2024:
Friday March 8th, StANza Scotlands International Poetry Festival opening night
Friday February 23rd playing 1.5 Months as Claquer
2023:
November 2023, Creative/Collective: A Feminist Cabaret at the Edinburgh Radical Bookfair
Saturday October 28th, Return at Govan & Linthouse church.
Friday September 22nd, supporting Thundermoon Ep launch at Leith Depot
Saturday July 15th, Claquer, Fuzzbats summer all dayer event, Leith Depot
Friday July 7th, Safeguarding in creative practice, open community conversation with Solène Weinachter, the Work Room
Sunday June 18th Reading poems/ soundscapes supporting Shea Martin’s Foam Road, EP launch, Dragonfly, Edinburgh
Saturday March 18th Reading poems playing with harpist Catriona Mckay, supporting Jer Reid’s Days and Diary Entries booklaunch, the Glad Cafe
Saturday January 14th, as Claquer for Fuzzbats Poster Exhibition at the Community Settlements Project, Edinburgh
2022:
Friday 4th November Queers Read This, ICA, London
Thursday 21st July, reading at launch of Clay AD’s Holy Bodies, CCA, Glasgow
2020:
January Sunday 12th as Claquer, Leith Depot, Edinburgh
2019:
November Wednesday 27th reading at St Mungos Mirrorball, CCA Glasgow
November 9/10/11 below, reading from Faultline as part of a night of words, politics and conversation with Lumpen and Chav Solidarity
November Monday 11th, 7.15pm reading from Faultline as part of a night of words, politics and conversation with Lumpen and Chav Solidarity, Leeds
November Sunday 10th, 5-7pm, reading from Faultline as part of a night words, politics and conversation with Lumpen and Chav Solidarity, Sheffield
November Saturday 9th, 7.15pm, reading from Faultline as part of a night words, politics and conversation with Lumpen and Chav Solidarity, Manchester
November Friday 8th, 6.30pm reading from Faultline as part of a night words, politics and conversation with Lumpen and Chav Solidarity, Liverpool
September Friday 20th 7pm reading at the Climate Strike Solidarity Gig at Leith theatre
August Saturday 31st 8pm The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool
August Friday 23rd: as Claquer at Jupiter Rising
July Saturday 14th, 3.30pm part of an all-dayer at Leith Depot, as Claquer
July Saturday 13th, 6pm, solo words, loops and layers as part of GTAC fundraiser, Glasgow
July Friday 5th, 6.30pm as Claquer as part of Tragicom at the Patriothall Gallery Edinburgh,
March 6-10th: StAnza Poetry Festival, St. Andrews
March Friday 8th: from 9pm: reading at International Womens day gig, Edinburgh, Henrys Cellar Bar.
February Wednesday 20th: 7.45pm: Claquer celebrating Bell Lungs EP launch, Edinburgh, Henrys Cellar Bar.
February Wednesday 13th, 7pm – October Books, Southampton, 189 Portswood Rd, Southampton SO17 2NF. octoberbooks.org
February Sunday 10th, 6-7pm – Housmans, London, 5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9DY. housmans.com
February Thursday 7th, 7pm – Hydra Books Bristol, 34 Old Market St, Bristol BS2 0EZ. hydrabooks.org
February 5th 7.30pm, reading as part of Vespers, Edinburgh.
February 5th 2pm: StAnza preview (see March) at Central Library Edinburgh.
2018:
November Friday 30th – Glasgow, Project Cafe, 7pm. I’ll be reading poems from Faultline at Express Yourself poetry night organised by Tell is Slant Poetry bookshop folk.
Wednesday November 28th – Glasgow, Glad Cafe, 7.30pm. I’ll be reading text from Faultline as part of a duo Claquer with Jer Reid and harpist Catriona McKay, mixing text, guitar, loops, noise and harp based around a poem (Prayer for the Blackfish) which we’ve recorded for a compilation cd to mark Remembrance day for lost species.
Friday November 23rd – Edinburgh, Leith Depot, 7.30pm I’ll be reading text from Faultline as part of a duo Claquer with Jer Reid, mixing text, guitar, loops, noise, at the Refugee Benefit night #24
Friday November 16th – Edinburgh, Lighthouse Books 7pm. The Edinburgh launch of Faultline. The first 15 tickets are free, after that they cost £3 (which counts towards the cost of any copy of Faultline you might buy there). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-lisa-fannen-launches-faultline-tickets-50864484041
Wednesday November 7th – Faultline Glasgow Launch Night, The Glad Cafe, from 7pm. By donation to cover costs. Not for profit. No one turned away for lack of funds. I’m really excited to be joined for that night by Alison Smith, Helen Moore, Andra Simons and Raman Mundair who will be reading/performing their own work in relation to some of the pieces in Faultline. And I’ll be playing with Jer Reid as part of our duo Claquer, joined by Alison Roe on Taiko drum, improvising with the Faultline text, and sound. Djing inbetween and after by Letitia Pleiades… More info about everything below! https://www.facebook.com/events/688302051569970/