{"id":5572,"date":"2021-09-06T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:55:21","slug":"scots-language-awards-2021-alistair-heather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/scots-language-awards-2021-alistair-heather\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots Language Awards 2021: Alistair Heather"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Weel duin tae Alistair Heather wha hae bin nominatit in Scots Media Person o the Year sponsored by Dictionaries of the Scots Language in the Scots Language Awards. Vote now!<\/a><\/p>\n

We askit Alistair Heather o Alistair Heather thae speirins. Vote now!<\/a><\/p>\n

Tell us aboot yersel or yer ootfit.<\/strong>
\nA’m a scriever, presenter an producer wha’s aye ettlin tae bring Scots intae mair mainstream media. A’m jist finishin aff ma Maisters in History fae Dundee, an warkin fir The Courier as a columnist an Dundee United as a presenter.<\/p>\n

Whit wis it got ye involvit wi the Scots leid?<\/strong>
\nA’v aye been interestit in Scots – ma granny an granda were rare singers o Scots sangs – an ma mammy wis aye pittin us on tae Scots poems anaa. When i was a bairn, oor primary schuil won Scots School o the Year. Awfy excitin.<\/p>\n

Billy Kay encouraged us tae dae mair wi Scots as ma career developed in communications.<\/p>\n

Ony particlar career heighlichts<\/strong>
\nWrote an presentit a BBC Scotland documentary ‘Rebel Tongue’ aa aboot modren Scots. Run evenin classes fir fowk wantin tae lairn tae be mair confident wi their Scots, wi mony happy memories.<\/p>\n

Wha’s yer plans fir the days aheid?<\/strong>
\nMair normal cultural conversations happenin in Scots. Fir me, that’ll be podcasts, newspaper columns, radio an tele.<\/p>\n

Maistly jist encouragin them that aaready speak it tae yaise it mair often, in wider company an wi greater awareness an pride in their leid.<\/p>\n

Read more about Alistair Heather<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlistairHeatherWriter<\/a>
\nFacebook:
\nTwitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ChanterRanter<\/a>
\nInstagram: http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/historic_ally<\/a><\/p>\n

The Scots Language Awards are in the Gardyne Theatre, Dundee on 25th September at 7pm. Tickets are available to buy here: https:\/\/www.gardynetheatre.org.uk\/show\/the-scots-language-awards\/<\/a> Performing on Saturday 25th September include Ellie Beaton, Anna Stewart, Gemma Johnson and more to be announced.<\/p>\n

If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians please consider supporting our Patreon<\/a> campaign. We have 3 tiers starting at $1 a month and everything helps support us in our work. Read more at www.patreon.com\/handsupfortrad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weel duin tae Alistair Heather wha hae bin nominatit in Scots Media Person o the Year sponsored by Dictionaries of the Scots Language in the Scots Language Awards. Vote now! We askit Alistair Heather o Alistair Heather thae speirins. Vote now! Tell us aboot yersel or yer ootfit. A’m a scriever, presenter an producer wha’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nominee-2021-en","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/08\/Image.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phaZzh-1rS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5597,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}