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Book Launch And Author Conversation With Judith Ralston And Selinder Narwan.
Book Launch And Author Conversation With Judith Ralston And Selinder Narwan. Join Judith Ralston in conversation with Selinder Narwan at Hillhead Library on Saturday 24th October for the book launch of, In the Shade of the Peepal Tree! About Book Launch And Author Conversation With Judith Ralston And Selinder Narwan. A Story of Survival, Silence and the Secrets We Carry A moving, powerful novel inspired by a true story that spans continents, generations, and the enduring legacy of Partition.
Callum McSorley in conversation: Rat Race
Join award-winning Glasgow crime writer Callum McSorley for an engaging conversation about Rat Race, the thrilling final instalment in his acclaimed crime trilogy, as part of Byres Road Book Fest! In discussion with session chair and fellow author Martin Stewart, Callum will share the inspiration behind his bestselling novels, discuss how he brings his unforgettable characters to life, and reflect on his journey from his prize-winning debut, Squeaky Clean, to becoming one of Scotland's most...
Niall O’Gallagher & Taylor Strickland In Conversation
Join Niall O'Gallagher & Taylor Strickland for an engaging conversation exploring contemporary fiction, character development and the craft of writing and translation as part of Byres Road Book Fest! They will be reading poems and translations, discussing their relationship with the Gaelic language, and touching on future projects. Audience questions will follow the discussion.
Storytime With Maisie Chan: Chi Chi the Panda
Join award-winning author Maisie Chan as she introduces all things Panda at this free event for young readers as part of this year's Byres Road Book Festival! About Storytime With Maisie Chan: Chi Chi the Panda Maisie will read her new picture book, Chi Chi the Panda, share lots of panda facts and offer a fun draw-along! Chi Chi was a real panda who became the face of the World Wildlife Fund and led an extraordinary life! Maisie Chan is an award-winning children’s author.
Gaelic Storytime With Gillebrìde MacMillan
Join acclaimed Gaelic writer, translator and singer Gillebrìde MacMillan for a fun and engaging reading from this newly translated story about a rotten dog! Meet Cù Giobach, the Gaelic version of Chien Pourri! Brought to life by one of Scotland’s leading Gaelic writers and translators.
Storytime With Yasmin Hanif
Join author Yasmin Hanif for a reading of Abdullah's Bear Needs a Name, followed by a bear-themed dance and sing-along as part of this year's Byres Road Book Festival! Celebrate stories, identity and imagination with Yasmin as she reads Abdullah's Bear Needs a Name. Featuring songs, colouring, movement and discussion inspired by Eid and the importance of names. Yasmin Hanif is a children's author and educator whose debut picture book celebrates identity, belonging and inclusion.
Draw Your Own Monster With Tom Morgan-Jones
Draw Your Own Monster With Tom Morgan-Jones Join illustrator Tom Morgan-Jones at the Byres Road Book Festival for an interactive family session packed with draw-alongs, monster-making, illustration tips and stories! About Draw Your Own Monster With Tom Morgan-Jones Free family illustration workshop with Tom Morgan-Jones at the Byres Road Book Festival.
PEEK-A-BOOK: Wrapping Books for PEEK
Join Family Volunteering Club at Hillhead Library for a special family volunteering session Wrapping Books for PEEK and celebrating Share a Story Month! Join us at Hillhead Library for a special family volunteering session celebrating Share a Story Month – an annual celebration held throughout May that honours the power of storytelling and the joy of reading together.
Kindness Packs for the Community: A Big Help Out Volunteering Event at Hillhead Library
Kindness Packs for the Community: A Big Help Out Volunteering Event at Hillhead Library Join Family Volunteering Club at Hillhead Library to come together as a community to pack food donation bags, decorate them, and add a personal touch with homemade recipe cards.
Treats for Pets - Make Donation Bags for Animals
Join the Family Volunteering Club at Hillhead Library on Thursday 12th March to create treat bags that will be donated to The Pet Collective, helping to spread kindness and care to local animals! About Treats for Pets - Make Donation Bags for Animals Calling all little animal lovers. Join us at Hillhead Library for a fun and feel good family volunteering session where children can help make a real difference for animals in need.
Do Not Disturb! at Hillhead Library, Glasgow West End | What's On Glasgow
Do Not Disturb! is a series of staged photographs created to tell the stories of those who have been, or still are, affected by poor mental health. About Do Not Disturb! Each image is a collaboration between the individual and the photographer, conceived to depict aspects of their feelings, memories, fears or hopes, whether good, bad, indifferent, poetic or humorous. A portrait of each individual accompanies their staged image. Some images seek to comfort, others to disturb.
Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library
The Byres Road Book Festival is back with a range of free event at Hillhead Library. The festival features adult author events, childrens events and Gaelic Language events. Now in its sixth year, it's fast becoming one of the leading events in Glasgow’s cultural calendar-and is totally free to attend. We have award-winning authors, poet laureates, illustrators, world-class chefs, film and TV makers all making an appearance. Text supplied by third party.
