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

Magic in the Moonlight GFT Friday 3–Thursday 9 October

Magic in the Moonlight12A GFT Friday 3–Thursday 9 October Buy tickets online Woody Allen’s latest film signals the director’s return to lighter-hearted territory, with a sharp script, outstanding acting and a luscious period setting. In 1928, sceptical and tired stage magician Stanley (Colin Firth) finds himself enlisted by an old friend to sojourn to the […]

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Richard Attenborough Double Bill: Brighton Rock & 10 Rillington Place15 Sunday 5 October GFT

Richard Attenborough Double Bill: Brighton Rock & 10 Rillington Place15 Sunday 5 October GFT Buy tickets online Richard Attenborough will forever be remembered as one of the most important British actors, producers and directors ever. In tribute to the great screen presence, GFT screens two of his most interesting works – first as the baby-faced […]

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The Last Impresario Saturday 4–Monday 6 October GFT

The Last Impresario15 Saturday 4–Monday 6 October GFT Buy tickets online Glasgow-born producer Michael White appears to know everyone. A legendary social butterfly who impacted upon countless iconic figures in popular culture within his sixty-year career – from partying with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, to helping form Monty Python and bringing revolutionary performers […]

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Beneath the Blindfold Thursday 9 October GFT

Beneath the BlindfoldN/C 15+ Thursday 9 October GFT Buy tickets online Four torture survivors from around the globe courageously tell the stories of their mistreatment and subsequent attempts to move beyond these horrifying experiences. The film follows them as they build new lives and, despite the continued psychological and physical fallout from their experience, become […]

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Lux Scotland presents selections from Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year DiaryN/C Sunday 5 October GFT

Lux Scotland presents selections from Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year DiaryN/C 15+ Sunday 5 October GFT Buy tickets online Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary stands as one of the major works of diary filmmaking. An intimate chronicle of her life, they describe Robertson’s battles with depression, paranoia, and borderline schizophrenia. The diaries document Robertson’s […]

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Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone in Conversation Thursday 9 October GFT

Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone in Conversation18 Thursday 9 October GFT Buy tickets online Famous for his uncompromising roles in Scum, Sexy Beast and Nil By Mouth, Ray Winstone is the nation’s favourite ‘hard man’. In this exclusive event to launch his autobiography, Young Winstone, he reveals how growing up in the East End of […]

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Gone Girl18 Friday 3–Thursday 23 October GFT

Gone Girl18 Friday 3–Thursday 23 October GFT Buy tickets online Acclaimed director David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s global best seller features an all-star cast in a tangled tale of love, lies and deceit in recession-era New York. When Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) missing on the day of their […]

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Book launch: The Land Agent by J David Simons

The Land Agent by J David Simons Set in Palestine in the 1920s, it is the long-awaited (by me) final part of  ‘Glasgow to Galilee’ trilogy. Please note that there are two launches – one in the southside in Giffnock on the 22nd October and the other in Waterstone’s Argyle Street, Glasgow on 23rd October. […]

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Peaches Christ’s BEAR-BARELLA starring Lady Bear & Peaches ChristN/C 18+ GFT Friday 10 October

Peaches Christ’s BEAR-BARELLA starring Lady Bear & Peaches ChristN/C 18+ GFT Friday 10 October Buy tickets online San Francisco drag superstar, filmmaker, and cult (movie) leader Peaches Christ returns to the UK with an out-of-this world event celebrating the 1968 sci-fi masterpiece Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim. Jane Fonda got her first workout (sans spacesuit!) […]

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The Spree, Paisley’s National Festival, 2014, 10 – 18 October

Paisley’s national festival is back for 2014! http://www.thespree.co.uk/events/ Now in its third year, The Spree is Paisley’s annual celebration of arts and culture – and is now firmly established as a fixture on the Scottish festival map. The Spiegeltent, County Square is the main venue but there will be events also taking place in many city centre […]

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Launch of Magnus Florin’s The Garden Thursday 2nd October, 2014 6.30 pm Waterstone’s in Argyle Street, Glasgow

Launch of Magnus Florin’s The Garden Thursday 2nd October, 2014  6.30 pm  Waterstone’s in Argyle Street, Glasgow Golden Hare Books proudly invites you to an evening in the company of one of Sweden’s leading writers, acclaimed poet, playwright, novelist and critic Magnus Florin. Magnus will be joining us to discuss his most recent novel, The […]

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The Airdrie Boys, RGI

New Exhibition RGI The Airdrie Boys A Collection Of Work By John Cunningham & Dan Ferguson Exhibition RunsSaturday 4 October – Saturday 1 November 2014 Dan Ferguson and John Cunningham were born in Lanarkshire and educated atAirdrie Academy where their life long friendship was formed. Both studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art […]

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Nights at Project Cafe Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00pm

Nights at Project Cafe Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00pm Music+Poetry+Sentinence♥ Sam Small + Leyla Josephine + Nyla + Ginger Alford (USA) + Richard Wehnerberg Jr (USA) An eve’ of music + poetry + feels at The Project Cafe featuring lots of lovely folk! [Deetz]Doors at 7pm / Acts start early = 7.20-30!Entry £3 donation (but […]

