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. Naomi Mitchison Lecture with Hannah Lavery
Thursday 30 November 2023 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Imagination as activism If we want change, first we have to imagine it… Hannah Lavery is a leading Scottish poet, playwright and performer. Appointed as Edinburgh Makar in 2021, her pamphlet Blood Salt Spring was shortlisted for the 2022 Saltire prize. She is an associate artist […]
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
From Page to Print: Shake the Kaleidoscope
Tuesday, 28 November, 2023 7 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, Clubroom, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD SWC Favourite G. W. Colkitto will talk about his journey of becoming a successful poet and writer. He will share his insights on how he navigated the process of getting published and the challenges he faced along the way. […]
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Storyboard Studios – Filming Glasgow Green 1 December
Wonders of the Human Body Storyboard Studios, Glasgow based production company, are filming this documentary with host Michael Mosley. It’s a 3-part documentary on the human body, commissioned by Channel 5 in the UK, to be broadcast both in the UK and internationally. The programme aims to show how amazing our bodies really are, explaining […]
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Monday, November 20, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Peoples Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green
Mami Wata plus Q and A
Friday 24 November, 2023 – 7.50pm Buy tickets Director C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi at Q&A following this screening. In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
French Film Festival 2023 at GFT
10 – 29 November, 2023 Vive le cinéma! GFT is delighted to be screening a selection of fantastic features from the 31st edition of French Film Festival. The Taste of Things – 13 November 7.55 p.m. The Nature of Love – 15 November 5.45 p.m. Two Tickets To Greece – 18 November 2.50 p.m. Driving […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Santa Dash 2023
Sunday 10 December 2023, 10 a.m. Location: Glasgow Green (start and finish) Distance: 5km Entry: Adults £16, Children £6 All ages and dogs are welcome – those with prams and dogs will be in the last group for safety reasons. Run numbers and t-shirts will be available for collection from a store in St Enoch’s Shopping Centre ahead […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club: screening Taxi Tehran
Tuesday 28th November, 2023 5.30-9pm Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3 6DR November’s offering for the Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club is a comedy drama about a director banned from making films who takes to driving a taxi fitted with a camera around Tehran, discussing social challenges in Iran with his passengers. Based on […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Family Cycle Ride Glasgow Green
Sunday 3 December, 2023, 1 p.m. Event by Parents for Future Scotland Meet 12.30 p.m. at the Obelisk (Nelson’s Column) Glasgow Green, Greendyke St, Saltmarket, Glasgow G1 5DB Bring your own picnic. After the ride there will be amily friendly fun and games in the park! Circular route from the Obelisk, Glasgow green, stopping at George […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Friends of People's Palace and Winter Gardens at Glasgow Green, Health and Fitness, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Saltburn at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 Buy tickets Captions and Audio Description available Struggling to fit in at Oxford University, Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten. With a […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Dave Arcari and Ismo Haavisto
Wednesday 22 November, 2023 7.30 p.m. The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG A double bill of blues, Americana and roots music featuring Dave Arcari (Scotland) and Ismo Haavisto (Finland). Buy tickets at Eventbrite £12 advance / £15 on the door. Dave Arcari SLIDE guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as […]
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Steadfast Trickster Book Launch
Saturday 25th November, 2023 1.30 – 3.30 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN and on Zoom Please book via Ticket Source for both zoom and in-person. Zoom link will be sent to you via email on 24/11/23 Tribute to the Life and Times of Robin Lloyd Jones. In partnership with the Scottish […]
Double Vision: Double Voice Jim Ferguson
Tuesday 28 November, 2023 at 7.15 p.m. Booklet Launch: Jim Ferguson’s Poetry Booklet – Double vision : Double Voice. At The Scotia Bar, 112 Stockwell St, Glasgow G1 4LW Signed copies of pamphlet on sale for £5 cash on the night. Plus Fernando Pessoa Tribute. Plus Open Mic and Raffle. Event on Facebook
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Rock Choir Christmas Concert in support of Starchild
Friday 15 December, 2023, 7 p.m. St Margaret’s, 353 Kilmarnock Rd, Shawlands, Glasgow G43 2DS Rockchoir are holding their annual Christmas concert this year in aid of Starchild in Memory of Frankie Marsh . “Thank you Rockchoir. You absolutely Rock!!! We hope many of you will be able to pop along to this wonderful event […]
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Saturday, November 18, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Starchild, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Chicken Run at GFT
Saturday 25 November, 2023 11.30am Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Ginger the chicken enlists the help of Rocky the American rooster to lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers Mr and Mrs Tweedy and their farm of […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Take 2: Zarafa at GFT
Saturday 18 November, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Buy Tickets […]
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Friday, November 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Mission at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 In 2018, US-based Christian missionary John Chau made an illegal and fatal voyage to an island in the Indian Ocean in order to convert one of the last remaining isolated communities on Earth – the Sentinelese. Making use of the diaries written by John and his father, The […]
