Zoom and online events.

There’s Something in the Water, Femspectives and Take One Action

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Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 October, 2020  Hosted by Femspectives and Take One Action Film Festivals Online event Join  Femspectives Facebook group to access the Zoom link For final screening of #FemspectivesAtHome Femspectives have teamed up with Take One Action Film Festivals for a screening of Ellen Page and Ian Daniel’s THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER. The […]

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Blue Heart – Take One Action Film Festival

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Tuesday 6 October, 2020 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Hosted by Take One Action Film Festivals and Transition Stirling Online event Free Tickets at Eventbrite Watch this film at home and join in the discussion afterwards. The synopsis of ‘Blue Heart’ On the Balkan Peninsula, between Slovenia and Albania, more than 3,000 proposed hydro power projects threaten […]

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Glasgow Science Festival 2020

Festival runs until 9 November, 2020 Science on the Sofa   The principal aim of Glasgow Science Festival is to showcase the outstanding contribution Glasgow and Glasgow based researchers make to the worlds of science, technology, engineering, art, maths and social science (STEAM). Working with researchers and partners a varied programme has been produced showcasing  […]

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A.E. Stallings at Creative Conversations

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Monday 05 October 2020 1 .m. – 2 p.m. Zoom Event Register at Eventbrite A. E. Stallings, born in 1968, is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published three collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which […]

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SQIFF Programme 2020

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5 – 18 October, 2020 Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2020 will take place online with their film programme available on Vimeo on Demand within the UK.  You can also enjoy online watch parties, workshops, Q&As, discussions, parties, and a closing night quiz. Strands Strands include queer sci-fi from across the world in Every Utopia […]

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Watch Party: Tongues Untied – Black History Month Scotland

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Thursday, October 8, 2020 – 8:30 PM –  10:15 PM Scottish Queer International Film Festival presents TONGUES UNITED In his own words, Marlon Riggs aimed to shatter the “nation’s brutalising silence on matters of sexual and racial difference” with his 1989 film Tongues Untied. A challenging and captivating work, many of Riggs’ key messages still resonate […]

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Black Cowgirls and Cowboys, Real and Imagined

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Black History Month 2020 Presentation on the real history of African-American heroes in the ‘Wild West’ for Black History Month 2020. Thursday, October 15, 2020,  6:00 PM –  7:30 PM About this Event This presentation will cover the real history of African-American heroes in the ‘Wild West’ and their representation on Hollywood movies. In the 60s […]

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CRER Lunchtime Talks – Black History Month

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THE OTHER HALF OF THE EMPIRE: SCOTS AND EARLY BRITISH COLONIALISM IN ASIA. C. 1690-C.1820 14 October, 2020, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Black History Month Scotland 2020 Debates on the historical origins of inequality and racism in Scotland often focus, understandably, on the legacies of involvement in transatlantic slavery. But the British Empire was […]

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Creative Conversations:Roseanne Watt

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Monday 19 October 2020 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Zoom Event – Free Register at Eventbrite  You will be sent the link to join the meeting after booking.. Roseanne Watt is a poet, filmmaker and musician from the Shetland Isles, currently based in Edinburgh. She was the winner of the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry […]

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Hey – That’s Mine – Museums and Black History Month Glasgow

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Wednesday, 28 October 2020 from 13:00-14:30 Public · Hosted by CRER Scotland FREE Online event – Tickets and information at Eventbrite A talk by Dr. Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum, for Black History Month 2020. How did Black History Month start? How did this affect the Black consciousness movement in the United States, […]

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Jambo – Black History Month Radio Sessions Scotland

Throughout October, starting Friday 2 October, 2020 10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Tune in to Jambo! Radio throughout the month of October to listen to the Roundtable Cultural Discussion ‘How can we change the consequences of racism when it is rooted in systems and slavery?’  Event will host some of the top Scottish black leaders […]

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How to Manage Hip and Knee Pain

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 Tuesday 6 October, 2020 6.45 p.m. – 8 p.m. FREE virtual talk with Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr Drummond Mansbridge on ‘How to manage hip and knee pain from arthritis to sports injuries’. BMI Ross Hall Hospital on Facebook  Mr Mansbridge will be covering the hip and knee joints, the types of pain people experience and […]

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Monday, September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Health and Fitness, Zoom and online events

In Focus: 16 Years: Gigs in Scotland 1974 – 1990 Online Book Launch

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Thursday 1st October, 2020 6.30 p.m. Street Level Photoworks  Livestreamed through on Street Level Photoworks on Facebook For the fifth in series of In Focus talks with book launch for ’16 Years: Gigs in Scotland 1974 – 1990′, a comprehensive yet accessible photobook on live music in Scotland during a key period. The book is […]

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Tony Singh: Glasgow Mela Food Cooking Demo

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Join Tony on FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER and SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 7.00pm – 7.25pm on glasgowmela.com where he’ll be cooking up a storm! Virtual Glasgow Mela  until 30 September, 2020 Grab your spices and get involved in Tony Singh’s Mela street food cooking demo! A firm favourite on the UK TV cooking circuit, Tony’s flare for quirky […]

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Creative Conversations: Homi K Bhabha

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(Image:Homi_K._Bhabha.jpg: jeanbaptisteparisderivative work: Hidro / CC BY-SA) Thursday 01 October 2020 – 5.30 to 6.3o p.m. Homi K Bhabha on the “Unprepared” Creative Conversations College of Arts Zoom Event Register at Evenbrite (Once you register you will be sent a link) Homi K Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard […]

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Creative Thursdays – Jewish Textile Art

