What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

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..

Doc’n Roll Film Festival Returns to Scotland

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The ninth edition of the music documentary returns with seven Scottish big screen premieres At Glasgow Film Theatre  2 – 6 November, 2022 Cameo Picturehouse Edinburgh 5 – 12 November, 2022 Highlights include the story of how a Sheffield council estate semi became the birthplace of electronic music in the North, the courageous apartheid-era South African […]

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Amsterdam at GFT

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7 – 20 October, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB David O Russell (American Hustle, Joy) is back with this fascinating and richly intricate tale that brilliantly weaves historical fact with fiction for a timely, cinematic experience. Russell’s star-studded crime epic follows three close friends who witness a murder, become suspects themselves […]

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Black History Month 2022 at Glasgow Film Theatre

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3 – 24 October, 2022 GFT has partnered with the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) and The New Black Film Collective to deliver a film and event programme focusing on the experiences and work of inspirational Black people and People of Colour, and the relationship between music and activism. Black History Month screenings at […]

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London Film Festival at Glasgow Film Theatre 2022

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5 – 16 October, 2022   GFT is Venue Partner for BFI London Film Festival (LFF) in partnership with American Express, giving their audience the first chance to see a selection of exciting new titles from LFF on the big screen, at the home of film in Glasgow. Screening the following titles: Roald Dahl’s Matilda […]

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Velvet Goldmine 35 mm at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Sunday 16 and Wednesday 19 October, 2022 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Screening as part of our Cinemasters: Sandy Powell season celebrating the veteran British costume designer. This season is part of an ongoing collaboration between GFT Cinemasters and feminist collective Invisible Women which aims to highlight contributions made by women in film history […]

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Visible Cinema – Can You Ever Forgive Me, GFT

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Tuesday 18 October, 2022 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Visible Cinema is GFT’s D/deaf and Hard of Hearing-friendly film programme. Featuring a captioned or subtitled screening followed by a post-film discussion with integrated BSL and Speech to Text Service. Buy tickets Please note: For booking accessible seating/enhanced audio […]

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Shutter Island plus Intoduction, GFT

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Monday 17 October, 2022 – 7.45 p.m. October’s Scorsese screening is selected and introduced by film writer and programmer Rafa Sales Ross. The implausible escape of a brilliant murderer brings US Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum located on a remote, windswept island. […]

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Decision to Leave, GFT

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17 – 27 October, 2022 What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights. From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man […]

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula 30 Anniversary 4k- GFT

15 – 20 October, 2022 Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Coppola returned to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance he created a modern masterpiece. Thirty years after its release, Gary Oldman’s metamorphosis as Dracula who […]

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The Lost King, GFT

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14- 27 October, 2022 In 2012, having been lost for more than 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family, and […]

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An evening with Graham Morgan – Helensburgh Library

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Thursday 20th October, 2022 7pm Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Free entry and refreshments Black Bird Singing’ is Graham’s second book. In his first, ‘Start’, published by Fledgling Press in 2018, he writes honestly about the breakdowns in his life and the torn relationships with those nearest him. But he also […]

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Black Cuban Short Films: A Contemporary Wayward Selection

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival – Wednesday 9 November, 2022. 5.50 p.m. – 8 p.m. Event by CCA Glasgow and Havana Glasgow Film Festival CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Purchase Tickets BLACK CUBAN SHORT FILMS: A CONTEMPORARY WAYWARD SELECTION (N/C 18+) What are you expecting from Black Cuban Cinema? It is probably not here. This event […]

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Scottish Writers: Launch of Lost Eden

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EVENT CANCELLED – NOW OPEN MIC IN CLUB ROOM, CCA Tuesday 18 October at  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ‘Lost Eden ’(Zagava Press) a collaborative ‘quartet of quartets’ co-written with Margaret Elphinstone, Mandy Haggith, Douglas Thompson and D.P. Watt. The book consists of a ‘quartet of quartets’ on the theme of the formal garden as a metaphor […]

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Conference: Food, Communities and the Climate Emergency

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Wednesday 2 November, 2022, 9.30 a.m – 2.30 p.m. at St Silas Church, 69 Park Rd, Glasgow G4 9JE A half day conference hosted by Woodlands Community and Nourish Scotland. – Making the connection between anti-poverty work, social justice issues and the climate emergency. – Exploring what policy makers at a national level can learn […]

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Maryhill Youth Art Festival 2022

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15 and 16 October, 2022 G20 Festival Building, Shuna Street, Glasgow G20 9PX and G20 Works Building,  21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow G20 8HS Talulah Hannah Wright and Emily Cutts Made by young people, for young people! A weekend of free workshops and activities for young people, all centred around creativity and art. Come have a go at […]

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Halloween Witch Market – Britannia Panopticon

