THEATRE Stellar Quines and the Glasgow Women’s Library are to launch a "Play Amnesty" to showcase female playwriting talent.
Both organisations are asking people to donate copies of plays and scripts written by women that have been published, produced and/or performed for a new drama shelf. Plays are being sought from writers of all backgrounds, cultures and nationalities.
Glasgow Women’s Library is particularly keen to "receive plays that have a female focus, or strong roles for women, and writing from the Trans community and Women of Colour." Plays not written in the English language are also being welcomed.
Scripts can be posted to or dropped off at Glasgow Women’s Library or donated at one of the Amnesty Drop Off points including: Stellar Quines or Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Playwright’s Studio or Tron Theatre, Glasgow; Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee and Shetland Arts, Shetland.
stellarquines.co.uk
JOURNALIST and broadcaster Andrew Marr will chair the jury for the 2017 Forward Prizes for Poetry, which will be awarded at the Royal Festival Hall on September 21. His fellow jurors will be the artist Chris Riddell, the scholar Sandeep Parmar and poets Mona Arshi and Ian Duhig.
Past winners of the prize include Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, Ted Hughes and, in 2016, Vahni Capildeo, Tiphanie Yanique and Sasha Dugdale.
Awards are made in three categories for poetry published between October 2016 and September 2017 and honour both established names and new voices. The three prizes are £10,000 for Best Collection, £5,000 for Best First Collection and £1,000 for Best Single Poem and the judges will also be choosing poems to feature in the 26th annual Forward Book of Poetry, published on the eve of the prizes in September 2017.
The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem is now open to online journals and web-only publications alongside traditional printed poetry magazines.
forwardartsfoundation.org
INDEPENDENT Venue Week, running from Monday to Sunday, January 29 has gigs taking place across eleven Scottish venues in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow and Paisley.
The project, which is staged nationally, will see venues from across the whole country hosting special shows throughout the week.
The participating venues in Scotland are Krakatoa in Aberdeen; Beat Generator Live! in Dundee; Electric Circus, Leith Depot, La Belle Angele and Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh; Warehouse in Falkirk; Broadcast, The Glad Café and The Hug & Pint in Glasgow, and The Bungalow in Paisley.
The week will see performances from Frightened Rabbit, Admiral Fallow, C Duncan, Modern Studies and Martha Ffion among others. This is the first year Creative Scotland has partnered in the venture.
independentvenueweek.com
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