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ScotlandsFest: Choose Life, Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location

ScotlandsFest: Choose Life, Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location

Is Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting a fair, honest portrait of the time and place, serious literature, or scurrilous punk, junk, transgressional entertainment that got lucky? Did th… 

ScotlandsFest: An Architectural Omnishambles or a Mad God’s Dream? Making Sense of Scotland’s Architecture

ScotlandsFest: An Architectural Omnishambles or a Mad God’s Dream? Making Sense of Scotland’s Architecture

What do a country’s buildings say about a nation? Dour, exuberant, unruly, impenetrable, you decide. 

ScotlandsFest: Scotland on Screen – History, Myth and Weird Sh*t

ScotlandsFest: Scotland on Screen – History, Myth and Weird Sh*t

Brave. 

ScotlandsFest: The Heart of Darkness – Ken Currie, Paintings and Writings

ScotlandsFest: The Heart of Darkness – Ken Currie, Paintings and Writings

For decades the artist Ken Currie has produced some of the most ominous images in the contemporary canon. 

ScotlandsFest: The Devil Wears Tartan

ScotlandsFest: The Devil Wears Tartan

Trends. 

ScotlandsFest: The Scots Fought Slavery, Didn’t They?

ScotlandsFest: The Scots Fought Slavery, Didn’t They?

It’s time to hear the truth. 

ScotlandsFest: Family Quiz – Scotland's Story

ScotlandsFest: Family Quiz – Scotland's Story

Do you know your unicorns from your Union of the Crowns? Or your William Wallace from your James Watt? Even if you don’t, join Barbara Henderson, author of newly published To War… 

ScotlandsFest: To War With Wallace – Family Book Event

ScotlandsFest: To War With Wallace – Family Book Event

Let battle commence! Raise the standard as this brand-new story marches into the world. 

Classical Guitar – Jonathan Prag

Classical Guitar – Jonathan Prag

Jonathan, winner of the Buxton Fringe Solo Instrumentalist Award 2024, is back with a new show at St Columba’s by the Castle with its superb acoustics. 

ScotlandsFest: One Island, One Future – Towards a United Ireland

ScotlandsFest: One Island, One Future – Towards a United Ireland

We have our own problems, why should Scotland care about Irish unity? With a former Unionist advocating for a United Ireland, anything is possible. 

ScotlandsFest: Defending Freedom – The Spanish Civil War

ScotlandsFest: Defending Freedom – The Spanish Civil War

Best-selling author Clifford Thurlow relives the passion of his new novel We Shall Pass – love, loss and sacrifice among the volunteers who crossed the seas to fight fascism with… 

ScotlandsFest: Keep Left – Red Paper on Scotland 2025

ScotlandsFest: Keep Left – Red Paper on Scotland 2025

Another day, another crisis. 

ScotlandsFest: Our Fathers Fought Franco

ScotlandsFest: Our Fathers Fought Franco

Scots played a major role in the anti-fascist struggle in Spain from 1936-39. 

ScotlandsFest: Ghosts of the North – A Gothic Love Story

ScotlandsFest: Ghosts of the North – A Gothic Love Story

From selkies to sprites, Scottish folklore inspires fiction. 

ScotlandsFest: Poets Don't Drive!

ScotlandsFest: Poets Don't Drive!

Screaming train rides, red-hot buses, Tartan Army, boxing ring, Botox, love. 

ScotlandsFest: Why Do You Wear What You Wear?

ScotlandsFest: Why Do You Wear What You Wear?

Join Scottish supermodel Eunice Olumide MBE as she discusses what you wear says about you – the dos and don’ts, sustainability, greenwashing, brands gone rogue and backstage real… 

ScotlandsFest: Scottish History Reimagined

ScotlandsFest: Scottish History Reimagined

Hugh McMillan returns with the only Scottish History that counts. 

ScotlandsFest: Wanton Women Running Amok

ScotlandsFest: Wanton Women Running Amok

Were Scottish witches handmaidens of the devil or was the imagined demonic presence merely the fevered obsession of the Kirk? Fed by stories of female sexual excess, did Kirk minis… 

ScotlandsFest: Whose Literature is it Anyway?

ScotlandsFest: Whose Literature is it Anyway?

Over centuries Scotland’s writers and storytellers have sparked a light rather than be overwhelmed by the darkness. 

ScotlandsFest: Reviving Scots – The Language They Couldn't Silence

ScotlandsFest: Reviving Scots – The Language They Couldn't Silence

Scotland’s other national tongue has been misunderstood and (officially) mistreated for centuries. 

