Festival of Politics 2012

Planning for The Festival of Politics 2012 is well under way and we are pleased to announce that the Festival will take place over two weekends. We hope that as many of you as possible can attend the events which will take place on Friday 17, Saturday 18, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 August.

Again, this year the Festival will welcome a day dedicated to issues close to Scotland's youth and will see the Parliament handed over to young people for an exciting programme of events.

Discussions are underway to firm up the theme for this year and we will announce this shortly.

Keeping the ideology that the Festival is an event "where politics meets the people" we very much welcomed the input from the public through our facebook, twitter @FestOfPol and email account: festival@scottish.parliament.uk and received fantastic suggestions for potential speakers or events for the Festival team to consider.

The closing for suggestions has passed and we are now working hard to deliver another thought provoking programme of discussion, debate, theatre and music.

Last year's Festival ran under the theme Re-newing Politics in the Age of New Media and featured a number of events looking at how politics, and the wider world, is progressing with social media and the ever expanding interactive world. 2011 highlights can be found here.