University of Aberdeen, English and Creative Writing

Don't miss this Nan Shepherd Winter WayWORD event Wednesday 13th November with acclaimed Trinidadian Scottish poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo. 6.30 pm at the Duncan Rice University of Aberdeen Library. Tickets are free (of course, it's Way WORD Festival!) but book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/t-avgaoly
and find out about this and more upcoming events: www.waywordfestival.com

Liz Lochhead on fine form at Way WORD Festival last night. Loads more poetry, prose, music, art and dance (with Fusion Youth Dance Company) on all week/next weekend. Check out the programme for free events in person and livestreamed at www.waywordfestival.com

Way WORD Festival off to a crackin start with Ross Couper and Tom Oakes workshops and concert with SC&T Youth last night. Plenty of other great free events all next week/weekend to check out at www.waywordfestival.com

Announcing the cast list and writers selected for REPURPOSE: Scratch at The Blue Lamp.
Emerging theatre makers present their reimagined Aberdeen's in this script-in-hand performance showcase. Free tickets for this event are available from www.waywordfestival.com

Coming soon - the Centre for the Novel Annual Event at the WayWORD Festival on Saturday 28th September featuring Ben Aaronovitch and Maud Woolf. Tickets are selling fast so get them while they're hot!

For those who can't attend the fabulous WayWORD Festival ( Way WORD Festival) in person - there's a programme of ONLINE EVENTS as well as the option to view events livestreamed from the festival venue. Check out the full virtual offering and book FREE tickets https://www.waywordfestival.com/livestream

Yes, it really IS SATURDAY 21st (... not Sunday as previous poster claimed). Don't miss FIRST events of this FIFTH WayWORD Festival (Way WORD Festival) Saturday 21st September. Book FREE tickets online.

Don't miss FIRST events of this FIFTH WayWORD Festival (Way WORD Festival) Saturday 21st September. Book FREE tickets online.Way WORD Festival
https://www.waywordfestival.com/

Way WORD Festival gets off to a cracking start next Saturday with a workshop with Ross Couper & Tom Ross Couper and Tom Oakes
1.45pm, 21st September | King's Pavilion, University of Aberdeen
Join Ross Couper and Tom Oakes for a fantastic workshop led by Ross on fiddle and Tom on guitar. Tickets are FREE but book now!
This workshop is aimed at players that are of an intermediate level and above. Bring a reusable water bottle to refill in the building, your instrument, and plenty of enthusiasm!

Workshop with Ross Couper and Tom Oakes || Saturday 21st September 2024 Join Ross Couper and Tom Oakes for a fantastic workshop on 21.9.24 led by Ross on fiddle and Tom on guitar. King's Pavilion, University of Aberdeen. 1:45pm - 3:15pm. Aimed at intermediate and above players and open to all instruments. FREE.

WayWORD champions Scots, with our wide range of local and national performers bringing our vibrant language to the stage. Liz Lochhead, Len Pennie, Shane Strachan, Morna Young, Danielle Jam, Mae Diansangu & more!
Tickets to these free events at www.waywordfestival.com

WayWORD champions scots, with our wide range of local and national performers bringing our vibrant language to the stage. Liz Lochhead, Len Pennie, Shane Strachan, Morna Young, Danielle Jam, Mae Diansangu & More!
Tickets to these free events at

WayWORD Festival | Aberdeen's Literary Cross Arts Festival WayWORD is a youth-led arts festival brought to you by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, University of Aberdeen. Workshops, author events, panel discussions and performance nights are all FREE with BSL Interpretation available throughout.

Art, Expression and Identity Across Cultures:
Leila Aboulela, Amira Al Shanti, and Dean Atta
1pm, 27th September | King's Pavilion, UoA King's Campus
How does an identity formed of multiple cultures inform the art you create? This panel with writer Leila Aboulela, actor, playwright and artist Amira Al Shanti, and poet Dean Atta, will discuss identity, expression and acceptance across cultures. Book FREE tickets here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/art-expression-and-identity-across-cultures-leila-aboulela-amira-al-shanti-and-dean-atta/e-obdgpx

Art, Expression and Identity Across Cultures:

Leila Aboulela, Amira Al Shanti, and Dean Atta

1pm, 27th September | King's Pavilion, UoA King's Campus

How does an identity formed of multiple cultures inform the art you create? This panel with writer Leila Aboulela, actor, playwright and artist Amira Al Shanti, and poet Dean Atta, will discuss identity, expression and acceptance across cultures.
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/art-expression-and-identity-across-cultures-leila-aboulela-amira-al-shanti-and-dean-atta/e-obdgpx

WayWORD Festival | Aberdeen's Literary Cross Arts Festival WayWORD is a youth-led arts festival brought to you by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, University of Aberdeen. Workshops, author events, panel discussions and performance nights are all FREE with BSL Interpretation available throughout.

