberg’s brilliant nightmare…’ – Peter Bradshaw Canadian maestro Cronenberg returns with his latest look at the dark undersides of humanity, this time focusing on the grotesque caricatures that populate Hollywood, Babylon. An all-star ensemble cast portray the vacuous, the […]

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Palo Alto, GFT Friday 17–Thursday 23 October

Palo Alto15 GFT Friday 17–Thursday 23 October Buy tickets online The hopes and hang-ups of drifting American teens are evocatively examined by Gia Coppola (granddaughter of Francis) in this atmospheric adaptation of a short story collection by James Franco. Featuring a handful of brilliant performances from rising stars Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff and Jack Kilmer, […]

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A Monster Ball Saturday, November 1,The Berkeley Suite

A Monster Ball Saturday, November 1 7:30pm – 11:00pm        The Berkeley Suite The Quarriers Girls announce their next scarily exciting event in the form of a spook-tacular Halloween Ball! We are inviting you all to come underground in Glasgow’s deepest darkest Berkeley Suite to help us celebrate a night of horror. There will be […]

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Steve Harley – All Seated, Acoustic & Intimate Thursday 23 October @ The Arches

Steve Harley – All Seated, Acoustic & Intimate Thursday 23 October @ The Arches, Glasgow £28.00     (£2.80 + booking fee)  Synergy Concerts presents: Steve Harley – All Seated, Acoustic & Intimate The original Cockney Rebel, STEVE HARLEY, has many facets to his life: writer, actor (including starring in a Beckett play in London’s West […]

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Thin Privilege (Farewell Show) + Black International + Shudder Bar Bloc, Tuesday, December 30

Thin Privilege (Farewell Show) + Black International + Shudder Bar Bloc        Tuesday, December 30 at 9:00pm                Thin PrivilegeWe bid farewell to quite frankly one of the most brutal, exciting and terrifying bands in Scottish music. Thin Privilege will be playing their farewell show and we are lucky to have them. Affecting, […]

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Escape from New York Treasure Hunt Screening GFT Sunday 26 October

Escape from New York Treasure Hunt Screening18 GFT Sunday 26 October Buy online In the future of 1997, the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, and is taken hostage by the inmates. The only hope for America, and the world, is the gruff one-eyed loner warrior Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell […]

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Mr Turner Friday 31 October – Sunday 2 November GFT

Mr Turner Friday 31 October – Sunday 2 November, 2014 GFT Buy tickets 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, is an […]

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’71 GFT, Friday 10–Thursday 23 October

’71 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Friday 10–Thursday 23 October, 2014 Buy tickets online New talent Jack O’Connell follows up his star-making role in this year’s Starred Up with this harrowing drama from first-time feature director Yann Demange, scripted by Black Watch writer Gregory Burke. O’Connell is quiet yet captivating as young English squaddie […]

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Franz Kafka: A tribute night , STUC Glasgow 22nd October, 2014

Franz Kafka: A tribute night STUC,  333 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6NG 22nd October, 2014 Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is rightly regarded as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His influence extends across the modern and contemporary novel, cinema, theatre, radio, dance and other art forms. The prevalence of the term Kafkaesque […]

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The Muse at St Louis Wee Literary Festival, 5 November

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

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We Are The Best! 4 November, 2014 The Glad Cafe

We Are The Best! 4 November, 2014 The Glad Cafe 8pm- doors 7.30pm£6/£5 concessionBuy tickets online Directed by Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson, We Are the Best! revolves around three girls in 1980’s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead. “A […]

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The Flatt River Band, The Ashton Bar, Helensburgh 19th October

The Flatt River Band with Robbie Cumming, Shetland Country Music Artist 19 October, 2014 8.30 p.m. – 11.30 p.m. THE ASHTON BAR 74 W Princes St, Helensburgh G84 8UG 01436 675900

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Blaze, Rowan Gallery, Helensburgh – Solo Exhibition Alison Cowan

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A Just Scotland March and Rally 18 October, 2014, Glasgow

A Just Scotland March and Rally 18 October, 2014 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. George Square > Greendyke Street, Glasgow Green As part of Challenge Poverty Week Marching for ‘A Just Scotland – Decent work, Dignified Lives – Please join us!’ Creating decent work and providing dignity for those who cannot work is at the […]

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Challenge Poverty Week, 12 – 18 October, 2014

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Bonfire Night, Woodlands Community Gardens, 5 November, 2014

COMING SOON : Bonfire Night with a Difference Woodlands Community Garden Following the success of our recent Wild! Nature Festival we are putting the finishing touches to our next event. Full details will follow in our monthly news bulletin next week, but here is a sneak preview so you can save the date: Wednesday 5th November5.30 – 8.00pm […]

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Recovery on the US Mental Health System Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival Tuesday 14 October, University of Strathclyde

Recovery on the US Mental Health System Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival Tuesday 14 October University of Strathclyde – Centre for Health Policy Seminar Tuesday 14 September 11 a.m. (lunch available afterwards) With Victoria Stanhope from New York University on the theme of Recovery on the US mental health system.  If you have […]

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States And Empires + Canal Capitale 14 October, 2014 Bar Bloc

