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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..

Book Week Scotland 2022: Scotland’s Stories –Tales from the people of Scotland with Sally Magnusson

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Monday 14 November, 2022 7 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Join Sally Magnusson to celebrate stories from four vibrant Scottish communities as part of Book Week Scotland 2022. Book Week Scotland runs 14 – 20 November, 2022. Whether it’s the tales from childhood that captured our imagination, the larger than […]

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THE YOUNG SCOTTISH FILMMAKERS PRIZE OPENS FOR ITS SECOND YEAR

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Glasgow Film has today, Thursday 28 October, 2022, announced that the Young Scottish Filmmakers Prize is open for submissions for its second year. The prize is delivered by Glasgow Film in partnership with Eden Court Highland and Glasgow Short Film Festival and funded by BFI Film Academy. The prize was designed in consultation with GMAC […]

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Thursday, October 27, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people

The Gravedigger’s Wife plus Q & A at GFT

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Sunday 30 October, 2022 at 7.15 p.m. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and actor Omar Abdi, hosted by Somali-born, Glasgow-based photographer and curator Najma Abukar. Winner of Best Film at the African Movie Academy Awards, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife is set in Djibouti City, where Guled (Omar Abdi) […]

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Halloween at GFT 2022

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Celebrate the spooky season in style with a freaky film at GFT. This year, their Halloween programme includes a chance to see definitive horror classic Nosferatu with a revamped live score by David Allison, Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a Late Night screening of The Thing in 4K, and more. Bram Stoker’s Dracula – 30th […]

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All Is Vanity at Glasgow Film Theatre

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2 November, 2022 at 6.20 p.m. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Marcos Mereles and lead actor Sid Phoenix. Premiering to critical acclaim at London Film Festival, Marcos Mereles’ tongue-in-cheek, genre-defying first feature explores the egos and idiosyncrasies of a fashion shoot gone wrong. An eccentric photographer (Sid Phoenix), his eager assistant […]

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Emily at Glasgow Film Theatre

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28 October – 3 November, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit who became one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers. Before her death at the age of just 30, Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey, Sex […]

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Triangle of Sadness at Glasgow Film Theatre

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28 October – 17 November, 2022 Two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund (The Square) cements his position as contemporary cinema’s leading satirist with this savagely funny tale of class clashes and role reversals. This outrageous comedy finds a rogues’ gallery of wealthy guests (from business tycoons to heiresses) aboard a hyper-luxury yacht, whose downtrodden staff – under […]

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A Spooktacular Happening – Halloween The Children’s Wood

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Sunday 30 October, 2022 at 3.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. The Children’s Wood,  76 Kelbourne St, Glasgow G20 8PR Free event with soup, hot dogs and hot chocolate It will get dark so please bring torches Programme 3.30 p.m. – Lantern Making Workshop (bring jam jar without labels if you can) 4.30 p.m. – Illuminated […]

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North Kelvinside Windows Of Wonder 2022

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Join this years’ North Kelvinside Windows of Wonder Hallowe’en Glasgow West End – WOW MAP Add your wonderful, spooky, weird, colourful, bright, lovely, creative, crazy and unique window creation to the WOW map. Get planning, snipping, tearing, colouring, cutting, hanging- whatever it takes-  Cannot wait to see what YOUR window will look like to us […]

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The Shining at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Monday 31 October, 2022 at 8.20 p.m Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror is widely considered to be one of the most terrifying movies of all time. Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, this tale of a family man and would-be writer going mad as winter caretaker […]

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow

The Thing – 4k. Glasgow Film Theatre

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Monday 31 October, 2022 Late Night Screening Friday 28 October at 11 p.m. John Carpenter’s relentless, terrifying, psychological horror is a masterpiece of suspense. An Antarctic survey team discover that a shapeshifting alien which can imitate any of them has infiltrated their compound. As the deaths begin to escalate, everyone is a suspect and no one […]

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‘Devil May Care’ Dave Arcari Album Launch

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18 November, 2022 – Online Event information on Facebook Dave Arcari’s new album Devil May Care will be released on CD and all download/streaming services on Friday 18 November 2022. Digital pre-save– with the chance to win a Devil May Care tour shirt! Pre-order physical Various Gig Dates Thursday, 17 November, Tooth and Claw, Inverness […]

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Hugh Reed and The Velvet Underpants at McChuills

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Saturday 29 October, 2022, 7 p.m. McChuills, 80 High St, Glasgow G1 1NL Hugh Reed and his Velvet Underpants will be back in Glesga town, monster mashing at McChuills on Saturday 29th October with Gimme Gimme Gimmes. Free entry Event on Facebook

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Mary Irvine’s Blog: ‘Blackbird Singing’ – an evening with Graham Morgan

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‘Blackbird Singing’ – a review Thirty souls came along to the latest ‘An Evening with…’ event at the Helensburgh library, last Thursday. This time the author was Graham Morgan, who was in conversation with Robin Lloyd-Jones. Under discussion was Graham’s second book, ‘Blackbird Singing’, a sequel to his debut book ‘Start’. Pictures in words In […]

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Alexandra Shrinivas – Arlington Baths Club

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Friday 28 October, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. Bathe in the Arts Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT Part of the Bathe in the Arts collection Alexandra Shrinivas, a Scottish classical musician and soprano brings her life to life through music and poetry. The Awakenings & Journeys of my South Indian Roots Alexandra is a […]

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A Mixter O Makars: Scotland’s City Makars

