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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Night at the Light
Be inspired by the combination of traditional music and contemporary poetry surrounded
by spectacular lenses
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh [Map]
Admission £5 (concessions & Museum Friends £3; children £2)
No booking required
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In the stunning environment of the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, we present an
evening of poetry, stories and music with a maritime theme.
Our special guest is Ian Stephen, the poet and one-time coastguard from the Western
Isles. He is joined by poets Knotbrook Taylor and Morna Annandale, both with Angus
connections, and Martin Walsh, teller of maritime stories.
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Ian Stephen was born in Stornoway and still lives there. His mother was from
Lewis, his father from Fraserburgh, and he studied English, Drama and Education
at Aberdeen. He worked for many years in the Coastguard service but has been publishing,
exhibiting and performing his work since 1979. His new and selected poems were recently
published in a parallel text edition with translations into Czech. His lyrics have
also been translated into German and performed in Dusseldorf, Cologne and Bonn.
He is writing a novel, funded by a major bursary from the SAC.
See www.ianstephen.co.uk
for more.
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Based in Angus, poet and performer Knotbrook Taylor is a founder member of
the Blue Salt Collective,
a multimedia group of poets working with dance, image and sound. Currently trying
to find meaning by juxtaposing random ideas and looking for the links — which
is just the start of the Night Mare. Due to take up the post of Writer in Residence
at the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses in May 2009. His first collection Beatitudes
is available from the Scottish Poetry Pamphlet website and from his own website
www.knotbrook.co.uk.
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Morna Annandale lives and works in Aberdeen. She spent her childhood in Montrose
and her poems are often inspired by the history and landscape of that area, in particular
the village of Ferryden.
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Martin Walsh is a marine biologist turned storyteller. His public performances
draw on a misspent lifetime of mimicry and reinvented dialogues. A Wordfringe regular,
he has also read on Radio 4.
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