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Account for Online Gray Symposium, April 2021, 2nd Int. Gray Conference, June 2022 & Int. AG Research Network. Convener @rodgeglass Tweeting all things Gray.
Joined June 2019
Here it comes, the 3rd annual GRAY DAY, this year focusing on POOR THINGS, Gray's Glasgow Frankenstein reimagining featuring his feminist hero Bella Baxter. Hosted at Oran Mor by @AGrayArchive & with likes of @chitgrrl @maclavertyb & @scribepedersen, details here here here!
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Pls RT! There's always a 20% discount from @LivUniPress but for 5 DAYS ONLY there's 50% DISCOUNT on my book MICHEL FABER: THE WRITER & HIS WORK link below. If you're interested in Faber or my work but usually the book would be out of your range then ↘️↘️ https://t.co/nfn9hPMiPT
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Alasdair Gray added to the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, alongside writers such as Deborah Orr and M.C. Beaton, also folks from all walks of Scottish life:
Pls RT: From @heraldscotland dozens of Scots added to Oxford Dictionary of Biography. Alongside Bashir Maan, Hugh McIlvanney & Deborah Orr, I've written the entry for Alasdair Gray. Some challenge, getting him in 4500 words! But glad to see him recognized: https://t.co/s2AkERp3id
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Not too late to sign up for this Gray-tastic hybrid session w. hugely talented @mariaxrose who responded to last year's AG Conference with a pamphlet of poems, WOUNDSCAPE, now forthcoming with @OsmosisPress. 10/3 @AGrayArchive part-reading, part-chat, part-workshop. Roll up!
Sign up for a free talk & workshop with the supremely talented @mariaxrose discussing her creative response to @ImaginedMaking plus workshop! This commission has been created with @AGrayArchive & @StrathclydeCW LIMITED places 10.03.23 12-1pm or 1.30-2.30pm email to book 💜
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It's lovely to be able to share that my book MICHEL FABER will be published 1/8/23 by @LivUniPress. Announcement here, with blurb & v generous endorsements from @HeatherParryUK @writerkcampbell @timothycbaker @EverDundas & @matosman: LUCKY ME. 🎉🎇🎈 https://t.co/8bvHrGVaWj
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Roll up, roll up - @mariaxrose, workshop force of nature & poet extraordinaire, is running this FREE workshop at the @AGrayArchive 10/3 @ 11.00. Part reading & discussion of her new creative commission WOUNDSCAPE, part workshop for attendees to write their own creative responses
Sign up for a free talk & workshop with the supremely talented @mariaxrose discussing her creative response to @ImaginedMaking plus workshop! This commission has been created with @AGrayArchive & @StrathclydeCW LIMITED places 10.03.23 12-1pm or 1.30-2.30pm email to book 💜
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Meet our #GrayDay performer… @maclavertyB Bernard was Gray’s close friend & co-conspirator in all Things Poor! He was an early reader of the novel & also posed for the portrait of Godwin Baxter! He’s a fantastic storyteller, come hear his Gray tales! @OranMorGlasgow 25.02.23
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📚🎤🎶 The latest SWH! podcast is an interview with @rodgeglass about this year's #GrayDay - the annual event which celebrates the life & work of the writer, artist & polymath, Alasdair Gray... For full details, and all the ways to listen, click here 👉 https://t.co/htuXMTJZHB
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Tickets selling fast for #GrayDay
@OranMorGlasgow 25.02.23 7pm @canongatebooks
@BloomsburyBooks With @maclavertyB @rodgeglass @Chitgrrl @ScribePedersen @jill_lorean and Alan Bissett See you there Gray Heads! ❤️
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Meet our #GrayDay performer…@Chitgrrl She will read part of her creative response to ‘Poor Things’, commissioned by us with @StrathclydeCW in 2023. She is a journalist & author, her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, is a brilliant work of creative non-fiction
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Meet our #GrayDay performer…@ScribePedersen He’s a Scottish poet, writer, scribbler & stitcher. His prose debut was ‘Boy Friends’ by @FaberBooks in 2022. He co-founded @NeuReekie which delivered our last 2 Gray Days, he’s an awesome performer & proponent of excellent knitwear
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GRAY DAY X POOR THINGS GIVEAWAY !!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 10 X CHANCES TO WIN! To be in with a shot…👇👇👇 👉🏽follow @AGrayArchive 👉🏽tag a friend in the comments. We'll be choosing 10 WINNERS to receive all of these prizes on Friday 24th FEBRUARY at 10am GMT.
