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. Mackintoh Queen’s Cross Doors Open Days 2024
Sunday 22 September, 2024 Please come along to Mackintosh Queen’s Cross as part of the 2024 Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival. 870 Garscube Road, Glasgow G20 7EL Open: Sunday the 22nd of September from 11am to 5pm. There will also be free guided tours of the building at noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm. The […]
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Sunday, September 8, 2024 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Doors Open Days, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Orphans at GFT
Sunday 8 September, 2024, 4.30 p.m. A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother’s funeral, and the children mourn their mother’s passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself. Craig Armstrong’s score for the film […]
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Saturday, September 7, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Alice in Wonderland at GFT
Saturday, 7 September, 2024. 11.30a.m. Take 2: Alice in Wonderland On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow – and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice’s journey, which culminates in […]
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Friday, September 6, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Explorathon at ARC
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September, 2024 Explorathon The Arc, University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW, FREE events on University of Glasgow campus in the Advanced Research Centre (ARC) and off-campus at Glasgow Club Castlemilk on 27 September, 2024. On Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September, Explorathon will take over the ARC, […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events
Those Pretty Wrongs at Hug and Pint
Wednesday, 18 September, 2024, 7 p.m. Those Pretty Wrongs (featuring Jody Stephens of Big Star) with special guests BMX Bandits (duo set).Tickets £22.20 Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9AW Event on. Facebook
Firebrand at GFT
6 – 12 September, 2024 In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Jude Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints […]
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Uproar GYFF 2024
Saturday 14th September, 2024 8 p.m. Scottish Premiere In 1981 New Zealand, 17-year old Josh Waaka navigates rugby-centric St Gilbert’s College. Amidst the Springboks’ tour and national protests, he embraces acting and his Māori heritage. Josh faces a choice: conform or stand up for family, future and identity. Uproar is his heartwarming journey against the […]
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Clue – Glasgow Youth Film Festival
13 September, 2024, 8.30 p.m. Was it the Butler? Was it Miss Scarlet or Colonel Mustard? Were they in the library or the billiard room? And was it the candlestick or the pipe? Join us at our Cult Classic screening of Clue, where Tim Curry and a talented cast bring the board game Cluedo to life […]
Bookworm GYFF
Friday, September, 13, 2004 Opening Gala screening of charming comedy Bookworm. Thirteen year old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and her estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise (Elijah Wood), comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged […]
Low Environmental Impact Craft Sessions
Friday 11 October, 2024 Used tetrapaks to make prints by pressing and carving into the inside surface of the tetrapak, coating it in ink and then printing it through a printing press. Participants will be invited to bring their own used tetrapaks, and will be able to repeat this method at home. Open to all, […]
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Free Events
Omniplex Cinema Clydebank National Cinema Day
National Cinema Day Saturday 31 August 2024 See any movie you like including new films such as Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus and Despicable Me 4, at any time of the day for a discounted price. Buy tickets Some classics as part of a ‘Bring It Back’ series will play including Star Wars: Episode IV […]
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Bloody Scotland 2024: Irvine Welsh and Louise Welsh
Saturday 14th September, 2024, 8.30 p.m. Albert Halls, Dumbarton Rd, Stirling FK8 2QL These two outstanding novelists, amongst the best of their generation, share more than a surname. They are both fearless, innovative writers with the priceless ability to create remarkable characters that live long in the memory. Irvine’s new novel Resolution sees the return of maverick […]
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| Filed under: Bloody Scotland, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Bloody Scotland: Toxic: Tove Alsterdal, Ajay Close and Araminta Hall
Saturday 14 September, 2024 at 5.30 p.m. Misogyny and toxic masculinity lie at the heart of three daring, important crime novels from authors with the storytelling skills to voice the fears and rage of a generation – and generations before them. Long-buried memories and uncomfortable family truths are dredged up alongside a body from a […]
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| Filed under: Bloody Scotland, Book Week Scotland
Bloody Scotland 2024 – Influencers’ Picks
Bloody Scotland 13 – 15 September, 2024 Check out the Leading Influencers’ picks at Bloody Scotland 2024 Follow the leading influencers and see their choices for this year’s Bloody Scotland Grab This Book | Life Is A Festival | The book trail | Bloody Good Reads | reviewsphere | Live & Deadly | Adam Tries […]
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The Provy Wummin at Websters Theatre
