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..

Alpha at GFT

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14- 20 November, 2025 After winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau returns with another nightmarishly weird offering. 13-year-old Alpha lives with her mother, a doctor working on the front-lines of a mysterious epidemic. When Alpha returns from a party with a fresh tattoo on her arm, her mother’s fears take hold and their world begins to […]

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Left Handed Girl at GFT

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14 – 20 November, 2025 Buy tickets Shih-Ching Tsou’s dynamic solo debut, co-written with Sean Baker — director of the Academy Award-winning Anora — follows a family of women returning to Taipei to begin a new chapter in their lives. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” […]

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Bugonia at GFT

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Until 13 November, 2025 Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, The Favourite) and Emma Stone are reunited for a fourth time in this gripping, darkly funny and satirical environmental comedy-thriller. Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO (Stone), believing she is an alien intent on destroying […]

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Havana Film Festival Glasgow 2025

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11 – 16 November, 2025 (Download full programme (PDF) Some Highlights Feminist Film Making Sunday 16 November, 2025,  3 p.m. The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow, G1 1TF Book tickets Vietnam Through The Eyes of Santiago Alvarez Saturday 15 November, 2025, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Buy tickets Three […]

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French Film Festival 2025 at GFT

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Discover some of the most anticipated new releases: French Film Festival runs from 6 November – 14 December, 2025 All of the French Film Festival on sale now. Screening to mark the UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, catch a special preview of Kaouther Ben Hania’s acclaimed drama The Voice of Hind […]

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Living With Rain – Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow

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Launch of Report by Andrew Hoolachan 3 December, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Collective Architecture, 13 Bath Street, G2 1HY Overview Launch of Dr Andrew Hoolachan’s report ‘Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow’ You’re walking through Glasgow in the height of summer. A heavy rain shower leaves behind a soaked urban […]

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Book Launch: The Great North Road – Stuart Campbell

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Saturday 22 November, 2025, 2 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP The Great North Road manuscript that Robert Louis Stevenson left unfinished at his death has now been completed by the noted Stevenson scholar and novelist Stuart Campbell. Acting as a literary sleuth he has located a list of twenty-five intended chapter […]

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Battlefield Writers Book Launch – Glasgow Tales

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Part of Book Week Scotland 17 – 23 November, 2025 17 November, 2025 – 6 p.m. – 7p.m. plus Second date on 13 November at 6 p.m. Couper Institute Library presents the launch of Glasgow Tales. Join the Battlefield Writers for the launch of their new collection Glasgow Tales – A Collection of Short Stories and […]

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Woodlands Community – Anti Racist Film Club

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Film Screenings at Woodlands Community Autumn / Winter 2025 Tuesday 25 November, 2025 – Dahomey-Booking and Information at Eventbrite Tuesday 16 December, 2025 – All We Imagine As Light – Booking and Information Come and be a part of Woodlands Community monthly Anti-Racist Film Club! Screening a range of moving, educational and engaging films that […]

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Warm up at the cinema after Glasgow’s Christmas lights switch-on. Follow a trail of sparkling illuminations along Sauchiehall Street to GFT, where we’ll be treating you to a bargain price screening of the cosy winter classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — the perfect way to kick off the […]

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A Kick Up The Arts Sanjeev Kohli in conversation with Nicola Meighan

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Thursday, 13 November, 2025,  2.3o p.m. (Doors 1.30 p.m.) The Stand Comedy Club, 420 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ Join writer and BBC broadcaster Nicola Meighan for a late lunch live recording of her Scottish arts and culture podcast, A Kick Up The Arts, with some of our best loved actors, musicians, artists, comedians and […]

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Aye Write: Blitz: Robert Elms with Stuart Cosgrove

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Tuesday 11 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW Acclaimed author and broadcaster Robert Elms makes his Aye Write debut to discuss his new book, Blitz: The Club That Created the 80s. The short-lived Blitz club in London’s Covent Garden was more than just a place to hang out […]

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Dragonfly at GFT

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8 – 13 November, 2025 Have we become a nation of strangers? In Dragonfly, neglected pensioner Elsie (Brenda Blethyn) finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour Colleen (Andrea Riseborough). Over time, Elsie gains a friend and the troubled Colleen finds a fresh purpose in life as she shops, cleans and cares for her. It […]

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The Magnificent Ambersons + introduction

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Sunday 9 November, 2025 at 1.40 p.m. Orson Welles’ second feature chronicles the fall of a wealthy Indianapolis family during the American industrialisation boom of the early 20th century. Isabel Amberson’s spoiled son stands in the way of both her personal happiness and the advancement of their family fortune. Intricate camerawork and expressive mise-en-scène chart […]

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Take 2: Grand Prix of Europe

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Saturday 8 November, 2025 11.30 a,m.-Standard ScreeningG 12.00 noon- Autism Friendly Screening Edda, a young mouse and the daughter of fairground operator Erwin, dreams of becoming a race car driver. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the European Grand Prix, Edda gets the opportunity to meet her idol, racing star Ed, and to help her […]

