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. Launch: Glasgow City of Music
Wednesday, 27 March, 2024 – 7 p.m. Launch of Anthology: Glasgow City of Music edited by Linda Jackson Avant Garde, 34 – 44 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QT Traditional Music: Tuesday International Blues Music: Gus Munro Special Guest Reader: Graham Fulton Also Jennifer Carr, Peter Clive, Lesley O’Brien, Douglas Thomson and more
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Tuesday, March 12, 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
First Ever National Black Pudding Day
Monday, 18 March, 2024 Scotland’s black pudding butchers spearhead celebration of peasant staple fare to superfood First ever National Black Pudding Day served up in Scotland Scotland’s current Black Pudding Champion calls for same acclaim as haggis Search begins for Scotland’s best Black Pudding butchers Butchers throughout Scotland are ramping up production of the nation’s […]
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Monday, March 11, 2024 | Filed under: 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
Audience Award Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Home Game Icelandic football film The Home Game scoops prestigious Audience Award on closing night of Glasgow Film Festival Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s documentary about plucky underdogs Reynir FC’s bid for Cup glory scored the highest audience score in the Award’s 10-year history Other films shortlisted for the Award, sponsored by MUBI, included […]
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School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow – Byres Road Hub
Hub Mondays Hub Mondays are a chance for groups to come in and see the space. If you’re new to the Hub, or if you’re already familiar, come and pop in! There will be tea and coffee, an opportunity to chat to Hub volunteers and network, and dedicated time to see the Byres Community Hub […]
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Sunday, March 10, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
How Do We Talk About Knives – Scottish Writers Centre
7pm Friday 15th March 2024 Contemporary writers in Scotland on names, language and identity CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Please join the co-editors Rebecca Sharp, Samina Chaudhry and Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, along with writers Carrie Marshall, Xinyi Jiang, Ngan Nguyen and Christie Williamson, for the Glasgow launch of this new anthology exploring […]
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Saturday, March 9, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Born in Kyle – An Afternoon with Billy Kay
Tuesday 19 March, 2024, 4.30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Room 237C, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Free Event – Book at EventBrite Billy Kay is a well-known writer and broadcaster in the realm of Scottish culture, particularly through his radio and TV documentaries for the BBC and […]
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Friday, March 8, 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
10 Years In The Baking – ProjectAbility
16th March – 20th April, 2024 Project Ability, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD (Opening hours are 11am – 5pm, (Wednesdays – Saturdays, closed Easter Friday).) The Joint Creativity “10 Years in the Baking” exhibition, hosted by the charities Versus Arthritis and Project Ability, is set to open in Glasgow and will display artwork created by […]
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Glasgow Film Festival Industry Programme – 10 Year Vision
Glasgow Film Festival Industry Focus 2024 has unveiled its 10-Year Vision for Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry programme, with ambitious plans to become the UK’s main destination for independent filmmakers Scottish writer-Director Selina Wagner has been awarded £5000 in development funding for animation project Tirrick following success at inaugural Animatic Live Pitches Over 5 days, delegates […]
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I Dream In Photos GFF24
7 and 8 March, 2024 Scottish Premiere Festival alumni Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin (Casto Spies) explore the life and work of photographer Cathal McNaughton on a hiatus from photography, as he reflects on his impressive and emotionally taxing career. Northern Irish photographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 Cathal McNaughton contemplates the […]
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Rosalie GFF24
9 and 10 March, 2024 A period drama about a woman who suffers from hirsutism – making her what is considered a ‘bearded lady’. She keeps it a secret until a man marries her for her dowry. In 1870s France, a young woman is keeping a closely guarded secret. Rosalie (Nadia Tereskiewicz) was born with […]
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Young Film Fans – GFT Course for 11-14 year olds
Our Young Film Fans course helps you understand films better and start to develop your own ideas. The next course starts in April 2024 and applications are now open – just fill in and return the application form by 5pm on Wednesday 12 March. Glasgow Film Education What is it? Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is running a specialised […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Courses, Kids and young people
Take 2: The Little Princess
Saturday 9 March, 2024 11.30 a.m. A heart-warming family tale of hope in the face of adversity, starring the iconic Shirley Temple as a little girl who refuses to believe her father is dead. One of Hollywood’s most iconic child stars, Shirley Temple had already notched up a special juvenile Academy Award four years before […]
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GFF24 Special Event: The Wizard of Oz
Thursday 7 March, 2024 8pm Cottiers, 91 – 93 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Join GFF at Cottiers for a very special screening as they celebrate the year 1939, which not only marks the film’s release but also the year that the Cosmo Cinema (now GFT) was founded. After a tornado sweeps though their home, Dorothy […]
