MakingImaginedObjects

Account for Online Gray Symposium, April 2021, 2nd Int. Gray Conference, June 2022 & Int. AG Research Network. Convener @rodgeglass
Tweeting all things Gray.

[MakingImaginedObjects @ImaginedMaking]

Here it comes, the 3rd annual GRAY DAY, this year focusing on POOR THINGS, Gray's Glasgow Frankenstein reimagining featuring his feminist hero Bella Baxter. Hosted at Oran Mor by @AGrayArchive
& with likes of @chitgrrl @maclavertyb & @scribepedersen, details here here here!

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Pls RT! There's always a 20% discount from @LivUniPress but for 5 DAYS ONLY there's 50% DISCOUNT on my book MICHEL FABER: THE WRITER & HIS WORK link below. If you're interested in Faber or my work but usually the book would be out of your range then ↘️↘️
https://t.co/nfn9hPMiPT

[MakingImaginedObjects @ImaginedMaking]

Alasdair Gray added to the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, alongside writers such as Deborah Orr and M.C. Beaton, also folks from all walks of Scottish life:

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Pls RT: From @heraldscotland dozens of Scots added to Oxford Dictionary of Biography. Alongside Bashir Maan, Hugh McIlvanney & Deborah Orr, I've written the entry for Alasdair Gray. Some challenge, getting him in 4500 words! But glad to see him recognized:
https://t.co/s2AkERp3id

[MakingImaginedObjects @ImaginedMaking]

Not too late to sign up for this Gray-tastic hybrid session w. hugely talented @mariaxrose who responded to last year's AG Conference with a pamphlet of poems, WOUNDSCAPE, now forthcoming with @OsmosisPress. 10/3 @AGrayArchive part-reading, part-chat, part-workshop. Roll up!

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Sign up for a free talk & workshop with the supremely talented @mariaxrose discussing her creative response to @ImaginedMaking plus workshop! This commission has been created with @AGrayArchive & @StrathclydeCW LIMITED places 10.03.23 12-1pm or 1.30-2.30pm email to book 💜

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

It's lovely to be able to share that my book MICHEL FABER will be published 1/8/23 by @LivUniPress. Announcement here, with blurb & v generous endorsements from @HeatherParryUK @writerkcampbell @timothycbaker @EverDundas & @matosman: LUCKY ME. 🎉🎇🎈https://t.co/8bvHrGVaWj

[MakingImaginedObjects @ImaginedMaking]

Roll up, roll up - @mariaxrose, workshop force of nature & poet extraordinaire, is running this FREE workshop at the @AGrayArchive 10/3 @ 11.00. Part reading & discussion of her new creative commission WOUNDSCAPE, part workshop for attendees to write their own creative responses

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Sign up for a free talk & workshop with the supremely talented @mariaxrose discussing her creative response to @ImaginedMaking plus workshop! This commission has been created with @AGrayArchive & @StrathclydeCW LIMITED places 10.03.23 12-1pm or 1.30-2.30pm email to book 💜

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Meet our #GrayDay performer… @maclavertyB

Bernard was Gray’s close friend & co-conspirator in all Things Poor! He was an early reader of the novel & also posed for the portrait of Godwin Baxter!

He’s a fantastic storyteller, come hear his Gray tales!
@OranMorGlasgow 25.02.23

[Alistair Braidwood @ScotsWhayHae]

📚🎤🎶 The latest SWH! podcast is an interview with @rodgeglass about this year's #GrayDay - the annual event which celebrates the life & work of the writer, artist & polymath, Alasdair Gray...

For full details, and all the ways to listen, click here
👉 https://t.co/htuXMTJZHB

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Tickets selling fast for #GrayDay
@OranMorGlasgow 25.02.23 7pm
@canongatebooks
@BloomsburyBooks
With @maclavertyB @rodgeglass @Chitgrrl @ScribePedersen @jill_lorean and Alan Bissett
See you there Gray Heads! ❤️

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Meet our #GrayDay performer…@Chitgrrl
She will read part of her creative response to ‘Poor Things’, commissioned by us with @StrathclydeCW in 2023. She is a journalist & author, her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, is a brilliant work of creative non-fiction

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Meet our #GrayDay performer…@ScribePedersen
He’s a Scottish poet, writer, scribbler & stitcher. His prose debut was ‘Boy Friends’ by @FaberBooks in 2022. He co-founded @NeuReekie which delivered our last 2 Gray Days, he’s an awesome performer & proponent of excellent knitwear

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

GRAY DAY X POOR THINGS GIVEAWAY !!!!
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10 X CHANCES TO WIN!

To be in with a shot…👇👇👇

👉🏽follow @AGrayArchive
👉🏽tag a friend in the comments.

We'll be choosing 10 WINNERS to receive all of these prizes on Friday 24th FEBRUARY at 10am GMT.

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Not sure if I've mentioned this a weeeee bit recently but: it's nearly #GrayDay! Great fun talking to @ScotsWhayHae about all things AG, Poor Things, and our big celebration this Saturday. Cheers Ali! More power to you 🎊🎊🎊. Here's the link to the podcast.

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

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JUST ANNOUNCED: The Scottish Government has completely abandoned its plans to cut funding for Creative Scotland, after more than 15,000 people signed our urgent petition to #StopTheCuts.
🎉🎉🎉

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

GRAY DAY 2023: POOR THINGS 25/2 @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 7pm. 5 days to go: feat. @Chitgrrl! @ScribePedersen! @jill_lorean! Alan Bissett! @maclavertyB! And most importantly, POOR THINGS, Gray's playful Glasgow Frankenstein. Hosted by @AGrayArchive. Whoop! https://t.co/B2LQj5jY1I

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

OH YES INDEED. Pls RT word far n' wide. The 3rd annual GRAY DAY focuses on Gray's 30-years-young novel POOR THINGS (soon to be a major motion picture, as they say). Hosted by @AGrayArchive at @OranMorGlasgow home of Gray's visual artistic masterpiece. Bella Caledonia Rules OK!

[MakingImaginedObjects @ImaginedMaking]

Good Gray things in a bad world, 2022 edition 🎉📚🖼️

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Creative Commissions with @StrathclydeCW @rodgeglass

@ScribePedersen responded to Alasdair’s Green Chair with a poem performed at #GrayDay @OranMorGlasgow

@jennivora poems from her 2021 commission produced ‘Vestigial’ by @StewedBooks

@mariaxrose responded to @ImaginedMaking

[MakingImaginedObjects @ImaginedMaking]

@AGrayArchive @sgsah @StrathHum @StrathclydeCW @artwritingGSofA @GLAcuratorial @eca_edinburgh @ahrcpress @laurenforde_ @rodgeglass @eleanor_bell More power to ye!

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Education: jointly delivered @ImaginedMaking Wat Dryhope Award & undergrad/postgrad placements with @sgsah @StrathHum @StrathclydeCW @artwritingGSofA @GLAcuratorial @eca_edinburgh secured @ahrcpress collab doc award with @laurenforde_ and co-supervisors @rodgeglass @eleanor_bell

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Happy to spread word! @pennysuperdog gave a fantastic paper on Alasdair Gray's Disability Imagination @ImaginedMaking Conference this summer. Great to see her involved in this Etudes ecossaises special issue. ↘️↘️↘️↘️