What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

Pat ByrneI 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. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

The Big Sunday at the Bandstand

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Sunday 4 June, 2023 from 11 a.m. Kelvingrove Bandstand, off Kelvin Way, Glasgow West End. After the success of the Big Weekend last year, WestFest is excited to be back at Kelvingrove Bandstand in 2023 for a jam-packed programme of free, community events in partnership with Glasgow Music. Come and join the afternoon gala then […]

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Take 2: The Super Mario Bros Movie

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Saturday 3 June, 2023 at 11:30am Captions and audio description available Two plumbing brothers, Mario and Luigi, are separated in the Mushroom Kingdom. They become aware of the threat of the evil Bowser who wants to marry Princess Peach or destroy their whole world. Mario and Luigi team up with popular video game characters to […]

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Thursday, June 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

The Darjeeling Limited plus Hotel Chevalier – 35mm

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Sunday 4 & Wednesday 7 June, 2023 CineMasters: Wes Anderson Seasoncontinues with The Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as estranged brothers who reunite for a train trip across India. The short film Hotel Chevalier, starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, acts as the prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. […]

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Amanda at GFT

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Friday 2 – Thursday 8 June, 2023 Carolina Cavalli’s darkly comic feature debut follows Amanda, who has returned home to Italy and her family after studying in Paris. She decides to seek out an old friend whose agoraphobia has kept her mostly inside since they were last in contact. The combination of both women’s neuroses only […]

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Mad About The Boy: The Noel Coward Story at GFT

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2 – 8 June, 2023 The story of Noël Coward, one of the most successful multi-talented artist of the 20th century, told in his own words, music and unique home movies. Directed by Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Barnaby Thompson, the film features Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra and more, with Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward, and Alan Cumming […]

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Thelma and Louise – 4K

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Friday 2 – Thursday 8 June, 2023 Two best friends (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) decide to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, but things don’t go to plan and their quiet getaway turns into a cross country escape. Thelma & Louise’s themes of friendship, empowerment and women struggling to survive in a man’s world, have lost none of […]

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WestFest Glasgow’s Cultural and Community Festival 2024

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WestFest Community and Cultural Festival 2025 1 – 29 June WestFest Community Festival 2024 WestFest will take place from 1 – 30 june, 2024 WestFest, Glasgow’s biggest community and cultural festival today launches the full programme for its 2024 festival, taking place from 1st to 30th June. Bursting with an eclectic array of events, performances, […]

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Queer Reflections on Horror: Jennifer’s Body

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Saturday 3 June, 2023 7:15pm Presented in association with GFT Youth Board at GFT to celebrate all things queer and all things horror as they launch new essay anthology It Came From the Closet: Queer reflections on Horror. The event will feature a screening of Jennifer’s Body followed by a Q&A and book signing with Glasgow author […]

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema

Dragon Boat Festival – University of Glasgow

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Friday 2 June, 2023, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – Confucius Institute, University of Glasgow All are welcome to join the Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – crafts, tea ceremony, sticky rice dumpling making, music. Tickets free, but limited! Book your ticket. Kelvin Gallery Gilbert Scott Building University Avenue (Gilchrist Postgraduate Club […]

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Wee Write Family Day 2023

Saturday 3 May, 2023 Spark your little bookworm’s imagination. This jam-packed day is full of creativity and book-based fun at the Mitchell Library. With Horrible Histories, Dennis the Menace mischief and a flying visit from Bookbug, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN See the full programme and buy tickets Chai Strathie – Scotland, […]

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Silenced – A Scottish Suffragette Story

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16 and 17 June, 2023 Following their successful production of Pippin last year at Webster’s, Theatre Alliance Musical Theatre Company are back with a brand new musical play charting the rise of the Suffragette movement…. told from a uniquely Scottish perspective. Written & Directed by Marlisa Ross with new music & arrangements by Stuart Bird. […]

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Sunday, May 28, 2023 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy

Together Unbound, gig at Websters Theatre

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Saturday 3 June, 2023 Czech artists united in one place to celebrate friendship and collaboration. Together Unbound is a two-concert Glasgow series involving collaborators guitarist Jan Stránský, visual artist Karolína Trhoňová, and composer Lukáš Janata. The concert is a conclusion of a three-year pandemic remote collaboration on Lukáš’ new explorative work for solo guitar, Lamentations, […]

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Whispers From Heaven at Websters

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Thursday, 1 June, 2023 Websters, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Whispers from Heaven offers a unique and intimate evening not to be missed. Dominic will use both his mediumistic and psychic abilities to connect you to your loved ones in Spirit, and give you guidance into your own life. Through the whispers of your loved […]

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Aye Write: Stuart Braithwaite – Spaceships Over Glasgow

