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. Beatson Cancer Charity Launch Research Appeal
Beatson Cancer Charity is launching its Research Appeal to ensure more patients and their families across the west of Scotland can benefit from clinical radiotherapy research. The charity’s asking supporters and members of the public to help them deliver life-changing research by supporting a talented Radiotherapy Research Team to continue making breakthroughs in research, as […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
SCAP Writers – Donald Murray on Zoom
Thursday 15th June, 2023 at 7pm. Hosted by Linda Jackson and Donna Campbell. Special guest Donald Murray Also featuring: Bobby Motherwell, Hannah Nicholson and Judith Taylor. SCAP – Seahorse Creative Arts and Publications Donald S Murray is a Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright from Ness in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of […]
Robert Burns Photography Exhibition – A Window On Ukraine
2nd June – 16th July 2023 Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road G12 8AP Part of WestFest 2023 A Window on Ukraine offers distinctive observations and reflections of the country over several years by Glasgow-based photographer Robert Burns, who has been visiting Ukraine since 2007. Whilst on holiday in Crete in 2006, a chance meeting by Robert Burns […]
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| Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Free End of Term Golf For Glasgow School Children
Thousands of kids from across Glasgow and South Lanarkshire invited to Come Play Around this summer with FREE Topgolf sessions More than 2,000 Glaswegian and South Lanarkshire children and young people are swinging into the end of term with free Topgolf sessions at Glasgow’s biggest and most exciting interactive golf experience. Youngsters from more than […]
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| Filed under: Free Events, Kids and young people, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow
Wully Davidson: Kerrera Misadventure
Bus Pass Rambles – 1 June, 2023 Today’s trip was supposed to take me to Kerrera island to walk a six mile loop along its southern half. Kerrera is the island a few hundred yards from Oban. The 0830 bus from Glasgow to Oban should have taken 3 hours, but there was an accident on […]
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Sunday, June 4, 2023 | Filed under: Walks and Tours Glasgow, Wullie Davidson: Blogging about Bus Pass Jaunts in Scotland
Lids Open Night ( Summer ) 2023
21 June, 2023 4.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Mackintosh Queens Cross Church, 870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow G20 7EL Come and play the beautiful Steinway piano on stage under ‘GAIA’ as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of MQC and the 10th anniversary of our piano project starting life in 2013. Full details on the Glasgow […]
Vinicombe Street Gala 2023
Saturday 3 June, 2023 – Noon until 5 p.m. Come and celebrate the first Saturday of WestFest at the fabulous Vinicombe Street Gala. At the Piazza, top of Byres Road, (opposite Waitrose). Enjoy an afternoon of live music, dancers, circus performers and the fantastic SambaYaBamba! Also street theatre, balloon artists, face-painting and lots more. Free […]
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Friday, June 2, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
The Big Sunday at the Bandstand
Sunday 4 June, 2023 from 11 a.m. Kelvingrove Bandstand, off Kelvin Way, Glasgow West End. After the success of the Big Weekend last year, WestFest is excited to be back at Kelvingrove Bandstand in 2023 for a jam-packed programme of free, community events in partnership with Glasgow Music. Come and join the afternoon gala then […]
Take 2: The Super Mario Bros Movie
Saturday 3 June, 2023 at 11:30am Captions and audio description available Two plumbing brothers, Mario and Luigi, are separated in the Mushroom Kingdom. They become aware of the threat of the evil Bowser who wants to marry Princess Peach or destroy their whole world. Mario and Luigi team up with popular video game characters to […]
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Thursday, June 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
The Darjeeling Limited plus Hotel Chevalier – 35mm
Sunday 4 & Wednesday 7 June, 2023 CineMasters: Wes Anderson Seasoncontinues with The Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as estranged brothers who reunite for a train trip across India. The short film Hotel Chevalier, starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, acts as the prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Amanda at GFT
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 June, 2023 Carolina Cavalli’s darkly comic feature debut follows Amanda, who has returned home to Italy and her family after studying in Paris. She decides to seek out an old friend whose agoraphobia has kept her mostly inside since they were last in contact. The combination of both women’s neuroses only […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Mad About The Boy: The Noel Coward Story at GFT
2 – 8 June, 2023 The story of Noël Coward, one of the most successful multi-talented artist of the 20th century, told in his own words, music and unique home movies. Directed by Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Barnaby Thompson, the film features Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra and more, with Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward, and Alan Cumming […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
Thelma and Louise – 4K
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 June, 2023 Two best friends (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) decide to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, but things don’t go to plan and their quiet getaway turns into a cross country escape. Thelma & Louise’s themes of friendship, empowerment and women struggling to survive in a man’s world, have lost none of […]
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| Filed under: Cinema
WestFest Glasgow’s Cultural and Community Festival 2024
WestFest Community and Cultural Festival 2025 1 – 29 June WestFest Community Festival 2024 WestFest will take place from 1 – 30 june, 2024 WestFest, Glasgow’s biggest community and cultural festival today launches the full programme for its 2024 festival, taking place from 1st to 30th June. Bursting with an eclectic array of events, performances, […]
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Queer Reflections on Horror: Jennifer’s Body
