Scotland's Makar, Liz Lochhead, is to headline Spoken and Sung, a fundraiser for the Scottish Poetry Library on June 19.
She will be joined on stage by Edinburgh Makars past and present, Christine De Luca and Ron Butlin. Music will be provided by a cappella choir Rudsambee Company of Singers and money raised will go towards the SPL's building campaign.
The Library is renovating its building to create a modern space where poetry can be enjoyed on the page and in performance. Money raised for the SPL's building will provide more space for books, more places to work, a new large workshop/meeting room and a space for recording the SPL's podcast series.
scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
McOpera, the Glasgow based co-operative of musicians, which has been formed from members of The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, will be performing an all-Schubert programme in both Aberdeen and Glasgow during June. It will be directed by the conductor/violinist, Tobias Ringborg (pictured) who is currently conducting Il Trovatore for Scottish Opera.
They will perform on June 12 at St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen and June 14 at St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow.
McOpera will also perform as part of the Cottier Chamber Project in the world premiere of the original version of Erik Chisholm's one act opera Simoon on June 8 at the The Western Baths, Glasgow.
mcopera.com
A Glasgow-based film maker's debut feature is among three films green lit for production by Creative England in its iFeatures initiative. Hope Dickson Leach's film The Levelling, set against the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods, will be shot later this year. The Levelling will be written and directed by Dickson Leach and produced by Rachel Robey.
The other two films, announced at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, are Lady Macbeth, written by playwright Alice Birch and to be directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O Reilly and Apostasy, co-written by Dan Kokotajlo and Charlotte Wise, to be directed by Kokotajlo and produced by Marcie MacLellan. Each film has a budget of £350,000.
creativeengland.co.uk
A new exhibition telling the 150 year-old-story of the men and women responsible for Scotland's public records opens at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh today.
Recording Angels: Scottish Registrars since 1855 uses previously unseen documents to tell the human story behind the millions of documents that record the lives of every person in Scotland.
In 1865, ten years after civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in Scotland, local registrars formed Association of Registrars of Scotland. The Association is believed to be the oldest society of registrars in Europe.
ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk.
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