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. Urchin at GFT
3 – 16 October, 2025 The stunning directorial debut from Harris Dickinson, powered by an outstanding, award-winning performance from Frank Dillane. Mike (Dillane), a rough sleeper on the streets of London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Moving between short-term jobs and small-time hustles, he must balance the […]
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Monday, October 13, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Black History Month: Cycling Tour
We Are Here Because You Were There Monday 13th October, 2025, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street, Glasgow, G1 5DB ‘MORE TOUR DE SCOTLAND cycle team will bring our history of resilience, our stories of hope and our lives of triumph through the lens of cycling. Black cyclists are bold, we are unapologetic, we are […]
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Sunday, October 12, 2025 | Filed under: Black History Month Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
October School Holiday 2025 – Crafts and Stories for Kids at Glasgow Libraries
Monday 13 October – 17 October, 2025 Drop in this October Week for spooky stories and crafty fun at Glasgow Life Libraries! Free Kids can create their own Halloween masterpieces and enjoy spooky tales. Free, family-friendly, no booking required, just drop in and get creative! Glasgow Libraries with Events Monday October 13th – 2pm-3pm Dennistoun […]
| Filed under: Free Events, Kids and young people
Creative Conversations: Theresa Muñoz
Monday, October 13, 2025, 1 – 2pm Poet Theresa Muñoz in Conversation Gilbert Scott Lecture Theatre, Lecture Room 225, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives in Edinburgh. She is a poet, researcher and creative producer. She has a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of […]
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Saturday, October 11, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Free & Open to the Public University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Creative Conversations from January 2026 Rachelle Atalla, 20 January, 2026 1 p.m. Memorial Chapel Rachelle Atalla – Creative Conversations Creative Conversations from January 2025 Theresa Muñoz in Conversation, Monday 13 October 1 p.m., University of Glasgow Creative Conversations: Theresa Muñoz […]
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Friday, October 10, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Tom Robinson and Adam Phillips at Cottiers
16th October, 2025 at 7 p.m. Then & Now 50 Years of Adventures in the Record Industry (1975-2025) Cottiers, 93 – 96 Hyndland Srtreet, Glasgow G11 5PU Tom Robinson presents an evening of songs and stories from fifty years wandering the wilder shores of the Record Industry. Classic hits such as ‘War Baby’, ‘Up Against the […]
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Thursday, October 9, 2025 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Old Glasgow Club – The People’s Palace: Talk by Peter Mortimer
Thursday 9 October, 2025, 7.00 p.m. Renfield St Stephens Centre, 260 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JP Old Glasgow Club‘s connections with The People’s Palace, which opened in 1898, go back to the formation of the club with at least three of its curators being Club Directors. So, what better connection for us to make than […]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Peoples Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green
Take 2: Elio at GFT
Saturday, 11 October, 2025 11.30 a.m. Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Buy tickets
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GUITARGUITAR – Scottish Music Awards 2025
Saturday, 8 November, 2025 Barrowland Ballroom, 244 Gallowgate, Glasgow G4 0TT GUITAGUITAR Scottish Music Awards returns to the Barrowland Ballroom for 2025 with Amy Macdonald, Hue and Cry, Nathan Evans and the Saint PHNX Band, Skipinnish, Shay O’Dowd and James Emmanuel – among the first winners to be announced. Celebrating the very best of Scotland’s […]
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The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize and Exhibition 2025
31 October – 13 November, 2025 The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TS The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize is an annual student art competition, launched in 2024 it’s open to students from schools in West Dunbartonshire. With £200 worth of art shop vouchers for the competition winner as well as prizes for second […]
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| Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Official Viva Palestina Scotland – Marketland
Viva Palestina Scotland – Fundraising for Gaza Saturdays and Sundays at The Barras Marketland Barras entrance on Bain Street, Moncur Street and Gibson Street. Ready and waiting with lots of merch. Map About Viva Palestina Scotland Viva Palestina Scotland is a Volunteer group established in March 2024 Comprised of a passionate group of volunteers attending […]
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Monday, October 6, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Markets, Shopping
Kittlin at Avant Garde
Tuesday 7 October, 2025 Music, Spoken Word and Open Mic with Lesley O’Brien Free Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5Q
GoMA Late: Celebration of Black History Month
(image Rayna Carruthers) Thursday 9 October, 2025 8 p.m. – 9 p.m. At the Gallery of Modern Art – a late opening celebrating Black History Month through art. With activities led by our Intercultural Youth Group and with guest artist Christian Noelle Charles, whose work is on display at GoMA, there will be something for […]
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Saturday, October 4, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Black History Month Glasgow
Walking Tour: Tracing Glasgow’s Imperial Past in Kelvingrove Park
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Glasgow’s often referred to as having been the ‘second city’ of the British Empire, a nickname coined in the early-nineteenth century that represented the might of its industries and the reach of its trade connections. The city’s capacity for making and exporting all manner of goods, […]
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It Wisnae Us: the truth about Glasgow and slavery
1 – 31 October, 2025 Staircase leading to Hunterian Museum, University Avenue, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QQ CRER’s ‘It Wisnae Us’ exhibition will be displayed in the Hunterian Museum. The exhibition provides an insight into the role of transatlantic slavery in Glasgow’s past, telling a story through the buildings and streets that have a tangible link […]
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Friday, October 3, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Black History Month Glasgow