Saturday 3 June, 2023 7:15pm Presented in association with GFT Youth Board at GFT to celebrate all things queer and all things horror as they launch new essay anthology It Came From the Closet: Queer reflections on Horror. The event will feature a screening of Jennifer’s Body followed by a Q&A and book signing with Glasgow author […]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Dragon Boat Festival – University of Glasgow
Friday 2 June, 2023, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – Confucius Institute, University of Glasgow All are welcome to join the Dragon Boat Festival 2023 – crafts, tea ceremony, sticky rice dumpling making, music. Tickets free, but limited! Book your ticket. Kelvin Gallery Gilbert Scott Building University Avenue (Gilchrist Postgraduate Club […]
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Wee Write Family Day 2023
Saturday 3 May, 2023 Spark your little bookworm’s imagination. This jam-packed day is full of creativity and book-based fun at the Mitchell Library. With Horrible Histories, Dennis the Menace mischief and a flying visit from Bookbug, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN See the full programme and buy tickets Chai Strathie – Scotland, […]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people
Silenced – A Scottish Suffragette Story
16 and 17 June, 2023 Following their successful production of Pippin last year at Webster’s, Theatre Alliance Musical Theatre Company are back with a brand new musical play charting the rise of the Suffragette movement…. told from a uniquely Scottish perspective. Written & Directed by Marlisa Ross with new music & arrangements by Stuart Bird. […]
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Sunday, May 28, 2023 | Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Together Unbound, gig at Websters Theatre
Saturday 3 June, 2023 Czech artists united in one place to celebrate friendship and collaboration. Together Unbound is a two-concert Glasgow series involving collaborators guitarist Jan Stránský, visual artist Karolína Trhoňová, and composer Lukáš Janata. The concert is a conclusion of a three-year pandemic remote collaboration on Lukáš’ new explorative work for solo guitar, Lamentations, […]
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Whispers From Heaven at Websters
Thursday, 1 June, 2023 Websters, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Whispers from Heaven offers a unique and intimate evening not to be missed. Dominic will use both his mediumistic and psychic abilities to connect you to your loved ones in Spirit, and give you guidance into your own life. Through the whispers of your loved […]
Aye Write: Stuart Braithwaite – Spaceships Over Glasgow
Sunday 28 May, 2023, 9.15 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3NY Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in Mogwai, one of the Glasgow and Scotland best loved bands. Spaceships Over Glasgow spans a delinquent childhood, rock star hedonism […]
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Saturday, May 27, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write: Pat Nevin – Football and How To Survive It
Sunday 28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Pat Nevin’s memoir Football and How To Survive It takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. rom Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he’s ever played. Then, in […]
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The Market at Pollok House
Sunday, 4 June, 2023, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws roadGlasgowG43 1AT Look out for another stellar lineup of top quality producers, makers, artists and crafters . Showcasing all kinds of delicious food and drinks, and beautiful arts, crafts and artisan goods too . The stalls will fill the […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Markets, Shopping
Aye Write: Neil Lancaster, Carole Johnstone and Fulton Ross – Something Dark Up North
Saturday 27 May, 2023 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In Neil Lancaster’s The Night Watch a lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, […]
Friday, May 26, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Ones to Watch – Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott, Wiz Wharton
Saturday 27 `May, 2023 11 a.m. – 12 noon The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott and Wiz Wharton will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which platforms some of our best new writers. On […]
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World Environment Day 2023 – Partick
Sunday, June 11, 2023 10am at Partickhill Bowling and Community Club, 46 Partickhill Rd, Glasgow G11 5BY Celebrate World Environment Day by attending a morning conference on the theme of Green Partickhill. Hear speakers from Spot-a-Bee (University of Glasgow) Sustrans (National Clyde Network) Zero Waste Scotland, and Glasgow City Council Join in the conversation about […]
Take 2: Brother Bear
Saturday 27 May, 2023 11:30am Kenai feels badly towards bears, believing one was responsible for the death of his brother. However while trying to hunt one, Kenai is transformed into a bear himself and begins to learn more about their perspective. He embarks on a journey to the Northern Lights, on a quest to transform back to being a human, but on the way he meets […]
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – 35 mm
Monday 29 & Wednesday 31 May, 2023 Part of our CineMasters: Wes Anderson season Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner, Estaban, during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined […]
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Master Gardener at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 Paul Schrader‘s latest film follows meticulous horticulturist (Joel Edgerton), who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate owned by a wealthy dowager (Sigourney Weaver). When he’s told to take on her troubled great-niece (Quintessa Swindell) as an apprentice, his life is thrown into chaos […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Cinema
Full Time at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 Full Time follows Julie, a single mother whose hectic daily routine comes under fire. To reach an interview for a job that will help her provide for her family, she must contend with a national transit strike in a nail-bitingly frantic race against time. Led by Laure Calamy‘s gripping performance, Full Time serves as a sobering reminder […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
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