From 6th - 11th August, we’re bringing you
once more a gorgeous selection of local, UK and international artists. In
venues and streets across Edinburgh, there’ll be workshops, performances, games
and surprises. Come along. Make beautiful words happen.
Science and Poetry
Monday 6th August
, 6.30 –
8.30 pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread Street
, FREE
A relaxed set of readings
exploring the many worlds of science through sparkling spoken word. Featuring
local poets Anne Connolly and Anna Dickie, alongside the debut performance of
Sarah, the Poetic Robot, a brand new invention from Herriott-Watt, who’ll be
performing with Ruth Aylett.
Rejection!
Tuesday 7th August
, 2.30 – 4.30
pm
Provenance Wines, 39 Home Street,
FREE
A special Inky Fingers workshop for
all comers, where writers and performers from the professional to the amateur
will be sharing the work that’s been rejected time and again. Part comedy show,
part therapy, part rant, part workshop: email inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com
to take part!
Ash Dickinson
Tuesday 7th
August,
6.30-8.30pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread Street
, FREE
A special one-off
show from Ash Dickinson. A multiple slam champion in the UK, Ash Dickinson has
also performed in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. One of the most
in-demand spoken word performers in the country, his debut collection, “Slinky
Espadrilles”, was released in May. www.ashdickinson.com
Jubilate Agno with James McKay
Wednesday
8th August
, 2.30 – 4.30pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread Street
, FREE
A unique durational
performance from UK spoken word artist James McKay, who’ll be reciting a
psychadelic free verse extravaganza written in a lunatic asylum by
eighteenth-century poetry pioneer and religious maniac Christopher Smart. Stay
for the whole show or just drop in to revel in the language – either way,
expect extraordinary lucidity and sudden tragic insight
The Inky Fingers Open Mic
Wednesday 8th
August
, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread Street,
FREE
The Fringe
edition of the famous Inky Fingers Open Mic, Edinburgh’s long running platform
for people who love words. Come along to here the best and strangest collection
of spoken word aroun – or email inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com
to take part yourself! Featuring a surprise special best from the cream of the
Fringe
Summerhall’s Festival Club
Wednesday 8th
August
, 10pm – midnight
Summerhall
, FREE
Inky Fingers takes over the stage at
Summerhall’s Festival Club, to bring you a selection of the best spoken word
around. Tonight featuring local star Colin McGuire, alongside experimental
texts from Sean Burn and brilliant new verse from Lynsey Calderwood
Personal Poetics, a Workshop with Nick
Field
Thursday 9th August,
2.30 – 4.30pm
Provenance Wines, 39 Home Street
, FREE
This
workshop for poets and writers explores ways of bringing the personal into
their work, and relating and performing stories from direct experience through
different aspects of spoken word. Through a number of practical exercises participants
can try out using different forms and experiment with blending them to tell a
story in a new and unexpected way and create a piece that is as personal and
unique as the story they are relating. Nick Field is a major writer and spoken
word artist who draws on theatre and live art to create evocative, bittersweet
and richly lyrical performance pieces. He has performed at major events,
festivals and venues internationally.
Octavius Launch
Thursday 9th August,
6.30 –
8.30pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread Street
, FREE
Octavius is a new literary
magazine for students in Scotland. Come to Pulp Fiction for readings from some
of the fantastic writers in our début issue, as well as for drinks and nautical
novelties (may contain hidden treasure) This will be the very first chance to
get your hands on a copy of the first issue of Octavius (including new,
previously unseen artwork, exclusively designed for the magazine by the amazing
Roberto Poliri).
Summerhall’s Festival Club
Thursday 9th
August,
10pm – midnight
Summerhall
, FREE
Inky Fingers takes over the stage at
Summerhall’s Festival Club, to bring you a selection of the best spoken word
around. Tonight featuring visiting star Nick Field, alongside performances from
local talent Matt McDonald and Telfer & Treeby
Death Doulas, a workshop with Rebecca
Green
Friday 10th August
, 2.30 – 4.30pm
Provenance Wines, 39 Home Street
, FREE
A
spoken word workshop exploring becoming a midwife to the dying – using
relaxation, visualisation and storytelling, we’ll find new ways to relate to
and talk about death, and a calm, creative escape from the wildness of the
Fringe. Email inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com
to take part.
Ross Sutherland, Emergency Window Book
Launch
Friday 10th August,
6.30 – 8.30pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread
Street
, FREE
Join poet Ross Sutherland and indy publisher Penned in the Margins
for the launch of Emergency Window. Welcome to a science fiction reality of
mirrors, windows and menacing simulacra –where nothing is as it seems.
Sutherland interrogates the language of authenticity, presenting the poet as an
anxious, disorientated collaborator trapped in a world of hacked computers.
Emergency Window features a hilarious version of Little Red Riding Hood, a poem
written using Google Streetview, sonnets inspired by Street Fighter 2, and
computer-generated translations of classic literature. www.rosssutherland.co.uk
Are We Asking For It?
Saturday 11th
August,
2.30 – 4.30pm
Somewhere in Edinburgh
, FREE
A score for passers-by, a
performance for an unknown audience. A piece of guerilla spoken word theatre,
Are We Asking For It? explores the relationship between art, language and
communities of protest. Mary Paterson is an artist and curator based in London,
whose varied and various works have been seen at festivals across the world. www.marypaterson.tumblr.com
Wunderkabinett: A Spoken Word Variety
Saturday 11th August, 8 – 10.30pm
Pulp Fiction Books, 43 Bread Street
, FREE
Collected
together and presented to you, Cabinet finds the beautiful and obscure and
presents them to you ‘on the shelf’ channeling the Victorian cabinet of
curiosities, the German wunderkabinett. A mixture of song, spoken word and
performance art, Cabinet presents local performers and artists exploring new
content, and invites participation from the community. Wunderkabinett is an
evening to launch Cabinet within Edinburgh, with performance art, puppetry, and
ukulele ballads and many more surprises.