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November, 1, 2022 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street G3 2JD The Glasgow leg of the A Mixter o Makars event series! As well as Scotland’s National Makar there are also Makars for many of Scotland’s cities too. For the first time, all five City Makars will perform live […]

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An Evening with Mary Edward, Helensburgh Library

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Thursday, November 24th at 7 p.m Helensburgh Library,  59 West King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Mary will talk about her latest book, Gallowgate, the author’s third historical novel. She will talk about the book, the research required and writing in general. Gallowgate is a story about three Irish sisters fleeing poverty and starvation in Wicklow, […]

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Scary Mary’s Slightly Spooky Treasure Hunts, Glasgow Tall Ship

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Sunday 30 October, 2022 The Glenlee, 150 Pointhouse Place, 150 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow, G41 3HT This Halloween, the Glenlee has been taken over by the ghostly sailor Captain Van Der Decken, the master of the infamous Flying Dutchman. Can you find the treasure before the Captain finds you? Join Scary Mary on Sunday 30th October […]

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Saturday, October 22, 2022 | Filed under: Hallowe'en in Glasgow, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog

IncludeED play by Mark MacNicol plus Q and A – Glasgow Evening

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Saturday 22 October, 2022, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Scottish Youth Theatre, Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF A new play Written by Mark MacNicol Directed by Libby McArthur starring Rachel Ogilvy and Caroline Guthrie. A new stage play exploring themes including the exclusion of pupils with learning disabilities in mainstream schools. The story of two […]

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C.J. Cooke – Creative Conversations

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 Monday 31 October 2022, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, UniversityAvenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free event – Register at Eventbrite CJ Cooke, also known as Carolyn Jess-Cooke, grew up on a council estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the Troubles. She started writing at the age of 7 and […]

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Sarah Markey at Cottiers

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30 October, 2022 at 7,30 p.m. Cottiers Theatre, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Sarah Markey – Leaving Lurgangreen Album Launch Featuring special guests and support from Breanna Wilson + Sophie Joint This is Sarah’s long awaited debut album. debut solo album ‘Leaving Lurgangreen’ features a number of guests including Marty Barry, Charlie […]

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Dallahan plus support, Cottiers Theatre

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23 October, 2022 Cottiers Theatre, 93 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Part of Scotland on Tour Dallahan is one of the most distinct forces in the international folk music scene. Forged in Scotland and Ireland’s traditional music community, but drawing on the traditional music styles of the Balkans and North America, they create an […]

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Sweet Charity at Websters Theatre

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27, 28, 29 October, 2022, 7.30 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Green Door Theatre is a Glasgow-based performing arts company. After receiving rave audience reviews for their debut production of Sondheim’s Assassins in April 2019, they are thrilled to (finally) return to Websters Theatre in 2022 with Bob Fosse’s rarely-performed […]

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Halloween Singalong at Websters – Artie’s Singing Kettle

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Sunday 30th October 2022 at 10.30am and 1pm Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Artie’s legendary Halloween Singalong with the original Singing Kettles. ‘Eaten by a Boa Constrictor’, ‘Shove Granny Aff the Bus’, ‘Spooky Ghost’, lots of Singing Kettle favourites. Bring Granny too and we promise not to make it too scary! […]

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Gaslight at Websters Theatre

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20, 21, 22 October, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Half Wits Theatre presents Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton in an exclusive, limited run at Websters’ Theatre. . A dark, gothic tale of a marriage and murder, based on deceit and trickery. A husband driving his wife insane in order to steal […]

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Free Youth Screening: Crooklyn at GFT

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Tuesday 25 October, 5.30pm 15-25 Card Members can claim a free ticket for GFT monthly youth screening. CSign up for free 15 – 25 Card.  To claim your free ticket, you must email your request to olivia.learmonth@glasgowfilm.org by Monday 24 October. As her teacher mother, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), and her jazz musician father, Woody (Delroy Lindo), […]

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Summer of Soul (or when the revolution could not be televised)

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Monday, 24 October, 2022 at 5.30 p.m. Tickets: £10.90 Black History Month screening of the acclaimed Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul. Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson presents a powerful documentary about an event in the summer of 1969 that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Not far from Woodstock, New York, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight […]

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Scotland Loves Anime

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21 – 23 October, 2022 Scotland Loves Anime (SLA) returns to Glasgow Film Theatre for its 13th year, with a jam-packed line-up featuring the best of new Japanese animation – an unmissable event whether you’re a fan of anime, or simply a fan of film. There are a limited number of Scotland Loves Anime Weekend […]

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150 years of Dumbarton Football Club Exhibition

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6th October – 17th December, 2022 Look back the history of Dumbarton Football Club with the exciting new exhibition celebrating their 150th Anniversary! Heritage Centre, Dumbarton Library, Strathleven Place, Dumbarton G82 1BD FREE ADMISSION Monday, Thursday – Friday 9.30am – 5.00pm, Tuesday 1.00pm – 8.00pm, Wednesday 9.30am – 8.00pm, Saturday 10.00am – 1.00pm

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The Rocky Horror Tribute Show – Hallowe’en

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Sunday 30 October, 2022 from 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. Event by 18 Candleriggs and The Rocky Horror Tribute Show 18 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1LD Tickets The Rocky Horror Tribute Show LIVE The UK’s leading live action tribute to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Experience the full magic of Rocky Horror LIVE on stage. *Fancy dress encouraged *Lots […]

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