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

Keith McIvor and Tam Dean Burn, The Poetry Club, Glasgow, 10th April, 2014

 We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang! Jd Twitch & Td Burn  Thursday, April 10 at 8:00pm        The Poetry Club, Glasgow Keith McIvor and Tam Dean Burn present their collaborations old and new. From Bertolt Brecht to Harry Horse. From Grace Lee Boggs to Heaven 17. Digital-Agit-Pop-Video LIVE & EXCLUSIVE at the Poetry Club. […]

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Glasgow Gigs: Americana at The Glad Cafe, 30th March Heart of Rust

Southside Americana Club 30th March, 2014 The Southside Americana Club returns in March with a great line-up! Join us for the return of epic Neil Young tribute band Heart of Rust, supported by the southsides answer to C.S.N.Y Last National Band and excellent ayrshire based singer songwriter Alan Frew.. A night of great music, a […]

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Project-Ability, Friends and Family Workshops, Felt Eggs, Saturday 29th March 11 a.m.

The next Friends and Family Fun workshops will be Felt Eggs Saturday 29th March. Come along to our Friends and Family Fun Workshops and get ready for Easter with some colourful felt eggs! Watch beautiful patterns and tactile surfaces emerge as you roll your sleeves up and get felting! These classes provide the opportunity for […]

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Fundraiser: Spring Fling, The Shed, Glasgow, Saturday 29th March, 2014

Loads of great entertainment in the Southside this weekend, Saturday 29th March The Shed, 26 Langside Ave, Glasgow G41 2QS  Southside Fringe Glasgow fundraiser at The Shed will be awesome!

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Glasgow gigs: Friends of Plockton Music School Fundraising Concert, St Andrews in the Square, 1st April

Friends of Plockton Music School Fundraising Concert St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, Calton, Glasgow G1 5PP 1st April, 2014 St Andrew’s in the Square presents:Friends of Plockton Music School Fundraising Concert+ Cherrygrove + Daniel Thorpe + Misha MacPherson + Innes Watson Past and present students of Plockton Music School join forces […]

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Acting Up! Drama Sessions for Children & Young People, CCA, Glasgow

Acting Up! Drama Sessions for Children & Young People CCA Sat 29 March 2014 Times vary, £6 trial/£55-65 for eight week blockAges: 4-18Email clare.hemphill@talktalk.net to book With the exception of the school holidays, CCA offers competitively priced drama classes every Saturday for children and young people, held by accomplished writer and actor Clare Hemphill and […]

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University of Strathclyde The Up-and-Coming Reading, Host Chris Agee, CCA, 28th March

University of StrathclydeThe Up-and-Coming Reading CCA Fri 28 March 2014 7.30pm, Terrace Bar, FREENo booking required Hosted by poet Chris Agee, writer-in-residence at the University of Strathclyde, finalists for the 2014 Keith Wright Literary Prize from the University’s Department of Creative Writing read from their work, followed by an open mic for student writers. For […]

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Counterflows Artist’s Talk with Joe McPhee & Brian Morton, CCA, 5th April

CounterflowsArtist’s Talk with Joe McPhee & Brian Morton CCA Sat 5 April 2014 2pm, Cinema, FREEBook online / 0141 352 4900 It is totally fitting that Joe McPhee is Counterflows’ first featured artist: not only is he a great artist, he also encompasses the very ethos of Counterflows, exploring through his art a cultural openness […]

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MAP Reading Group Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women, CCA, Glasgow, 27 March, 2014

MAP Reading GroupSick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women Thu 27 March 2014 6.30pm, FREE, ClubroomAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers. Initiated by Emma Balkind and Laura Edbrook in association with MAP. Our readings will contrast the work of new female […]

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Behaviour Festival Glasgow, Cain’s Book by Alexander Trocchi, The Arches 26 – 29 March, 2014

