The future’s green
THE STORNOWAY-based Hebridean Celtic Festival is in contention for a major environmental award.
This drive by one of Scotland’s most successful music festivals to minimise its environmental impact has resulted in its becoming one of only two Scottish events among the ten finalists for a UK Greener Festival Award.
But the festival will face competition for the title from Edinburgh’s Meadows Festival, as well as Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festival.
Winners will be announced at the UK Festival Awards in London on 30 November.
A crime not to mention.
ABERDEEN Performing Arts is set to announce the line-up for its crime writing festival, Granite Noir, at a ‘Poisoned Cocktail Party’ in November.
Granite Noir was held in Aberdeen for the first time this February, with authors including Stuart MacBride, Chris Brookmyre, Denise Mina and around 30 others, including many from Norway, Sweden and Denmark to tie in with its “Northern Phenomenon” theme.
This year’s line-up will be officially revealed at His Majesty’s Theatre on November 26 where guests will be treated to some specially concocted cocktails made with Agatha Christie’s favourite “poisons” in mind.
Seeing is believing
A NEW photobook by Scottish photographer Adam Geary is set to be published.
The theme of the book is seeing, and rituals of seeing, are the themes in the book.
Geary considers “A world that is forever changing and fading, in which his attentive eye preserves his
subject, creating pictures of light, fixed in time and memory.”
Blind Faith, it is suggested, reminds us that photographs offer an
interpretation of the world rather than a simple likeness.
www.adamgeary.com/books
Man alive
Man to Man is set to open at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on October 11.
The acclaimed one woman play tells the life story of Ella Gericke, who adopts the identity of her dead husband to survive in 20th Century Nazi Germany.
The production opened to 5 star reviews at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015.
Maggie Bain’s performance in the role has been described as a “tour de force.”
Festival arrival
INVERCLYDE is gearing up for the third Galoshans Festival, Greenock’s three-day celebration of Hallowe’en, which brings together a cultural feast for all to enjoy.
The festival features a programme of exhibitions, performances, street theatre and attractions.
Originally a piece of folk theatre performed in Scotland, the men of the town would dress-up and knock on the doors of houses to perform a play of death and resurrection.
They would be rewarded with sweets and fruits or perhaps money and a wee dram. At Halloween it was said a spirit could pass from the world of the dead to the world of the living, a key time for the play to be performed.
October 27-31.
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