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. Woodlands Community at Doors Open Days
Sunday 17th September, 2023 11am-4pm, Woodlands Community Meeting Room & Terrace, Community Garden & Millennium Park Open to all Drop in, no booking necessary More info Learn how we build social connections though transforming local spaces. Be inspired by ourAnti-Racist Library, the first of its kind in Scotland, and engage your senses by spending time […]
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Sunday, September 3, 2023 | Filed under: Glasgow Doors Open Days, Woodlands Community
School of Rock 20th Anniversary at GFT
Until 12 September, 2023 Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock ‘n’ roll. The school’s hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of […]
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Friday, September 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Look Who’s Back and Hollywood the Black List at GFT
Saturday 2 – Wednesday 27 September, 2023 Tickets and full details The 1960s saw the return to the mainstream of a number of film professionals who had been blacklisted in the anti-communist drive within the Hollywood film industry in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, when America was experiencing social […]
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September 2023 – Screenings at Glasgow Film Theatre
GFT’s September programme is now on sale! GFT’s September programme. Brimming with the most anticipated new releases, unmissable re-releases and some very special guest screenings. Highlights include Ira Sach‘s seductive drama Passages; one of the most highly anticipated films of 2023, Celine Song‘s Past Lives; screenings to mark School of Rock‘s 20th Anniversary; and a […]
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Doors Open Days Glasgow – The ARC
A walk in the ARC: tour the Advanced Research Centre A unique tour of the ARC, Glasgow’s exciting new hub for research, discovery and events! Located on the redeveloped site of the Western Infirmary and recently celebrating its 1st birthday, you’ll start your journey in our impressive atrium with views up to three floors of […]
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Glasgow Doors Open Days
A Woman’s War Against Progress by Allan Cameron
Wednesday 27 September, 2023 Scotia Bar, 112 – 114 Stockwell Street, Glasgow G1 4LW Book Launch: A Woman’s War against Progress by Allan Cameron A Woman’s War against Progress is about a fictional minority-language community in southern Siberia and its charismatic and somewhat domineering leader. Her relationships with men are complex and unhappy, but she […]
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Glasgow National Park City Event
2 September, 2023. 12.30 – 5 p.m. The Hidden Gardens 25A Albert Drive Glasgow G41 2PE Aiming to make this their biggest National Park City event ever: to celebrate the community groups, organisations and National Park City supporters who work together to make Glasgow a Greener, Healthier, Wilder place for everyone. So if you are supporter […]
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
House on the Volcano
Samizdat East European Film Festival CCA 13 September, 2023 at 7 p.m. House on the Volcano (Hamo Beknazarian, Soviet Armenia, 1928) + Live score mix A new restoration of a neglected silent classic by Hamo Beknazarian, the founding father of Armenian cinema. This historical melodrama recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in […]
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Saturday, August 26, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Safe Place – CCA
Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival Festival Tuesday 12 September, 2023, 6.15 p.m. Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Opening: Scottish Premiere; Winner of ‘Best Emerging Director’, ‘Best Actor’, ‘Swatch Feature Award’ at Locarno Film Festival 2022; Best Film at Sarajevo Film Festival 2022 Told over a 24-hour period, this deeply personal […]
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BARTA Litter Pick, Glasgow West End
Saturday 9 September, 2023 – 10 a.m. until 12 noon. Bank Street Area Residents and Traders Association Litter Pick Litter Pick every second Saturday of the Month around Hillhead, Glasgow West End All volunteers welcome – Please come and help. Meet 10 a.m. at Sherezade, 47 Bank Street, G12 8NE
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Comfort and Joy ar GFT
Friday 25 & Sunday 27 August, 2023 CineMasters: Bill Forsyth season continues at GFT with his charming and quirky urban fairy tale, Comfort And Joy. The follow-up to his hit film Gregory’s Girl — which is screening until Thursday 31 August — is a comedy gem about ice cream van wars in Glasgow. Featuring the […]
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Down & Dirty: American D.I.Y. Restored
Monday 21 – Wednesday 30 August, 2023 The punk and ‘no wave’ movements of the late 1970s cut a noisy if brief swathe through the pretensions of the increasingly corporatised contemporary music scene. Emerging from the physical and cultural decay of downtown NYC, the punk scene combined an aggressive rejection of canonical and popular taste […]
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Afire at GFT
Friday 25 – Thursday 31 August, 2023 A small holiday house by the Baltic sea. The days are hot and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old and new. A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn with the appearance of a mysterious woman. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their […]
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The Innocent at GFT
Friday 25 – Thursday 31 August, 2023 Buy tickets Part crime thriller, part family farce, The Innocent shows with panache and pathos the dangerous lengths two men go to, and the outlandish lies they tell, for the women they love. The story centres on Sylvie, a nearly 60 year old woman who has fallen in […]
Cinemasters Lars Von Trier at GFT
Friday 4 August – Tuesday 5 September , 2023 Experience the genius and chaos of one of world cinema’s greatest provocateurs, Lars Von Trier, again on the big screen at GFT. From Breaking the Waves, newly restored in 4K, to essential classics Dancer in the Dark and Melancholia (both screening on 35mm), alongside the fascinating […]
