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..

Colour Stories of the Glasgow Style, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

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21st September,2023 – 3:00PM – 4:00PM Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG The colour palette people now most associate with the Glasgow Style – the UK’s only stylistic response to Art Nouveau – is one of delicate pastels of pink, green and mauve, all favoured at its zenith in the early […]

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The Pearce Institute, Community Festival 2023

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Saturday 21 October, 2023 All day event from Noon until 10 p.m. The festival is free and no tickets required, just turn up on the day. The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Govan, Glasgow G51 3UU Programme 12-3pm – Great Big Govan Gala 2023 in the McLeod Hall Featuring live music, circus performers, face painting, […]

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Glasgow Doors Open Days – University of Glasgow ARC 2023

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University of Glasgow, Doors Open Days at The ARC, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane G11 6EW 16 and 17 September, 2023 Doors Open Days plus additional weekends with Explorathon Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is an annual event celebrating the city’s architecture, culture and heritage through a free programme of open buildings and events […]

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Glasgow Doors Open Days Maryhill Burgh Halls

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What’s on Maryhill Burgh Halls – Doors Open Days 16 / 17 September, 2023 Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10 – 24 Garbraid Avenue, Glasgow G20 8YE

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Cast A Cold Eye – Robbie Morrison

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Review by Pat Byrne In 2021 Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison was Bloody Scotland Debut Prize winner. His follow up novel, Cast a Cold Eye, sees him one of the four McIlvanney Prize finalists at Bloody Scotland 2023. With another novel set in Glasgow in the 1930s we again meet up with Inspector […]

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Thursday, September 14, 2023 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Bloody Scotland 2023: Grant Morrison and Robbie Morrison

BLOODY SCOTLAND

Saturday 16th September, 2023 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Golden Lion Hotel, 8-10 King St, Stirling FK8 1BDS From Comics to Crime: Grant Morrison and Robbie Morrison The path from superhero scribe to crime novelist is a road less travelled but is the unconventional route taken by these two writers. Grant Morrison is a […]

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A Little Life at GFT

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Thursday 28 September, 2023 6.45pm James Norton (Happy Valley) stars in the ‘utterly compelling’ (★★★★★ Daily Express) theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language production of A Little Life. Filmed live at the Savoy Theatre, London, during its West End run, this record-breaking and ‘beautifully acted’ (★★★★ […]

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema

Alan Sharp From Greenock to Hollywood at GFT

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Thursday 7 – Thursday 28 September, 2023 Our Alan Sharp season kicks off this week with The Hired Hand, introduced by author of The Anti-hero’s Journey: The Work and Life of Alan Sharp and season curator, David Manderson. The Hired Hand is a ‘hippie Western’ directed by Peter Fonda and written by Alan Sharp. It catapulted Sharp […]

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To See Ourselves plus Q & A

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Tuesday 19 September, 2023 at 7.10pm Filmed during the summer of 2014, Jane McAllister has collated first-hand footage of the build-up to the Scottish referendum and its aftermath, all while ‘on the hoof, heavily pregnant and with no budget.’ Following her father, a fervent Yes campaigner, McAllister captures the energy, the friction and the endless […]

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Cassandro at GFT

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Friday 15 – Thursday 21 September, 2023 Captions and audio description available Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre’. In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life. Buy tickets GFT, […]

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Lan Yu at GFT

Lan Yu

Friday 15 – Wednesday 20 September, 2023 Little White Lies recently described Lan Yu as ‘a milestone in Chinese queer cinema, [and] the pinnacle of Stanley Kwan’s aesthetic vision’. It follows the relationship between a wealthy older businessman and a young student as it goes further than either expected. Screening in 4K. Buy tickets GFT, […]

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Fremont at GFT

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Friday 15 – Thursday 21 September, 2023 Captions available Anaita Wali Zada gives a sensitive performance as Donya, a former translator for the United States military in Afghanistan, who is struggling to rebuild her life in San Francisco while working for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to […]

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Dazed and Confused 30th Anniversary at GFT

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Friday 15 – Wednesday 20 September, 2023 Richard Linklater‘s iconic coming-of-age classic returns to the big screen from Friday to mark its 30th Anniversary. Matthew McConaughey stars in his breakout role as part of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976. Randall Floyd moves easily among stoners, jocks and […]

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BFI London Film Festival 2023 at GFT

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Wednesday 4 – Sunday 15 October, 2023 GFT is a Venue Partner for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, giving audiences the first chance to see a selection of exciting new titles from LFF on the big screen, at the home of film in Glasgow! From Wednesday 4 – Sunday 15 October GFT is delighted […]

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‘Revolutionary Colour: A Tour of British Art’, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

