The Red Cockatoo launches this October...

The latest book by Drouth editors Johnny Rodger and Mitch Miller The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment is now on sale.

As well as being able to see the book and the tenth anniversary edition, we will have a range of entertainments;

- Gordon Munro and Steve Davismoon: Kelman's short stories as Music
- Music from Clark Innes, Raymond Burke and Joyce Falconer
- Unseen documentary film of Kelman, Noam Chomsky, Douglas Gordon, Alasdair Gray, Tom Leonard and other from 1990
-Kelman dialectograms
- and more...

...did we mention there is also wine, and beer - and the event is FREE?

Find out more about the book and other special launch events throughout October in our Kelman & the City tab.

Telling Stories Exhibition

The Market Gallery has curated a special graphics/ illustration exhibition in conjuction with the comic book strand at the Glasgow Film Festival. Notable names include the former Drouth cover artist, David Shrigley and Frank Quitely. It will also be the first chance to see an original Red Road Dialectogram by Mitch Miller.

Line up in full:

David Shrigley

Frank Quitely
Gary Erskine

Jamie Grant
Sorcha Edwards

Stuart Murray
Anna Tanner

Mitch Miller
Chris Connelly

Penny Sharp
Curt Sibling

Innes Smith

Evy Craig

Lewie Wicksted

Helen Shaddock Honeypears

Event description: Graphic novels such as Kick Ass have recently infiltrated the main stream through their translationonto screen. Market Gallery presents graphic artists contributing to this creative boom, juxtaposingthem with contemporary fine artists who also use storytelling and narrative to construct their own unique worlds.

Scotland is world renowned for its story telling. This exhibition aims to celebrate this legacy whilst examining the relationship between illustration, film and fine art and encourage discussion about how these seemingly autonomous media share common themes and motivations.

The opening is Friday 11th February 6pm-9pm. And the Exhibition will run until March 6th. For more information see www.marketgallery.org.uk

Glasgow Music and Film Festival 2011

NYOS Futures- Vanishing Boundaries

A cross art form project combining elements of film, music, animation, electronic soundscapes, story telling and live performance. Drouth editor Johnny Rodger provides the writing talent for this vibrant performance which looks at the themes of vanishing boundaries.

20 February 2011, 19:30, Peel Hall, Salford University, free but ticketed---Box Office: 0161 295 7240

21 February 2011, 20:00, The Arches, Glasgow, £9 (£6)---Box Office: 0141 565 1000

For more information visit the NYOS website.



Drouth event - High Rise, the future in the past

To launch the latest issue of the Drouth, "Foundation", an event was held on the 19th January at the CCA with talks from filmmaker Chris Leslie, photographer Nicky Bird and Mitch Miller, presenting his dialectogram illustrations.

Event description:

UN figures show that by the early 1960s Scotland’s percentage public housing building output was the highest in the world (ie higher than Soviet Russia, Communist Eastern Europe or China). From the late 50s when government subsidies for each floor over the 6th were introduced, much of this housing was high-rise. Glasgow itself is said to have built more high-rise housing per head of population --largely in the 60s and early 70s- than any other city in Europe. It is now said to have the biggest high-rise demolition programme in the whole of Europe. What is the significance of this story? Three artists engage with this momentous social history.

These artists--a filmmaker, an illustrator and a photographer-- give presentations of their work on an important part of Scotland’s history. We show a film, present and discuss a new form of drawing developed specially for representing life in this form of housing, and a photographic project, which all record, remember, and investigate the high rise social housing, particularly those built in Sighthill and Red Road in Glasgow, and Adler in Dundee.

Chris Leslie's photographs of Haiti are featured in the latest issue of the Drouth.



Ragged University features Glasgow Dialectograms

Drouth editor Mitch Miller appeared as part of the inaugural series of lectures for the Ragged University, discussing his on-going Glasgow Dialectograms project  (www.dialectograms.co.uk).  

The Ragged University is a free network of events, lectures and resources that sets out to encourage flexible and diverse debate with books, open source accredited lectures and many other reliable sources of knowledge.

The speaker’s notes and presentation are available from the website http://www.raggeduniversity.com/about/index.html