I 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. 50 Pots – Scottish Pottery Exhibition
BARROWFIELD, BRITANNIA, BUCHAN, BELLS: EXPLORING OVER 200 YEARS OF SCOTTISH CERAMICS IN 50 POTS Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10 – 24 Garbraid Avenue, Glasgow Glasgow, Wyndford, Glasgow G20 8YE The FREE exhibition. runs until October, 2022. Monday till Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. To mark their golden anniversary, Scottish Pottery Society are taking us back […]
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Our Stories, Your Stories – Celebrating Memoirs
Celebrating Memoirs: Creative Conversations Scottish Author Showcase 2022 with Publishing Scotland Thursday, 25 August, 2022, 5.30 – 7.30p.m. University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Register for free event at Eventbrite A special Creative Conversations event co-hosted by Publishing Scotland and the Creative Writing Programme at University of Glasgow, showcasing the best […]
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Monday, August 15, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
WestFest – The Big Weekend
3 – 4 September, 2022 WestFest announces The Big Weekend- a two day community festival on Kelvin Way this September Following on from this year’s successful and well attended ‘Summer in the West End’ events programme, new non profit production company WestFest has announced plans for a brand new community event, The Big Weekend which […]
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Sunday, August 14, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Soul Bowl, Partickhill Bowling and Community Club
(CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS)27 August, 2022, 7 p.m. till midnight Event by Soul Bowl Partickhill Bowling and Community Club 46 Partickhill Road, Partick, Glasgow Timeless Motown magic! Northern floorshakers! Atlantic classics! Mod gems! Ace Stax tracks! Tip-top soul 45s for dancing… vintage vinyl hand-spun by wizened expert DJs, Felonious Munk and @soulboydaveybee . Eighty years combined joss-dickeying […]
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WOCO Woodlands’ Own Community Festival
Sunday September 4th, 2022, 12 – 4 p.m. With the cost of living crisis following on so closely from the pandemic, there is a real need to bring some joy to the community. That’s why Woodlands Community is holding WOCO – Woodlands’ own community festival. The festival will take place across four local sites: Woodlands […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Woodlands Community
The Making of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark
17 August, 2022, 6 p.m. – 8. p.m. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery University of Glasgow University Avenue, G12 8QQ Tickets at Eventbrite £4-£6 An evening event dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019). The current exhibition Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’: A World Made on Paper (running until 2 October, […]
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Saturday, August 13, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Govanhill Children’s Book Festival
Tuesday 9 August, 2022 – Online Event Event by Govanhill International Festival and Carnival and Govanhill Community Development Trust A day of stories and learning as they are joined by some of Scotland’s most acclaimed Children’s authors and young people’s fiction writers. Suitable for all ages. Use the link below for a guided story telling, which will count […]
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Monday, August 8, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Hannah Rarity at Cottiers (rescheduled)
17 August, 2022 Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU The 2018 winner of the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year contest, singer and songwriter Hannah Rarity, celebrates the release of her eagerly anticipated second album ’To Have You Near’. Combining sublime vocal timbre and uncanny interpretive empathy, which have earned comparisons to Eva Cassidy and Cara […]
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Kim Edgar and Rhona Macfarlane at Cottiers
18 August, 2022 In association with Scotland On Tour Kim Edgar Emotion and connection are at the heart of this Edinburgh-based pianist and Songwriter’s work: through observed and lived experiences, Kim ponders what it is to be human, creating stories told with honesty and empathy that open hearts, minds and discussions. Her intensity and intimacy […]
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Piping Live! Family Fun Day
Tuesday 9 August, 2022 – Doors open 9.30 a.m. National Piping Centre, 30-34 McPhater St, Glasgow G4 0HW The Piping Live! Family Fun Day is back for 2022 Welcoming families, with children aged under 9 to come along and experience traditional Scottish arts of piping, drumming and highland dancing, then a fantastic magic show from […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, Piping Live!, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scotland on Tour – The Rum Shack, Glasgow
Scotland on Tour is an exciting initiative which aims to support the recovery of Scotland’s live music industry. The Rum Shack Special Concert The Rum Shack, 657 – 659 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB There will be a special concert at The Rum Shack in Glasgow’s Southside on 11th August, 2022. Featuring Megan Black […]
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The Paul McKenna Band – Websters Theatre
8 September, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ “The best folk band to have come out of Scotland in the last twenty years” New York Times “The best band of their generation” (The Living Tradition) “A band with the potential to dominate the Scottish/Irish traditional scene for the next twenty years” (Fatea Magazine) Scotland’s Paul […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
The Mould That Changed The World – Websters Theatre
18 – 20 August, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ Would you save the world if you could? Alexander Fleming’s penicillin was a life-changing discovery that became a world-changing cure. Now at the end of his life, he is not just looking back, he must still look forwards – because the world depends […]
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Access Film Club: Hot Fuzz
