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| DIARY OF EVENTS
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| FUTURE: |
| Hungarian Anthology |
Budapest translator/editor Dabí Istvan
is
preparing a Magyar anthology of world
poetry The selection will include work
by Douglas Lipton
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| PAST: EVENTS, BROADCASTS & EXHIBITIONS |
| New Paintings & Drawings |
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
March-April 1985
Paintings and drawings by Keith McIntyre, poems by Douglas Lipton. |
| The Muscle in my Head |
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
September-October 1989
Block prints by Kenny Morrison, poems by Douglas Lipton. |
| Scottish Beasts |
Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Gracefield
Studios, Dumfries
June 1991
A dramatised reading of The Flora and Fauna of an Independent Scotland,
directed by Hazel Lipton. |
| Songs for the Falling Angel - a requiem
for Lockerbie |
Edinburgh International Festival [with SAC
and STV] at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, and the Crichton Memorial Church,
Dumfries
August 1991
Artist: Keith McIntyre, composer: Karen Wimhurst, Libretto: Douglas Lipton,
Choral Director: Ian McCrorie, Choir: The Scottish Festival Singers, soloists:
Frances Lynch, Steve Kettley, Mary Ann Kennedy, Sarah Watson. |
| Songs for the Falling Angel - a requiem
for Lockerbie |
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
11 December 1991 and 24 January 1992
Details as above. |
| Out of Love |
BBC Radio 4 'Kaleidoscope'
21 December 1991
On the Lockerbie Tragedy. Robert Dawson-Scott [presenter], Mike Greenwood
[producer]. |
| Songs for the Falling Angel - a requiem
for Lockerbie |
ITV/STV
22 December 1991
Directed by Alastair Scott, produced by Donny O'Rourke |
| Songs for the Falling Angel |
Loreburne Shopping Centre, Unit 10
May 1992
Paintings, prints and sculpture by Keith McIntyre |
| Poems made Manifest |
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
July 1992
Poems on a Postcard. |
| Dedication to the Memorial Cairn |
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia,
USA
3 November 1995
Dedication of the cairn given by the Lockerbie Air Disaster Trust to the
United States of America. |
| 'The Golden Door' |
Moffat Youth Theatre, Moffat, Dumfriesshire
21 March 1997
David Ashton; and Children of the Andes. Play and charity poetry-reading,
directed by Ericka Hulle. |
| Flights of Fancy |
Dumfries Museum
5 April 1998
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Mr McFall's Chamber, with Dumfries & Galloway
Arts Association - community project workshops with Karen Wimhurst [composer],
SCO musicians and Frances Lynch [soprano]. |
| Wigtown Book Town Launch |
Wigtown
16 May 1998 |
| Spiralling Aspirations |
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
November 2000
Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association/Rites of Passage/NSF Scotland
- combined arts project. |
| Spirit of Greatness |
The Writers' Museum, Lady Stair's House, Edinburgh
7 July- 3 November 2001
An exhibition celebrating the work of Dumfries & Galloway writers,
past and present. (City of Edinburgh Council, Department of Recreation
- Heritage
& Arts Design Section/Dumfries & Galloway Council/Gaelforce 2001).
Curated by John Hudson. |
| Spirit of Greatness |
Royal Festival Hall, Poetry Library, South
Bank, London - 14th May-30th June 2002 |
| Solway Fire |
John Hudson's hour-long film about five writers
from south-west Scotland was premiered on 19th March 2002 at Dumfries & Galloway
Arts Festival's 2002 launch. It was subsequently
shown at the Royal Festival Hall Poetry Library, in London's South Bank
(in association with the Spirit of Greatness exhibition). The film - available
on CD-Rom - features novelist Sian
Hayton, and poets, John Manson, Josephine Neill, William Neill and Douglas
Lipton. |
| Feral Choir |
'Six of the Best' - a presentation of writers' work, including
Douglas Lipton, for the Feral
Choir (Ali Burns) "Timeless" project - at St Ninian's Church Hall,
Castle Douglas, on 14th April 2002.
