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. 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 […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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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
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