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17 to 26 February 2022

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2022 Paisley Book Festival is Live!

Join us over the next 10 days to celebrate books, reading and writing in Paisley!

Our 2022 Festival is a response to Scotland’s Year of Stories “Stories Mak Us” with a blended programme of live and digital events.

The Festival has creativity and innovation at the heart of its programming, showcasing some of the best and most diverse voices being published today in Scotland and beyond.

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“What a fantastic festival, and my goodness: the ‘Scottish Masculinities’ event was sensational; I’m still thinking about it, a week on, and have been raving…about it a lot!”

Camilla Elworthy, Group Publicity Director, Literary, Pan Macmillan

“It did NOT feel like the first year of a new book festival - it was so smooth, so bedded into the town, so ambitious! Well done for creating a book festival that already feels like an essential part of the literary year!”

Lari Don, Children’s Author

“Paisley Book Festival was the vanguard of digital book festivals”

Jasper Sutcliffe, UK Publisher and Affiliate Manager Bookshop.org

“You’ve made me so proud to be a buddy.”

Audience Feedback 2021, Paisley Book Festival

“I’m absolutely loving volunteering at Paisley Book Festival so far doing social media. The event programme is brilliant, the volunteers and festival team are so supportive and I feel like I’m gaining really valuable experience for my future career.”

Volunteer 2021, Paisley Book Festival

“Paisley was excellent – well done to you and your team”

Marion Sinclair, Publishing Scotland

“Was feeling a bit fed up today and wasn’t really in the mood for @BookPaisley but I am so glad I fired up the laptop and tuned in. Such an important conversation re - trauma, masculinity and stigma. Very powerful.”

