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Evil Edison, Ivory Blacks, Thursday 15 September, 2014

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McGinn meets Seeger and MacColl An evening with The Cameron Bros East Kilbride Village Theatre Saturday 23rd Augu

McGinn meets Seeger and MacColl An evening with The Cameron Bros East Kilbride Village Theatre  Saturday 23rd August 2014 : 8.00pm Tickets from Box Office 01355 261000. £12.00 / £10.00 Johnny and Duncan Cameron are well known in the Scottish music scene. Having enjoyed a long performing career, they continue to run Riverside Studios in […]

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Southside Sessions present Sweeneys in the Park, Thurs 14 August

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Revolving Doors, Ivory Blacks, 21 August, 2014

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The Carousel, The Tron 29th – 30th August 2014

Stellar Quines Theatre Company presents The Carousel By Jennifer Tremblay with Maureen BeattieTranslated by Shelly Tepperman, Directed by Murial Romanes The Tron 29th – 30th August 2014     Description    Dates & Times with MAUREEN BEATTIE Nothing can stop the carousel. While driving to her dying mother’s bedside, a woman calls upon the spirit of her […]

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Singin’ in the Rain Theatre Royal Glasgow 12 – 23 August, 2014

Singin’ in the Rain Theatre Royal Glasgow 12 – 23 August, 2014 Direct from the West End, this critically acclaimed production of Singin’ in the Rain is a smash hit with critics and audiences alike.  It tells the story of the first Hollywood musical, when the silver screen found its voice and left silent movies […]

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Six and a Tanner by Rony Bridges, Websters Theatre, 15 – 20 Sep 2014

Six and a Tanner by Rony Bridges 15 – 20 Sep 2014 – 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Webster’s Theatre Tickets £9 adult/£8 concession (inc. booking fee). PARENTAL ADVISORY – contains strong language, not suitable for children. A middle aged man confronts his dead father in his coffin a day before his funeral that no […]

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Linlithgow Folk Festival 2014, 10 – 14th September

Linlithgow Folk Festival 2014 10 – 14 September, 2014 www.linlithgowfolk.com Another wonderful festival has been lined up for Linlithgow’s 16th Folk Festival, with great concerts, numerous sessions in the local pubs, Nora Devine Outdoor Stage at the Cross plus Workshops, Craft Fair – fun for music lovers, performers and all the family. Friday 12th September […]

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Autumn/Winter Programme 2014

Twenty-first season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor! Lunchtime Theatre, OranMor, (top of Byres Road G12) “We want to thank all of our audience for their support over the past few months. David Maclennan A Play, A Pie and A Pint ten years ago to present audiences in Scotland with […]

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National Collective, Short Film Screening, Monday 11 August

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Citizens Theatre Open Day 23 Aug 2014

Citizens Theatre Open Day 23 Aug 2014 – 11am – 3pm A day of fun, drama, music, arts and crafts – and you’re invited! The Citizens Theatre is proud to have been a part of the Gorbals community for over 130 years, and to celebrate working together they are inviting everybody to their open day. […]

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Drew Taylor and Julia Doogan: HOWL(ing) The Arches Glasgay!, Tue 21 Oct 2014

Drew Taylor and Julia Doogan: HOWL(ing) The Arches Glasgay!, the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival and Drew Taylor present Tue 21 Oct 2014 | 7.30pm £10 / £8 Glasgay!, SMHAFF and Drew Taylor present HOWL(ing) The Arches Concept and Direction by Drew TaylorWritten by Drew Taylor and the Cast Music Composed and Performed […]

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Robert Ormerod: Political Youth The Arches Mon 1 – Fri 19 Sep

The Arches presents Robert Ormerod: Political Youth Exhibition The Arches Mon 1 – Fri 19 Sep 2014 | 11am – late  Free entry  Robert Ormerod on Tumblr Robert Ormerod‘s Political Youth series will be exhibited at The Arches as part of our Referendum Festival. As part of this exhibition, you’ll see a new series of […]

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The Arches Community Choir: rehearsal Thu 14 Aug 2014 | 7 – 9pm Arches, Argyle St

The Arches Community Choir: rehearsal Thu 14 Aug 2014 | 7 – 9pm Arches, Argyle St  Suggested donation £3 After a wee summer break, the choir is back! Initially started as a fun way to get people together to sing some decent tunes, so far they’ve put their own spin on tracks by Blur, Yeah […]

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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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