wordfringe 2007
1–31 May
Event Calendar
Week 1
Tuesday 1 May
7.30pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Pushing Out the Boat: Issue 6 Launch
The latest edition of North-East Scotland's prestigious new writing magazine
Wednesday 2 May
8pm
Duff House, Banff
Tales from the Lands of Deveron
Stagecraft Turriff perform new work by Huntly Writers
Thursday 3 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans
Gael Force
Poetry and song from the Highlands and Islands, including Donald S. Murray,
Rhoda Michael and singer Deirdre MacTaggart
Thursday 3 May
8.30pm
Belmont Picturehouse Bar
Anything Prose
Birthday party of the prose writers' group
Friday 4 May
7.30pm
Christian Community, Spademill Road
Queen Amang the Heather
Grampian Storytellers with special guest Sheila Stewart
Saturday 5 May
11am
The Lemon Tree
Wordcraft Performance Poetry Workshop
with Rapunzel Wizard
Sunday 6 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)
Week 2
Monday 7 May
7pm
Musa
Heads & Tails
Koo Press presents poets Judith Taylor & Douglas W. Gray
Tuesday 8 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library
Beatitudes
Launch of Knotbrook Taylor's poetry collection, plus Maureen Ross & Majella
Cullinane
Tuesday 8 May
8.30pm
Enigma
Loads of Dreads, But No Fears
Rapunzel Wizard: a true voice from the underground
Wednesday 9 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Jungle & Jazz
Aberdeen Writers' Circle, with jazz duo Andy Brown & Bill Mann
Friday 11 May
Saturday 12 May
Sunday 13 May
University of Aberdeen
Word 07
wordfringe takes a break for the University of Aberdeen Writers'
Festival
Sunday 13 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)
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)
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)
Week 5
Monday 28 May
7pm
Musa
Elemental
Strong words and sweet music, with Morag Skene, Gráinne Smith, Judith
Taylor, James Hughes & Charlie Styles
Tuesday 29 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library
The Thinking Man's Axl Rose
Performance poet Ash Dickinson
Tuesday 29 May
8.30pm
Enigma
Three Animal Tales
Martin Walsh's tales of a flying frog, a stroppy goose, and the pelican and the
pigeon, with music by Haworth Hodgkinson
Wednesday 30 May
8pm
Duff House, Banff
Deveron Words: Catch the Moment
From the Cabrach to Banff Brig: Writers of the Deveron with Angus Dunn, Hilda
Meers & Huntly Writers
Thursday 31 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans
There's a Poem in my Soup
A feast to celebrate the launch of a new book of poetry and recipes in aid of
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