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

Pat ByrneI have a Jaunt round the Glasgow West End notice boards to see what’s going on in the centre of the universe but I also rely on mailing lists and you getting in touch with your events. The listings are free for charitable organisations – small charge for profit making events. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Black History Month: Snapshot Shorts GFT

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Sunday 5 October, 2024, 2.15 p.m. Buy tickets Snapshot Shorts, presented by TAPE, is a series of short coming-of-age films that take us on a rollercoaster of teenage angst, mother & daughter relationships and the sweet liberation of finding your tribe. This screening will be followed by the ‘Snapshots and Snippets Collage Workshop’ with artist […]

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Take 2: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 20th Anniversary

Harry Potter the prisoner of azkaban

Saturday 5 October, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Buy tickets Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban… and he’s coming for Harry Potter! Harry, Ron and Hermione return as teenagers for a third term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But Harry’s fate, and that of the entire community of wizards, looks bleak when the infamous Sirius […]

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Lara Pawson at Creative Conversations

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7 October, 2024, 1 – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel,  University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Free Tickets at Eventbrite Lara Pawson is the author of three books: Spent Light (CB Editions, 2024), This is the Place to Be (CB Editions 2016), and In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre (IB Taurus 2014). In 2017, This is the Place to […]

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Nordic Music Days Conference

nordic music days conference

29 – 30 October, 2024 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), Room 237C, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Free – Book Tickets The Nordic Music Days Conference is presented in collaboration between Nordic Music Days Festival and Music subject area within the College of Arts & Humanities, University of Glasgow. The conference […]

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Thursday, October 3, 2024 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

Sight Unseen – Glasgow Gallery of Photography

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3 – 30 October, 2024 International Photography Exhibition High Street Gallery, 279-281 High Street, Glasgow Wed-Sat 12-4 Glassford Street, 57 Glassford Street, Glasgow 12-4 Wed-Sat Opening days/times during exhibitions only Glasgow Gallery of Photography

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Book Launch: Midnight and Blue, Ian Rankin

ian rankin

Tuesday 15 October, 2024, 6.30 – 7.30 p.m. Aye Write event to celebrate the publication of Midnight and Blue, the brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestselling author Sir Ian Rankin. Old Fruitmarket, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals […]

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Duncan McCrone, Cy Jack, Fraser Speirs and Mike Bryan – Arrochar

Duncan mccrone arrochar

Saturday 5 October, 2024 at 7.30 p.m. Duncan McCrone, Cy Jack, Fraser Speir and Mike Bryan In Concert Three Villages Hall, Shore Road, Arrochar G83 7AB Duncan, Cy, Fraser and Mike bring their much-acclaimed mix of original, contemporary and traditional folk/blues/roots-based songs to the lovely Three Villages Hall. Expect an evening of great singing, playing, […]

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Big Band Dance Nights with Jon Ritchie & That Swing Sensation

big band dance night

Sunday 13 October, 2024 Glasgow Big Band Dance Night Glasgow University Union, 32 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LX The band are delighted to  be back with their regular monthly venue for a night of music and  dancing . Grab your partner and join Glasgow’s record-breaking dance band, That Swing Sensation, for a great night of […]

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Donegal Diaspora in Scotland

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Donegal County Council are hosting a series of events in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 3rd & 4th October, they are looking for information from the Donegal diaspora based in Scotland. They are gathering photos & memories of Donegal people who worked in Scotland between 1940 & 1990 for a new exhibition in Letterkenny in 2025. […]

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Mary Irvine: My Greek Love Affair

my greek love affair

  I’ve had an affinity with Greece since childhood, Ancient, Classical and Modern. The first time I flew into Athens and saw an illuminated Acropolis I felt I was coming home. I later tried to express this feeling. Not sure I succeeded. Re- Birth The first time I saw her I knew I’d come home. […]

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Jim Byrne House Concert at The HillGigs

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Saturday, 26 October, 2024 The HillGigs by Charlie Gracie Jim Byrne with friends Kate Kramer, Lesley O’Brien and Graham Mackintosh To book, contact Charlie directly by email, text 07846 296832 or Facebok at https://www.facebook.com/HillGigs You will also be provided with start and end times plus address. Stirling based. “We are delighted to welcome Jim Byrne, […]

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Book Launch: Loving Alasdair by May Hooper

Loving Alasdair

Tuesday 8 October, 2024, 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. New Memoir in the VOICES series Loving Alasdair – the 39 Years of My Life with Alasdair Gray May Hooper’s fascinating memoir about her long and close association with Glasgow writer and artist, Alasdair Gray – wacky, romantic, unrequited, boozy, open, compassionate, loving, a different kind […]

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Creative Conversations: Carrie Etter

carrie etter

Monday, 30 September, 2024 at 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Carrie Etter is a celebrated poet, anthologist and academic whose publications include Subterfuge of the Unrequitable: Potes & Poets Press, 1998, Yet: Leafe Press, 2008,The Tethers: Seren Books, 2009, The Son: Oystercatcher Press, 2009, Divining for Starters: Shearsman Books, […]

