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..

Black Cuban Short Films: A Contemporary Wayward Selection

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival – Wednesday 9 November, 2022. 5.50 p.m. – 8 p.m. Event by CCA Glasgow and Havana Glasgow Film Festival CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Purchase Tickets BLACK CUBAN SHORT FILMS: A CONTEMPORARY WAYWARD SELECTION (N/C 18+) What are you expecting from Black Cuban Cinema? It is probably not here. This event […]

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Scottish Writers: Launch of Lost Eden

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EVENT CANCELLED – NOW OPEN MIC IN CLUB ROOM, CCA Tuesday 18 October at  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ‘Lost Eden ’(Zagava Press) a collaborative ‘quartet of quartets’ co-written with Margaret Elphinstone, Mandy Haggith, Douglas Thompson and D.P. Watt. The book consists of a ‘quartet of quartets’ on the theme of the formal garden as a metaphor […]

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Conference: Food, Communities and the Climate Emergency

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Wednesday 2 November, 2022, 9.30 a.m – 2.30 p.m. at St Silas Church, 69 Park Rd, Glasgow G4 9JE A half day conference hosted by Woodlands Community and Nourish Scotland. – Making the connection between anti-poverty work, social justice issues and the climate emergency. – Exploring what policy makers at a national level can learn […]

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Maryhill Youth Art Festival 2022

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15 and 16 October, 2022 G20 Festival Building, Shuna Street, Glasgow G20 9PX and G20 Works Building,  21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow G20 8HS Talulah Hannah Wright and Emily Cutts Made by young people, for young people! A weekend of free workshops and activities for young people, all centred around creativity and art. Come have a go at […]

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Halloween Witch Market – Britannia Panopticon

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Saturday 29 October, 2022 from 12:00-4:30 p.m. Britannia Panopticon, 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Get ready for a Magical afternoon at the Britannia Panopticon! Celebrate Halloween at Glasgow’s beloved WITCH MARKET and make a toast for the Harvest by drinking some Witchy themed cocktails at the bar! Find everything you need for your Samhain ritual […]

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Paisley Halloween Festival 2022

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Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 October, 2022 By Paisley is Abbey Close , Paisley PA1 1JF Grab your cape and gather your superpowers for a thrilling Halloween experience like no other in Paisley’s historic town centre on Paisley Halloween Festival, one of the biggest and best, free Halloween events in the UK, will be back […]

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Creative Conversations: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

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Monday 10 October 2022 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue G12 8QQ Register at Eventbrite YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER grew up in South London. Her first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 and the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019. Yara was named one of […]

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Book Launch: Celine’s Salon – The Anthology

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Thursday 13 October, 2022 at 7 p.m. Event by Wordville Press, Minerva Wakes and The Twistettes Free entry TIME Event Space 96B Maxwell Street, Glasgow G1 4EQ Celebrating the grand book launch of Celine’s Salon The Anthology – Vol 2!! Expect poetry, comedy, performance and wonder as La Celine guides you on a fantastical journey at Time Event Space. […]

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Take 2: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Saturday, 8 October, 2022 – 11.30 a.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6B Journey through the forest with Snow White, the fairest princess of them all, as she runs from the evil stepmother who envies her beauty. Snow White meets a group of dwarfs who help her hide away. However, evil is […]

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Thursday, October 6, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Access Film Club at GFT, Beetlejuice

Monday 10 October, 2022 at 6 p.m. In Tim Burton’s horror comedy Michael Keaton is the wild and mischievous spirit Beetlejuice. After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country house, unable to leave. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones) […]

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Un Carnat de Bal plus Thomas McGoran plus Q & A GFT

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Friday 7 October, 2022 – 2.15 p.m. Free Event Screening followed by reception and exhibition at Reid Building Glasgow School of Art A special free event revisiting memories of cinema-going in the 1930s. This matinee screening features Un Carnet de Bal (1937, dir. Julian Duvivier), a film which served as the main attraction for the Cosmo […]

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Girls, Girls, Girls at GFT

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7 – 13 October, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö have each other’s backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma, on the contrary, has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the […]

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Nothing Compares at GFT

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7 – 13 October, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Nothing Compares is the story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on Sinéad’s prophetic words and deeds from 1987 to 1993, the film presents an authored, richly cinematic […]

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Craft and Flea Market, The Briggait

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Saturday 8 October, 2022, 11 a.m. The Briggait,141 Bridgegate,Glasgow,G1 5HZ,GB Craft & Flea is a collection of independent makers, collectors, designers and creatives all under one roof Shop SMALL and shop LOCAL in our authentic twist on the traditional craft market with a huge selection of products from illustration to vintage bric-a-brac, plants to jewellery, […]

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Queer East, On The Road at CCA