World Championship Of Public Speaking - Scottish Division Final
Enjoy the Scottish Division Final of the world's biggest public speaking competition run by Toastmasters International at Hillhead Library on Saturday 11th April! Enjoy the Scottish Division Final of the world's biggest public speaking competition run by Toastmasters International. Free to attend. Since 1938, Toastmasters International have been hosting the world's biggest public speaking competition "The World Championship Of Public Speaking".
Professor Tartan’s Scottish Science Show
Professor Tartan's Scottish Science Show is coming to Hillhead Library on Friday 10th October. Round up yer pals and yer wee ones, and come feel the magic o' science, the Scottish way! Get yersel doon tae Hillhead Library for a braw day, packed wi’ mad experiments, mind-blowin’ demos, and a right good laugh. Professor Tartan’s no just smart—he’s a total rocket (the clever kind, no the daft one), and he’ll have ye buzzin’ wi’ his patter about Scottish science.
Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross
Beautiful and strange, ancient monuments have long captured our attention and curiosity. We stand in awe before them, asking who created the Uffington White Horse - and why? What was it like to live in the shadow of Hadrian's Wall? What stories would the towering megaliths of Stonehenge and Avebury tell if they could speak?
Glasgow Science Festival - Science is Magic
Glasgow Science Festival - Science is Magic Prepare to be amazed with gravity-defying tricks, light bending science and ooze excitement about slime. Brought to you by scientists from The University of Edinburgh. Science is magic that works! There are two shows for this event: Show 1 - 12:00 - 13:00 Show 2 - 13:00 - 14:00 Text supplied by third party.
Glasgow Science Festival: Science Is Magic
Prepare to be amazed with gravity-defying tricks, light bending science and ooze excitement about slime as part of Glasgow Science Festival! Prepare to be amazed with gravity-defying tricks, light bending science and ooze excitement about slime. Brought to you by scientists from The University of Edinburgh.
Memoirs Event at Hillhead Library, Glasgow West End
Get ready for an unforgettable afternoon when Ringwood Publishing host their Memoirs Event at Hillhead Library on Sunday 19th January! “Are memoirs the best way to understand our past, or could fiction and historical accounts provide a more balanced view?” Get ready for an unforgettable afternoon! We’re thrilled to invite you to our Memoirs Event taking place on 19th January 2025 at Hillhead Library between 2pm and 3.30pm! Featuring our fantastic memoirs including: Memoirs of a Feminist...
Book Week Scotland - Book Quiz
Celebrate Book Week Scotland at Hillhead Library with a fun evening of book themed quizzing! Prizes to be won! Bragging rights to be earned! This Book Week Scotland (18th- 24th November) join Glasgow Libraries for our citywide packed programme of inspiring, interesting and entertaining bookish events for people of all ages.
Byres Road Christmas Market
Come along to Byres Road Christmas Market taking place in the heart of Glasgow's West End at Hillhead Library on Saturdays 14th and 21st December! You can expect a great line up of 25 Artisan Traders selling Vintage Honewares, Fine Jewellery, Home Baking, Seasonal Crafts, Hand-poured Candles, Plants, Illustratiion, Art & Photography.
Code Cadets Coding After-School Club
Code Cadets are excited to announce their brand new Thursday Coding Club at Hillhead Library will be starting on 3rd October! Excited to announce our Thursday Coding Club at Hillhead Library, Byres Road, Glasgow, will be starting on 3 October - 4 - 6 pm (choose 1 or 2 hours). For ages 7-14+. We are coding in Scratch, Python, HTML, JavaScript and more! Demand will be high for this brand new club so please book soon to avoid disappointment! 5 or 10 week blocks available.
Kenneth White International Conference Friday 14 & Saturday 15 June 2024
9.00 Tea/Coffee 9.30 Welcome: Stephen Forcer, Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow Chair: Norman Bissell, Director, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics (SCG) 9.40 Prof Cairns Craig, University of Aberdeen: Kenneth White: Travels in Euramerasia 10.10 Ramona Fotiade, University of Glasgow: The White Archipelago – Scottish-French Encounters with Zen Buddhism 10.40 Panel on German Philosophy and Geopoetics - Chair: Prof Ullrich Kockel, UHI Jeff Malpas, University of...
Book Launch: The World’s End Murders: The Inside Story by Tom Wood
Book Launch: The World’s End Murders: The Inside Story by Tom Wood Ringwood Publishing will launch new true crime novel, The World's End Murders: The Inside Story, by former Deputy Chief Constable Tom Wood at Hillhead Library on Sunday 23rd June! About Book Launch: The World’s End Murders: The Inside Story by Tom Wood In this book, Wood delivers an in-depth and personal account of the nearly four-decade pursuit of justice for the tragic murders of Edinburgh teenagers Helen Scott and Christine...
Byres Road Market
Taking place in the heart of Glasgow's West End at Hillhead Library, the Byres Road Market features stalls from 25 independent sellers selling a variety of products including jewellery, gifts and art! Taking place in the heart of the West end in the iconic Hillhead Library.
