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Waiting: (A trilogy – My Perfect Place, The Big Squeeze, The End) 12 and 13 Sep 2014, Webster’s Theatre

Waiting: (A trilogy – My Perfect Place, The Big Squeeze, The End) 12 and 13 Sep 2014 – 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Webster’s Theatre £13 W A I T I N G … A trilogy of intriguing & contrasting one act plays, interlinked by one character’s part in them all… and the fact that […]

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The Graduettes Websters Theatre 28 and 29 Aug 2014

The Graduettes Websters Theatre 28 and 29 Aug 2014 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets £9 Adult/£7 Concession The Graduettes is a live sit-com focusing on the lives of three girls who graduate and then realise that life is not exactly what Sex and the City promised them. Sophie has never met her boyfriend’s […]

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Battlefield Band 21 Aug 2014, Webster’s Theatre

Battlefield Band 21 Aug 2014 – 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Webster’s Theatre, Glasgow West End Tickets £19 (inc. booking fee).  Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength and vibrancy of today’s Scottish cultural scene, which indeed they have done much to create and fuel, they have led and […]

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The Full Monty, 23 September – 4 October, 2014 Kings Theatre

The Full Monty  The Play by Simon Beaufoy 23 September – 4 October, 2014 Kings Theatre The sensational new smash hit The Full Monty ‘Terrific Simon Beaufoy’s rip-roaring adaptation of his classic film opened in Sheffield to rave reviews’The Sunday Times In 1997, a British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing […]

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Dirty Dancing Kingst Theatre, August – 20 September, 2014

Dirty Dancing The Classic Story on Stage 26 August – 20 September, 2014 Kings Theatre, Bath Sreett An unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing. Seen by millions across the globe this worldwide smash-hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different […]

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The Games We Play Exhibition Scotland Street School

The Games We Play Exhibition Scotland Street School Extended until Sunday 11 January 2015. The Games We Play is a chance to explore games and play from across different cultures and time periods. From the Papua New Guinea story of Pikinini Wantaim Bubu, which shows how children learn to be adults from their grandparents, through […]

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Urban Roots explore the wonderful world of butterflies and moths, Glasgow, 10 August

Urban Roots explore the wonderful world of butterflies and moths Malls Mire Woodland 10 August 2014 Mett 10.30 a.m. Toryglen Community Base, 179 Prospecthill Circus. Malls Mire Community Woodland, Glasgow South Side Butterfly Conservation will be there to introduce you to these beautiful flying insects. We will look at the variety of species caught in […]

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Dearest Scotland Tuesday 19th August, Workshops, Glasgow Women’s Library

Dearest Scotland Tuesday 19th August, 2014, 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. Glasgow Women’s Library The Dearest Scotland team will be holding two writing workshops giving you the space to write a letter to the future of Scotland. Where are we going? What should our future look like? What do we who live in Scotland actually […]

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Ross King and Shari Low: Taking Hollywood 20 August, Waterstone’s

Ross King and Shari Low: Taking Hollywood 20 August, 2014 7 p.m. Waterstone’s, Argyle Street Los Angeles-based writers King and Low launch their jointly-authored novel. ‘The glamour of jackie collins meets the grit of martina cole in the dark heart of a sun-bleached los angeles.’ Waterstone’s 174 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8AH

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Andy Jackson & John Menaghan ‘In Process’ Masterclass CCA Tue 19 August 2014

Scottish Writers’ CentreAndy Jackson & John Menaghan‘In Process’ Masterclass CCA Tue 19 August 2014 7pm, £6 (£3 concessions) on the door, FREE to SWC members, ClubroomAges 16+ Andy Jackson takes poetic inspiration from the most unlikely sources; the inner secrets of dentistry, legends of music hall, conspiracy theories, dance crazes, cult movies and public conveniences. […]

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Little Bit of Theatre The Roxy 171 11 August, 2014

Little Bit of Theatre The Roxy 171 11 Aug 2014, 7.30 p.m. Live performance art, theatre, comedy, music, burlesque and spoken word. £3 – £5 The Roxy 171 171 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9AW

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Quids Inn: Harry & The Hendersons, Broadcast, 10 August

Sunday 10th August, 2014 Quids Inn: Harry & The Hendersons Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow – G2 3LG Featuring:+ Sonny and the last soul train+ Les Johnson and Me+ Belle and the Meadows+ The Mermaids 8PM Doors – £1 www.facebook.com/HarryAndTheHendersonsBand

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Strange Vice Hell on Reels CCA Wed 3 September 2014

Strange ViceHell on Reels CCA Wed 3 September 2014 7.30pm, £5, TheatreAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 As part of their contribution to this year’s Scalarama programme, Strange Vice proudly presents Hell On Reels – a celebration of the Biker movie genre! A screening of a mystery biker film from the Strange Vice archive […]

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To Catch a Thief, GFT Sunday 10–Tuesday 12 August

To Catch a Thief PG GFT Sunday 10–Tuesday 12 August Buy tickets Hitchcock’s 1955 romantic thriller proved to be Grace Kelly’s final film with the director. Cary Grant is retired cat burglar John Robie who now lives a simple life among the vineyards in the French Riviera. However, when a series of robberies copy his […]