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Saturday 29 October, 2022 from 12:00-4:30 p.m. Britannia Panopticon, 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Get ready for a Magical afternoon at the Britannia Panopticon! Celebrate Halloween at Glasgow’s beloved WITCH MARKET and make a toast for the Harvest by drinking some Witchy themed cocktails at the bar! Find everything you need for your Samhain ritual […]

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Paisley Halloween Festival 2022

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Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 October, 2022 By Paisley is Abbey Close , Paisley PA1 1JF Grab your cape and gather your superpowers for a thrilling Halloween experience like no other in Paisley’s historic town centre on Paisley Halloween Festival, one of the biggest and best, free Halloween events in the UK, will be back […]

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Creative Conversations: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

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Monday 10 October 2022 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue G12 8QQ Register at Eventbrite YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER grew up in South London. Her first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 and the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019. Yara was named one of […]

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Book Launch: Celine’s Salon – The Anthology

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Thursday 13 October, 2022 at 7 p.m. Event by Wordville Press, Minerva Wakes and The Twistettes Free entry TIME Event Space 96B Maxwell Street, Glasgow G1 4EQ Celebrating the grand book launch of Celine’s Salon The Anthology – Vol 2!! Expect poetry, comedy, performance and wonder as La Celine guides you on a fantastical journey at Time Event Space. […]

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Take 2: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Saturday, 8 October, 2022 – 11.30 a.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6B Journey through the forest with Snow White, the fairest princess of them all, as she runs from the evil stepmother who envies her beauty. Snow White meets a group of dwarfs who help her hide away. However, evil is […]

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Access Film Club at GFT, Beetlejuice

Monday 10 October, 2022 at 6 p.m. In Tim Burton’s horror comedy Michael Keaton is the wild and mischievous spirit Beetlejuice. After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country house, unable to leave. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones) […]

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Un Carnat de Bal plus Thomas McGoran plus Q & A GFT

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Friday 7 October, 2022 – 2.15 p.m. Free Event Screening followed by reception and exhibition at Reid Building Glasgow School of Art A special free event revisiting memories of cinema-going in the 1930s. This matinee screening features Un Carnet de Bal (1937, dir. Julian Duvivier), a film which served as the main attraction for the Cosmo […]

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Girls, Girls, Girls at GFT

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7 – 13 October, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö have each other’s backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma, on the contrary, has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the […]

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Nothing Compares at GFT

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7 – 13 October, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Nothing Compares is the story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on Sinéad’s prophetic words and deeds from 1987 to 1993, the film presents an authored, richly cinematic […]

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Craft and Flea Market, The Briggait

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Saturday 8 October, 2022, 11 a.m. The Briggait,141 Bridgegate,Glasgow,G1 5HZ,GB Craft & Flea is a collection of independent makers, collectors, designers and creatives all under one roof Shop SMALL and shop LOCAL in our authentic twist on the traditional craft market with a huge selection of products from illustration to vintage bric-a-brac, plants to jewellery, […]

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Queer East, On The Road at CCA

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7 and 8 October, 2022 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Event by: CCA Glasgow and Queer East Touring Programme – Screening Highlights Following the success of its London edition this May, Queer East embarks on a three-month nationwide tour, On the Road, bringing a selection of highlights from this year’s programme to big screens across the […]

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Book launch: The Last Woman Born on the Island (poetry) by Sharon Black

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Tuesday, 1 November, 2022, 7.30pm to 9.30pm The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TS – (opposite Soba restaurant) LAUNCH of The Last Woman Born on the Island, Glasgow author Sharon Black’s latest poetry collection. With a reading of poems from the book, as well as readings by guest poets Michael Brown and Penny […]

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Saturday, October 1, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Callander Jazz and Blues Festival 2022

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30 September – 2 October, 2022 The Callander Jazz and Blues Festival is the largest rural Jazz & Blues festival in Scotland featuring over 50 gigs across 11 venues, performing live jazz, blues, soul and boogie over 3 days. From solo artists to big bands, over 120 musicians ensure a long weekend of great music […]

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Time’s Plague, David Hayman at OranMor

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Extra Date Added – 16 October, 2022 OranMor, Top of, Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8QX Part of Scottish Tour where Hayman returns for one last time? Scottish Tour Dates David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.  The third in Chris Dolan’s trilogy, following The Pitiless Storm (2014) and Cause of Thunder (2017). Bob’s in hospital. A […]

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In Person Talk: Legacies of Slavery and Empire in Glasgow’s Architectural Heritage

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Wednesday 26 October, 2022, 6.30 p.m. Glasgow City Chambers, George Square; G2 1DU Free – – Donations welcome  Register for event Event by Glasgow City Heritage Trust Join Dr Anthony Lewis from Glasgow Life to hear how legacies of slavery and empire in Glasgow are manifested in its architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr […]

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