Our first Virtual Burns Supper with dinner, Bagpipes, Scottish Fiddlers, and ceilidh dancing all from the comfort of home.
The Coopers play “Scotland the Brave” near Golden Gate Bridge.
Join us for a celebration of Scotland’s National Bard, Robbie Burns and our Scottish heritage at the annual Burns Supper. This year we will be celebrating slightly differently in a virtual setting bringing the haggis directly to your door. The evening will be filled with poetry, music, dance, and song to acknowledge the Robert Burns’s impact on Scottish cultural arts while honoring contemporary literary arts and Scottish women’s contributions in the modern era.
This year we will have our featured artist, Gerda Stevenson. Gerda is a writer, actor, director, singer, and songwriter. Gerda works in theatre, television, radio, film, and opera, throughout Britain and abroad. Her poetry, drama and prose are widely published, staged and broadcast, including plays for BBC Radio 4.
Winner of a BAFTA Best Film Actress award for Margaret Tait’s feature film, BLUE BLACK PERMANENT, and appeared as the Murren’s mother in BRAVEHEART. Her books include INSIDE & OUT – the art of Christian Small (Scotland Street Press, 2019), with an introduction and poems by Gerda, reviewed in The National as “One of the most beautiful books ever published in Scotland”; and EDINBURGH, a collaboration with landscape photographer Allan Wright, for which she wrote a personal introduction and 22 poems. For more information go to www.gerdastevenson.co.uk
Quines by Gerda Stevenson, 2nd Edition 2020
Her recent publication, QUINES: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, “brings together a diverse array of Scottish women – politicians, queens, a salt seller, a half-hanged woman, scientists, writers and artists, singers, a dancer, a fish-gutter and others” in a celebration of female Scottish literary often unsung heroes.
Gerda will illustrate Robert Burns’ impact on contemporary literary arts through speech and song in her soothing and musical style.
But What About The Haggis?
Jek Cunningham gives his “Address to the Haggis.”
Local Guests (within 70 miles radius from San Francisco) will have the option of a four-course par-cooked meal delivered to your door to be eaten during the event. Created by Chef Derrik Soares of Popups Unlimited this meal will give you a taste of Scotland, freshly made just for you. (Meal Tickets are currently SOLD OUT)
The distillers of GlenDronach have also made sure you’re not missing a dram by sponsoring every guest with two post-dinner whisky and cheese pairings of their 12 and 18 aged whiskies. Rory Glasgow will offer a short tasting notes session during the after-party.
Burns Supper 2021: Menu with New Whisky Tasting and Cheese Course
Ticket Prices:
Virtual Only Ticket: $50.00 (does not include a meal)
Member Ticket Prices:
Members Virtual Only Ticket: $37.50 (does not include a meal)
Please keep an eye on the Saint Andrews Society of San Francisco members’ newsletter or contact Alex J Sinclair (2nd Vice President) for details on accessing the members’ pricing. Single Meal Tickets are available while stocks last. (Meal Tickets are currently SOLD OUT, Virtual Only Tickets are still available)
For more information go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/134915878023/
Or contact: Alex J Sinclair on 2ndvp@saintandrewssocietysf.org
