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Thursday 18th October, 2018,
Imprint Book Festival, Kilmarnock.
Monday 8th October, 2018,
Haddo Arts Festival: http://www.haddoartsfestival.org.uk/
Sunday 2 September, 2018
2.30 (about an hour) Poetry inspired by the art of Christian Small, written and read by Gerda Stevenson, an award-winning Scottish actress, director and writer. Tickets '10 including a glass of wine The Museum Room, Chambers Institution, High Street, Peebles 01721 724820
August 24th, 2018 - Thomas Muir Memorial Lecture: Gerda Stevenson
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm St Mary's Cathedral Palmerston Place Edinburgh, EH12 5AW United Kingdom + Google Map http://www.cathedral.net/contact/ http://lighthousebookshop.com/event/thomas-muir-memorial-lecture-gerda-stevenson/
Tuesday, 21st August, 2018, 5.15pm - 6.30pm
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL Verse and Song in tribute to women of Scotland Luath Poets at ScotlandsFest 2018, a week of talks and debates, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What does a woman of Scotland look like? Gerda Stevenson and Magi Gibson explore the past and present incarnations of a Scottish woman in song and verse. Explore and celebrate richly diverse poetry from two of Scotland's most thought-provoking and entertaining poets.
20th - 26th August, 2018, 3pm,
(one hour), Edinburgh Fringe: Paradise in The Vault (Venue 29) 11 Merchant Street, Edinburgh EH1 2QD www.paradise-green.co.uk www.edfringe.com Gerda will be reading from QUINES and singing songs of Elizabeth Melville, whose poetry Jamie Reid Baxter will read
Sunday 12th August, 2018, 6.30pm,
Writers' Retreat: Gerda reads from her book QUINES at the EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 5 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DR Phone: 0131 718 5666 https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/
Tuesday 31st of July, 2018, 7pm,
Gerda will be talking about and reading from her book QUINES: Poems in tribute to Women of Scotland at: The Scottish Writers' Centre, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
Thursday, 5th July, 2018, 8pm
Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth, Wick KW1 4UD https://lytharts.org.uk/events/quines-poems-in-tribute-to-women-of-scotland/
Friday, 22nd June, 2018, 7.30pm
Municipal Hall, Kirkstyle, Biggar, ML12 6DT Gerda reads as guest poet with poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, joined by fellow poets Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker, on their Shore 2 Shore tour of independent bookshops, joined by musical master of ceremonies John Sampson. Tickets are now on sale. '15.00 each from Atkinson-Pryce direct: 01899 221225 or email: tomes@atkinson-pryce.co.uk
Sunday, 17th June, 2018, 2pm, Akerfallet, NORWAY
Gerda will be singing from her album NIGHT TOUCHES Day, with Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kyrre Slind https://www.facebook.com/events/243480402875446/
Sunday 10th June, 4pm, 2018:
Gerda will be reading at the launch of a new book she has edited: INSIDE & OUT - the Art of Christian Small at: West Linton Bowling Club, 1 Chapel Brae, (by the Lower Green and tennis court) West Linton EH46 7EP

On Wednesday 23rd May, at Liet International Festival, the Netherlands, Gerda will be performing her own songs in Scots, accompanied by Norwegian multi-instrumentist Kyrre Slind, along with other singer-songwriters selected from different regions in Europe, all performing their songs in minority languages:
https://liet-international.com/line-up-for-liet-international-2018-xxl/
Gerda will be reading from her poetry collection QUINES during May, 2108:

Thursday 17 May, 7:30PM Barn Arts:
The Barn Salon: Gerda Stevenson, The Barn, Burn O Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA T: 01330 825431
https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/whats-on
Friday 11 May, 7:30pm, West Street Arts Centre, 4 West Street Penicuik, EH26 9DL
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quinespoetry-and-song-by-gerda-stevenson-tickets-447543043
Wednesday 2nd May, 6.30pm, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD. An evening of short readings from classics of children's literature for a grown-up audience. With special guests actor, director, writer Gerda Stevenson and novellist writer Mary Paulson Ellis.
Doors open 6pm; event 6.30-7.30pm.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-we-were-young-jackanory-for-grown-ups-tickets-42979553000
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/event/when-we-were-young-jackanory-grown-ups
QUINES readings April, 2018:
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 8pm, Lighthouse Bookshop 43-45 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9BE
http://lighthousebookshop.com/event/poetry-at-the-lighthouse-gerda-stevenson-and-the-women-of-scotland/
Thursday, April 19, 2018, 7:30 PM, Waterstones, Byres Road, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QZ
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7:30 PM, Atkinson-Pryce Books 27 High Street Biggar, Scotland, ML12 6DA
http://www.atkinson-pryce.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=28494
QUINES readings, March, 2018:
Wednesday, March 28, 201 7:00 PM, Citadel Books, 41 Montrose Terrace Edinburgh, Scotland, EH7 5DP
Gerda's latest poetry collection, QUINES - a tribute to women of Scotland, will be published by Luath Press on 8th March, International Women's Day, with various associated events scheduled:

Gerda will be speaking on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour 6th March (10-11am)

at the National Library of Scotland, 7th March (2pm)

the Scottish Poetry Library 8th March, (6.30pm)

and the Graham Institute, West Linton, 9th March (7.30pm)