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Thursday, November 16, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
May December at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available From the outside, Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) are the perfect suburban couple. That is, if you don’t take into account the fact that their relationship was a tabloid sensation 20 years ago. When Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), an actor, arrives at […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Nobody Has To Know
Bouli Lanners and Tim Mielants’ Outer Hebrides-shot romantic drama has UK cinema release from 3 November, 2023 At GFT Friday 10 – 16 November, 2023 Buy tickets Parkland Entertainment are thrilled to announce they will release NOBODY HAS TO KNOW across UK cinemas from 3 November. Shot entirely at locations across the Isle of Lewis, […]
CinemaARC – Journey to the Isles
Thursday 16 November, 2023 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Advanced Research Centre(ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Free but ticketed Join an enchanting Journey to the Isles with a screening of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s silent films of 1920s Hebridean life, with storytelling and musical accompaniment from acclaimed live performers Marion Kenny and […]
Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound, University of Glasgow ARC
15 – 16 November, 2023 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Researcch Centre (AEC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW Drop in to the ARC to experience ‘Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound’, a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough, and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker. In September 2020 […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events
Kavya Prize New Writers Award Ceremony
Thursday 16 November, 2023 6.15 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/kavya-prize Join some of Scotland’s best new writing talent: the shortlisted authors for the 2023 Kavya New Writers’ Award! Hear readings from the authors, plus there will be a chance to network with the judges (including literary agents) and […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Book Week Scotland=2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Celebrating Leela Soma and Murder at the Mela
Sunday 19 November, 2023, 2 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Book Week Scotland 2023, Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8AP Every November during Book Week Scotland we celebrate books and their talented authors, as well as the joy of reading for pleasure and writing creatively. This Book Week Scotland marks our first without Leela […]
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Story Cafe Milton Library, Book Week Scotland 2023
Friday 17 November, 2023 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Milton Library, 204 Liddesdale Road, Milton, Glasgow G22 7QR This year’s Book Week Scotland celebrations are all about sharing Scotland’s stories of adventure – big and small. For some people our greatest adventures are those inextricably linked to when were young and our memories of […]
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Beyond The Battlefield Book Launch
Thursday, 16 November, 2023, 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Event by Battlefield Collective, Alex Meikle and Palma McKeown Langside Library, 2 Sinclair Dr., Glasgow G42 9QE Free event – Writers will be reading from Beyond the Battlefield, a new anthology of short stories and poems. Battlefield Writers are delighted to announce the launch of the second volume of an […]
Book Week Scotland 2023 – Zoe Strachan
Wednesday 15 November | 18:30-19:30 Zoe Strachan – Catch the Moments as They Fly Book Week Scotland iscelebrating Scotland’s Stories and the talented people who write them. Zoe Strachan, award winning author and Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow at Whiteinch Library. 14 Victoria Park Drive South, Whiteinch Glasgow G14 9RL discussing […]
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Inclination Film Club presents Seven Stories by James Kelman
Wednesday, 29 November, 2023 at 7.30 – 10.10 p.m. INCLINATIONS film club presents Seven Stories by James Kelman (1996, 70 mins) & Libera Me (1993, 80 mins) directed by Alain Cavalier CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD A voice in the dark and a film without voices. This double-bill brings together stories by James Kelman […]
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A History of Cuban Animation
Wednesday 15 November, 2023 at 7 p.m. Images top-bottom: Fly, Veinte Años A selection of animations made between 1962 – 2022 from ICAIC Animation Studios exploring themes including loneliness, heartbreak, immigration and race. Presented by Cuban animator Ivette Ávila Martín and screenwriter Hugo Rivalta. Featuring premieres and shorts from award-winning animators including Ernesto Piña and […]
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2023
15-19 November, 2023 At GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB and CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Havana Glasgow Film Festival celebrates the twin cities of Glasgow and Havana through a programme of Cuban film screenings, discussions and joyful cultural events each November. The ninth Festival will explore real and imaginary worlds – expect […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Sea Donkey – Film Night at Arlington Baths Club
Saturday 25 November, 2023, 6 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT The inspirational story of an ordinary man’s attempt to swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland – probably the most brutal open water swimming challenge in the world. Taking on sea temperatures at the limit of human endurance and braving the […]
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Monday, November 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Swimming With Gravitational Waves – Arlington Baths Club
18 November, 2023 Arlington Baths, 61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT Tickets at EventBrite Swimming with Gravitational Waves is an audiovisual performance with a difference! First, it happens in a swimming pool with both underwater and overwater speakers to convey the musical performance to you, in the water! Second, it uses the same technology that […]
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