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STONEHAVEN JULY 29&30
Two days of unmissable poetry in a small Scottish coastal town
FRIDAY JULY 29TH - STONEHAVEN BOWLING CLUB
12-1pm
Welcome, book stalls and publishers’ showcase. 12.30pm Scotland in song
with Joss Cameron - traditional singer and songwriter
1-2pm
Peter Clive, Peter A, Sarah-Jane Toleman, Martin Walsh, Harry Smart
20 minute interval
2.20pm-3pm
Charlie Garcie, Ross Donlon, Kevin Cadwallender or Mark Lewis
20 minute interval
3.20-3.40pm Jackie Brolly: country to blues, 3.40-4pm Marcas Mac
4pm-5pm
Blue Salt Collective & the Apothecaries - Haworth Hodgkinson,
Mandy Macdonald, Knotbrook Taylor, EE Chandler, Bernard Briggs
half-hour interval
5.30pm-6.30pm
Mearns Writers – Alistair Lawrie, Caroline Carruthers, Marka Rifat, Michael Arthur, Alexander Inglis, Michael Bingham, Marianne Nicoll, Morag Hill, Nicola Furrie Murphy, David Potter, Gloria Potter
6.30pm-7.30pm
Hadley Hoyles, Frank McHugh, Bobby Motherwell, Fin Hall, Jay Wilson
1-hour interval
8.30pm-9.30pm
Aberdeen Writing Collective: Jo Gilbert, Hannah Nicholson, Sid Ozalid, Molly McLachlan, Nick Bagshaw, Lauren Hossack
9.30pm Terry Weston: Singer-songwriter - heavily influenced by Bert Jansch
and Ronnie Lane, 10pm David Stone - A true rocker
WORKSHOPS
To sign-up for any of our free workshops workshops, please name your choice of workshop in the subject line and email: weegaitherin@gmail.com
10 – 11:30am – Gael Force with Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. In this workshop for writers of any language, Marcas will introduce the Gaelic colour spectrum and how this maps onto the Scottish landscape. Writers will be encouraged to explore this new way of seeing and to engage with this creatively through seven-minute writing exercises.
11:30am – 1pm – Irradiate the Common - Morag Anderson. Irradiate the common' is a phrase borrowed from the Scottish novelist, poet and writer of landscape literature, Nan Shepherd. Her work explores themes of displacement, poverty, spirituality and love. She described poetry as the ‘burning heart of life’.
Irish novelist and poet Patrick Kavanagh said: ‘To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience…it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in the hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields – these are as much as a man can fully experience’.
This workshop will invite us to explore the truths of ordinary life. To shine a light on the delights and horrors, the tender and violent.
FRIDAY JULY 29TH - STONEHAVEN BOWLING CLUB
SATURDAY JULY 30TH - STONEHAVEN BOWLING CLUB
SATURDAY JULY 30th - STONEHAVEN BOWLING CLUB
12-1pm
Book stalls/intros/publishers’ showcase/12.30pm Kevin Whyte/or Joss
1-2pm
Red Squirrels: Chris Boyland, John Bolland, Judith Taylor, Andy Jackson,
Mark Lewis or Kevin Cadwallander
30 minute interval
2.30pm-3.30pm
Rymours: Ian Spring, Spike Munro, NLs - Sheena Blackhall, Sheila Templeton, Lesley Benzie
30 minute interval
4pm AmyBeth Beel: Award-winning soprano
4.30pm-5.30pm
George Gunn, Ceitidh Campbell, Sharon Black, Mark Thomas, Oisin Breen
hour interval
6.30pm-7.30pm
Seahorses: Wanderlust Women - Donna Campbell, Linda Jackson, Lesley Benzie,
Cáit O’Neill McCullagh, Jo Gilbert
7.30pm Linda Jaxson sings blues, Americana and had a rock phase too.
20 minute interval
8.10pm-9.30pm
Frank Rafferty & Willy Copeland (Dead Thatchers), Hugh McMillan, Stuart A Paterson, Jessamine O’Conor, Kevin Higgins, Graham Fulton
9.40pm Shirley Whyte - rocker, a folkie and songwriter.
10pm Bob Knight - folk/traditional singer
WORKSHOPS
10– 11:30am – The politics of poetry workshop - Kevin Higgins - will use existing poems and other texts by well known writers to gently prompt/provoke workshop participants into writing poems which take the darker emotions for a much needed walk. All you need to do is bring yourself and one pre-existing poem of your own, on which you'd like feedback.
1.30 - 3.30pm - Andy Jackson Writing & Walking Workshop - Join us for a guided writing workshop exploring Stonehaven Town Centre in a collaboration between Lapidus Scotland and the Wee Gaitherin. This active workshop will be led by Perthshire-based poet and writer Andy Jackson. Participants will be guided to create a ‘Snapshot of Stonehaven’ through creative writing and found poetry. You may be inspired by words and images found on shop front signs, notices, buildings, monuments, statues and even overheard conversations. You will collect poetic fragments from the town and share your observations before creating a collaborative ‘patchwork’ poem of Stonehaven.
4pm-5pm
TOLBOOTH COURTYARD 4-6PM BEYOND THE SWELKIE
POETS, POEMS AND SONGS TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Jim Mackintosh, Julie McNeill, Morag Anderson, Cáit O’Neill McCullagh, Andy Jackson,
Neil Young, Tom Murray, Olive Ritch, Sheila Templeton, George Gunn, Hugh McMillan, Erin Farley.