I 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. CinemaARC Childish
Wednesday 23 October, 2024 University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Unit (ARC), 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW Free | Ticketed – Reserve Tickets Screening and discussion on childhood in film in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland. They’ll be screening some old-school public information films and will hear from researchers and filmmakers about depictions […]
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Sunday, October 20, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Creative Conversations: Vik Shirley
Monday 21 October, 2024 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, critic & academic from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets, Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings […]
Rock On Ruchill
Saturday 26 October, 2024, 12 Noon Save Ruchill Community Centre Music Food and Hallowe’en Theme Ruchill Community Centre, a7 671 Bilsland Drive, Glasgow, G20 9NF The Keelie Group will be at Ruchill Community Centre at Bilsland Drive, to help with an event to boost the much needed wider support to save this centre. Ruchill campaigners […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Whistler Pastels – The Hunterian
Friday 04 October 2024 – Sunday 02 March 2025 – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hunterian Art Galler, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQy Throughout his career, James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) made drawings using pastel crayons. His early drawings (1860s–70s) were often studies for oil paintings, but from the late 1870s he […]
Caezar in Concert, Cottiers
Friday 25 October, 2024 Buy tickets
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Saturday, October 19, 2024 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Artie’s Singing Kettle – Hallowe’en Party
Sunday 3 November, 2024 – Shows: 11 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. Webster’s, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Join Artie’s Singing Kettle Halloween Party for a spooktacular celebration! Bring your festive spirit and don your best Halloween costume for a show packed full of enchantment. Explore clues hidden within the original Singing Kettles, and […]
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Friday, October 18, 2024 | Filed under: Hallowe'en in Glasgow, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1 November, 2024, 7.30 p.m. Special Screening for Hallowe’en At Webster’s Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ The cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show – hosted by the phenomenal Tom Harlow! A Hilarious, Rollocking Rock out of a Party Full audience sing along with a compere Tom Harlow getting you in the […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Clatty Pat’s Walk Like a Glaswegian into the 90s
24 – 27 October, 2024 At: Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ We got Clatty in the 80s as we walked back like Glaswegians to the legend that was “Clatty Pats”. Due to overwhelming public demand- the smash hit that had you singing and dancing and laughing(and drinking!) to the tunes of […]
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Affordable Art Sale
2 and 3 November, 2024, 10.30 am – 5.30 pm New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street. Glasgow. G3 8TL The Affordable Art Sale features recent local graduates and emerging artists aiming to make art more accessible and affordable with prices starting from £2. Grab yourself an early Christmas bargain from paintings, prints, sculptures to crafts, […]
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Thursday, October 17, 2024 | Filed under: Art, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Christmas in Glasgow, Shopping
Archaeology Album Launch
23 November, 2024 7.30 p.m. Chiara E Berardelli and her fabulous band launch her latest album, Archaeology, in the intimate surroundings of The Mackintosh Halls. The Mackintosh Halls, 15-17 Shakespeare Street, Glasgow, G20 8TH An evening to feed your soul. Support by Ali Stott. Tickets £10 plus booking feeBuy tickets BYOB Event on Facebook
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Take 2. Despicable Me 4
Saturday 19 October, 2024 at 11.30 a.m. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Emmy winner Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Milisuthando at GFT
18 – 23 October, 2024 Milisuthando is a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary on love and what it means to become human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando herself – who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over. A deeply intimate portrait of past, […]
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The Crime Is Mine at GFT
18 – 24 October, 2024 After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits — until the truth comes out. Paris in the 1930s — a playground for industrial […]
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A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things at GFT
18 – 24 October, 2024 One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply impacted by a pivotal event in her life. In May 1949, this leading representative of the modernist St Ives group of artists climbed to the top of […]
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Witches and Witchcraft CinemaARC
Wednesday 30 October, 2024, 6 – 8.30 p.m. Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Spooky Halloween screening of the 1990 cult-classic, The Witches (1990). In this Roald Dahl adaptation, a little boy and his kindly grandmother thwart the efforts of a coven of witches to rid Britain of […]
The Apprentice at GFT
18 – 31 October, 2024 The origins of Donald Trump are brought to life in a provocative, electrifying portrait of the man and his mentor, Roy Cohn – a notorious lawyer who will never let the truth get in the way of winning a fight. Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong star as Trump and Cohn […]