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Thursday 24 September, 2020 – 10 a.m. Jewish Textile Art: with Prof Malcolm Lochhead, Debby Taylor with Marsha Gladstone. Free Event – Registration link: The Giffnock Synagogue Yoni Jesner Memorial Parochet (Curtain) with Malcolm Lochhead, textile artist and designer. Emeritus Professor of Visual Design, Glasgow Caledonian University – in conversation with Marsha Gladstone: a glimpse […]

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Project-Ability, Virtual Exhibition

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Flashback to February 21 September – 21 October, 2020 An exhibition featuring a selection of paintings that were made just before the studios closed due to Coronavirus. These are paintings that might have been forgotten, archived away and left unseen. So many exhibitions have been cancelled, and many of these paintings would have found their […]

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2020

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   Online 10 – 15 November 2020 ‘Celebrating Extraordinary Cuba’ This year’s Havana Glasgow Film Festival will run online from 10 –15 Novembe. As usual it will be packed full of  a high quality mix of thought-provoking Cuban films, Cuban culture, debate and some special surprises. The theme is EXTRAORDINARY CUBA with a fo9cus on […]

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Virtual Glasgow Mela 2020

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Glasgow Mela will be broadcast live 20 – 30 September, 2020 Bringing you music, colour and vibrancy to you virtually. Broadcasting live daily between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tune in and enjoy the Mela at home. Truck Art at The Mela Tweets by GlasgowMela  

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Sounds in the Suburbs 5th Refuweegee Fundraiser

 24th September, 2020  at 8pm The all star line up from both sides of the Atlantic  includes music by Karine Polwort, Hannah Aldridge, Helen McCookerybook, Jess Klein and Mike June. DONATIONS There is no ‘ticket price’ to join the gig, but please make a donation of whatever you can to Donations Refuweegee ZOOM Joining Details […]

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Glasgow Museum’s Resource Centre: Glasgow’ Smallest Doors

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Wednesday 16 September, 2020 at 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Hosted by Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival and Glasgow Museums Free – Online event Watch on Zoom sign up at Eventbrite Digital doors are opening across Glasgow… Part of the Glasgow Doors Open Days Digital Festival Glasgow Museums Resource Centre – Glasgow’s Smallest Doors Are Open! Did […]

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Raman Mondair – Choreographies of Dance

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Wednesday 16 September, 2020 7.30 p.m. – 7.40 p.m. Online Tramway Channel Choreographies of resist///dance is a new film work made for Tramway TV that meditates on rituals for resistance for women of colour during troubled times. It incorporates healing and uplifting practices and presents them as poetic strategies for self defence: dance, breath-work, music, song, […]

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Dance, Zoom and online events

The Glasgow Diet – Discussion Event

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21 September, 2020, 7. 00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. The Past, The Pandemic & Preparing for our Future. A Film Discussion and Local Food System Panel Zev Robinson Glasgow Community Food Network GreenCity Wholefoods Locavore Hosted by Woodlands Community Zev Robinson’s 2019 documentary “The Glasgow Diet” ONLINE EVENT. About the Film ‘The Glasgow Diet” is about the evolution […]

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Monday, September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Woodlands Community, Zoom and online events

Tidelines Book Festival 2020

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24 – 27 September, 2020 Tidelines are taking the festival online this September What’s happening? They are running a series of four sessions around the themes of Poetry, History, Fiction, and Crime over the Festival weekend 24–27 September. All free. All events will be available on Tidelines YouTube Channel Programme Thursday 24 September, 2020 Liz Lochhead: One […]

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You’re Only Young Twice – Digital Doors Open Day 2020

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A lively discussion of Terry Bishop’s neglected 1952 campus comedy classic ‘You’re Only Young Twice’, filmed at the University of Glasgow. 17 September, 2020 7.30 pm – 8.30 p.m. About this Event You’re Only Young Twice James Bridie, Irish-Scottish Studies & the University of Glasgow on Film Join a lively discussion led by Professor Willy Maley on […]

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To Meat or Not to Meat – Climate Action

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10 September, 2020 – 5.30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Woodlands Community We’ve all at some point been caught in an uncomfortable conversation about our eating habits and our ethics. A few words like “I’m vegan” or “I eat meat” can be enough to make us clench up and be instantly unwilling to hear the other […]

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Thursday, September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Woodlands Community, Zoom and online events

Stories from the Briggait – Glasgow Doors Open Day

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Wednesday, 16 September, 2020 15:00-16:00 Stories from The Briggait Hosted by Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival, Wasps Artists’ Studios and The Briggait Tbe Briggait is of Glasgow’s most enduring and endearing landmarks, A-listed building – it has been a part of the River Clyde skyline since the Nineteenth Century. Built in 1873, the Briggait served as the city’s bustling […]

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Hip Hop to Opera via Negro Spirituals

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Sunday 13th September, 2020 – Online Hosted by Black History, walks, talks films £6 Book Tickets at Eventbrite A fantastic musical journey covering the hidden African history and links between some of the most popular and obscure musical forms. Queen Nzingha Lecture 85 A musical journey covering the hidden history and links between some of […]

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Fury by David Morley – Carcanet Press Online Book Launch

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Online event – Tickets Wednesday, 9 September 2020 from 19:00-20:00  Hosted by Carcanet Press, Yvonne Reddick and David Morley Please join Carcanet Press online to celebrate the launch of David Morley’s new poetry collection, FURY. The collection is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and currently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Hosting the reading will be […]

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The History of Scottish Pen – Online

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Online event – Free Friday 11 September, 2020, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Hosted by Scottish PEN Tickets via Eventbrite A discussion on the upcoming centenary of PEN International and Scotland’s history of promoting literature and defending free expression. ‘With PEN approaching its centenary in 2021 and Scottish PEN (founded 1927) an early part of […]

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