Details of tickets on Evenbrite are given on the links below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quines-poetry-song-by-gerda-stevenson-tickets-43051958567
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quines-a-celebration-of-the-women-of-scotland-with-gerda-stevenson-tickets-43091342365
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/events/gerda-stevenson-tribute-women-scotland
On 22nd and 23rd February, 2018, Gerda will give a poetry reading and will run a writers' workshop with the Uist Writers' Group at Taigh Chearsabhagh, Loch Maddy, North Uist. She will be reading from IF THIS WERE REAL, and also from her forthcoming poetry collection QUINES - a tribute to women of Scotland, to be published on 8th March, 2018, International Women's Day, by Luath Press.
7th February, 2018, lunchtime event, Muriel Spark centenary: Gerda will be reading with Stewart Conn: Mistress of Unease: the Poetry of Muriel Spark 12.45-13.30, The Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Free, unticketed
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/event/mistress-unease-poetry-muriel-spark
Gerda will be reading her poetry in Rome and Florence, on 2nd, 3rd and 4th February, 2018, from her poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL (Smokestack Books, 2013), now in an Italian translation published last month by Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, entitled SE QUESTO FOSSE VERO, by Laura Maniero. This is a bilingual edition, with the original English language poems in parallel text:
http://www.edizioniensemble.it/prodotto/se-fosse-vero/
https://allevents.in/florence/gerda-stevenson-se-questo-fosse-vero-tappa-fiorentina/336374320172882
' On 26th January, 2018, Gerda will be appearing at: Herland: Alter Native Burns 26th January at 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP
T: 0141 550 2267
E: info@womenslibrary.org.uk
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herland-alter-native-burns-2/ https://www.edlc.co.uk/heritage-arts/exhibitions/lillie-art-gallery-exhibitions
Gerda is currently writing an opera libretto based on Coleridge's epic poem THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, in collaboration with composer Dee Isaacs, commissioned by the University of Edinburgh's Music in the Community department, to be produced as a promenade production, March, 2018.
See Gerda's tribute to the great, much missed, photographer, Gunnie Moberg, who described herself as a Swedish Oracdian. Here's the link to her archive.
Monday, 7th August, 2017, 8.30pm - O’ Bheal, The Long Valley Bar, Cork City, Ireland –Gerda will be giving a poetry reading with fellow poet Aonghas MacNeacail.
15th – 20th June, 2017 – Gerda will be taking part in workshops at the National Theatre of Scotland, with a group of Scottish and Quebecois theatre artists.
Thursday 8th June, 2017, 6pm: Bilingual poetry reading at Cove Park, (the artists’ retreat near Helensburgh), Gerda and translator Laura Maniero will read from Gerda’s poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL (pub. Smokestack Books, 2013). Gerda will read her poems in the original English and Scots, and Laura will read her Italian translations. http://covepark.org/artists/laura-maniero
Wednesday 24th May, 2017, 6.30pm, at the West End branch of Waterstones, Edinburgh - Gerda will be reading at the launch of the Scottish PEN anthology I'M COMING WITH YOU, with Jackie Kay, Liz Niven, Elspeth Brown and Anita John.
Monday 22nd May, 2017, 2,45pm, BBC Radio Scotland: Gerda and translator Laura Maniero interviewed by Edie Stark on the Janice Forsyth Show, about the new Italian translation of Gerda’s Poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL(pub. Smokestack Books) to be published by Edizioni Ensemble in Rome, October, 2017. And @ 4pm, same day, Gerda and Laura will give a bilingual poetry reading at the Translation Studies department, University of Stirling,
Sunday 14th May, 2017, 3.30pm, Boswell Book Festival, Gerda will be in discussion with composer James MacMillan about his evocative arrangements on the CD The Lost Songs of St. Kilda, and with Charles MacLean, about his fascinating book, Island on the Edge of the World: the Story of St. Kilda.
Saturday, 13th May, 2017, 3.30pm, Boswell Book Festival - Gerda will be interviewing actor Alex Norton about his autobiography ‘There's Been A Life!’

Listen to Gerda's two-part drama about asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland. Under the umbrella title of ROOM FOR REFUGEES, the plays will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, Wednesdays, 26th April, and 3rd May, @ 1.30pm.

Gerda's two-part radio drama, Room For Refugees, about asylum seekers and refugees living in Scotland, will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland on Wednesdays 26th April and 3rd May, directed by David Ian Neville - time to be confirmed. The casts include Iranian, Syrian, Iraqui Kurd and Scottish actors.

"Scotland's Heroines": on Wednesday 19th April, Gerda will be reading from her forthcoming poetry collection on Scottish women, at the reception to announce the results of the public vote to select the first heroine to be commemorated in The Hall of Heroes at The National Wallace Monument: http://www.nationalwallacemonument.com/scotlands-heroines/cast-your-vote/

Gerda is the winner of the Robert Tannahill Poetry Prize, 2017. The results were announced on 16th March, at the Lochwinnoch Arts Festival: http://readrawltd.co.uk/poetrycompetition.html

Three poems from Gerda's above-mentioned poetry collection are included in the 2017 Spring issue of Northwords Now (editor Chris Powici).

Poetry reading: Reel To Rattling Reel, 2pm, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Gerda will be reading with Christine De Luca, Aonghas MacNeacail, Kevin McNeill, Alison Miller, curated by Sarah Neely.

As part of International Women's Day, Gerda will be reading her poetry at two events in March:

Wednesday 8th March, 2017, 7.30pm, at The Banshee Labyrinth: EVENT HORIZON - Women in Science Fiction:
http://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/event-horizon-women-in-science-fiction-international-womens-day-8th-march-2017/
Thursday 9th March, 2017, at 8pm, at AN LANNTAIR, Stornoway, STORY MAKARS WITH GERDA STEVENSON:
http://lanntair.com/events/event/story-makars-gerda-stevenson/
On Sunday 26th February, 7.30pm, Gerda will be performing at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, in the second in the series of Variety Nights: https://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/variety-nights

Events at GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL, 2017:

16th February, 6pm, at the Glasgow Film Festival, in the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD:
a screening of feature film BLUE BLACK PERMANENT, by the Scottish film-maker/poet/short story writer MARGARET TAIT (cast includes Gerda Stevenson, Celia Imrie, James Fleet and Jack Shepherd):

http://glasgowfilm.org/…/margaret-tait-blue-black-permanent

After the film, at 8.15pm, in the CCA Club Room, there will be a Book Launch: ‘Between Categories: The Films of Margaret Tait – Poetry, Portraits, Sound and Place’ by Sarah Neely, with readings of and discussion about Margaret Tait's work, with Sarah Neely, Gerda Stevenson and Alison Miller, chaired by Mitch Miller.

