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. The Boy and The Heron
Dubbed Screenings: Thursday 28 December – Thursday 18 January – Captions and Audio Description available. Subtitled Screenings: Wednesday 27 December – Wednesday 17 January New from Studio Ghibli comes this semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki. A young boy named Mahito yearning for his […]
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Burns Night at the Panopticon
Saturday 27th January 2024 7:00 The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 113-117 Trongate, G1 5HD Grab your kilts and prepare for a night of laughter, melodies, and a wee dram or two as we raise a glass to the legendary Robert Burns at the world’s’ oldest surviving music hall right here in the heart of Glasgow! […]
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Monday, January 8, 2024 | Filed under: Burns Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Occupied City + Live Satellite Q&A
Sunday 11 February, 2024 – 2 p.m. Where do the memories of a city go? From Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen comes this mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present: mirroring it and warning us in plain sight. The screening will be followed by […]
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Sunday, January 7, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Govan Junior Youth Theatre
25 January – 28 March, 2024 The Pearce Institute 840-860 Govan Rd, Govan, Glasgow G51 3UU Govan Junior Youth Theatre runs every Thursday from 25 January until 28 March (except school holidays) Open to young people aged 5 to 9 to come along and develop confidence, imagination and performance skills. The group will also create […]
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| Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Kids and young people
Take 2: Rally Road Racers
Saturday 6 January, 2024 11.30am Buy tickets Zhi, a rookie race car driver, gets the opportunity to compete against the reigning champion of the rally car circuit. With help from a former driver-turned-mechanic, Zhi must overcome treacherous terrain, rival racers, and unexpected obstacles to prove he has what it takes to be the next great […]
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Friday, January 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Joe Murray: Book Launch ‘Walking on Scoraig’
Tuesday, 6 February, 2024 Event by Joe Murray Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Launch of, ‘Walking on Scoraig: seventy for seventy’, Joe Murray’s new Collection of seventy poems on my seventieth birthday. Published by Mythic Horse Press. 100 pages. Price £10
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Ferrari at GFT
Friday 5 – Thursday 11 January, 2024 Captions and Audio Description available. An aptly named Adam Driver plays Formula 1 titan Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann‘s ‘heady, intricately dark, raptly absorbing’ (Variety) sports biopic. Behind the spectacle of his sport, he is a man in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura […]
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The Red Shoes + Q&A
Sunday 7 January, 2024 at 3.40 p.m. Buy tickets One of the most influential films ever made, don’t miss your last chance to catch Powell and Pressburger‘s The Red Shoes at GFT as our CineMasters season comes to a close. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Pamela Hutchinson, who is back by […]
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Monthly Litter Pick, Partick
Sunday 28 January, 2024 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Partick Action on Litter Meet: Fortrose House, 14 Fortrose Street, Partick, G11 5NS Litter picks take place on the last Sunday morning every month and are open to everyone. Bring your partner, kids, friends, get some fresh air and meet new people! Help to make the […]
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Monday, January 1, 2024 | Filed under: Community event, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dragged Tae Hogmanay Hoose Party
Sunday 31 December, 2023 at 2 p.m. Event by Dragged TAE productions Ltd , The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Auntie Effie The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Buy tickets Join Auntie Effie , Nomi Divine and Roxy Stardust plus pals as Dragged TAE Productions and Glasgow Festival of Butlesque come together for a Hogmanay Hoose […]
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Sunday, December 31, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Hogmanay, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Panto: A Crackin Cinderella Story at Websters
1 December 2023 – 6 January 2024 Discounted tickets for January Websters – Theatre | Bar | Playhouse, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ, From the producers that brought you last year’s smash hit Sleeping Senga, BACK FOR THE 10TH YEAR AT WEBSTERS THEATRE, GLASGOW Insideout Theatre Productions Ltd Proudly present A Crackin’ Cinderella […]
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New Years Eve at McChuills
Sunday 31 December, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. In Dusk We Trust with Justin Robertson Event by Lets Go Back and McChuills McChuills, 80 High St, Glasgow G1 1NL The Legendary Justin Robertson returns to ‘In Dusk We Trust’ for a special NYE party Djs Justin Robertson (deadstock 33’s) Rob Mason & Bosco (lets go back) Bosco Loco (live) […]
Cinderella – A Proper Glesga Panto
21 – 24 December, 2023 7.20 p.m. and matinees Saturday and Sunday 2.30 p.m. Fabulous New Panto by Halo Arts Maryhill Comunity Central Halls, 292-316 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE Halo Arts Presents Cinderella – A proper Glesga panto! Written and produced by Brendon McIlroy Directed by Stephanie Falls Maryhill Community Central Halls 21st December […]
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Saturday, December 23, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Monica
Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 23023 Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past, with a powerful lead performance from trans actress Trace Lysette. Reconnecting with her mother, who is now suffering with dementia, and the rest of her family […]
Thursday, December 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday 23 December, 2023 11.30 a.m. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere. Buy tickets GFT, 12 […]
