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. Sisu at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June , 2023 Captions and audio description available From Jalmari Helander, director of Rare Exports and Big Game, Sisu is a bloody Second World War action epic that pits one hard-to-kill Finn against Nazi soldiers in Lapland. After a solitary prospector strikes gold in the wilderness, he runs into a retreating detachment of Nazi soldiers […]
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Jim Carruth and Liz Lochhead – The Tannahill Event
A Happy Makar Birthday Sunday 28 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Stgreet, Glasgow G2 3NY Join Glasgow’s two living laureates to celebrate two milestone birthdays. Liz Lochhead has just turned 75 and has been Makar for both city and country and has been awarded the Queen’s Gold […]
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Aye Write 2023 Arthur Snell: How Britain Broke The World
Saturday 27 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Suchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 4NY How Britain Broke The World is by former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell. It critically assesses UK foreign policy over the past 25 years, from Kosovo in 1998 to Afghanistan in 2021, while also scrutinising British policy […]
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Inland Empire – 4K at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 David Lynch’s first digitally-shot feature weaves a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity and cinema itself. Laura Dern stars in this labyrinthine nightmare, tumbling down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes on a hallucinatory odyssey into the deepest realms of the unconscious mind. Buy tickets GFT […]
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Aye Write 2023 – Ones to Watch – Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater
28 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event. Martin Griffin’s The Second Stranger finds a hotel worker trying to […]
Aye Write 2023: Lesley Riddoch and Neil Findlay, The Future(s) of Scotland
Friday, 26 May, 2023 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Lesley Riddoch’s new book Thrive explores why Scots won’t simmer down and why they continue to talk about independence when there was a no vote a decade ago. Scotland is not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it’s also not as Conservative, nor as […]
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Aye Write 2023: Coinneach MacLeod the Hebridean Baker
28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Coinneach MacLeod is a Global TikTok baking sensation known as The Hebridean Baker and he is serving up a fresh selection of exciting new recipes, charming stories and breathtaking photography from the Hebridean Islands. The landscapes, stories, history and […]
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Spring Open Day and Plant Sale
Saturday 3 June, 2023, 2 – 4 p.m. New Victoria Gardens, Glenapp St, Glasgow G41 2LG Doors are once again open for Spring Open Day. Come and have a wander around the beautiful gardens, talk to the plotholders, see some stunning flower displays and what else people are growing. There will be seedlings for sale…as […]
WestFest One Button Benny – Alan Windram
Alan Windram events with WestFest, ARC and The Children’s Wood Sunday, 4 June, 2023 2.30 p.m. Part of WestFest Children’s Book Programme in partnership with the Children’s Wood and ARC, University of Glasgow. ARC, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW Benny and his friends decide they need a bit more ‘robot dancing’ […]
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Tell It Slant – Govanhill Launch
Thursday, 25 May, 2023, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. With Mona Kareem and Jim McAteer Locavore Govanhill 349 Victoria Road Glasgow G42 7SA Tell It Slant poetry bookshop in Glasgow has moved! After Locavore Garnethill was sadly forced to close, their lovely friends at Locavore took Tell It Slant with them to their Govanhill home. They’re […]
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AHHH MAY ZINE FAIR – browse and buy zines
Thursday 1 June, 2023, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. BROWSE AND BUY ZINES at AhhhhMayZine Fair! University of Glasgow Union, 32 University Avenue, G12 8LX It’s a fair for the unvanquished and the tireless; artists who engage in the radical act of DIY publishing give platforms to the never-ready-for-prime-time voices. Zines provide both a sacred […]
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Aye Write 2023: Michael Pedersen and Tanya Frank, Memoirs of Love and Humanity
Thursday, 25 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. In Boy Friends he […]
Aye Write 2023! Lennie Goodings ‘A Bite of the Apple’
Tuesday 23 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Lennie Goodings joined Virago in the 1978 when “women wanted a voice, women wanted to understand their history, women wanted to see themselves on the page.” As an editor, she has worked with many of the finest writers of the last half-century, including Angela Carter, Maya Angelou, […]
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Aye Write 2023. Dave Rich – Everyday Hate
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Antisemitism is supposed to have disappeared long ago, but despite our abhorrence of racism and oppression in all its forms, this ancient prejudice continues to thrive. At a time of economic, political, and social turmoil, fuelled by conspiracy theories on your smartphone or conflict in the […]
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Friday, May 19, 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: Stuart Cosgrove – Hey America!
