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Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Roughly Staged a night of new Scottish Theatre

roughly staged

26 March, 2024 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Buy tickets A jam-packed night of new theatre writing and creative conversations – biggest night yet! Presenting three brand new 15-minute plays created by writers from Partick and beyond. Afterwards, you are invited for drinks and  creative conversations – a chance to meet […]

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Dracula – Gaslamp Theatre at Cottiers

Dracula

Performances on 4th, 5th and 6th March, 2024 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 “I think strange things, which I dare not confess, even to my own soul.” Gaslamp Theatre presents Dracula, in a new adaptation by Rebecca Russell. Based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, this production confronts issues of power and sexual […]

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Bleeding Love – GFF24 review by Pat Byrne

Bleeding Love

Bleeding Love is a road trip movie starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. They play father and daughter taking a trip together from San Diego to New Mexico after the daughter has experienced a drug overdose. It’s a long drive to where they are going, apparently to see an artist friend, and the two […]

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Float – Series 2, GFF24

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4 March, 2024 Black Camel Pictures’ award-winning drama from writer Stef Smith returns for a second series. Jade and Collette reunite 18 months after the first series as the show moves beyond the world of the swimming pool. Black Camel Pictures’ queer short-form drama from writer Stef Smith, revolving around the intense relationship that develops […]

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Hounds GFF24 at Cineworld2

Hounds

4 and 5 March, 2024 Set over a single night, this tightly wound thriller charts a kidnapping gone awry at the hands of a financially struggling father and son who are on a job for the local mob. A father (Abdellatif Masstouri) and his son (Ayoub Elaïd) are trying to make ends meet. They find […]

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Only The River Flows

Only the river flows

4 and 5 March, 2024 (4th sold out) This moody Asian-noir crime thriller, laced with dark humour, charts a detective’s attempts to identify a serial killer in a rural town as the secrets of the locals are gradually revealed. A quick arrest after a murder sits uneasily with chief of police Ma Zhe (Yilong Zhu), […]

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Love Jones GFF24

Love Jones

4 March, 2024 – 5.45 p.m. From the golden age of 1990s African American cinema comes Love Jones, a classically cool Black love story that made room for more diverse depictions of Black love on screen. Boy (a poet) meets girl (a photographer) at an open mic night in a ‘90s Chicago bar. Sexy, smooth […]

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Alistair Paul Creative Conversations

Alistair Paul

Monday 4 March, 2024 1 p.m.- 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ From industrial designer to tour guide to gardener; Alistair’s life has taken him through many twists and turns from his origins in Glasgow until he settled in Arran 20 years ago. His interest in local history and culture […]

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Saturday, March 2, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

To See Ourselves CCA by Jane McAllister

To see ourselves

16 March, 2024 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD TO SEE OURSELVES is an unexpected, deeply personal account of the referendum as seen through the eyes of a pregnant filmmaker, as she follows her idealist father’s relentless activism and reveals the heart behind the politics during this historic crossroads for Scotland. Affectionate without […]

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The Burning Season GFF 2024

the burning season poster

3 and 4 March, 2024 The story of a long-running love affair linked to an incident from the past unspools backwards to reveal its secrets in a twisty tale of a bad romance. Married couple Alena (Sara Canning) and Tom (Joe Pingue) have been visiting the Luna Lake cabins every summer for years. This year […]

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The Teacher

the teacher

4 and 5 March, 2024 (4 th screening sold out) nspired by true events, this powerful West Bank-set drama centres on a grieving schoolteacher who is attempting to keep a student out of trouble whilst engaging in his own acts of political resistance. British-Palestinian Farah Nabulsi – who won a BAFTA for her short film […]

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Milk Teeth GFF24

Milk Teeth

4 and 5 March, 2024 An atmospheric survivalist drama with a fairy-tale edge sees trouble brewing for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community. In a near-future isolated community where suspicion and superstition thrive, Skalde (Mathilde Bundschuh) has a difficult relationship with her […]

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Woken GFF24

Woken GFF

3 and 4 March, 2024 Set in the near-future, this psychological sci-fi thriller stars Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Anna, a pregnant woman who wakes up on an island with no recollection of anyone she’s living with — including her husband. Alan Friel’s twisty debut follows Anna as she becomes increasingly suspicious […]

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Tickets on sale Glasgow Film Festival 2024

GFF2024

28 February – March, 2024 The wait is over! You’ve had a few days to soak up GFF24’s jam packed programme, and been on the edge of your seats and biting your nails waiting for your chance to snag those tickets. GFF is thrilled to announce that the full programme general sale is now live! […]

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The Dead Don’t Hurt at GFF

the dead don't hurt

3 and 4 March, 2024 Viggo Mortensen writes, directs and stars in this original take on the classic Western, in a story that centres on the adventurous life of fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy, played by Vicky Krieps. Viggo Mortensen heads back to the 1860s for this moving romantic Western. Vicky Krieps stars as French-Canadian […]

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Filmmaking with Kevin Macdonald at Glasgow Film Festival 2024

Kevin Macdonal

Tuesday 5 March, 2024 at 4 p.m. GFF Industry Focus is excited to welcome Glasgow’s very own Kevin Macdonald, the renowned film director of The Last King of Scotland, State of Play and Touching the Void fame. This extra special panel dubbed Filmmaking with Kevin Macdonald, will host Kevin as he discusses his career in […]

