The Bakehouse

September 25th @ 7.30
The Poetry of Middlesbrough poet Andy Croft
(Poet and Editor of Smokestack Books)
with local poet Jean Atkin reading from her newly published poetry pamphlet
The Treeless Region (Pub: Ravenglass Poetry Press)

October 30th @ 7.30
A GAELFORCE EVENT
Brian Johnstone in performance with Trio Verso,
a jazz/improv & poetry group

November 27th @ 7.30
The poetry of Adam Horovitz

Tickets £7.50 (£6.00 concs) includes a glass of wine.
To book ring 01557 814175 or email bookings@thebakehouse.info or chrys@chryssalt.com

Globe attracts record audiences to the Crichton.

For the third year running Shakespeare’s Globe brought their band of players to The Crichton Campus, with their imaginative touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It attracted the biggest audience yet, to the site.

“We had a record turn-out” said Chrys Salt, Artistic Director of the Bakehouse, the organisation responsible for bringing the Globe to Dumfries ‘the audience numbered around 1600, including 300 kids from schools across the region. We even attracted one school from Cumbria”

Award Nomination
The Bakehouse, along with its corporate sponsor the Crichton Development Company have been nominated for a prestigious Scottish Arts and Business Award for our work in bringing Shakespeare's Globe to the region in 2009.

This is our second nomination. We were nominated in 2008 with our sponsors Bibliographic Data Services. Among the competition this year is is The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and their sponsors Standard Life. Anyone fancy running a book..?

Awards
John Hudson has been awarded a prestigious Writing Bursary by The Scottish Arts Council to finish his new collection 'Earth'.

Readings
Chrys Salt will be reading her work in Edinburgh on three dates over the summer.

Thursday August 19th @ 1.00pm
Three of a Kind @ The WordPower Bookshop 43-45 Nicholson Street
With Tessa Ransford and Pauline Prior Pitt.

August 20th and 21st @ 4.00pm
The Golden Thread of Poetry @ The Chapel, St John's Church, West end of Princes Street
With Tessa Ransford, Pauline Prior-Pitt and Stephen Watts

Chrys will also be reading with Stewart Conn at the Wigtown Book Festival in September (Date TBA)