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The Home Game GFF24
6 and 7 March, 2024 The real story of how a plucky village football team became determined to play a home game in Iceland’s FA Cup is a celebration of team spirit for underdogs everywhere. In 1994 one man in the Icelandic village of Hellissandur (population: 369) had a dream to build a football pitch […]
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Glasgow FrightFest – In Flames – UK Premiere
7 March, 2024 – UK Premiere also showing 8 March, 2024. – Buy tickets In Flames is an incendiary horror-thriller that illuminates the psychological impact of gendered oppression and the horror of being young and in love in a fiercely patriarchal society. After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence […]
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Gestures of Memory: R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity
Friday, 8 March, 2024 – 8.30 p.m. CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Upon receiving a mystery package containing 16mm film, the filmmaker scanned it to reveal twenty lost films collected by the Japanese activists who were part of the country’s solidarity movement with Palestine. Excerpts of these archival films captured by filmmakers in various […]
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Late Bloomers GFF24
10 March, 2024, 1.30 p.m. Starring Scottish superstar and festival favourite Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Late Bloomers is a dark comedy that’s bursting with feeling and laugh out loud humour. When a struggling musician’s questionable life choices leave her in hospital with a broken hip and a broken heart, her unlikely bond with […]
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Blue Sunshine
Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 March, 2024 Buy tickets > This finely tuned drama focuses on the inner strength of a transgender teacher as she makes her transition to her new life as Bhanu while working in a conservative small-town school. When she finds herself under pressure to marry, she decides to embrace her new […]
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Glasgow FrightFest 2024 All You Need Is Death
9 March, 2024 at 8.25 p.m. ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (GLASGOW FRIGHTFEST) Blending Irish folklore and musical traditions with nerve-wracking horror, Paul Duane’s masterful debut feature All You Need is Death is one of the most unique and unsettling films of the year. A young couple on a journey for dark, forbidden knowledge travel […]
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The Philadelphia Story, GFF24 at CCA
8 March, 2024 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart star as a dynamic threesome in this comedic romp. On the day before her wedding, an ex-husband (Grant) and an undercover journalist (Stewart) turn up on the door of a wealthy socialite (Hepburn). The Philadelphia Story was Katharine Hepburn’s […]
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Anatomy of a Fall
11 – 14 March, 2024 Buy tickets In this Palme d’Or-winning psychological thriller, a celebrated writer is put on trial when her husband falls to his death from their secluded chalet. What starts as a murder investigation soon becomes a gripping journey into the depths of a destructive marriage. 🏆 Nominated for five Oscars and […]
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The Holdovers
11 – Thursday 14 March, 2024 From Alexander Payne (Sideways), The Holdoversfollows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the students with nowhere to go. He forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker […]
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Tummy Monster, GFF24
7 March, 2024, 12.50 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald (Beats) stars as a self-centred tattoo artist whose fixation on getting a selfie with a famous client embroils him in a bizarre and dangerous game. Glasgow-based director Ciaran Lyons makes a virtue of his low budget in this blackly […]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Invisible Fight
6 and 7 March, 2024 Heavy metal and kung-fu comedy come together with anarchic absurdity in this tale of a soldier whose brush with death leads him to decide to become a martial arts monk. The colourful exuberance and dodgy fashions of the 1970s are perfectly captured in Rainer Sarnet’s anarchic kung-fu comedy. When Black […]
Happy Endings at Websters Theatre
21 – 23 March, 2024 Websters, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ A brilliant farce about an amateur theatre company putting on a 1970’s classic farce, “Trouble and Strife”. Clever and Hilarious. Buy tickets Reviews of previous Walking Shadows productions; “What a fantastic show – just so clever and so funny” “Loved the show- […]
Book Launch: Two Sisters by Alex Kane
21 March, 2024, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW Buy tickets The hugely popular crime writer Alex Kane will be launching Two Sisters in store. Alex will be in conversation and details will follow soon. They tried to forget their past. Now it’s the only thing that can save them. Ever since […]
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SCAP International Women’s Day 2024
Friday 7 March, 2024, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Creative Writing and Music Street Level Photoworks, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Hosts: Donna Campbell and Linda Jackson Music from Aine Currie Guests Lesley Benzie Donna Matthews Julie McNeill Kathryn Metcalfe Women from the Middle East, Japan and Scotland will also be reading. Jenny Matthews, the […]
Roughly Staged a night of new Scottish Theatre
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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Monday, March 4, 2024 | Filed under: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Dracula – Gaslamp Theatre at Cottiers
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 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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Sunday, March 3, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog
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