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Tuesday 19 September 2023, 11am Free – Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG Art History Festival 2023 An exploration of paintings that revolutionised British art with their radical colour theory and bold application. This free tour, led by Curator of British Art Dr Jo Meacock, will encompass aesthetes like James McNeill […]

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Take 2: Kung Fu Panda at GFT

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Saturday 30 September, 2023, 11.30am Buy tickets Take 2 Access: Saturday 30 September, 12pm When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the “chosen one” and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave warrior won’t be easy. It’s up to […]

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema

Glasgow Writers: Brian Hamill

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R.I.P. Sadly Brian Hamill died in May, 2021 – only 39 years of age – so accomplished and so much to live for. In October, 2019, Brian set up The Common Breath ‘The aim was to provide an exciting new stream of fiction for readers to enjoy, publishing both classic and contemporary work, and to […]

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David F. Ross at Byres Road Book Festival

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Sunday 24th September, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. David. F Ross. – In Conversation with Alistair Braidwood and Writers’ Workshop Hillhead Libeary, 348 Byres Road Glasgow G12 8AP Free Event   Book a place at Eventbrite  @dfr10 @byresrdbookfest  

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Glasgow Doors Open Days – It Was The Loom That Broke My Heart

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Part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival French Street Gallery, 103-105 French Street, Glasgow G40 4EH The Exhibition – ‘It Was The Loom That Broke My Heart’ is a multimedia installation created by visual artist Marie-Claire Lacey and sonic artist Adam Stearns which will be exhibited at French Street Gallery during Glasgow Doors Open Days […]

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Byres Road Book Festival 2023

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21 – 24 September, 2023 All Events Are Free But Ticketed See the Programme and Book Online Highlights Include Michael Pedersen 23 September  Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Road Glasgow G12 8AU Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler, stitcher. He is currently Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. Kirsty Logan, Hillhead Library […]

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Past Lives at GFT

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7 – 21 September, 2023 Captions and audio description available Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star as Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends who are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of […]

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Sunday, September 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema

Artie’s Singing Kettle – Halloween

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Wednesday, 14 October, 2023 at 11 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Westerrn Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ Dress up for this Halloween Special from Artie who is guaranteed to get the family audience singing along. Singing Kettle favourites will include Little Bunny Fou, Ghost Hunt, and Shove Yer Granny Off the Bus. A […]

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Michel Faber – Rodge Glass, Book Launch

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Friday, 22 September, 2023 at 7 p.n. Glasgow launch of my new MICHEL FABER is happening The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TS Readings of Faber’s stories by various writers plus Rodge Glass talking Faber and compassion and connection in storytelling! There’s now 35% discount of the book on the night, his other […]

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Thomas Muir Symposium 2023 – Remembering John Maclean

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Wednesday 4th October 2023 Douglas Academy, Craigton Road, Milngavie G62 7HS John Maclean was a school teacher, Red Clydesider and founder member of the Pollokshaws Progressive Union. Drawing on speakers from the academic community, secondary school pupils and members of local history societies. This years speakers are: Professor Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow): Muir & […]

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Friday, September 8, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Creative Conversations: The MacDiarmid Memorandum

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Wednesday 20 September, 2023, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Alan Riach Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; a work that blends biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Beginning with his childhood in […]

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Bloody Scotland 2023

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15 – 17 September, 2023 BLOODY SCOTLAND BROCHURE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE NOW See all events Cast A Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison review by Pat Byrne   Reception will take place  in the splendour of the 600-year-old Church of the Holy Rude with festival guests welcomed in style with a glitzy drinks reception before […]

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Up A Close at Websters Theatre

Up a Close

14 – 16 September, 2023 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Up A Close is the story of Joanna and her life growing up in a Partick tenement flat When her husband John goes missing Joanna looks back on her life living in a Partick tenement. From the school days with her […]

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Glasgow Open Doors Day 2023 – Mackintosh Queens Cross Church

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The Mackintosh Queen’s Cross is the only church designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh to be built. Magnificent stained glass and exceptional relief carving on wood and stonework are highlights of the interior, where light and space are used to dramatic effect. Mackintosh Queen’s Cross looks very much as it would have done in Mackintosh’s time […]

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Glasgow Doors Open Days 2023: G3 Growers Community Garden

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Enveloped by Argyle Street and Kent Road, through a lane in the tenements, you can find a vibrant inner-city community garden called G3 Growers Brechin St, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 7HF Fruit and vegetables are now grown in what used to be a usual city back court with only empty washing lines and stowed bins. There […]

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Arlington Baths Club Doors Open Days 2023

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The Arlington Baths Club is the oldest member-run swimming pool in Europe. The ‘A’ listed building houses a skylit swimming pool and a magnificent Turkish Bath, Glasgow’s homage to The Alhambra. This Victorian bathing complex was constructed over several decades by eminent architects of the time, expanding and changing as the city of Glasgow grew. […]

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