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| Feral Choir - "Timeless" |
Ali Burns's
choral work,
"
Timeless" was
performed in
Castle Douglas (Wallet's Mart),
Wigtown
(Bladnoch Distillery), Whithorn, Mossdale
Village Hall,
Kirkgunzeon Church and Ay-Jay's Cafe
(Crichton
University Campus, Dumfries) between
June and
September 2004.
It featured work by
Douglas Lipton
- as well as Angus MacMillan,
Josephine
Neil, Liz Niven, Cally Phillips and Tom Pow.
Other material
was produced by Elizabeth Burns,
Tony Bonning,
Mary Haskins and Bertie Fritsch
(soundscapes
and engineering). Along with the
Feral Choir
were soloist Janet Russell and reader
Christine
Blyth. |
| Scottish Poetry Library - Poetry Map of Scotland |
The SPL launched its Poetry Map of Scotland
on St Andrew's Day 2004 The 'Map' features
two poems by Douglas Lipton: Wolves
and Songs for
the Falling Angel. |
| Holyrood Poetry Link Scheme |
Douglas Lipton was partnered with Dumfries
MSP Elaine Murray for the second
phase of the Scottish Poetry Library's Holyrood
Poetry Link scheme, pairing a poet with a 'local' MSP. This phase ran throughout
the Spring of 2005,
culminating in a launch event at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on
29th March 2005, as part of the Parliament building's Easter Open House
Week. Douglas Lipton's poem - "The Canny Moment" - a celebration
in Scots of
Elaine Murray's and his adoptive town, Dumfries - appears on the SPL's
website, the MSP's website and as e-cards sent by her with correspondence.
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| 60/60 |
13th August
2005 - S.W. Scotland
launch, at The Bakehouse in Gatehouse of Fleet, of this anthology
commemorating the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- with Christine De Luca, Brent Hodgson, John Hudson, J B Pick and Chrys
Salt - and with Chris Ballance (MSP), Shaun Burnie (Greenpeace) and Anne
Clarke (SCND). |
| National Poetry Day 2005 |
6th October - Reading
for DGAA (Dumfries& Galloway Arts
Association)
in Lockerbie Library with Rab Wilson |
| MARKINGS Magazine 10th Anniversary |
29th October 2005 at
'The Bakehouse' in Gatehouse-of-Fleet (Kirkcudbrightshire)
Douglas Lipton read with Gerry Loose,
Angus
Macmillan, Josephine Neill and
Liz
Niven to help celebrate the 10th birthday of John Hudson's (ed.) burgeoning arts
magazine. |
| The Bakehouse |
Douglas Lipton
was guest reader at The Bakehouse in
Gatehouse-of-Fleet on 28th January
2006. [For more information on this remarkable literary
venue and venture, telephone: 01557 814196, or email
Chrys Salt at: chryssalt@aol.com.] |
SHOW SCOTLAND 2006 & WANLOCKHEAD
MINER'S LIBRARY 250th
ANNIVERSARY |
Over the weekend of 29th April-1st May 2006,
a series of
Creative Writing Workshops and associated events was held in Scotland's
highest village. Douglas Lipton led a workshop for children with local
connections on Monday 1st May. |
| POETRY DOUBLES |
DGAA concluded its 2006 season
of Poetry
Doubles events with
a reading by Kathleen Jamie and Douglas Lipton at the Robert
Burns Centre Film Theatre on 18th September |
| STIRLING CENTRE OF POETRY |
Douglas Lipton read at SCoP - an
off-shoot of the University of
Stirling's English Department - on 17th October 2006.
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| PEACE POEMS |
Throughout September 2007, windows
in the High Street of
Gatehouse-of-Fleet in Galloway displayed poems for world
peace, including one by Douglas Lipton. This project was
co-ordinated by The Bakehouse, and by Markings magazine
in issue 25 of which many submitted poems are featured. |
| SAC SCOTS POEM OF THE MONTH |
In
November 2007, 'bird' extracts from Douglas Lipton's "The Flora and Fauna
of an Independent Scotland" were selected by the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL)
for inclusion in this monthly feature. The archive can be found at:
http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/scots/poemofthemonth/archive/aspx |
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