wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 1
Thursday 30 April
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Sheena Blackhall: Makar of the North-East of Scotland
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Friday 1 May
7.30pm
Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen
Grampian Association of Storytellers with a special guest
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Saturday 2 May
2.30pm
Duff House, Banff
A celebration of the launch of Issue 8, with readings by the contributors
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Saturday 2 May
7pm
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
Be inspired by the combination of traditional music and
contemporary poetry surrounded by spectacular lenses
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Sunday 3 May
2pm
Pennan Village Hall
Richard Ingham and Mary McCarthy
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Sunday 3 May
3.30pm
Pennan Village Hall
Douglas W. Gray, Catriona Yule and Haworth Hodgkinson
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Sunday 3 May
5pm
Pennan Village Hall
Brian Johnstone, Richard Ingham and Louise Major
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Sunday 3 May
7.30pm
Salmon Bothy, Portsoy
Olivia McMahon launches her new novel, joined by Christie VanLaningham and Bill Kirton
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Week 2
Monday 4 May
7pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Four heavyweight performance poets take it in turns to grapple the English language into submission
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Tuesday 5 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
No one dreams of civilisation in Paradise
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Wednesday 6 May
10am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
with Sheila Reid
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Wednesday 6 May
7.30pm
Rizza's Ice Cream Factory, Huntly
Huntly Writers: at home in Huntly for their latest event
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Thursday 7 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Poetry and other entertainments from the vivacious Elspeth Murray with special guest Eddie Gibbons
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Friday 8 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
Open mic without the mic
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Makar Making
Sheena Blackhall: Makar of the North-East of Scotland
Books and Beans, Aberdeen [Map]
Admission free
No booking required
Dead Good Poets in association with North-East writers' groups inaugurate Sheena
Blackhall at a Makar Making ceremony. Sheena is a distinguished and prolific poet
in Doric, Scots and English. She is internationally recognised as an outstanding
contemporary writer. We are privileged to have her among us. At this event Sheena
will read her poems and most likely also sing.
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Sheena Blackhall is a Nor' Aest scriever, illustrator, tradeetional ballant
sangster an shenachie. Ootthrou 1998-2003 she wis Creative Writing Fellow at Aiberdeen
Varsity's Elphinstone Institute. She writes mainly in Scots, but also in Doric and
English. She has won the Hugh MacDiarmid trophy for Scots and the Robert McLellan
Cup for short story writing.
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