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. Love, Women and Flowers + Introduction
Thursday 25 January, 2024 6.15pm This screening will be introduced by Camilla Baier from Invisible Women. What is the cost of producing beauty? In Love, Women and Flowers Marta Rodríguez explores this question by taking an unflinching look at the toxicity within the flower industry in Colombia, largely occupied by women workers and fuelled by […]
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Friday, January 19, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Saturday 20 January, 2024 11.30am Buy tickets When a magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, it gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The MIGHTY PUPS! For Skye, the smallest member of the team, her new powers are a dream come true. But things take a turn for the worse when the […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Poor Things at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 25 January, 2024 With select screenings on 35mmCaptions and Audio Description available.From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes an incredible adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s landmark novel. The story tells of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox […]
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Creative Conversations: Jim Carruth
Monday, 22 January 2024 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Poet Jim Carruth in Conversation Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Far Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale […]
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Thursday, January 18, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Close Range Coulport – poem by Finola Scott
Finola Scott, will be performing alongside other poets, Hugh McMillan, Stuart Paterson and Chrys Salt at Peace Poetry Night – a Burns Night Fundraiser for Nuclear Disarmament. Host: Gerry Loose. Thursday 25 January, 2024 at The Renfield Centre Glasgow Book tickets
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Cursed Flowers and Sacred Leaves: The Militant Cinema of Marta Rodríguez
Wednesday 24 January 2024, 7 p.m. CinemaAttic Cursed Flowers and Sacred Leaves: The Militant Cinema of Marta Rodríguez Poppy, The Cursed Flower / Marta Rodríguez & Lucas Silva (Colombia, 1998) Marta Rodríguez has spent decades gathering the voices, experiences, and cosmogonies of the peasant and indigenous peoples of Colombia, in some of the areas where […]
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Freedom To Run plus Q and A
Sunday 21 January, 2024 4 p.m. Screening ‘Freedom To Run’ followed by a Q&A with co-directors Cairsti Russell and Stephen Sheriff. This is a Pay What You Can screening, with all profits going to Medical Aid for Palestinians – Palestinians in the West Bank cannot travel more than ten kilometres before being stopped by Israeli […]
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Celtic Connections 2024
Thursday 18 January to Sunday 4 February 2024 World-renowned winter festival Celtic Connections opens in Glasgow Europe’s premier folk, roots and world music festival Celtic Connections opens in Glasgow Thursday 18 January, for what will be one of its biggest-ever capacity programmes. Running until Sunday 4 February, the renowned 18-day event will kickstart Scotland’s annual cultural calendar and […]
Glasgow Film Festival – Year of Celebration
The 20th festival will launch a year of celebration for Glasgow Film Theatre Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced plans to host a series of special events for the 20th edition of the much-loved festival, which returns from 28 February to 10 March 2024. GFF is one of the leading film festivals in the UK and […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2024 – Programme Announcement Coming Soon
GFF24 Programme Announcement – Coming Soon…Mark your calendars, it’s just over a week until the full GFF24 programme is announced! For the 20th anniversary, you are invited to discover the most exciting titles from emerging filmmakers, it’s the cream of the crop. Take note of the dates below, and see you at the festival! * […]
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Peace Poetry Night
Thursday 25th January 2024 The Renfield Centre, Kirk Lounge, Glasgow, G2 4JP A warming Burns Night of poetry recital, on the theme of Scottish and Peace poems. Funds raised will go towards peacebuilding activities carried out by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Some of Scotland’s finest wordsmiths will be performing their poetry including Hugh […]
Wall Of Eyes, On Film
Tuesday 23 January, 2024 8pm GFT is only one of only two UK venues hosting a special world premiere screening of the music video for The Smile’s new single Friend Of A Friend, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The music video will screen on 35mm alongside a surround sound album playback of the band’s forthcoming […]
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Preview: American Fiction at GFT
Monday 29 January, 2024 7.45pm Audio Description available Join We Are Parable for an exclusive screening of the highly acclaimed American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown and Tracee Ellis Ross. Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and […]
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Preview: The Zone of Interest, GFT
Saturday 27 – Tuesday 30 January, 2024 The commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp, where over one million Jewish people and other victims of the Nazi regime will be murdered. Visionary British […]
Acclaimed Scottish Filmmaker Bill Douglas Celebrated With New Premieres at Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024
Renowned Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas to be celebrated with premieres at Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival GFF24 hosts UK premiere of Jack Archer’s new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend, charting the filmmaker’s extraordinary lifelong friendship with Peter Jewell, on 8 March GSFF24 will open on 20 March with the first ever […]
