27 June - Sunday

  • Owl & Lion Gallery 10am 'The City and the Book' Bookbinding Workshop

    Edinburgh is an inspiring city, whether you’re looking up at its towering walls of granite or down at the well-worn cobbles beneath your feet. This bookbinding session will begin with a walk through the city as you search for inspiration, capture everyday sights, and hunt after ephemera. Once you’ve created a ‘visual diary,’ you’ll head back to the studio to make these stories and ideas into artists’ books. Artists’ books come in all shapes and sizes. You’ll be able to experiment with different binding techniques and turn sketches into mono prints. You’ll also explore free form printing of type, and how this can introduce fonts into your work, by typesetting and printing on a small Adana Press.

  • Peter Bell Books 11.30am Miriam Gamble and Jay Bernard

    Miriam Gamble’s first full collection, The Squirrels Are Dead, is published by Bloodaxe this year. She has a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007, after which her pamphlet, This Man’s Town, was published by tall-lighthouse. She will be joined by Jay Bernard (also on Friday night), for some poetry to get your day off to a swing. Why not meet us for a quick breakfast at 11am in Peter Bell’s neighbouring café, The Coffee Mill?

  • Main Point Books 1pm textualities.net Concise Ceilidh

    Broonsday at Main Point. Come along and brunch (concisely). Listen up to Nick-e Melville and Rodney Relax. Launch Anita Govan’s Bare to the Bone cd into the West Port ether. Many more poets yet to be announced. Please note, we are still awaiting the result of last year’s Samuel Beckett look-alike competition.

  • The Lot 3pm Classics afternoon

    All events take place at THE LOT. There will be a bar and 10 minute breaks between events. We hope that most people will stay for the afternoon, but if you’d like to come for only one or two events you’re also welcome.

  • The Lot 3.15pm Michael Scott: From Democrats to Kings

    Michael Scott is a Cambridge academic, author, commentator, TV personality and ‘a real life Indiana Jones’, at least according to that august organ, The Sunday Mirror. His research focuses on the ancient history and archaeology of the Greek and Roman worlds, and for this event he will be talking about the importance of the ancient Greek world for the 21st century and particularly about the 4th century bc, the pivotal period from the fall of Athenian democracy to the rise of Alexander the Great. michaelcscott.com

  • The Lot 4pm Roger Rees: Ted Hughes and the Classics

    Roger Rees held lecturing posts in Classics at Newcastle, Trinity Dublin, and Edinburgh before moving to St Andrews University in 2006. He has published variously on aspects of Roman history and Latin literature, including in 2009 an edited volume called Ted Hughes and the Classics for Oxford up. Hughes himself was not a classicist, but found lifelong inspiration in the texts and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

  • The Lot 4.45pm The Irish Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate

    Catch up with the Roman poet, Catullus, as we welcome back Irish writer, Ronan Sheehan, editor of The Irish Catullus, and author and contributor, Mia Gallagher. The Irish Catullus is an innovative work-in-progress that draws on the skills of some seventy-five writers, from promising university students to leading writers in their field. Ronan will be introducing this beast of a project, whilst consummate performer, Mia, will be showing us what Dublin street slang and Catullus have in common.

  • Roxy Art House 8pm Party!
    Live music from Deserters Deserve Death and friends from 8.30pm— 11pm. Shambolic conversation and ambient music from 11pm onwards. Open mic readings. Everyone welcome! Free entry. No tickets required.
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