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Doors Open 19:30
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Sat 30 May
Gnoss | Auditorium
20:00 - 22:00
Doors Open 19:30
Do you think creative writing is not your thing? During this workshop we will practise various ways of finding new texts within existing printed materials. By leaving the process to chance, you will come up with associations that will surprise you. Chance operations deliver the sort of juxtapositions that you would not think of normally and yet make perfect poetic sense.
Over a period of four hours, we will play with words from newspapers, flyers, secondhand books and my ‘Spinning Poetry’ currently on display at Birnam Arts. You will find the process of chance operations liberating when everything else we do is about making choices.
Since graduating with a BA in Sculpture, an MA and MPhil in Visual and Cultural Studies from Edinburgh College of Art, Martine Foltier Pugh has been exhibiting around Edinburgh and Central Scotland. She has written some thirty articles for Art in Healthcare about the artists in their collection and wrote the book Marj Bond about the Scottish colourist artist. She ran a series of poetry workshops as artist in residence in an Edinburgh school.
This workshop is suitable for a range of ages.
The workshop will take the following format:
12.15 - 2.00 first session
2.00 - 2.15 break & discussion
2.15 - 3.45 second session
3.45 - 4.15 rounding up session
We are offering the sessions on a Sliding Scale framework. Please be honest and pay what you can afford.
£5 | I have little to no disposable income
£8 | I have some disposable income
12.15- 2.00 first session
2.00 - 2.15 break & discussion
2.15 - 3.45 second session
3.45 - 4.15 rounding up session
We are offering the sessions on a Sliding Scale framework. Please be honest and pay what you can afford.
£5 | I have little to no disposable income
£8 | I have some disposable income
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Daily | 10 - 4
Welcome to Birnam Arts, a boutique multi-purpose arts, conferencing and entertainment venue.
Pop in to the Foyer Cafe for breakfast, grab a delicious coffee with a selection of our homemade baking or enjoy a light lunch whilst browsing on the free WiFi. Wander upstairs to view the latest of our monthly art exhibitions before visiting the world of Beatrix Potter, or the Gift Shop to purchase a special gift for your loved ones or yourself!
We had not planned to present a hybrid festival, however that changed when one of our main authors tested positive for Covid. I greatly appreciated how the team worked with us to pivot and present remotely in part, making full use of your enhanced video conferencing equipment. As a result, we were able to deliver quite complex events with several elements all showing on screen simultaneously. The audio-visual quality was excellent, and our audiences were delighted that these events could still go ahead, in spite of Covid. The author in question was really pleased that he could join us on screen and remarked that he had not been so well supported in this way at any other festival.
Fiona Ritchie | Birnam Book Festival 2022
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The comfortable and aesthetically pleasing cafe seating attracted praise and provided ideal places for small groups to gather at the tables, enjoying excellent food and drinks! Visitors remarked upon your new signage, now so much easier to navigate to the various rooms within the venue.
Fiona Ritchie | Birnam Book Festival 2022
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