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. Merchant City Festival: Be Bop Bairns
29 – 31 July, 2022 Disco For All The Family Merchant City Festival is delighted to have Be Bop Bairns back this summer. Be Bop Bairns is an all singing, all dancing fun family day. A disco for all the family . jam packed with all the big party games. The soundtrack will cater for […]
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Monday, July 4, 2022 | Filed under: Community event, Dance, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Kids and young people, Merchant City Festival
Merchant City Festival: Reinventing the Bicycle
Friday 29th and Sunday 31st July, 2022 Future Follies presents, “Reinventing the Bicycle.” A joyful, free-wheeling celebration of a mechanical marvel. “Pray, dearest gentlefolk, allow us the privilege of introducing a most marvellous invention. A veritable two-wheeled wonder! A transportational trailblazer! A first-class ticket to freedom! We think it might just change the world!” With […]
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Merchant City Festival 2022
28 – 31 July, 2022 The Carnival Party will kick the festival off in style on Thursday 28 July from 4pm-8pm. Free Event No Ticket Required. Merchant City Festival 2022 is back this summer for a long weekend of entertainment . Outdoor arts, circus, dance, food, drink and craft stalls with events happening in and […]
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| Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Merchant City Festival, Pat's Home Page Blog
Scottish Writers Centre: Playwriting Workshop
12 July, 2022, 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. CCA, Club Room, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tom Murray: The Impossible Choice Plays are driven by the choices a character makes. A workshop that looks at dialogue, dramatic imagery and setting to bring out the internal tension of character, and how they work together to […]
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Underwood Lane by John Byrne, The Tron
14 – 30 July, 2022 Tron Theatre Company in a co-production with Renfrewshire Leisure presents Underwood Lane – new musical play by John Byrne. Director: Andy Arnold ‘Underwood Lane – the Winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giant sheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up from the […]
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The Homebird Sessions at Cottiers
The Homebird Sessions Special with Elaine Lennon, Yvonne Lyon and Adriana Spina in Association with Scotland on Tour 22 September, 2022 Cottiers, 03 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5 pU Register for event Award-winning Songwriter & TEDx Speaker, Elaine Lennon created the online version of THE HOMEBIRD SESSIONS Show at the start of the lockdown in 2020. Receiving […]
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Friday, July 1, 2022 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
A Night of Grief and Misery, Cottiers
30 August, 2022 Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU Register for Event Author/Activist Stephen Jenkinson and recording artist Gregory Hoskins fuse their separate work into an evening that is part book reading, part concert, part poetry, part lamentation, part ribaldry, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there. What would you call such a […]
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Loch Lomond Highland Games 2022
Saturday 16 July, 2022 from 9.30 a.m. Balloch Village, West Dunbartonshire – just off A82 at bottom of Loch Lomond. The Loch Lomond Highland Games are back after 2 years! Affordable family-friendly event showcasing the very best of the Highland Games including: Caber Toss, Highland dancing and much more. Stalls, food and a funfair for […]
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Thursday, June 30, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Alice In The Cities – GFT
2 and 4 July, 2022 The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionally-generous and luminously-shot odyssey. A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) is driving across the USA to research an article; it’s a disappointing trip, in which he is unable to truly […]
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing – GFT
6 July, 2022 at 8.15 p.m Screening as part of the Queerious season from Birds’ Eye View. Opening with a video-recorded confession from secretary Polly, this comedy tells of her voyeuristic fascination for her new boss, the ambitious Gabrielle, owner of an art gallery. The two women are like night and day – the new temp is […]
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Nitram at Glasgow Film Theatre
1 – 7 July, 2022 Caleb Landry Jones’s electrifying performance as the title character burns through the screen in Justin Kurzel’s (Macbeth, True History of the Kelly Gang) disturbing, unsensational and utterly riveting dramatisation of events leading to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. Angry, isolated and never able to fit in at school, ‘Nitram’ still lives […]
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Tigers at Glasgow Film Theatre
1 – 7 July, 2022 Based on the true story of 16-year-old Swedish soccer sensation Martin Bengtsson, Tigers holds up a mirror to the ruthless world of professional football. A relentlessly focused Martin (a brilliant Erik Enge) has pushed his teenage body and mind to the limits in pursuit of his dream. When he is signed by Inter […]
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Take 2. Paddington at Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 2 July, 2022 at 11.30 p.m. Adapted from Michael Bond’s beloved books, Paddington follows the comic misadventures of a polite young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British, who travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realise that city life is not […]
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Purple Rain, late night at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 1 July, 2022 at 11 p.m. Special Late Night screening of Prince’s iconic rock musical drama. GFT will be serving themed cocktails and playing tunes from his back catalogue – don’t miss this chance to see Prince on the big screen and pay tribute to one of the most influential musicians of all time. The […]
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Sma’ Shot Day 2022
Saturday 2nd July, 2022 Event by Paisley is Abbey Close, Paisley, PA1 1JG Paisley’s annual Sma’ Shot Day celebrations begin with the popular Sma’ Shot parade, which sets off from Brodie Park at 12noon on 2 July – led by the Charleston Drum, before making its way through Paisley town centre to Abbey Close. Once […]
Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A World Made on Paper – The Hunterian
