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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..

Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People)- Glasgow Film Festival 2026

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Sunday 1 March (3.45 p.m.) & Monday 2 March (2 p.m.) Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Join Scottish Gaelic psalm precentor Rob MacNeacail on an uplifting musical journey from his Carlops singing group in the Borders across Scotland and Ireland as he celebrates the cultural heritage of psalm singing. In addition to lifting […]

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It’s A Fine Thing To Sing – Songs and Singers of Inishowen Peninsula Documentary

Thursday 26 March, 2026 The Deep End Venue Space – Govanhill Baths Community Trust21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ Event by Paula Larkin and Irish History Group Bob Gallagher, Documentary, 60 min, Ireland, 2023 This 60 minute documentary features Ian Lynch (Lankum), Ye Vagabonds and The Henry Girls arranging and singing six songs from Clonmany and Buncrana singers: […]

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Midwinter Break – Glasgow Film Festival 2026 Review

Midwinter Break Review

Based on the novel of the same name  by Glasgow based, Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty, the film follows Stella and Gerry, a  retired teacher and architect living in Glasgow, as they go on a city break to Amsterdam. Apart from taking in the sites Stella reflects on past trauma experienced during ‘The Troubles’, problems […]

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Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026, Pat's Home Page Blog

Hope – Fundraiser for Scottish Writers Centre

Hope fundraiser poetry flash fiction comp SWC

Hope | SWC Fundraising Competition: Poetry & Flash Fiction ByScottish Writers’ Centre The SWC is hosting their first ever fundraising comp! You are warmly invite you to share your creativity and submit an entry inspired by Hope! Hope | SWC Fundraising Competition: Poetry & Flash Fiction Deadline 28th February 2026. 23.59 p.m. All proceeds will […]

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Irish musician Mairtin O’Connor and Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Celtic Connections 2026 – Review by Pauline Keightley  Mairtin O’Connor performed with Julie Fowlis and Scottish Chamber Orchestra playing some powerful and emotive tunes. O’Connor has performed with Boys of the Lough and Riverdance. We were treated to two celebrated musicians and composers – Mairtin O’Connor and Julie Fowlis both brilliantly backed by the SCO. […]

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Julie Fowlis with Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Celtic Connections 2026 

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Review by Pauline Keightley The touching, mystical and lyrical beauty of these well-crafted Gaelic songs surrounded by live trad folk music   Julie Fowlis performed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – Celtic Scots and Irish traditional folk voices were enhanced by the depth of sound of the classical orchestra. As well as Julie’s crystal clear voice […]

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Everybody to Kenmure Street – GFF2026 Review

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Everybody to Kenmure Street – Documentary by Felipe Bustos Sierra    Felipe Bustos Sierra is a Glasgow based, BAFTA winning documentarian; his powerful film ‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ opened Glasgow Film Festival 2026. The film recreates the spontaneous response by neighbours and activists who came together in this multi-cultural community in Glasgow’s Pollokshields on 13 […]

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2026, Pat's Home Page Blog

Big vs Small, Film Night, Arlington Baths Club

Big vs Small

Saturday March 21, 2026, 6pm to 8.30pm  Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT When champion Portuguese big wave surfer Joana Andrade has to conquer her fear of drowning, she finds herself locked in combat with long-buried demons from her past under a frozen Finnish lake. BIG vs SMALL stretches from raging monster […]

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Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema

Pam Hogg: Style, Defiance and the Art of Being Seen

28 March, 2026 – Doors 7.30 p.m. Paisley Art Festival, Paisley Town Hall,  Abbey Cl, Paisley PA1 1JF Born in Paisley, Pam Hogg was one of Britain’s most fearless and original designers, a figure whose work blurred the lines between fashion, performance, music and protest. Refusing convention and self-taught, Pam built a body of work […]

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Free and Low-Cost Activities at Glasgow Film Festival 2026

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25th February until 8th March, 2026 Glasgow Film Festival’s 22nd edition opens Wednesday 25th February –  it includes an extensive programme of free and affordable screenings and events. Based at Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and venues across the city, Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) presents a wide range of free and low-cost activities as part of […]

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Mackintosh House, The Hunterian – Guided Tours

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Mackintosh House Guided Tour By The Hunterian, The University of Glasgow Mackintosh House Guided Tour By The Hunterian @ The University of Glasgow The Mackintosh House – Hunterian Art Gallery, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QQ Step into the home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and discover the stories behind its iconic design.  Monthly, […]

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An Evening With Jim Carruth, Waterstones Sauchiehall Street

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Thursday 26 February, 2026, 7pm to 9pm Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW Celebrate the launch of ‘Knockan’, a moving new novel-in-verse, by Jim Carruth Glasgow Makar. In remote Assynt, where the past is recreated from rock and bone, a crofter and her estranged daughter search for some common ground in their annual week […]

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Lynne Ramsay to receive Cinema City Honorary Award at Glasgow Film Festival 2026

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Friday 6 March, 2026, 12.15 p.m. ‘From Page To Pulse’, Glasgow Film Festival Adelaide Place, 188 Pitt St, Glasgow G2 4HZ Glaswegian director Lynne Ramsay will receive Glasgow Film Festival’s Cinema City Award at a public In Conversation event,  From Page to Pulse. Critically acclaimed writer-director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, Die […]

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The Arlington Baths Club – Talk: The Alhambra and Owen Jones

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Friday 13 March, 2026 7 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT An illustrated talk on how Islamic architecture and design inspired the 19th century architecture of the Arlington Baths Club. What inspired the architecture of the Arlington Baths Club? The architect, designer and educator Owen Jones was a hugely influential […]

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A World of Ceilidh Govan Music Festival 2026

