Photograph thanks to Callum Bennetts
Muriel Spark's Study in Italy
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Celebrating the Centenary
There are so many events, talks and programmes coming up in 2018! If you haven't yet visited the exhibition at the National Library please go! One visit is actually not enough. Congratulations to our member Dr Colin McIlroy and his team for a splendid exhibition.
Here are some of the other events coming your way in early 2018.
Radio 4 'The Vital Spark'. Look out for programmes bearing this overall title. The first of these is on January 1st, at 9.45 am, a 5 part serialisation of Alan Taylor's Appointment in Arezzo.
On January 5th at 2.15 the afternoon drama Intelligence is based on Spark's time employed in MI6.
Radio 3 'All Miss Brodie's Girls?' 29 January - 2 February 22.45-23.00 Each night a leading Scottish writer (Ali Smith, Val McDermid, Janice Galloway, Kate Clanchy, Louise Welsh) reflects on a different aspect of Muriel Spark.
Other events include (see other posts for the Usher Hall event, the Symposium at Glasgow University and our Birthday Lunch):
2 Feb - 10 June 'A Centenary Celebration at the Writers' Museum, Edinburgh' I hope they point out our commemorative flagstone in the courtyard there.
7 Feb 'Mistress of Unease' Stewart Conn discusses the poetry of Muriel Spark with Gerda Stevenson reading the poems at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Alan Taylor is talking about Spark in various venues: 25 January in AK Bell Library, Perth; 1 February at Central Library, Edinburgh; 4 February 20 High Street, Linlithgow
More events are of course planned but not made official yet. The blog will keep you up to date.
Here are some of the other events coming your way in early 2018.
Radio 4 'The Vital Spark'. Look out for programmes bearing this overall title. The first of these is on January 1st, at 9.45 am, a 5 part serialisation of Alan Taylor's Appointment in Arezzo.
On January 5th at 2.15 the afternoon drama Intelligence is based on Spark's time employed in MI6.
Radio 3 'All Miss Brodie's Girls?' 29 January - 2 February 22.45-23.00 Each night a leading Scottish writer (Ali Smith, Val McDermid, Janice Galloway, Kate Clanchy, Louise Welsh) reflects on a different aspect of Muriel Spark.
Other events include (see other posts for the Usher Hall event, the Symposium at Glasgow University and our Birthday Lunch):
2 Feb - 10 June 'A Centenary Celebration at the Writers' Museum, Edinburgh' I hope they point out our commemorative flagstone in the courtyard there.
7 Feb 'Mistress of Unease' Stewart Conn discusses the poetry of Muriel Spark with Gerda Stevenson reading the poems at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Alan Taylor is talking about Spark in various venues: 25 January in AK Bell Library, Perth; 1 February at Central Library, Edinburgh; 4 February 20 High Street, Linlithgow
More events are of course planned but not made official yet. The blog will keep you up to date.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The International Style of Muriel Spark
This unmissable exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, is now open until May 2018. Curated by Colin McIlroy and his team, Muriel Spark's life from Edinburgh to Tuscany is beautifully depicted through her journals, her dresses, photographs and letters. Congratulations to Colin (one of our members) for doing justice to Dame Muriel.
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