THE FLINT & PITCH REVUE #5

Friday 21 April
19:00-22:00 £6

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Compadres! Come join us for the sole F&P event in fair April! Tis a corker!

JACKIE KAY!

Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. THE ADOPTION PAPERS (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. FIERE, her most recent collection of poems was shortlisted for the COSTA award. Her novel TRUMPET won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. RED DUST ROAD (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the LONDON BOOK AWARD. It was shortlisted for the JR ACKERLEY prize. She was awarded an MBE in 2006, and made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002. Her book of stories WISH I WAS HERE won the Decibel British Book Award. Jackie Kay was named Scots Makar—the National Poet for Scotland—in March 2016.

KEVIN GILDAY!
Kevin P. Gilday is a writer, theatre-maker and spoken word artist from Glasgow, currently residing in Barcelona. He is co-host and curator of spoken word organisation Sonnet Youth. Kevin is an international performer including appearances at the BBC 6 Music Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Toronto Fringe, Wickerman, Belladrum, Lingo (Dublin) and Glastonbury Festivals. He has supported artists such as Saul Williams, Sage Francis and George the Poet. His series of videos created for BBC The Social have been viewed by over 100,000 people worldwide. Kevin’s theatre work includes several hybrid spoken word monologue performances, traditional theatre, experimental work, cabaret and script doctor commissions. This work has been performed in spaces such as The Tron Theatre, St. Luke’s, Eden Court, Lemon Tree, Beacon Arts Centre, Oran Mor, The Arches and Tarragon Theatre (Toronto).

JOSEPHINE SILLARS!
Originally from the Highlands, Josephine Sillars is a musician now living in Glasgow. Over the past few years she has toured throughout Scotland as well as playing in Europe and internationally, in addition to appearing at local festivals such as Belladrum and XpoNorth. After a busy summer of festivals in 2016, including a slot at Sandvikfest – an independent music and arts festival in Sweden – and a main stage slot at ButeFest, Sillars and her band released new song ‘Problems With Power’ on the 10th February 2017 through Traffic Cone Records. Her EP ‘Ripped From The Wire Spine’ is also a storytelling and music show, which has appeared across Scotland in a number of theatres.

CRAIG LITHGOW! (Mummy’s Boy!)

Mummy’s Boy is the new moniker of Edinburgh singer songwriter Craig Lithgow. Craig has been a regular feature at music and live lit showcases for a number of years, notably with Neu! Reekie! Where his former band Emelle were the house band. In Craig’s words, Mummy’s Boy “uses music, words and artwork to explore various themes, including morality, mortality, relationships, and whatever else pickles me.”

Introducing:
KATHARINE MACFARLANE
Katharine Macfarlane’s lyrical poetry is rooted in the history and landscape of Scotland. She is currently the Harpies, Fechters and Quines Slam Champion and the Four Cities Slam Champion 2016. Katharine has recently performed with the Loud Poets in Glasgow, at the Belladrum Festival in Inverness and hosted her first solo show, Home Words, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. Her work has appeared in Untitled, The Grind and The Ogilvie Magazines and has been translated into German as a feature piece in the novel Die Rückkehr der Wale by Isabel Morland.

With regular Revue hosts Jenny Lindsay & Cameron Foster.

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Location

The Bongo Club
66 Cowgate
Edinburgh
EH1 1JX



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