Opening Night of The POetry Lit! Festival Tonight
Linda France‘s Writing Hours and Startlings Thursday 18th September 4 to 5pm
I find the New Moon Writing Hour on zoom – a boost to my commitment to free-write everyday. . I also recommend Linda’s Startlings, which are rich with ideas, books, and reflections on her life as a writer. She reaches out to other writers and readers inviting comments and seeking mutual inspiration. A recent Startling was a list of What ifs . . . including: ~ what if living is a rehearsal for dying? ~ what if not-knowing is just not-knowing?~ what if imperfection was the holy grail? ~ what if the living world & everything in it are a bubble, a wave, an illusion, a dream?
Autumn Voices – Getting On – Love in Later Life
Getting On: Understanding & Writing Love in Later Life is a new project that explores and embraces the lived experience and cultural representations of love in later life in Scotland today. The project is being run from the University of Strathclyde by staff in Creative Writing and Social Work/Social Policy in collaboration with Autumn Voices. I will be leading one of the reading/writing groups starting on Tuesday 30th September 4:30pm. Copies of the book Autumn Voices are still available.
Connecting Beyond the Surface
a foundation course on mindful & compassionate communication within oneself & with others
with Kristine Mackenzie-Janson and Ratnadevi
one day in-person, 20 Sep 25, 10am – 5pm, followed by 6 online sessions, Wednesdays 7 – 9pm, starting 24 Sep. Three of these sessions will be taught, alternating with meeting in small peer practice groups.
Painting The Rainbow
taiji, writing and meditation retreat 19th to 26th September with Linda France, Jayaraja, Sue Ruben and Sukhema. Two places still available.
Glasgow Great Big Poetry Party
National Poetry Day this year is on Thursday 2nd October. We think it is an ideal way to celebrate the Mirrorball’s 20th Anniversary and Glasgow’s 850th . With that in mind we are hosting Glasgow’s Great Big Poetry Party with poetry friends and partners.
Thursday 2nd October, 7:00pm (doors open from 6pm)
CCA Theatre (first floor)
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
Free – please book a place: To do this please email: stmungosmirrorball@gmail.com to guarantee your place.
What we aim to do is to assemble a room of over 100 poets to not only celebrate Glasgow’s many voices but also the wonderful role poetry plays in our lives. It is very much a social event and a chance to meet other poets that you might never have met before – lots of opportunity to chat and catch up.
Lapidus Scotland September News
Coming Back to Life: The Work that Reconnects
Sunday 14th September 5:15pm – 9pm
Venue; Glasgow Buddhist Centre: 72 Berkeley St (G3 7DS),
sharing space with the Glasgow Unitarian Church.
Please bring food to share
“When all we are shown is the imagery of ascent, we are left to interpret the times of descent as pathological; we feel that we are somehow failing. Grief is not here to take us hostage, but instead reshape us in some fundamental way, to help us become our mature selves, capable of living in the creative tension between grief and gratitude.When we come to grief with reverence, we find ourselves in right relationship ‘ with sorrow, neither to far away not too close.”
Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Facilitators: Sukhema and Ratnadevi, who both have led many workshops and retreats on the theme
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