Saturday 7 September, 2024 – Performances at 2pm and 7.30pm. “A comedy masterpiece” Back by popular demand…the smash hit musical comedy of the year It’s 1979. Does the wean want a chopper for Christmas or does she fancy a new outfit from What Every Woman Wants? Or is it What Every Woman Needed? Margaret Morrison […]
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Monday, August 26, 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
3 Women at GFT
Monday 26 August, 2024 at 8.10 p.m. In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and “thoroughly modern” Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall). When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky’s hero worship evolves into something far stranger and […]
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Friday, August 23, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
City of Hope at GFT
Sunday 25 and Wednesday 28 August, 2024 City of Hope is John Sayles’s elegy for the ruined dreams of one segment of urban American society, focusing on the network of greed and influence surrounding an urban development plan and its effects on the innocent and guilty alike. With more than 50 principal tangentially connected principal […]
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The Mountain Within Me at GFT
23 – 29 August, 2024 After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, professional rugby player Ed Jackson’s world changed forever. The Mountain Within Me follows Ed’s journey on his recovery as he achieves the mental and physical heights of Snowdonia, the Alps and Himalayas to the life-altering challenges closer to home. From multi-award-winning director, Polly […]
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Celluloid Underground at GFT
23 – 28 August, 2024 Celluloid Underground is an autobiographical feature-length documentary by Iranian filmmaker, writer and curator Ehsan Khoshbakht, about his experience of growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when his love of cinema became the catalyst for his rebellion against the Islamic regime. It’s the story of his friendship with the […]
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Queer Sundays at GFT: Go Fish
Sunday 25 August, 2024 – 7.40 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgoe G3 6RB 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 to tell stories that centred on queer themes. The July to September screenings of Queer Cinema […]
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Cuckoo at GFT
23 – 29 August, 2024 Seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Between the Temples
23 – 29 August, 2024 A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Take 2: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Saturday 24 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his various oddball inventions, including the family’s noisy rebuilt car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One day at the beach, […]
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Mary Irvine’s Blog: Two Successes
Recently I received complimentary copies of two anthologies because I had had a submission accepted for each. The first was ‘Glasgow City of Music’. I have to admit I’d forgotten I’d sent a piece in as I didn’t really think it was all relevant. However I understood more when I read the dedication. ‘For the […]
Close to You at GFT
30 August – 5 September, 2024 Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes a long-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday, where he confronts unresolved wounds and reconnects with an old flame. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Reflections: the World, SCAP Festival, Glasgow
Sunday 1 September, 2024, 4 p.m. Impact Arts, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF SCAP PUBLISHING: Launch of REFLECTIONS: THE WORLD. Writing by those trying to make a home in Scotland – Supported by writers already in print. Established writers will in clude: Scott Cassidy, Bob Beagrie, Mairi Murphy, Hugh McMillan and others. The book […]
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: Siren Calling by Linda Jackson
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 – 7.30 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT A night of poetry and music plus guest writers Lola Sithole and Graham Fulton Review of ‘Siren Calling’ by AC.Clarke: ‘The overall mood is not one of gloom but of celebration, vignettes of moments of happiness snatched from a troubling […]
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Summer Makers Market, The Briggait
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 August, 2024 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Event by Wasps Artists’ Studios 141 Bridgegate, The Briggait, Glasgow G1 5HZ Swing by The Briggait this August for Scotland’s largest arts and crafts market, showcasing upwards of 80 artisans under one roof! They’ll be selling everything your heart could possibly desire – prints, […]
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | Filed under: Free Events, Markets, Shopping
The Restarts a benefit for Palestine Aid
Friday 23 August, 2024 7 p.m. Event by Beyond The Gap The Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica St, Glasgow G1 4QD The Restarts UK based punk band formed 1995 in East London, they play shouty hardcore, infused with elements of ska and old school punk. The Restarts have been hammering their way through the squats of Europe […]
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Monday, August 19, 2024 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Bob McDevitt – Fundraising for Calums Cabin
Strictly Come Dancing for Calums Cabin Fundraising for Calums Cabin Give Now Story Bob McDevitt will be taking part in a glittering ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ event at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow on Saturday 24th August. Contact Bob if you’d be interested in attending the event. It’s in support of the amazing Calums Cabin who […]
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