The Bakehouse

DONNY O’ROURKE
Saturday February 27th
7.00 for 7.30

Donny has overlapping careers as TV producer, broadcaster, journalist, academic and poet. Performances attract rave reviews at festivals, in community settings, schools and universities and cabaret, live, on television, radio and CD. With nearly a score of books to his name Donny has garnered praise, prizes and professorships both at home and overseas. Most recently he edited 'Dream State: The New Scottish Poets' and has just published his much acclaimed ninth collection, 'Blame Yesterday', a mini musical in monologues. A CD, 'Cafe Europa', featuring his lyrics and the music of Swiss group Morgain was launched in Bern in January 2010. He is an Honorary Fellow of Glasgow University where he teaches Film and Creative Writing.
What the critics say….

'Wit, warmth and wisdom…', 'instant intimacy',
'…the lore and learning of an urban seannachie',
'Celtic bardicism meets supper- club sophistication'

Followed by our usual Bakehouse Floor spots

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

Scotland Celebrates Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell was one of poetry's heroes. The Bakehouse and Markings are proud to publish poetry to celebrate his life.The anthology has an introduction by Edwin Morgan and poems by many of Scotland’s leading poets, including Carol Ann Duffy, WN Herbert, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead, as well as poems from friends such as Paul McCartney, Bernard Kops, Michael Horovitz and Pete Brown. Read More

Burns Night at the Bakehouse

The Bakehouse held its now traditional Burns’ Night on Saturday 23rd January with engaging and informative performances from Dumfries based poets Josephine Neill and Douglas Lipton.
The venue for poetry in Gatehouse of Fleet offers an alternative take on the traditional Burns’ Supper, cutting away the layers of ceremony and formality but letting good Scots poetry, haggis – generously sponsored by Carson’s of Dalbeatie - and whisky shine through.

Markings 29

Poetry: Aonghas Macneacail, Abigail Zammit, Ian Hunter, Heather Reid, Alan Franks, Gerda Stevenson, Hugh Mcmillan. Fiction: Kate Hendry, David Mcvey, John Murray, N Quentin Woolf, Amy Mason, Morelle Smith. Art: Elizabeth Waugh at 80, Jan O’Highway and Bones, plus reviews, tributes, interviews.

£7.00

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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre returns to the Crichton for a third year

June 22nd and 23rd @ 7.30 with a matinee on June 23rd @ 2.30
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre brings their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Crichton Campus
Booking information is not yet available, but watch this space. More.