Bluebeard’s Castle + The Sorcerer’s Apprentice + Recorded Introduction
Saturday 23 December, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Described by Bertrand Tavernier as ‘the missing link that connects Tales of Hoffman and Peeping Tom’, Bluebeard’s Castle is one of Michael Powell’s lost masterpieces – a stunning adaptation of Béla Bartok’s expressionist opera. Starring Norman Foster as the murderous Bluebeard and Ana Raquel Satre as his doomed […]
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Kids Winter Concert, The Tramway
Thursday 11 January, 2024 6 p.m. The Tramway, 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE Amplify Academy of Music is Glasgow’s fastest growing community of young musicians, teaching Rock and Pop classics on Guitar, Drums and Piano for kids 7 years and older. This annual winter concert at the Tramway is the biggest performance of their […]
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Sunday, December 17, 2023 | 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
Mammy Goose – Panto at Golden Friendships
Tuesday 19 December, 2023 at 6 p.m. Free family fun. Community Pantomime. Come and Meet Santa Santa’s Grotto 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Thursday 21 December Golden Friendships making a difference at Christmas – 700 people have enjoyed free Christmas Dinner and the Christmas Fayre was a wonderful affair. Golden Friendships, 18 Nairn Pl, Clydebank […]
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Saturday, December 16, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Community event, Kids and young people, Pantos and Christmas Shows in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Ballet: Cinders!
9 – December – 31 December, 2023 Theatre Royal, 282 Hope St, Glasgow G2 3QA “Breaking with tradition in theatre is a tradition in itself, and Scottish Ballet‘s playful new production of Cinders will have a surprise in store each night for audiences as the curtain rises: on some nights, Cinders will be a woman, swept off her feet by her […]
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Friday, December 15, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Dance, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Take 2: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday 23 December, 2023 11.30 a.m. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere! Buy tickets GFT 12 […]
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Bringing Out The Dead plus Introduction
Monday 18 December, 2023, 7.50 p.m. GFT’s Scorsese of the Month season continues with Bringing Out the Dead, selected and introduced by Ryan Rutherford, GFT Design & Digital Marketing Co-ordinator. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, Ge 6RB
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The Green Knight, GFT
23 and 24 December, 2023 Set around the Round Table on Christmas Day, this epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend stars Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. […]
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Kiss Bang Bang at GFT
Saturday, 16 December, 2023, 8.35 p.m. Robert Downey Jr. stars as a petty thief posing as an actor who is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition. However, he soon finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who’s been training him for […]
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Meet Me In St Louis
Thursday 21 December, 2023 11.30am Crowd-pleasing classic musical makes a delightful late addition to the Christmas programme at GFT Buy tickets – £6.50 Tickets The Smith family leads a comfortable, happy existence in St. Louis, a city set to welcome the 1904 World’s Fair. Seventeen-year-old Esther Smith (Judy Garland) has fallen in love with the […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 announces successful candidates for its inaugural Animatic scheme
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 announces successful candidates for its inaugural Animatic scheme, supporting Scottish-based animation talent New Talent Mentorship Scheme Mentors also announced These include BAFTA winning director of Aftersun Charlotte Wells and Bad Sisters writer Ailbhe Keogan Animatic is a major new industry initiative supporting Scotland-based creatives and studios in developing their animated feature […]
| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Elf at GFT Christmas 2023
15 – 24 December, 2023 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regular-sized man who was raised as an elf by Santa Claus (Edward Asner). When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he’s not a real elf, he decides to go to New York City, in search […]
Home Alone GFT
15 – 21 December, 2023 When eight-year-old Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left home alone by his family during the Christmas holidays, he has to use all his troublemaking skills to protect the family home from a pair of bungling burglars. Slapstick laughs and a heartwarming ending make this a perfect family film. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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The Bishop’s Wife, GFT
15 – 24 December, 2023 Raising funds for a new cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham has his prayers for divine guidance answered in the form of a guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). When Dudley assumes the identity of a guest in their home over Christmas, Brougham’s life is turned upside down, as he believes the […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Gremlins, GFT
16 amd 20 December, 2023 An antidote to the artificial sweetness of the traditional Christmas movie, Gremlins tells the story of an inventor who inadvertently causes chaos when he purchases a cute creature for his son. When three vital instructions are ignored, a pack of mischievous gremlins are released on the town, causing mayhem and destruction. GFT, […]
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cinemasters: Powell and Pressburger GFT
Friday 20 October – Saturday 23 December, 2023 Celebrate one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988). Bold, subversive and iconoclastic, their passionate collaborative artistic vision — spanning 24 films, including The Red Shoes (1948), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Black Narcissus (1947) — […]
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