Call out for performers!
Join us for an experimental scratch night on Monday 28th September, 7pm, which will feature a few pre-arranged performances and an open platform to share and test experimental material in writing and language. We welcome storytelling, poetry, conversations, songs, verse, mixtapes and jams. Friends and strangers are invited to perform material which could be unfinished gestures or polished performances to create a community space for listening, transmission and dialogue.
If you are interested in sharing something at Sgrìob, please email susannah@taigh-chearsabhagh.org or drop us a wee message on social media. We’re excited to hear from as many different people as Uist holds, including people who have never performed before. No set is too short or too new – we’re here to support you at any stage of the creative process. You can share your own work, or a tune or a poem someone else wrote – play with the delivery in your own way! Since it’s coming up for Mòd season, we’re especially keen to support folk who are busy practicing for competition air an àrd-ùrlar.
We’re delighted to have some returners to the Sgrìob stage with performances from Duncan MacDonald, Amy MacKay, Pauline Prior-Pitt, AJ Stockwell and Susannah Bolton, as well as a set from Romhainn artist-in-residence, Robbie MacLeòid.
Audience attendance is free and open to everyone. Bring a friend and your enthusiasm for new ideas, and we’ll put on a spread of snacks and drinks!
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This event is part of the Poetry Pledge legacy programme, hosted in partnership with the Southbank Centre and National Poetry Library. There is more information about the Poet in Every Port Project, which took place in June, here.