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Not sure if I've mentioned this a weeeee bit recently but: it's nearly #GrayDay! Great fun talking to @ScotsWhayHae about all things AG, Poor Things, and our big celebration this Saturday. Cheers Ali! More power to you 🎊🎊🎊. Here's the link to the podcast.
📚🎤🎶 The latest SWH! podcast is an interview with @rodgeglass about this year's #GrayDay - the annual event which celebrates the life & work of the writer, artist & polymath, Alasdair Gray... For full details, and all the ways to listen, click here 👉 https://t.co/htuXMTJZHB
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🚨🚨🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED: The Scottish Government has completely abandoned its plans to cut funding for Creative Scotland, after more than 15,000 people signed our urgent petition to #StopTheCuts. 🎉🎉🎉
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GRAY DAY 2023: POOR THINGS 25/2 @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 7pm. 5 days to go: feat. @Chitgrrl! @ScribePedersen! @jill_lorean! Alan Bissett! @maclavertyB! And most importantly, POOR THINGS, Gray's playful Glasgow Frankenstein. Hosted by @AGrayArchive. Whoop!
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OH YES INDEED. Pls RT word far n' wide. The 3rd annual GRAY DAY focuses on Gray's 30-years-young novel POOR THINGS (soon to be a major motion picture, as they say). Hosted by @AGrayArchive at @OranMorGlasgow home of Gray's visual artistic masterpiece. Bella Caledonia Rules OK!
PLS SHARE: TICKETS LIVE 🐇 @AGrayArchive @canongatebooks @BloomsburyBooks PRESENT 🐇 GRAY DAY x POOR THINGS A night of readings, music, film & more… tickets from 🐇 https://t.co/4n96eCoVqV 🐇 link in bio 🐇 0141 357 6211 🐇 direct from @OranMorGlasgow Design @offfbrand
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Good Gray things in a bad world, 2022 edition 🎉📚🖼️
Creative Commissions with @StrathclydeCW @rodgeglass
@ScribePedersen responded to Alasdair’s Green Chair with a poem performed at #GrayDay @OranMorGlasgow
@jennivora poems from her 2021 commission produced ‘Vestigial’ by @StewedBooks
@mariaxrose responded to @ImaginedMaking
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Education: jointly delivered @ImaginedMaking Wat Dryhope Award & undergrad/postgrad placements with @sgsah @StrathHum @StrathclydeCW @artwritingGSofA @GLAcuratorial @eca_edinburgh secured @ahrcpress collab doc award with @laurenforde_ and co-supervisors @rodgeglass @eleanor_bell
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Happy to spread word! @pennysuperdog gave a fantastic paper on Alasdair Gray's Disability Imagination @ImaginedMaking Conference this summer. Great to see her involved in this Etudes ecossaises special issue. ↘️↘️↘️↘️
CFP for special issue of Etudes écossaises Recovering Imaginaries of Illness and Disability in Scottish Literature and Culture: Sources, Contexts, Theory ed @drgavinmiller &myself.PleaseRT if you can @marie_hedon @drdanielcook @ScottpScottp @eleanor_bell @rodgeglass @AbdnRiiss
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This is us! Following up on 2nd Int. Gray Conference 2022 in Glasgow, looking to present work on Gray Studies w. @rodgeglass @StrathclydeCW @AGrayArchive. If you know of any good examples for other writers/artists please holler!
Working on site about GRAY STUDIES for our Alasdair Gray work w @StrathclydeCW & @AGrayArchive. Interested good models for 'Studies' sites responding to artists/writers in/out Scotland. Know about grand work at Centre for Burns Studies @MackayPAG. Any reccs? @craigscrolls?
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