Monday 8 August (18.00) Film starts 18.05, film ends 20.16 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland, is delighted to provide Access Film Club: a screening and post-film discussion in a friendly and welcoming environment. Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is involuntarily transferred […]
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Saturday, August 6, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Blind Ambition at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 12 August, 2022 at 8.15 p.m. Plus Wine Tasting with Locavore at 6.30 p.m.134 Renfrew Street (just round the corner from the cinema) Glasgow Film Theatre is partnering with Locavore Cafe for this special one-off wine tasting event, to celebrate the release of the brilliant feel-good wine tasting documentary Blind Ambition. Limited tickets available!Plus recorded […]
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Eric Ravilious: Drawn To War at GFT
8 – 11 August, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgo G3 6RB Eric Ravilious is as compelling and enigmatic as his art. Set against the dramatic wartime locations that inspired him, Margy Kinmonth’s film brings to life this brilliant but still grossly undervalued British artist. Caught in the crossfire of war 80 years ago, Ravilious’s legacy […]
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Notre Dame On Fire at GFT
Until 11 August, 2022 Notre Dame On Fire offers a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that took place on 15 April 2019, when the iconic Parisian cathedral suffered the biggest blaze in its history. The film retraces how heroic men and women put their lives on the line to accomplish an awe-inspiring rescue. A cinematic […]
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Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in New York City
Until 11 August, 2022 at Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Nightclubbing is the first-ever documentary about the renowned New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City (1965-1981) which made an indelible impact on the worlds of music, fashion, art, culture and the creation of the city’s punk rock scene. As legendary singer and […]
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The Harder They Come – 50th Annivesary
Until 11 August, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Jimmy Cliff brings a knockout soundtrack and charisma aplenty to this classic crime drama. A film that needs no introduction to anyone with so much as the slightest interest in reggae or Jamaican culture, The Harder They Come celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. […]
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Break the Cycle of Homelessness with Social Bite
Sunday 4 September, 2022 Back for 2022! Challenging you to Break the Cycle of homelessness. This year’s event is even bigger and better with two additional routes, some familiar faces (including Sir Chris Hoy returning for a second year), and a new finishing site at none other than the BT Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. Whether […]
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Occupy! Occupy! Occupy! – graphic novel launch
Friday 12 August, 2022, 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Event by Govanhill International Festival and Carnival and Govanhill Baths Community Trust At The Deep End Govanhill Baths 21 Nithsdale St, Glasgow G41 2PZ 2021 marked 20 years since the incredible occupation of Govanhill Baths by the Southside Against Closures – Save Our Pool campaign. The occupation ran from […]
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Govanhill’s Got Talent
Saturday 6 August 2022 – live online at 6 p.m. Part of Govanhill International Festival and Carnival with Govanhill Community Development Trust See the cream of the crop from all four corners of Govanhill ! Grab the pop corn and be dazzled by dancers, singers, musicians, artists, magicians and the many other talents on offer […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Music, Zoom and online events
Mary Irvine’s Blog: Review – The Way Home by Robin Scott-Elliot
The Way Home by Robin Scott Elliot ‘The Way Home is a novel based on the true, tragic story of one family’s destruction…’ The Telegram The sun glistened on the Clyde as Gertie watched the postman walking down the street, coming ever closer to her parents’ house in Cardross where she was staying whilst her […]
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Beyond the Rainbow (100th Birthday Celebration for Judy Garland)
Friday 4, 11 and 18 November, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. Presented by:TRAM Direct Theatre Company At: Arlington Baths Club 61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT Buy tickets at Eventbrite Judy Garland charmed everyone with her singing and acting talent. But what really lay behind this persona? What influence did Louis B Meyer, the MGM Magnate, have […]
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Raw Poetry at Scottish Writers Centre
Tuesday 9 August, 2022, 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Scottish Writers presents: Raw Poetry with: Jim Ferguson Graham Fulton Bobby Christie Free event Jim and Pat’s West End Chat: Pat’s Podcast with Jim Ferguson
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Govanhill International Carnival and Parade
Saturday 6 August, 2022 at 12.30 p.m. Join Stand up to Racism Glasgow bloc at the Parade. Assemble at Govanhill Park Govanhill Street, Glasgow, G42 7HU All anti-racists are invited to join and send a strong message from Govanhill to join us in raising these messages and send a strong message from Govanhill #AllRefugeesWelcome Say it […]
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Monday, August 1, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events
Friends of Peoples Palace & Winter Garden at Glasgow Green Fun Day
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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Sunday, July 31, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Friends of People's Palace and Winter Gardens at Glasgow Green, Kids and young people, Peoples Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Rhynie Station: Grunnit Spring by Ian R. Mitchell
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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| Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Where The Crawdads Sing at GFT
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
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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