Cathcart, Merrylee and Muirend Community Council

Cathcart, Merrylee and Muirend Community Council Cathcart, Merrylee & Muirend Community Council, established October 2022.

06/10/2026

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Don't forget to get your applications in for the elections 🗳️☑️There's still two weeks to go!
30/09/2026

Don't forget to get your applications in for the elections 🗳️☑️

There's still two weeks to go!

This time last week, around 100 of you were enjoying a free screening of Local Hero in the fabulous Couper Institute.We ...
26/09/2026

This time last week, around 100 of you were enjoying a free screening of Local Hero in the fabulous Couper Institute.

We hope you all enjoyed it as we certainly did! It's always great to see crowds enjoying events in the Couper. How lucky we are to have such a gem of a venue at the heart of our community ❤️

Would you be keen for us to host more free film screenings at the Couper? What film/s would you like us to show?

There's just under 3 weeks left until the deadline for becoming a community councillor!Don't leave it too late, in Carol...
24/09/2026

There's just under 3 weeks left until the deadline for becoming a community councillor!

Don't leave it too late, in Carolyn's words; Things get solved when you get involved. Read about her proudest moments, plus advice for new councillors here ✅🌟

There is still time! We still have tickets left for the showing of ‘Local Hero’ and both the 1pm and 3pm Doors Open Day ...
18/09/2026

There is still time! We still have tickets left for the showing of ‘Local Hero’ and both the 1pm and 3pm Doors Open Day tours of the Couper Institute.

You can find all the information you need and tickets to all three events under this link

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/couper-institute-doors-open-day-4858889/

For those of you who already have their tickets for tomorrow, a wee reminder to bring your own snacks and drinks as they won’t be provided, those who are over 18 are free to bring alcoholic drinks. We hope you have fun! 🌟

🌟 Don't miss out on becoming a community councillor for Cathcart Merrylee and Muirend.🌟 There is still 4 weeks left to p...
17/09/2026

🌟 Don't miss out on becoming a community councillor for Cathcart Merrylee and Muirend.

🌟 There is still 4 weeks left to put your name forward.

🌟Free Film Screening this Saturday - Local Hero 🌟We are very happy to have to have been able to release more tickets for...
17/09/2026

🌟Free Film Screening this Saturday - Local Hero 🌟

We are very happy to have to have been able to release more tickets for the previously sold out screening of Local Hero this Saturday!

The film will be on at the Couper Institute as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival with doors open from 7pm, and the film starting at 7:30pm.

You are welcome to bring your own snacks, soft drinks or alcoholic drinks (18+) to enjoy during the film.

📍 The Couper Institute

📅 Saturday 19th September

🕚 Doors open 19:00. Film starts 19:30

🔞 Ages 10+

🎟 Free tickets available on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-hero-film-screening-at-the-couper-institute-tickets-1994995899439?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Time is running out for you to get a ticket to our free screening of Local Hero at The Couper Institute this Saturday, a...
14/09/2026

Time is running out for you to get a ticket to our free screening of Local Hero at The Couper Institute this Saturday, as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival !

The film will be screened in the atmospheric main hall of the Couper Institute in partnership with Glasgow Life. Experience our new and improved screen and speaker equipment for the first time, generously funded by CALA Homes!

You are welcome to bring your own snacks, soft drinks or alcoholic drinks (18+) to enjoy during the film.

📍 The Couper Institute

📅 Saturday 19th September

🕚 Doors open 19:00. Film starts 19:30

🔞 Ages 10+

🎟 Free tickets available on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-hero-film-screening-at-the-couper-institute-tickets-1994995899439?aff=ebdssbdestsearch


Local Hero (PG)

Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays an American oil company representative who is sent to a village on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property to build an oil refinery. The musical score was composed by Mark Knopfler.

"a fragment of cinematic whimsy—a genial dramatic comedy that defies both our expectations and those of the characters" - James Berardinelli

"Genuine fairy tales are rare; so is film-making that is thoroughly original in an unobtrusive way. Bill Forsyth's quirky disarming Local Hero is both." – Janet Maslin

"After making the grade internationally with the sleeper hit, Gregory's Girl, Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth has broken the sophomore sesh jinx the only way he could, by making an even better film ... Given a larger canvas, director Forsyth has in no way attempted to overreach himself or the material, keeping things modest and intimate throughout, but displaying a very acute sense of comic insight." – Todd McCarthy

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04/09/2026

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Micro Talks
6 minute stories with picture slides
Saturday 5th September
2-4pm
Cathcart's Couper Library
FREE, 50 spaces
Tea, coffee and biscuits from 1:45pm
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