• Programme
  • Music
    • An Evening with JJ Gilmour
    • Creativity and Social Change
    • Mull Historical Society
    • Young People's Band Night
    • The Future of the Music Industry
  • History
    • An Incredibly Brief History of Political Satire
    • A Stitch in Time
    • An Audience with History
    • Scottish Political Thought
    • The Attempted Restoration: Wallace's Support of King John, 1299-1302
    • Sir William Wallace, Scotland and the wider world
    • Creating a Community, Cabinet of Curiosity
  • Arts
    • Sounds, Voices and the Parliament (10:30-12:30)
    • SCOTLAND - is there a THERE here?
    • Art in Focus - George Wyllie
    • Linking Scotland to Europe Through Arts
    • Sounds, Voices and the Parliament (13:30-15:30)
    • Literary Legacies: The House that Canongate Built
    • Scotland's Bookshelf - Politics and Society in Scottish Writing
    • Preserving our Culture, Shaping our Future?
    • What Place for Poetry in Politics?
  • Theatre
    • Singin I'm No a Billy He's a Tim
    • The Walking Theatre Company - S'Misa Macbeth (11:00-12:30)
    • Scottish Youth Theatre - The Magic Porridge Pot
    • The Walking Theatre Company - S'Misa Macbeth (13:30-15:00)
  • Young People
    • The Talent of our Young People
    • Is participation in sport a level playing field?
    • The importance of reading to children and to society
    • Untangling article 31 - Children's Right to Play, Culture and the Arts
    • Young People's Day
  • Politics
    • Scottish Irish Conversations on Sectarianism
    • Libraries in the Digital Age
    • Scotch Whisky - Local Hero or International Ambassador?
    • What has been the most creative force in Scottish Politics?
    • Making the Law Work for You - How Would You Improve the Justice System?
    • The Power of Small Nations
    • Inventors, Innovation and Sustainability
    • Scotland's Futures Forum - The Campbell Christie Lecture
    • UK-Russian Relations Today
  • People
    • Humanising the Workplace
    • Scotland's Missing Wood Cabins
    • Viva Cunninghame Graham! Global Scot, political radical, writer's writer
    • Who are 'Jock Tamson's Bairns'? - Attitudes Towards Migration in Scotland
    • NGOs Against Modern-Day Slavery
    • The Sounds of Silence - Complacent Scotland, Undemocracy and Unspace
  • Tours
    • The Scottish Parliament: Scotland's Story
    • Sculpture and Parliament Garden Tour
• Exhibitions
• Media
• Sponsorship
  • Festival Partners
• Links
• Contact & Information

Politics is part of who we are and what we do. It impacts us in so many ways. This year we offer a series of nine thought provoking and inspiring events under the politics banner. Listen to the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP as he delivers the inaugural Scotland's Futures Forum Christie Lecture. The Festival takes on the issues; from conversations on sectarianism, to libraries, whisky, creativity, Russia and the justice system. Join the debate.