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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..

Glasgow Pride Mardi Gla – U of G Group

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Saturday 16 July, 2022 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. Event by University of Glasgow and Glasgow University Students’ Representative Council (GUSRC) University of Glasgow The SRC are going to Glasgow’s Pride March! Come along to Glasgow’s Pride AKA Mardia Gla. University of Glasgow students are celebrating their LGBTQIA+ community! The route is still to be confirmed by the […]

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, LGBT Glasgow

Young Planters Pop up Plant Sale

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WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022 FROM 10:30-12:00 Young Planters Pop up Plant Sale and Sewing Bee Sale of Work Event by Milton Community Garden and Food Hub St Andrews Church, North Side, Liddesdale Square, Glasgow, G22 7BD Roll up, Roll up!! The Young Planters will be running their famous pop up plant sale again! And this […]

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Artist Aid Ukraine – The Pentagon, Glasgow

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22nd -25th June, 11am-6.00pm The Pentagon Centre, 36/38 Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ A once in a lifetime opportunity to see/buy 100 top Scottish Artists in one exhibition. Artist Aid Ukraine features nearly 100 of Scotland’s best working artists, who are exhibiting their work in one stunning space, in Glasgow, for 4 days. There’s nearly […]

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The Words – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Tuesday 21 June, 2022,  1 p.m. – 2 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX Part of Refugee Festival Scotland 17 – 26 June, 2022 What makes a good story? Not always the simple truth. For Ashraf, the words between why they left, how they got here and why they need to stay are […]

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Stories of Our Worlds – Refugee Festival 2022

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Thursday 23 June, 2022. 10.30 a.m. until 12.30 p.m. Part of Refugee Festival Scotland 17 – 26 June, 2022 Event by Glasgow ESOL Forum Quaker Meeting House 38 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow G2 4PS Glasgow ESOL Forum is hosting a face-to-face event called ‘Stories of Our Worlds’ at this year’s Refugee Festival! This year, the theme is ‘Storytelling’. […]

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Our Past and Present Beautiful Lives: part of Refugee Week

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Thursday, June 23, 2022 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Part of Refugee Festival Scotland 17 – 26 June, 2022 Women’s Support Project’s initiative Rights & Choices is working with SoundLab for this event for Refugee Festival Scotland (WOMEN ONLY) Phillies of Shawlands, 1179 Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands, Glasgow G41 3YH About this event ‘Our Past & […]

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Eusebi Afternoon Tea – Charity Fundraiser

Tuesday 28 June, 2022 Eusebi Restaurant, 152 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9HB All proceeds will go towards Eusebi’s Kilimanjaro climb 2022 which is to raise funds for their two charities: MacMillan Cornhill Hospice & Andrew Fairlie Scholarship. Bookings are available from 12.30 – 3.30 at £40 per person. Book online This one off exclusive event […]

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Make Music Day 2022

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Tuesday 21 June, 2022 Celebrate Scotland’s biggest ever Make Music Day UK More than 70 events will take place across Scotland on 21 June to mark the global annual celebration of music Celebrate the world’s biggest grassroots DIY music festival – encouraging musicians, producers, promoters and music lovers to collaborate and organise free in-person and […]

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Glasgow Mela 2022

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Sunday 26 June, 2022 Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow West End 12 p.m. until 8 p.m. The Glasgow Mela, celebration of the cities many diverse cultures and communities returns to Kelvingrove Park. This vibrant and colourful event featuring dance, music and performance is Free and open to all ages. Market stalls and a fantastic food available to […]

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The Tar Factory, Sweet for Addicts

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Friday 5th & Saturday 6th August 2022 at 7.30 p.m. Websters Theatre Great Western Road, Glasgow. G4 9HZ. Second show of 2022! This show contains strong language and scenes of an adult nature. Set in Coatbridge back in the days when ducking and diving was the norm, The Tar Factory tells of one Tar Squad […]

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Aye Festival – Spit it Out

16 – 26 June, 2022 Aye Festival 2022: Edinburgh’s consent and mental health charity Spit It Out launches programme for the first 10 day festival This hybrid festival will take place over Glasgow, Edinburgh and online with a radical programme of exhibitions, spoken word, live music and workshops. Spit It Out Project Edinburgh-based, women-run consent […]

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Aye Write Three Debut Authors (interviewed by Matthew Keeley)

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Review by Mary Irvine Aye Write 2022. Matthew Keeley interviewed three writers of debut novels: James Cahill, Julie Owen Moylan and Liam Konemann. James Cahill ‘Tiepolo Blue’ This debut novel deals with an art restorer at Cambridge who is not particular enamoured with ‘modern’ art until he wakes up one morning to see a modern […]

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Festival of Growing

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20 -25 June, 2022 The Food and Climate Action team proudly presents The Festival of Growing! In-person and Online Events, Family Activities and Open Days. All completely FREE. Enjoy summer and all Glasgow has to offer with food, farming and fun. From family friendly solstice day celebrations to webinars on the glory of goats, there’s something for […]

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Ando Glaso – Roma Cultural Festival

Ando Glaso Roma Cultural Festival

27 and 28 August, 2022 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Ando Glaso invites you to this First Roma Cultural Festival, to submerge into the colourful world of Roma people for two days. About this event Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, in 2021-22 Ando Glaso embarked on a year long journey to […]

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The Summer of Discontent – Glasgow Against Closures

