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..

Christmas Market, Coopers Kelvinbridge

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Sunday, 16 November, 2025, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Coopers, 499 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 8HN Coopers very first Christmas Market! There will stalls from local businesses as well as stalls from very talented local people. >There will also be prizes, raffles and entertainment. Event on Facebook

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Creative Conversations: Gutter and Alasdair Gray Archive

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Monday 20 October, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Showcasing the work of Lucy Lauder and Joey Simons University Chapel, Main Building University of Glaagow, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Lucy Lauder (she/her) is a writer originally from the Scottish Borders now living in Glasgow. Lucy studied at the University of Glasgow from 2019-2024, gaining an […]

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Louise Connell and The Eves at Cottiers

Louise Connell and The Eves

Friday, 24 October, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Presented by Last Night From Glasgow with support by Emma Dunlop Join Louise Connell and The Eves live at Cottiers Theatre Glasgow. Playing their first headline sets for LNFG, support comes from the fabulous Emma Dunlop. Buy tickets

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Take 2. The Bad Guys 2 at GFT

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Saturday 18 October, 2025, 11.30 a.m. Who’s badder than The Bad Guys? The Bad Girls. In the new chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed 2022 action-comedy hit about a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws, The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are […]

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Saturday, October 18, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

Giant at GFT

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Saturday 18 October, 2025, 8 p.m. Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan star in the thrilling real-life story of world champion boxer Prince Naseem ‘Naz’ Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle. Inspired by real events and featuring tremendous performances by the two leads, Giant follows Hamed from his humble beginnings in 1980s and 1990s Sheffield, where he was exposed to Islamophobia […]

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Friday, October 17, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema

Monster Mash Moogety Garden – Hallowe’en 2025

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Saturday 1 November, 2025 – 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Moogety Garden, corner of Nimmo Drive and Elderpark Street, Glasgow G51 Monster Mash Hallowe’en Samhain –  Costumes Please! Fire – Music – Stories

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I Swear at GFT

I Swear

10 – 23 October, 2025 Shot in Scotland, I Swear is the powerful true-life story of Tourette’s Syndrome campaigner John Davidson MBE – brilliantly portrayed by Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power actor, Robert Aramayo. Performances tagged ‘Relaxed Screening’ will be less formal, with audience members allowed to make noises and leave their seats […]

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Document Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow

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Saturday 18 October, 2025 at 4 p.m. Park Lane Market, 976 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HA Re-launch of Document Human Rights Film Festival Everyone welcome. Further details  

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Souleymane’s Story at GFT

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17 – 23 October, 2025 Every second of Souleymane’s new life in France is precious. Having fled Guinea, his asylum interview looms. He powers through the streets of after dark Paris as a delivery rider, sleeps in hostels and prepares for his make-or-break appointment. Pressure builds as his date with destiny approaches. Boris Lojkine’s portrait […]

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Briana Corrigan at Cottiers

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Wednesday, 22 October, 2025 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Best known as the voice behind The Beautiful South’s chart-topping No.1 hit A Little Time, Briana’s distinctive sound and powerful storytelling have made her one of the most memorable voices in British pop. After a 10-year break, she’s back on stage with […]

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The Smashing Machine at GFT

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3 – 22 October, 2025 In one of the year’s most surprising pairings, Dwayne Johnson and indie icon Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems) team up in The Smashing Machine, the powerful story of pioneering mixed martial arts/UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Kerr helped grow the sport’s popularity in its early days, but the fights’ brutal demands took a toll, eventually leading to […]

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Aye Write 2025: Happy, Healthy, Sober – Janey Lee Grace with Frankie Burr

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Sunday, 9 November, 2025, 12.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN With her signature blend of honesty, humour, and holistic wisdom, former WHAM! backing singer Janey Lee Grace discusses her book, Happy Healthy Sober, with host Frankie Burr. Since ditching the drink in 2018 and stepping into a life of energy, clarity, and […]

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Resilience – The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope film screening G20Youth

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Tuesday 21st October, 2025 – 3.30pm – 5pm Book a space: Emailor text 07762029663 G20, 21 Dunbeith Place , GlasgowG20 8HS You are invited to a community screening of Resilience, a powerful documentary exploring how childhood stress and trauma (ACEs, Adverse Childhood Experiences) shape long-term health.“This issue is very real for our community” G20Youth on Facebook […]

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Mother India – Glasgow

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Mother India Restaurants Glasgow Mother India, 28 Westminster Terrace, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 7RU Mother India – Christmas 2025 – Set Menu The Lansdowne Christmas Menus 2025 To Book please telephone: 0141 221 1663 (See the menu) Take Away Menu Mother India Cafe, 1355 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AD – open for walk ins 7 days […]

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Gone Too Far plus discussion

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Monday 20 October, 2025, 5.30 p.m. Screening of Gone Too Far! and discussion at GFT.  The discussion will be co-hosted by Amy Rich, Communities and Campaigns Officer at the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights and Angie Mwafulirwa, director of Sharpen Her: the African Women’s Network. Along with some of the members of Sharpen Her, […]

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Aye Write: Huey Morgan – The Fun Lovin’ Criminal

