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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John Hegley
Beyond Our Kennel: Innovative stand-up comic poetry
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen [Map]
Admission £11 (concessions £9) + 10% booking fee
Tickets available from
Aberdeen Box Office (01224 641122)
Yabba-Daberdeen! Here comes Hegley's word-wild song and poem spectacle with a very
experienced but unjaded performer in his own clothes. Over 7s welcome for much mirth,
one mandolin and some melancholy. No hamsters. His new show, Beyond Our Kennel,
includes communal dog development, fig rolls of the imagination and the tortoise
enigma.
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John Hegley worked as a bus conductor and a social security clerk until he
attended university, after which he set up two children's theatre groups. In 1980
he entered the notoriously tough comedy circuit, getting his first notable exposure
in 1984 on John Peel's Popticians.
Hegley is a regular sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival. He has performed at the
Montreal Comedy Festival, the USA Comedy Festival in Aspen, with Ulrika Jonsson
and Anita Dobson in The Pyjama Game and on BBC Radio 4's Hearing With Hegley.
John Hegley is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets
with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name.
See www.johnhegley.co.uk
for more.
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