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..

Vivace Theatre Training School, Musical Theatre Showcase

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14 – 22 January, 2023 (Various Dates) Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ An evening’s performance from Vivace Theatre School’s, Senior Musical Theatre Students. Vivace Theatre School offers first class training in Acting, Singing, Dance, Musical Theatre and Early Stages Performance for young people aged 3 years – 18 years. Tickets and […]

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Family Storytelling in the Children’s Wood, Glasgow

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Saturday 3 December, 2022 at 11 a.m. Winter Tales on the Meadow The Children’s Wood, Kelbourne, Sanda, Clouston Street, Glasgow G20 Event by The Children’s Wood and Meadow Allison Galbraith will share her winter stories with us. We will sell hot drinks and our home baking. Wrap up warm & rain proof. See you there! Grassroots […]

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Conserving Hoyland, The Hunterian

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Thursday, 24 November, 2022 – 6 until 8 p.m. Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow,  82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Tickets £3 to £5 After hours event about the artist John Hoyland and conservation work on his painting John Hoyland was one of the most inventive and dynamic abstract painters of the post-war period. […]

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Christmas Fayre, House For An Art Lover

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Sunday 27 November, 2022 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. House of an Art Lover, 10 Dumbreck Rd, Bellahouston, Glasgow G41 5BW Entry is Free! – You can just turn up on the day. Annual Christmas Fayre returns to House of an Art Lover, showcasing a range of high quality gifts and festive treats. Featuring handcrafted […]

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Aladdin, Renfrew North Church

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9 and 10 December, 2022 Renfrew North Church, Renfrew, PA4 8RG Stardust Theatre Company A Magic Carpet ride all the way to Old Peking for this year’s traditional Scottish family panto, Aladdin, flying into Renfrew this Christmas to make all your wishes come true! Don’t miss this genie-us production of the timeless classic filled with […]

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Winners at Glasgow Film Theatre

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18 – 24 November, 2022 In a poor Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day Yahya and Leila find a golden statue lost in the desert. While the authorities search for the treasure, Yahya’s boss Naser Khan, who shares the children’s passion for cinema, decides to help them find its […]

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Thursday, November 17, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

The Menu at Glasgow Film Festival

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18 November – 1 December, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB The culture of haute cuisine gets thoroughly roasted in this sharp satire from director Mark Mylod (Succession), starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Ralph Fiennes. Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), a devout foodie, and his date, Margot (Taylor-Joy), travel to Hawthorne Island, a 12-acre self-contained farm-to-table […]

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Blacula – 50 anniversary plus live satellite Q & A GFT

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Saturday 19 November, 2022 at 7 p.m. In the late 18th century, Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) travels from Africa to Transylvania to seek Count Dracula’s help in ending the transatlantic slave trade. Instead of helping, Dracula condemns Mamuwalde to eternal life as a vampire. When, a few centuries later, a pair of unwitting interior designers […]

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The Last Waltz – 4k plus Introduction at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Monday 21 November, 2022 at 8 p.m. November’s Scorsese screening is selected and introduced by film critic Alistair Harkness. Seventeen years after joining forces as the backing band for rockabilly cult hero Ronnie Hawkins, Canadian roots rockers The Band call it quits with a lavish farewell show at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on 25 November […]

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Singin’ in the Rain at Glasgow Film Theatre

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18 and 20 November, 2022 The greatest romantic Hollywood musical is back in sparkling 4K. Journey to Hollywood in The Roaring Twenties when the ‘talkies’ started to sing, delight in the dashing Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood finds true love with his lucky star Cathy (Debbie Reynolds) and relive Kelly’s exuberant dance in the pouring rain. Full […]

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Local Hero – Film Screening at The Arlington Baths Club

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Saturday 26th November 5.00-8.30pm Local Hero – Film Screening & Discussion – Tickets £5.00After the popular screening in October, Arlington Baths Club is pleased to announce a repeat of this timeless Scottish classic. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT After the film, you’ll have the opportunity to hear arts journalist Jonathan Melville […]

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Golden Friendships Club Christmas Craft Fayre

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Saturday 3rd December, 2022 Golden Friendships Club, 18 Nairn Pl, Dalmuir, Clydebank G81 4AU (Just off Dumbarton Road bus route and very convenient for Dalmuir Train Station) Come along and buy Christmas gifts and handmade gifts made by Golden Friendships’ crafters.  Enjoy tea, coffee and home baking. All money raised on the day from Golden […]

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We Might As Well Be Dead at GFT

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Tuesday 15 November, 2022 at 8.40 p.m. Highly selective and sought after, a German apartment complex purports to offer its lucky residents a perfectly holistic living experience. But when a tenant’s dog mysteriously disappears and Iris, the daughter of Jewish security guard Anna, starts believing she is demon-possessed, the idyllic neighbourly atmosphere soon turns into […]

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Monday, November 14, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Hunt at GFT

