DREICH presents
A FREE Festival of Poetry, Spoken Word & Music from Scotland & Beyond
At The Wee Community Hub, First Floor Ocean Terminal (in the Former Debenhams Department Store) LEITH, EDINBURGH September 16th, 17th & 18th 11am –7pm Everyday !
Timetable of What’s On FRIDAY 11am - 7pm. 11.00am Welcome, Mike Dillon leads the Freedom come all Ye ! 11.05pm The Diggers Writers : Barbara Munro - Dave Forbes - Imogen Forster 11.50pm Robin Cairns - Wullie Purcell - George Colkitto 12.45 pm Leela Soma - Anne Connolly - Sheila Templeton 1. 30 pm Jessie’s Well (Gay & Tim Blott) MUSIC 1.50 pm BREAK 2.15 pm CultFusion with Rex Sweeny , Colin Nelson, Anne J.A. Jones & The Arsenic Babies 3.30 pm BREAK 3.45 pm Ronnie Elliot MUSIC 4.05pm Ian McDonough - Joy Hendry - Richard ’ Spike’ Munro 4.50 pm Stuart A. Paterson - Brendan Moohan - Julie McNeill 5.45pm END 7.00 pm SKETCHY BEATS CAFÉ (Great Junction Street) ‘Poems & Pints’ OPEN MIC Hosted by Jacob O’Sullivan (BYOB) with Ben Campbell, Kate Wilson, James Appleby, Mark Lewis, Sofia Kaftal, Scott Cassidy.
SATURDAY 11 - 7pm 11 am 11.15 am 12.30pm 12.40pm 1. 40pm 2. 25pm 2.35pm 2.50pm 3.50pm 4. 10pm 5. 10pm 5. 30pm 6. 15 pm 7. 00PM
Mike Dillon MUSIC The Musselburgh Hotpot with Stephen Barnaby, Colin Will, Ann Foy, Julia Graves, Joe Alves, Paul Brown & Indigo Rose BREAK Amanda Baker - Finola Scott - Eileen Farrelly - Keeks Mc Kate Boston-Williams - Anne Pia - Shani Cadwallender BREAK Eileen Farrelly MUSIC Sadie Maskery - Gerry McGrath - David Kinloch - Jacob O’Sullivan Sadie Maskery & Robert Kerr MUSIC Marie Isabel Matthews- Schlinzig - Juliette Lee - Lesley Traynor - Rita Bradd Richard Buchanan MUSIC C. R. Sterling- Neil Young - Andy Breckenridge Hugh McMillan - Jane McKie - Morag Anderson What’s Next?
7.30pm PUB ...MOTHER SUPERIOR (Leith Walk) Open Mic with Chris Kent, Laird Lee Kirk, Jen Hughes, Cait O’Neill McCullagh, Andy Breckenridge, Bobby Motherwell, Helen Kay, Wise Owl Leathermonk, Kenneth Hickey, Diane McKee, Maisy Bell, Martin Goldie , Lesley Benzie, Donna Campbell & Linda Jackson HOSTED BY OISIN BREEN.
SUNDAY 18th 11 - 7pm
11. 00 am Joss Cameron MUSIC 11. 20pm James Oates - Rose Fraser Ritchie - Charlie Roy 12. 05pm ‘The Alcove’ poets Tim Tim Cheng, Lesley Storm, Olivia Thomakos & Hadley-James Hoyles 1.30pm Oisin Breen—Carla Woodburn - Stephen Watt Christine De Luca - Giovanna MacKenna 2. 45pm Nicole Carter - Peter A - Andrew J. Wilson - Marcas Mac an Tuairneir 3. 45pm Hoolet (Ronnie Miller, Maggie Dewar and Helen Ross) MUSIC 4. 10pm Douglas Thompson - Rob A. Mackenzie – Scott Redmond - Barney Ashton is Saint Torsten 5. 10 pm BREAK 5.20 pm Louise Peterkin - Rachel Coventry - Janette Ayachi 6. 10pm The Independence Choir 6.30 pm The Parting Glass Festival Director : Jack Caradoc. Music Advisors : Tom & Jane Fairnie. Section Curators : Mike Dillon, Oisin Breen, Hadley-James Hoyles, Jacob O’Sullivan, Stephen Barnaby, Rex Sweeny, Annie Kelly. Thanks to the staff and volunteers at The Living Memory Association especially Miles Tubb & John McCaughie, The WEA, Billy at The Leither, Rookbook, Jane Nolan & all at the Mother Superior Pub and all at Sketchy Beats Café. Thanks to Hybriddreich Ltd (and all those who have bought books over the last month or two) who sponsored everything with help and donations from Sheila Wakefield at Red Squirrel Press . Oisin Breen, Sanjeev Sethi, Mike Dillon, Leela Soma, Tony Hill, Christine De Luca, Diggers Writers, Ellis C. Thanks to Rob A. Mackenzie for Summer ZOOM & Elisabeth Kelly , Shani Cadwallender and all the poets and performers who zoomed and took part in the pre-festival and to anyone who donated later than when the festival programme had gone to bed. Thank you. You know who you are. Lastly to all who took part & attended. Thanks. Stay Well ! All times and performers/ poets are subject to change as you well know so stop complaining. (Just sayin’ in advance) Made in Scotland from Words / Black Lives Matter / Without the grassroots of poetry there is no poetry / Poetry for all !