Around Town
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Glasgow
Activities & Events
Family History Open Surgery Mitchell Library. 201 North Street. 287 299‘). 6pm. l‘ree. The experts are on hand once again offering help and advice at this drop-in evening surgery.
Activities & Events
1! Mad Hot Ballroom Hilton (irosvenor. I |0(irosvenor Terrace. 33‘) 88l I. 7.30pm. Free. limail hiltonglrosvenorm dada.co.uk for tickets. See llitlist.
Talks
Conversation Pieces: Sir Roderick Lyne Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. lptii. £4 £5. The former personal private secretary to John Major looks back on his illustrious career. which inclttdes a spell as atnbassador to the Russian Federation and permanent representative to the WT() and UN. l’hew?
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Tennent’s Scottish Cup Final llampden Park. Letherby Drive. 616 6000. 3pm. David meets (ioliath at this year’s cup linal. as (iretna face the mighty Heart of Midlothian. Edinburgh v Glasgow University Boat Race River Clyde. (ilasgow (ireen. 0l3l 650 23-16. l2.30pm. Free. l'ot‘get sibling rivalry. this is where the real competition takes place as the boys and girls of these two noble universities race each other down the Clyde.
Talks
Conversation Pieces: Alain De Botton Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. Ipm. £4 £5. See picture caption.
Tuesday 1 6
Activities & Events
Pamper Night The Btisby Hotel. I l‘ield Road. Clarkston. 6—14 266]. 7pm. £2. Help raise money for MacMilIan Cancer Care while relaxing in the hands of local therapists. who will be offering taster sessions of reflexology. aromatherapy. reiki. Indian head massage and more.
Wednesday 1 7
Talks
* Pass the Spanner Hannah Glasgow University. James Watt Building South. University Avenue. 330 6H3. 6pm. See llitlist.
Workshops
Big Knit Out! North Star Cafe. I08 Queen Margaret Drive. 576 0| 13. 7pm. Knitting. tea and cakes.
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Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Braehead Arena. Kings Inch Road. 0870 444 6062. 7.30pm. £2|~-£28 t£l6l. The world-famous basketball troupe comes to Glasgow as pan of their massively successful European tour. featuring hot shots (‘urley Johnson and Lincoln Smith.
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Activities & Events
Club Zieloni Sikorski Polish Club. 5 l’arkgrove Terrace. 8pm. £5. l‘uiidraising night for the Scottish Green party. complete with vegetarian buffet. DJ and quiz. limail greenbulletinm‘yahoogroups.co.uk for more details.
Saturday 20
Activities & Events
Dog Walk and Fun Show Pollok Country Park. Pollokshaw's Road. 636 6920. 10am. Greyhound Rescue Scotland hosts their annual dog walk around the park followed by a variety of attractions and displays.
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Go Bike Cycle Rides Glasgow Central Station. Main Concourse. 1 Gordon Street. 632 8707. 10am. Meet at Central Station to catch the train to Motherwell and join in this bike ride to Crossford.
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Women’s 10K Bellahouston Park.
Bellahouston Drive. 427 5454. 10am. Apparently this year‘s run follows a
scenic route through the south side of Glasgow. though you might not have
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Talks
Conversation Pieces: Margaret Thomson Davis Royal (‘oneen Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. lpm.
£4 £5. The prolific (ilaswegian author discusses her autobiography Writing My Life.
Activities & Events Storytelling Ceilidh (‘rookston Castle. Tollcross Park. 25-1b Wellshot Road. 763 I863. 7.30pm. £2. Storytelling. live music and dancing at (ilasgow's last medieval castle.
Ongoing Glasgow
Activities & Events
Tchai Ovna Games Society livery Wed. Tchai ()vna. I69 Deanston Drive. 649 7258. noon~5pin. liree. Remember. throwing the board up in a bad temper if you lose is childish.
Adult Learners’ Week Sat 20 Thu 25 May. VarioUs Venues. 330 1830. Times vary. Free. A series of talks and events celebrating adult learning. kicking off with a taster day at (ilasgow University's Department of Adult and Continuing lilucation. Visit gla.ac.uk/adulteducation for more information.
Exhibitions
The Tartan Army L’ntil Wed 3| May. Scottish Football Museum. llainpden Park. Letherby Drive. 616 613‘). 10am—5pm: l lam—5pm. A special showcase on the veritable amty of
Everyone’s favourite primetime philosopher has been absent for a while — one presumed that all that status anxiety had got too much for him and he had retired to ponder the relative merits of Nietzsche and de Tocqueville. In fact, Alain de Botton has been busy penning a new book. entitled The Architecture of Happiness, in which he asks such probing questions as ‘why do people disagree about taste?‘ and ‘can beautiful surroundings make us good?’. I Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Mon 22 May.
Scottish football supporters who lolloys our national team wheieyei they go
Fairs
Body and Soul Fair Sat l<i\ Sun I 1 May. Royal Concert Hall. Slialht l_\tlk' Suite. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 0| il V“ (Xlsll. l lillll. L. 3.50 (\H't'kt‘lltl llt‘lst‘l LSJ Scotland's biggest gathering ol Lilo! readers. astrologers and clairyoyanls. ctimplementary therapists and health practitioners.
Boo Boutique in It) \Ved it May Low salt (iallcry. St .-\lltllc\\s Stiecl. Saltinai'ket. l0am 5pm tli‘i
7.30 ‘).30pmi. Buy tiiiique handmade handbags lrom tip and coming (iSA graduates I.otiisc (‘happell and Becky Bolton. l'.lll;lll intotu boobontiqueeii nk for more details.
Food & Drink
Mansfield Park Farmers’ Market Sat l3 May. .‘y‘lanslield l’aik. oll Dumbarton Road. 3—H 08-1-1. Illain 2pm Who needs sugx'rinarkct losh when yon‘ye got happy produce from happy places" Taste the difference.
Queen's Park Farmers’ Market Sat 20 May. Queen's Park. 520 langside Park. 287 7273. Want 2pm.
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The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions l‘iri I‘) Still 2l May. lirachead Arena. Kings lnch Road. 886 8300. 7.30pm. £29.50 0.21.50). life doe-sift get much better than watching a troupe ol beautiful white stallions prancing around the ring. This rx-rloriiiaiice celebrates *6 years since the boys began their dancing antics.
Workshops
Drop in Class for Beginners layery
'lhu. (ilasgow Buddhist Centre. 328 Sauchiehall Street. 333 052-1.