Tuesday 14 June, 2022 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. After a break Glasgow Against Closures returns for their weekly planning meetings. Activists and campaigners from across the city, from Ruchill to Govanhill, Linthouse to Easterhouse gather to discuss the ongoing campaign to protect community assets from closures and sell-offs Online – details on Facebook  

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Wilton Street Fete

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Sunday 19th June, 2022 2-4 pm Wilton Island Association – Wilton Street Gardens First Community get-together in the Gardens since The Covid put the mockers on. It’s on SUNDAY 19th JUNE, 2-4pm and will be on a smaller scale than the usual summer fete: some art, crafts and vintage stalls, cake & candy, and Charlie’s […]

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Glasgow Film Theatre: Manifesto and Q & A

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Thursday 16 June, 2022 – 8.20 p.m. Manifesto is a feature-length documentary about Walton Constituency Labour Party (CLP), and their campaigning in Liverpool Walton, known as the safest Labour seat in Britain. Filmed over the course of three years by filmmakers from the town, Manifesto captures the peaks and troughs of former leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party from […]

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Dashcam at GFT

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3 – 16 June, 2022 Rob Savage’s provocative new horror follows Annie Hardy on a crazy horror road trip. Viewed through her livestream, this abrasive musician’s night takes a dangerous turn after she agrees to help transport a frail elderly woman out of town. Please note: This film contains sequences with handheld cameras, vibrating images and rotating images which […]

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Men at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Until 16 June, 2022 In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest […]

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The Camera is Ours: British Women Documentary Makers

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14 and 15 June, 2022 at Glasgow Film Theatre ‘The trouble with you is that you look at things as though they were in a goldfish bowl. I’m going to break your goldfish bowl.’ – Ruby Grierson, to her brother John. John Grierson is sometimes referred to as the father of British documentary and credited with coining […]

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Scottish Writers: Bloomsday Celebration with Christie Williamson

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14 June, 2022 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, Clubroom, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Joining the world (a little bit early) in celebrating the centenary of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses. SWC Co-Chair Christie Williamson is hosting a workshop on the letters in Episode Five: “The Lotus Eaters”. Everyone is welcome, from first-time readers […]

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Dandelion Festival Kelvingrove Park

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17 – 19 June, 2022 Dandelion Festival Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park, 17-19 June. Free to attend and open to everyone, Dandelion Festival Glasgow will be an inspiring and unique three-day celebration that dares to reimagine our relationship with food and the planet. Music Rura / Les Amazones d’Afrique / Newton Faulkner / Niteworks / This is […]

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Exhibition: Origin of WA – Before the Mask

Willie Sutherland at French Street Studios 103 – 109 French Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow G40 4JS “I was a solitary child obsessed by drawing, dressing up and telling stories with my toys, I have explored how these characteristics formed me as an adult and forms my creative practice as I continue to tell stories through my […]

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Glasgow Science Festival at Botanic Gardens 2022

7 – 12 June, 2022 Glasgow Science Festival is taking over the Kibble Palace at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens from Tues 7th to Sun 12th June. Come along from 12.00- 4.00 daily for loads of free activities suitable for all ages. Make your own bath bomb and rainbows, create botanical blueprint collages, get a science […]

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Consultation re future of People’s Palace and Winter Gardens believed to be a sham

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The Friends of the People’s Palace, Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green believe that:  “the consultation about the future of the People’s Palace building & Winter Gardens recently launched by Glasgow Life and the Glasgow City Council is a sham and an abdication of previous commitments.” “In 2019 the Council’s City Administration Committee pledged to carry […]

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Remembering and Celebrating Esther Brown

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Sunday 12 June, 2022 – Starts  1 p.m. Join Woodlands Community for a special event to remember and celebrate our dear friend Esther Brown. Woodlands Community Gardens,  117 W Prince’s St, Glasgow G4 9BY About Esther “Esther Brown was a founding member of our community garden and her generous spirit was central to making the […]

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Work in Progress – Unchained Comedy at McChuills

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Sunday 5 June, 2022 McChuills, 80 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NL 7 p.m. until 10.30 p.m. Work in Progress Unchained Comedy are pleased to announce that running up to the Edinburgh Fringe we will be presenting some of the best acts from in and around Glasgow’s Work In Progress shows. Ross Leslie, Kate Hammer, Liam […]

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Climate for Change Conversation Online

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Wednesday, 8 June at 10 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Climate Conversations allow meaningful discussions about climate change to happen at scale. Free Book at EventBrite “I’ve been truly surprised by the lasting impact of my Conversation amongst friends who were previously silent on the issue – we are still talking about it nine months on!” […]

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B.A. Modern Ballet Graduation Performance 2022 Royal Conservatoire

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9 Jun 2022 – 11 Jun 2022 New Athenaeum Theatre, 100 Renfrew Street Glasgow. G2 3DB The BA Modern Ballet students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will take to the stage this June in the 2022 BA Modern Ballet Graduation Performances. Featuring stellar performances from all three year groups of the School of Modern Ballet, […]

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Science Sunday – Glasgow Science Festival 2022

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Stem Activity Day – Sunday 5 June, 2022 Govan Stones, 866 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU Govan Stones – one of the most important historic sites in Glasgow A new beginning and a new life beckon for the former Govan Old church, as its changed owners embark on ambitious plans to place the A-listed building […]

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