Jackie Kay

in Conversation With Nicola Meighan

7pm - 8pm

Join the incredible Jackie Kay as she discusses her life, work and connections to Stirling with broadcaster Nicola Meighan.

Jackie Kay was born to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father in Edinburgh on 9 November 1961, and was adopted as a baby by Helen and John Kay, who had already adopted a boy, Maxwell. The family lived in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, where John worked for the Communist Party of Great Britain, and Helen was the Scottish secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Kay has drawn on her unconventional upbringing in her poetry, and described it with humour and great affection in her autobiographical account of the search for her birth parents, Red Dust Road (2010), which she has called a ‘love letter’ to her adoptive parents.

Nicola Meighan is a music journalist and broadcaster who regularly writes for The Herald and presents music / arts shows on BBC Radio Scotland. She has contributed to MOJO, Q Magazine, The Big Issue, The Quietus, BBC Radio 4, Radio 1, 6Music and STV. Prior to this, she worked at Mute records (Nick Cave, Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode), D-E-F artist management (Moby, Robyn, The Knife), for Scotland's Triptych festival, and at much-missed Glasgow arts hub, the Arches.