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. Full programme announced for Sonica Surge Festival
29 and 30 September, 2023 Cryptic’s new intensive 48 hour burst of inspiring and innovative audiovisual art and experimentation Sonica Surge kicks off a year of celebrations to mark Cryptic’s 30th anniversary as one of the UK’s most innovative producing houses Highlights Headlined by the UK premiere from pioneering artist and musician Robert Henke, other […]
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Take 2: Fantastic Mr Fox
Saturday 10 June, 2023 11:30am Based on the Roald Dahl book, Wes Anderson’s film is full of deadpan banter and clever silliness. After 12 years of bucolic bliss, urbane Mr Fox breaks a promise to his wife and returns to his farm raiding ways. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the […]
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Love Without Walls plus Q & A
Thursday 15 June, 2023 – 8pm When Sophie and aspiring musician Paul can’t pay their London rent, they turn to family and friends for support. Over the course of a summer, the couple lose everything and find themselves lost in the underbelly of the London and Essex streets. A story of love, hope and survival […]
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Hairspray: 35 Anniversary
Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 June, 2023 It’s Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious teenager with the biggest bouffant on the block attempts to win the coveted ‘Miss Auto Show’ crown as she fights against racial discrimination. John Waters’ much-loved hit Hairspray featuring a wildly entertaining line up of Ricky Lake, Jerry Stiller, Debbie Harry and Water‘s long-time muse, Divine, is screening at GFT to […]
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My Imaginary Country at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June , 2023 Chile – October 2019: an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Director Patricio Guzman‘s documentary follows the men […]
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Le Mépris – 4K at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 This 4K restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s (Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou) new-wave masterpiece, Le Mépris, has been released to celebrate the film’s 60th anniversary. A landmark in world cinema, and set around the extraordinary Villa Malaparte on Capri, Le Mépris tells the story of the tragic romance between Paul (Michel Piccoli) and his wife, Camille […]
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War Pony at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 Captions available After going down a storm as Glasgow Film Festival’s Surprise Film in March, this tender and utterly compelling film returns to GFT. It tells the interlocking stories of two Oglala Lakota men coming of age on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring spellbinding performances from first-time actors Jojo […]
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Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest – 4K restorations
Saturday 3 – Tuesday 13 June, 2023 When former child actor Bruce Lee returned to his native Hong Kong in 1971 to star in two films for fledgling company Golden Harvest, movie history was made thanks to one of the most iconic partnerships between star and studio that cinema has ever seen. In only a handful […]
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Friday 2 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 Based on Judy Blume’s best-seller, this heart-warming coming-of-age drama follows 11-year-old Margaret as she experiences all the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school, alongside myriad family dramas. Buy tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
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City of Glasgow Chorus at WestFest
Saturday, 20 June, 2023 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. From Classic to Pop – A choral celebration! Join the world-renowned City of Glasgow Chorus singing music from Verdi’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves to Eva Cassidy’s Autumn Leaves. St John’s Renfield Church 22 Beaconsfield Road Glasgow G12 0NB Buy tickets at EventBrite Part of WestFest
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wully Davidson Bus Pass Rambles: Kerrera
5 June, 2023 Kerrera After Thursday’s failed attempt, due to a coach blocking the road after becoming stuck in a ditch, I decided to get back on the horse for another go at visiting Kerrera. The 0830 bus from Buchanan bus station arrived in Oban at 1136 and I caught a taxi for the 2 […]
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The Kris Drever Band at Cottiers
18 June, 2023 8 p.m. THE KRIS DREVER BAND Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU One of Scotland’s finest and most acclaimed songwriters Kris Drever will tour with his own band (for the first time outside of his work with Lau) in 2023, and to coincide Reveal Records will issue an expansive career spanning […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
BIG BAND BUBLÉ at Cottiers
8 June, 2023 Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Following their successful appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie and the record-breaking Scottish big band, ‘Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation’ invite you to a night full of seductive songs and memorable melodies in a fabulous tribute […]
A Punto de Despegar at CCA
Tuesday 6 June, 2023 Doors 7.30 p.m. – film starts 8.00 p.m. Buy tickets ABOUT TO TAKE OFF / A PUNTO DE DESPEGAR Dir. Lorena Best and Robinson Díaz / Perú / 2015 / 85’ CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow The documentary aligns with others that share similar concerns about how modernisation destroys places and […]
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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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| 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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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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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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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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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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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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