Monday 20th February, at 6.45pm, at the Glasgow Film Theatre, a screening of a new film CHARITY, by Kate Davis, the winner of the Margaret Tait Award, narration by Gerda Stevenson.

Presented by Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
A TalkFest at the Tron event
A rehearsed reading of a new play: Out of Edeby Gerda Stevenson
directed by Paul Brotherston
Wednesday 18 January @ 7.30pm, Main House, Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
If you would like to attend, e-mail to emma@playwrightsstudio.co.uk
no later than 5pm on Tuesday 17 January.
Out of Eden is a socially engaged play about the secret parts in all of us; society’s attitudes to sex, our bodies, and to the selling and purchasing of sexual services. The play incorporates paintings by artist Gwen Hardie.
http://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/events/whats-on/out-of-eden-by-gerda-stevenson.aspx#.WH1Q-IUzE7A
Gerda will be performing in DR JOHNSON GOES TO SCOTLAND by James Runcie, directed by Marilyn Imrie. This production, runs at Oran Mor, Glasgow, 24th – 29th October, and at the Traverse, Edinburgh 1st – 5th November, 2016.
Box office: 0131-228-1404
Gerda directs Ellie Stewart’s new play MISCHIEF, opening at Oran Mor, Glasgow: Mon, 3rd October, 2016 — Sat, 08 October, 2016. The production tours to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 10-15 Oct, 2016.

The above clip kindly provided by BBC, shows the recent documentary film "Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres" for which Gerda did the voice-over, November 2016

Friday 22nd May, 5-7pm, GMT, I'll be one of the poets participating in the first European Green Poetry Festival, an online live-streamed event, hosted from Rome by Insula Europea - 18 poets - 9 from Italy, and 9 (including Gerda) from other European nations.

And click here to read Gerda being interviewed for Insula Europea by Laura Maniero and Hugo Fracassa

For news of events, go to Gerda's Facebook page

Over the last two years, 2018/'20, Gerda has given poetry readings from all her books, and has sung her songs all over Scotland and abroad, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2018 and 2019, and tours of Italy.

She has also toured throughout Scotland during 2019/'20 with Freeland Barbour, promoting his biography of the great 18th century song-writer Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), The White Rose of Gask (Birlinn, 2019). Lady Nairne is one of the women celebrated by Gerda in her collection: QUINES: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland (Luath Press, 1st edition, 2018, 2nd edition, 2020). Freeland has also published Lady Nairne's Lays of Strathearn - a book of her wonderful songs which have been out of print for over a hundred years: This is a project close to Gerda's heart.

In common with most free-lance artists the world over, all Gerda's readings, gigs, and performances have been cancelled for the foreseeable future, due to Covid-19. In the meantime, she is contributing to various online projects:

Carol Ann Duffy's WRITE Where We Are NOW

Hugh McMillan's PESTILENCE POEMS

and to Scotland Makar Jackie Kay's Zoom online project, MAKAR TO MAKAR - 16 poets and musicians through 16 weeks, performing their work, commencing on 14th May, 2020.

She will also be contributing to the National Theatre of Scotland's SCENES FOR SURVIVAL project

Thursday 18th October, 2018,
Imprint Book Festival, Kilmarnock.
Monday 8th October, 2018,
Haddo Arts Festival: http://www.haddoartsfestival.org.uk/
Sunday 2 September, 2018
2.30 (about an hour) Poetry inspired by the art of Christian Small, written and read by Gerda Stevenson, an award-winning Scottish actress, director and writer. Tickets £10 including a glass of wine The Museum Room, Chambers Institution, High Street, Peebles 01721 724820
August 24th, 2018 - Thomas Muir Memorial Lecture: Gerda Stevenson
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm St Mary's Cathedral Palmerston Place Edinburgh, EH12 5AW United Kingdom + Google Map http://www.cathedral.net/contact/ http://lighthousebookshop.com/event/thomas-muir-memorial-lecture-gerda-stevenson/
Tuesday, 21st August, 2018, 5.15pm - 6.30pm
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL Verse and Song in tribute to women of Scotland Luath Poets at ScotlandsFest 2018, a week of talks and debates, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What does a woman of Scotland look like? Gerda Stevenson and Magi Gibson explore the past and present incarnations of a Scottish woman in song and verse. Explore and celebrate richly diverse poetry from two of Scotland's most thought-provoking and entertaining poets.
20th - 26th August, 2018, 3pm,
(one hour), Edinburgh Fringe: Paradise in The Vault (Venue 29) 11 Merchant Street, Edinburgh EH1 2QD www.paradise-green.co.uk www.edfringe.com Gerda will be reading from QUINES and singing songs of Elizabeth Melville, whose poetry Jamie Reid Baxter will read
Sunday 12th August, 2018, 6.30pm,
Writers' Retreat: Gerda reads from her book QUINES at the EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 5 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DR Phone: 0131 718 5666 https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/
Tuesday 31st of July, 2018, 7pm,
Gerda will be talking about and reading from her book QUINES: Poems in tribute to Women of Scotland at: The Scottish Writers' Centre, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
Thursday, 5th July, 2018, 8pm
Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth, Wick KW1 4UD https://lytharts.org.uk/events/quines-poems-in-tribute-to-women-of-scotland/
Friday, 22nd June, 2018, 7.30pm
Municipal Hall, Kirkstyle, Biggar, ML12 6DT Gerda reads as guest poet with poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, joined by fellow poets Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker, on their Shore 2 Shore tour of independent bookshops, joined by musical master of ceremonies John Sampson. Tickets are now on sale. £15.00 each from Atkinson-Pryce direct: 01899 221225 or email: tomes@atkinson-pryce.co.uk
Sunday, 17th June, 2018, 2pm, Akerfallet, NORWAY
Gerda will be singing from her album NIGHT TOUCHES Day, with Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kyrre Slind https://www.facebook.com/events/243480402875446/
Sunday 10th June, 4pm, 2018:
Gerda will be reading at the launch of a new book she has edited: INSIDE & OUT - the Art of Christian Small at: West Linton Bowling Club, 1 Chapel Brae, (by the Lower Green and tennis court) West Linton EH46 7EP

