
Northeast poets and Wee Gaitherin trustees will celebrate the work of acclaimed writers living and dead at the launch of a literary Heritage Exhibition at Aberdeen Central Library at 6pm on 5th March 2025.
In advance of World Book Day, the event will mark the launch of a display that charts the many varied and brilliant works of poetry and fiction by Aberdeen and Northeast writers over the last 700 years.
Contemporary Poets, including Hugh McMillan, Shane Strachan, Cáit O'Neill McCullagh, Julie McNeill, Nicola Furrie-Murphy, Neil Young and Lesley Benzie will read their own as well as extracts from some renowned writers of the past from 1320 through to the 21st century.
Accomplished local musicians, David & Gloria Potter, will also entertain with their music and song. Free refreshments and nibbles will be available.
This free event, beginning at 6pm to 7.30pm, showcases a touring exhibition that was drawn together as part of Stonehaven’s annual Wee Gaitherin poetry festival 2024.
To register for this free event: https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=15346808
The Exhibition grew out of its charitable community engagement program and owes its existence to the enormous amount of work generously volunteered by Gloria Potter who curated and organised all the other local writers/artists and local history enthusiasts involved.
In addition to celebrating the long and rich written cultural heritage of the Northeast, this significant legacy exhibition offers a wide array of poetry from the output of workshops with school pupils and all-age workshops held within Stonehaven library, who were hugely supportive partners. Acclaimed local/national present-day writers, including Wee Gaitherin Festival trustees have also contributed their poetry.
For those who missed out on the exhibition during 2024’s summer poetry festival, the tour is providing another wonderful opportunity to see it!
As part of World Book Day, the exhibition will run from 6th March 2025 through to World Book Night on 23rd April 2025 before moving onto its next destination...
‘Our project was made possible thanks to #NationalLottery players’, and we are eternally grateful for the generosity of all our other funders and business sponsors: Aberdeenshire Council, William Syson and Hugh Fraser Foundations, Whittaker Engineering, Macphie Ltd, FirstDrive Cars.