Sunday, 21 May, 2023, 9.15 – 10.15 p.m. Stuart Cosgrove’s Hey America! is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong’s spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt’s stormy encounter with […]
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Aye Write 2023: Timothy Phillips – The Curtain and the Wall
Sunday 21 May, 2023 – 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In The Curtain and the Wall Timothy Phillips tells the tale of a landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain – from the Arctic Circle to Turkey’s eastern border – tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live […]
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Aye Write 2023 Politics: A Survivor’s Guide – Rafael Behr
Sunday 21 May, 2023, 4.15 – 5.15 p.m. We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go, but politics stays divided and toxic. It is tempting to switch off the news, […]
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Aye Write 2023: Ryan Love, Fran Littlewood and Lynsey May
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Ryan Love, Fran Littlewood and Lynsey May will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which explores personal journeys in families. Ryan Love’s Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out tells the story of a grandfather and […]
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Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Bringing Down Goliath Jo Maugham
Saturday 20 May, 2023 4.15 – 5.15 p.m. Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple The Powerful is a revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project. Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and […]
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Aye Write 2023: Pip Fallow and Daniel Gray, Working Class Heroes
Saturday 21 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in […]
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The Eight Mountains at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 25 May, 2023 Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, The Eight Mountains is a poignant and uplifting tale of lifelong friendship. One Summer, 12-year-old Pietro and his family leave Turin to rent a house amidst the grandeur of the mountain country in Italy’s Aosta Valley. It is the village that Bruno […]
Take 2: Epic Tails at GFT
Saturday 20 May, 2023 11:30am All is going well for the people of Yolcos, until they create a glorious statue to the Greek God Zeus. Outraged due to jealousy, Poseidon warns that if he does not receive the same honour he will destroy the city. It comes down to cat and mouse duo, Chickos and Pattie to […]
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Islets of Silence – using theatre to talk about cancer
Wednesday 24 May, 2023, 1.30 p.m. – 3. p.m. The Mitchell Library North Street Glasgow G3 7DN By TramDirect with Macmillan@Glasgow Libraries Background The play was written and directed by Isobel Barrett after losing her husband to Pancreatic Cancer through misdiagnosis. Her husband died after only 3 weeks. Her main aim in writing the play is to […]
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Under the Fig Tree
Friday 19 – Thursday 25 May, 2023 Captions available Erige Sehiri’s (Railway Men) second film is the story of sisterhood and generational conflict, all told in the grounds of a rural Tunisian fig orchard. Working in the orchard, in the heat of the summer, a group of teenagers harvest and develop new feelings, flirt, try […]
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Plan 75 at GFT
19 – 25 May, 2023 Set in a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches ‘Plan 75’, a programme encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives, to rejuvenate the country’s rapidly-ageing population. Chie Hayakawa‘s remarkable debut intertwines the lives of three ordinary citizens as they face this new reality. An elderly woman, a young Plan […]
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Preview: The Old Man Movie – Lactopalypse + Q & A
Thursday 25 May, 2023 8:20pm Based on a popular Estonian web series, The Old Man Movie is an outrageous, crowd-pleasing, stop-motion comedy. In a remote village, three children from the city are forced to spend the summer on their grandfather’s farm. When they accidentally lose his prized cow, they have 24 hours to find the rogue bovine before the ‘Lactopalypse’. Followed by […]
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Bottle Rocket at GFT
Sunday 21 & Wednesday 24 May, 2023 As part of our CineMasters: Wes Anderson season, we’re screening his 1996 feature debut Bottle Rocket. Expanded from his short film of the same name, this charming – and hilarious – portrait of three dreamers was the first of several collaborations with his longtime friends Luke and Owen Wilson. Buy Tickets […]
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Beau is Afraid at GFT
19 – 25 May, 2023 Ari Aster’s (Hereditary, Midsommar) latest film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Beau, an immensely paranoid man, riddled with fear, who embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. In the process, Beau comes face to face with everything he is afraid of during a colossal, surreal adventure. Why […]
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Scottish – Egyptian Audio Visual Collaboration – I was in the tide, the tide was in me
6 – 21 May, 2023 UK Premiere of I was in the tide, the tide was in me at The Pipe Factory , 42 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2LA The new AV collaboration by Egyptian artist Ghada Eissa and British vocalist Nik Rawlings uses film and music to explore experiences of bipolar disorder, memory and […]
SCCAN: The Oil Machine – can we be break the addiction
Monday, 22 May, 2023 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Online Oil has been an invisible machine at the core of our economy and society. It now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? THE OIL MACHINE explores the complexities of transitioning away from oil and […]
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