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. Gaia Installation Launches CRM Society’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Programme of Events include concerts by Lost Map Records, Siobhan Wilson and Glasgow Jazz Festival; talks, exhibitions and film nighys in Mackintosh’s only built church. Gaia – named after the Greek Goddess of Earth – will be open to the public from Saturday 13th May 2023 and run until 24 June, 2023. The Charles Rennie […]
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Monday, May 15, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Val McDermid in conversation with Louise Welsh
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY The Queen of Crime writing discusses her latest Allie Burns thriller 1989, set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series. 1989 – The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie […]
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Creative Conversations: Taylor Strickland
Tuesday, 16 May, 2023 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. 5 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH Room 101 – Edwin Morgan Poetry Library Glasgow G12 8QH ABOUT Taylor Strickland: Taylor Strickland is a poet and translator from the US. He is the author of Commonplace Book and Dastram / Delirium. His poem ‘The Low Road’ was adapted by American composer, […]
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Sunday, May 14, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Mary Irvine: Review of ‘Gods of the Crossroads’ by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Helensburgh based Robin Lloyd- Jones is the author of some 18 books, fiction and non-fiction, many receiving prizes, including his biography of W.H. Murray ‘The Sunlit Summit’, which won the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Award in 2003 His first historical novel, ‘Lord of the Dance’, 1982, set in sixteenth-century India was the […]
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Reading and Conversation with Dr Samantha Walton
Tuesday 16 May, 2023 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 A reading and conversation with Dr Samantha Walton, hosted by Maria Sledmere, plus performances from Strathclyde students Creative Writing at University of Strathclyde Free Event Register at EventBrite
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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events
Robin Lloyd Jones Launch: Gods of the Lost Crossroads
Robin’s first two historical novels were nominated for the Booker Prize. Hoping to go further this time … You are cordially invited to the launch of Robin’s novel GODS OF THE LOST CROSSROADS There will be two launch events: Tuesday 23rd May at Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 6.15 – 8.00 pm […]
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Clatty Pats – Walk Like A Glaswegian
21 23 July, 2023 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Cleopatras – ‘Clatty Pats’ as it was fondly known! Further to its sell out, smash hit run in April, and featured on STV, they are back for some Hot Stuff “Summer” fun due to popular demand! Reuniting student nurses, Sandra, Dawn, Lynn […]
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Friday, May 12, 2023 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Aye Write: Janey Godley with Nicola Sturgeon
26 May, 2023 at 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Janey Godley in conversation with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP. Janey Godley’s Nothing Left Unsaid tells the story of Senga and Sharon spanning Glasgow in 1976 and 2019. Glasgow, 2019. Sharon has rushed home at the news her […]
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Berg at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 Berg follows the stories of the stones, rocks and peaks of a vast mountain landscape. Just as all sense of scale is lost amidst this raw and primal trip across the panorama of the mountains, three small human figures remain – hikers tackling the peak. Following their journey throughout […]
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Raining Cats and Frogs
Saturday 13 May, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. The Bauer family live on a farm on a hill and own a zoo. The frogs who live on this farm predict that the Earth will be flooded for 40 days and 40 nights. The flood comes quickly after the prediction and all the zoo animals escape to […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Good NTLive at Glasgow Film Theatre
Thursday 11 May, 2023, 7.40 p.m. David Tennant stars in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays. As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke (Follies) directs C.P. Taylor’s timely tale, with a cast […]
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan at GFT
5 – 11 May, 2023 Vincent Cassel and Eva Green star in this lavish and entertaining new adaptation of Alexander Dumas’s epic novel. D’Artagnan (François Civil), a spirited young man, is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers. […]
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Pamfir at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 When reformed smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border, he’s determined to set a good example for his teenage son. But in a town where corruption, crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted. Part drama, part thriller, part noir-inflected fairytale, Pamfir is a propulsive, […]
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Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final screening at GFT
Saturday 13 May, 2023, 7.30 p.m. For the first time EVER, the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final show will be broadcast live on the big screen! Come together and be united by music, sharing the incredible experience of celebrating the biggest, brightest, boldest music party of the year. Hosted this year in Liverpool by the BBC […]
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 A mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream, Brainwashed uses more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favourites and cult classics, as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, to reveal a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that infiltrates cinema. Buy Tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
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SQIFF: The Trans-Generational Tour at GFT