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Sunday 28 May, 2023, 9.15 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3NY Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in Mogwai, one of the Glasgow and Scotland best loved bands. Spaceships Over Glasgow spans a delinquent childhood, rock star hedonism […]

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Aye Write: Pat Nevin – Football and How To Survive It

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Sunday 28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Pat Nevin’s memoir Football and How To Survive It takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. rom Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he’s ever played. Then, in […]

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The Market at Pollok House

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Sunday, 4 June, 2023, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws roadGlasgowG43 1AT Look out for another stellar lineup of top quality producers, makers, artists and crafters . Showcasing all kinds of delicious food and drinks, and beautiful arts, crafts and artisan goods too . The stalls will fill the […]

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Aye Write: Neil Lancaster, Carole Johnstone and Fulton Ross – Something Dark Up North

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Saturday 27 May, 2023 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In Neil Lancaster’s The Night Watch a lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, […]

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Aye Write 2023: Ones to Watch – Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott, Wiz Wharton

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Saturday 27 `May, 2023 11 a.m. – 12 noon The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott and Wiz Wharton will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which platforms some of our best new writers. On […]

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World Environment Day 2023 – Partick

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Sunday, June 11, 2023 10am at Partickhill Bowling and Community Club, 46 Partickhill Rd, Glasgow G11 5BY Celebrate World Environment Day by attending a morning conference on the theme of Green Partickhill. Hear speakers from Spot-a-Bee (University of Glasgow) Sustrans (National Clyde Network) Zero Waste Scotland, and Glasgow City Council Join in the conversation about […]

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Take 2: Brother Bear

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Saturday 27 May, 2023 11:30am Kenai feels badly towards bears, believing one was responsible for the death of his brother. However while trying to hunt one, Kenai is transformed into a bear himself and begins to learn more about their perspective. He embarks on a journey to the Northern Lights, on a quest to transform back to being a human, but on the way he meets […]

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Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – 35 mm

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Monday 29 & Wednesday 31 May, 2023 Part of our CineMasters: Wes Anderson season  Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner, Estaban, during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined […]

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Master Gardener at GFT

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Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 Paul Schrader‘s latest film follows meticulous horticulturist (Joel Edgerton), who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate owned by a wealthy dowager (Sigourney Weaver). When he’s told to take on her troubled great-niece (Quintessa Swindell) as an apprentice, his life is thrown into chaos […]

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Full Time at GFT

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Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 Full Time follows Julie, a single mother whose hectic daily routine comes under fire. To reach an interview for a job that will help her provide for her family, she must contend with a national transit strike in a nail-bitingly frantic race against time. Led by Laure Calamy‘s gripping performance, Full Time serves as a sobering reminder […]

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Sisu at GFT

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Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June , 2023 Captions and audio description available From Jalmari Helander, director of Rare Exports and Big Game, Sisu is a bloody Second World War action epic that pits one hard-to-kill Finn against Nazi soldiers in Lapland. After a solitary prospector strikes gold in the wilderness, he runs into a retreating detachment of Nazi soldiers […]

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Aye Write 2023: Jim Carruth and Liz Lochhead – The Tannahill Event

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A Happy Makar Birthday Sunday 28 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Stgreet, Glasgow G2 3NY Join Glasgow’s two living laureates to celebrate two milestone birthdays. Liz Lochhead has just turned 75 and has been Makar for both city and country and has been awarded the Queen’s Gold […]

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Aye Write 2023 Arthur Snell: How Britain Broke The World

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Saturday 27 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Suchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 4NY How Britain Broke The World is by former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell. It critically assesses UK foreign policy over the past 25 years, from Kosovo in 1998 to Afghanistan in 2021, while also scrutinising British policy […]

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Inland Empire – 4K at GFT

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Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 David Lynch’s first digitally-shot feature weaves a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity and cinema itself. Laura Dern stars in this labyrinthine nightmare, tumbling down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes on a hallucinatory odyssey into the deepest realms of the unconscious mind. Buy tickets GFT […]

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Aye Write 2023 – Ones to Watch – Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater

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28 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event. Martin Griffin’s The Second Stranger finds a hotel worker trying to […]

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Aye Write 2023: Lesley Riddoch and Neil Findlay, The Future(s) of Scotland

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Friday, 26 May, 2023 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Lesley Riddoch’s new book Thrive explores why Scots won’t simmer down and why they continue to talk about independence when there was a no vote a decade ago. Scotland is not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it’s also not as Conservative, nor as […]

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Aye Write 2023: Coinneach MacLeod the Hebridean Baker

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28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Coinneach MacLeod is a Global TikTok baking sensation known as The Hebridean Baker and he is serving up a fresh selection of exciting new recipes, charming stories and breathtaking photography from the Hebridean Islands. The landscapes, stories, history and […]

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