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Rugby Union side Glasgow Warriors welcome Magners League teams to Firhill Stadium Stadium for the 2011/2012 season. Matches are generally played on Friday evenings - please visit the club's website for full details of all fixtures.

Scottish Rugby Website

The Holiday and Travel Show at Glasgow's SECC promises to meet all your travel needs. Grab holiday bargains, discuss vacation ideas with experts and wander round the stalls exhibiting an A-Z of worldwide destinations, from the Azores to Zambia.

Barrhead Travel Website

New Territories is a festival of international contemporary Live Art across the whole of Scotland. But Glasgow hosts the largest share of experimental performances in such varied venues as The Arches, Tramway and the Centre for Contemporary Arts.

It all started with New Moves between 1988 and 1990. After a couple of transformations, New Territories started captivating Glasgow in 2002.

In 2011 Glasgow plays host to three of the four Winter School courses, including performances from global collective Black Market International. Polish Roots and world-renowned dance companies O Vertigo, Sol Pico and Didier Théron also visit, while Louise Lecavalier returns for the first time in well over a decade. Homegrown choreographers include Iona Kewney and Anna Krzystek, while the next generation of artists is celebrated in The Arches' four-day Into the New/Athena festival.

New Territories Website

The Glasgow Film Festival returns for a programme bursting with premieres, special screenings, guest speakers and workshops. Incorporating three mini-festivals, and with over 11 "strands" focusing on different genres, the Glasgow Film Festival is a major cinematic event.

Hosted at a range of venues across the city, including the Art Deco halls of the Glasgow Film Theatre, the festival focuses on 11 different "strands" of cinema. The Best of British and Great Scots highlight contemporary film-making in the UK, while there are also sections that look back at the classics of yesteryear. All the while cinema, from Japan to Europe and beyond, is celebrated through a number of different global cinema series.

There is a dedicated horror programme, Frightfest, and a documentary series, Stranger Than Fiction, not to mention the blockbuster screenings as part of Galas schedule. A programme of short films runs alongside the feature screenings and guest speakers hold court in the lobbies and theatres. Furthermore, the first week is entirely dedicated to the Glasgow Youth Film Festival project, which features movies created by, made for, and starring young people.

Glasgow Film Festival Website

Are your chakras wonky? If so, then head to Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall for the quarterly Body & Soul Fairs. They offer many alternative ways to feel good, from complementary therapies, books and crystals to organic products and a whole lot more.

Body & Soul Events Website

Aye Write!, Glasgow's Book Festival at beautiful Mitchell Library, is relatively youthful (having only started in 2006), but already rivals its neighbour Edinburgh with an impressive range of international authors. Home-grown talent is also strongly represented with lively debate guaranteed.

Aye Write! takes place annually in early March and always hosts an eclectic roster of authors from the likes of philosopher Alain de Botton, Scottish crime writer Christopher Brookmyre, feminist Germaine Greer, writer-cum-comedian AL Kennedy and travel writer Sara Wheeler.

In 2011, it's the 30th anniversary of artist and author Alisdair Gray's Lanark, which will be the focus of a special exhibition alongside presentations on Gray's other books.

Aye Write! Website

Attracting dealers and exhibitors from across the world, the Glasgow Music Fair comes to the Royal Concert Hall. For two days, punters can browse the busy stalls and pick up prized CDs, vinyl and music memorabilia.

VIP Events Website

First held in 1911, the Glasgow Music Festival celebrates young soloists and groups alike over a fortnight each March at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall and Renfield St Stephen's Church Centre. It encompasses a surprisingly wide variety of amateur performances.

Although it features many different classes, the festival focuses particularly on traditional performances with Scottish Country Dancing demonstrations, traditional accordion recitals and readings of Burns verse. On the final day, at the Last Night of the Festival concert, an award ceremony takes place for the best acts of the fortnight.

Although 2011 marks the centenary of the first festival, it is in fact only the 99th actual festival.

Glasgow Music Festival Website

First held in 2002, the Glasgow International Comedy Festival rapidly established itself as the biggest laugh in Scotland. Each year it features nearly 200 laughter-filled events in venues throughout the city.

Always attracting a strong line-up (what else would they be doing in March?), the festival rivals Edinburgh's Fringe. Regional showcases highlight Scottish, Irish, Northern and Celtic comedy while international visitors have included the likes of Joan Rivers. Coupled with improvisation nights, movies and comedy writing workshops, expect the rest of the country to be stony-faced while all the laughter happens in Glasgow in March and April.

Glasgow International Comedy Festival Website

The biennial Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art exhibits the best of local talent as well as welcoming international artists. With exhibitions at various locations throughout the city, the festival showcases the fascinating variety of contemporary visual art.

Glasgow International Festival Of Visual Art website