Glasgow West End: Pat's Guide

(On Falling won two BAFTA Scotland Awards for 2025 -‘Officially Best Feature Film for Scotland in 2025) Laura Carreira is a Portuguese filmmaker based in Edinburgh. ‘On Falling’, her debut drama, has deservedly already won awards: the Sutherland Award for Best Debut at BFI London Film Festival 2024 and Best Director at San Sebastian Film […]

Walks and Photography There are several good walks in Clydebank at any time of year but in previous outings I have observed that Clydebank has some terrific autumn colours so here’s a selection and suggestions for walks in the area. You can get an 11 bus  from Gartnavel Hospital to Clydebank and Mountblow. Or train […]

Saturday 29 November, 2025 2 p.m. International Buffet to Celebrate St Andrew’s Day Event by G20 Youth 21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow G20 8HS G20 Youthis excited to be hosting an International Buffet to celebrate St Andrew’s Day next Saturday afternoon. The event will be bringing together our diverse and vibrant community here in the Wyndford. Whether […]

Monday 24 November, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, Main Building, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Poet and Novelist Liz MacWhirter in Conversation Liz MacWhirter is a writer, speaker and theologian. Her debut novel, ‘Black Snow Falling’ (Scotland Street Press, 2018), gained a Carnegie Medal nomination, and her poetry is published by Lucy Writers, […]

Monday 24 November, 2025, 7.50 p.m. In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey. The result is […]

Saturday November, 22, 2025 at 5.30 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that grows around a dark game; […]

Scottish Kitchen : Cocktails & Whiskies : Weddings & Events 416 Great Western Road, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow G4 9HZ The Kelvin is a stylish new bar and restaurant in the fabulous A-listed building, previously Lansdowne Parish Church at Kelvinbridge. An impressive addition to nightlife and leisure in the West End, it offers traditional Scottish cuisine, cocktails and […]

19 – 22 December, 2025 Maryhill Community Central Halls, 292-316 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE And 6th December, 5 p.m. at Scotstoun Community Centre, 64 Balmoral Drive, Glasgow G14 0BL  Buy tickets Halo Arts are back with Glasgow’s Biggest Community Pantomime- ‘Pinocchio’! When auld Geppetto wishes his gobby puppet Pinocchio was a real boy, the […]

Sunday 23 November, 2025. 12 noon until 6 p.m. Christmas Tree Switch on at 5.30 p.m. Vinicombe Street, Top of Byres Road, G12 Come along to Vinicombe Street Christmas Market and enjoy some festive fun as you shop for unique gifts from a variety of vendors. Live music and Christmas Treet Switch-on. The Vinicombe Street […]

Launch of Report by Andrew Hoolachan 3 December, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Collective Architecture, 13 Bath Street, G2 1HY Overview Launch of Dr Andrew Hoolachan’s report ‘Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow’ You’re walking through Glasgow in the height of summer. A heavy rain shower leaves behind a soaked urban […]

Carlton Jug Band at Avant Garde Friday 7 November, 2025, 8.30 p.m. till late 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

Saturday 29 November 2025 – Sunday 13 June, 2027 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 111 Queen St, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH Still Glasgow is an extensive new exhibition which has photography at its core and looks at Glasgow, past and present. With over 80 works, the exhibition showcases well-known photographs of the city […]

20 – 23 November, 2025 Emirates Arena, The Scottish Open Badminton Championships will return to Glasgow this autumn. Secure your tickets to watch world class badminton today Please note: if you are an individual member of Badminton Scotland you are entitled to 2 FREE tickets for Thursday 20 November and HALF-PRICE tickets for all other […]

1st November 2025 –  8th February 2026 Street Level Photoworks, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Exhibiting artists Miriam Ali, Haneen Hadiy, Grace Springer, Chad Alexander, Shaun Connell, Robin Chaddah-Dukeand, and Roz Doherty. Nationhood: Memory and Hope is a new exhibition of powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. It is a love […]

Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road – now at: 174 Byres Road · Glasgow · G12 8SN The Oxfam Bookshop reopens Thursday 30 October, 2025, with local award winning author Bernard MacLaverty welcoming people to the bookshop in the old Bank of Scotland premises. Bernard previously helped launch Oxfam Bookshop on Byres Road 25 years ago and […]