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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..

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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Monday, November 14, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Return to Dust at GFT

return to dust

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

g20 make up

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

trio sandalian

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

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit

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

devil in a blue dress

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

ruby mccann writing school

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

havana glasgow film festival

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

closing night cca

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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Santuario Compania Maria ‘La Serrana’ at Cottiers

SANTARIO

Wednesday, 16 November, 2022, 7.30 p.m. to 8.45 p.m. Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU. Flamenco dancer María “La Serrana” learnt from the best: she has been Farruquito’s student for over 8 years, and studied with many more renowned gypsy dancers. Her style is both strong and sensual, a bit savage yet elegant. […]

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BIG vs SMALL at Glasgow Film Theatre

big vs small

7 – 10 November, 2022 When Filmmaker Minna Dufton started her documentary about elite big wave champion surfer, the ‘tiny fighter’ Joana Andrade who rides the powerhouse waves at Nazaré, Portugal (home of the 100ft World Record Wave surfed by Garrett McNamara), little did she know Joana harboured a deep secret. By way of explaining the safety […]

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Elf Jr! – Performance Academy Christmas Show 2022

performance academy christmas show

Sunday 20th November at 1.00pm, 4.30pm & 7pm Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ The Performance Academy Drama and Theatre Schools present Elf Jr! Join us for a performance filled with singing, dancing and lots of Christmas fun. Book Tickets Box Office 0141 357 4000 The Performance Academy, Scotland’s Award Winning Acting […]

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Dance School Scotland Musical Theatre Showcase 2022

dance school scotland

16 – 19 November, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ Showcase 2022 An evening of excerpt from musicals and plays performed by the students of the Musical Theatre Course at Scotland’s centre of excellence for Dance and musical Theatre, The Dance School of Scotland Buy tickets Box Office 9141 357 4000

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Big Band Buble´ at Websters Theatre

big band buble at websters theatre

Friday 11 November, 2022, 7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Following their successful appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie and the record-breaking Scottish big band, ‘Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation’ invite you to a night full of seductive songs and memorable melodies in a fabulous tribute to the […]

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The Tempest at Cottiers

the tempest glasgow university shakespeare society

30 November and 1 December, 2022 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU THE TEMPEST BY: The Glasgow University Shakespeare Society is proud to present our production of The Tempest! Join them on the island for magic, shipwrecks, and a whirlwind romance – all orchestrated by the powerful Prospero. Buy tickets Box Office […]

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Michael Gira at Cottiers

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25 November, 2022 at 8 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU One of the giants of American alternative music scene, Michael Rolfe Gira is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and artist. He is the main force behind the New York City musical group Swans and fronted Angels of Light. He is […]

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Back In The Groove – Glasgow’s Voice of the Town Choir

back in the groove

13 November, 2022, 8 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Yes, indeed… Glasgow’s funkiest choir is most definitely Back In The Groove with its most exciting, most rockin’ show to date. Pre-Covid, the choir performed at a range of festivals, shows and top events, including backing stars from BBC’s Strictly […]

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Book Week Scotland: Chris Brookmyre and Denise Mina

denise mina and chris brookmyre

Monday, 14 November, 2022 6.30 p.m. (chaired by Tariq Ashkanani) Chris Brookmyre’s The Cliff House is set on a luxury getaway on a private island where Jen’s hen party is going to be out of control. . . As well as Jen, there’s the pop diva and the estranged ex-bandmate, the tennis pro and the fashion guru, […]

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Creative Conversations: Togara Muzanenhamo

Creative Conversations: Togara Muzanenhamo

Monday 07 November 2022, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Togara Muzanenhamo was born to Zimbabwean parents in Lusaka, Zambia in 1975. He was brought up in Zimbabwe, and then went on to study in The Hague and Paris. He became a journalist in Harare and […]

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Good Night Oppy at Glasgow Film Theatre

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4 – 10 November, 2022 On 24 January 2004, a team of scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory watched anxiously as the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity touched down for a planned 90-day mission. Known to the group as ‘Oppy,’ the robot represented years of ingenuity, teamwork, and curiosity. As 90 days came and […]

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Friday, November 4, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Neptune Frost at Glasgow Film Theatre

neptune frost

4 – 10 November, 2022 Multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring their unique dynamism to the Afrofuturist vision of Neptune Frost. It is a sci-fi-punk-musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that they have been exploring in their work, including on Williams’ 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Neptune Frost takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where […]

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Living at Glasgow Film Theatre

Living

4 – 10 November, 2022 Living is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful – into one he can say has been lived to the full. 1953. A London […]

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Nil By Mouth at Glasgow Film Festival

NIL BY MOUTH

4 – 7 November, 2022 Gary Oldman revealed himself as a filmmaker of uncompromising talent with Nil by Mouth, his debut and so far only directorial feature. This intensely powerful and emotional landmark of British cinema has been remastered in 4K for its 25th anniversary by the BFI National Archive. Set on a council estate in New […]

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Tigre Gente at Glasgow Film Theatre

tigre gente

Tuesday 8 November, 2022 at 6 p.m. All tickets £6.50 A Bolivian park ranger and a young Hong Kongese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America. Along the way, they grapple with questions of empathy, responsibility, and bridging a cultural gap to prevent the […]

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Noirvember: Bound plus introduction at GFT

Noirvember: Bound GFT

Sunday 6 November, 2022 at 4.30 p.m. This screening will be introduced by Claire Biddles, Marketing Officer for Glasgow Film. The Wachowski sisters made their unforgettable debut in 1996 with Bound, now considered a classic of lesbian cinema. In this stylish, gripping and very sexy neo-noir, ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) teams up with her gangster’s […]

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