On Wednesday 23rd May, at Liet International Festival, the Netherlands, Gerda will be performing her own songs in Scots, accompanied by Norwegian multi-instrumentist Kyrre Slind, along with other singer-songwriters selected from different regions in Europe, all performing their songs in minority languages:
https://liet-international.com/line-up-for-liet-international-2018-xxl/
Gerda will be reading from her poetry collection QUINES during May, 2108:

Thursday 17 May, 7:30PM Barn Arts:
The Barn Salon: Gerda Stevenson, The Barn, Burn O Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA T: 01330 825431
https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/whats-on
Friday 11 May, 7:30pm, West Street Arts Centre, 4 West Street Penicuik, EH26 9DL
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quinespoetry-and-song-by-gerda-stevenson-tickets-447543043
Wednesday 2nd May, 6.30pm, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD. An evening of short readings from classics of children's literature for a grown-up audience. With special guests actor, director, writer Gerda Stevenson and novellist writer Mary Paulson Ellis.
Doors open 6pm; event 6.30-7.30pm.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-we-were-young-jackanory-for-grown-ups-tickets-42979553000
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/event/when-we-were-young-jackanory-grown-ups
QUINES readings April, 2018:
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 8pm, Lighthouse Bookshop 43-45 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9BE
http://lighthousebookshop.com/event/poetry-at-the-lighthouse-gerda-stevenson-and-the-women-of-scotland/
Thursday, April 19, 2018, 7:30 PM, Waterstones, Byres Road, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QZ
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7:30 PM, Atkinson-Pryce Books 27 High Street Biggar, Scotland, ML12 6DA
http://www.atkinson-pryce.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=28494
QUINES readings, March, 2018:
Wednesday, March 28, 201 7:00 PM, Citadel Books, 41 Montrose Terrace Edinburgh, Scotland, EH7 5DP
Gerda's latest poetry collection, QUINES - a tribute to women of Scotland, will be published by Luath Press on 8th March, International Women's Day, with various associated events scheduled:

Gerda will be speaking on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour 6th March (10-11am)

at the National Library of Scotland, 7th March (2pm)

the Scottish Poetry Library 8th March, (6.30pm)

and the Graham Institute, West Linton, 9th March (7.30pm)

Details of tickets on Evenbrite are given on the links below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quines-poetry-song-by-gerda-stevenson-tickets-43051958567
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quines-a-celebration-of-the-women-of-scotland-with-gerda-stevenson-tickets-43091342365
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/events/gerda-stevenson-tribute-women-scotland
On 22nd and 23rd February, 2018, Gerda will give a poetry reading and will run a writers' workshop with the Uist Writers' Group at Taigh Chearsabhagh, Loch Maddy, North Uist. She will be reading from IF THIS WERE REAL, and also from her forthcoming poetry collection QUINES - a tribute to women of Scotland, to be published on 8th March, 2018, International Women's Day, by Luath Press.
7th February, 2018, lunchtime event, Muriel Spark centenary: Gerda will be reading with Stewart Conn: Mistress of Unease: the Poetry of Muriel Spark 12.45-13.30, The Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Free, unticketed
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/event/mistress-unease-poetry-muriel-spark
Gerda will be reading her poetry in Rome and Florence, on 2nd, 3rd and 4th February, 2018, from her poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL (Smokestack Books, 2013), now in an Italian translation published last month by Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, entitled SE QUESTO FOSSE VERO, by Laura Maniero. This is a bilingual edition, with the original English language poems in parallel text:
http://www.edizioniensemble.it/prodotto/se-fosse-vero/
https://allevents.in/florence/gerda-stevenson-se-questo-fosse-vero-tappa-fiorentina/336374320172882
• On 26th January, 2018, Gerda will be appearing at: Herland: Alter Native Burns 26th January at 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP
T: 0141 550 2267
E: info@womenslibrary.org.uk
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herland-alter-native-burns-2/ https://www.edlc.co.uk/heritage-arts/exhibitions/lillie-art-gallery-exhibitions
Gerda is currently writing an opera libretto based on Coleridge's epic poem THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, in collaboration with composer Dee Isaacs, commissioned by the University of Edinburgh's Music in the Community department, to be produced as a promenade production, March, 2018.
See Gerda's tribute to the great, much missed, photographer, Gunnie Moberg, who described herself as a Swedish Oracdian. Here's the link to her archive.
Monday, 7th August, 2017, 8.30pm - O’ Bheal, The Long Valley Bar, Cork City, Ireland –Gerda will be giving a poetry reading with fellow poet Aonghas MacNeacail.
15th – 20th June, 2017 – Gerda will be taking part in workshops at the National Theatre of Scotland, with a group of Scottish and Quebecois theatre artists.
Thursday 8th June, 2017, 6pm: Bilingual poetry reading at Cove Park, (the artists’ retreat near Helensburgh), Gerda and translator Laura Maniero will read from Gerda’s poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL (pub. Smokestack Books, 2013). Gerda will read her poems in the original English and Scots, and Laura will read her Italian translations. http://covepark.org/artists/laura-maniero
Wednesday 24th May, 2017, 6.30pm, at the West End branch of Waterstones, Edinburgh - Gerda will be reading at the launch of the Scottish PEN anthology I'M COMING WITH YOU, with Jackie Kay, Liz Niven, Elspeth Brown and Anita John.
Monday 22nd May, 2017, 2,45pm, BBC Radio Scotland: Gerda and translator Laura Maniero interviewed by Edie Stark on the Janice Forsyth Show, about the new Italian translation of Gerda’s Poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL(pub. Smokestack Books) to be published by Edizioni Ensemble in Rome, October, 2017. And @ 4pm, same day, Gerda and Laura will give a bilingual poetry reading at the Translation Studies department, University of Stirling,
Sunday 14th May, 2017, 3.30pm, Boswell Book Festival, Gerda will be in discussion with composer James MacMillan about his evocative arrangements on the CD The Lost Songs of St. Kilda, and with Charles MacLean, about his fascinating book, Island on the Edge of the World: the Story of St. Kilda.
Saturday, 13th May, 2017, 3.30pm, Boswell Book Festival - Gerda will be interviewing actor Alex Norton about his autobiography ‘There's Been A Life!’