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Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands
18 – 24 October, 2024 The screening on Saturday 19 October at 8pm will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Blair Young and Carla J Easton, hosted by music journalist Nicola Meighan. Popstars, post-punks and pioneers: a new documentary platforming Scotland’s defiant trailblazing girl bands Buy tickets 80s Glasgow girl band Sophisticated Boom Boom […]
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Una Noche con los Rolling Stones / A night with the Rolling Stones
16 November, 2024, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. Book tickets – Tickets: £2/4/6/8/10 Patricia Ramos I Cuba I 2023 I 92 mins I Spanish with English subtitles March 2016: Havana is getting ready for the arrival of The Rolling Stones for an outdoor free concert, the first by a rock group since the fall of […]
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Feminist Filmmaking – HGFF
16 November, 2024 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Book tickets Tickets: £2/4/6/8/10 A presentation of films in progress made by women activists in Matanzas and Havana in Cuba, Villanova in Catalunya, Spain and in Glasgow, using low-budget collaborative filmmaking techniques across borders to amplify women’s voices. The final […]
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El Cine Soy Yo / The Moving Picture Man
15 November 2024, 7.15 p.m. CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD Book Tickets Tickets: £2/4/6/8/10 Luis Armando Roche I Venezuela I 1977 I 94 mins I Spanish with English subtitles After being a peddler, street photographer, radio announcer, policeman, and mechanic, Jacinto (Asdrúbal Melendez) decides to become a film projectionist. He aspires […]
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Shaun of the Dead, 20th Anniversary
15 (8.40 p.m.) and 17 (5.30 p.m.) October, 2024 Get ready for a gut-busting, bone-mashing good time in the hilarious horror comedy, Shaun of the Dead. There comes a day in every man’s life when he has to get off the couch…and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite to […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
The Shining, Extended Cut
17 October, 2024, 7.50 p.m. This Halloween GFT is screening two versions of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. This is the 4K restoration of the 144 minute Extended Cut that was produced in 2019, overseen by Steven Spielberg and Kubrick’s former personal assistant Leon Vitali. Buy tickets Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror is widely considered […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Carrie at GFT
18 to 24 October, 2024 An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl’s lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake. Screening as part […]
Book Launch: ‘Breathe In’ by Chris Dolan
Tuesday, 29 October, 2024 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Guest Readers Martin Goldie, David Hayman and Donna Matthew Music by John Ross and Kirsten Jackson “My first wee book of poems, bits and pieces from over 30 years of writing. A gallimaufry if ever there was one.” […]
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The Teacher
11 – 17th October, 2024 Inspired by true events, this powerful West Bank-set drama centres on a grieving schoolteacher who is attempting to keep a student out of trouble whilst engaging in his own acts of political resistance. British-Palestinian Farah Nabulsi — who won a BAFTA for her short film The Present — returns to the West […]
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Timestalker
11 – 17 October, 2024 Timestalker is a romantic comedy about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love, spanning the most romantic epochs of history right into the future. The film follows hapless heroine Agnes (Alice Lowe) through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, gets reincarnated a […]
Preview: A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things- plus Q & A
Wednesday, 16 October, 2024 at 6 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with director Mark Cousins and composer Linda Buckley. One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply impacted by a pivotal event in her life. In May 1949, this leading […]
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Scotland Loves Anime 2024
1 – 3 November, 2024 The ever-popular Scotland Loves Anime weekend event returns to Glasgow Film Theatre November 1-3! 9, 2024, fantastic anime films round out the programme, with individual titles on sale now, including UK premieres, European premieres, and even a late-night performance. Totto-chan (2023, Shinnosuke Yakuwa) – November 1 The Birth of Kitaro: The […]
Creative Conversations: Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
Monday, 14 October, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Translation of the Route is the first collection by award-winning Argentine poet Laura Wittner to be available in English translation. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of daily life – thunder at night, […]
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Saturday, October 12, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Fundraiser Community Meal – Glasgow West End
Sunday October, 13th, 2024 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Would you like to have a lovely dinner with Central and West Integration Network in partnership with Glasgow Community Food Network A special community meal prepared by talented refugee chefs at the Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Hall, Observatory Road, Glasgow We are organising once again a […]
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Friday, October 11, 2024 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
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