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wordfringe 2007
1–31 May

Wordfringe

Week 3

Tuesday 15 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library

Lost in Music
Rachel Fox (poet) with Andy Fellows (concertina)


Tuesday 15 May
8.30pm
Snafu

Comedy Capers Comedy Showcase
with the best of the region's rising comedy stars


Wednesday 16 May
12.45pm
RGU, Garthdee

In wards, out wards
Poems and stories from nursing and beyond, with Colin Macduff, Eddie Gibbons & Gerard Rochford


Wednesday 16 May
8pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory

Blue Salt Collective
Poetry with visuals, music and dance from Knotbrook Taylor, Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson, John Glenday & Mhairi Allan


Thursday 17 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans

Tongue & Cheek
Launch of Liana Hemmett's chapbook On the Edge, plus 2 Alis & a G (Alison Flett, Alison Dunne & Eddie Gibbons)


Friday 18 May
7pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre

Young Poets
Aberdeen Writers' Circle Schools Poetry Competition Prizegiving

Please note change of start time


Saturday 19 May
11am
The Lemon Tree

Ways with Words
Janet Paisley presents a workshop on the use of dialogue


Saturday 19 May
2pm
The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh

2 Alis & a G
Alison Flett, Alison Dunne & Eddie Gibbons


Saturday 19 May
7.30pm
Kilau

Paisley Pattern
Fiction, poetry and live music woven by playwright and poet Janet Paisley with members of the Lemon Tree Writers


Sunday 20 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)

wordfringe on the radio


Week 4

Monday 21 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre

Confessions and Rants
Wordfringe Festival Players in new drama from Wendy Ivers, Matthew Jupe, Pauline de Koning, Cal Wallace & Haworth Hodgkinson


Tuesday 22 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library

Michael Molden and Friends
Michael Molden, with poets from Ellon and Glasgow


Tuesday 22 May
8.30pm
Enigma

Anything Prose: A Likely Story
Josh Artmeier, a vet pushed to the edge of sanity, with Helen Elizabeth Ramsey and her refreshingly diverse group of writers


Wednesday 23 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum

War and Peace: A Terrible Beauty
A meditation on war and peace, with Sheena Blackhall, Ian Watt, Paulina Vanderbilt, Morag Skene & Douglas Kynoch


Thursday 24 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans

A Loon and Three Quines
Poets Jim C. Wilson, Paulina Vanderbilt & Catriona Yule, with Margaret Preston (flute)


Friday 25 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon

Laughter, Love, Lochnagar
Koo Press presents Maureen Ross, Brian Lawrie & Douglas Kynoch


Saturday 26 May
1pm — 3pm
Better Read Books, Ellon

Book Signing
Knotbrook Taylor & Haworth Hodgkinson


Sunday 27 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)

wordfringe on the radio


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Ways with Words

Dialogue Workshop with Janet Paisley

Saturday 19 May 2007
11am

The Lemon Tree [Venue 6]

Admission Free


Janet Paisley

An award winning poet, author, playwright, writer of non-fiction and scripts, Janet Paisley counts among her many awards BAFTA and RTS nominations; 1999 Canongate Prize; Peggy Ramsay Memorial award; Sutton, Scotwrite and BBC prose prizes as well as Scottish national, national, Swanage Arts and MacDiarmid Trophy prizes for poetry. Janet has held two SAC writing fellowships, has been awarded several writers' and playwrights' bursaries, and will be the very welcome guest of Lemon Tree Writers, where she will present a workshop on the use of dialogue.


Promoted by

Lemon Tree Writers

Supported by

The Lemon Tree
Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen Central Library
Live Literature Scotland (Scottish Book Trust)

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