Complete Beginners 6 Week Yoga Course
Join Yoga With Hannah for a complete beginners course suitable for anyone who is new to yoga or perhaps has taken a break and wants to feel more confident about attending a general, all-levels class.
Activ8 Hillhead - Summer Arts Programme
Join Halo Arts & Hillhead Youth Theatre for their fab new Summer holiday arts project for young people aged 6-12! Learn new skills, make new friends and get active this summer! 1 July: Musical Theatre - All the world's a stage! Brush up your singing, dancing and acting skills in this fun and musical workshops 2 July: Confidence Awesomeness! - Struggle with your confidence?
GNOSIS: A Course in Self-Knowledge
Information Lecture: Help and Healing on the Spiritual Path through the teaching of Bruno Groening Selected dates between 27th August 2023 - 10th December 2023 A lecture about spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening is taking place in Glasgow.
David F. Ross writers workshop
About the event David F. Ross writers' workshop David F. Ross writers' workshop at Hillhead Library (main hall) About this Event David is an architect and writer. He is a director of Keppie, the internationally successful design practice based in Glasgow. His debut novel The Last Days of Disco was longlisted for the prestigious Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, 2016. David will be running a workshop for aspiring writers where he will be sharing his expertise in the industry.
Robert Burns Photography Exhibition – A Window On Ukraine - Glasgow West End
2nd June – 16th July 2023 Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road G12 8AP Part of WestFest 2023 A Window on Ukraine offers distinctive observations and reflections of the country over several years by Glasgow-based photographer Robert Burns, who has been visiting Ukraine since 2007. Whilst on holiday in Crete in 2006, a chance meeting by Robert Burns with three Ukrainians kindled an interest that took the photographer back to the country again and again.
The Time Between Space Book Launch
Join Ringwood Publishing at Hillhead Library on Sunday 25th June for their first ebook launch, The Time Between Space by Charlie Laidlaw! About The Time Between Space Book Launch 25th June 2023 2pm Hillhead Library 348 Byres Road, Glasgow West End G12 8AP This is a free event Visit the event website here The eBook launch of The Time Between Space, a contemporary fiction novel by Scottish author Charlie Laidlaw.
Carol Margaret Davison -Bodysnatchers Book Launch
Schedule Sun May 28 2023 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+01:00 Location Hillhead Library | Glasgow, SC Come join us at Hillhead Library on Sunday, 28 April at 2 pm for the official launch of Carol Margaret Davison's novel, Bodysnatcher. About this Event Come join us at Hillhead Library on Sunday, 28 April at 2 pm for the official launch of Carol Margaret Davison's novel, Bodysnatcher.
A Window On Ukraine - Photography By Robert Burns
A Window on Ukraine offers distinctive observations and reflections of the country over several years by Glasgow-based photographer Robert Burns, who has been visiting Ukraine since 2007.
There’s A Problem with Dad: Reprint Launch
Schedule Sun Apr 23 2023 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC+01:00 Location Hillhead Library | Glasgow, SC Ringwood have taken the rare decision to reprint author Carlos Alba’s immensely successful 2021 novel, There’s A Problem with Dad. About this Event Ringwood is excited to announce this relaunch event of author Carlos Alba’s immensely successful 2021 novel, There’s A Problem with Dad.
Author Event -Carlos Alba-Theres a Problem With Dad
Schedule Sun Apr 23 2023 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+01:00 Location Hillhead Library | Glasgow, SC Author Carlos Alba discusses his novel 'There's a Problem With Dad About this Event George Lovelace has always done everything by the book, so why has he felt perpetually out of step with those around him? There's a Problem with Dad is a family tragedy that asks what it means to be different.
There’s A Problem with Dad: Reprint Launch
Join Ringwood Publishing and Glasgow Life at Hillhead Library on April 23rd for the launch of a second print run of Carlos Alba's 2021 novel, There's a Problem with Dad.
Author Sean Damer discusses his novel Those Tyrannising Landlords
Schedule Wed Mar 22 2023 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm UTC+00:00 Location Hillhead Library | Glasgow, SC Author Sean Damer discusses his novel “Those Tyrannising Landlords” About this Event Join us at Hillhead Library to hear Sean discuss his book and answer questions from his readers.
Re: Remixed Reject-text: Queerness, Appropriation and Digital Poetics
Schedule Tue Jan 17 2023 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm UTC+00:00 Location Hillhead Library | Glasgow, SC A free workshop, as part of SPAM Press's series Brilliant Vibrating Interface, supported by the EMT Second Life Award. About this Event Re: Remixed Reject-text: Queerness, Appropriation and Digital Poetics Terms like “remix”, “modulation” and “distort” are commonplace in the lexicon of music production, but what happens when similar terms are overlaid on to the writing process?
Hillhead Youth Theatre
The Halo Arts Hillhead Youth Theatre, open to all young people ages 6-12, is back for their Autumn Term at Hillhead Library on Sundays from 13th September to 6th December! Looking to develop your child's confidence and performance skills? Get them involved in Hillhead Youth Theatre, every Sunday, 2pm to 3.30pm from 13 September to 6 December (excluding 27 September and 18 October due to school holidays) at Hillhead Library.
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