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Thursday 6 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW Memoir, Music, Non-fiction – Aye Write 6 – 16 November, 2025 Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman and 90s icon Huey Morgan joins co-founder of Glasgow City Music Tours, Fiona Shepard to talk about his aptly named memoir, The Fun Lovin’ Criminal. […]

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Hip Replacement Hallowe’en Party

Hip Replacement Party

Friday 31 October, 2025 – 7.30  p.m. – 11.59 p.m. West of Scotland Cricket Ground, 40 – 44 Peel Street, Partick, Glasgow G11 5PU Hip Replacement Halloween Party, this happens every year and is always a brilliant night. Dress up or don’t, you’ll be dancing all night. Buy tickets Only few tickets left!!! See on […]

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Autumn Voices – An Online Reading with Moria Forsyth

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Wednesday 15 October, 2025 – 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. To kick start the Letting Go programme, you are invited to an online reading by Highlands-based author Moira Forsyth Moira Forsyth grew up in Aberdeen, lived in England for nearly twenty years, and now lives in the Highlands. She has published five novels, as well as short […]

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Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival – A Kick Up The Arts

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Thursday October, 23, 2025, 7 p.m. Civic House,26 Civic St, Glasgow G4 9RH Part of Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 20 October – 9 November, 2025 Conversation, music and some really special live performances from three incredible Scottish songwriters and musicians. SMHAF teams up with Nicola Meighan’s A Kick Up the Arts podcast for a special evening […]

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Aye Write: Who Will Be Remembered Here – Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall

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8 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Social & Cultural History, Historical Events, LGBTQIA+ Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, and Lewis Hetherington are just some of the authors who contributed to Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland. In this special discussion, author and journalist Carrie Marshall sits down […]

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Aye Write 2025: Graeme Macrae Burnet and Francine Toon with Alistair Braidwood

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Thursday, 6 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Mystery The host of the Scots Whay Hae! podcast, Ali Braidwood, chairs a discussion between two masterful mystery writers, each with their own tale set in rural Scotland. In Benbecula, Booker-shortlisted author Graeme Macrae Burnet writes […]

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Maybe I’m Amazed – John Harris with Nicola Meighan

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Saturday, 8 November, 2025, 9.15 p.m. Glasgow Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite,   Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW Award-winning writer, journalist, podcaster and presenter John Harris joins BBC Radio Scotland’s Nicola Meighan in conversation about his extraordinary memoir, Maybe I’m Amazed: A Story of Love and Connections in 10 Songs. The book tells the touching story of how […]

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One Battle After Another

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27 September – 16 October, 2025 GFT 122 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own. Leonardo DiCaprio stars alongside Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, and Alana Haim (who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s last film, 2021’s Licorice Pizza) in this latest blistering satire […]

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Monday, October 13, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema

CinemaAttic Colombia Presente! – Short Films

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Wednesday 15 October, 2025, 7 p.m. CinemaAttic returns to the CCA with Colombia Presente!, the fourth edition of its annual short film programme highlighting Colombian cinema. This year’s showcase features the magnificent and thoughtful About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks, with more short films to be revealed soon. What do hippos and peacocks have to say about […]

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Graham Morgan at Daydreams Bookshop

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Thursday 12 November, 2025 7 p.m. Daydreams Bookshop Unit 2, 38 Stewart St, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 6BY Graham Morgan will be at Daydreams Bookshop to talk about life and schizophrenia. All profits of any sales to Jeans Bothy do come along! Daydreams Bookshop on Facebook    

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The Mastermind at GFT

Tuesday 14 October 2025. 8.20 p.m. Josh O’Connor is superb as a rudderless everyman out of step with his immediate environs and the country at large, in Kelly Reichardt’s funny, shaggy heist film. 1970s America has witnessed a generational chasm and a society torn apart by Vietnam. But JB is oblivious to these cultural changes as he bumbles […]

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Rental Family at GFT

Rental Family

Thursday 16 October, 2025, 8.20 p.m. After his Oscar success with The Whale, Brendan Fraser returns to LFF, starring in HIKARI’s rich and heartwarming tale of a struggling American actor searching for a connection in Tokyo. Phillip Vanderpleog (Fraser) lives in the Japanese capital. Looking for any work opportunities, he is employed by a ‘rental family’ company, which provides clients […]

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Open Mic Nights Glasgow and around

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Spoken Word Events in Glasgow courtesy of Stephen Watt Email:your details of Open Mic Nights in Glasgow for Inclusion ALWAYS CHECK TIMES AND DATES WITH VENUES and Venues please get in touch if details change or Open Mic ceases. Thanks.:) Working on Updating Page.  Open Mic events can be found in Glasgow more or less […]

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A House of Dynamite at GFT

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3 – 16 October, 2025 When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. ★★★★★ ‘Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback’ – The Guardian Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

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Mika & Me Optical Studios Glasgow

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56 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9JF Tel: 0141 413 5393 Email: hello@mikaandme.com Drive Safe Campaign. Get a grip on headlight glare with Mika and Me’s Drive Safe Campaign – New lenses designed for safer driving. 10% off this October. Pop into Mika and Me or Book an Eyetest or  Book a Free Consultation Telephone: 0141 413 5393 […]

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