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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Trio Verso
Brian Johnstone, Richard Ingham and Louise Major
Pennan Village Hall [Map]
Admission £5 (concessions £3)
or £10 (concessions £6) for a ticket covering all three Pennan events
No booking required
Brian Johnstone (reader)
Richard Ingham (saxophone, bass clarinet)
Louise Major (double bass)
Trio Verso places the poems of Brian Johnstone in a musical context, providing
improvised musical accompaniment to the poetry. Brian Johnstone writes: ‘Although
I have worked with musicians in the past, this is a completely new direction for
me — and a really exciting one. It allows me to interact with the improvised
music in a way that brings new meaning and different expression to my poems, and
to respond to the musicians in a way I have never been able to do with any of the
more formal approaches to poetry and music I have participated in previously.’
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Brian Johnstone has published two pamphlets and a full collection, including
The Lizard Silence (1996) and Homing (2004); his second full collection
The Book of Belongings will be published by Arc Publications in 2009. His
work has appeared throughout the UK, in America and in various European countries.
His poems ‘evoke a sense of spiritual immanence in their slow still spaces’
(Scottish Literary Journal); several have been translated into Catalan, Swedish,
Polish, Slovakian and Lithuanian and published in these countries. In 2003 he won
Edinburgh's Poetry at the Fringe award, and in 2000 was a prizewinner in
the National Poetry Competition. He is Director of StAnza: Scotland's Poetry Festival.
He lives on the edge of the East Neuk of Fife.
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Richard Ingham is a saxophone soloist and has given recitals recently in
Spain, Poland, Canada, Ireland, USA, India, Slovenia, Latvia and China. He has performed
by invitation at every World Saxophone Congress since 1985. and has released several
albums. He is Visiting Professor of Music at the University of St Andrews, Principal
Guest Conductor of the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain, and Principal
Conductor of the newly formed Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra. He has recently
been giving many jazz classes in schools in Aberdeenshire, under the auspices of
the Youth Music Initiative scheme, funded by the Scottish Arts Council. His many
compositions are frequently performed.
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Louise Major studied music and biochemistry in her native New Zealand. She
now works for the University of St Andrews as a Structural Biology Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow in the Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, and as a double bass tutor
for the Music Centre and at St Leonard's School. Her first degree was in double
bass and composition before changing focus and studying science. Musical highlights
include: jazz on Thursday nights at the Byre Theatre; having an orchestral composition
workshopped by Dunedin Sinfonia in New Zealand; playing bespoke bass parts composed
by Richard Ingham (Drift o' Rain on Moorland Stane), Gillian Whitehead (Outrageous
Fortune) and Anthony Ritchie (The Trapeze Artist).
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