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 Civil Dead
Saturday 27 January – Thursday 1 February, 2024 The Civil Dead is a hilariously offbeat lo-fi slacker take on the ghost story. Loner photographer Clay has been creatively stagnant and unemployed for months. When his wife warns him to go out and be productive while she’s out of town, Clay happens upon his long-lost friend, […]
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Friday, January 26, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Friday 26 January – Thursday 1 February, 2024 Master filmmaker, auteur, poet, truth seeker, explorer, brand, meme, actor, lauded voice artiste, doomsayer, legend… that’s Werner Herzog. This is the man, now 81, who had a 320 tonne steamboat hauled over a steep hill in Peru, who hypnotises his actors, climbs down into volcanoes, talks to […]
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Film Night: Smoke, Sauna, Sisterhood
Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT Buy tickets No story too shameful, no burden too heavy to carry when you share it with your sisterhood… Conic is thrilled to announce the release of filmmaker Anna Hints’ Sundance Award-winning feature documentary SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD in UK […]
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Film Screenings: ‘Denmark – The State Of Happiness’ Lesley Riddoch
Screenings Across Scotland – until 28 March The film will screen at various community locations throughout Scotland from January till the end of March including Edinburgh, Nairn, Aberdeen, Ullapool, Montrose and many more ,…. See all listings and buy tickets “AN ‘inspiring’ film which shines a light on why Denmark is one of the happiest […]
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Slow Leaves at Cottiers
30 January, 2024 Cottiers, 91 – 93 Hyndland Street, Glkasgow G11 5PU Slow Leaves is a self-contained solo project with Davidson curating every aspect of the music and its presentation, including being the multi-instrumentalist, producer, cover art designer, photographer, and video director. He views the totality of these various aspects as being essential parts of […]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Pride Over Prejudice Youth Performance – anti sectarianism project
This exciting youth project uses drama and the arts to challenge sectarianism. Pride Over Prejudice sessions will run at different community projects across Glasgow in: Govan/Ibrox, Parkhead, Toryglen and Maryhill! – February 2024. FREE for young people aged 9 to 16. The 90 min sessions will take place weekly and will be led by a […]
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Community event, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The End We Start From
Friday 19 – Thursday 25 January, 2024 Mahalia Belo’s confident feature debut brings Megan Hunter’s acclaimed 2017 dystopian novel to the screen as a disaster movie. When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn baby try […]
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Friday, January 19, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Trenque Lauquen
Part 1: Friday 19 and Saturday 20 January, 2024 Part 2: Saturday 20 and Tuesday 23 January, 2024 Screening in two parts, this beguiling, epic mystery from Argentine auteur Laura Citarella has shades of Twin Peaks and The X Files. A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why […]
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Shaft at GFT
Monday 22 and Wednesday 24 January, 2024 While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft — an iconic performance by Richard Roundtree, who passed […]
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Your Fat Friend
Saturday 20 January, 2024 5pm Followed by a Q&A with director Jeanie Finlay and star Aubrey Gordon. Director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger ‘Your Fat Friend’ to New York Timesbestselling author and beloved podcaster. Her searingly honest writing describes what it’s like to be that fat […]
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Dear England National Theatre Live
Thursday 25 January, 2024 7pm Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of the passion and pressure at the heart of football. As a player, Southgate held the world’s worst track record for penalties. Becoming the England men’s team manager, he must find a way to connect with […]
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The Forger
Wednesday 24 January, 2024 5.50pm Berlin, 1942. A young Jewish man, Cioma Schönhaus, refuses to let the Nazis take away his love of life. When he discovers his talent for forging documents, especially passports, he sees this as the ideal way to help not only himself but also others to escape deportation. Thanks to his […]
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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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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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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
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