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October 23, 2025

Hallowe’en – A Bygone Theme by Pat Byrne

‘Mum, Anna and me have got an idea for Hallowe’en,’ said Catherine. ‘Okay. Tell me about it.’ ‘We’ve got it all planned. It’s going to be a bygone theme,’ said Anna. ‘Auntie Mary says she can lend us stuff. She’s got a trunk in her loft full of vintage clothes that she’s kept like forever.’ […]

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October 23, 2025

Helensburgh Firework Display 2025

Sunday 2 November, 2025 – event opens 4 p.m. – starts 6 p.m. Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre, 38 East Clyde Street, Helensburgh G84 7PG Get ready for a spectacular night in Helensburgh! The Helensburgh Heart Fireworks Display is back and promises to light up the sky with breathtaking colours and shapes you won’t want […]

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October 17, 2025

October 2025 Programme at GFT

Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) – the city’s home of cinema for over 85 years – has revealed its October 2025 programme. Highlights include: Exclusive preview screenings from BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express. A mammoth season celebrating big screen melodrama. Special screenings to mark Black History Month, in partnership with the Coalition […]

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October 16, 2025

Mother India – Glasgow

Mother India Restaurants Glasgow Mother India, 28 Westminster Terrace, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 7RU Mother India – Christmas 2025 – Set Menu   To Book please telephone: 0141 221 1663 (See the menu) Take Away Menu Mother India Cafe, 1355 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AD – open for walk ins 7 days a week (Just opposite […]

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October 13, 2025

Mika & Me Optical Studios Glasgow

56 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9JF Tel: 0141 413 5393 Email: hello@mikaandme.com Drive Safe Campaign. Get a grip on headlight glare with Mika and Me’s Drive Safe Campaign – New lenses designed for safer driving. 10% off this October. Pop into Mika and Me or Book an Eyetest or  Book a Free Consultation Telephone: 0141 413 5393 […]

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October 10, 2025

Bob Law: Walks and Photography – Edinburgh Walks Via Day Trips

Recently I have been taking the Glasgow 900 Citylink bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Edinburgh. As I live on the outskirts of Glasgow I have to take a bus into the city centre. 30mins or so. Then the city to city bus 1hr 30 mins usually to Edinburgh Bus Station. If I leave the […]

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October 8, 2025

The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize and Exhibition 2025

31 October – 13 November, 2025 The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TS The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize is an annual student art competition, launched in 2024 it’s open to students from schools in West Dunbartonshire. With £200 worth of art shop vouchers for the competition winner as well as prizes for second […]

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October 5, 2025

Kittlin at Avant Garde

Tuesday 7 October, 2025 Music, Spoken Word and Open Mic with Lesley O’Brien Free Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5Q      

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October 3, 2025

Samizdat: Eastern European Film Festival

30 September – 3 October, 2025 Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in communist states, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival is returning for 2025 with an as-ever eclectic mix of some of the most exciting, powerful, thoughtful, weird and wonderful filmmaking from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. […]

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October 3, 2025

Ocean with David Attenborough: Community Screening & Q&A at GFT

Monday, October 13, 2025 at 10am – 12pm Doors at 9:45 a.m. By  Marine Conservation Society Afree screening of Ocean with David Attenborough, hosted by the Marine Conservation Society and followed by a Q &A. The Marine Conservation Society are hosting a free screening of Ocean with David Attenborough – a stunning documentary showing us […]

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October 2, 2025

Aye Write 2025: Scottish Fiction

9 November, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Scottish Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Mystery Margaret McDonald, Callum McSorley and Tom Newlands The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Author Martin Stewart chairs a discussion between three talented young Scottish writers, each with an award-winning debut novel to their name. Tom Newlands Tom Newlands won […]

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September 30, 2025

Kick Up The Arts – Nicola Meighan with Jill Jackson and Carol Laula

Thursday 2 October, 2025 Part of Glasgow Americana Cottiers Theatre, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Glasgow Americana is more than thrilled to be teaming up with Nicola Meighan and her excellent podcast “A Kick Up The Arts” during the festival this year. Brining the podcast to the live stage with two of […]

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September 29, 2025

Bookface Sip and Swop with Gillian Shirreffs

Saturday 25 October, 2025, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Saints of Ingram, 158 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1EJ Come along for a fun and cosy afternoon at Saints of Ingram in Glasgow on Saturday 25th October from 3-6pm. when Bookface is hosting a luxury raffle to support Beatson Cancer Charity. Following the success of her […]

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September 17, 2025

Glasgow Doors Open Days 2025 Alasdair Gray Archive

Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, 2025 10 a.m. The Alasdair Gray Archive, The Whisky Bond 2 Dawson Road, Glasgow G4 9SS Glasgow is a visionary city and it was Alasdair Gray who first explored this, through writing in his seminal novel Lanark (1981), the imaginative potential of what the city could hold. The tour will […]

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September 16, 2025

TEA FOR TWO/ CHÁ PARA DOIS – Mackintosh Queens Cross

12 September – 2 October 2025 An exhibition showcasing the tearoom designs of two world-renowned architects Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, Glasgow, G20 7EL Graeme Nicholls Architects are excited to announce Tea for Two / Chá para Dois, a new exhibition exploring architectural and cultural connections between Scotland and Portugal. It places Charles Rennie […]

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