Around Town
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Glasgow
Activities & Events
Masters Fashion Promenade (ilasgoyy School ol'.v\i't. 'l‘he Mackintosh (iallet'y. l(i7 chl'reyy Street. 353 4500. 8 10pm. £15. Nine international postgraduate laxhion students from the (inVs Ml)e\ 'lc\lllc\ as l'ttxlliull course slum ol'l' their debut collectioth. Sec preyicyy. page 4o.
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Café philosophique Alliance Fruitcake de (ilaxgou. 3 l’ark ('ircux. 33‘) 423]. 4.30pm. £5 (£3 l. l)l\cll\\ltitl en l'i'ancaix autoui' d'un \ujet philosophique. ('el moixz comment luii'e Ia pai\’.’
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Fairs
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Food & Drink
Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market Queen's Park. 520 l.an}_'\ide Park. 387 7373. l0am 2pm. l'rce. l‘orget all about that lllusx-pl‘udllcctl l‘llhltlxll lai‘iiiei'x' markets are all about quality organic produce “ith the muck still on it.
Talks
Holy City RL‘IlllL‘ltl SI Stephen's ('hurch. Zoo Bath Street. 332 3826.
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TELL ME A STORY
Kirstin Innes discovers that storytelling isn‘t just a bygone tradition.
We don’t have much time for folklore these days. The oral tradition of storytelling, while it has contemporary parallels in performance poetry and the sprawling narratives of rap, seems anachronistic in an age of YouTube and email forwards. We don’t seem to be interested in things that go bump in the night unless they've come off a killer Japanese videotape, and tend to dismiss traditional storytellers as eccentrics steeped in peat smoke and obsolete folk history. In the run up to the Winter Solstice, though, with long nights and increasingly sinister shadows, huddling up round a fire to spin old yarns about witchcraft and fairies begins to sound far more agreeable than another stressed night of consumerism.
Deep in the bowels of the GOMA Library, the Scottish Federation of Writers have constructed a (fag free) Victorian smoking-room, complete with fireplace and easy chairs, for a whole day’s worth of storytelling
‘It’s aimed at adults who haven’t lost sight of their
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gather together and share ll]_\lll\. folklore.
childhoods,’ says Marc Sherland, organiser of 3 Seasonal Tales for a Victorian Fireside. ‘There might be stories about trolls and goblins, or more modern comic pieces. We’ve tried to recreate the atmosphere of a small intimate gathering, even though we’re expecting well over sixty people this year.’ He’s already confirmed appearances from Glasgow author Anne C Clarke and Ayrshire Makar Sheila Templeton, but stresses that storytelling experience isn’t necessary for participation.
Over in Edinburgh, master storyteller Duncan Williamson will be holding court at the Guid Crack Club in the appropriately time-warped surroundings of the Waverley Bar. Williamson is a traveller and champion of the oral tradition who estimates that he knows over 3000 stories - telling tales of selkies, kelpies and trickery on the roads.
Go on. Suspend your thoroughly modern disbelief. It’s Christmas. We can’t guarantee that somebody won’t dredge up the one about the escaped maniac on the roof of the car, though.
I Seasonal Tales for a Victorian Fi’resUe. Glasgow. Thu 21 Dec. The Gil/d Crack C/iil) Yii/efest. Edinburgh, Fri 15 Dec.
Mainly in French: booking advisable.
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Tchai Ovna Games Society 'l‘cliai ()yna. lo0 l)ean\ton l)ri\c. (>40 7358. 8pm. Remember. throu in}; the board up in a bad temper il' you lose is childish.
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Glasgow’s Hogmanay (ieorge Square. 087] 200 3040. Sandi Thom. The View and The Fratellis do their best to work (ieorge Square into a cork-[Mpping lien/y. \yhilc Donnie Munro puckers tip.
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Mansfield Park Farmers’ Market Mansfield Park. ol‘l' l)umbarton Road. 34l 0844. l0am 2pm. Free. Who needs \lllk‘l‘lllill'kt‘l lttxll \\ hen you’y e got happy produce l‘roin happy placex‘.’ lale the dillcrencc.
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Paris .-\|liance l‘rancaixe de (llasgott. 3 Park ('ircux. 330 428]. opin. Free. Meet the \yritei‘. jotlt‘ttalixl and \(K‘loluglsl Phillipe Meyer for a talk about Paris.
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Glasgow on Ice l'ntil Sun 24 Dec. (ieorge Square. 087l 200 3040.
l0am 10pm. a» toll peakl £8.50 (£5 ~11»); lamin £32.50. A chance to perfect your pirouettex tor at least let go of the side) as (ieorge Square's open air ice rink returns for another year accompanied by non-stop music.
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