Gerda is the winner of the Robert Tannahill Poetry Prize, 2017. The results were announced on 16th March, at the Lochwinnoch Arts Festival: http://readrawltd.co.uk/poetrycompetition.html

Three poems from Gerda's above-mentioned poetry collection are included in the 2017 Spring issue of Northwords Now (editor Chris Powici).

As part of International Women's Day, Gerda will be reading her poetry at two events in March:

Wednesday 8th March, 2017, 7.30pm, at The Banshee Labyrinth: EVENT HORIZON - Women in Science Fiction:
http://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/event-horizon-women-in-science-fiction-international-womens-day-8th-march-2017/
Thursday 9th March, 2017, at 8pm, at AN LANNTAIR, Stornoway, STORY MAKARS WITH GERDA STEVENSON:
http://lanntair.com/events/event/story-makars-gerda-stevenson/
On Sunday 26th February, 7.30pm, Gerda will be performing at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, in the second in the series of Variety Nights: https://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/variety-nights

Events at GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL, 2017:

http://glasgowfilm.org/…/margaret-tait-blue-black-permanent

Monday 20th February, at 6.45pm, at the Glasgow Film Theatre, a screening of a new film CHARITY, by Kate Davis, the winner of the Margaret Tait Award, narration by Gerda Stevenson.

Presented by Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
A TalkFest at the Tron event
A rehearsed reading of a new play: Out of Edeby Gerda Stevenson
directed by Paul Brotherston
Wednesday 18 January @ 7.30pm, Main House, Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
If you would like to attend, e-mail to emma@playwrightsstudio.co.uk
no later than 5pm on Tuesday 17 January.
Out of Eden is a socially engaged play about the secret parts in all of us; society’s attitudes to sex, our bodies, and to the selling and purchasing of sexual services. The play incorporates paintings by artist Gwen Hardie.
http://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/events/whats-on/out-of-eden-by-gerda-stevenson.aspx#.WH1Q-IUzE7A
Gerda will be performing in DR JOHNSON GOES TO SCOTLAND by James Runcie, directed by Marilyn Imrie. This production, runs at Oran Mor, Glasgow, 24th – 29th October, and at the Traverse, Edinburgh 1st – 5th November, 2016.
Box office: 0131-228-1404
Gerda directs Ellie Stewart’s new play MISCHIEF, opening at Oran Mor, Glasgow: Mon, 3rd October, 2016 — Sat, 08 October, 2016. The production tours to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 10-15 Oct, 2016.

The above clip kindly provided by BBC, shows the recent documentary film "Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres" for which Gerda did the voice-over, November 2016

Poetry and Coffee
Gerda Stevenson, John Coutts and Jean Taylor will be reading selections from their poetry.
Date
8 September 2016 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Location
Henderson's Cafe, 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DR
Price
£0.00
How to book
Just drop in
Contact for further details
henry.e.marsh@gmail.com
Gerda Stevenson and Aonghas MacNeacail will be guest poets with the Heretics, at the Allan Ramsay Hotel, Carlops, Saturday evening, 7.30pm, 13th August, 2016. http://www.allanramsayhotel.com/s_entertainment.asp
The Heretics first came together in 1970 to promote the poetry and music of Scotland’s living tradition in relaxed and convivial settings. A cultural collective, they were active for a decade, frequented by future Scottish icons including Billy Connolly, Aly Bain, Phil Cunningham and Norman MacCaig. During the 1970’s, the group appeared regularly at the Edinburgh Festival and hosted evenings of poetry and music throughout Scotland. They reunited last year, 45 years after their first appearance.
Gerda will be singing her songs and reading her poetry with Kyrre Slind, Kathy Stewart, Ken Kennedy, Patsy Seddon and Ali Rae, at Carlops Church, Sunday 31st July, 3pm. Tickets: 01968-661058
Gerda Stevenson at the Ledbury Poetry Festival (20th Anniversary) An Evening of Poetry and Music https://poetry-festival.cloudvenue.co.uk/home 7.45pm, at Hellens Manor

Award-winning Scottish writer/actor/singersongwriter Gerda Stevenson and Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kyrre Slind present their unique combination of poetry and music. Gerda will read from her collection If This Were Real, and, accompanied by Kyrre, will sing from her acclaimed album Night Touches Day.
Gerda is a contributor to the Ledbury Festival 20th Anniversary anthology, edited by Mark Fisher, published by Bloodaxe: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/hwaet--1123

“The best of the new in contemporary Scottish poetry - not to be missed.” Ron Butlin, Sunday Herald.

