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. Govan Music Festival 2024
13th – 16th March 2024 Govan Music Festival has unveiled its multi-genre programme of performances for its third annual edition. Programme for 2024 Wednesday 13 March – 1 p.m. The festival’ opens with a free School Choirs Concert at Govan’s Fairfield Club, where all seven of Govan’s school choirs will come together to celebrate music […]
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Gray Day 2024
Sunday, 25 February, 2024, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. At OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX with @canongatebooks Hosted by the legendary actor and theatre maker Tam Dean Burn Tam will also be reading a few Alasdair Gray short stories, you are in for a real treat! Crime writer, playwright and the best dressed […]
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mom – World Premiere at Glasgow FrightFest
9 March, 2024 at 10.30 a.m. Buy Tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Alasdair Gray Archive – Free Tours
March 1st, 8th, 15th and 23rd, 2024 at 11am The Alasdair Gray Archive is a free, public resource which was established in March 2020 after Alasdair Gray’s death in late 2019. Free weekly tours of the collection with Custodian Sorcha Gray. @GraySorcha To secure a space please email with your preferred date.
Kinnaris Quintet at Celtic Connections 2034
Photography by Pauline Keightley The Kinnaris Quintet consists of Jenn Butterworth on guitar, Aileen Reid on fiddle, Fiona MacAskill on fiddle, Laura-Beth Slater on mandolin, Laura Wilkie on fiddle. The band were joined by Celtic Connections favourite singers Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart. Great concert Photos […]
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Monday, February 5, 2024 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2024, Music, Music, Pauline Keightley
Ciaran Ryan at Celtic Connections 2024
Ciaran Ryan played at the Old Fruitmarket, as part of Celtic Connections 2024, when he supported Kinnaris. Ryan is a dynamic, high energy player. He is a Scottish tenor banjo player, one of the UKs top players and a founding member of folk band Dallahan. His second solo album, Occupational Hazards, was released 2024. Photography by Pauline […]
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| Filed under: Celtic Connections 2024, Music, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley
Days of Heaven 4K
Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Buy tickets Lovers Bill (Richard Gere) and Abby (Brooke Adams) pose as siblings and find gruelling work on a wheat farm. By the end of the harvest, the wealthy farmer has fallen in love with Abby. When he asks Abby to marry him, Bill urges her to accept, but only because […]
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Samsara
3 – 8 February, 2024 Probably the only film that will ask you to close your eyes while watching, Samsara is a transcendental experience made for the big screen with echoes of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. ‘There’s always someone in the audience who comes to me and says, “I will never forget this experience.” – Samsara director […]
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Review: Roaming Roots at Celtic Connections 2024
Photographs and Review by Pauline Keightley Roaming Roots review at Celtic Connections 2024 What a wealth of talent! The Roaming Roots Revue celebrated its ever popular, sold out show, with its 12th year as part of Celtic Connections. This year honouring the modern Scots song, interpreted and chosen by some of Scotland’s top talent. The […]
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2024, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
The George Ward Collection – Images of Old Maryhill
3 February – 11 May, 2024 Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10 – 24 Garbraid Avenue, Glasgow G20 8YE Collection of never-before-seen images of Old Maryhill to be displayed at Maryhill Burgh Halls A local man’s archive of photos and cinefilm footage taken by his father in the 1970s is the subject of a new exhibition. […]
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| Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Writers Centre Speakeasy – Fooers fae the fillin station #2
Tuesday 6th February 2024, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD Glasgow + Online Words From The Heart From the mind of John Bolland and after a two-year hiatus, the SWC Speakeasy | Fooers fae the fillin station: words from the heart returns! Come and read or […]
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Monday, January 29, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Collecting African Art at The Hunterian
Thursday, 22 February, 2024, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Hunterian Art Gallery, 82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Show map ‘The Trembling Museum’ shows African art objects from The Hunterian collection in a new context. Taking them out of the ‘ethnography’ section of our museum store, and displaying them alongside contemporary artworks in the art […]
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The 39 Steps at Websters
12 – 16 March, 2024 Websters, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ The 39 Steps is a hilarious, fast-paced, 1930s comedy thriller, adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock, and the novel by John Buchan. Take an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece, a spicy spy novel, and a riotous blend of virtuoso performances […]
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Nicky Murray – Billiard Room Sessions
8th of February, 2024 1.00pm – 1.45pm Free Event at: Govan and Linthouse Parish Church, 796 Govan Rd, Govan, Glasgow G51 2YL Scottish folk singer Nicky Murray performs at Billiard Room Sessions now taking place in Govan & Linthouse Parish Church. Nicky Murray is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist – his evocative lyrics, raspy/husky vocals and deft […]
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Human Flow (2017)
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – 5:30 PM 9:00 PM Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club Screening Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley StreetGlasgow, Scotland, G3 6DRUnited Kingdom (map) Subtitles – English Millions of people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change, war and oppressive regimes. Human Flow, by the internationally renowned artist, Ai […]
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Man vs Baby: Trolls and Tribulations