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Sunday 22 March, 2026, 6 p.m. – 9.45p.m. Event by The Glasgow Barons Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry, 2-4 Govan Rd, Kinning Park, Glasgow G51 1HS Dance the night away with Glasgow’s own refugee Musicians in Exile performing music of their homelands alongside Glasgow University musicians and alumni Ceithir Ceilidh band. Supported by Glasgow Riverside Innovation District. Under 16s must be […]

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Solving Scotland’s Housing Crisis #Urban Bites University of Glasgow

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Tuesday, 24 February, 2026, 6 p.m. University of Glasgow Urban Studies and Social Policy 42 Bute Gardens, 210 Planning Studio, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Urban Bites #13 focusing on the housing crisis. With Stefano Smith FRTPI FRSA Tom Ockendon Peter Smith Tackling one of the most pressing challenges of our time: the housing crisis. […]

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Transatlantic Sessions Celtic Connections 2026

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Review and Photographs – Pauline Keightley The Celtic roots celebration returns for its 31st year at Celtic Connections music festival. Transatlantic Sessions (TS) is one of the highlights of the festival, with both familiar tunes and the new. TS brings together the deep connections between Irish, Scots and American music. It’s a special blend of […]

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Take 2: Pets on Trains at GFT

Pets on Trains

Saturday 21 February, 2026, 11.30 a.m. When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, it’s up to Falcon, a crafty raccoon, and Rex, a police dog, to save the animals on this high-speed runaway train. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free tickets […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2026 – filmaking talent galore attending

There’s filmmaking talent galore at GFF26! Check out the highlights. James McAvoy who will attend GFF’s closing gala for the UK premiere of his directorial debut, California Schemin’. McAvoy will be joined on the red carpet by film cast Samuel Bottomley, Séamus McLean Ross and Lucy Halliday. Glasgow-based director Felipe Bustos Sierra (Nae Pasaran) will […]

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Lola – Screening Arlington Baths Club

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Saturday 28 February, 2026 6 p.m. Orphaned sisters Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. The sisters use LOLA for entertainment and to listen to music. Then the Second World War breaks out, and the women begin listening to news bulletins from the future […]

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Paddy Hill: Inside Out Excerpt and Q & A

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Saturday, 14 March, 2026, 7 p.m. Event by Doctur Normul Carlton Studios, FM Promotions, Glasgow, G5 9TW March 14th 2026 heralds the 35th anniversary of the Birmingham Six’s release from jail. That evening, Carlton Studios in Glasgow will host an excerpt from the newly crafted monologue and stage play, Paddy Hill: Inside Out. Starring Conor McClean, […]

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Telling Stories at The Mitchell Library

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Tuesday, 24 March, 2026,2.30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Telling Glasgow’s Stories ByGlasgow Libraries Mitchell LibraryGlasgow North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Storytelling in the oral tradition – a workshop with Allison Galbraith Join Allison Galbraith and learn how to tell your own story of Glasgow. From folk tales to urban myths, come to hear Allison tell […]

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Spiders On Mars – Tribute to David Bowie at Cottiers

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14 March, 2026, 7.30 p.m. Tribute to David Bowie Playing Bowie at his best, covering whole albums and tracks right up to the early 80s, as if Ziggy had ever been killed off! Buy tickets Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU

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Concert in aid of C.H.A.S. Robin House – Helensburgh

Friday 29 February, 2026, 7 p.m. –  10.30 p.m. With The Midgies Ceilidh Band and Robert Ryan   Fundraising event for Robin House Childrens Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) £5 entry Event by Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre – HLCC Events and The Midgies Ceilidh Band Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre – HLCC Events 38 E Clyde St, Helensburgh […]

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Caroline Lucas in conversation at Cottiers

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Wednesday, 11 March, 2026 – 7 p.m. “Caroline Lucas has been prominent in British politics for 25 years, including as the UK’s first Green Party MP and as a leader of the Greens in England and Wales.  Her latest book, “Another England” argues that the Right has hijacked Englishness and that, at a time of […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2026 – Take 2 Screenings

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Glasgow Film Theatre believes every child in Glasgow should be able to enjoy the best big screen experience and during GFF this is no different. In keeping with regular Take 2 screenings that happen year-round, during GFF26 there will be two very special Take 2 film screenings. The Children of Bullerby Village – Saturday 28 […]

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The Running Man + Q & A with Edgar Wright

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Wednesday 11 March, 2026, 7.15 p.m. GFT delighted to welcome director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; Baby Driver) for a special Q&A following a screening of his latest film, The Running Man. Don’t miss a chance to spend an evening with one of modern cinema’s most exciting filmmakers. Edgar Wright and […]

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Autumn Voices Online Reading Anna Levin plus workshops

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Online reading 6th March, 2026 11 a.m. Followed by three online workshops on Fridays 13th, 20th and 27th March 10.30 till 12 noon. New Online Reading AND Creative Writing Workshops! Join a Workshop | Submit to the Anthology! Participation in the FREE workshops grants you exclusive entry to our Letting Go Anthology! To book for […]

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The Nook Conversation Cafe for Neurodiverse Adults

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The Nook in Glasgow Free – Multiple dates  The Nook in Glasgow 51 Wilson Street, Glasgow G1 1UZ Overview A safe space for neurodiverse adults with mental health problems to connect, share experiences, and support one another. This conversation café is a welcoming space for neurodivergent adults who experience mental health problems. Held at The […]

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Exhibition: Glimmers For A Time Like This

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OPEN DAY, Wednesday 25th February, 2026 3-6pm Partick Trinity Church of Scotland , 20 Lawrence Street, Glasgow G11 5HG The artists Wilma van der Meyden and Megan Adams plan to be present to welcome you and to give you an opportunity to be in the historic space, to experience Glimmers, and to connect on your […]

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