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Poetry by Maria Venditozzi

The Gift of Tulips What I admire about tulipsis their optimism.When freshly cut,their bodies are taut, tightas a nubile girl.Heads pert, faces shyly pretty. But, after time,like most of us, they geta bit soft round the middle.Loyal leaves wrap round,close as a sari, to spareblushes about their sagging stems. Colour becomes more vibrant,lush green, cupped […]

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Reptile House, Lambhill Stables, 3 October, 2014

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Oktoberfest 2014 Glasgow Green October 16-19 and October 23-26

Oktoberfest Glasgow Green October 16-19 and October 23-26 Come and enjoy the amazing atmosphere at the Glasgow Oktoberfest 2014 – with German beer, food and music. Glasgow Green during two wonderful long weekends in October. Tent has the capacity to hold 2,500 people. Entrance is free Thursdays and only £2.50 Fridays and Sundays and £5 […]

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Simple Things, Glasgow 2014, Saturday 1 November

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Out Of Orbit: OCTOBER PROGRAMME October 2nd, 2014

Out Of Orbit: OCTOBER PROGRAMME October 2nd, 2014 Out Of Orbit20 Scott Street, g3 6pe Glasgow Facebook out of orbit

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The Great Scottish Run Glasgow Sunday 5 October

The  Great Scottish Run Glasgow Sunday 5 October   Places still available in 10k Runners can choose between a 10k and half marathon challenge that will take them through the heart of the city, starting in George Square and finishing on Glasgow Green. 2013 was another record breaking year for the event with more than […]

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Glasgow Open Judo Competition Emirates Arena 4th October, 2014

The Glasgow European Open returns to the Emirates Arena on Saturday 4th October 2014. This year its the turn of our female judoka including Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold medalists Louise Renicks, Nekoda Davis, Megan Fletcher, Natalie Powell, and Sarah Adlington. Also competing will be London 2012 Olympians including, Sally Conway, Kelly Edwards and Gemma Howell […]

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Carrie Elkin and Lynne Hanson, The Glad Cafe, 4 October

Saturday Matinee Show (3.30pm) 4th October- The Glad Cafe Glasgow Unreserved seating available Buy tickets ticket scotland Carrie Elkin is “spellbinding…made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.” – Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2 Texas-based singer/songwriter, Carrie Elkin is set for a matinee date at this year’s Glasgow Americana Festival. She […]

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Spiders on Mars, Ivory Blacks, 27 December

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Fruitmarket Nights: Renaud Garcia-Fons and Band – The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 8 October

Fruitmarket Nights: Renaud Garcia-Fons and Band – The Adventures of Prince Achmed Wednesday 08 October 2014, 7.30pm Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, Glasgow For many years, the superb French bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons has explored the musical traditions of the Mediterranean, taking sounds and ideas from Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Southern France, fusing them into amazing crossover […]

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Millions Can Walk Sat 27 September 2014 CCA

Take One ActionMillions Can Walk Sat 27 September 2014 CCA 7.30pm, Suggested donation: £5 (£4), CinemaAges 12+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Millions Can WalkDir. Christoph Schaub & Kamal Musale, Switzerland 2013, 88min, UK Premiere. Can one fight for one’s fundamental rights without resorting to violence? In 2012, hundreds of thousands of Adivasis, India’s aborigines, […]

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Sweet for Addicts present The Course, The Shed, 14 – 17 October, 2014

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The Last House on the Left18 GFT Tuesday 30 September

The Last House on the Left18 GFT Tuesday 30 September Buy tickets online When two innocent girls head to the big city for their first rock gig, little do they expect that a simple diversion to score weed will go so disastrously wrong. Released in 1972, Wes Craven’s directorial debut remains as controversial now, as […]

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At Berkeley, GFT Sunday 28–Monday 29 September

At BerkeleyPG GFT Sunday 28–Monday 29 September Buy tickets oline At Berkeley is director Frederick Wiseman’s latest behind-the-scenes foray into American institutions. Edited from roughly 500 hours of raw footage, the documentary explores every facet of student life. From the power struggle in a student/teacher interaction, to a student’s soliloquy on alienation, Wiseman is a fly […]

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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness GFT Friday 26–Saturday 27 September

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness GFT Friday 26–Saturday 27 SeptemberBuy tickets online This extraordinary collaboration between internationally celebrated artist-filmmakers Ben Rivers and Ben Russell is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in an increasingly secular world. We follow an unnamed character (played by musician Robert AA Lowe, aka Lichens) on a […]

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A Most Wanted Man GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October

A Most Wanted Man15 GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John le Carré’s novel is a smart, subtle and confident thriller about the identity of a half-Chechen, half-Russian immigrant named Issa Karpov, who finds himself wanted by both German and US security agencies. Arriving tortured and homeless in Hamburg, […]

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What We Did on Our Holiday12A GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October

What We Did on Our Holiday12A GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October Buy online Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) are in the middle of a messy divorce, which they are keen to keep a secret from their extended family. However, when they travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father’s birthday, […]

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