This is a past event
For Book Week Scotland 2023 An animated lecture by Erlend Clouston, Nan Shepherd's Literary Executor, for Book Week Scotland.
'Nan Shepherd and the Curse of Frankenstein' pieces together the social, intellectual and historic forces that contributed to the creation of 'The Living Mountain', Nan's last book, which has been hailed as the finest piece of nature writing to come out of Britain.
Combining personal anecdote, extravagant research, a wind-up gramophone, audience participation and a pizza slice, the performance - conceived and executed by Clouston - also features the voices of Nan Shepherd, Bjork, Robert Macfarlane, Richard Osman, Miss Jean Brodie, Rene Decartes and, of course, Victor Frankenstein!
"A funny, freeing, fantastic evening’s entertainment.’
Daniel Abercrombie, Programme & Events Manager, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh (May, 2023).
Erlend Clouston worked for the Guardian for 19 years, latterly as Scottish correspondent. He was born in the (treeless) Shetland islands, but despite this, through a curious combination of circumstances, he knew Nan Shepherd for the first 35 years of his life, and the last 35 of hers. They built forts, played bagatelle and walked in Switzerland together.
Read more about The life and work of University graduate Nan Shepherd
This event is part of BOOK WEEK SCOTLAND 2023
On the night:
- This event is open to all. Students, staff, and visitors to the University are welcome to come along.
- Please go to the Welcome Desk on the ground floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library where a member of staff will have an attendee list and will provide directions.
- As the performance will be in the Craig Suite, please arrive 10 minutes before the event is due to begin to allow time to travel to the 7th Floor in the lifts.
- Please note that parking at the Library is FREE and open to all after 4pm.
- Speaker
- Erlend Clouston
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen Museums & Special Collections
- Venue
- The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Craig Suite, Floor 7
- Contact
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For further details/enquiries email events.uoacollections@abdn.ac.uk
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