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11 – 17 November, 2022 Fresh off the back of his Emmy win and introduction to the Star Wars universe, Lee Jung-Jae directs and stars in action-packed spy thriller Hunt. After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho (Lee Jung-Jae) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo Sung) are […]

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No Bears at GFT

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11 – 17 November, 2022 No Bears is the outstanding new film from acclaimed Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi. In the film, Panahi plays himself, a filmmaker trying to direct a cast and crew in Turkey, who is forced to remain in an Iranian village close to the border. As his actors perform their own story of attempted […]

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The Wonder at GFT

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11 – 17 November, 2022 The Irish Midlands, 1862 – a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is brought to a tiny village to observe 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for […]

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Pink Flamingos 50th Anniversary

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12 – 16 November, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as ‘the filthiest people alive’. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and […]

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Return to Dust at GFT

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11 – 17 November, 2022 Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with […]

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G20 Salon – Make Up and Nails

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Friday 18 November, 2022 Acrylic Nails or Make Up at G20 Salon – 21 Dunbeith Place, Wyndford, Glasgow  G20 8HS Book to have your make up or nails done. Only £5 to cover costs. Telephone to book: 07762029663 Support Local Young People Towards A Positive Future About G20 ‘The G20 Youth club, G20 Works and […]

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Trio Sandalian – Partickhill Bowling and Community Club

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Saturday 26 November, 2022 at 7:30 pm. Trio Sandalian (Sandy Semeonoff, Alison Semeonoff and Ian Watson )is making a return visit to Partickhill Bowling and Community Club. All welcome to this entertaining couple of hours of songs and tunes featuring banjo, fiddles, guitar, mandolins, harmonica and ukulele. Doors and bar open 7pm. Watch Trio Sandalian […]

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Music, Religion & Uprising: Focus on Ricardo Bacallao + Q & A

Friday 11 November, 5.30 – 7.50 p.m. Havana Glasgow Film Festival  CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Book Tickets – sliding scale  Dir. Ricardo Bacallao Ricardo Bacallao is a Cuban film director and founder of the Black Cuba series based in Berlin and New York. He studied directing for film, radio, and television at […]

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Friday, November 11, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

Take 2: Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Were Rabbit

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Saturday 12 November, 2022 at 11.30 a.m. Wallace and his loyal companion Gromit open a pest-control business in their village. With just days till the annual vegetable competition, a wild monster rabbit wreaks havoc on the villagers and their beloved vegetable patches. Lady Tottington employs Wallace and Gromit to catch the Were-rabbit but one particularly […]

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Crazy About Carol – Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2022

Saturday 12 November, 2022 at 1.15 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Mother and Baby Screening Tender, moving story about Carol – a pre-pubescent black girl who moves to a new neighbourhood and finds friendship and love with a local white boy – Rito. But the young couple have to contend with racial […]

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Africa in Motion 2022 GFT

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11 and 12 November, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Africa in Motion (AiM) is an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland, that delivers film screenings and complementary events. Now in its 16th year, AiM brings the best of African cinema to Scotland—making it possible for Scottish audiences to engage […]

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Africa in Motion 2022 Festival Short Film Competition

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Finalists & Emerging Curator Cohort AiM runs from 11th- 20th November, 2022 Africa in Motion Film Festival (AiM) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the annual Short Film Competition. Due to the unique circumstances still ongoing due to Covid, and the recent devastating news about the Centre for Moving Image, Edinburgh International Film Festival […]

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Noirvember: Devil In A Blue Dress

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Sunday 13 November, 2022 at 5 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB This screening will be introduced by Paul Gallagher, Programme Manager at Glasgow Film. It’s 1948, and Los Angeles is booming, but Easy Rawlins has just been fired and he’s got house payments to make. When he’s offered a job […]

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Launch of Ruby McCann Writing School – Book Week Scotland 2022

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Tuesday 15/11/2022 at 7 p.m. Launch of the Ruby McCann Writing School with Inaugural Tutor Rodge Glass CCA Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Join Scottish Writers  for a night they have been looking forward to and working on for a long time. They will have the immense privilege of launching a writing school […]

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Don Paterson, St Mungos Mirrorball Showcase

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Wednesday, 16 November, 2022 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Multi award winning poet Don Paterson will be performing at St Mungos Mirrorball Showcase – reading along side Mark Russell, Morag Smith and Tracy Patrick. £7 on the door. Clubroom – 7 p.m. Event info CCA

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2022 at GFT

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10 and 13 November, 2022 Celebrating 20 years as twin cities, Havana and Glasgow share a richness of culture and identity that you are invited to celebrate at GFT as part of Havana Glasgow Film Festival. The festival’s theme for its 8th edition is the important contribution of Black Cuban Filmmakers, with a spotlight on […]

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Closing Night: Feathers at CCA

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Saturday, 19 November, 2022 Event by Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tickets **Screening both in-person and online** Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival. When a magic trick goes awry at a children’s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into […]

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