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May 9, 2025

Lord Provost’s Glasgow 850 Twin City Concert

Tuesday, 10 June 2025 , 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Glasgow City Chambers, 82 George Square Glasgow G2 1DU Lord Provost’s Glasgow 850 Twin City Concert Come along to Glasgow City Chambers for a night of celebration and music at the Lord Provost’s Glasgow 850 Twin City Concert! This free event will bring together performers […]

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May 9, 2025

Strings in Flight – The Glasgow Barons

22 May, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Govan Linthouse Parish Church, 796 Govan Road Glasgow G51 2YL Buy tickets The Glasgow Barons play soaring melodies from two amazing 20th century women, Grace Williams’ evocative Sea Sketches and Florence Price’s soulful 2nd string quartet with full strings, joined by Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending with violinist Tristan Gurney […]

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May 9, 2025

WATER POLO DEMO at ARLINGTON BATHS CLUB

Saturday, June 21, 2025, 12.00 – 1 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT Experience the thrill and skill of water polo at Arlington Baths Club as expert players from Western Baths Water Polo Club showcase their agility, teamwork, and strategy in an exciting live demonstration. Whether you’re a seasoned swimmer […]

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May 8, 2025

Blue Velvet at GFT

Thursday 8 May, 8 15 p.m. & Saturday 10 May, 8.10 p.m. There’s something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, North Carolina. And after stumbling upon a severed human ear in a field, mystery-loving college student Jeffrey Beaumont is determined to find out what. Teaming up with the daughter of a local […]

Blue Velvet

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May 8, 2025

Kelvin at the Kibble Exhibition

13 – 26 May, 2025 The Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE Kelvin at the Kibble Exhibition showcases many of the groups who make up the Kelvin Biodiversity Network, along with some invited guests. Friends of the River Kelvin and Glasgow Natural History Society founded the group to create […]

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May 6, 2025

Free Talks at WestFest

2 – 26 June, 2025  WestFest Kelvin Hall1445 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AW Part of Glasgow 850, join WestFest & Friends of Glasgow West for a series of free and fascinating talks at Kelvin Hall. All talks are fully illustrated and start at 7pm, lasting approx. 1 hour. Please arrive early to be sure of […]

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May 6, 2025

Mika & Me Optical Studios Glasgow

56 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9JF Tel: 0141 413 5393 Email: hello@mikaandme.com Coffee with Cartier – Wednesday 7 May, 2025, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Pop in and see tghe complete collection of Cartier sunglasses and glasses At Mika and Me   Pop into Mika and Me and have your sunspecs spruced up or treat yourself to […]

Chanel

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May 2, 2025

WestFest – Glasgow West End

1st-29th June 2025 After a hugely successful 2024 festival, comprising 131 events and reaching total audience numbers of 110,000 WestFest – Glasgow’s biggest community led, cultural festival today (Thursday 12 April) launches the programme for its 2025 festival. WestFest captures the imaginations of participants, residents and visitors in the West End of Glasgow. Taking place across […]

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May 1, 2025

The Telling: Into The Melting Pot

Friday,  – 9 May, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU A concertplay (where music and theatre collide) written by award-winning writer Clare Norburn and directed by BAFTA-nominated Nicholas Renton. Spain, 1492. At twilight on her final night in Seville, a Jewish woman, played by Suzanne Ahmet – Generation Z (C4), Ludwig (BBC), After the Flood (ITV), lights the lamps. She […]

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May 1, 2025

Take 2: Dog Man at GFT

Saturday, 3 May, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. Captioned Screening Part dog, part man, all hero. From DreamWorks Animation — creators of the beloved blockbuster franchises Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and The Boss Baby —comes the canine-crime-fighting film adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s New York Times bestselling literary phenomenon: Dog Man. When a […]

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April 30, 2025

Helen Rose’s Outdoor Diary: Cademuir, Peebles.

May 2025 We had a Spring outing to Peebles with Glasgow Ramblers Initally amarket town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the Borders during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Most mills had closed by the 1960s, although the last one remained open until 2015. Over the years the character of Peebles […]

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April 28, 2025

Rachelle Atalla – Books at the Green

Tuesday 29 April, 2025, doors 7 p.m. starts 7.30 p.m. Rachelle Atalla in Conversation with Sarah Smith Partickhill Bowling and Community Club, 46 Partickhill Road, G11 5BY

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April 28, 2025

Carlton Jug Band Residency – Avant Garde

Carlton Jug Band at Avant Garde Friday 2nd May, 2025, 8.30 p.m. First Friday of every month. C.D. on sale. Avant Garde, 34 – 44 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QT – Live music bar and restaurant. Carlton Jug Band on Facebook

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April 27, 2025

All Change at Websters

Over the past 11 years the former Lansdowne Church on Great Western Road – with its familiar slender spire – has been operating as Websters Theatre. Some exciting changes are planned at Websters with a new tenant found to occupy the ground floor on a full time and long term basis. From September 2025 the […]

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April 23, 2025

ARC Conversations and Identities Journal: Global Dignity and Seeing Others

Monday, May 12, 2025, 4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. Professor Michèle Lamont from Harvard University reflects on how we equip ourselves to think across different levels of analysis. Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Global Dignity and Seeing Others How can we equip ourselves to think across different levels […]

Michèle Lamont

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