ScotlandsFest: A Scottish Football Odyssey

ScotlandsFest: A Scottish Football Odyssey

Archie Macpherson has been writing and broadcasting on the beautiful game for 60 years. 

ScotlandsFest: Who Owns Scottish Football?

ScotlandsFest: Who Owns Scottish Football?

Can fans fix football? Yes, they can! You too can be part of a community enterprise with your local FC at its heart. 

ScotlandsFest: Why the Arts Matter

ScotlandsFest: Why the Arts Matter

Join poet Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, in conversation with two of Scotland’s finest contemporary artists, Alexander Moffat, RSA, and Ruth Ni… 

Duo Malvina: Classical Guitar

Duo Malvina: Classical Guitar

Join Duo Malvina for an afternoon of beautiful classical guitar music for two. Featuring premieres of pieces that have never been heard in public. 

ScotlandsFest: In Conversation – Richard Demarco

ScotlandsFest: In Conversation – Richard Demarco

For Edinburgh Festival and Fringe legend Richard Demarco, the history of Scotland begins in the words of the great medieval poets Henryson and Dunbar, the composer Henry Carver and… 

ScotlandsFest: You Are What You Wear – Eunice Olumide

ScotlandsFest: You Are What You Wear – Eunice Olumide

Join Scottish supermodel Eunice Olumide MBE as she discusses everything you want to know about the fashion industry – do’s and don’ts, sustainability, greenwashing, brands gone r… 

ScotlandsFest: Our Fathers Fought Franco – Willy Maley and Jennie Renton

ScotlandsFest: Our Fathers Fought Franco – Willy Maley and Jennie Renton

Why did four young men put their lives on the line to fight fascism in Spain with the International Brigades in 1936? How did they end up in the same prison cell? James Maley, Dona… 

ScotlandsFest: Collier Laddie – Rab Wilson

ScotlandsFest: Collier Laddie – Rab Wilson

Close a pit, kill a community. 

ScotlandsFest: Meet Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie – Barbara Henderson

ScotlandsFest: Meet Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie – Barbara Henderson

Well, hello there, Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie! With award-winning author, storyteller and drama teacher Barbara Henderson, the Stuarts leap from the page in this… 

ScotlandsFest: Forth Bridge Stories – Barbara Henderson

ScotlandsFest: Forth Bridge Stories – Barbara Henderson

The iconic red railway bridge has spanned the Forth since 1890. 

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibitions at St Columba's by the Castle: Re-imagining the Ruthwell Cross

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibitions at St Columba's by the Castle: Re-imagining the Ruthwell Cross

The Ruthwell Cross is Scotland’s oldest Anglo-Saxon Christian monument. 

Classical Guitar Jonathan Prag

Classical Guitar Jonathan Prag

Sharing his beautiful guitar playing once again, Jonathan brings another dazzlingly varied programme from around the world, including Tarrega’s Spanish Capricho Arabe, the beauti… 

ScotlandsFest: The Geomythography of Scotland – Stuart McHardy

ScotlandsFest: The Geomythography of Scotland – Stuart McHardy

Prepare for an adventure into the mystical depths of Scotland’s ancient past with Stuart McHardy. 

ScotlandsFest: Fower Legs Guid, Twa Legs Better! – Thomas Clark

ScotlandsFest: Fower Legs Guid, Twa Legs Better! – Thomas Clark

Once bleakly satirical masterpiece on totalitarianism, now Scots Language Book of the Year, George Orwell’s Animal Farm still casts its shadow over everything we think we know ab… 

ScotlandsFest: The Secret Life of the Scots Language – Clive Young

ScotlandsFest: The Secret Life of the Scots Language – Clive Young

Scotland’s other national tongue has been misunderstood and (officially) mistreated for centuries. 

ScotlandsFest: Bringing Scotland’s Literature to Life – Alan Riach

ScotlandsFest: Bringing Scotland’s Literature to Life – Alan Riach

Join Professor Alan Riach, author of Scottish Literature: An Introduction (‘magisterial’ (Times)), for a dynamic encounter with literary luminaries! Explore creativity, unravelling… 

Edinburgh's Pandas Were Just Weegies in Disguise!

Edinburgh's Pandas Were Just Weegies in Disguise!

When Edinburgh’s pandas go missing on their journey back to China, suspicion falls on the ferocious Glasgow gangster Big Urqy. 

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