Mobile Creative Village

The Performance Shack

North East Writers

Mobile Creative Village (photo by Roger Barnett)

As part of the London 2012 Open Weekend in Aberdeen, a team of sculptors, printmakers, poets, filmmakers and skateboarders will take their handmade pop-up creative hub to various sites around the city.

A Peacock Visual Arts Project

The Mobile Creative Village project will consist of a cluster of wooden shacks that will appear at different locations in Aberdeen city centre over the weekend of 23–25 July. Various arts activities will be taking place in these shacks, and one shack, curated by poet/musician Haworth Hodgkinson, will be dedicated to the performing arts.

There will also be a scribbling wall where people can contribute random words and thoughts in and around the theme of the environment. Please visit the shack at any time during the weekend and feel free to contribute to the wall, spend a little time writing, or join in one of the performances.

Performances will take place on the hour at 4pm and 5pm on Friday and from 2pm to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. A more detailed running order will be available at the shack, but you can expect to hear poetry from Grant Fraser, E. E. Chandler, Keith Murray, Gráinne Smith, Steve Webb, Benjy Penman and Catriona Yule, and stories from Rachel Grant, Martin Walsh, Fiona-Jane Brown and Pauline Cordiner.

Friday 23 July 2010
3–6pm
Schoolhill/Belmont Street

4pm
Haworth Hodgkinson (music and poetry)

5pm
Grant Fraser (poetry)

Sat 24 July 2010
1–6pm
Union Terrace Gardens

2pm
UTG musicians

3pm
E. E. Chandler (poetry)
Rachel Grant (story)
Keith Murray (poetry)

4pm
Martin Walsh (story)
Gráinne Smith (poetry)

5pm
Steve Webb (poetry)

Sun 25 July 2010
1–6pm
In front of St Nicholas Centre

2pm
Fiona-Jane Brown (story)

3pm
Benjy Penman (poetry)
Pauline Cordiner (story)

4pm
Catriona Yule (poetry)

5pm
Haworth Hodgkinson (music and poetry)


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