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THURSDAY 25 JANUARY 2018 – BURNS DAY
Featuring Burns’s most popular works – including Tam O’Shanter, Tae a Mouse, Tae a Louse, Address to a Haggis – Oor Rabbie is the perfect introduction to the life and works of Rabbie Burns for everyone aged 7 and over.
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FRIDAY 26 JANUARY 2018
Folk-noir balladeer Rachel Sermanni’s work has been described as ‘Stately, Poetic, Rooted in the Traditional’ (Clash) and she cites Burns as an inspiration. But her work is also contemporary, with grungy guitars providing the foil for her rich and poetric lyrics.
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SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2018
Five poets respond critically, wittily, whimsically and bitingly to a Burns poem of their choosing. Featuring Liz Lochhead, Billy Letford, Harry Giles, Iona Lee and Andrew Blair, hosted by Jenny Lindsay.
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SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2018
“Scotland’s favourite avante-garde noise makers” (The Skinny) present a Burns Night like no other. Line up will include A L Kennedy, Carla J Easton & Band, SHHE (formerly Panda Su) and Kevin Williamson and the Kixx Collective. Expect an eclectic mix of musicians and poets, haggis, veggie haggis and nips of Arran Whisky.
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SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018
Join Zoom Club for a pop-up digital art workshop responding to themes of Scottish identify through projection mapping artwork, mirroring the work of artist Calum Colvin. Films will be uploaded to the Zoom Club and Burns Unbroke website.
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SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018
Rough Cut brings you Gavin Paul’s intimate portrait of an unfamiliar Burns for the 21st century.
Premiered to critical acclaim on the 2010 Fringe, Robert Burns: Rough Cut is based on Donald Smith’s controversial novel ‘Between Ourselves’. Recreating Burns’s lost (or unwritten) diaries it tells the story of his short, but pivotal stay in Edinburgh. Robert Burns’s six months in the capital saw him at full creative stretch, but in crisis and contradiction. Robert Burns: Rough Cut presents the man behind the myth.
Robert Burns: Rough Cut was shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Club Award at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe.
“Raw, punchy and a universe away from shortbread tins”
★★★★ – The List
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SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2018
At times witty, controversial and tender, Calum Colvin’s images are presented alongside poems in response by poet Rab Wilson.
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SATURDAY 3 MARCH 2018
Graham Fagen gives a tour of his exhibition.
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SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2018
Adrian Wiszniewski will be talking about his practice, with a particular focus on the large body of work on Burns he has produced over the years and what he has found so inspiring about the Bard’s life and work.
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SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2018
Artist Brigid Collins and Eddie Small* discuss the concept behind the book ‘For A’That’, illustrated by Collins and edited by Kirsty Gunn alongside Anna Day, Cultural Project Manager for the University of Dundee.
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*Eddie Small lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. He was awarded the Student-led ‘Most Inspirational Teacher at the University’ in May 2016. In 2013 he was awarded the Stephen Fry Award for a project and publication on body donation entitled In Memoriam and subsequently ran a conference on the subject in the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His biography of Mary Lily Walker, Forgotten Visionary of Dundee, was launched in 2013, and his stage-play, Dundee’s Four Marys, has been very successful and has been published too. He wrote (and performed in) ‘Pantomime of Death’ for the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe.