“A life of rich experience beautifully captured in song...strikingly beautiful.” (The Scotsman)
Gerda and Kyrre will also be performing at The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool, Thursday 7th July: http://www.theceilidhplace.com/whats-on/
Gerda is included in this year's nominations for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland:
http://www.criticsawards.theatrescotland.com/Shortlists%20by%20year/15-16.html
BEST MUSIC AND SOUND, sponsored by Guitar Guitar:
Eddie McGuire (composer), Nik Paget-Tomlinson (sound design), Gerda Stevenson (singer) and Niroshini Thambar (sound design), Drift, Vision Mechanics and Nordland Visual Theatre, Stamsund, Norway
http://visionmechanics.org/portfolio/drift/
Gerda has several poetry readings lined up for April. She'll read from her poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL (pub. Smokestack Books), and will include at these events her own songs from her album NIGHT TOUCHES DAY, performing with Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kyrre Slind at BIG LIT (Gatehouse of Fleet) and Poetry Vicenza, (Italy), and with her band at TRADFEST in Edinburgh:
BIG LIT (Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway), Saturday 16th April: www.biglit.org
poetry Vicenza, Italy, 19th April: http://www.comune.vicenza.it/vicen…/eventi/evento.php/144138

the Band

TRADFEST, Edinburgh, Thursday, 28th April, Scottish Storytelling Centre, 8pm http://www.tracscotland.org/…/t…/events/5161/gerda-stevenson
“The best of the new in contemporary Scottish poetry - not to be missed.” Sunday Herald.
“…vertiginous emotional charge…unflinching control of the language in the face of intimate, inscrutable devastation.” Wordpress.
"One of the most refreshing albums I've come across in a very long time...defies definition - truly inspirational." Colum Sands, BBC Radio Ulster.
"A life of rich experience beautifully captured in song...strikingly beautiful." The Scotsman.
In January 2016, Gerda performed DRIFT at the Tron theatre in Glasgow, part of Celtic Connections festival, a Vision Mechanics production, composed by Eddie McGuire with words by Judith Adams. Gerda sang the 9 songs, and narrated the story of Betty Mouat, a Shetland crofter. This was the sound track to an installation that toured beaches in Scotland during the summer of 2015.
http://visionmechanics.org/portfolio/drift/
In October 2015, Gerda played the part of Tetty (Johnson's wife), in A Word With Dr Johnson, a play by James Runcie, directed by Marilyn Imrie, which open at Oran Mor in Glasgow, and toured to the Traverse, Edinburgh, playing to sold out houses.
Gerda is directing a promenade production in the Edinburgh Botanics. Performances: Wednesday to Saturday, 18th-21st March, 7pm, entrance is at the North Gate.
It's part of Edinburgh University's Music in the Community: (see here also)
To: book tickets
Dress up WARM!
Gerda will be performing songs from her new album NIGHT TOUCHES DAY, for Penicuik Community Arts Association on 27th March, at 7.30pm; Venue: West Street Arts Centre, 4 West Street, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 9DL. She will be joined by musicians who play on the album: Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kyrre Slind, Rob MacNeacail (of the Edinburgh band Miasma) on bass guitar, and Seylan Baxter of Tattie Jam on cello.
For details: http://penicuikarts.org/event/gerda-stevenson/.
Gerda performed songs from her album NIGHT TOUCHES DAY, at Celtic Connections festival, in January, joined by the fine array of musicians who play on her album
Gerda was nominated for the MGALBA SCOTS TRAD AWARDS in the Scots Singer of the Year category.
Gerda launched her album NIGHT TOUCHES DAY on 21st November, 2014, to a packed house at West Linton Music Society.
With support from CREATIVE SCOTLAND, Gerda recorded her album of her own songs, entitled NIGHT TOUCHES DAY, with James Ross, Kyrre Slind, Konrad Wiszniewski, Seylan Baxter, Rob MacNeacail and Inge Thomson, recorded at Castlesound, produced by Mattie Foulds. Available for sale - see detail
In July 2014, Gerda toured Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland reading her poetry as part of the Authors' Reading Month: http://www.autorskecteni.cz/2014/en/program
In April 2014, Gerda directed her play SKELETON WUMMAN, which opened at Oran Mor, Glasgow, toured to the Traverse, Edinburgh, and finally to West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. The play was enthusiastically received by audiences and press.
In June 2014, performed in Cora Bissett’s production of GRIT, The Martyn Bennett Story, at the Tramway, Glasgow, and at Mull Theatre.
Gerda’s first poetry collection, IF THIS WERE REAL, was published 21st June, 2013, by Smokestack Books, launched at Word Power Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. The book is available through Smokestack Books: www.smokestack-books.co.uk and in bookshops
In June 2013, Gerda performed in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, by Sir David Lyndsay, at Linlithgow Palace, playing the character of Gude Counsell: www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/
Gerda’s highly acclaimed stage play FEDERER VERSUS MURRAY toured to New York, in Spring 2012, as part of NYC’s SCOTLAND WEEK celebrations.
A Communicado production, it played at:
59e59 Theaters,
April 4th – 22nd
www.59e59.org
performed by Gerda Stevenson and Dave Anderson with saxophonist Ben Bryden, designed by Jessica Brettle, lighting by Simon Wilkinson.
The script of Federer Versus Murraywas published in March, 2012, by the prestigious New York based literary magazine SALMAGUNDI. http://salmagundimag.wordpress.com/tag/federer-versus-murray/
HOMELESS, Gerda Stevenson's two-part radio drama, directed by David Ian Neville, will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, Monday 9th December, 13:32, and Monday 16th December, 13:32, 2013.
The cast includes: Juliet Stevenson, Richard Conlon, Jordon Young, Joanna Kaczynska, Ben Winger, and Ian Grieve.
BBC Radio Scotland has also made a documentary about the making of this drama, directed by Caitlin Smith, which will be broadcast this Sunday morning, 8th December, 10:30 on BBC Radio Scotland, prior to the drama.
Recorded over ten months, the documentary THE MAKING OF HOMELESS follows Gerda as she immerses herself in the issues, meeting people living on the street and those who are trying to help them.
With ongoing economic hardship touching the lives of most Scots, coupled with the controversial introduction of a so-called bedroom tax, homelessness is at the front of the news agenda.
This documentary charts the writer's journey from blank sheet to the dramatic studio production.
**If you can't catch it on radio, you can hear each programme for up to seven days after broadcast on the BBC iPlayer.**

Gerda’s first poetry collection, IF THIS WERE REAL, was published 21st June, 2013, by Smokestack Books, launched at Word Power Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. The book is available through Smokestack Books: www.smokestack-books.co.uk and in bookshops.
Gerda will be appearing at the Stanza Poetry Festival, St. Andrews, on Sunday 9th March, 2.15pm, reading poetry from her collection IF THIS WERE REAL.

