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. Charlie Gracie, Belfast to Baillieston
23 November, 2023, 7 p.m. Baillieston Library, 141 Main St, Baillieston, Glasgow G69 6AH Charlie Gracie will be joined by Airdrie poet Peter A, who will share work from Art of Insomnia (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2021), and poems from his upcoming publication. Free Event Book Tickets – To book your free place please email or […]
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Monday, November 13, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Brownbear at Cottiers
23 November, 2023 7.30 p.m. Brownbear is bringing the ‘Demons’ acoustic album show to Glasgow. For the first time ever, the acoustic set is coming to the city. Join him for an evening of songs and stories, including a Q&A section to allow the audience to ask about the album and the writing process. Support […]
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Strathclyde Creative Writing and The Glasgow Review of Books
Live Poetry Event 14 November, 2023 7:00 p.m. CCA Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JW Six amazing performers and poets who will be gracing the event with their talent are Janette Ayachi, Gray Crosbie, Meagan Jennett, Victoria McNulty, Nick-e Melville and Tawona Sithole. The Glasgow Review of Books (ISSN 2053-0560) is an online journal […]
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Science Centre – Go Beyond The Ordinary
Glasgow Science Centre Christmas 2023 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA Experience the magic of the season this December with a jingle-packed lineup of festive events! Kick-starting the yuletide fun, Glasgow Science Centre is offering a festive day-out package which includes a screening of either Elf or The Polar Express 3D, a snack pack to […]
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Scottish Pen Readings
Wednesday 15th November, 2023 @ 7pm Mount Florida Books, 1069 Cathcart Rd, Mount Florida, Glasgow G42 9AF A night of readings hosted by Scottish Pen to mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Readings of work by writers who are currently in prison and some guest readings from Scottish Pen. The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is intended […]
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Friday, November 10, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Camp – The Redistribution of Memory
Exploring universal stories of displacement. The Redistribution of Memory – Cryptic Nights Thursday 9 November, 23023 at 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Saujchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The Redistribution of Memory by Iranian artist Paria Goodzari is an interdisciplinary project that seamlessly combines durational performance, video, sound and installation. Five golden cages enveloped in intricate barbed […]
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Style Mile Christmas Carnival
Sunday 26th November, 2023, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Free event – No need to book An afternoon of festive spectacle, performance and entertainments in and around the Style Mile in Glasgow city centre. The carnival launches at 13.00 with the Lord Provost, the Glasgow Childrens’ Hospital Charity and Vivace junior performers. Between 13.30 – […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Preview: The Eternal Daughter + Joanna Hogg Q & A
Preview: The Sunday 12 November, 2023 7pm Always a favourite at GFT, we can’t wait to welcome director Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir, Unrelated, Caprice) for a Q&A following our special preview screening of her latest film, The Eternal Daughter. Tilda Swinton delivers a towering double performance, playing both an artist and her elderly mother who […]
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Free Party: A Folk History
Saturday 11 November, 2023 6pm Buy tickets All they wanted was the freedom to party. The State saw them as the enemy within. This DIY indie film follows the birth of the UK’s free party movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a meeting between urban ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher’s […]
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Unite Hospitality: Activism: Past and Future
Tuesday 14 November, 2023, 5.45pm GFT is teaming up with Unite Hospitality to bring you two short films celebrating the immense contribution women have made to radical social change in Glasgow and Havana.The screening will be followed by a panel discussion titled Transforming Hospitality and Tourism: From Havana to Glasgow.Screening as part of Havana Glasgow […]
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Take 2: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Saturday 11 November, 2023, 11.30am After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
How To Have Sex at GFT
Friday 3 November – Thursday 16 November, 2023 Captions and audio description available Molly Manning Walker’s highly kinetic and slyly subversive film focuses on Tara (a superb McKenna-Bruce), a teenager on holiday with friends in pursuit of drinks, sun and sex at a Cretan resort. But when a night of hedonism turns sour, Mia starts […]
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp + introduction
Sunday 12 November, 2023 3 p.m. GFT is delighted to be welcoming filmmaker Kevin Macdonald and producer Andrew Macdonald — grandchildren of Emeric Pressburger — to introduce a screening of the film that Winston Churchill famously tried to ban: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Released in 1943, it’s now acknowledged as one of […]
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On The Adamant at GFT
Friday 3 – Saturday 11 November, 2023 Winner of the top prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, On The Adamant is a documentary centred around a floating barge that doubles as a unique day-care centre. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the […]
The Merchant’s Play at Websters Theatre
9 – 11 November, 2023 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ (adjacent Kelvinbridge Underground) The Merchant’s Play is a new work based on a traditional ancient Iranian style of popular slapstick comedy known as Baqqal Bazi. Set in a wine merchant’s shop during the last years of Sassanid Persia (pre-Islam) and in the […]
