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..

Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2022

16 – 18 September, 2022 GYFF announces 2022 programme The festival has been co-curated by 16 young people from Glasgow and will open on Friday 16 September with a very special screening of Tom George’s See How They Run, and close on Sunday 18 September with a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Behind the […]

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Lin Anderson at Byres Road Book Festival 2022

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Saturday 24 September, 2022, 12 p.m.- 1 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP Meet the Author – Lin Anderson  Lin Anderson is a Scottish author and screenwriter known for her bestselling crime series featuring forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod. Four of her novels have been longlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of […]

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Bookbug, Byres Road Book Festival 2022

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Saturday 24 September, 2022, 10 am – 11.30 am Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP Bookbug is Scotland’s universal early years book gifting programme and aims to inspire a love of stories, songs and rhymes from birth. Come along to Bookbug at Byres Road Book Festival and have fun enjoying songs, rhymes and […]

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John Doyle, John McCusker and Mike McGoldrick – Websters Theatre

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24 September, 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ John Doyle, John McCusker and Mike McGoldrick first crossed paths as teenagers. Quarter of a century later, the fired-up folk live-wires are set to celebrate their friendship, and musical kinship, with their first studio album, The Wishing Tree. A thrilling trip through traditional, contemporary and original jigs, […]

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An Evening of Songs and Stories with James Grant

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Sunday 25th September, 2022 Cottiers Theatre, 93 -95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Part of Scotland on Tour Regarded as one of the country’s finest singer-songwriters, James first shot to fame with the band Love and Money, writing four classic albums for the band. He has  worked with world-renowned producers such as Gary Katz of […]

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Fadia’s Tree at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Until Thursday 2 September, 2022 While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. She challenges Sarah, the film’s director, to find an ancient mulberry tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence – with only inherited memories, a blind […]

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Sunday, August 28, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema

Her Way, Glasgow Film Theatre

Her Way

Until 1 September, 2022 Call My Agent star Laure Calamy shines in this compelling first feature from director Cécile Ducrocq. Marie (Calamy) is a confident, optimistic sex worker in Strasbourg who is determined to provide a better life for her 17-year-old son, Adrien (Nissim Renard). He is a bottomless pit of apathy and negativity whose only passion in life […]

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Kilimanjaro Climb Challenge – Fundraiser Michael & Nico from Eusebi’s

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Delayed by the pandemic, Kilimanjaro Climb Challenge planned in 2020 is now back on track this October 2022. Eusebi’s Kilimanjaro Challenge JustGiving page Eusebi’s General Manager Michael Prior and Nico ,Giovanna Eusebi’s son, will be joining an expedition led by Andrew Fairlie’s brother Jim Fairlie MSP. They will follow in Andrews footsteps who in 2011 […]

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Harvest Fair Govanhill Community Market

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24 September, 2022 – 12 – 4pm COME ALONG TO THE LAST MARKET OF THE YEAR! Bat Lab, 49 Bankhall Street, Glasgow G42 8W  Govanhill Baths Community Trust and G42 Pop-Ups GAMIS Tickets · On sale from 29 August at 00:00 at Eventbrite Free entry! Govanhill Community Market On the 25th of September, Govanhill Community Market organised […]

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West End Wander Walk – Festival of Europe

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Friday 26 August, 2022 at 10 a.m. A West End Wander Glasgow Eurowalk to look at some of Glasgow’s current and historical links with mainland Europe. The walk will start at 10 am at Grosvenor Terrace, G12 OTB – just outside the Grosvenor Hotel. It will finish at the Botanic Gardens. Register for Free Event […]

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Bathe in the Arts, Arlington Baths Club

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Curtain Up for New West End Arts Adventure Autumn/Winter 2022 Alexandra Shrivinas, Bathe in the Arts, Friday 28 October Alexandra Shrinivas – Arlington Baths Club Friday October 21st, 2022 Opera Highlights to Enchant You Glasgow baritone Craig Judge has performed in many a venue with his repertoire of operatic delights. However, his singing is matched […]

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy

Stuart Cosgrove: HEY AMERICA Tidelines Book Festival

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23 September, 2022,  7.30pm – 9.45pm Tidelines Book Festival 2022 Opening Event Harbour Arts Centre, Harbour St, Irvine KA12 8PZ Stuart Cosgrove – HEY AMERICA! The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House Tickets Writer and presenter Stuart Cosgrove explores how successive presidents have recruited musicians to boost their election campaigns and help […]

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Monday, August 22, 2022 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland=2023, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

