wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 4
Tuesday 19 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
(...trucks never sleep: or hurt: I do...)
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Tuesday 19 May
8pm
The Tunnels, Aberdeen
Sharp-tongued radical poetry and hard hitting political songs
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Wednesday 20 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Thursday 21 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Friday 22 May
4pm
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
Listen to lighthouse poetry performed by Writer in Residence Knotbrook Taylor and
local school children
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Friday 22 May
7.30pm
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Beyond Our Kennel: Innovative stand-up comic poetry
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Saturday 23 May
11am
Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen
A workshop with John Hegley
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Sunday 24 May
8pm
St James Episcopal Church, Stonehaven
World premiere of John Hearne's English translation of the Swedish text by Bengt
Pohjanen
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Week 5
Monday 25 May
7pm
Tarts and Crafts, Balmedie
Join us on our flights of fancy, and prepare to have your feathers ruffled
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Tuesday 26 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
T.S. Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield, Jingling Geordie Keith Armstrong, and John
Mackie's Infinite Equation #2
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Wednesday 27 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Poems and songs on the theme of leaving and returning home
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Thursday 28 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Makar Poets breeze into Aberdeen
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Friday 29 May
7.30pm
Crown Terrace Methodist Church, Aberdeen
An Aberdeen Writers' Circle bi-annual event
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Saturday 30 May
1pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
The author will be signing copies of his new book
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Saturday 30 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Let Hitler do his worst — Aberdeen's fishwives show him they have the guts
to cope
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Sunday 31 May
3pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Koo Press Poetry Roadshow with Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson and Douglas W. Gray
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Attila the Stockbroker and David Rovics
Sharp-tongued radical poetry and hard hitting political songs
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Tuesday 19 May 2009
8pm – 10pm
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The Tunnels, Aberdeen [Map]
Admission £5
No booking required
The Attila the Stockbroker / David Rovics Anglo-American alliance was founded in
2002; their first UK tour together was such a success that they've continued to
join forces. On the surface their styles are very different — David's a superficially
gentle American singer-songwriter in the tradition of Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie,
Attila a loud, wild, punk rock performance poet/songwriter in the tradition of Hilaire
Belloc and Joe Strummer! But their message is the same: their words breathe fire
at the bastards who are destroying our world, against the warmongers' axis, against
globalisation, fascism and gormless TV consumer ‘celebrity’ culture.
The exact opposite of the mainstream idea of an Anglo-American alliance!
Not long ago Damon All Bran of Blur posed the question; where are the protest singers?
Here they are! Support on the night comes from local acoustic guitar-picker Fiona
Keenan.
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Attila the Stockbroker: This social surrealist poet and songwriter's topical
themes, hard-hitting words, and unashamedly radical politics will make you roar
with laughter as well as seethe with anger. Attila has spent the last 28 years performing
his work across the world — 23 countries at the last count. He's created his
own global network, organises most of his own gigs and is very proud to have earned
a living as a poet since 1982.
See www.attilathestockbroker.com
for more.
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David Rovics has been called the musical voice of the progressive movement
in the US. Since the mid-90s, Rovics has spent most of his time on the road, playing
hundreds of shows every year across the world, regularly sharing the stage with
the likes of Noam Chomsky and Billy Bragg, among others. More importantly, he's
really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, and he will make the
revolution irresistible.
See www.davidrovics.com
for more.
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Dublin-born Fiona Keenan made Aberdeen her home in 2002, and has been bringing
her own brand of radical songwriting to stages across the UK and Ireland ever since,
most notably to the Raise Your Banners Festival of Political Song in Bradford
in 2007.
See www.fionakeenan.com
for more.
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