Scotlit @ GU in collaboration with GSA

announce the Launch and Celebration

of a new book

THE RED COCKATOO:

JAMES KELMAN AND THE ART OF COMMITMENT

by Mitch Miller and Johnny Rodger

You are invited to the two day free event

Day One
Friday 7th October Glasgow Print Studio (103 Trongate) 7-9pm

Conference opening party to celebrate the launch of the book and The Drouth issue 40/Tenth anniversary issue with live music, film, entertainment  and refreshments.

Come along to G.P.S at 7pm on Friday to launch the 40th/10th anniversary edition of the Drouth and our book The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment. We'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary and holding an opening night party for our Saturday Conference Kelman and the City (1-6pm at the Hunterian Art Gallery).

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?

Day Two
Saturday 8th October Hunterian Gallery, Kelman in the City Conference 1-6pm
At the invitation of Glasgow University, top speakers/academics  come together to celebrate the publication of The Red Cockatoo and deliver papers/talks on Kelman’s engagement in the world of art and politics, activism, civics and anti-racism in Glasgow and beyond.  This is of vital interest to those working on Art groups and politics forming around GSA in the 80s and 90s.
 
Speakers include:

Dr. Scott Hames ,  (Edinburgh companion to James Kelman  (EUP) & forthcoming monograph on Kelman

Dr. Simon Kovesi  (monograph on the novels of James Kelman, published by MUP)

Johnny Rodger  & Mitch Miller (Red Cockatoo) on the urban Kelman & Kelman by dialectogram –drawing

  Peter Kravitz, publisher of Kelman, at Polygon and Edinburgh Review, colleague of Kelman

Dr. Sarah Lowndes (Social Sculpture, pub by Luath, a history of art  & political movements in Glasgow 1980’s – present day)

There will also  be a showing of some of excerpts of some of the previously unseen film footage of the Govan 1990 conference ‘Self Determination and Power’ with Kelman, Chomsky et al ,prepared by Malcolm Dickson , director of Streetlevel Gallery, colleague and collaborator with Kelman.

There will be  a Wine Reception in the Hunterian 5-6pm
The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment, a new book by Mitch Miller and Johnny Rodger will be launched at the conference.

Download the Kelman and the City flyer to share with your contacts.

If you are interested in finding out more about the event, then contact us for news and updates.