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 May, 2023 SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) are bringing the Trans-Generational Tour to GFT with three screenings on inter-generational trans communities. A unique reflection on trans knowledge and how it is passed down through generations. Captions and BSL-English Interpreters available Buy tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 […]
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Leaving to Remain at GFT
Monday 15 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 With the UK’s hardening immigration policy in the background, director Mira Erdevički follows the lives of three Roma. Settled in the UK over 20 years ago, the trio still feel attached to their native Slovakia and the Czech Republic. As the UK goes into lockdown, they film their lives throughout […]
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NT Live: Best of Enemies at GFT
Thursday 18 May, 2023 7pm David Harewood and Zachary Quinto play feuding political rivals in this multiple award-winning and critically acclaimed drama. 1968 – a year of protest that divided America, and the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal fight to become the next President in a new television format. Little do they know they’re about to […]
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The Color of Money plus Introduction
Monday 15 May, 20238:10pm Scorsese of the Month season continues with The Color of Money. The sequel to the 1961 Oscar-winning film The Hustler – which also screens on Monday – The Color of Money picks up with “Fast Eddie” Felson (Paul Newman, in the role that finally earned him the Academy Award). This screening was selected by, and will be […]
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The Royal Tenenbaums 35 mm – GFT
14 and 17 May, 2023 Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children – Chas, Richie and Margot – and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and had an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a grant of fifty thousand dollars in […]
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Return to Seoul at GFT
Friday 5 – Thursday 11 May , 2023 Captions and audio description available Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul, which premiered in Cannes 2022’s Un Certain Regard, is an unpredictable and refreshingly authentic story of a young woman’s search for identity. Park Ji-Min delivers a revelatory performance as Freddie, an adoptee who, at age 25, attempts to reconnect with her […]
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The Blue Caftan at GFT
5 – 11 May, 2023 Set in the Moroccan town of Salé, The Blue Caftan follows Mina and her husband Halim, who run a small shop selling traditional caftans in one of the country’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demand, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much […]
Beat 6 – dine out and donate to Beatson Cancer Charity
Scotland’s first restaurant with 100% of profits donated to Beatson Cancer Charity Beat 6, 149 Milngavie Rd, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 3DY (Nearest train station: Hillfoot) The Story Beat 6 is a social enterprise founded by Nico Simeone, the owner of Six by Nico, and his wife, Valentina. Many years ago Valentina was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s […]
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 | Filed under: Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Disappearing Glasgow illustrated talk by Chris Leslie
Friday 26 May, 2023, 6.00pm | Mackintosh Queen’s Cross Mackintosh Queen’s Cross 870 Garscube Road, Glasgow G20 7EL Tickets from £6.13 As part of their 50th anniversary programme under the ‘Gaia’ (The Earth) installation at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross they are hosting a number of talks. Illustrated and updated talk by Chris Leslie Chris Leslie began […]
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Aye Write 2023 – Billingham and Brookmyre’s Dirty Weekend
20 May, 2023, 7.45 – 8 45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of […]
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Jill Smith: Writer, Artist, Performer – Ritual Walks and Sacred Journeys
Tuesday 16 May, 2023 – 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Yudowitz Room Woolfson Medical Building University of Glasgow University Avenue G128QQ Creative Writing, University of Glasgow co-hosting with From Glasgow to Saturn Life, Performance, Journeys, Art A performance of Jane Goldman’s poem ‘The Manifestations of The Obsessions and Fantasies of Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce is […]
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Friday, May 5, 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
Young Frankenstein at Websters
23 – 27 May, 2023 Websters – Theatre | Bar | Playhouse 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Pantheon return to Websters with a monstrous production, sure to make you corpse! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into […]
B.A. Acting – Macbeth at Webster’s Theatre
7 – 9 May, 2023, 7.30 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Websters – Theatre | Bar | Playhouse416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Welcome to Macbeth, an exciting production that reinterprets Shakespeare’s classic tragedy from a female-centric viewpoint while embracing the nuances of queer relationships. A dedicated ensemble aims to address the gender imbalance in theatre […]
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SCCAN. Member Networking Meeting: Community Food
Friday, 12 May, 2023, 11 a.m.- 12.30 p.m. Online Scottish Communities Climate Action Network(SCCAN) invites you to join fellow climate activists and community workers for a networking event on community food growing – how can food growing contribute to both climate and community resilience, build skills, reduce the carbon footprint of a community and initiate […]
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Scott Pilgrim vs The World at GFT
Late Night Film – Friday 5 May, 2023 11 p.m. Edgar Wright‘s feverish, genre-bending adventure follows garage-rock bass guitarist and unlikely hero, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). When he falls for the dreamy Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), he finds he must battle an onslaught of Evil Exes who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from […]
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Thursday, May 4, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
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