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. Inland at GFT
16 – 22 June, 2023 In rural England, a modern folktale unravels. Following the mysterious disappearance of his mother, a young man (Rory Alexander) walks back into a world he once knew well. Guided by a father figure (Mark Rylance) and old friends who care deeply, his journey through the dreamlike spaces of local forests […]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Medusa Deluxe at GFT
Thursday, 22 June, 2023 Audaciously original, Medusa Deluxe is a bold, camp and unique take on a murder mystery. After a stylist is found dead at a hairdressing competition, rivalry and mistrust build as the remaining group of determined contestants suspect someone may be trying to rig the competition by gruesomely picking off its entrants. Buy […]
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Funeral Parade of Roses at GFT
Friday, 16 June, 2023 Presented by GFT and Bonjour Join GFT and Bonjour for a screening of Japanese experimental film Funeral Parade of Roses starring transgender actor Pîtâ followed by a 1960-inspired club night ‘Pansies’ at Bonjour with DJ sets from Claire Biddles and Jamie Crewe. Ticket holders to the screening get free entry – […]
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Sunlight at GFT
Friday 16 – Monday 19 June, 2023 It was a hit when it premiered at Glasgow Film Festival earlier this year and now Sunlight is back at GFT. When former-addict Leon’s best friend and sponsor Iver gets a terminal diagnosis and decides to leave this earth early, Leon distracts him by forcing him to agree to one last day […]
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Pretty Red Dress at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 29 June, 2023 Buy tickets The debut feature from writer and director Dionne Edwards, Pretty Red Dress has breakthrough performances from Natey Jones, newcomer Temilola Olatunbosun, and the chart-topping singer and West End actor Alexandra Burke in her first film role. Travis has just been released from prison and it quickly becomes apparent that everything has changed while […]
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Folk Film Gathering 2023 announces full festival programme
The World’s first festival of folk cinema returns to Edinburgh from 12th – 29th June , 2023 with screenings at Cameo, Scottish Storytelling Centre and North Edinburgh Arts plus online This year’s festival hosts a rare screening of 1920s Ukrainian silent film Arsenal with a brand new live score by Scottish electronic duo Dalhous Other […]
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The Primevals, Reverse Cowgirls at The Rum Shack
Friday 23 June, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. With DJ Neil MacInnes hi energy raucous rock n roll The Rum Shack, 657-659 Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2AB Event on Facebook
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ashton Lane Street Party
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June, 2023 Free, fun event for all the family Food and drinks from all venues on the lane including: Brel, Innis & Gunn, Vodka Wodka, The Grosvenor Cafe, The Gardener, Jinty McGinty’s, Ramen Dayo, Ubiquitous Chip & Ashoka Entertainment including: DJs Face Painters Balloon Artists Market Stalls Event on Facebook
Paintings on Railings at West Fest
10th June, 2023, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Mansfield Park, G11 5QW 11th, 17, 18, 24, 26 June at: Railings at Botanic Gardens, Queen Margaret Drive, G20 8NZ. The annual display of local artists showing their paintings, drawings, ceramics and jewellery for sale. Please note – weather dependent! To exhibit, please contact Selma (Modest […]
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Full programme announced for Sonica Surge Festival
29 and 30 September, 2023 Cryptic’s new intensive 48 hour burst of inspiring and innovative audiovisual art and experimentation Sonica Surge kicks off a year of celebrations to mark Cryptic’s 30th anniversary as one of the UK’s most innovative producing houses Highlights Headlined by the UK premiere from pioneering artist and musician Robert Henke, other […]
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Friday, June 9, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Fantastic Mr Fox
Saturday 10 June, 2023 11:30am Based on the Roald Dahl book, Wes Anderson’s film is full of deadpan banter and clever silliness. After 12 years of bucolic bliss, urbane Mr Fox breaks a promise to his wife and returns to his farm raiding ways. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the […]
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Love Without Walls plus Q & A
Thursday 15 June, 2023 – 8pm When Sophie and aspiring musician Paul can’t pay their London rent, they turn to family and friends for support. Over the course of a summer, the couple lose everything and find themselves lost in the underbelly of the London and Essex streets. A story of love, hope and survival […]
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Hairspray: 35 Anniversary
Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 June, 2023 It’s Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious teenager with the biggest bouffant on the block attempts to win the coveted ‘Miss Auto Show’ crown as she fights against racial discrimination. John Waters’ much-loved hit Hairspray featuring a wildly entertaining line up of Ricky Lake, Jerry Stiller, Debbie Harry and Water‘s long-time muse, Divine, is screening at GFT to […]
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My Imaginary Country at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June , 2023 Chile – October 2019: an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Director Patricio Guzman‘s documentary follows the men […]
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Le Mépris – 4K at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 This 4K restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s (Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou) new-wave masterpiece, Le Mépris, has been released to celebrate the film’s 60th anniversary. A landmark in world cinema, and set around the extraordinary Villa Malaparte on Capri, Le Mépris tells the story of the tragic romance between Paul (Michel Piccoli) and his wife, Camille […]