In June 2013, Gerda performed in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, by Sir David Lyndsay, at Linlithgow Palace, playing the character of Gude Counsell: www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/
Gerda’s highly acclaimed stage play FEDERER VERSUS MURRAY toured to New York, in Spring 2012, as part of NYC’s SCOTLAND WEEK celebrations.
A Communicado production, it played at:
59e59 Theaters,
April 4th – 22nd
www.59e59.org
performed by Gerda Stevenson and Dave Anderson with saxophonist Ben Bryden, designed by Jessica Brettle, lighting by Simon Wilkinson.
The script of Federer Versus Murraywas published in March, 2012, by the prestigious New York based literary magazine SALMAGUNDI. http://salmagundimag.wordpress.com/tag/federer-versus-murray/

Gerda will be taking part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 16th August, 2pm, 2013, on a panel: GAVIN WALLACE: REWRITING SCOTLAND'S LITERATURE with Regi Claire, Kirsty Gunn, Jackie Kay, and James Robertson. Gerda will also be reading from her poetry collection IF THIS WERE REAL, on the Edinburgh Fringe, Tuesday 20th August, 1pm, at WORD POWER BOOKS, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, with Alan Spence and Anita John.
In January 2013, Gerda was heard on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, reading Muriel Spark’s novel THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE.
In February, 2013, Gerda sang in Paris, at the Turbulences! Burns’ Night: http://www.turbulences.eu/
Listen out on the wireless, summer 2013, for Gerda as Steve, in another of the PAUL TEMPLE MYSTERIES series, this time The Gregory Affair, every Wednesday, from 3rd July, onwards, 11.30am, BBC Radio 4.
Gerda will be the narrator again in the hugely popular story-telling children's performance with live music, THE BOY & THE BUNNET - story by James Robertson, music by James Ross. The fabulous musicians taking part are: Corrina Hewat (harp/vocal), Patsy Reid (fiddle), Neil Johnstone (cello), Angus Lyon (accordion), Fraser Fifield (pipes) and Signy Jakobsdottir (percussion), led by the wonderful composer/pianist himself, James Ross. Performances are 12th - 18th August, 2.30pm, at the Acoustic Music Centre @ St. Brides, Orwell Terrace, which is just off Dalry Road, close to Haymarket Station, Edinburgh. Note: Estrid Barton will be the narrator on Friday 16th August, when gerda will be at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/239887-the-boy-and-the-bunnet/‎
Gerda will be singing with the trio she's one third of - MADGE WILDFIRE (Patsy Seddon and Kathy Stewart are the other two!), at the Peebles Arts Festival, Sunday 1st September, 2pm, the Park Hotel, Peebles.
info@peeblesartsfestival.org
Gerda will be at Atkinson-Pryce Books in Biggar, on Thursday 5th September, reading from "If This Were Real" in the sitting room at the bookshop, 7.30 pm. Ticket £5 includes a glass of wine.
Atkinson-Pryce Books
27 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DA
Tel: 01899 221225
www.atkinson-pryce.co.uk
Gerda will be appearing at the Stanza Poetry Festival, St. Andrews, on Sunday 10th March, 2.15pm, reading a version of Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion, edited by Judy Steel.
On Friday 22nd March, 8pm, Gerda will be singing in Carlops Village Hall with Madge Wildfire trio, who are: Patsy Seddon, Gerda Stevenson & Kathy Stewart - a madgical mix of eclectic songs from 3 madgestic, multi-insrumentalist ladies (harp, piano, djembe, fiddle and more) to entertain, move and amuse you!
Gerda will be appearing at the Orkney Book Festival – April 11th – 14th, 2103, speaking about working with Orcadian writer and film maker, Margaret Tait, and will also be reading from her own poetry.
Gerda will be performing in Gerry Mulgrew's Communicado production of Tam O Shanter, at Assembly @ Assembly Hall, top of the Mound, from 2nd - 26th August, 12 noon daily (not Mondays 13th and 20th); www.communicadotheatre.co.uk
Gerda will also be narrating The Boy and the Bunnet, by James Robertson and James Ross, a story for children, told with live music, in the Spiegeltent, George Street, 6th - 19th August, 3.30pm (not Monday 13th) www.theboyandthebunnet.com
Gerda will be singing with Patsy Seddon and Kathy Stewart in their trio Madge Wildfire, at the Acoustic Music Centre @ St. Bride's, 22nd August, 8.30pm; www.madgewildfire.com and acousticmusiccentre.co.uk
And she is one of ten Scottish playwrights whose work will feature in the Traverse Dream Plays, 23rd August, 9am - so be up bright and early for that one! (Ticket includes a breakfast snack.) http://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/dream-plays-%28scenes-from-a-play-ill-never-write%29/
FEDERER VERSUS MURRAY toured to New York, in April 2012, as part of NYC’s SCOTLAND WEEK celebrations. A Communicado production, performed and directed by Gerda, it played at 59e59 Theaters, www.59e59.orgwith Dave Anderson and saxophonist Ben Bryden, designed by Jessica Brettle, lighting by Simon Wilkinson.
The script of Federer Versus Murray was published in March, 2012, by the prestigious New York based literary magazine SALMAGUNDI. http://salmagundimag.wordpress.com/tag/federer-versus-murray/

Gerda was nominated by the international Committee of the League of Professional Theatre Women (New York) for the 2011 Rosamond Gilder/Martha Coigney International Award.

