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. Preview: Priscilla 35mm at GFT
Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 2023 Buy tickets GFT is the only cinema in Scotland showing Sofia Coppola’s Priscillabefore its release date and in all its 35mm glory. Coppola tells the story of Priscilla Beaulieu, who met Elvis Presley when she was just a teenager and became the superstar’s wife. ‘A transportive, heartbreaking journey […]
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Coorie In, Eden Communities Event at Glasgow Botanic Gardens
What a brilliant event at Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens at Coorie In, Winter Warmer, with Eden Communities Project Scotland on 12 December, 2023. Eden Communities Project is to bring people together to build healthier happier communities where people know one another and neighbourhoods thrive. The event was very well attended considering it was a very cold […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Peoples Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green
Folk Carols in the Dram
Saturday, 16 December, 2023, 2 p.m. The Dram, 232 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6ND Host: Muldoon’s Picnic In some parts of the UK, as Christmas approaches, people still sing traditional carols in pubs and streets. They are often old songs from the 18th century or earlier, sometimes not known outside the local area. For the […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Classes and Workshops, Community event, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Christmas Come and Sing, University of Glasgow Choir
18 December, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. University Chapel, University Avenue, G12 8QQ Come and Sing: festive edition! University of Glasgow Choir will be workshopping some well-known Christmas classics and some of their more challenging festive repertoire, and you can sing along to a selection of their favourite carols. Tickets – £12 (£6 […]
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Queendom at GFT
Friday 8 until Monday 11 December, 2023 Buy tickets Captions available Gena, a queer artist, protests the Russian government on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism, with the goal of changing people’s perception of beauty and queerness and bringing attention to the […]
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Monday, December 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Those Roads of Fatsa CCA
Wednesday 13 December, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. CCA, Cinema, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Those Roads of Fatsa + Nurşen Bakir in conversation The inspirational struggle that took place in the Turkish district of Fatsa in the 1970s is remembered for all the women and men who strove to find collective solutions to the problems […]
Maestro at GFT
Friday 1 – Thursday 14 December Buy tickets Captions and Audio Description available Bradley Cooper is back with this towering love story that chronicles the lifelong relationship of America’s first native born, world-renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and his wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan). Their love for one another weathered the highs and lows of his […]
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Arthur’s Christmas Tale in aid of Shelter Scotland
Arthur’s Christmas Tale is a heart warming stop motion animation based on a poem by AH Proctor that was created to raise funds in aid of Shelter Scotland. The animation will be showing in the trailers of cinemas across Scotland throughout December 2023, to help rasie funds for the charity. Donate to Shelter Scotland Giving […]
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Martina Evans, Mirrorball Showcase
Thursday 14th December, 2023 Martina Evans live in the CCA Cinema & zoom online, supported by CD Boyland, James McGonigal, Medha Singh and David Ross Linklater. Also Secret Stanzas Festive Book Swap Time: 7pm-9pm (doors open at 6.45pm) CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tickets: £5 / £7 on the door / Mirrorball members go free Ages: 18+ Wheelchair […]
Pressure 4K at GFT
Tuesday 12 – Thursday 14 December, 2023 – Captions and Audio Description available Pay What You Decide: Monday 11 December, 5.40pm Buy tickets The first feature film directed by a Black British filmmaker, Horace Ové’s Pressure follows a Black family in west London; from the parents who came from Trinidad as part of the Windrush […]
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Earth Mama at GFT
Friday 8 – Thursday 14 December, 2023 Buy Tickets Captions and Audio Description available Earth Mama follows the journey of a pregnant single mother in San Francisco. With two children in foster care, she embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family. The film will be followed by an exclusive recorded […]
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait 35 mm + Q & A
Tuesday 12 December, 2023, 6.20pm Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material, Luke Fowler’s new feature film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland’s most enigmatic filmmakers. Taking one of Tait’s unrealised scripts as its starting point, it considers Tait’s life and work grounded within the landscape of Orkney. Special screening will be followed […]
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Scarface 40 Anniversary 4K
9th and 14th December, 2023 Buy tickets One of the most influential gangster epics of all time, this action-packed crime classic stars Al Pacino in an unforgettable performance as one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film. Cuban immigrant Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana (Pacino), finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams… at […]
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Die Hard at GFT
Friday 8 and Tuesday 12 December, 2023 Buy tickets The most festive action film of all time, Die Hard is back at GFT for Christmas 2023. On Christmas Eve, NYPD officer John McClane (Bruce Willis in his prime) arrives in Los Angeles with the aim of reconciling with his estranged wife, Holly, at her work […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Christmas Fayre Gallowgate
