Valerie Gillies

Public Events

January 2008

Treasured Places commission for RCAHMS

A new poem to celebrate the nation’s favourite archive image from the RCAHMS collections.

Till 19th January

Close Closer Closest

Installation with Anna S King in Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the City Art Centre.

31st January

Speaker at the Edinburgh Burns Club

Exhibition of contemporary writers of Scotland and the Indian subcontinent, at the Writers' Museum, Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket, Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

February onwards

A new series of writing workshops for Maggie’s Centre, Edinburgh.

March

The Wych Elm Project

A commission with Savourna Stevenson, composer, for Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh.

Till 28th March

Mists & Monsoons: Contemporary Writers of Scotland and the Indian Sub-continent

Exhibition at The Writers’ Museum, Lady Stair’s Close, Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

April

Collaborative work in Orkney

Work in progress with Rebecca Marr, photographer and Carol Dunbar, artist printmaker.

9th May to 29th June

Exhibition with Marr and Dunbar at Inchmore Gallery, Inverness-shire.

May

Word- University of Aberdeen Writers’ Festival


Summer (date to be announced)

Launch of The Spring Teller book of poems.

Work in progress with Rebecca Marr, photographer and Carol Dunbar, artist printmaker.

Autumn (date to be announced)

Words in the World

Residential event for Lapidus in the Falkland Estate.

20 October

Poetry Reading for Stirling Literary Society