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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)

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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)

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Paisley Pattern

Janet Paisley with Lemon Tree Writers

Saturday 19 May 2007
7.30pm

Kilau [Venue 4]

Admission Free


Paisley Pattern — a colourful weave of words woven into story and song, poetry and playscript. Lemon Tree Writers' Aidan Mulkerrin and Gráinne Smith will introduce the rich tapestry of readings by well-known playwright, poet and performer Janet Paisley, supported by Elaine Kay, John Bolland, Helen Elizabeth Ramsey, Robert McKay Lothian, Robert Ramsay and Morag Skene, with Charlie Styles (harmonica & saxophone).

Official start 7.30 p.m.…come early for good seats and good food!

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.

Elaine Kay

Elaine Kay grew up in Paisley, but has lived in Aberdeen for eleven out of the last twelve years, and justifies the fact that she writes mainly short stories and short poems on the pretext that she works full time and doesn't have time to write anything longer.

John Bolland

John Bolland writes novels, short stories and poetry in English and Scots. Born in Paisley, he has lived in Aberdeenshire since 1984. Much of his work is set in the North-East of Scotland or in the international oil industry.

Helen Elizabeth Ramsey

Helen Elizabeth Ramsey is presently lurching from crisis to crisis and becoming scattier by the day. She is hoping that when the dust settles (literally) at home, and her sense of humour kicks in, the sagas of the last six months will provide oodles of new material. At the moment she is looking back at her time spent working in the woods and walking the tightrope between autobiography and fiction.

Robert McKay Lothian

Robert McKay Lothian is a regular on the North-East writing scene. His unusual take on life is manifested in his short fiction and poetry. Parallel universes, scheming giraffes, miniature witches; what is he on?

Robert Ramsay

Robert Ramsay is from Angus, has been a philistine, engineer and farmer. As retirement looms he is discovering the arts: writing poetry and such.

Morag Skene

Morag Skene was born and brought up in the North-East of Scotland. She even lives in a lovely, traditional North-East farmhouse with a huge garden, just outside Peterhead, which she would really enjoy if she was ever there. Unfortunately, Morag's interests in writing, dancing, drama, her wee grandaughter, jazz and making a fool of herself singing on open mic nights, mean she has to drag herself into the big bad city of Aberdeen far too often!

Charlie Styles

Charlie Styles had a music lesson in 1958 and, after years of practice acquired a job as lead alto sax with a 4 piece band at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen. He then moved on to play with the Fred Cowie Band at the Douglas Hotel. In 1968 Charlie decided to take a gap year, which lasted until 1999, when, having decided to give up the fags he could afford to buy and study the mouth organ. Eventually, in 2005 he gained a place with the Aberdeen Jazz Orchestra. Sadly, in 2006 he was diagnosed with terminal Old Timers Disease.


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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