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War Pony at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 Captions available After going down a storm as Glasgow Film Festival’s Surprise Film in March, this tender and utterly compelling film returns to GFT. It tells the interlocking stories of two Oglala Lakota men coming of age on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring spellbinding performances from first-time actors Jojo […]
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Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest – 4K restorations
Saturday 3 – Tuesday 13 June, 2023 When former child actor Bruce Lee returned to his native Hong Kong in 1971 to star in two films for fledgling company Golden Harvest, movie history was made thanks to one of the most iconic partnerships between star and studio that cinema has ever seen. In only a handful […]
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Friday 2 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 Based on Judy Blume’s best-seller, this heart-warming coming-of-age drama follows 11-year-old Margaret as she experiences all the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school, alongside myriad family dramas. Buy tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
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City of Glasgow Chorus at WestFest
Saturday, 20 June, 2023 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. From Classic to Pop – A choral celebration! Join the world-renowned City of Glasgow Chorus singing music from Verdi’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves to Eva Cassidy’s Autumn Leaves. St John’s Renfield Church 22 Beaconsfield Road Glasgow G12 0NB Buy tickets at EventBrite Part of WestFest
Wully Davidson Bus Pass Rambles: Kerrera
5 June, 2023 Kerrera After Thursday’s failed attempt, due to a coach blocking the road after becoming stuck in a ditch, I decided to get back on the horse for another go at visiting Kerrera. The 0830 bus from Buchanan bus station arrived in Oban at 1136 and I caught a taxi for the 2 […]
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The Kris Drever Band at Cottiers
18 June, 2023 8 p.m. THE KRIS DREVER BAND Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU One of Scotland’s finest and most acclaimed songwriters Kris Drever will tour with his own band (for the first time outside of his work with Lau) in 2023, and to coincide Reveal Records will issue an expansive career spanning […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
BIG BAND BUBLÉ at Cottiers
8 June, 2023 Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Following their successful appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie and the record-breaking Scottish big band, ‘Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation’ invite you to a night full of seductive songs and memorable melodies in a fabulous tribute […]
A Punto de Despegar at CCA
Tuesday 6 June, 2023 Doors 7.30 p.m. – film starts 8.00 p.m. Buy tickets ABOUT TO TAKE OFF / A PUNTO DE DESPEGAR Dir. Lorena Best and Robinson Díaz / Perú / 2015 / 85’ CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow The documentary aligns with others that share similar concerns about how modernisation destroys places and […]
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Beatson Cancer Charity Launch Research Appeal
Beatson Cancer Charity is launching its Research Appeal to ensure more patients and their families across the west of Scotland can benefit from clinical radiotherapy research. The charity’s asking supporters and members of the public to help them deliver life-changing research by supporting a talented Radiotherapy Research Team to continue making breakthroughs in research, as […]
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SCAP Writers – Donald Murray on Zoom
Thursday 15th June, 2023 at 7pm. Hosted by Linda Jackson and Donna Campbell. Special guest Donald Murray Also featuring: Bobby Motherwell, Hannah Nicholson and Judith Taylor. SCAP – Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications Donald S Murray is a Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright from Ness in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of […]
Robert Burns Photography Exhibition – A Window On Ukraine
2nd June – 16th July 2023 Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road G12 8AP Part of WestFest 2023 A Window on Ukraine offers distinctive observations and reflections of the country over several years by Glasgow-based photographer Robert Burns, who has been visiting Ukraine since 2007. Whilst on holiday in Crete in 2006, a chance meeting by Robert Burns […]
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Free End of Term Golf For Glasgow School Children
Thousands of kids from across Glasgow and South Lanarkshire invited to Come Play Around this summer with FREE Topgolf sessions More than 2,000 Glaswegian and South Lanarkshire children and young people are swinging into the end of term with free Topgolf sessions at Glasgow’s biggest and most exciting interactive golf experience. Youngsters from more than […]
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| Filed under: Free Events, Kids and young people, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow
Wully Davidson: Kerrera Misadventure
Bus Pass Rambles – 1 June, 2023 Today’s trip was supposed to take me to Kerrera island to walk a six mile loop along its southern half. Kerrera is the island a few hundred yards from Oban. The 0830 bus from Glasgow to Oban should have taken 3 hours, but there was an accident on […]
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Sunday, June 4, 2023 | Filed under: Walks and Tours Glasgow, Wullie Davidson: Blogging about Bus Pass Jaunts in Scotland
Lids Open Night ( Summer ) 2023
21 June, 2023 4.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Mackintosh Queens Cross Church, 870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow G20 7EL Come and play the beautiful Steinway piano on stage under ‘GAIA’ as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of MQC and the 10th anniversary of our piano project starting life in 2013. Full details on the Glasgow […]
Vinicombe Street Gala 2023
Saturday 3 June, 2023 – Noon until 5 p.m. Come and celebrate the first Saturday of WestFest at the fabulous Vinicombe Street Gala. At the Piazza, top of Byres Road, (opposite Waitrose). Enjoy an afternoon of live music, dancers, circus performers and the fantastic SambaYaBamba! Also street theatre, balloon artists, face-painting and lots more. Free […]
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Friday, June 2, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
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