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Loch Ness: They Created A Monster at GFT
Saturday 11 November, 2023, 3.20 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with director John Maclaverty. The darkly comic story of the Nessie hunters who camped out on the shores of Loch Ness throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring an international cast of dedicated scientists and extraordinary eccentrics who chased, but never found, the dinosaur-like creature who […]
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N.T. Live Skylight
Thursday, 16 November, 2023 7 p.m. Returning to the big screen after nearly ten years, Bill Nighy (Living) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) feature in the critically acclaimed revival of David Hare’s play. >On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra receives an unexpected visit from her former lover. As the evening progresses, the […]
Winter Wonderland Ashton Lane 2023
Sunday 26 November, 2023, 12 Noon until 6 p.m. Christmas Lights Switch on at 5pm! Ashton Lane, off Byres Road, G12 (enter via lane next to Iceland beside Hillhead Underground or from Great Geortge Street) Round up all the family, dust off your favourite Christmas jumper and come along Ashton Lane to celebrate the beginning […]
Stage and Screen Exhibition at The Hunterian
(image: Parick Caulfield, Party Game: design for back cloth, 1984. © The estate of Patrick Caulfield. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.) 10 November 2023 until 25 February 2024 NEW EXHIBITION SHINES A SPOTLIGHT ON STAGE AND SCREEN The Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ A new exhibition opening at […]
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Acquire – Heart and Music, Woodside Halls
23 – 25 November, 2023 This year, Heart and Music will feature songs from your musical favourites, as well as some surprises. The event will run for three performances only, at 7.30pm on Thursday 23rd, Friday 24th and Saturday 25th November 2023, in Woodside Halls, Glasgow G20 7QE. Seating for Heart and Music is available […]
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Fiona Gillan Kerr – book launch
Tuesday, 14 November, 2023, 5.30 p.m.- 7 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT The Bone on the Beach Glasgow Book Launch Event Celebrate the release of Fiona Gillan Kerr’s captivating new novel, the Bone on the Beach. By Ringwood Publishing Ringwood are delighted to invite you to an event, in collaboration […]
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Dave Manderson – Jim and Pat’s West End Chat Podcast
Pat chats to Dave Manderson Welcome to episode 98 of Jim and Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat. Today Pat will be chatting to writer and former creative writing tutor Dave Manderson. Dave works with literary organisations such as Scottish PEN, he organises and runs literary events and has presented illustrated talks on a range of […]
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Friday, November 3, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Jim and Pat's West End Chat
Creative Conversations: Andrew McMillan
Monday, 13 November, 2023 1p.m.- 2 p.m. Andrew McMillan in Conversation Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Andrew McMillan’s debut collection physical was the only ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award (2016), an Eric […]
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Rebecca Smith Discusses Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Monday, 6 November, 2023 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Creative Conversations – University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Rebecca Smith is a writer and radio producer, and graduate of the MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. In this beautifully observed book, Rebecca Smith traces the stories of foresters […]
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Music at The Millwood – Southside Sundays
First Sunday Every Month Sundays 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. and Fridays 9 – late The Millwood, 137-139 Kilmarnock Rd, Shawlands, Glasgow G41 3YT Event by Southside Sessions Glasgow and Crawford Smith Join Crawford Smith on the first Sunday of each month for live music from himself, the Howlin’ Radio song list and a variety of Southside […]
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Take 2: Babe: Pig in the City
Saturday 4 November, 2023 11.30am Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett’s farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Thursday, November 2, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Blues Run the Game: The Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank
Tuesday 7 November, 2023 8.45pm This documentary follows Jackson C. Frank’s footsteps to unknot the threads of his life. In the mid-60s, he released a masterpiece of folk music, produced by Paul Simon, however after its release he disappeared without a trace. Doc’n’Roll Festival 2023 programme. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Dance First at GFT
Friday 3 – Thursday 9 November, 2023 Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse, Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos ‘Dance first, think later’, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon. Buy tickets GFT, […]
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The Skids Resolution Revolution + Q & A
Thursday 9 November, 2023 8.20pm GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Delighted to be welcoming director and cinematographer Colin Graham and executive producer Selina Graham for a Q&A following this screening hosted by writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan. In 1977, The Skids hit the scene. Lionised by a Radio 1 DJ, their music influenced […]
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The Royal Hotel at GFT
Friday 3 – Thursday 9 November, 2023 Captions available When Liv and Hanna run out of money whilst travelling through Australia, they take the only gig they can find: a live-in bar job in a remote mining town. They quickly pique the interest of the rowdy locals and while Liv looks to fully embrace her […]
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