Look Who’s Back: Hollywood and the Black List
Saturday 2 – Wednesday 27 September, 2023 The 1960s saw the return to the mainstream of a number of film professionals who had been blacklisted in the anti-communist drive within the Hollywood film industry in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, when America was experiencing social and political upheaval, filmmakers […]
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Abba the Movie – fan event at GFT
Sunday 17 September, 2023 4.20pm Captured by director Lasse Hallström during their mega-successful tour of Australia, the newly remastered film will take you on a flashback journey to the 1970s when disco reigned supreme and ABBA were royalty. Including backstage footage as well as full-length performances of some of ABBA’s greatest hits including “Dancing Queen”, “SOS”, “Name […]
Strange Way Of Life + Pedro Almodóvar recorded Q&A
Monday 25 September, 2024 8.30pm Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke star in Pedro Almodovar’s highly anticipated new feature. After 25 years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane […]
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A Little Life at GFT
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’ (★★★★ […]
The Old Oak plus Ken Loach Q & A
Wednesday 20 September, 2024 6.50pm TJ Ballantyne, the landlord of The Old Oak, is hanging on to the pub by his fingertips. His predicament is endangered even more when it becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in his once-thriving mining village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship, he […]
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Big Screen Epics at GFT
Wednesday 2 – Monday 28 August, 2023 From the brutal entertainment of Rome’s gladiatorial Colosseum to the floating bamboo trees of Qing dynasty China; an ear-pounding waterfall in 18th Century America to the wind-blasted deck of the HMS Surprise, we’re bringing some of the most memorable moments of classic action cinema back to the big […]
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The Wolf Suit + Q&A
Thursday 31 August, 2023 8.15pm How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firthinvestigates, employing a wide range of narrative and exploratory devices – from video journal entries and interviews with her parents, to dramatic reconstructions using actors and her parents as co-directors. Crafted with great sensitivity and flair, The Wolf Suit is […]
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Learn To Play Bridge
Buchanan Bridge Club Classes for Beginners – start 31 August, 2023 Classes for Improvers – start 7th September, 2023 4 Clairmont Gardens, Glasgow Glasgow G3 7LW Learn to play bridge! The World’s Greatest Card Game Email Buchanan Bridge Club for Further Information www.bridgewebsemail.com/buchananbc
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Friday, August 25, 2023 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Pat's Home Page Blog
Gerda Stevenson at SCAP Arts and Music Summer Festival
Saturday 26 August, 2023 at 1.30 p.m. Saturday at the National Piping Centre, 30-34, McPhater Street Glasgow G4 0HW Gerda Stevenson: is a writer/actor/director/singer-songwriter. She works in theatre, tv, opera, radio, and film, founder of Stellar Quines Theatre Company. Poetry collections include: QUINES – Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland; IF THIS WERE REAL; TOMORROW’S FEAST; INSIDE […]
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Bernard MacLaverty: SCAP Summer Festival
Saturday, 26 August, 2023 at 3.30 p.m. The National Piping Centre, 30-34 McPhater St, Glasgow G4 0HW Free Event Bernard MacLaverty special guest at SCAP (Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications) Summer Festival Belfast man, Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has published six collections of short stories and five novels, the latest of which ‘Midwinter […]
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Writing the World: Book Launch at SCAP Summer Festival
Sunday 27 August, 2023 1.30 p.m. – 3 p.m. National Youth Theatre, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow G1 1TF Free event Writing the World: A Collective This book is the outcome of Creative Writing classes with Asylum Seekers taught by Donna Campbell and Linda Jackson. The book also has work by more established writers who have […]
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International Dog Weekend at Cuku Glasgow
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 August, 2023 is International Dog Weekend Take your weekend walkies to the one of the West End’s most welcoming dog-friendly venues – Cuku, 1 Kirklee Rd, Glasgow G12 0RL Treats | Snacks | Activities | Free Entry For All Dogs Free entry Cuku on Facebook
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
An evening with local poets Ann MacKinnon and Catriona Malan
Thursday 24 August, 2023 at 7 p.m. Discussing poetry (with the help of Mary Irvine) Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Free entry and refreshments
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Jonny McGiffen at SCAP Summer Festival
Saturday 26 August, 2023, 4.30 p.m. Jonny McGiffen plays solo blues at The National Piping Centre for the SCAP Summer festival ‘23 Event by:Blue Milk and Linda Jaxson National Piping Centre 30-34 McPhater St, Glasgow G4 0HW Free Event Download SCAP (Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications) Festival Programme (PDF) More about SCAP Summer Festival
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SCAP (Seahorse Creative Arts and Publcations) Summer Festival
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August, 2023 Saturday at the National Piping Centre, 30-34, McPhater Street Glasgow G4 0HW Sunday at the Scottish Youth Theatre, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow G1 1TF The festival is packed with music, dance, readings, workshops and exhibitions – Whether you are interested in music, dance, literature or visual arts, you […]
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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