Black History Month Walking Tour Glasgow
Various Dates October, 2025 Check Availability David Livingstone Memorial Statue, Castle Street Glasgow G4 0UZ The walks take participants on a historical journey through Glasgow’s mercantile past and examine the city’s connections with tobacco, slavery and the abolition movement. Tours will be led by Amy Rich and Lucien Staddon Foster. The route is mostly downhill […]
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| Filed under: Black History Month Glasgow
Samizdat: Eastern European Film Festival
30 September – 3 October, 2025 Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in communist states, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival is returning for 2025 with an as-ever eclectic mix of some of the most exciting, powerful, thoughtful, weird and wonderful filmmaking from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. […]
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Take 2: Natures Resources at GFT
Saturday 4 October, 2025 11.30 a.m. Fashion curator Isabella Coraça will guide children through this special programme of animations showcasing the harmonious collaboration between humans and non-human species. Across the history of cinema, children’s animated films have conveyed profound wisdom by exploring the cooperation of human and non-human species and contemplating the uncertain boundary where […]
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The Wiz plus introduction
Monday 6 October, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Legendary music producer Quincy Jones teamed up with Charlie Smalls to bring the 1974 Broadway musical The Wiz to the big screen, with the help of an all-star African American cast. Directed by Academy Award nominee Sidney Lumet, this lively retelling of The Wizard of Oz stars Diana Ross as Dorothy, while music […]
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| Filed under: Black History Month Glasgow, Cinema
Book Launch: Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Thursday 9 October, 2025 at 7 p.m. In Conversation with Sara Sheridan Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW Event by Graeme Macrae Burnet Graeme Macrae Burnet launches the latest book in Polygon’s bestselling and critically acclaimed Darkland Tales series in conversation with Sara Sheridan. The series includes Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid, Rizzio by Denise […]
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Ocean with David Attenborough: Community Screening & Q&A at GFT
Monday, October 13, 2025 at 10am – 12pm Doors at 9:45 a.m. By Marine Conservation Society Afree screening of Ocean with David Attenborough, hosted by the Marine Conservation Society and followed by a Q &A. The Marine Conservation Society are hosting a free screening of Ocean with David Attenborough – a stunning documentary showing us […]
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Aye Write 2025: Scottish Fiction
9 November, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Scottish Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Mystery Margaret McDonald, Callum McSorley and Tom Newlands The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Author Martin Stewart chairs a discussion between three talented young Scottish writers, each with an award-winning debut novel to their name. Tom Newlands Tom Newlands won […]
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Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
It Was Just An Accident at GFT
Saturday 11 October, 2025 at 5.20 p.m. Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed and deserving Palme d’Or winner is a muscular thriller and an engaging morality tale for our times. A minor traffic accident reunites two men with a shared past. One is set on revenge, but then doubts set in. Panahi (Crimson Gold, 3 Faces, No Bears) […]
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Public Rehearsal – Cooperation Band
Wednesday 8th October, 2025 at 7.30 p.m. Govan & Linthouse Parish Church, 796 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2YL Come along and experience a behind-the-scenes evening as the band prepares Edward Gregson’s Symphony in Two Movements for the National Championships. Entry is free! “Your support — whether attending, sharing the word, or cheering us on — […]
Mental Health and Bigger Bodies – Byres Road Hub Mondays
Monday 6 October, 2025 (and fortnightly) University of Glasgow, School of Health and Wellbeing Byres Road Community Hub, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road. G12 8 TB If you’re new to the Hub, or if you’re already familiar, come and pop in! Free event. 10am: Tour of our Hub and Clarice Pears building 10.30am: Networking […]
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Kick Up The Arts – Nicola Meighan with Jill Jackson and Carol Laula
Thursday 2 October, 2025 Part of Glasgow Americana Cottiers Theatre, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Glasgow Americana is more than thrilled to be teaming up with Nicola Meighan and her excellent podcast “A Kick Up The Arts” during the festival this year. Brining the podcast to the live stage with two of […]
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wee Scottish Arts Group Clydebank Exhibition
Until 31 October, 2025 Gallery 5, Clydebank Town Hall, Hall St, Clydebank G81 1UB Looking for something inspiring to do over the next month? Pop into Gallery 5 at Clydebank Town Hall and explore the beautiful work of the Wee Scottish Arts Group! A wide range of stunning local artworks are on display and available […]
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Bookface Sip and Swop with Gillian Shirreffs
Saturday 25 October, 2025, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Saints of Ingram, 158 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1EJ Come along for a fun and cosy afternoon at Saints of Ingram in Glasgow on Saturday 25th October from 3-6pm. when Bookface is hosting a luxury raffle to support Beatson Cancer Charity. Following the success of her […]
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Melting Pot Halloween – One Night at the Museum
1 November, 2025 – from 7 p.m. Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS This Halloween, the spirits of disco rise once more… Clear your crypts – Melting Pot’s Halloween Party is back!! Melting Pot returns to the Riverside Museum on Saturday, November 1st to host annual Halloween spectacular!! Party amongst the vintage museum […]
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Mary Doll Poppins – Panto at OranMor 2025
25th November, 2025 – 4 December, 2025 By Martin McCormick OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX A hilarious, Glasgow twist on the story of everyone’s favourite magical flying (sort of) Nanny. What happens when the Clydebankses, a not-so-perfect family, stop finding the joy in life and forget the true meaning of Christmas? They need […]
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