BIG LIT: The Stewartry’s very own Book Festival packed with a rich feast of literature based events.
April 16th – 19th in Gatehouse of Fleet.
With How to Write Sex – a workshop with Booker Award nominee Michele Roberts ( only one place left on this. Contact [email protected] for info), Michele will also be talking about her latest novel Ignorance. Terry Darlington talking about his Long Dog books and crossing The Channel in a narrow boat with a three legged whippet, Rise, a new post-referendum book from local novelist Karen Campbell, bottling memories in Gatehouse Library with Renita Boyle. Scots singer of the Year Trad Music Awards nominee Gerda Stevenson sings at The Mill with her brand new album, Night Touches Day, Nicola Black sings MacDiarmid, and Rally and Broad’s marvellous spoken word cabaret finale with its unique melange of music, spraffing, spikiness and other assorted nonsense..
There are opportunities for kids to bump into their favourite characters from literature in Cally Woods, Ladies who Launch, candlelit readings with Liz Niven in The Temple a Victoria folly deep in the forest not to mention another Bill Barlow Crazy interactive installation in The Bakehouse Studio, and an opportunity to rub shoulders with everyone from Leonard Cohen to Ivor Cutler in the Murray Arms with one of Galloway’s longest standing pub sessions . All this and much, much more. www.biglit.org
Lots of free events, others as cheap as chips. Something for everyone Look out for more information on The Bakehouse website. www.thebakehouse.info and come join the party on our BIG LIT Long Weekend.
Tickets are available from the Box Office: Mill on the Fleet Tel: 01557 814099
Tickets available in advance or on the day from the Front Desk on the ground floor of the Mill.
The Mill is open daily 10am – 5pm
and from Midsteeple Box Office: Tel: 01387 253383 or online: www.dgboxoffice.co.uk
The Midsteeple is open Tue – Fri: 10am – 4pm, Saturday: 10am – 1.30pm
Further information from The Bakehouse Tel: 01557 814175
