Ron Butlin

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2011 APPEARANCES

JANUARY

1 Jan - Haiku commissioned for Resolution Square
10 Jan – INTERVIEW and READING on BBC Radio 3
16 Jan - Interview and reading featured on BBC Radio 4’s PICK OF THE WEEK
19 Jan – Meeting with David Maclennan to discuss play to be commissioned by Oran Mor (Glasgow)
25 Jan – JUDGE (with Janice Forsyth and Robyn Marsack) of ‘poppypoems’ at the Scottish Poetry Library

FEBRUARY

7 Feb- ECAT Discussion Group
14 Feb – full-page article in Edinburgh Evening News about song lyrics for City of Literature’s Let’s Get Lyrical project

 MARCH

2 Mar – Meeting with British Council re regular online stories for their English Language teaching

3 Mar – Meeting with Scottish Opera re possible new opera

4 Mar – READING at Edinburgh University (as Royal Literary Fund Fellow)

5 Mar – Guest of Scottish Opera at performance of Handel’s Orlando

14 Mar – Guest at Creative Scotland dinner to meet academic deputation from Italy.

17 Mar – SPECIALIST ADVISOR on Creative Scotland Writers’ Bursary Panel

17 Mar – POEM (A Recipe for Whisky) on permanent display in Caledonian Hilton

18 Mar – Pre-concert talk for Scottish Chamber Orchestra at City Halls, Glasgow

19 Mar – Pre-concert talk for SCO at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

21 Mar – ECAT Discussion Group

22 Mar – Reception for Swiss Consulate

25 Mar to 15 April – READING TOUR (and holiday!) in Switzerland 

APRIL

9 April – Three READINGS (including Official Opening) at the City2Cities Festival in Utrecht

21 April – SPEECH at the National Galleries of Scotland Prize-giving

MAY

2-16 May – ‘DISTINGUISHED SCOTTISH WRITER for 2011’ at Cove Park International Centre

17 May – GUEST of the National Theatre of Scotland at performance of Dunsinane

19 May – TALK at Edinburgh University’s Office Livelong Learning

20 May – MEETING to discuss my participation in this year’s EIBF

20 May - INTERVIEW (given) to the Scotsman (Pulse)

24 May – GUEST at Scottish Opera’s production of Rigoletto

27 MAY – READING in Greyfriar’s Church to introduce Beethoven concert series

28 May – READING commissioned poem to celebrate the Saltire Society’s 75^th anniversary (Trades Hall, Glasgow)

JUNE

14 June – MEETING with Scottish Opera to discuss new opera (possible co-production with companies in New Zealand and Austria)

17 June – SPEECH and READING commissioned poem for Saltire Society at Edinburgh Arts Club

28 June – 25 July GUEST at Chateau Lavigny (Switzerland) International Writers Centre.

AUGUST

5 Aug – GUEST at Creative Scotland dinner for Anne Carson the Canadian poet

5-20 AUG - Appearances on Edinburgh Fringe Festival in show based on my book Vivaldi and the Number 3 (with Jazz maestros Dick Lee and Anne Evans)

10 Aug – SPEECH and READING to Summer School of University of Gottingen

5-19 Aug – Lecturing and workshops at Edinburgh University

24 – CHAIRING crime writers’ event at EIBF

26 Aug – READING at EIBF

28 Aug – SPEECH and READING (for Amnesty International) at EIBF

29 Aug – ACTING (!!) In Alasdair Gray’s play Fleck at the EIBF

SEPTEMBER

3 Sept – Wordplay Festival (Shetland)

5-16 Sept – Visiting Primary Schools in Shetland

15 Sept - INTERVIEW for Shetland Times

15 Sept - INTERVIEW for BBC Radio Shetland

21 Sept - SPEECH  at Edinburgh University

27 Sept - SPEECH and READING (Robert Burns) at Scottish Poetry Library

28 Sept - MEETING to discuss The Magicians of Edinburgh as a Fringe Show for 2012

30 Sept - MEETING to discuss poems for BBC Radio show and Celtic Connections festival

30 Sept - SPEECH at ADULT EDUCATION MATTERS launch at Edinburgh Central Library

OCTOBER

2 Oct - Ghost Moon (new novel) completed and sent to agent

3 Oct - Start setting up series of talks and workshops at various Edinburgh schools

4 Oct - Start revising first draft of new poetry collection, The Magicians of Edinburgh,  due to be published next year

6 Oct - GUEST at SCO concert

12 Oct - GUEST at Spanish National Day lunch

13 Oct - RECORDING poem for BBC

20 Oct - GUEST at Swiss Ambassador’s Concert

26 Oct - READING at NORTH LANARKSHIRE 2011 WORDS FESTIVAL

28 Oct - READING at Neu Reekie! (at Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh)

29 Oct – GUEST at Jame Boswell Unveiling at Makar’s Court

NOVEMBER

2 Nov – SPEECH at Royal Overseas League lunch

3 Nov -  First TALK in a series, ‘Symphonies for All’, at Edinburgh University

2012

A new collection of poetry on Edinburgh themes, The Magicians of Edinburgh, to be published.

Also, a new novel – Ghost Moon

The Sound Of My Voice
'One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80s'
Irvine Welsh