As part of the Glasgow Short Film Festival, a WPM/Flaterate co-curation…
Frames Per Second
Saturday 11th February
The Berkley Suite (see link for details)
8pm (doors at 7.30pm)
We look at the different ways some of Scotland’s best writers have used film to augment their writing.
Kapka Kassabova reads from and shows an animation created for her book Twelve Minutes of Love
Ewan Morrison presents short stories and accompanying films from his new digital literature project Tales From The Mall
Novelist Alan Bissett and musician/filmmaker Adam Stafford screen and perform the narration and score to their multi award-winning short film The Shutdown.
PLUS (in the Flatrate half of the night): Theatre maker Jamie Wardrop, storytelling, music and film from Gaelic singer-songwriter Dol Eoin, performance from Harry Wilson, who will be attempting to fly live on stage, and DJ Hex spinning records alongside live-improvised tagtool animations.
You can book tickets on the Glasgow Film Festival website. Bargain, we reckon.
WPM: Feminisms
Sunday 4th March
The Arches
4pm, £5
As a tie-in with International Women’s Day, WPM asks an all-female lineup to take a look at what they think ‘feminism’ means now.
Including Jessica Gregson, Amber Sparks and Suzanne Edgerton
WPM meets The Special Relationship
Sunday 1st April
The Arches
4pm
WPM teams up with London-based US exports The Special Relationship, a literary night with ideals very close to our own (namely: performance shouldn’t be boring! And should be short!) for a co-curated US/UK experiment. So far we’ve got Elaine DiRollo and Michael Pederson confirmed – look out for much more yet to come.
THE RECENT PAST…
WPM: The Festive One
Sunday 11th December
The Arches, 4-6pm
Shambles Miller, Sophie Cooke, Sophie Mackintosh, Texture and Jamie McIntyre raised spirits/glasses/the roof at our annual festive bash. In tribute, we put together an album full of pictures and links. Click through, ogle ‘em, download their work.
…and watch Shambles and Sophie M giving it their best Pogues/Kirsty McColl.
WPM: The Sex Special (November 2011)
Novelists Zoe Strachan and Kei Miller, poet/theatre-maker Drew Taylor, sex-troubadour Tragic O’Hara, Caroline Bowditch of Scottish Dance Theatre, and new writers Alan Gillespie and Lynsey May got the audience hot under the collar in our celebration of erotic literature, sexy song and general smut. See pictures here (all safe for work, we promise).
WPM: The Relaunch! (October 2011)
After a summer break, we were back at the Arches in splendid style (with a mini-WPM at the inaugual Bungofest the day before) with stories from Hannah McGill, Allan Wilson and Sara Thomas, poetry from Cara McGuigan, a new theatre piece from Gary McNair, a short film by Tobias Wolfe and Alan McKendrick and music from the incredibly-voiced Becci Wallace to see us out. Take a look, right here.
WPM Unbound (August 2011)
Our biggest-ever WPM crowd (seriously, there were about 400 of you there!) jammed into the Edinburgh International Book Festival‘s Spiegeltent for readings by Alan Bissett, McSweeney’s legend Adam Levin and Ross Sutherland, a music/poetry mash-up by Rodge Glass and Ryan Van Winkle, and gob-smacking live sets by Zorras, Swimmer One and RM Hubbert. All of those gorgeous posers are pictured here (images by Chris Scott, not Neil Thomas Douglas).
