On October 12th Lapidus Scotland held two events at the CCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow – with Ted Bowman. Audio from the events: Audio part 1: Audio part 2: 12th October 2019 – 10am to 4pm. A Workshop on Facilitating Groups for people who have led enough groups to know that […]
A Half Nijuin Renga in an autumnal August at An Inn for the Phantoms of the Outside and In Pull back the curtain see the phantoms dine. Breaded sole, anyone? Marvel at the orange, yellow and faded browns their falling colours rhyme crunching underfoot playing the moon briefly hanging can we see […]
Day of Access is a collaborative project considering place-awareness, access to nature, healing, illness and wounded nature. Conceived by Alec Finlay, it has been developed with Lapidus, the Travelling Gallery and a wide range of other partners from the fields of environment, the arts and wellbeing*. It takes place over a two-year period, July 2019–July […]
Earlier this year, committee members, Mairi Murphy and Catherine Eunson attended the Lapidus conference in Newcastle on ‘The Writing Experience’. […]
Project start: May 2019 Project end: April 2020 Consultant’s fee: £8K incl. VAT Deadline for expressions of interest: 12 noon Monday, 22nd April 2019 Interviews: week commencing 29th April 2019 Download Details Here SPL Invitation to Tender – Project Manager […]
January is full of wellbeing intentions, to eat more healthily, to get fit, to write more. Nothing beats doing all three together. We’ve had a mild start to the year with plenty sunshine. Last week I strolled over the wooded hill behind the house and down to the river, with an apple, my new Christmas notebook, and a half-chewed pencil in my pocket.It’s an easy […]
Saturday 25 August 2018, 9.30 – 4.30 Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN A networking event for facilitators and organisers of creative words for health and wellbeing. Join Lapidus Scotland for a day celebrating the use of writing, storytelling, and reading for health and wellbeing in Scotland. This is an opportunity to come together […]
ISBN: 978-0-9573340-4-5 Edited by Robin Lloyd-Jones, (PlaySpace Publications, £12.99) – £12.00 at launch. Scottish writers over 70 talk about creativity in later life. There will be readings by the writers in the book, drawn from: Sheena Blackhall, Larry Butler, Jenni Calder, A,C.Clarke, Stewart Conn, Douglas Dunn, Sally Evans, Vicki Feaver, Lee Gershuny, Alasdair Gray, Diana […]
A Blog by Ted Bowman Tell me if I’m sharing too much, if I telling you more than you want to know about me. For years, I have been in love with words. My wife, children and grandchildren know about my love affair with words. And, yes, there have been times when each of them […]
I have recently returned from China where, by chance, one day, I came across some men who were practising writing Calligraphy with some water and brushes on pavements covered with dust. A crowd of passers-by stood quietly watching. Unaware of the people gathering around them the men teased intricate patterns in the dust. There was […]