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Tom Murray Book Launch – Scottish Writers
20 February, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CCA Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD TOM MURRAY BOOK LAUNCH: THE PERMANENT ROOM An evening of short stories and poems from Tom Murray and guests. Tom will read from his new collection of short stories. Stories of family; an individual’s place in the world where the everyday […]
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Saturday, January 13, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Burns Night at St Luke’s Glasgow
Thursday 25 January, 2024, 7 p.m. till late Burns Supper, Live Music and Spoken Word 5 Scottish inspired courses 5 glorious hand selected drams Specially curated arrival drink Live traditional & contemporary music The address to a Haggis Book now for a night of culinary & cultural bliss. St Lukes, 17 Bain Street, Glasgow G40 […]
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Friday, January 12, 2024 | Filed under: Burns Events, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Burns Night Ceilidh at Cottiers
Saturday 27 January, 2024, 7 p.m. – 1 a.m. Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Includes a dram on arrival, traditional three course meal followed by Cottiers’ favourite The Big Stupit Ceilidh Band £44.50 Book Online or phone Box Office 0141 357 4000
Scottish CND Burns Night – Peace Poetry Night
Thursday 25th January 2024 Peace Poetry Night The Renfield Centre, Kirk Lounge, Glasgow, G2 4JP A warming Burns Night of poetry recital, on the theme of Scottish and Peace poems. Funds raised will go towards peacebuilding activities carried out by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Spaces are limited. Secure your place before tickets sell […]
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Step Brothers at GFT Access Film Club
Monday 12 February, 2024 – 5 p.m. Autism friendly. GFT, together with the National Autistic Society Scotland, is delighted to provide Access Film Club: a screening and post-film discussion in a friendly and welcoming environment. Join us at the next Access Film Club for riotous comedy Step Brothers. Brennen Huff (Will Farrell) and Dale Doback […]
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The Apartment – 4k at GFT
Sunday 14 and Wednesday 17 January, 2024 Billy Wilder’s peerless dark comedy is perfect new year viewing. Shake the January blues; ‘shut up and deal’. Bud ‘C.C.’ Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment […]
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Burns Supper Glasgow University Union
1 February, 2024 Glasgow University Union (GUU) 32 University Ave, Glasgow G12 8LX Event by Glasgow Uni Alchemist Society This is the Alchemist Society’s annual Burns supper! It will consist of a 3 course dinner and wine. Dietary restrictions and non-alcoholic tickets are on request. The dress code is black tie/formal. Open Details: When: Thursday 1st […]
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The Provy Wummin ay Websters Theatre
9 February, 2024 7.30 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ (adjacent to Kelvinbridge Underground) It’s 1979. Does the wean want an orange chopper for Christmas? Have you booked the caravan in Anstruther? Or does mammy want a new outfit from What Every Woman Wants? Well… she can help. Margaret Morrison is […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Raging Grace
Saturday 13 – Wednesday 17 January, 2024 Captions and Audio Description available. Joy, an undocumented Filipina cleaner moving from house to house in London with her impetuous daughter Grace in tow, is saving up her meagre cash payments to get a visa and a more stable home for them both. A dreamy gig looking after […]
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Thursday, January 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Coming Out + Introduction
Thursday 18 January, 2024 5.35pm Hailed as the first and only feature about gay life ever produced by communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, 9 November 1989.As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him to live within the ‘norm’. […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow
Take 2: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Saturday 13 January, 2024 11.30am – Captioned Screening When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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One Life at GFT
12 January – 18 January, 2024 One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker, who rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis in the months leading up to the Second World War. 50 years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky (played by Anthony Hopkins) lives haunted by the […]
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Scala at GFT plus Q & A with Jane Giles
Wednesday 17 January, 2024 5.50pm Standard screenings: Friday 8 – Thursday 18 January – Captions and Audio Description available. Scala!!! is the incredibly strange story of the rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits. With interviews from nearly 50 contributors, previously unseen archive […]
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
This Is Not A War Story at CCA
16 January, 2024, 7.15 pm Inclinations Film Club – This Is Not a War Story Directed by Talia Lugacy (2021, 112 min) At CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them […]
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Tam O’Dancer, Burns Ceilidh at OranMor
Thursday January 25, 2024. 10.30 p.m. Oran Mor Top of Byres RdGlasgow G12 8QX £9.50 Ages 18+ Come along and enjoy a night of Scottish revelry and traditional Ceilidh dancing at “Tam O’Dancer” ! Immerse yourself in the spirit of Robert Burns and celebrate his legacy with lively music and spirited ceilidh dancing. The beautiful […]
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| Filed under: Burns Events, Dance
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