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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..

Friends of Peoples Palace & Winter Garden at Glasgow Green Fun Day

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Saturday 6 August, 2022 – 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Friends of People’s Palace, Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green Are having a FREE EVENT at Morrissons, 5 Barrack St, Glasgow G4 OTZ Morrissons have fully supported FPPWGGG group since 2018 – always providing goodies for the kids. Come along and bring kids and grandchildren. Face […]

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The Rhynie Station: Grunnit Spring by Ian R. Mitchell

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A novel is written entirely in Doric, the North-east dialectal variant of the Scots language. Grunnit Spring is written in the format of one of the Seven Stories, in this case using that of The Return as its theme. It is recounted by an exile of long standing coming back, but not home, to the […]

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Where The Crawdads Sing at GFT

Where the Crawdads Sing

22 July – 4 August, 2022 From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumours of the ‘Marsh Girl’ haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from […]

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Saturday, July 30, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans + introduction

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Sunday 31 July, 2022, 2 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB This screening will be introduced by Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Rediscovered Founder and curator of the When Europe Made Hollywood season. Mark will give an illustrated talk (approx 20 minutes) on the themes, connections and ideas that led him to bring together the eight […]

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Hit the Road at Glasgow Film Theatre

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30 July – 4 August, 2022 This debut road movie from Iranian director Panah Panahi went down a storm at Cannes and landed the Best Film Award at BFI London Film Festival. Dad (Hassan Madjooni) sits moodily in the back seat of the family car, nursing his broken leg, while Mum (Pantea Panahiha) drives and […]

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Paris Texas at Glasgow Film Theatre

Paris Texas

31 July, 2022 at 6.30 pm Screening with a new recorded interview with director Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas is considered Wim Wenders’ best-known and internationally most successful film. Celebrated by critics, it won a series of important international awards, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes. This unconventional road movie is based on a script by Pulitzer […]

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Joyride at Glasgow Film Theatre

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30 July – 4 August, 2022 Joy (Olivia Colman) and Mully (Charlie Reid) are two lovable rogues. Joy is angry. She’s got a baby and motherhood does not come naturally to her; she feels she’s tossed her own dreams aside to give a screeching monster unconditional love. And, if she’s honest with herself, when she […]

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Dance Along Festival: Encanto, Merchant City Festival

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Thursday 28th and Sunday 31 July, 2022 Merchant City Festival – Dance Along Screening: Encanto Glasgow City Halls, 97 – 101 Albion Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Join The Madrigals for this special Dance Along screening of the hit movie, Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique […]

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Pather Panchali at Glasgow Film Theatre

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30 July – 3 August, 2022 With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of […]

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Fire of Love at Glasgow Film Theatre

Fire of Love

29 July – 4 August, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things: each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they left a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural […]

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Top Gun(4 k) plus Top Gun: Maverick at Glasgow Film Theatre

Top Gun Maverick

Saturday, 6 August, 2022, 2.30 p.m. More than 30 years after Top Gun was released, Tom Cruise finally reprised his role as Navy pilot Maverick this summer in the long-awaited and highly-anticipated sequel Top Gun: Maverick. A critical and commercial success – still breaking box office records – the follow-up, like the original, features action-packed fighter-plane scenes of skill and daring […]

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Cafe Flicker at GMAC

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Thursday 4 August, 2022 Short Film Open Mic Night GMAC Film 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD DOORS OPEN AT 6.30 p.m FOR NETWORKING – FILMS START AT 7 p.m. The longest running short film open mic night in Scotland – Café Flicker is the place to be. For filmmakers, actors, and composers it’s a great […]

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Friday, July 29, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Ashton Lane Stre-EAT FEST

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Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 August, 2022, 12 noon until 7 p.m. Ashton Lane, off Byres Road (beside Hillhead Underground) G12 Glasgow loves street food! Ashton Lane restaurants & bars unite once again to bring you StrEAT Fest! Get ready for 2 days fest featuring finger-lickin’ good street food from BREL INNIS AND GUNN JINTY […]

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Casino plus recorded introduction

casino plus recorded introduction

15 August, 2022 – 7 p.m. August’s Scorsese screening is selected and introduced by Film Lecturer and Programmer Pasquale Iannone. The epic tale of the rise and fall of Las Vegas casino manager, Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). As the king of his domain, Ace efficiently runs the business and regularly sends lots of cash to […]

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Curatorial Tour: Glasgow and Slavery, People’s Palace

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Thursday 4 August, 2022, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. People’s Palace, Green, Templeton St, Glasgow G40 1AT Come along to the People’s Palace on Thursday 4th August 2-3pm for Glasgow and Slavery, the first in a new series of curatorial tours. Miles Greenwood and Tony Lewis invite you to share thoughts about Glasgow and its […]

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A Day Of Fun Inspired by John Byrne

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Saturday 30 July, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m Kelvingrove Art Gallery,  Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG Performances of the music that John Byrne loves and that inspired his creativity, featuring songs by Gerry Rafferty, Stealers Wheel, Donovan and The Beatles. With something for every age group; even the smallest fans (3+) will be entertained […]

