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The Freeing Power of ABCs : Words Are Let Loose in the Granite City

This year’s motion for the legendary Nuart Aberdeen Street Art Festival ‘Fight Club’ (aka the Pub Debate) pitted image against text. Which holds primacy?

An apt contention given that since 2017 Aberdeen has hosted some of the world’s greatest figurative street muralists and abstract urban image makers, meaning there are visual treats almost at every turn. But the 2026 theme – dreamt up by festival founder, director and curator Martyn Reed – being POETRY IS IN THE STREETS meant it was the turn of words to blaze a trail, to burn brightest throughout the Granite City.

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