Ann MacKinnon:The Great Tapestry | SWC Events | The Griffin

The Great Tapestry - Ann MacKinnon SWC Talk| The Griffin

7.30 pm Tuesday 25 August 26

The Griffin *Function Suite*

266 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JP

Ann MacKinnon presents The Great Tapestry of Scotland in Poetry and Pictures. She talks us through the making of the tapestry and touches on the significance of some of the panels to her. She intersperses her talk with poems form her book Warp and Weft which is published by Red Squirrel Press.

In the second half there will be a shorter but still spetacular speakeasy! If you would like to reader please fill out our readers form: here

If you have any questions please email: [email protected]

The Griffin Accessibility:

Accessible for Performers

Accessible Toilet

Wheelchair Access

There will be a microphone and PA for readers.

For any additional questions please email: [email protected] we'd be delighted to help. :)

Biography Ann MacKinnon

Ann MacKinnon writes in Scots and English. A New Scottish Writers’ Award led to a pamphlet ‘Nae Flooers’ being published by Tapsalteerie. She is widely published in anthologies and magazines, particularly Lallans..Modren Makars Yin, a Scots collaboration was published by Tapsalteerie in 2022.

She was nominated for the Scots Writer of the Year in 2022. Warp and Weft was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2024.

She enjoys performing, doing workshops, and giving talks. She is a cofounder of Balloch Open Mic.

She came second in the Neil Gunn Competition and was commended in the McCash

Competition in 2024 and was commended again in the McCash in 2026. She was Makar for the Federation of Writers, Scotland for 2025.

Her latest publication is a novel - A Week in May published by First Chapter and available on Amazon.

Getting to The Griffin!

There is parking available around Bath Street/Blythswood Square area. Please double-check the terms but a lot of it is free after 6pm. You’re welcome to try Garnethill too; parking is paid until 10 pm there.

If there is a show on at the King's Theatre (just across the road from the Griffin) they will be a lot fewer parking spaces available.

The closest train station is Charing Cross, with the closest subway being Cowcaddens. Anderston train station can be walkable too but not ideal in the evening, so we wouldn’t recommend that.

For buses, the following services run along Bath Street or near the pub:

6A, 60/60A, 61, 240, 255 and X8

Number 77 and Number 15 Bus from Buchanan street, onto Cathedral street outside Queen street station and all along Bath street. Stops right outside the Kings Theatre.

Return journey on these buses at the bus stop in Sauchiehall street. Turn right as you are leaving the Griffin.

Number 4/4a from Southside to Hope street, stops outside Central station, then to to top of Hope street/Bath st. Turns right onto Bath st, stops right outside the Kings Theatre. Again turns right on leaving the Griffin.