Unique Events
- StAnza, Scotland's Poetry Festival
A brilliant four-five day international event celebrating the best of everything poetic. From contemporary dance choreography to politically charged poems, comedy, songs, visual art and poetry installations on the Reaper - a 100 year old Herring Drifter' fishing boat, last of it's kind. A truly, cross-arts event, with something to inspire the poetry in all of us, taking place every March in St Andrews, a literary capital for Scotland.
I felt very privileged to have experienced and drawn such a diverse, thought provoking and entertaining group of characters and settings. Highlights - having a sip of Mark Strand's (watered down!) whisky, chuckling with Alistair Reid over his arson to his own infamous poem 'Scotland', creasing with giggles at John Hegley and Dean Parkin's performances, singing sea shanties aboard the Reaper and eating Cullen Sklnk with a 'Pirie Moulie Skaar' - a wee bit of roe, I think - with the resident poet/artists was also very memorable.
A selection of my pictures are available to see on their website.
Unique Events
- Carrbridge Live Festival 2006
A five-day festival in September covering all sorts
of performance, music and arts.
Highlights for me of this particular festival were the
variety and talent on show from the likes of the
traditional musicians like Charlie McKerron, Tim
Edey and Mark Clement, Gaelic singing and step
dance, an array of local up and coming talent on
the Musicworx stage, jazz on the Sunday afternoon
and the spectacular and fantastical carnival parade
on the Saturday night with lanterns,stilt walkers,
fire breathers, fire spinners, giant weird and
wonderful brightly coloured paper creatures,
dragons and fish, all accompanied by brass
and deep drum beats of the Samba musicians
involved.
Unique Events
- World Porridge Making Championships 2006
Contrary to what you might think, this was a day of
non-stop entertainment, from the belly dancers and
clowns that wound their way through the Farmers
Market and craft tents, the Great Porridge Fun run
to the parade through town heralded by The Badenoch
& Strathspey Pipe Band while toasting with drams of
Caledonian Cream, the Feis Spe Ceilidh Band to the
‘Ready, Steady, Cook!’ type panic of the 3 half hour
heats before the finals in traditional and speciality
porridge ‘cook offs’.
This really is a unique and very enjoyable day out
for anyone interested in good wholesome creative
and tasty entertainment in Scotland.
Unique Events
- Varied Events from 2006 - 2007