Cain’s Book by Alexander Trocchi The Arches Wednesday 26 – Saturday 29, 7 -10 p.m.   Tickets Available: www.thearches.co.uk Acclaimed worldwide as a high watermark for Scottish literature, Cain’s Book is a tour-de-force of poetic writing simultaneously occupying the modes of drug literature confessional, bleak comedy and philosophical tract, depicting protagonist Joe Necchi’s experiences from a Glasgow childhood […]

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British Gas Swimming Championships, Tollcross, 10 – 15 April

British Gas Swimming Championships Tollcross, Glasgow. 10-15 April 2014 Don’t miss your chance to see the best swimmers in Britain in action in the same Glasgow pool they will be aiming to be compete in at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Tickets are available from as little as £4.50 so what are you waiting for? http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/feature/british-swimming […]

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Glasgow Theatre: A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Love with a Capital ‘L’, 24 – 29 March, 2014

Love With a Capital ‘L’ Written by Tony Cox Directed by Hamish Pirie Monday 24th – Saturday 29th Mar Buy tickets online This play is a co-production with the Traverse Theatre and Perth Theatre. After opening at Oran Mor, the play will be on at the Traverse, Edinburgh from 1st – 5th April, and then will […]

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Cloud: solo exhibition by Henrik Pätzke, Project-Ability Glasgow

Cloud: solo exhibition by Henrik Pätzke Project-Ability Glasgow April 4 – May 24, 2014 In his first solo exhibition in the UK, Henrik Pätzke will create an expansive installation in Project Ability’s gallery and deliver a talk event about his practice on Saturday 5 April 1-2pm. Henrik Pätzke has been working with Inuti in Stockholm […]

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Fiction Readings at the Albany #2, Wednesday 26th March, 2014

Fiction Readings at the Albany Wednesday 26th March, 2014  – 6.30 p.m. Thank you to the many people who attended the opening event. We would like to invite you all to come along to the second in the series, at the Albany Centre in Glasgow, this Wednesday 26th March, from 6.30pm until 9pm. The Albany […]

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Ingrid Petrie Exhibition, Big Mouth Coffee Shop, Partick, 4 April – 31st May, 2014

Ingrid Petrie Exhibition Big Mouth Coffee Shop, Partick 4 April – 31st May, 2014 Ingrid’s new collection of prints offers her unique perspective on nature.  Her jewel-like kaleidoscopic artwork features beautiful botanical and ornithological images which burst with colour and provide a contemporary twist on the genre. Come along to Big Mouth Cafe,167 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, […]

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Glasgow Cinema: CCA, Franco-German Film Series La vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus), 2nd April

Franco-German Film SeriesLa vie de Jésus(The Life of Jesus) Wed 2 April 2014 7pm, £3 (£2 for students and members of Alliance Française and Goethe-Institut), CinemaBook online / 0141 352 4900 La vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus)France 1997, 96 mins, colourDirector: Bruno Dumont With: David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader ChaatoufFrench with English subtitles […]

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Glasgow Cinema: The Grosvenor, Ashton Lane, Listings from Sunday 23rd March, 2014

The Grosvenor, from 23rd March Ashton Lane, G12 Telephone: 08451666002   The Lego Movie (2D) Sun 23 Mar 2014 14:30 Grand Budapest Hotel THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted […]

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Glasgow Cinema: That Sinking Feeling, GFT, 15th April, 2014

That Sinking Feeling12 GFT, 12 Rose Street Tuesday 15 April Show Times: 18:30 [ see showings ] Buy Tickets → Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook To celebrate BFI Flipside’s release of the much-loved That Sinking Feeling on DVD/Blu-ray we are delighted to host this special screening. Filmed in the late 1970s on the […]

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Glasgow Cinema: Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon, GFT, 25th March, 2014

Enter the Dragon18 GFT, 12 Rose Street Dates Showing: Wednesday 26 March Show Times: 20:40 [ see showings ] Buy Tickets →   The movie that immortalised its star as an international superstar is widely considered the greatest kung fu movie ever made. Enter the Dragon features an irresistible mix of stunningly choreographed fight scenes, […]

