Festival Programme - The Wee Gaitherin 2024
What's On
- Multiple DatesFri, 10 MayCarron to Mumbai10 May 2024, 19:00 – 21:00Carron to Mumbai, 20 Cameron St, Stonehaven AB39 2HS, UK
- Fri, 24 MayStonehaven Library24 May 2024, 14:00 – 16:00Stonehaven Library, Evan St, Stonehaven AB39 2ET, UK
- Thu, 25 JulBooks and Beans, Aberdeen25 Jul 2024, 18:30Books and Beans, Aberdeen, 22 Belmont St, Aberdeen AB10 1JH, UK
Featured
Rafael Torrubia
They/Them/Their
Rafael Torrubia is an award-winning writer of fiction, history, and things in-between, winner of the Deirdre Roberts poetry prize, and twice shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize. They have published with the National Gallery of Scotland, Jupiter Artland, Corvid Queen and others. Their debut novel The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver is out June 2025, from Gollancz.
Hey, it's OK
Rafael Torrubia
Hey, it’s OK.
We will solve everything for you.
We have constellated you as a perfect set of data points.
Your metrics are impeccable.
We have fed your grandmother’s soup recipes into ChatGPT
and created a better one.
We have 3D scanned your father’s face, and a recording of his
voice.
You can think of it like a ghost, or a friend,
but primarily as a marketing opportunity.
Hey, it’s OK.
We know you are tired.
The algorithm predicts you will continue to be tired for the next
few decades until your tiredness levels decrease sharply.
This will, unfortunately, correlate with an outsourcing of your
essential biological functions.
We realise this may be depressing.
We have created a MidJourney picture which combines all of
your favourite art pieces into one.
It’s purchasable as an NFT, so you can own it forever,
or until the Californian basement it’s stored in sinks underwater.
We hope this will cheer you up.
We know you like scuba diving.
We realise this is taking up your time.
We realise time is short.
Hey, it’s OK
We realise the world is burning
Your adsense data gives cause for optimism, however
it shows an interest in cigars, smoking, backyard barbecues
We believe thinking of the world as your backyard, can create a
fondness for flame.
We have prepared a trajectory for you.
We would like you to think of yourself as a frog, and enjoy the
warm water.
In the interim, you can enter code SUMMERFUN at checkout,
for 5% back.
We really don’t think you should expect any more.
We really don’t.