States And Empires + Canal Capitale 14 October, 2014 Bar Bloc Ex-members of Attack Attack (the non-shite Attack Attack, that didn’t do the crab dance) bring some mightily strong emotional rock music up from Wales, another entire country subservient to London with no intention of doing anything about it. Canal CapitaleWhom, with their semi-instrumental math-pop […]

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Writers’ Anonymous, Project Cafe, Glasgow

From Thursday 9th October – every second Thursday Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew St, Glasgow,G3 6ST http://www.theprojectcafe.co.uk/

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PianoPiano, Oranmor, 3rd November, 2014

PianoPiano OranMor 3 November, 2014   (Doors 7.30 p.m. Starts 8 p.m.) PianoPiano’s debut CD ‘dedicated…’ is a tribute to iconic women who have changed the course of history. Each track is dedicated to a female pioneer, including the Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, the ground breaking Amelia Earhart and Nobel prize winning Marie Curie. Now, live […]

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Squash By Martin McCormick, A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 13 – 18 October, 2014

Squash By Martin McCormick Directed by Finn den Hertog Featuring Keith Fleming, Anne Lacey and Crisitan Ortega OranMor, Top of Byres Road. Mon 13th – Sat 18th Oct Paul’s been a bad boy – a bad bad pig of bike stealing boy. Ma seen him steal Bald’s bike, after all Old Eagle Eyes doesnae miss […]

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The Forgotten Art Exhibition, Veneer Gallery, Glasgow Saturday 18th October – Friday 24th October

The Forgotten Art Exhibition Saturday 18th October – Friday 24th October An unconventional exhibit of conventional pieces – this experimental exhibition in Veneer gallery will challenge some preconceived ideas about exhibiting the usually mismatched disciplines of design and fine art together. Handcrafted bags and scarves will be exhibited alongside rarely seen early artworks by Flora […]

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Disabled Theater Jérôme Bel / Theater HORA Fri 17 & Sat 18 October Tramway

Disabled Theater Jérôme Bel / Theater HORA Fri 17 & Sat 18 October 7:30pm Location: Tramway 1 £15/£12. Book Online » Or buy tickets from our box office on 0845 330 3501 Choreographer Jérôme Bel’s Disabled Theater is a collaboration between Bel and the actors of Zurich’s Theater HORA, Switzerland’s best-known professional theatre company comprised […]

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Firewalk – fundraiser for Sense Scotland, 1 November, 2014

FIREwalk Can you handle the heat? West of Scotland Cricket Club, Peel Street, Glasgow 01 November 2014 6:00pm – 9:30pm Deposit: £20 Sponsorship Target: £150 Could you walk barefoot across red hot embers with temperatures up to 800°c? Of course you could! This is your chance to achieve what doesn’t seem possible, increase your confidence, […]

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YDNY – The Musical Mitchell Theatre 24th, 25th, 26th October 2014.

YDNY – The Musical  TICKETS NOW ON SALE! Mitchell Theatre 24th, 25th, 26th October 2014. To raise awareness for Breast cancer.. An uplifting musical with Kylie Minogue songs and full of laughter, drama and fun!  This year heralds a new musical that will find a special place in your heart. “Your Disco Needs You – The […]

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Document International Human Rights Documentary Festival Thu 9 October — Sun 12 October 2014 CCA

DocumentInternational Human Rights Documentary Festival Thu 9 October — Sun 12 October 2014 CCA Times vary, Suggested donations: £25 (£20 concessions) Festival Pass, £20 (£15) Weekend Pass, £12 (£8) Day Pass, £4 (£3) Single Screening, + 60p booking fee, Free for refugees, asylum seekers and OAPs.Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Document Film Festival […]

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Night on Earth GFT Friday 10–Saturday 11 October, 2014

Night on Earth GFT Friday 10–Saturday 11 October, 2014 Buy tickets online Although Night on Earth features a huge international cast, Jarmusch uses a variety of uniquely limiting shots and compositions to depict five stories, all set in taxis across the world, all reflecting on one another in some way. Focusing on the temporary bond […]

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Gabrielle Tuesday 14 October GFT

 Gabrielle Tuesday 14 October, 2014 GFT Buy tickets online Gabrielle is a young woman with Williams syndrome who has a contagious joie de vie and an exceptional musical gift. She falls for Martin, a choir member in their recreation centre. However, they must overcome concerned relatives and other people’s prejudices in the hope of experiencing […]

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The Devil’s Backbone Tuesday 14 October, 2014 GFT

The Devil’s Backbone Tuesday 14 October, 2014 GFT Buy tickets online A subtle early classic from Guillermo del Toro, director of the acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth, this Spanish thriller portrays the horrors of Civil War through the eyes of a terrified child. 10-year-old Carlos has been left in a remote orphanage while the war rages on […]

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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Thursday 16 October

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz12A GFT Thursday 16 October Buy tickets online In January 2013, 26-year-old Aaron Swartz took his own life while facing 35 years in prison for trying to make academic journal articles free to the general public. Director Brian Knappenberger’s documentary depicts Swartz’s life as a young Internet […]

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