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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Saturday 9 May
11am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Lemon Tree Writers host a workshop by the award-winning author Laura Hird
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Saturday 9 May
3pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
CD launch of pop, sonic art, and spoken word, with Miriama Young and Catherine Bowman
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Saturday 9 May
5pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Lemon Tree Writers launch their new anthology
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Saturday 9 May
8pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
An evening of piano music and poetry with Susanne Olbrich and Margot Henderson
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Sunday 10 May
11am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Creative explorations with poetry and music
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Sunday 10 May
5pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Readings by members of Deeside Writers
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Sunday 10 May
7.30pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Readings and chat with two of Scotland's best known authors
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Week 3
Monday 11 May
7pm
Cellar 35, Aberdeen
Robert Ramsay launches his poetry collection, and Olivia McMahon reads from her new novel
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Tuesday 12 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
New poetry in English, Greek and Nepali with film, painting, digital art
and improvised music
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Wednesday 13 May
10am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
with Sheila Reid
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Friday 15 May
Saturday 16 May
Sunday 17 May
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen Writers' Festival
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Week 4
Tuesday 19 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
(...trucks never sleep: or hurt: I do...)
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Tuesday 19 May
8pm
The Tunnels, Aberdeen
Sharp-tongued radical poetry and hard hitting political songs
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Wednesday 20 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Thursday 21 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Friday 22 May
4pm
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
Listen to lighthouse poetry performed by Writer in Residence Knotbrook Taylor and
local school children
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Friday 22 May
7.30pm
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Beyond Our Kennel: Innovative stand-up comic poetry
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Saturday 23 May
11am
Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen
A workshop with John Hegley
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Sunday 24 May
8pm
St James Episcopal Church, Stonehaven
World premiere of John Hearne's English translation of the Swedish text by Bengt
Pohjanen
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Week 5
Monday 25 May
7pm
Tarts and Crafts, Balmedie
Join us on our flights of fancy, and prepare to have your feathers ruffled
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Tuesday 26 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
T.S. Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield, Jingling Geordie Keith Armstrong, and John
Mackie's Infinite Equation #2
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Wednesday 27 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Poems and songs on the theme of leaving and returning home
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Thursday 28 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Makar Poets breeze into Aberdeen
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Friday 29 May
7.30pm
Crown Terrace Methodist Church, Aberdeen
An Aberdeen Writers' Circle bi-annual event
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Saturday 30 May
1pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
The author will be signing copies of his new book
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Saturday 30 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Let Hitler do his worst — Aberdeen's fishwives show him they have the guts
to cope
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Sunday 31 May
3pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Koo Press Poetry Roadshow with Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson and Douglas W. Gray
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