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Brothers Glasgow Film Festival 2024

Brothers

Friday 1 and Saturday 2 March, 2024 Czechia’s entry for this year’s Best International Feature Oscar recounts the gripping true story of the Mašín brother’s anti-Communist resistance and their attempt to flee to the West in 1953. Official Entry: Czechia – Best International Feature – 96th Academy Awards® Seven decades after brothers Josef and Ctirad […]

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Asog Glasgow Film Festival 2024

Asog

Friday 1 March, 2024 6 p.m. Directed by Filipino-Chinese-Irish Canadian comedian and filmmaker Seán Devlin Asog follows Jaya; a non-binary school teacher on a journey of self-discovery, starring survivors of the Yolanda typhoon in the Philippines. Seán Devlin’s trans road movie spans fact, fiction and magic realism as it sees victims of the Yolanda typhoon […]

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Glasgow Music Festival 2024

Glasgow Music Festival

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 6.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW Glasgow Music Festival – A Platform for Performance Glasgow Music Festival is an annual festival of music, speech, drama and dance first held in 1911. Each year around 7,000 performers take part in the festival which […]

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Sarah Smith World Hearing Day Dennistoun Library

Hear No Evil

Monday, 4 March, 2024, 10.30 a.m. – 12 p.m. RNID Support Session Dennistoun Library, 2A Craigpark, Glasgow G31 2NA Mark World Hearing Day at Dennistoun Library with writer Sarah Smith and RNID. Sarah Smith will be discussing her debut novel Hear No Evil, a historical crime story set in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1817. Sarah will […]

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Clairmont – Lesley McDowell Book Launch

clairmont

Thursday 29th February, 2024  7:00 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3EW Claire Clairmont – the incredible woman that history tried to forget. But in the year that will mark the 200 year anniversary of Lord Byron’s death, Claire will finally find her voice, and tell her side of the story of that fateful […]

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Love Lies Bleeding Opening Gala Glasgow Film Festival 2024

Love Lies Bleeding

Opening Gala: Love Lies Bleeding – 28 February, 2024 Also Screening Thursday 29 March 1.05 p.m Tonight is the night of GFF24’s spectacular Opening Gala with the UK Premiere of Director Rose Glass’ second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, in which love and violence come together in an explosive cocktail in this thriller starring Kristen Stewart […]

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Under One Roof – Taking Care of Your Tenement

take care of your tenement

Saturday 2nd March 2024 | 11am – 1pm  Meet at GCHT Office, 54 Bell Street, G1 1LQ Concerned about the current state of your tenement? Not quite sure what sort of repair work might need to be done?  Then join Glasgow City Heritage Trust and Under One Roof for an investigative walk around the Merchant […]

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | Filed under: Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Walks and Tours Glasgow

THE G at Glasgow Film Festival 2024

THE G

Thursday, 29 February  2024, 8.30 p.m.  – Screening on 29th will be followed by a Q&A with Karl R. Hearne and Dale Dickey. Saturday 2 March, 2024 6.15 p.m. UK Premiere Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone, A Love Song) stars in this pacy and complex revenge thriller that proves hell hath no fury like a grandmother […]

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Monday, February 26, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024

The Burning Season (2023) review Pat Byrne

the burning season

The Burning Season at GFF, 3 and 4 March, 2024 Sean Garrity’s The Burning Season is a story about two people Alena (Sara Canning) and JB (Jonas Chernick) and their dysfunctional affair. It involves them meeting each year at the lakeside resort JB runs with Poppy (Tanisha Thammavongsa).  However, there is much more than lust […]

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Govan Music Festival – Glasgow Barons

govan music festival

Saturday 13 March, 2024 7.30 p.m. Musicians in Exile and DLU Edmiston House, 100 Edmiston Drive, Glasgow G51 2YX Award winning Musicians in Exile double bill with DLÙ, winner of the Danny Kyle Open Stage award at Celtic Connections, for a night of world music & Gaelic folk rock. Plus, new music from their adventures […]

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Textile Repair, Sashiko with Keng Keng Watt

textile repair

Wednesday 13 March 2024,  5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Woodlands Community, Woodlands Community Meeting Room 66 Ashley Street Glasgow G3 6HW Textile Repair, Sashiko with Keng Keng Watt – Climate Futures – For Ages 16 – 25 Free –  Donations Welcome This Textile Repair series is part of Woodland Community’s Climate Futures program for people […]

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Full Programme Announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2024

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Glasgow Film Festival 2024 – 28 February – 10 March GFF24 celebrates its 20th Anniversary and Scotland’s largest film festival will screen films at Glasgow Film Theatre (celebrating its 50th anniversary) and across the city. in 12 packed days, the programme will show 11 world and international premieres, 69 UK premieres and 15 Scottish premieres, […]

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Take 2: Turning Red

Turning Red

Saturday 24 February, 2024 STANDARD SCREENING:  11.30AM TAKE 2 ACCESS SCREENING:  12PM (AUTISM-FRIENDLY) Buy tickets Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red introduces Mei Lee, a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voiced by Sandra Oh), is never far from […]

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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

The Settlers

the settlers

Friday 23 – Wednesday 28 February, 2024 Felipe Gálvez asserts himself as a revelatory new cinematic voice with this searing take on the Western. Three horsemen embark on an expedition across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago tasked with securing the vast property of a wealthy landowner. Amidst rising tensions within the group, they come to […]

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