The Bakehouse

Sheila Blackhall

Burns Night at the Bakehouse

Saturday January 21st
7.00pm for 7.30pm

Tickets £8 (£7 concs)
includes a hot toddy
and haggis nibbles

An evening of Rabbie Burns, Love, Death, Spooky Stories and Witchcraft. Sheena is a writer, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller. From 1998-2003 she was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at Aberdeen University’s Elphinstone Institute. This prolific woman has published four Scots novellas, twelve short story collections and over eighty poetry collections! In 2009 she became Makar for Aberdeen & the North East. Sheena will be judging The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2012.

Angus Calder has called Sheena Blackhall a ‘national treasure’. Having heard (her) enthralled, and after reading her work…I agree! Andrew McNeil

This absurdly active one-woman dynamo manages to knock out a remarkable number of collections.. Blackhall brings…vim and vigour to the party… ‘Ode to a Patio’ is a deliciously sardonic attack on suburbia, and ‘Lead Wolf’ warmly recalls a star struck evening with Seamus Heaney.
Edmund O’Connor

In honour of Mr R Burns, the immortal memory will be paid its good and proper due with remedying drink, Scottish snacks and our usual Bakehouse Floor spots. Come all who dare The Fickle Tupperware Bowl of Fate with any suitable or totally unsuitable renditions!

New Successes for Bakehouse

"The Bakehouse is an exciting place to be," says Bakehouse Artistic Director, Chrys Salt, "despite all the cuts and chaos in the arts at the moment."

The ongoing success of Bakehouse readings and workshops has led to another coup for the venue as Book Trust Scotland has supported its planned Winter series of events and readings, “Telling Stories".

The Bakehouse has secured another five funded placements to bring in readers from across Scotland, and as ever The Bakehouse plans to support both national and local figures.

"This is excellent news," says John Hudson who devised the series with his colleagues. "We are building real momentum with these themed series and offering quality events on a monthly basis. It's what people deserve and need despite these somewhat austere times.