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Song at Midnight, GFT Wednesday 13 August

Song at Midnight CTBC GFT Wednesday 13 August Buy tickets Lauded as China’s first horror film, this loose adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera fuses left-wing politics with the tropes of Hollywood horror to brilliant effect. In a crumbling old theatre, a visiting opera troupe discover a catatonic woman who is entranced by the […]

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Lilting, GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August

Lilting 15 GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August Buy tickets A quiet and confident-cultural chamber piece, this debut by Cambodian director Hong Khaou is an affecting study of grief and loss, seen through the eyes of a mourning mother and a distraught lover. Pei-pei Cheng plays Junn, a Chinese-Cambodian mother attempting to overcome the passing of […]

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God’s Pocket Friday 8–Thursday 14 August GFT

God’s Pocket Friday 8–Thursday 14 August GFT Buy tickets The feature length directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery, this gritty blue-collar crime drama shows an assured eye for tone and mood. A darkly comic drama that centres on the hapless Mickey Scarpato (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his final roles), who finds […]

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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, GFT Sunday 10 August

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil N/C 12+ GFT Sunday 10 August Buy tickets A dazzling (and enduring topical) reminder that politics can be entertaining – and entertainment can be political. Capitalising on the remarkable popular success of playwright John McGrath’s touring production of the same name, this 1974 television film surveys […]

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Welcome to New York, GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August

Welcome to New York 18 GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August, 2014 Buy tickets Cult director Abel Ferrara’s latest features a towering portrait of debauchery from Gérard Depardieu as the ‘fictional’ Mr Devereaux, based on French financier and one-time presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who both controls the financial fate of nations whilst losing himself to the […]

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Glasgow Lyric Choir

Glasgow Lyric Choir are the West End’s local choir based in Wellington Church just off University Avenue.  The choir performs a wide repertoire of music from Bach to Burns and from Sondheim to Schubert.  The choir sings choral classics and also lesser-known classical works at two major concerts each season.  Additionally the choir has a […]

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Abel Ganz Album Launch Fri 15 August 2014 CCA

Abel GanzAlbum Launch Fri 15 August 2014 CCA 8pm, £5, TheatreAges 14+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Veteran Glasgow proggers Abel Ganz launch their new album simply entitled Abel Ganz. The follow up to 2008’s Shooting Albatross, the new album makes a deliberate effort to take in new influences and mix them with the old. […]

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PCL present: Earth Thu 14 August 2014 CCA

PCL present:Earth Thu 14 August 2014 CCA 7pm, £14 + £1 booking fee, TheatreAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Earth’s career, like its music, has always been a slow, deliberate progression. Each record slightly removed from the last, a constant refinement of a singular vision. Dylan Carlson has remained focused throughout on coaxing moments […]

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Mood Indigo, GFT, Friday 1–Thursday 14 August, 2014

Mood Indigo 12A Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street Friday 1–Thursday 14 August, 2014 Buy tickets online Michel Gondry’s delightful screen version of the cult Boris Vian novel is as charming and romantic as a carefree stroll in the park with the one you love. In a contemporary Paris with the retro look and feel […]

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John Taylor “Demons & Angels” Album Launch, Fri 5th Of Sep 2014, OranMor

John Taylor “Demons & Angels” Album Launch Fri 5th Of Sep 2014 – Live Music @ The Venue OranMor Top of Byres Road, G12 John Taylor releases his fifth studio album on 5th September in Òran Mór ~ with a few special guests. Tickets: £5.00Buy onlineTelephone: 08444 77 1000Event InformationDoors Open: 7:00 pm Over 14s […]

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St Paul & The Broken Bones, Mon 1st Of Sep 2014, OranMor

St Paul & The Broken Bones Mon 1st Of Sep 2014 – Live Music @ The Venue OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Grit, elemental rhythm, tight-as-a-drumhead playing, and a profound depth of feeling:these are the promises of a great soul band. And St. Paul & The Broken Bones deliveron those promises.Tickets: £12.00TicketMaster.co.ukTelephone: 0141 204 […]

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There Will Be Fireworks, OranMor, 23 August

There Will Be Fireworks The Venue, OranMor, Top of Byres Road 23 August, 2014 – 7 p.m. Tickets: £7.00 TicketWeb.co.ukTelephone: 08444 77 1000

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Colm Keegan with Laura Durrant, OranMor, 10 August

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Linda Jaxson Band, Beresford Lounge, Friday 15 August

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The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra in Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 13th September

The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra in Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 13th September 2014 at 7:30pm The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra’s return to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall promises to be a fantastic evening filled with lively Scottish jigs and reels, beautiful slow airs, dance and song, and with a measure of stirring pipe music thrown in. […]

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Cry Parrot Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides Conduit of the Bottomless Submundane Thu 7 August 2014 CCA

Cry ParrotPart Wild Horses Mane on Both SidesConduit of the Bottomless Submundane Thu 7 August 2014 CCA 8pm, £5 + £1 booking fee (£6 on the door), TheatreAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 An absorbing and tactile installation-performance work from Manchester ritualistic improvisers/sound artists Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols, aka part wild horses […]

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