West End Festival 2016.

 

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West End Festival 2016 – Friday 3 to Sunday 26 June, 2016

Glasgow’s largest culural event brings an amazing programme of activities and projects to Glasgow’s vibrant West End. Hundreds of events will take place at various West venues including the recently refurbished Kelvingrove Bandstand. You will be able to enjoy local community events plus performances by international acts.

The festival has something for everyone with exhibitions, performance – dance, drama, comedy, music and literature – walks, talks, tours and music. The programme will include wonderful festivals within the festival – including the very popular Gibson Street Gala, Sunday 19 June.

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West End Festival 2016: Vinicombe Street Party, Sunday 5 June, 2016

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Vinicombe Street Party Sunday 5 June, 2016 12 pm. – 6 p.m. A great day out, come one, come all! bars al fresco, street food stalls, outdoor ping, facepainting, live music stage, DJs and hopefully a decent dose of scottish sunshine… Hillhead Book Club and VinYard 28 will combine forces in closing Vinicombe Street for […]

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West End Festival 2016: Our Natural World: Art, Music, Story-Telling – The Children’s Wood

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The Children’s Wood Nature Festival Sunday 5th June Join us for our first West-End Festival community event of the year. We’re excited to be inviting Eco Drama back to perform their unique outdoor theatre production of The Worm an Underground Adventure, Tam Dean Burn will be reading Stick Man and there will be lots of […]

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West End Festival 2016: Wilton Street Garden Fete, Saturday 11 June

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Wilton Garden, Wilton Street, G20 6RE Saturday 11 Jun 1:30pm The Wilton Street Garden Fete is back for its third year at WEF! Wilton island Association is again organising its popular annual fete and everyone is welcome to come along for a fun-filled afternoon with kids’ entertainment, BBQ, scrumptious home baked cakes, local artists and […]

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West End Festival 2016: Queen Margaret Drive Street Festival, 5 June

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Queen Margaret Dr, G20 8NZ  Sunday 5 June, 2016 From 12.30-5pm. Featuring the Big Street Ceilidh – ‘It’s no Reel!) and Community Street Play event. Fourteen community groups are involved on the day with over forty volunteers. A good opportunity to pop into QM Eye, Opticians – and treat yourself to some stylish new sunspecs

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Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5, OranMor, 3 June, 2016

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OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX Friday 3 June, 2016 – 7.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. The Peace, Love & Mustard Tour 2016. N.B. If any Dijuniors want to join in the fun, this is a 14+ (under 18’s accompanied by an adult) gig. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, Henge and Rail Fan […]

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West End Festival 2016: Bard in the Botanics, Coriolanus and Twelth Night

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Botanic Gardens 730 Great Western Road, G12 8QX Thursday 23 Jun 8:00pm/h4> Friday 24 Jun 8:00pm Saturday 25 Jun 8:00pm Tickets £25 (conc £15) Tickets from 0141 429 0022 or on the day at venue. http://www.bardinthebotanics.co.uk War hero and defender of Rome, Coriolanus is also proud and arrogant and contemptuous of the people. But the […]

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West End Festival: Fundraising Appeal to Bring Back Festival Sunday

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The West End Festival recently announced its annual Festival Sunday wouldn’t take place in 2016 due to increasing costs and reduction for a number of reasons, including increasing costs and reduction in funding. The festival organisers are aware that businesses in the west end, participants and the public were all disappointed at not having this […]

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West End Festival 2016: Football in Five Images, Stuart Cosgrove and Graham Spiers, OranMor Sunday 5 June, 2016

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Football In Five Images: Stuart Cosgrove and Graham Spiers 7:00pm “Football in Five Images” is a new theatre discussion show on the state of Scottish football featuring Stuart Cosgrove and Graham Spiers. Graham and Stuart are two of Scotland’s most outspoken commentators on the state of Scottish football and appear regularly on television, radio and […]

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West End Festival 2016: Karen Matheson & Band, Maryhill Central Community Hall

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Karen Matheson And Band Saturday 04 Jun 7:30pm Maryhill Central Community Halls, 292 Maryhill Road, Glasgow, G20 7YE Tickets £16 plus booking fee (£18 at the door). Tickets in advance from Ticketsource or by phone 0333 666 3366. Booking fees apply. Widely recognised as the compelling vocals of Celtic super-group Capercaillie, Karen is immersed in […]

