The third of our renga event events i.m Gerry Loose (1948-2024) takes place at Glasgow Botanic Gardens on Sunday 22nd March, from 11.00. It will be mastered by Ian Stephen, writer, artist and storyteller from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides whose Maritime: new and selected poems came out in 2016. Full details, including […]
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Autumn renga i.m. Gerry Loose
On Sunday 14th September we remembered the late Gerry Loose by way of a second walking renga at Glasgow Botanic Gardens, where Gerry was Poet-in-Residence in the early 2000s. ‘By Leaves We Live’: a Tree Renga was mastered by Mandy Haggith. There was less sunshine than we had during the May renga – but also […]
Palm-reading
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 […]
Hot Air Balloons
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 […]
AGM and Poetry Reading, 15 March 2023
The next Lapidus Scotland Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 6.45pm. From 7.45pm we present readings by Jim Carruth, Naomi Shihab Nye, and members of Lapidus Scotland writing groups. Both events take place in the Clubroom, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD. You are also welcome to join […]
Living Our Dying: Glasgow workshops (early 2023)
8 weekly workshops for people living in the Glasgow area, partly based on the book Living Our Dying Thursdays 9, 16 & 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 March, 13.30-15.30, at the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens “I love this book – it will not only help you die a good death, it will […]
Walking & Writing i.m. Brian Whittingham
After Sukhema’s Walking Writing Talking events in and around the River Kelvin earlier this year, he leads one last event in an autumnal Kelvingrove Park on 15 October at 10.30am. In summer 2021 the poet Brian Whittingham led a series of Lapidus Scotland Walking and Writing events in Kelvingrove Park. We were saddened to hear […]
Walking Writing Talking, August-September 2022
6 morning walks by Glasgow’s River Kelvin with Sukhema (aka Larry Butler) What I take with me, what I leave behind, are of less importance than what I discover along the way. from In Praise of Walking by Thomas A. Clark Friday 5th August 10:30am to 12:30 Dawsholm Park Saturday 13th August 10:30am to 12:30 […]
Living Our Dying: Glasgow workshops (Autumn 2022)
8 weekly workshops for people living in the Glasgow area, partly based on the book Living Our Dying Thursdays 15 September to 3 November, 13.30-15.30, Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens “I love this book – it will not only help you die a good death, it will strengthen you to live a good life.” Richard […]
Walking Writing Talking, May-June 2022
3 pairs of Friday morning walks by Glasgow’s River Kelvin with Sukhema (aka Larry Butler) What I take with me, what I leave behind, are of less importance than what I discover along the way. from In Praise of Walking by Thomas A. Clark Glasgow Botanic Gardens A pair of strolls on 6 & […]