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Fund Raising Event for Gaza with ALASDAIR GRAY, RAJA SHEHADE, KATHLEEN JAMIE, RON BUTLIN, ALLAN CAMERON, REGI CLAIRE, TOM LEONARD, DILYS ROSE, YOUSSEF AL-KHATABI, ELLEN GALFORD, KEN MACLEOD, plus music with Karine Polwart, Freddie King, and others.
Fund Raising Event for Gaza with ALASDAIR GRAY, RAJA SHEHADE, KATHLEEN JAMIE , RON BUTLIN , ALLAN CAMERON , REGI CLAIRE , TOM LEONARD , DILYS ROSE , YOUSSEF AL-KHATABI, ELLEN GALFORD, KEN MACLEOD , and Others, plus music with Karine Polwart , Enradgey, Townhouse , Samba Sene, Orkestra Nowtopia, and Freddie King , in Edinburgh, Scotland
Saturday 28 February 2009 from 1.00pm to 12.00pm
Venue:
Argyle Bar & The Hide
Saturday 28 February 2009 from 1.00pm to 12.00pm
Venue:
Argyle Bar & The Hide
15-17 Argyle Place
Marchmont
Edinburgh
EH9 1J
Marchmont
Edinburgh
EH9 1J
Organised by Word Power Books, supported by Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and others.
Admission: Suggested donation of £10.00 for the whole day. All the money raised will go to educational projects in Gaza.
All Welcome!
Admission: Suggested donation of £10.00 for the whole day. All the money raised will go to educational projects in Gaza.
All Welcome!
- Programme for the day.
1.00pm: RON BUTLIN, Edinburgh's new Makar, opens the day's proceedings and reads from his work followed by Q&A.
RON BUTLIN is the author of several books. His latest collection of short stories No More Angels is funny, tragic and sometimes both. Butlin explores individual lives with a lightness of touch that cuts right to the heart. A dramatic follow up to Butlin's acclaimed Belonging, No More Angels is a captivating celebration of human frailty.
1.25 pm: REGI CLAIRE reads from her work.
REGI CLAIRE is the author of Inside-Outside and The Beauty Room. In an interview with Scotland on Sunday, Louise Welsh chose her as 'a star of the future'
REGI CLAIRE is the author of Inside-Outside and The Beauty Room. In an interview with Scotland on Sunday, Louise Welsh chose her as 'a star of the future'
1.40pm: DILYS ROSE will read from her and her students' work.
DILYS ROSE was born and brought up in Glasgow. She has travelled widely and worked in various capacities at home and abroad before beginning to write in 1980.
She has wide experience as a creative writing tutor for all ages and stages. Before her current position of Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, she was creative writing consultant at Glasgow University. Previous to that, she held two community fellowships in Mid/East Lothian and in Castlemilk Libraries. She has visited many schools, colleges and libraries, giving readings from her work, talks and writing workshops as well as being a tutor on several residential writing courses at Arvon and similar institutions. She has been a guest of the British Council in Germany and the Czech Republic, and taken part in several International Writers' Festivals.
Awards: The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize (1991), The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award (1997), The Society of Authors' Travel Award (1998), The Canongate Prize (1999), 2 Scottish Arts Council book awards (for Red Tides and War Dolls, 1993 and 1998) Red Tides was also short listed for both the McVitie's Scottish Writer of the Year and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. Pest Maiden was nominated for the Impac Prize.
She has wide experience as a creative writing tutor for all ages and stages. Before her current position of Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, she was creative writing consultant at Glasgow University. Previous to that, she held two community fellowships in Mid/East Lothian and in Castlemilk Libraries. She has visited many schools, colleges and libraries, giving readings from her work, talks and writing workshops as well as being a tutor on several residential writing courses at Arvon and similar institutions. She has been a guest of the British Council in Germany and the Czech Republic, and taken part in several International Writers' Festivals.