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West End Festival 2016: Graeme Clark at Siempre Bicycle Cafe

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Graeme Clark Live At Siempre Sunday 5 June, 2016 Support from  Fiona Cuthill & Stevie Lawrence A lovely evening in the best of settings at Siempre Bicycle Cafe, 162 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow,  G11 6XE £12 Tickets at www.graemeclark.co.uk/dates.html. Part of  www.westendfestival.co.uk  West End Festival 2016 Highlights  

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West End Festival 2016, Dave Arcari at The Hug and Pint, Sat 11 june

Dave Arcari illustration by Johnnie Cluney Buzz Records presents Dave Arcari The Hug and Pint Part of West End Festival 2016 171 Great Western Road, G4 9AW Saturday 11 Jun 7:30pm £8 adv / £10 door Alt blues troubadour Dave Arcari’s sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war […]

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West End Festival 2016, Lismore Street Sessions

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Lismore Sessions Street Party – 4 and 5 June, 2016 The Lismore 206 Dumbarton Road, G11 6UN Free Folk Music All Day Saturday 04 Jun 1:00pm Sunday 05 Jun 1:00pm The Lismore Sessions Street Party returns to Partick at the West End Festival 2016. The ever-popular Lismore Sessions will take place in the  street outside […]

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West End Festival 2016 City of Glasgow Chorus: Come And Sing! 4 June

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West End Festival 2016 – City of Glasgow Chorus  Come And Sing! Sat 4 June 10am to 3.30pm (rehearsal) and 4pm to 4.45pm (performance) www.cityofglasgowchorus.org Join conductor Graham Taylor and accompanist Colin Taylor of the City of Glasgow Chorus for a day of fun, singing all the big tunes from “Mamma Mia”, “Grease” and “Les […]

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West End Festival 2016 Refuweegee And Raukarna Present A Night Of Notes, Friday 3 June

Refuweegee And Raukarna Present A Night Of Notes Kelvinside Hillhead Church Observatory Road, G12 9AR Friday 03 June, 2016 8:00pm Tickets £8 Refuweegee is a project aiming to welcome refugees and asylum seekers to Glasgow in style, with welcome packs including ‘letters fae the locals’.  These also include return envelopes so that recipients can respond […]

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West End Festival 2016: Belle and Sebastian Glasgow University Union, 13/14/15 June

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Belle an Sebastian are appearing as part of this years West End festival; they have three Glasgow shows at GUU Debating Chamber.  JUNE 13th, 14th & 15th 2016 Belle and Sebastian celebrate their 20th anniversary as part of West End Festival 2016 ‘As tireless champions of Glasgow’s west end, we’re DEAD excited about announcing these three […]

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West End Festival 2016: Sunday Social presented by Belle and Sebastian, OranMor, Sunday 12 June

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Belle & Sebastian are helping Glasgow’s West End Festival to celebrate their 21st year by presenting a few events alongside their three shows at the Glasgow University Union in June. A Sunday Social at Oran Mor will be a chilled affair featuring sounds from The Johnny 7, Snowgoose, TeenCanteen and more*. Hope you can come along! […]

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Glasgow West End 2016 Festival Launch on 21st Anniversary Year

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  Glasgow’s largest multi-cultural event, the West End Festival (WEF), launches its programme today, (Monday 25 April), celebrating 21 years. Belle and Sebastian 20th Anniversary  – the band will play three shows at the WEF at Glasgow University Union debating hall on 13, 14 and 15 June.   Two special events, both FREE, are taking […]

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West End Festival 2016: Tea Green, Kibble Palace Summer Market, Sunday 5 June

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Tea Green Kibble Palace Summer Market Botanic Gardens, Great Western Road, G12 Sunday 5 June, 2016 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Established in 2014, Tea Green runs pop up events promoting high quality creative talent in Scotland.  On 5 June they will be at the fabulous Kibble Palace showcasing stunning works by a rabge of […]

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Japan Fair!

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STUC12:00pm – 4:00pm Sunday 5th June, 2016 part of West End Festival www.westendfestival.co.uk Come and taste real Japanese food and experience a range of Japanese cultural activities which also include Tea Ceremony. Traditional Japanese story telling, try Aikido, origami, calligraphy workshop and see a Japanese dance performance. Proceeds to the East Japan Earthquake Fund. Donations […]

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