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Glasgow Cinema: The Book Thief, GFT, until 25th March, 2014

The Book Thief12A GFT, 12 Rose Street Sunday 23–Tuesday 25 March Show Times: times vary [ see showings ] Buy Tickets →   The Book Thief follows a young girl, Liesel, who is left by her fleeing mother in Nazi Germany with foster parents Hans and Rosa. Liesel forms a close bond with Hans, who […]

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Glasgow Cinema: Salvo, GFT, until 27th March, 2014

Salvo12A GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 21–Thursday 27 March Show Times: times vary [ see showings ] Buy Tickets →   Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prix at Cannes, Salvo is like a cool, slow-burning Sicilian homage to Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai. Salvo (Saleh Bakri) is a ruthless Mafia assassin. When he is ambushed […]

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Glasgow Cinema: Starred Up, GFT until 3rd April

Starred Up18 GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 21 March – Thursday 3 April Buy Tickets → A complex father/son relationship is viewed through a brutal depiction of prison life in Starred Up, one of the most powerful and assured films of David Mackenzie’s career. Jack O’Connell gives an extraordinary performance as Eric, a young offender […]

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Toni Stewart, Glasgow Women’s Library, 3rd April at 5.30 p.m. for 6.00 p.m.

Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landresst Street, G40 1 BP £2/Free 550 2267 Join GWL on night.  Bring something to eat with you if you like. www.womenslibrary.org.uk

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Quarriers Quiz, Curlers Rest, 1st April

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Project Cafe Party, Tell it slant and Locavore, 23rd March

Tell it slant reopens Party, 5 p.m. 23rd March 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST Project Cafe and Tell it slant poetry bookshop will be popping back up like a jack-in-the-box to celebrate an imminent 3-month residency back at 134 Renfrew Street, with Locavore. There will be yummy pizza, cakes, booze & soft drinks, music and […]

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Glasgow gigs: Daniel Wylie at The Old Hairdressers’, Saturday 22nd March

The Stripped Sessions presentsDaniel Wylie at The Old Hairdressers’   Saturday 22nd March 7:00pm – 10:30pm  The Old Hairdressers Rare chance to watch an intimate performance from Daniel Wylie where he will be performing from his extensive catalogue from CRR to his latest release Fake your own death which is now available from Itunes and Amazon […]

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Children’s Wildlife Photography Workshops, Kelvingrove Park, 7th, 14th 21st April, 2014

  RSPB   Are you aged between 7 and 16? Do you love the outdoors and the wildlife that lives out there? Do you have fun taking photographs of the world around us? Join us for an afternoon of photography and wildlife as we invite you on our Children’s Wildlife Photography Workshops. Kelvingrove Park. Monday […]

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Verdi’s Macbeth, The Citz, 27th and 29th March

REVIVAL OF THE 2005 PRODUCTION – Scottish Opera The Citz, Thu 27 Mar 7.30pm•Sat 29 Mar 7.30pm Dominic Hill, Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre, revives his brooding, atmospheric Macbeth in celebration of the 2014 Year of Homecoming. Inspired by events in the war-torn Balkans, Hill’s production is at once contemporary and ageless; a world […]

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Disney On Ice Worlds Of Fantasy, 27 Mar 2014 – 30 Mar 2014, SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Disney On Ice Worlds Of Fantasy, 27 Mar 2014 – 30 Mar 2014   SSE Hydro   7 p.m.   Tickets: £13.50 – £38.00   Hotline: 0844 395 4000 The action-packed ice spectacular, Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy, whisks audiences on a captivating adventure to four magical locations, including the auto-racing terrain of […]

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The Pitchfork Disney, The Tron, 25 – 29th March, 2014

Heroes Theatre presents The Pitchfork Disney Tuesday 25th March to Saturday 29th March 2014   The Tron, Glasgow   Book Online Book by phone Written by PHILIP RIDLEY Have you noticed how gorgeous people look when they’re terrified? Twins Presley and Haley Stray shut themselves away after the mysterious death of their parents, gorging nightly […]

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