Plenty to dance about at WayWORD festival with these three FREE dance workshops in Balkan Dance, Argentinian Tango & Scottish Country on Thursday 26th September at 10 am. Book tickets here:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/scripting-dance-1-balkan/e-mberro
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/scripting-dance-2-going-off-script-argentine-tango-a-conversation-without-words/e-plqeke
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/scripting-dance-3-scottish-country/e-zlvyxx
www.waywordfestival.com

WayWORD Festival | Aberdeen's Literary Cross Arts Festival WayWORD is a youth-led arts festival brought to you by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, University of Aberdeen. Workshops, author events, panel discussions and performance nights are all FREE with BSL Interpretation available throughout.

Join Spanish Storyteller Ines Alvarez with Javier Dominguez on flamenco guitar for this vibrant retelling of Don Quixote at the fabulous fifth WayWORD festival on Thursday 29th September. Tickets are FREE but book below. Celebrate Modern Languages at Aberdeen https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/don-quixote-rides-again/e-plqejd?fbclid=IwY2xjawE1X8RleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfqvVKuLwGRnDHfDjZL8BZnfAfhgc9utJNWjF0mS49bKYPNP40vHkKLsHw_aem_GWboQt3QEje6r7zNXEkTVA

'Don Quixote Rides Again' at Main Hall, King's Pavilion Tickets are now available for 'Don Quixote Rides Again' at Main Hall, King's Pavilion, King's Pavilion on Thursday 26th September 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

Plenty to dance about at the WayWORD Festival 2024, including Fusion Youth Dance Company performing new work to the music of Spectrum Ensemble Sunday 29th September. Tickets are FREE but book NOW below.
Spectrum Ensemble & Fusion Dance Performance
4.15pm, 29/9 | King's Pavilion, UoA King's campus
​Student compositions come to life with performances by young dancers in this collaboration between Spectrum Ensemble and Fusion. Hear new works from Spectrum, the University of Aberdeen’s student-led new-music ensemble, brought to life with dance and choreography by Fusion, Citymoves Dance Agency’s youth dance company.

Spectrum Ensemble & Fusion Dance Performance at Main Hall, King's Pavilion Tickets are now available for Spectrum Ensemble & Fusion Dance Performance at Main Hall, King's Pavilion, King's Pavilion on Sunday 29th September 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

The WORD Centre for Creative Writing is very grateful to receive support from Creative Scotland's Open Fund for this year's Way WORD Festival taking place 21 and 24-29 September.

Featuring a vibrant lineup of workshops, community activities, panel discussions, author readings, art exhibitions, film screenings and performance nights, the festival is also dedicated to providing mentoring opportunities for young people from diverse backgrounds and fostering community partnerships.

Helen Lynch, WayWORD Creative Director says: “Thanks to the Open Fund, we will be able to offer WayWORD for the fifth year to audiences from across the North-East and beyond! We'll be able to live up to our tagline of ‘celebrating unconventional forms of expression’ yet again and involve more groups than ever before, so we're totally delighted!”

Look out for the WayWORD Festival programme launch coming mid-July!

Across Scotland this month, 55 culture projects have received £1,085,102 from The National Lottery in the latest round of Open Fund awards 💫

Highlights from this month's awards are:

✅ Up2Standard’s Be the Standard programme is a one-year initiative creating a safe space for producers and writers to collaborate and create through studio sessions and writing camps

🗣️ WayWORD’s dynamic youth-led, intergenerational, literary cross-arts festival by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen returns on 21 and 24 to 29 September 2024 with workshops, community activities, panel discussions, author readings, art exhibitions, film screenings and performance nights

🌿 The 27th annual HebCelt Festival returns from 17 to 20 July, showcasing emerging artists, Gaelic arts and a variety of local talent within its packed programme

🔪 The return of Scotland’s international crime writing festival Bloody Scotland in Stirling from 13 to 15 September.

🎂 A celebration of The Cumnock Tryst's 10th birthday, bringing a diverse programme of music to east Ayrshire from 2 to 6 October 2024

🇺🇸 A US-wide tour for award-winning Highland indie folk-band Elephant Sessions

Also receiving funding in this round of awards are: Iona Lane, Grace Stewart-Skinner Clàrsach, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow Connected Arts Network, The Fallen Angels Club, Craigmillar Now, The Sidmouth Folk Festival, Riff Raff Producing CIC, Sculpture Placement Group, Knights Theatre, Graham Costello and Opera Bohemia.

🔎 Find out more and download the full list of awards at: https://pulse.ly/immpeiszf7

Across English literature, linguistics and creative writing, University of Aberdeen graduates are utilising the skillsets developed during their degree to make a difference to the world around them through their careers http://abdn.io/LA