DIARY
2024 (scroll down for current dates)
JANUARY
Wednesday 24th:
Off the Rails Writing Group. Fortnightly Wednesdays 6-9pm. A new, rolling, dynamic creative/writing group meeting fortnightly for 5 sessions at Off the Rails Arthouse in Ladybank, Fife. Block One (Jan-Mar) *fully booked*. Block Two commencing April 17th, open to enquiries. info@rebeccajoysharp.com
Wednesday 31st:
Our Ludic Augury: game, story, sustainability. Online (Zoom), 6-8pm GMT. Free - booking required (link below). Supported and presented by the Centre for Energy Ethics (University of St Andrews), with RS + Dr Pauline Souleau. Guest speakers Emily Lord-Kambitsch with Bowen Walker, poet Andy Jackson, and Amanda Yates Garcia (Oracle of LA). Register now – Our Ludic Augury: game, story, sustainability – Zoom, Wed 31 Jan 2024 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (tickettailor.com)
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FEBRUARY
Tuesday 13th:
Games Night: sustainability, agency and risk. University of St Andrews, Hebdomadar's Room, 4-6pm. Free, space limited: please book by emailing pajs1@st-andrews.ac.uk (Dr Pauline Souleau). Presented by the Centre for Energy Ethics, RS + Pauline Souleau. An in-person games night; creative ways of framing climate action and sustainability, embodying some of the concepts addressed by the online event Our Ludic Augury (31 Jan).
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Friday 23rd:
How Do We Talk About Knives - anthology reading event. St Andrews, Fife: Parliament Hall, South Street.
6-8pm. Free, no booking required. Hosted by the Centre for Poetic Innovation (University of St Andrews), Matecznik Press, and Platform Poetry. RS and other poets reading from the anthology: Elodie Laügt, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, and Vahid Davar.
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MARCH
Sunday 10th:
StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival: Braided Poetry: reading and workshop (online). 10.00am – 11.30am | Zoom | from £5.00. Premiere of new braided text written by RS + Monika Szuba, I offer you a needle. Followed by a workshop with RS + Elodie Laügt. Supported by StAnza, the Centre for Poetic Innovation and the Centre for Energy Ethics (University of St Andrews), and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Munich). Details + booking here (Byre Theatre).
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And: Poets for Palestine - online (YouTube) 8.30pm-10pm. Free, with donations to Medical Aid Palestine.
Link provided after booking: https://byretheatre.com/shows/poets-from-palestine/
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Friday 15th:
How Do We Talk About Knives (Matecznik Press) - anthology reading event with Scottish Writers Centre at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Readers RS, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Samina Chaudhry, Carrie Marshall, Ngan Nguyen, Xinyi Jiang, and Christie Williamson. 7pm, free - details + booking here.
APRIL
Saturday 6th:
Byre Theatre, St Andrews: 7.30pm, And the Birds Did Sing by Curious Seed - for the aftershow gathering 'Staying On', RS reads from Long Field Loop - with other invited guests John McCann and Quee MacArthur. Booking here.
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Thursday 11th:
Lapidus Scotland Networking Event: Mitchell Library (Blythswood Room), Glasgow. 6.15pm-7.45pm. RS talking about the anthology project How Do We Talk About Knives, and reading. Details and (free) registration here. In-person and online. Other guest speaker, Elaine Konopka on elemental awareness in writing for wellbeing.
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Monday 15th:
Health of the Sublime in the Mearns: RS leads the first block of poetry + nature writing online classes for this project led by artist Carrie Fertig with Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network (MCHLN) and Creative Scotland. This block fully subscribed. Check the link for later blocks and other strands.
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Wednesday 17th:
Off the Rails Writing Group - Block 2. Fortnightly Wednesdays 6-9pm for 5 sessions (final session 12th June), £160 for all 5 sessions. Previous attendance not required, space available for newcomers.
A rolling, dynamic creative/writing group at Off the Rails Arthouse in Ladybank, Fife. Enquiries + booking : info@rebeccajoysharp.com
Friday 26th:
St Andrews: British Council Scotland / Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities EARTH Scholarship programme. Writing species and multilingualism, RS with Dr Elodie Laügt + Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger.
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Saturday 27th:
Platform Poetry at the Larick Centre, Tayport, Fife. 2pm, £10. Readers RS, and Elodie Laügt + music.
Reservations to beth.mcdonough2@virginmedia.com
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Sunday 28th:
Soutar Festival of Words: workshop, The World Beyond. Perth Art Gallery (PSNS Library Room), 1 - 4pm. £15. Booking required - information here.
MAY
Thursday 23rd:
LONG FIELD LOOP: Launch. Byre Theatre, St Andrews. 6pm. Free, booking required. RS's new collection of poems (Tapsalteerie), written during an 18-month project as Artist-in-Residence with the Centre for Energy Ethics (University of St Andrews). Launch features a special performance with composer/musician Alex South.
Friday 24th:
Forth Fridays at The Book Nook, Stirling, 7pm. How Do We Talk About Knives - anthology published by Matecznik Press, co-edited by RS. Please note RS is *not* reading at this event. Readers include Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Laura T Fyfe. Booking to follow.
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JUNE
Wednesday 5th:
LONG FIELD LOOP: Instytut Kultury Miejskiej, Gdańsk. Information to follow.
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Wednesday 19th:
LONG FIELD LOOP: The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow. With guest readers Stewart Sanderson + MacGillivray. Music with Codrach. Information to follow.
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JULY
Thursday 18th:
LONG FIELD LOOP: with Crail Festival, RS + John Glenday reading. Crail Kirk Hall, 7pm.
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