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October 3, 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 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 19, 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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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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September 12, 2025

tell it slant at Locavore

Friday 26 September, 2025 @ 7 p.m. Express Yourself – Tell it Slant at Locavore, 349 Victoria Rd, Glasgow G42 7SA Poetry, raffle, teas, coffee, cakes and delicious salads on offer from the cafe. A with an open mic microphone to share your poems – plenty of breaks for socialising and mingling with other like-minded […]

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September 12, 2025

Spinal Tap !!: The End Continues

12 – 25 September, 2025 What comes after 11? We’re about to find out. 41 years after the original comedy classic, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues reunites director Rob Reiner with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer as they reprise their iconic roles as the legendary heavy metal band Spinal Tap in this long-awaited sequel. After a […]

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September 11, 2025

Ballad Lines – Major New Scottish Folk Musical

LIVE CONCERT EVENT IN GLASGOW 15 SEPTEMBER, 2025, 7.30 p.m. Buy tickets Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU A NEW 17 TRACK ALBUM OF SONGS FROM THE SHOW WILL LAUNCH WITH A FEATURING ARTISTS FROM THE ALBUM INCLUDING GAELIC SINGER OF THE YEAR KIM CARNIE, CATS AWARD WINNER KIRSTY FINDLAY AND DYLAN WOOD, […]

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September 10, 2025

Autumn Fun Day – The Children’s Wood

Friday, 26 September 2025, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. Clouston/Sanda/Kelbourne Street, Glasgow G20 8QW Event by The Children’s Wood and Meadow Science Centre and RSPB Mosaic Workshop Second Hand Book Stall Apple Pressing Charlie’s Harvest Soup Admission Free  

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September 9, 2025

BLOODY SCOTLAND 2025

Bloody Scotland 12 – 14 September, 2025 Full Bloody Scotland Programme and Tickets Friday 12th September – 12:30 – Setting the Crime Scene Opening event with Lin Anderson, Simon Toyne, Allan Gaw Albert Halls, Dumbarton Rd, Stirling FK8 2QL Making a deep incision into the world of crime fiction and science fact, talking forensics with […]

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September 8, 2025

Freshers Equinox Celebration at Woodlands Community Garden

Sunday 21st September, 2025 Woodlands Community Garden, 91-101 West Princes St, G4 9BY Freshers (and everyone), welcome for Freshers Equinox celebration to mark the approaching Autumn. Enjoy a range of activities that build community, nourish and connect people to nature and one another. From seed saving, to mending clothes, cycling and visiting  Anti-Racist Library at […]

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September 8, 2025

Doors Open Days: Maryhill Women’s History Walk with Anabel Marsh

Saturday, 20 September 2025 10:00 – 12:00 a.m. By Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust Heiress, mill worker, Suffragette: learn how Maryhill’s women made history. Maryhill Burgh Halls, 24 Gairbraid Avenue Glasgow G20 8YE Part of celebration for Doors Open Days –guided walk along the canal, hear stories of Maryhill’s women: the heiress who gave the town her […]

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