Spark My Words – Creative Writing Sessions with Lesley O’Brien

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Fridays 2, 9 & 23 September, 2022 at 11am – 1pm Meet at the Yellow Gazebo at the Peoples Palace, Glasgow Green Spark My Words is a series of mini-adventures exploring the familiar in a new way, to spark your imagination and get you writing. Sessions are facilitated by Lesley O’Brien, singer, poet and storyteller All […]

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Sunday, August 21, 2022 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Pat's Home Page Blog, Writing

Scottish Writers Centre: The Strathclyde Review – Taking Roots Launch

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Tuesday 23 August, 2022 at 7 p.m. Club Room, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Scottish Writers Centre welcomes back Creative Writing at Strathclyde University to launch the second volume of The Strathclyde Review: TAKING ROOT. TAKING ROOT is a compilation of works written, edited and produced by the students of the MLitt and MRes […]

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McChuill’s Summer Ska Special

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Sunday, 28 August, 2022, 4 p.m. – midnight With with Esperanza & Dughoose Ska Band A whole day of live Ska Music! McChuills,, 80 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NL Buy tickets Featuring an array of homegrown Ska bands & Dj’s You can expect to see: Esperanza Esperanza is a nine-piece ska collective from Glasgow famed […]

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Summer Ball 2022 – Dance with Shona, Elderpark Centre Glasgow

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Saturday, 3 September, 2022, 2 p.m. till late Elderpark Community Centre, 82 Elderpark Street, G51 3ST All money raised will go towards The Shona Foundation who provide a safe welcoming environment and connect people through nature. Cost: £5 entry (pay at the Door) this also includes buffet Come along and enjoy a day full of […]

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Take 2 films: Annie at Glasgow Film Theatre

Saturday 20 August, 2022, 11.30 a.m. The sun will come out tomorrow in this musical classic of little orphan Annie. When Oliver Warbucks agrees to take an orphan into his home for a week to improve his public image he is surprised when Annie’s charm and bravery truly wins him over. Even though Annie enjoys […]

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

Star Trek The Motion Picture, Director’s Edition

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26 – 28 August, 2022 When an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise, to take command and confront an alien spacecraft of enormous power heading towards Earth. In 2001, director Robert Wise revisited the film to refine the edit […]

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High Noon at Glasgow Film Theatre

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25 August, 2022 at 6.15 p.m. High Noon – like Casablanca – is accepted as one of the quintessential classic American films and whose title has gone into the lexicon when Americans reference a tough decision. Its hero’s dilemma is the very epitome of the western genre where ‘a man’s got to do what a man’s got to […]

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Nope plus short, Glasgow Film Theatre

19 – 25 August, 2022 Oscar-winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with the expansive comedy horror epic Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar-nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a […]

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The Lonely Wife, Glasgow Film Theatre

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20 – 24 August, 2022 Satyajit Ray’s own favourite of his films, set in late 19th century Bengal, boasts a marvellously vital Victorian heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously bored. Racing from window to window in her vast, ornate mansion, Charulata spies hungrily on the outside world through opera glasses. Her wealthy […]

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Burning an Illusion, Glasgow Film Theatre

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22 – 25 August, 2022 Pat Williams, played by the award-winning Cassie McFarlane, is a London girl with a caring family, her own flat and a job that she enjoys, who looks forward to settling down to a comfortable married life. Her dream is shattered when she meets Del (Victor Romero), a charming but vaguely discontented […]

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The Feast, Glasgow Film Festival

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18 – 25 August, 2022 When a wealthy family and their guests gather for a dinner party in the remote Welsh countryside, they have little idea of what awaits them. Hosting at their luxurious new house, the family have a valuable mining venture at stake and the atmosphere is tense. The arrival of a mysterious […]

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Glasgow Doors Open Days 2022

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12 – 18 September, 2022 Celebrate Glasgow’s changing face and legacy at Glasgow Doors Open Days 2022. Explore the programme From Monday 12th – Sunday 18th September, you can expect a diverse programme of open buildings, talks, guided walks and self-guided tours. Bookings open Thursday 1st September , 2022 THE CITY IN FLUX This year […]

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The Springbank Voyage – Barry Nisbet Album Launch

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Join Barry Nisbet and friends for the launch of his new album, ‘The Springbank Voyage’ at the Tall Ship, the Glenlee. Thursday 18 August, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. Glenlee, 150 Pointhouse Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS In June 1908 the Clydebuilt sailing barque ‘Springbank’ sailed from Leith, loading a cargo of coal in Hamburg before setting […]

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50 Pots – Scottish Pottery Exhibition

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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

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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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WestFest – The Big Weekend

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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

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(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

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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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