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wordfringe 2007
1–31 May

Wordfringe

Week 3

Tuesday 15 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library

Lost in Music
Rachel Fox (poet) with Andy Fellows (concertina)


Tuesday 15 May
8.30pm
Snafu

Comedy Capers Comedy Showcase
with the best of the region's rising comedy stars


Wednesday 16 May
12.45pm
RGU, Garthdee

In wards, out wards
Poems and stories from nursing and beyond, with Colin Macduff, Eddie Gibbons & Gerard Rochford


Wednesday 16 May
8pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory

Blue Salt Collective
Poetry with visuals, music and dance from Knotbrook Taylor, Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson, John Glenday & Mhairi Allan


Thursday 17 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans

Tongue & Cheek
Launch of Liana Hemmett's chapbook On the Edge, plus 2 Alis & a G (Alison Flett, Alison Dunne & Eddie Gibbons)


Friday 18 May
7pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre

Young Poets
Aberdeen Writers' Circle Schools Poetry Competition Prizegiving

Please note change of start time


Saturday 19 May
11am
The Lemon Tree

Ways with Words
Janet Paisley presents a workshop on the use of dialogue


Saturday 19 May
2pm
The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh

2 Alis & a G
Alison Flett, Alison Dunne & Eddie Gibbons


Saturday 19 May
7.30pm
Kilau

Paisley Pattern
Fiction, poetry and live music woven by playwright and poet Janet Paisley with members of the Lemon Tree Writers


Sunday 20 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)

wordfringe on the radio


Week 4

Monday 21 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre

Confessions and Rants
Wordfringe Festival Players in new drama from Wendy Ivers, Matthew Jupe, Pauline de Koning, Cal Wallace & Haworth Hodgkinson


Tuesday 22 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library

Michael Molden and Friends
Michael Molden, with poets from Ellon and Glasgow


Tuesday 22 May
8.30pm
Enigma

Anything Prose: A Likely Story
Josh Artmeier, a vet pushed to the edge of sanity, with Helen Elizabeth Ramsey and her refreshingly diverse group of writers


Wednesday 23 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum

War and Peace: A Terrible Beauty
A meditation on war and peace, with Sheena Blackhall, Ian Watt, Paulina Vanderbilt, Morag Skene & Douglas Kynoch


Thursday 24 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans

A Loon and Three Quines
Poets Jim C. Wilson, Paulina Vanderbilt & Catriona Yule, with Margaret Preston (flute)


Friday 25 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon

Laughter, Love, Lochnagar
Koo Press presents Maureen Ross, Brian Lawrie & Douglas Kynoch


Saturday 26 May
1pm — 3pm
Better Read Books, Ellon

Book Signing
Knotbrook Taylor & Haworth Hodgkinson


Sunday 27 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)

wordfringe on the radio


Full wordfringe Calendar

Blue Salt Collective

Knotbrook Taylor, Catriona Yule & Haworth Hodgkinson
with guests John Glenday & Mhairi Allan

Wednesday 16 May 2007
8pm

Woodend Barn, Banchory [Venue 16]

Admission Free


Blue Salt Collective

The Blue Salt Collective presents poetry as you've probably never experienced it before. The poets read from their own work, accompanied by visual images, live music and dance. Established by poets Knotbrook Taylor, Catriona Yule and Haworth Hodgkinson, the Collective was launched at Thirsty Lunch at last year's Edinburgh Fringe and also appeared at the Shetland Book Festival.

Now for this show at Woodend Barn the three founders of Blue Salt are joined by John Glenday, one of the finest poets working in Scotland today, and by the dancer Mhairi Allan.

Knotbrook Taylor

Stevenson to his Mistress

Knotbrook Taylor has been published in various Scottish literary magazines, has won a couple of poetry competitions and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Shore Poets among other venues. He sees performance as an important part of being a poet and hopes "once seen never forgotten".

He recently decided to write a poem every day which has just about blown his mind. "There's a whole universe of stories, lives and questions in all of us—waiting to be formed—anyone can open the gates" he says. Just sit down and do it.

Beatitudes, Knotbrook Taylor's new poetry collection, is launched at wordfringe on 8th May.

Catriona Yule (photo by Sally McIntosh)

Eshaness

Catriona Yule (Cat, for short) lives in Auchenblae with the other cat and tries to get more pampering! She likes wearing big fluffy socks, watching old episodes of Northern Exposure and eating chocolate, preferably all at the same time. She's into Raymond Carver short stories, Mark Haddon's poetry, and has just finished The Stornoway Way by Kevin McNeil which she read in three days.

Her short stories have been published in The Eildon Tree, The Lemon Tree brochure and Pushing Out the Boat. Her play Kitten Heels was given a semi-staged production at Aberdeen Arts Centre in 2005. Her main driving force is to explore people's voices in her writing and to this end she is currently experimenting with fiction through the Storylines course in the Open College of the Arts programme.

Her poems have been published in Spinners and Spoons, Lapidus, Markings and most recently Northwords Now. She tutors English in Aberdeenshire and is currently working on her first poetry collection and trying to design a website.

Catriona also performs in A Loon and Three Quines on 24th May.

Photo by Sally McIntosh

Haworth Hodgkinson

Anthropologist

Born in Lancashire and resident in North-East Scotland for twenty years, Haworth Hodgkinson is best known as a poet, but he also writes short stories and is involved in music and theatre.

His poetry has appeared in Storm, Pushing Out the Boat, The Broken Fiddle, Breaking New Ground, New Writing Scotland, Spinners and Spoons and Sex in the City, as well as on the Dead Good Poets and Spring Tides websites. His poetry chapbook A Weakness for Mermaids was published by Koo Press in March 2007.

In addition to performing as a poet and musician with the Blue Salt Collective, Haworth Hodgkinson is the Founder and Director of wordfringe.

John Glenday

A Fairy Tale

John Glenday was born in 1952 and currently works as an addictions counsellor with NHS Highland.

He is the author of two collections: The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets, 1989), which won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; and Undark (Peterloo Poets, 1995) which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Poems have been anthologised in the Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (Faber and Faber, 1992); The Firebox (Picador, 1998); and New British Poetry (Grey Wolf Press, 2004).

He was appointed Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow for 1990/91, based at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.

Mhairi Allan

Aberdeen based dancer/choreographer and teacher Mhairi Allan trained in contemporary dance and has spent the past few years creating pieces of work for both community and professional performance. She works with many differant age groups and abilities, with cross generational and older dancers, utilizing fresh music compositions.

Last year she was a participant in the Facets 2006 International Choreography Laboratory at the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore.

She would love to work more with sound, lighting and text, and is looking forward to working more collectively exploring dance with other artistic mediums.


Promoted by

Blue Salt Collective
Woodend Barn
Wordfringe

Supported by

Live Literature Scotland (Scottish Book Trust)

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