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Bloody Scotland 2022 McIlvanney Prize Long List

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The McIlvanney Prize is Bloody Scotland’s annual prize awarded to the best Scottish Crime book of the year. It provides Scottish crime writing with recognition and aims to raise the profile and prestige of the genre as a whole. The longlisted titles for 2022 are: May God Forgive, Alan Parks (Canongate) The Second Cut, Louise Welsh […]

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National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

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Monday 8th August, 2022 Scotland’s National Youth Pipe Band Celebrates 20 Years Glasgow City Halls, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ Part of Piping Live 6- 14 August, 2022 The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland celebrates 20 years Images available to download here The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (NYPBS) will celebrate its 20th […]

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Pitch Perfect at Bloody Scotland 2022

(Image – Pitch Perfect Bloody Scotland by Paul Reich) Opportunity for aspiring Crime Writers Pitch-to-win event where unpublished crime writers can pitch their novels to a panel of top publishing executives who are seeking out hot new crime writing talent. Take on the challenge of presenting your novel convincingly, to get valuable feedback on what […]

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Roma Sisters Together – Govanhill International Festival

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Sunday 7 August, 2022, 2 pm – 4 pm Govanhill International Festival and Carnival and Romano Lav Govanhill Park, Coplaw Street, Govanhill, Glasgow G42 To mark the end of our wellbeing project ‘Roma Sisters Together’, are throwing a celebratory party in the park! Featuring some of the amazing things the women have made in the sessions (with […]

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A Musical Walking Tour of John Maclean’s Pollokshaws

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Saturday 27 August, 2022,  1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Telling the story of John Maclean through speech, poetry and song whilst taking in all relevant local sights Walk starts: Pollokshaws West Railway Station, Pollokshaws Road, G43 1NE About this event John Maclean was born, lived and died in Pollokshaws. Starting at Pollokshaws West Train Station, […]

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MIND-SET Indie Film in Scotland

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26 – 28 July, 2022 By Mikey Murray Everyman Glasgow / Macrobert Stirling / Cameo Edinburgh New UK Indie Mind-set closes its UK Q&A tour with 3 dates in Scotland 26th JULY, 2022  20.00 GLASGOW – EVERYMAN, Unit 3 – 5, Princes square, Buchanan St, Glasgow G1 3JN  – 27th JULY, 2022 19.45 STIRLING – […]

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Thursday, July 21, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

The Big City at Glasgow Film Theatre

The Big City

22 – 24 July, 2022 Wonderfully enjoyable, with the scope and density of a richly absorbing novel, Satyajit Ray’s tale of family and city life is set in mid-1950s Calcutta, a society still adjusting to India’s independence. Subrata Mazumdar (Anil Chatterjee), a young bank clerk struggling to support his entire extended family on a meagre salary, is […]

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Take 2: The Jungle Book at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Saturday 23 July at 11.30 a.m. A boy called Mowgli has lived in the jungle and been brought up by a family of wolves, since he was just a baby. Baloo the Bear becomes Mowgli’s best friend and defends him against all of the scary predators the jungle has to offer, including Shere Khan the […]

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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

She Will at Glasgow Film Theatre

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22 – 28 July, 2022 She Will is a psychological horror about an ageing actress, Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige), who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt). She discovers that the process of such surgery opens up questions about her very existence, leading her […]

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Robust at GFT

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22 – 28 July, 2022 Larger than life in all conceivable ways, Gérard Depardieu brings generous helpings of his own personality to any role he plays. Constance Meyer’s highly enjoyable Cannes Critics’ Week opener Robust not only takes this on board, but runs with it, casting Depardieu as Georges, an ageing French actor with a tendency to crash motorbikes and to […]

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The American Friend (4k) at GFT

the american friend

23 – 28 July, 2022 Director Wim Wenders adapted Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game for The American Friend which won the German Critics Prize in 1977, as well as gold in two categories of the German Film Prize, and is now considered a cult film. Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz) believes that he will soon die of leukaemia. The unscrupulous American Tom […]

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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time at GFT

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22 July – 28 July,2022 As an adolescent enthralled by Kurt Vonnegut’s novel  Slaughterhouse-Five, Robert Weide wrote a letter to the author,  proposing to make a documentary about him. Surprisingly, Vonnegut agreed and the two struck up a decades-long collaboration that grew into an enduring friendship. Filled with rare archival footage and interviews with family, colleagues […]

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Glorious Govan Gala

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Saturday 23 July, 2022, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Glasgow  G51 3UU Loop Theatre proudly presents Glorious Govan – Glasgow’s first inclusive, reminiscent festival – an adventure through time, bringing local legends to life. Heart-warming, historical, and in true Govan style, hilarious! Explore the past and present of Govan […]

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Repair Cafe at Glorious Govan Gala

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Saturday, 23 July, 2022, 12 – 3 p.m. Govan and Linthouse Parish, 796 Govan Road, G51 2YL Repair Café Glasgow will take place at Govan and Linthouse Parish this month as they’ve been invited to the Glorious Govan Gala to take part in the Fix It Don’t Ditch It event run by Glasgow Tool Library! […]

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events

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