Henryson Conference

Sunday September 30, Music Institute
Robert Henryson Conference
2.00 pm Welcome and introduction (Morna Fleming, Secretary)
2.10 pm ‘Mourning Cresseid – Henryson’s Testament’
Elizabeth Elliott will explore the ending Henryson’s poem offers Cresseid, its cultural resonance, and what it might mean to mourn Cresseid.
2.50 pm ‘The Public Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Poet’
William Hershaw will read a few of his poems and explain their background but also offer a few thoughts about some of the wider issues which have influenced his thinking – place, politics, education and cultural background.
3.30 pm Comfort break with refreshments

3.40 pm ‘The Constructed Space, Theatre as a place of Debate in Contemporary Scotland’
David Greig will discuss his work in the context of contemporary Scottish theatre.
4.20 pm ‘Peacocks and Squirrels: Fife, Folklore and Fable in my Poetry and Fiction’
Tom Hubbard draws on a rich folk tradition of the Kingdom, and there's more than a nod towards his revered Henryson in his use of fable in a number of poems. He'll perform pieces or short extracts from his various works.
5.00 pm Close of conference
5.10 pm Robert Henryson Society AGM
5.30 pm Close of afternoon event
Tickets £5.00 or £3.75 if booked with concert

CONCERT
 

Sunday September 30, Music Institute
7.00 pm Concert of music by James Oswald and his Italian baroque contemporaries - Andrew Woolley and Emma Lloyd
A programme of eighteenth-century music for violin and harpsichord by Mancini, Scarlatti, Munro, Barsanti, McGibbon, Geminiani and Oswald.
(including a 20-minute interval)
8.45 pm End of event
Tickets £5.00 or £3.75 if booked with conference