90th year Celebrations for Sunset Song publication

Sunset Song – A 1932 novel by Scottish Writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon celebrates 90th year in 2022 since the first publication. A call for double celebrations as The Grassic Gibbon Centre and Café was opened in 1991 (31 years ago) to commemorate his life and work....

Joan Eardley Centenary Celebration Dinner

Joan Eardley Painting at Catterline Arbuthnott Village Hall Saturday, May 14th, 2022 7.pm for 7.30pm Principal Speaker Patrick Elliott  Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art  National Galleries Scotland Tickets: £25 To reserve tickets, please...

COURIER ARTICLE by Gayle Ritchie

Gayle heads to the Grassic Gibbon Centre and is shown some exhibits by chairman Jim Brown. Picture: Kath Flannery. It’s 90 years since Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song was published – plus it’s the 30th anniversary of a centre dedicated to the Mearns novelist. Gayle...

Hugh Black

We were much saddened at the Centre at the passing of Hugh Black. Hugh and Doreen and their friends have been  staunch supporters of the events at the Centre  and we will greatly miss his support. The Centre was privileged to be asked to host his  Funeral...

Literary Lights 2021 (Content by Emma Miller)

Literary Lights 2021 The Grassic Gibbon Centre Literary Lights Prize 2021: Judges’ Adjudication   This year the fifth annual Literary Lights Prize for Creative Writing, sponsored by the Grassic Gibbon Centre and held in conjunction with the University of...