What's on in Fisherrow

East Lothian, Scotland

The proper local stuff the big sites overlook — from open mic nights to dog shows, toddler groups to talks about local history that turn out to be more interesting than you'd think. Fisherrow keeps its calendar surprisingly full, and we've tracked down the lot. Coffee mornings that turn into proper catch-ups. Quiz nights where the same team wins every week and everyone pretends not to mind. Craft fairs, food markets, community screenings, and workshops teaching you things you didn't know you wanted to learn. All the things that make living somewhere feel like actually living somewhere, not just sleeping there.

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In conversation with Dominic Gregory & David Gange
Community
Around £3.00

In conversation with Dominic Gregory & David Gange

In this special double-feature event we are thrilled to welcome both Dominic Gregory and David Gange for a discussion of their respective forthcoming books The Lifeboat at the End of the World and Afloat.Join us for an insightful conversation on managing small boats in some of the most difficult conditions, the community that emerges, and the worldviews of the people who rely on small boats.Dominic Gregory is an RNLI volunteer on the Dungeness lifeboat, his book The Lifeboat at the End of the World is the first to document the realities of volunteering for the RNLI. Dungeness has been home to a lifeboat service for over 200 years, and now finds itself as the centre of one of the most pressing political stories in modern Britain. His candid, powerful writing takes you into a unique perspective on the issue of small boat migration and explores why the RNLI is so important.David Gange explores ways of life that have been built on small rowed or peddled boats, particularly in the North Atlantic, in his latest book Afloat. Small boats have been essential to many cultures’ ways of living in the land- and seascapes that surround them. Wherever we have statistics, small rowed and paddled boats outnumber decked ships by at least fifty to one, yet nearly all writing is dedicated to the large boats, until this book.This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.

Tue 28 Apr18:00The Portobello Bookshop(2.3mi)
Hannah Lavery - Everything Everyday: A Year of Empty Promises
Community
Around £3.00

Hannah Lavery - Everything Everyday: A Year of Empty Promises

It's a pleasure to be welcoming Hannah Lavery back to the bookshop for the publication day launch of her new poetry collection, Everything Everyday: A Year of Empty Promises. Lavery will be in conversation with fellow poet and former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay. Don't miss out on what will be a beautiful celebration of Lavery's poetry!This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.About Everything Everyday:Everything Everyday is a poetic journal of the year that charts winter through to autumn in a richly textured sequence of diary-poems, lyric fragments and a crown of sonnets.Each month’s entry weaves together mythic figures – Tahlequah the mourning orca, Brigid’s mountain dance, Sister Icarus’s fragile flight and Beira’s shore vigils – with the unfolding chronicle of contemporary grief and protest. Readers move from January’s frozen harbour and political flashpoints into spring’s ritual planting of ‘lemon-drop’ seeds, summer’s drum-driven rallies and smoky vigils, and autumn’s oil-slick swans and ash-borne snowdrops. The collection’s formal innovations mirror its thematic urgency: bracketed interjections pulse like heartbeats, dated stanzas resonate like journal entries, and the season-by-season structure creates a mythic ledger of solidarity and hope.

Thu 7 May18:00The Portobello Bookshop(2.3mi)
Polly Atkin - Swimming the Seasons
Community
Around £3.00

Polly Atkin - Swimming the Seasons

It's always a pleasure when Polly Atkin visits and we're looking forward to her return for the launch of Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac right here by the Porty seaside! This is a book about resilience, mindfulness and the transformative embrace of wild water.This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.About Swimming the Seasons:To swim is an act of attention: to the self, and to everything beyond it.Follow poet and nature writer Polly Atkin as she swims through the turning year in the rivers, lakes and tarns of the English Lake District, in this lyrical ode to the uplifting power of water. This is a love story between a person and a place. It is a story of acceptance, persistence and finding joy in the everyday, as eight years of outdoor swimming through every season deepen Atkin’s knowledge and understanding of both the landscape she calls home and her disabled body.Each month in the water reveals how a life lived with pain can be as rich, rewarding and full of delight as any other. Atkin swims for the sheer pleasure of it, showing how that pleasure may be found in every season, even by those who find the cold neither thrilling nor soothing. She reminds us of the quiet power of noticing the lives alongside ours — birds, plants and people.

Tue 12 May18:00The Portobello Bookshop(2.3mi)

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