Awards: The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize (1991), The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award (1997), The Society of Authors' Travel Award (1998), The Canongate Prize (1999), 2 Scottish Arts Council book awards (for Red Tides and War Dolls, 1993 and 1998) Red Tides was also short listed for both the McVitie's Scottish Writer of the Year and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. Pest Maiden was nominated for the Impac Prize.
2.00pm: TOM LEONARD shows a DVD and speaks on Gaza, and reads poetry, followed by Q&A.
TOM LEONARD was born in 1944 in Glasgow. Besides his collections of poetry for the page he has performed sound poetry in festivals in Britain and abroad. He has also written critical essays, political satire, a biography of James Thomson (1834-82), and compiled the anthology of forgotten West of Scotland nineteenth century poetry Radical Renfrew. One of Leonard's abiding concerns has been the political, hierarchical nature of language in Britain and his poetry is famous for its representation of Glaswegian working-class speech. He has been writer-in-residence at Glasgow and Strathclyde universities and Bell College of Technology. His collection Intimate Voices: Writing 1965-1983 shared the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 1984, but was at the same time banned from Scottish Central Region school libraries. In 1991 he published an analysis of the Gulf War along with a series of satirical monologues, On the Mass Bombing of Iraq and Kuwait, commonly known as The Gulf War, with Leonard's Shorter Catechism. A CD of Leonard reading his poetry, Nora's place, was released by AK Press in 1996. Leonard presently teaches Creative Writing at Glasgow University. A collection of poetry 1984-2003 Access to the Silence was published by Etruscan in the summer of 2004.
3.00pm: ALASDAIR GRAY reads from his work followed by Q&A.
ALASDAIR GRAY is the author of the Whitbread and Guardian Prize-winning novel Poor Things and the story-collection Ten Tales Tall and True. Old Men in Love was published in October 2007.
4.00pm: ALLAN CAMERON discusses his latest book is In Praise of the Garrulous followed by Q&A.
ALLAN CAMERON writes in English and Italian, and his two novels have been published by Luath Press: The Golden Menagerie (2004), which is a modern reworking of the Apuleius' The Golden Ass and The Berlusconi Bonus (2005), which a more typical modern satire - a dystopia that examines the absurdities of current ideology, particularly the ideas of Francis Fukuyam. He has also translated twenty-five books and has published articles in Reset, Teoria Politica, L'Unita and Renaissance Studies. His latest book is In Praise of the Garrulous.
TOM LEONARD was born in 1944 in Glasgow. Besides his collections of poetry for the page he has performed sound poetry in festivals in Britain and abroad. He has also written critical essays, political satire, a biography of James Thomson (1834-82), and compiled the anthology of forgotten West of Scotland nineteenth century poetry Radical Renfrew. One of Leonard's abiding concerns has been the political, hierarchical nature of language in Britain and his poetry is famous for its representation of Glaswegian working-class speech. He has been writer-in-residence at Glasgow and Strathclyde universities and Bell College of Technology. His collection Intimate Voices: Writing 1965-1983 shared the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 1984, but was at the same time banned from Scottish Central Region school libraries. In 1991 he published an analysis of the Gulf War along with a series of satirical monologues, On the Mass Bombing of Iraq and Kuwait, commonly known as The Gulf War, with Leonard's Shorter Catechism. A CD of Leonard reading his poetry, Nora's place, was released by AK Press in 1996. Leonard presently teaches Creative Writing at Glasgow University. A collection of poetry 1984-2003 Access to the Silence was published by Etruscan in the summer of 2004.
3.00pm: ALASDAIR GRAY reads from his work followed by Q&A.
ALASDAIR GRAY is the author of the Whitbread and Guardian Prize-winning novel Poor Things and the story-collection Ten Tales Tall and True. Old Men in Love was published in October 2007.
4.00pm: ALLAN CAMERON discusses his latest book is In Praise of the Garrulous followed by Q&A.