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7 and 8 October, 2022 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Event by: CCA Glasgow and Queer East Touring Programme – Screening Highlights Following the success of its London edition this May, Queer East embarks on a three-month nationwide tour, On the Road, bringing a selection of highlights from this year’s programme to big screens across the […]

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Book launch: The Last Woman Born on the Island (poetry) by Sharon Black

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Tuesday, 1 November, 2022, 7.30pm to 9.30pm The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TS – (opposite Soba restaurant) LAUNCH of The Last Woman Born on the Island, Glasgow author Sharon Black’s latest poetry collection. With a reading of poems from the book, as well as readings by guest poets Michael Brown and Penny […]

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Saturday, October 1, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Callander Jazz and Blues Festival 2022

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30 September – 2 October, 2022 The Callander Jazz and Blues Festival is the largest rural Jazz & Blues festival in Scotland featuring over 50 gigs across 11 venues, performing live jazz, blues, soul and boogie over 3 days. From solo artists to big bands, over 120 musicians ensure a long weekend of great music […]

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Time’s Plague, David Hayman at OranMor

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Extra Date Added – 16 October, 2022 OranMor, Top of, Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8QX Part of Scottish Tour where Hayman returns for one last time? Scottish Tour Dates David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.  The third in Chris Dolan’s trilogy, following The Pitiless Storm (2014) and Cause of Thunder (2017). Bob’s in hospital. A […]

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In Person Talk: Legacies of Slavery and Empire in Glasgow’s Architectural Heritage

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Wednesday 26 October, 2022, 6.30 p.m. Glasgow City Chambers, George Square; G2 1DU Free – – Donations welcome  Register for event Event by Glasgow City Heritage Trust Join Dr Anthony Lewis from Glasgow Life to hear how legacies of slavery and empire in Glasgow are manifested in its architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr […]

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Green Fingers Garden Care G20

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If you live in Glasgow in  the G20 area and need grass cutting, hedge trimming or other gardening work Jason is your man. One of G20 boys has started a gardening business. Telephone: 07479307665 G20 Instagram @FestivalG20 Twitter  

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Special Evening with A C Clarke at Scottish Writers

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Tuesday 2 October, 2022 Discussing the Creative partnerships and the idea of the muse: Gala Éluard/Dalí and her circle CCA, Club Room, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD A C Clarke: Creative partnerships and the idea of the muse: Gala Éluard/Dalí and her circle The idea of the muse is ancient and in classical times […]

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Christie Williamson at Creative Conversations

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Monday, 3 October 2022, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.  University Chapel Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Christie Williamson is the author of Oo an Feddirs (2015), and Arc o Möns (2009), a pamphlet of translations of poems by Federico Garcia Lorca into Shetlandic which won the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. Oo an […]

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The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots, The Hunterian

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14 October 2022–5 February 2023 New Exhibition Explores The Afterlife of Scotland’s Most Controversial Monarch A programme of family events inspired by the exhibition will run from 8–20 October 2022. Hunterian Art Gallery, 2 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Admission free A major new exhibition exploring the afterlife of Scotland’s most controversial monarch, Mary Queen […]

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Sounds in the Suburbs: JJ Gilmour

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Friday, 7 October, 2022 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall, Glasgow G2 3JD Internationally acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter JJ Gilmour made his recording debut in 1989 with The Silencers, one of Scotland’s most loved bands who enjoyed great success throughout Europe and America. A naturally gifted musician he first joined the band as a backing vocalist though later in […]

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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Until 29 September, 2022 The definitive exploration of singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, ‘Hallelujah’. This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: the songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving testimonies from major recording artists for whom […]

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After Yang at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Until 29 September, 2022 When his young daughter’s beloved companion – an android named Yang – malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn’t […]

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Blonde – Glasgow Film Theatre

23 – 29 September, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the lines of fact and fiction to […]

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Don’t Worry Darling (CTBC) at Glasgow Film Theatre

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23 – 29 September, 2022 GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealised community of Victory, an experimental company town housing the men who work for the top secret Victory Project and their families. The 1950s societal optimism espoused by their […]

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Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival at Glasgow Film Theatre

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1 and 2 October, 2022 GFT, 2 Rose Street, Glasgow G 6RT Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival is delighted to be back in cinemas, welcoming film fans to its ninth edition. We’re delighted to be screening two standout titles from the programme at GFT: the powerful, Goya-awarded Maixabel plus a Q&A with director Icíar Bollaín, and […]

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G20 Documentary and short feature film

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Thursday, 29 September 2022, 4.30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Cineworld Cinema Glasgow 7 Renfrew Street , G2 3AB About this event Come and join the G20 youth project’s screening of the G20 documentary. The evening will also premiere their short film: . The film was written by and features the G20 young people. Directed by […]

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