Brian MacLaren – In Glasgow 7th Dec
By Scott P
brian maclaren is speaking in glasgow on monday night
I have heard him before, most recently at Greeneblt 08, and have read some books of his.
if you are interested I would guess it is worth £5 of your money.
I have a work thing that evening and probably won’t be there, but then again I may be? who knows!
I you are going neal at Limn.org.uk has a br-ingo sheet for you to print out and play along with.
(small side rant)
Why do events like this happen in the Vertigo Bar of Strathclyde Student Union? Could a proper bar or venue not be found? (Why should I have to join a student union because someone else has decided this is a great venue.) How about a lecture theatre/big room somewhere with drinks afterwards in the local pub? When the Archbishop of Canterbury did a P.A., (Personal Appearance), in Glasgow a wee while ago, it was in a lecture theatre.
To clarify I have no problem with meeting in a pub’s, but for this event using the Vertigo Bar of Strathclyde Univeristy Union as a venue it doesn’t make sense at all. Why the dodgy venue. I can only guess it is an attempt at being edgy and emergent? Sounds like someone is trying to hard.
I don’t see the point, perhaps I just have missed it? if so have please enlighten me.
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December 5th, 2008
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neal
December 5th, 2008
i’d take him to cottiers.. nice big theatre-y place for him to speak, plenty of irony in the surroundings, and a cosy bar not too far away for afterwards! and then he and some others could come back to the flat for a cup of tea…
Scott P
December 5th, 2008
Is Cottiers re opened? i loved that place then they shut it for repairs. I saw John Shuttleworth and Bill Bailey there. It is a great venue. others I thought of included Mitchell Library, makes sense, plus has three fabulous indian eating houses within 500 meters. Or The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall which would be a wonderful venue!
neal
December 5th, 2008
hmm.. i forgot about the repairs.. i don’t think it is open yet.
perhaps the big room in uisge beatha.. i think that would work well.. nice and cosy (if perhaps a little tight!)
I’d never heard of the panopticon before.. it looks amazing- would be great to organise something in there!