A NEW film festival will explore the relationship between Scotland and Catalonia through cinema.
Homage to Catalonia – Scotland's Catalan Film Festival will run from September 27 to October 6.
The festival will include visits from directors, producers and artists as part of the eclectic line-up of events in some of Scotland’s top venues. As well as feature films, the programme offers a week of poetry, spoken word, parties, gastronomic events, talks and a showing of short films. Events will be held at popular venues including Summerhall, The Scottish Storytelling Centre and the CCA Glasgow.
www.cinemaattic.com
A FUND designed to support Paisley’s bid to be UK City of Culture 2021 has named projects set to share a £171,000 funding boost – including a musical about the town’s historic Bungalow Bar, an opera inspired by the town’s witch trials, and a festival in Ferguslie Park.
Renfrewshire Council created a Culture, Heritage and Events Fund two years ago to boost the capacity of the local creative scene and create more chances for people to get involved in cultural activity in the run-up to the 2021 bid being lodged.
The initial £500,000 investment was doubled to £1m earlier this year – with 65 projects having already been funded through the £462,000 committed to date.
The five rounds of CHE Fund have seen a total of 242 applications from across Scotland, with a total funding ask of almost £3m.
And members of the council’s leadership board will next week (Wednesday) be asked to approve the list of 15 projects recommended to be funded in the latest round.
Renfrewshire Council leader Iain Nicolson said: “Paisley’s bid to be UK City of Culture 2021 is part of a wider push to harness the power of creativity and of our unique heritage story to transform the future of the whole area, and the CHE Fund is one of the key building blocks within that."
www.paisley2021.co.uk
The theme for National Poetry Day (NPD) 2017 is ‘freedom’.
The Scottish Poetry Library is co-hosting three events and supporting the launch of BBC Scotland’s Poet in Residence.
Poets Don Paterson, Christine De Luca and Hugh McMillan will read at special events to celebrate NPD.
Award-winner Paterson will read in the setting of the Jupiter Artland sculpture park outside Edinburgh.
Christine De Luca will mark the end of her time as Edinburgh Makar with the publication of a collection of poems about the capital, Edinburgh: Singing the City, which she will launch at the SPL.
At the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayr, Hugh McMillan will perform his poetry.
National Poetry Day also marks the launch of BBC Scotland’s Poet in Residence.
Earlier this year, after an open call for submissions, BBC Scotland announced the winner is Stuart A. Paterson.
The residency, which is four months long and will conclude on Burns Night, begins with Paterson performing his own specially-written poem about ‘freedom’ to mark National Poetry Day.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/national-poetry-day-2017-freedom
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