Audience Feedback 2021, Paisley Book Festival

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To celebrate our opening weekend and our return to To celebrate our opening weekend and our return to live events we are offering 2 for 1 tickets! 🤩🎟️ For this weekend only, until midnight on Sunday 20th February, you can get your hands on 2 for 1 tickets for ALL Festival events. Use the code: PBF
LIVE FAMILY EVENT 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 | Libr LIVE FAMILY EVENT 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 | Library Listening Lounge 17th – 26th February at Central Library, Paisley. If you go down to the … books … today, you’re sure of a big surprise! Together with your grown-up, find a space in the Paisley Book Festival ‘garden’, coorie in – and discover together that even watering cans have tales to tell. The Library Listening Lounge is Paisley Book Festival’s relaxation station for families. Borrow a watering can and find a cosy corner; snuggle up with your grown up and “water your ears” with some incredible tiny tales. FREE to attend, no booking required. Please note the opening hours below to avoid disappointment. Featuring the stories of Small Small Rainbows. Age 0+. Stories especially suited to ages 4-11. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #FamilyEvent #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
DIGITAL EVENT 💻| The Sex Lives of African Women DIGITAL EVENT 💻| The Sex Lives of African Women with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah 25th February at 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Online Award-winning blogger and feminist activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is in conversation with performance storyteller and writer Mara Menzies to discuss the diverse experiences of black women and afro descendants living in the diaspora who feature in her book, The Sex Lives of African Women. Here we discover how Elizabeth navigates love and sex as a woman with a disability and hear of Fatou, a 60-year-old polyamorous woman from Senegal. From finding queer communities around the world, taboos around self-pleasure, to the role religion and spirituality can play in determining a woman’s right to sexual pleasure, these stories are rich, moving and courageous. They shine a light on the individual journeys of women attempting to discover the sensual and sexual part of themselves. Part of The Power of Storytelling, a series of events curated by Mara Menzies. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
Only one week to go... We hope you are as excited Only one week to go... We hope you are as excited as we are!🥳📚 Make sure you check out our fabulous online programme of over 50 unique events running from 17th - 26th Feb! 👆Find the link to our website in our bio. #PBF2022 #YS2022 @paisley.is @visitscotland @bookshop_org_uk
DIGITAL EVENT 💻 | The Stories that kept us Sane DIGITAL EVENT 💻 | The Stories that kept us Sane: A Long Covid Writers Showcase 21st February at 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Online Whilst many have been lucky enough to fully recover from Covid-19, estimates suggest that more than 79,000 people in Scotland are suffering from long lasting symptoms of the virus, including brain fog, fatigue and breathlessness. Unlike deaths and positive tests, the numbers of people with Long Covid have not been counted. For many of these people, connecting with each other through creativity and having a chance to tell their own story has been a lifeline. Come along and hear some of these stories from the people that wrote them in an event narrated by writer, campaigner and founder of Long Covid creative writing groups, Lesley Macniven. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
DIGITAL EVENT 💻 | Double Language with Raman Mu DIGITAL EVENT 💻 | Double Language with Raman Mundair and Raymond Antrobus 18th February at 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Online Most folk carry more than one language, and many of us use different ways of speaking in different communities. Different languages can give us different ways of thinking, feeling and belonging, but it’s not always easy to feel at home in the languages you use. Can poetry come from the tricky gaps between our ways of communicating? In this event, Guest Curator Harry Josephine Giles brings together poets who have nimbly mixed languages in their work to make poetry that brings alive their ways of thinking. Raman Mundair is writer, filmmaker, and activist based in Shetland and Glasgow, whose poetry has incorporated Scots into searching explorations of politics and home. Raymond Antrobus is a poet, educator and investigator of missing sounds, who has used sign language and closed captioning in his enlivening and lyrical poetry. Part of Minding Language, a series of events curated by Harry Josephine Giles. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
LIVE EVENT 🎟️| Song from the Last Page: Festi LIVE EVENT 🎟️| Song from the Last Page: Festival Finale 26th February, 8:00 – 9:30 pm February at @uwsstudents Join us to round off this year’s festival with a heart-warming musical celebration of Scottish writers and the world of stories. Songs from the Last Page is a brand-new collection of songs that has been specially created by Chamber Music Scotland, each one taking the last page of a book and that moment when the reader silently reads the final lines of a story and transforming it into music. This event will feature songwriter Gareth Williams at the piano, Aisling O’Dea on violin and Justyna Jablonska on cello, and will include settings of last lines from Scottish classics including Lanark, Treasure Island, and also some writers with Paisley connections. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
LIVE FAMILY EVENT 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦| Book LIVE FAMILY EVENT 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦| Book Launch! Cora – Gaisgeach nan Gràineag! 26th February at Central Library, Paisley. 3 showings: 10:00 – 10:45 am 11:00 – 11:45 am 12:00 – 12:45 pm Hedgehog Hero! Cora is back on the island, at Granny Ferry’s house, her favourite place in the world. A poor hedgehog needs help but what can Cora do? With songs, fun and a little help from Paella, granny’s cat, what could go wrong? Gaelic puppet show for 4-7 year olds (15 mins). Workshop – also in Gaelic – afterwards (30 mins). The Gaelic book Cora – Gaisgeach nan Gràineag will be available to buy. “The children were transfixed by the puppets and the story – fantastic!” – A parent with children in P1 & P3. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
It’s the last day of #NationalStorytellingWeek a It’s the last day of #NationalStorytellingWeek and less than two weeks until The Paisley Book Festival 2022! ✨ Our theme this year ‘Stories Mak Us’ encourages discussions on a range of topics, from storytelling to Scots/Gaelic events. Full programme of events here👉 https://bit.ly/PBF2022P
LIVE WORKSHOP 🎟️ | Songs from the Last Page: LIVE WORKSHOP 🎟️ | Songs from the Last Page: Song Writing workshop 26th February, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm at@uwsstudents Songs from the Last Page is a brand-new collection of songs that has been specially created by Chamber Music Scotland, each one taking the last page of a book and that moment when the reader silently reads the final lines of a story, and transforming it into music. In this interactive workshop, songwriter Gareth Williams and his musical team will share some top tips about the song writing process, and work with participants to create some brand-new songs of their own. No prior song writing experience is necessary, and you can either bring along your own favourite last line from a book or use one that Gareth has prepared in advance. 👆Book now via our website, link in bio. #PBF22 #StoriesMakUs #Books #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland #Storytelling #VisitScotland
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If you head down to Paisley Central Library during @BookPaisley, there's a cosy corner with some @smallsmallrain1 stories tucked in, for a cosy treat.

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Totally amazed to be able to share today that @NicolaSturgeon will be hosting our What Maks a Makar event @BookPaisley next weekend with the wonderful @KathleenJamie and Robyn Marsack.

As such a champion of reading - we couldn't ask for more. Check it out!

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We are delighted to announce First Minister @NicolaSturgeon as guest host of our 'What Maks a Makar' event with @KathleenJamie!

Find out more👉 https://is.gd/MZ9W0o

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