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Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland 2025

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Friday 7 – Thursday 13 November, 2025 The festival presents a selection of contemporary Taiwanese cinema that delves into the intricate tapestry of identity, memory, and societal transformation. It serves as a luminous platform of encounter, where Taiwan’s cinematic imagination dialogues with Scotland’s cultural landscape, and where local stories refract global questions of belonging, resilience, […]

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Aye Write 2025 – Jeanette Winterson

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On Aladdin Two Lamps Friday 14 November, 2025, 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont Street, G2 3NW Literary trailblazer Jeanette Winterson at Aye Write for the first time. Forty years on from her era-defining debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps. Weaving together fiction, magic and […]

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Carlton Jug Band Album and CD Launch – Avant Garde

Carlton Jug Band CD Launch

Carlton Jug Band at Avant Garde Friday 6th February, 2026 8.30 p.m. – 11 p.m. At last, The Carlton JugBand album & EP launch! ‘Herding Cats’ & ‘I’ve Been Here Before’. 12 classic ‘Jugified’ tracks and 4 original tunes. With guest trumpeter, J Simon Van der Walt at the launch. Tell all your friends, it’s […]

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Still Glasgow at GoMA

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Saturday 29 November 2025 – Sunday 13 June, 2027 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 111 Queen St, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH Still Glasgow is an extensive new exhibition which has photography at its core and looks at Glasgow, past and present. With over 80 works, the exhibition showcases well-known photographs of the city […]

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Scottish Open Badminton Championships 2025

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20 – 23 November, 2025 Emirates Arena, The Scottish Open Badminton Championships will return to Glasgow this autumn. Secure your tickets to watch world class badminton today Please note: if you are an individual member of Badminton Scotland you are entitled to 2 FREE tickets for Thursday 20 November and HALF-PRICE tickets for all other […]

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Martin McAloon – Steve McQueen 40th Anniversary

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14 November, 2025 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Two Wheels Good Tour To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Prefab Sprout’s seminal album Steve McQueen, founding member Martin McAloon will be touring the whole album in 2025. Buy Tickets “I can’t wait to take the full album out on […]

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Andy Irvine at Cottiers

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Sunday, 23 November, 2025, 8 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as “a tradition in himself.” Musician, singer and songwriter, […]

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Penelope Trappes and Run at Cottiers

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Wednesday, 19th November 2025, 7 p.m. Cottiers, 93 -95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Co-Headline show Penelope Trappes Penelope Trappes is a UK-based, Australian-born experimental musician, vocalist and producer creating brooding atmospherics and unsettling poetics underpinned by subterranean drone. On April 4 2025, her fifth full-length album ‘A Requiem’ was released on One Little Independent […]

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Marginalia – The Stand Comedy Club

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Thursday 6 November, 2025 7 p.m. Kevin Gilday and Nasim Rebecca Asl The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow 333 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6NG Buy tickets This month with comedy colossus Darren Connell, who headlined the esteemed King’s Theatre as part of this year’s comedy festival; chatting about gruesome crime with bestselling author of The Malt Whisky Murders, […]

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Nationhood: Memory and Hope – Street Level Photoworks

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1st November 2025 –  8th February 2026 Street Level Photoworks, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Exhibiting artists Miriam Ali, Haneen Hadiy, Grace Springer, Chad Alexander, Shaun Connell, Robin Chaddah-Dukeand, and Roz Doherty. Nationhood: Memory and Hope is a new exhibition of powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. It is a love […]

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Come and Sing Traditional Carols at Christmas

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Saturday 6 December, 2025, 1.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow, Glasgow G4 9JB  An Organ for Glasgow All welcome Come and sing your favourite traditional carols in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow’s West End. This event is suitable for anyone who sings in a choir as well […]

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Outi Karhu – Let The Light In album launch

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Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7 p.m. Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4HU A spellbinding evening to celebrate the launch of Finnish-Scottish songwriter Outi Karhu’s debut album Let The Light In. Woven into a nostalgic story book, Let The Light In is a collection of tales from Outi’s life and travels played like lullabies for adults, […]

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Life is Dance at GFT

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Thursday 13 November, 2025 UK Premiere of award-winning documentary by Havana Glasgow Festival Directors Eirene Houston and Hugo Rivalta which follows the stories of six main protagonists, across three generations. These are ordinary Cubans with one thing in common – their love of dance. Marta and Félix are nostalgic for the dance halls of old but still dance whenever […]

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Palestine 36 at GFT

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1 – 6 November, 2025 Annemarie Jacir’s historical drama centers on 1936 Mandatory Palestine, where a unified Palestinian uprising and rising Jewish immigration intensify conflict against British rule. 1936 – As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a […]

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Scotland Loves Anime 2025

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31 October – 4 November, 2025 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgfow G3 6RB An essential season for any anime fans. The programme includes UK Premieres, rarely screened agfems and even a special mystery film.   Friday October 31st 2:20 pm – Mystery Film 5:00 pm – Lupin the IIIrd: The Immortal Bloodline + […]

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