wordfringe 2007
1–31 May
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)
Full wordfringe Calendar
Queen Amang the Heather
Grampian Storytellers with special guest Sheila Stewart
Friday 4 May 2007
7.30pm
Christian Community, 8 Spademill Road [Venue 10]
Admission Free (Recommended donation £3)
Grampian Storytellers are pleased to welcome special guest Sheila Stewart, storyteller and singer in the Christian Community Church, Spademill Road, just off Queen's Road, Aberdeen.
Sheila is returning the following weekend to Word 07 to launch her first book Queen Amang the Heather, the life of her mother Belle Stewart.
All welcome, tellers and listeners alike! Please contact Grace for further information on 01224 488241 or contact gas_story@hotmail.com
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Sheila Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers, and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire of old folk tales, comic tales, Jack tales, Burker tales and tales of Traveller life, as well as a store of outstanding songs and ballads. Sheila is the last in the line of her family now left to carry on the Stewart's great tradition. She has a passionate sense of the tragedies of life, and the oppression of the Travelling people. She can work with audiences of any age group. Sheila's family comes from a long line of pipers, storytellers and ballad singers. She has sung to the pope and a crowd of 385,000 at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, during his visit to Scotland, and represented Scotland at the Bi-Centennial Celebrations in Washington D.C. Sheila's mother, the late Belle Stewart, received the BEM from the Queen for her rich contribution to folk music. Her late father was the great piper Alex Stewart, and her sister Kathie is a fine singer. The family was known throughout the world as the "Stewarts of Blair". |
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