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Saturday, September 28, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Book Launch: A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

book launch a case of matricide graeme macrae nurnet

Thursday 3rd October 2024 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Waterstones, 153 – 157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW From the twice-Booker nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the final dazzling instalment in his Gorski Trilogy: A Case of Matricide. Join us for the launch of this extraordinary achievement as Graeme chats all things […]

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Books at the Botanics

books at botanics

Friday 27  September – Monday 30 September, 2024 Books at the Botanics Weekend Book Fair 10 a.m. till 5.00 p.m. in the Hopkirk Building  (behind the main range), Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Hopkirk Building, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE Card and cash payments accepted www.booksatthebotanics.co.uk Books at the Botanics on Facebook

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Take 2: My Neighbour Totoro at GFT

my neighbour totoro

Saturday 28 September, 2024 11.30 .a.m. Dubbed Screening 12.p.m. Autism Friendly Satsuki and Mei’s mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent hospital, their father moves the two sisters from their home in a city to the countryside. The house they move into is a […]

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

My Own Private Idaho at GFT

my own private idaho

Sunday 29 October, 2024 – 7 p.m. Queer Sundays at GFT Buy tickets Introduced by music, film and arts writer Claire Biddles. In 1992, film critic B Ruby Rich coined the term ‘New Queer Cinema’ which defined a decade in film history, where a boom in DIY and independent filmmaking made fertile ground for filmmakers […]

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If Beale Sreet Could Talk at GFT

if beale street coul talk

Thursday, 26 September, 2024 at 8 p.m. Buy tickets Based on the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talkis the story of Tish, a newly engaged young woman in Harlem, and her artist fiancé Alonzo ‘Fonny’ Hunt. When Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit, Tish races against the […]

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Megapolis at GFT

megapolis

27 September – 10 October, 2024 Buy tickets Francis Ford Coppola returns with a Roman epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero […]

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The Outrun at GFT

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27 September – 7 October, 2024 The Outrun is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature to restore life and renew hope, adapted from the bestselling book by Amy Liptrot. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she […]

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A History of Glasgow’s Byres Road by Barclay Price

a history of byres road

Byres Road is often seen as the main thoroughfare and the beating heart of Glasgow’s West End. You will enjoy learning of its history as Barclay Price explains how it evolved from a dirt track, recounts his Barclay’s personal memories and reveals some hidden gems. The book also contains many wonderful photographs Byres Road’s ‘development […]

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Old Partick – Lewis Hutton

Old Partick

‘Old Partick’ by Lewis Hutton provides extensive information about the history of this still vibrant part of Glasgow’s West End.  It’s a book that will provide many hours of pleasure with its wonderful photographs (55) of bygone days and fascinating historical details. To avoid duplication with other Stenlake books, this one does not cover the […]

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Book Launch: Medicine, Money and Murder by Anne Pettigrew

Thursday 3 October, 2024, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU Medicine, Money and Murder follows two female Glasgow medical students on summer placement in 1971 New Jersey, USA. It is Anne Pettigrew’s fourth literary medical crime novel, a thought-provoking tale of cultural clashes, ethical dilemmas, romance and humour that emphasises how fortunate […]

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Glasgow Kiss

Glasgow Kiss

30 September – 5 October, 2024 A brand new GLASWEGIAN MUSICAL, from the writer of The TOMMY BURNS Story & PORNO, featuring songs by artists connected with the GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD! SIMPLE MINDS, TEXAS, PRIMAL SCREAM, The BLUEBELLS, AC/DC, GUN, GERRY CINNAMON, The SILENCERS and many more! Contains plenty of cracking music, laughter, […]

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Creative Conversations: Andrés N. Ordorica

Monday 23 September 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow  Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to […]

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Book Launch: Red Threads, A History of the People’s Flag

red threads

3 October, 2024, 8 p.m. McNeills, 106 Torrisdale St, Glasgow G42 8PH There will be a couple of readings by Henry Bell and friends, some songs, and a chance to buy a copy/have a pint and assure  that you’ll order the book from the library. There is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and […]

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Book Launch: ‘After this Rain’ Mairi Jack

after this rain

Wednesday 25 September, 2024 Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT A Posthumous Collection of Poems byt Mairi Jack Come along and celebrate this talnted poet and much-loved woman Fun, friends and family plus music from Duncan McCrone Band with Cy Jack Poems from the Ironing Board This will follow on from Poems from […]

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Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film, GFT

conversations with baldwin

Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 September, 2024 Buy tickets Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film celebrates the centenary of the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) with a season of films that present an intimate portrait of this 20th century icon in Europe and an award-winning adaptation of his exquisite […]

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The Substance at GFT

the substance

Friday 20 September – Thursday 3 October, 2024 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by […]

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The Three Daughters at GFT

his three daughters

Friday 20 – Thursday 26 September, 2024 From Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters — played by Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne — who come to be with him in his final days. Continuing his astute exploration of […]

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