Posts Tagged ‘Creative Connections’

Creative Connections Clickimin Comedy

Posted by on July 29th, 2009 1 Comment

As part of Creative Connections 2009 Shetland Arts is staging “Clickimin Comedy”, a stand up comedy night on Friday 7th August at 8.30pm in the Clickimin Centre, Lerwick.
The line up comprises visiting comedians Michael Redmond, Steven Dick and Eilidh MacAskill together with local comedian Les Sinclair and compère Sandy Nelson.
Nelson, himself a stand…

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Creative Connections 2009

Posted by on July 28th, 2009 No Comments

Media release:
Shetland Arts’ Creative Connections… is a marathon, seven-day and night festival, celebrating the contemporary creative culture of Shetland, incorporating four summer schools, cultural and creative visits across the islands, showcase concerts and dances, a specially curated exhibition and an artist residency.  This event is part of Scotland’s Year of Homecoming and takes place

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Diaspora exhibition at Bonhoga Gallery 1 – 31 August 2009

Posted by on July 28th, 2009 1 Comment

Media release:
Shetland Arts is taking part in Homecoming Scotland 2009′s celebrations with Creative Connections Shetland, a programme of summer schools, concerts, events and a residency in August, beginning with the new exhibition, ‘Diaspora’, at Bonhoga Gallery…, Weisdale Mill.  The show runs from 1 – 31 August with a preview on 31 July

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Jen Hadfield on film

Posted by on July 24th, 2009 No Comments

Jen Hadfield won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize with her second collection, NIGH-NO-PLACE. In this short video she reads four poems from the book, beginning with the title-poem ‘Nigh-No-Place’, followed by ‘In the same way’, ‘Daed-traa’, and then ‘Paternoster’, the Lord’s Prayer uttered by a draught-horse. The film shows excerpts from her Wordsworth Trust reading…

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