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📖 Responding to Lanark
📅 Wednesday 15 April
⏰ 18:00 - 19:00
The University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre
Free but ticketed - link below👇🏽
Rachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive.
Final animation by Miranda Peyton Jones, one of five emerging animators commissioned by The Alasdair Gray Archive & Canongate to respond to the new Lanark audiobook (narrated by Alan Cumming), exploring the novel’s famous Epilogue. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-baM...
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📖 Responding to Lanark
📅 Wednesday 15 April ⏰ 18:00
In partnership with @agrayarchive.bsky.social , celebrate 45 years since the publication of Alasdair Gray's Lanark in the company of author Rachelle Atalla, who will read from a specially commissioned short story to mark the occasion.
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, was honoured to write the @theguardian.com obituary for sculptor and educator David Harding. As town artist in Glenrothes he embedded sculpture in everyday spaces, shaping a vision of public art that lives with the weather and the street.
06.03.2026 09:44 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Our fourth animation commission for Gray Day 2026 🎬 Animator Tintin Lindkvist Nielsen responds to Chapter 22 of Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Premiered at Òran Mór, Glasgow, exploring belonging, identity and the city’s stories.
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Happy World Book Day! Celebrating Alasdair Gray—novelist, artist and champion of Scottish and Glaswegian identity. Here is his self-portrait aged 16 (1951) writing at his desk, from his illustrated autobiography A Life in Pictures (2010).
05.03.2026 11:37 — 👍 66 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2Yu Sun, one of five animators commissioned by the Alasdair Gray Archive and @canongate.co.uk, created a mixed-media response to Chapter Twelve of Lanark. Inspired by Duncan Thaw’s childhood imagination, the film premiered at Gray Day 2026.
05.03.2026 06:50 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0That’s one for @canongate.co.uk 👍
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Sharing the second of our Gray Day animation commissions ✨
Oliver Pearse, one of five artists selected by The Alasdair Gray Archive and @canongate.co.uk, reimagines Chapter Six of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) for the Alan Cumming audiobook—first screened at Gray Day 2026 at Òran Mór.
First of five new animations for Gray Day 2026 ✨ Ann Dinh responds to the new Lanark audiobook by Alasdair Gray, narrated by Alan Cumming, commissioned by The Alasdair Gray Archive & @canongate.co.uk. Screened at Òran Mór.
03.03.2026 08:05 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1First of five new animations for Gray Day 2026 ✨ Ann Dinh responds to the new Lanark audiobook by Alasdair Gray, narrated by Alan Cumming, commissioned by The Alasdair Gray Archive & @canongate.co.uk. Screened at Òran Mór.
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It’s World Gaelic Week! We’re celebrating Aonghas MacNeacail and Gerda Stevenson—friends and collaborators. From Imaginary Wounds to Blue Black Permanent, their legacy continues, with a 2025 biography by Brae MacDonald.
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Come visit us and @aowensarchive.bsky.social in March 2026!
➡️March 13th, 20th, and 27th at 11am
To secure a space please book here 👇🏽
What an evening at Gray Day 2026 — thank you for supporting our work. 💛
Marking 45 years of Lanark, we gathered at Òran Mór for bold new writing, animation and celebration. Here’s to new voices and the enduring energy of Gray’s vision.
🎨 School Competition – A Reimagined Glasgow
P7 pupils across the city shared bold, imaginative visions. We chose two winning pairs, celebrating teamwork! Each school gets £50 for art materials + a free Travelling Archive workshop. Well done all! 💛
A special message & photos from Alasdair’s little sister, Mora Rolley, today, with her permission we are sharing🤍✨
“I’m so grateful to have received the scarf, Alasdair would have loved it and probably worn it proudly… before leaving it somewhere! Thank you for everything.’❤️
The words WORK AS IF YOU LIVE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A BETTER NATION ALASDAIR GRAY carved in relief on white Iona marble, in an irregular parallelogram, set into the grey wall of the Scottish Parliament building.
“And best of all is finding a place to be
in the early days of a better civilization”
—Dennis Lee, “Civil Elegies”
Alasdair Gray adapted Lee’s words into his epigram “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation”. It features on the wall of the @parliament.scot
#WyrdWednesday #GrayDay
✨Happy Gray Day✨
45 years on, Lanark still pulses through Scottish literature. We mark it with a new response to Book Four—Chris Tait’s new Scots poem The Necropolis created whilst on placement—drawn from Gray’s drafts, turning archive into living, echoing art.
It’s here…Happy Gray Day 2026!
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Alasdair Gray & David Stephen: Eden in North Lanarkshire
Sat 14 March 2026, Palacerigg Country Park Visitor Centre. An illustrated afternoon celebrating art, nature & Scotland’s industrial heartland.
Book via link below 👇🏽
🎉 Exciting Update! 🎉
Gray Day 2026 is officially SOLD OUT! 🙌✨
💛 We are beyond grateful for all the love and support—thanks for helping make this another unforgettable night! See all 350 of you there! 💛
Keep your eyes peeled for exclusive Gray Day content on Wednesday!
Glasgow has lost a radical champion today: David Harding. A beloved Gray Day regular, former Head of Sculpture & Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art, and alumnus of Edinburgh College of Art. His belief that “context is half the work” shaped generations.
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In The Herald Scotland today: a special focus on Alasdair Gray, with an article by Evie Glen on our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social’s living archive model with a focus on @aowensarchive.bsky.social, our new commission with Rachelle Atalla & how this celebrates & shapes Scotland’s culture.
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FREE WORKSHOP – Play With Gray: Quick-Response Drawing & Writing
Join us at The Alasdair Gray Archive (10 March 2026, 11am–1pm) for a playful, fast-paced drawing & writing session. No experience needed. 15 places. Supported by @sgsah.bsky.social
Book: info@thealasdairgrayarchive.org
Introducing our final Gray Day animator, Miranda Peyton Jones ✨
One of five artists responding to the new Lanark audiobook, narrated by Alan Cumming, and the Epilogue of Alasdair Gray.
See her work at Gray Day 2026
📍 Òran Mór
📅 25 Feb 2026
🎟 £22 + fee
🙏to @canongate.co.uk
Meet animator Tintin Lindkvist Nielsen for Gray Day ✨ She’s creating new work for Chapter Twenty Two (Book Two) of the audiobook of Lanark by Alasdair Gray, narrated by Alan Cumming and published by Canongate—exploring Gray’s Glasgow in her vibrant style.
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Introducing our next Gray Day animator, Yu Sun ✨ One of five artists responding to the new Lanark audiobook narrated by Alan Cumming, Yu reimagines Chapter Twelve through stitched lines and textured animation inspired by Alasdair Gray’s world.
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✨ Introducing Oliver Pearse, one of five animators responding to the new Lanark audiobook, narrated by Alan Cumming. His film explores Chapter Six (Book Three) of Lanark. Using layered archival imagery and charcoal under-camera animation, Oliver brings Gray’s ledger to life.
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Happy #WorldHippoDay! Here’s “The Scots Hippo”, written & illustrated by Alasdair Gray …
Images: The Scots Hippo (1–7), one of a series of prints by Alasdair Gray – available from @glasgowprintstudio.bsky.social
#poem #poetry
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