3 February, 2024, 7.30 p.m. 10.00 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ An evening of comedy as bestselling author Matt Coyne tells the story of Man Vs Baby, trolls, a lady called Brenda… and about his run in with Halle Berry. Buy tickets More about Websters
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Take 2: Robin Hood
Saturday 27 January, 2024 Standard screening: 11.30am Autism-Friendly Take 2 Access screening: 12pm An amiable rooster called Alan-a-Dale tells stories and sings songs of the heroic Robin Hood and his trusty sidekick, Little John, in this animated animal-themed adaptation of the legendary story. With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering […]
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Friday, January 26, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cities on Celluloid: Good Vibrations
Wednesday 31 January, 2024 5.50pm GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Glasgow Film Theatre has teamed up with Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast for an exciting film exchange. QFT’s LUMI Young Programmers have sent Good Vibrations to screen at GFT this month — the story of Belfast music legend Terri Hooley, who founded the Good […]
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The Civil Dead
Saturday 27 January – Thursday 1 February, 2024 The Civil Dead is a hilariously offbeat lo-fi slacker take on the ghost story. Loner photographer Clay has been creatively stagnant and unemployed for months. When his wife warns him to go out and be productive while she’s out of town, Clay happens upon his long-lost friend, […]
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Friday 26 January – Thursday 1 February, 2024 Master filmmaker, auteur, poet, truth seeker, explorer, brand, meme, actor, lauded voice artiste, doomsayer, legend… that’s Werner Herzog. This is the man, now 81, who had a 320 tonne steamboat hauled over a steep hill in Peru, who hypnotises his actors, climbs down into volcanoes, talks to […]
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Film Night: Smoke, Sauna, Sisterhood
Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT Buy tickets No story too shameful, no burden too heavy to carry when you share it with your sisterhood… Conic is thrilled to announce the release of filmmaker Anna Hints’ Sundance Award-winning feature documentary SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD in UK […]
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Film Screenings: ‘Denmark – The State Of Happiness’ Lesley Riddoch
Screenings Across Scotland – until 28 March The film will screen at various community locations throughout Scotland from January till the end of March including Edinburgh, Nairn, Aberdeen, Ullapool, Montrose and many more ,…. See all listings and buy tickets “AN ‘inspiring’ film which shines a light on why Denmark is one of the happiest […]
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Slow Leaves at Cottiers
30 January, 2024 Cottiers, 91 – 93 Hyndland Street, Glkasgow G11 5PU Slow Leaves is a self-contained solo project with Davidson curating every aspect of the music and its presentation, including being the multi-instrumentalist, producer, cover art designer, photographer, and video director. He views the totality of these various aspects as being essential parts of […]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Pride Over Prejudice Youth Performance – anti sectarianism project
This exciting youth project uses drama and the arts to challenge sectarianism. Pride Over Prejudice sessions will run at different community projects across Glasgow in: Govan/Ibrox, Parkhead, Toryglen and Maryhill! – February 2024. FREE for young people aged 9 to 16. The 90 min sessions will take place weekly and will be led by a […]
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Community event, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The End We Start From
Friday 19 – Thursday 25 January, 2024 Mahalia Belo’s confident feature debut brings Megan Hunter’s acclaimed 2017 dystopian novel to the screen as a disaster movie. When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn baby try […]
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Friday, January 19, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Trenque Lauquen
Part 1: Friday 19 and Saturday 20 January, 2024 Part 2: Saturday 20 and Tuesday 23 January, 2024 Screening in two parts, this beguiling, epic mystery from Argentine auteur Laura Citarella has shades of Twin Peaks and The X Files. A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why […]
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Shaft at GFT
Monday 22 and Wednesday 24 January, 2024 While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft — an iconic performance by Richard Roundtree, who passed […]
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Your Fat Friend
Saturday 20 January, 2024 5pm Followed by a Q&A with director Jeanie Finlay and star Aubrey Gordon. Director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger ‘Your Fat Friend’ to New York Timesbestselling author and beloved podcaster. Her searingly honest writing describes what it’s like to be that fat […]
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Dear England National Theatre Live
Thursday 25 January, 2024 7pm Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of the passion and pressure at the heart of football. As a player, Southgate held the world’s worst track record for penalties. Becoming the England men’s team manager, he must find a way to connect with […]
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The Forger
Wednesday 24 January, 2024 5.50pm Berlin, 1942. A young Jewish man, Cioma Schönhaus, refuses to let the Nazis take away his love of life. When he discovers his talent for forging documents, especially passports, he sees this as the ideal way to help not only himself but also others to escape deportation. Thanks to his […]
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- Celtic Connections: Celebrating 60 years of Scotland’s Traditional Music and Song Association.
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- Partick Youth Theatre
- Louise Welsh in conversation with Chris Brookmyre – The Cut Up
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- Fiction Burns Supper (15th anniversary edition)
- Duo Marier, Billiard Room Session
- Take 2: Spy Kids
- Becoming Victoria Wood at GFT plus Q & A
- I Swear Screening at The Pyramid
- GFF2026 Opening Film ‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’
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- Zique in Glasgow Celebrates Fiesta de Tres Reyes
- Peter Hujar’s Day at GFT
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