Saturday 15 August – Free events
The Festival of Politics’ Youth Café opens this year with a non-stop offering of FREE events.
You can choose to chat and chill; enjoy the music, dance and performance poetry acts, or you may be inspired to book a FREE place on one of our bite-sized workshops. You can choose from a number of 30 minute workshops that will run throughout the afternoon. From vlogging to filmmaking, cartooning, and even top tips on being a performance poet.
Award-winning author Cathy MacPhail will be here between 14:00 -15:00 talking about her teen thriller Mosi’s War and the process of adapting her novel Another Me into the film Panda Eyes starring Games of Thrones star Sophie Turner.
You can even try your hand at being the next Mark Ronson courtesy of The Buzz Project bus that will be parked outside the Scottish Parliament. Kitted out as a state-of-the-art recording studio, the bus is the place to learn how to read, write, play, record and mix music.
Spaces on all workshops and the Cathy MacPhail session are FREE but advance booking is essential as spaces are limited. Our workshops will start at 13:00.