ALLAN CAMERON writes in English and Italian, and his two novels have been published by Luath Press: The Golden Menagerie (2004), which is a modern reworking of the Apuleius' The Golden Ass and The Berlusconi Bonus (2005), which a more typical modern satire - a dystopia that examines the absurdities of current ideology, particularly the ideas of Francis Fukuyam. He has also translated twenty-five books and has published articles in Reset, Teoria Politica, L'Unita and Renaissance Studies. His latest book is In Praise of the Garrulous.
4.45pm: KEN MACLEOD will read from some of his work.
5.15pm: KATHLEEN JAMIE reads from her work.
KATHLEEN JAMIE was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1962. She studied philosophy at Edinburgh University. She has published several collections of poetry, including: Black Spiders (1982) The Way We Live (1987), The Queen of Sheba (1994), and Jizzen (1999). A travel book about Northern Pakistan, The Golden Peak (1993), was recently updated and reissued as Among Muslims (2002).
She has received several prestigious awards for her poetry, including a Somerset Maugham Award, a Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem), a Paul Hamlyn Award and a Creative Scotland Award. She has twice also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her selected poems, Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead (2002), which contains much of her work written before 1994, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
As well as poetry, Kathleen Jamie writes for radio, especially travel-scripts, and specially commissioned long poems. She lives in Fife and in 1999 was appointed Lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. Her poetry collection, The Tree House (2004), won the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award.
She has received several prestigious awards for her poetry, including a Somerset Maugham Award, a Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem), a Paul Hamlyn Award and a Creative Scotland Award. She has twice also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her selected poems, Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead (2002), which contains much of her work written before 1994, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
As well as poetry, Kathleen Jamie writes for radio, especially travel-scripts, and specially commissioned long poems. She lives in Fife and in 1999 was appointed Lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. Her poetry collection, The Tree House (2004), won the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award.
5.45pm: YOUSSEF AL-KHATABI - a poet from the Middle East living in Edinburgh will read from some of his work.
6.00pm: ELLEN GALFORD will read from some of her work.
6.00pm: ELLEN GALFORD will read from some of her work.
6.30PM: RAJA SHEHADE will speak on the situation in Palestine.
RAJA SHEHADEH is the author of the highly praised When the Bulbul Stopped Singing and Strangers in the House. A Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah, he is a founder of the pioneering human rights organisation, Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, and the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East.
- 7.30pm: Music
Music with Karine Polwart , singer songwriter Enradgey, Townhouse , Samba Sene , and Orkestra Nowtopia
What they say about Karin Polwart:
- "a passionate, perceptive songwriter" Uncut 2008
- "exceptionally subtle and melodic" Q 2008
- "takes the heart to places few singers even know exist" WORD 2008
Scots songwriter Karine Polwart combines the economy and universality of the folk storytelling tradition with a probing intellect and compassionate lyricism. Twice winner of "Best Original Song" at the UK-wide BBC Folk Awards, she continues to wonder at the homes her many poignant songs find for themselves:
"The most beautiful thing about songs is how they can take on a life and a meaning of their own. I'm constantly moved and inspired by the deeply personal experiences people let me in on to me as a result of hearing them".
A former children's rights worker, Karine allows images, narratives, questions and wry comic asides to do much of her work. She tries never to say too much. And whether it's the dilemmas of modern parenthood, the unsettling kindness of lies, or the resilience of hope, she admits most of her songs are an attempt to make sense of the fact that "there are people in this world who don't think like you do" (as she herself sings in 2006 song "Daisy"). All of which is precisely the kind of sideways, allegorical approach to contemporary living that you might expect from someone with a Masters degree in philosophy.
Townhouse - Lisa Paton, Stuart Clark & John Farrell - are an Edinburgh-based trio fast becoming firm favourites on the local scene, playing a fresh n' original mix of lyrical contemporary folk, seductive beats and soulful blues. Not to be missed!
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