Gerry Loose (1948-2024) was a well respected poet with long connections to both Lapidus Scotland and Glasgow Botanic Gardens. As Poet-in-Residence at the Gardens, Gerry organised events and created poems for slates and stones. Following Gerry’s death on 30 April last year, Lapidus Scotland is organising a memorial renga followed by readings of works in […]
Copies of the booklet Writing with Flourish are now available at £3 each – including postage! This documents our work with Glasgow’s Flourish House from autumn 2023 to autumn 2024, when our facilitators Jane Walker, Sukhema, Christie Williamson, Colin McGuire and the late Gerry Loose led sessions with FH members. Pay via PayPal […]
Lapidus Scotland’s AGM takes places this year at Glasgow’s Woodlands Community on Tuesday 1 April from 6.15-7.15pm. The formalities involve approving the accounts for 2023-24, and the (re-)election of committee members. You’ll also hear about what we did in 2023-24, and have been doing since. You can access the Annual Report and Annual Accounts for […]
The latest issue of our monthly newsletter went out earlier this week. This month we feature news of our next Facilitator Training Day in September. We highlight another resource from the Facilitators’ Toolkit, take another book from the Lapidus Scotland Bookshelf, send you another postcard, and share news of Kenneth Steven’s podcast series. You can […]
A facilitator training day in bibliotherapy with Valerie Gillies & Sukhema Butler, plus guest Ted Bowman Saturday 7 September 2024, 10am – 5pm Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR Lapidus Scotland offers a full day workshop for storytellers, librarians, writers and readers who already work within community and education settings and would […]
The latest issue of our monthly newsletter went out earlier this week. This month we feature Sukhema’s tribute to Gerry Loose, poet and long-term associate of Lapidus Scotland, who died suddenly at the end of April. It seems only fitting that the resource from our Facilitators’ Toolkit this month, ‘Slow Writing’, should be by Gerry. […]
As we mentioned in the last post, Jane Walker has been working with members of Glasgow’s Flourish House. At a recent session, she facilitated a session where everyone traced their hands front and back and added colour. Then they were asked to read the lines in their hands to see what might they say about […]
Janie Walker has been leading Art into Writing sessions at Glasgow’s Flourish House recently. She writes, “one afternoon we made these hot air balloons, then wrote about what would we put in the basket to remove from our lives and fly away with them.” Who wouldn’t want to take to the air in one of […]
Pat Sutherland has attended many Lapidus Scotland groups over the years, and her work featured in our anthology Seven Journeys. Playspace Publications has just published a collection of poems by Pat, Everything Goes Out Dancing. Of her work, Stephen Beattie writes: ‘Every aspiring poet has the desire to become the best they can be, and […]
Sensuous Facilitation: A Residential Workshop for Experienced Facilitators Whatton Lodge, East Lothian Friday 21st to Monday 24th April 2023 with Ted Bowman, Valerie Gillies, Sukhema (aka Larry Butler), Penny Stone Cost £247 – £290 Early Bird discounts for applications received by 15 February To apply please complete and return this form Sensuous Facilitation appl-form Join […]