Gerda was delighted to be the Narrator in performances of The Boy & The Bunnet, by James Robertson and James Ross, at this year's Celtic Connections festival. See photo below, and watch out for more performances!

www.theboyandthebunnet.com

Federer Versus Murray, which Gerda directed at Oran Mor, in Glasgow last May, ran again this year on the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, produced by Assembly, and directed by the playwright herself, who also performed in it this time, with Dave Anderson. Federer Versus Murray was runner up for the Scottish Arts Club & EdinburghGuide.com BEST SCOTTISH CONTRIBUTION TO DRAMA ON THE EDINBURGH FRINGE, 2011.

Gerda’s new play, for stage, Federer Versus Murray, which she directed at Oran Mor, in Glasgow last May, ran again this year on the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, to great acclaim, produced by Assembly, and directed by the playwright herself, who also performed in it this time, with Dave Anderson. Federer Versus Murray was runner up for the Scottish Arts Club & EdinburghGuide.com BEST SCOTTISH CONTRIBUTION TO DRAMA ON THE EDINBURGH FRINGE, 2011.

The script of Federer Versus Murraywill be published in March, 2012, by the prestigious New York based literary magazine SALMAGUNDI.

Gerda has been nominated by the international Committee of the League of Professional Theatre Women (New York) for the 2011 Rosamond Gilder/Martha Coigney International Award.

Watch out for a rare screening of Margaret Tait’s feature film BLUE BLACK PERMANENT: Glasgow Women’s Library is presenting at the CCA the above film in which Gerda gave her Bafta Award-winning performance. Friday 14th October, 2011, at 3.30pm.

Look out for Gerda's new short story, published in the February issue of Dumfries and Galloway’s fine literary magazine Southlight. This story is called SKELETON WUMMAN, and is a contemporary Scots retelling of an old Inuit folk tale.

And look out for a new anthology of poetry and song, entitled A Rose Loupt Oot commemorating the 40th anniversary of the famous Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in of the early ‘70s. Gerda is one of the contributors, along with work by Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Aonghas MacNeacail, Donna Franceschild, Dick Gaughan and many others. This anthology, edited by David Betteridge, is published in May 2011 by Smokestack Books, based in Middlesbrough.

CURRENTLY BEING BROADCAST!!! Another series of the hugely popular PAUL TEMPLE MYSTERIES – A Case for Paul Temple, starring Crawford Logan as Paul, and Gerda as his wife Steve. Weekly, BBC Radio 4, Wednesdays at 11.30am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=A%20Case%20for%20Paul%20Temple

Gerda’s new radio play The Apple Tree will be broadcast on Thursday 9th June, @ 2.15 - 3pm, (Afternoon Play), BBC Radio 4, starring Juliet Stevenson and Iain MacRae.
directed by Bruce Young
More information can be found on the following link (scroll down when you get to the page)
The Apple Tree has also been selected as BBC Radio's PLAY OF THE WEEK PODCAST, which means you will be able to download it and keep it!

Gerda and Patsy Seddon will join Scotland’s Makar, Liz Lochhead at the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, Theatre Royal Dumfries, on Saturday 21st May, 7.30pm. Gerda and Patsy will be singing a range of songs, including some of Gerda’s own.

Gerda will be heard reading with her old friend the late great Tom Fleming, on BBC Radio Scotland's Book Cafe, 14th February, St. Valentine's Day, 1.15pm.
The readings are from Alexander Carmichael's translations of the exquisitely beautiful Pagan/Christian poetry, Carmina Gadelica, which he collected in the Western Isles.
This reading will take up the last 15 minutes of the Book Cafe, which is presented by Clare English.

Gerda’s two-part drama on the theme of prostitution will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland this Spring. The overall title is SECRETS. Part 1, The Punter's Tale, will be broadcast on Monday 28th February, @ 2.05pm. Part 2, The Escort's Tale, will be broadcast on Monday 7th March, also @ 2.05pm. Gerda will be acting in Part 1, playing the part of Cara. The director/producer is Bruce Young, Head of Radio Drama, BBC Scotland.

Gerda is currently writing an Afternoon Play called The Apple Tree for BBC Radio 4. This will be broadcast in June – details to follow.

Gerda’s new play, for stage, Federer Versus Murray, which she directed at Oran Mor, in Glasgow last May, was shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe Theatre Writing Award, 2010.

Look out for Gerda's new short story to be published this February in Dumfries and Galloway’s fine literary magazine Southlight. This story is called SKELETON WUMMAN, and is a contemporary Scots retelling of an old Inuit folk tale.

Also, look out this Spring for a new anthology of poetry and song, which will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the famous Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in. Gerda is one of the contributors. This anthology will be published by Smokestack Books, based in Middlesbrough.

Communicado News: our production of The Government Inspector, directed by Artistic Director, Gerry Mugrew, will be on again at Perth Theatre in March. Gerda will be reprising her performance as the Government Inspector’s wife. This production was nominated for the 2010 CATS awards in 4 categories - Best Production, Best Ensemble, Best Actor (John Bett), and Best Music (Aly MacRae), and the fabulously talented Aly MacRae won the Best Music category for his score: www.communicadotheatre.co.uk

Gerda is currently writing her own songs, and will be singing some of them at an evening with the Pentlands Writers’ Group, who will be launching the latest anthology of their writing in Carlops Village Hall on Friday 4th February, 7.30pm.

gerda stevenson.mp4 from Staging the Scottish Court on Vimeo.

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