(Image: Alasdair Gray, Design for jacket cover of Lanark, 1982. The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Courtesy The Alasdair Gray Archive.) 14 June – 2 October, 2022 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ This Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) […]
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Journey from Jamaica iBrina – Merchant City Festival
30 and 31 July, 2022 iBrina and Special Guests City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ An event exploring how traditional folk tales, stories and songs are the last link to the homeland of some New Scots. Originally scheduled as part of Celtic Connections 2022, Scotland based Jamaican singer-songwriter iBrina pays homage to the idea of Home at […]
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Sunday, June 26, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Merchant City Festival
No Evictions Glasgow Open Meeting
Monday 27 June, 2022 at 6.00 – 8.30p.m. Glasgow No Evictions Campaign Kinning Park Complex 43 Cornwall Street, Glasgow G41 1BA Everyone welcome at Kinning Park Complex for next No Evictions Meeting. Discussion regarding strategy for ending the hostile environment in Glasgow and ending hotel detention. Bus fare provided Community meal Childcare provided Event on […]
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| Filed under: Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Restricted Code, The Glad Cafe
Restricted Code EP launch with support by Chiara Berardelli Saturday 16 July, 2022 8 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG “I fell in love with them back in 1979 and I’m in love with them again now.” – Billy Sloan, BBC Radio Scotland. “Restricted Code keep it real […]
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Saturday, June 25, 2022 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, Music
Chris McGlade: Forgiveness- Websters Theatre
22 July, 2022 Websters, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow West End G4 9HZ A fiercely powerful show about a brutally shocking story; Chris’ father was murdered in 2011. How do you forgive your father’s murderer? Only Chris knows… Inspiring uproarious laughter, tears of sincerity and standing ovations, Chris’ conscientious comedy and cutting-edge poetry makes for […]
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| Filed under: What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Pippin The Musical at Websters
Wednesday 29 June – Friday 01 July 2022 Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ The classic musical Pippin comes to Websters. Written by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and originally directed and choreographed by the legendary Bob Fosse, Pippin follows a young Prince as he searches for the meaning of life. Book Tickets More about […]
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Luzzu at GFT
27 – 30 June, 2022 Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, must make an agonising choice: repair his leaking luzzu – the traditional wooden fishing boat that has been in his family for generations – or decommission it in exchange for a government pay-out. Faced with the temptation of making easy money […]
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Friday, June 24, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Reel Roots: Windrush at GFT
18 – 26 June, 2022 How lucky we are that steelpans came to Britain’s streets. That reggae and punk collided, and dancehall and dub resound. That society, too, has a richer sound, composed of more numerous notes. Reel Roots: Windrush is a spotlight on Black people of Caribbean heritage who have resided in the UK […]
Take 2: 101 Dalmatians
Saturday, 25 June, 2022 at 11.30 a.m. Two dalmatian dogs, Pongo and Perdita, meet and fall in love, as do their owners, Roger and Anita (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson), who get married. Soon, Perdita has a litter of 15 puppies. Anita’s scary boss, Cruella de Vil (Glenn Close), becomes obsessed with the dotty dogs […]
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Fayi Dayi at GFT
24 – 30 June, 2022 From Mexican-Ethiopian director and cinematographer Jessica Beshir, Faya Dayi is a lyrical spiritual journey into the rituals and trade practices of Khat, a stimulant green leaf that – according to Ethiopian legend – was founded by Sufi Imams in search of eternity. A hypnotic blend of documentary and drama, this immersive experience […]
Moon, 66 Questions at GFT
24 – 30 June, 2022 Jacqueline Lentzou’s highly anticipated debut feature is a considerate and touching portrayal of familial dynamics between Paris (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) and his teenage daughter, Artemis (Sofia Kokkali), as she returns home to Athens to care for him. The pair have struggled to communicate with each other for much of Artemis’s life and […]
Visible Cinema: Encounters Pride Shorts
Tuesday 28 June, 2022, 6.30 p.m. Visible Cinema is GFT’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing friendly film programme. Featuring a captioned or subtitled screening followed by a post-film discussion with integrated BSL and on-screen Speech to Text Service. For this Pride month, Visible Cinema is delighted to screen Encounters Queer Joy film programme, a selection of shorts celebrating the […]
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Say Anything at GFT
26 and 29 June, 2022 With that indelible image of John Cusack holding his boombox aloft outside Ione Skye’s window, Say Anything lodged itself into the imagination of generations of teenagers. Yet there’s much more to Cameron Crowe’s lovable directorial debut than one iconic scene. Endearingly awkward and beautifully observed, this high school love story boasts an array of memorable supporting performances but […]
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Letters of Hope, Milk Cafe, Refugee Festival
ENDED 2022 Letters of Hope Friday, 24 June, 2022 – until 5 p.m. By Milk Cafe MILK Café, 452 Victoria Rd, Glasgow, G42 8YU Part of Refugee Festival Scotland Letters of Hope is a free open-air exhibition around Glasgow’s much loved Queen’s Park. A series of letters and postcards written at Peer Support Group will be […]
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The Voyage Out: The Travel Writing Workshop with Linda Jackson
Scottish Writers Centre Tuesday 28 June, 2022, 7.00 p.m. – 9 p.m. @CCA_Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Come along to Scottish Writers Centre when Linda Jackson will teach the craft of travel writing. Linda Jackson is a writer, singer, publisher and creative writing tutor. She has published short stories and poetry, while most […]
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Thursday, June 23, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops
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