Come meet Santa at Free Christmas Fayre Saturday 9 December, 2023, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Morrison’s Supermarket Carpark, 5 Barrack St, Glasgow G4 0TZ – Outdoors but under Gazebo. Hosts; Friends of People’s Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green and Morrisons Goody Bags Entertainment Balloon Modeller Superheroes Free Refreshments St Ann’s Children’s Choir All […]
Take One Action Film Festival at GFT
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 December, 2023 Take One Action Film Festival Scotland’s global action cinema project Take One Action returns to GFT with two unmissable films that reimagine our collective future and build radical hope. White Plastic Sky is a gripping animated odyssey into life after climate apocalypse; a world where humans can only […]
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Thursday, December 7, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, 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
Carols in the Cloisters
Tuesday 12 December, 2023 at 6.45 p.m. Come along to University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ and join University of Glasgow Chapel Choir in carol singing in the beautiful cloisters. Everyone welcome. Event on Facebook
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Community event, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Coorie In at Glasgow Botanic Gardens
12 December, 2023, 11.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Rd, G12 0UE Coorie in this winter with Eden Project Communities, in partnership with Glasgow City Council at the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow. Come along for a day of connection, warmth and food! Let’s celebrate and become friends with […]
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 | Filed under: Community event
Friday Focus: Scottish Art Acquisitions
Friday 15 December, 2023 – 1 p.m. – 1.30p.m. Online – Free – Book Tickets at EventBrite Significant additions to The Hunterian collection of Scottish art: Winifred and Margaret Davidson recent bequests and gifts Over the last few decades, the Davidson family has generously handed over to The Hunterian a significant portion of its collection […]
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White Christmas – Andre Rieu
2 and 3 December, 2023 The Grosvenor Cinema, 24 Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. This year it will come early with André Rieu’s cinema special White Christmas—a celebration you will never forget. From the first jingled bell, you will be immersed in the incomparable […]
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Friday, December 1, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Eileen at GFT
Friday 1 – Thursday 7 December, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
We Dare To Dream + Q and A at GFT
Saturday 2 December, 2023 7.50 p.m. Buy tickets From For Sama director Waad al-Kateab We Dare to Dream is the story of refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who swim, run and fight their way to opportunity and safety in host nations across the world. Spanning a breadth of backgrounds, personal stories […]
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Preview: Earth Mama plus Q and A
Tuesday 5 December, 2023 8.20pm Audio Description available With a towering debut performance from rapper Tia Nomore and 3 BIFA nominations under its belt, Earth Mamafollows the journey of a pregnant single mother in San Francisco. With two children in foster care, she embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family. […]
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Fallen Leaves
1 December, – 7 December, 2023 Audio Description available A timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with this tender tragicomedy. Set in […]
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Elf at IMAX Glasgow and Glasgow Science Centre Galleries
From 2nd December, 2023 and various dates throughout December include 24th Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA Book Tickets Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some […]
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Take 2: Trolls Band Together
Saturday, 2 December, 2023, 11.30 a.m. Captioned screening. Audio Description available. After two films of true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now officially, finally, a couple (#broppy)! As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past. He was once part of her favorite boyband phenomenon, […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Oppenheimer at GFT 70mm
Thursday, 7 December, 2023, 7.15 p.m. Not only did it win the Barbenheimer battle at GFT — Christopher Nolan’s epic thriller Oppenheimer is GFT’s best-selling film of the year so far.but they’re bringing you one last chance to catch it on stunning 70mm. Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan‘s latest epic thriller. Starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as […]
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The Tell Tale Rooms with Andrew Kötting
Tuesday 5th December, 2023 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8AW Artist Andrew Kötting will be presenting a selection of works contextualizing The Tell Tale Rooms project. By University of Glasgow, School of Culture & Creative Arts Prior to next year’s VR Installation at the Advanced Research […]
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Thursday, November 30, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CinemARC: Winter Lights
Thursday 7 December, 2023 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Advanced Research Centre(ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW ARC’s big screen for the final CinemARC of 2023 – Winter Lights. This special selection of short films will explore the scientific and cultural significance of light at this time of year, helping you […]
Snow White and the Seven Maws
November / December 2023 OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX Think you’re having a bad day? Snow White’s is worse. She’s just found out that not only has her dad, the King, remarried – but he’s only gone and died! Snow White and her trusty nanny – Hedda Lettuce – are now stuck […]
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Wednesday, November 29, 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
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