by Emma Rose Miller | Jun 14, 2020 | Uncategorised
Judging this contest on behalf of the Grassic Gibbon Centre has been one of my most pleasant tasks ever as a director – and indeed the challenge in deciding on a winner is a tribute to the standard of the entries, with local artists joined by submissions from further...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorised
Lockdown Art Competition Please find the lovely entries to our Lockdown Art Competition. We asked participants to submit artwork and photos that illustrate or were inspired by a quote from Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic...
by Emma Rose Miller | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorised
Dear Visitor, Due to the current world health situation regarding the COVID-19 virus, we have taken the decision to close the cafe and tourist centre for approximately 21 days, as from Monday 16th March 2020. The wellbeing of our customers and staff is of...
by Emma Rose Miller | Mar 1, 2020 | Uncategorised
Welcome back to the Grassic Gibbon Centre and Cafe! Wet it was that spring: March came flooding in rains down the length and breadth of the guttering Howe; every night you’d hear the swash of the water if your place in the bed was next to the wall; the gulls...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jan 29, 2020 | Uncategorised
Albrecht Durer (German 1471-1528), National Galleries of Scotland “Flying is woman’s gesture-flying in language and making it fly.” In the previous two blogs, I wrote about how Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s texts have a remarkable feminine quality to them...
by Emma Rose Miller | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorised
J. Leslie Mitchell with daughter Rhea, Grassic Gibbon Centre What is feminine writing? What marks a feminine (not to be confused with female which refers to the sex of a writer) text? Though some particularly loud voices in society have not checked their science, we...
