Solas, Scotland’s Festival of Arts and Ideas, The Bield at Blackruthven, Tibbermore, 23 – 25 June, 2017
Scotland’s festival of arts and ideas is delighted to announce its biggest programme ever. Solas Festival, which takes place as ever at The Bield at Blackruthven near Perth, this year between 23-25 June, confirmed headline acts and some very exciting new developments for 2017.
Talks and Debates Programme
The bands and musicians
Acts include: Lau, Radio One darlings WHITE, folk legend Mary Ann Kennedy and Mercury Prize nominee C Duncan head up the music stage, while Booker Prize winner James Kelman, Green MSP Andy Wightman, Scotland’s leading playwright David Greig and recently appointed UNESCO chair Professor Alison Phipps lead a programme of talks, debates and readings. A new focus on performance, bringing more dance and theatre to the festival will be headlined by dancer Claire Cunningham.
The festival is also delighted to announce two major new international collaborative projects, pairing Scottish musicians with artists in Palestine and Ghana.
Talks and Debate Programme
The talks and debates programme will reflect on ideas of belonging and competing nationalisms through panels on identity, citizenship, land, and the impacts of Brexit on the national consciousness. Accessibility and inclusivity will be a particular focus, and of course we will be continuing to think about and engage with people that have to leave their homes in order to make new ones in Scotland and abroad.
As ever, Solas Festival remains one of the most family-friendly events int he country, with a huge programme of activities for children.
(Photographs by John Graham and Colin Mearns)
Further information and book tickets
Solas Festival, The Bield at Blackruthven, Tibbermore, Perth PH1 1PY
This section: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Prevous page or post | Next page or post
Written by : Pat Byrne
Publisher of Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End; the community guide to the West End of Glasgow. Fiction and non-fiction writer.
Related Pages
- Westfest 2026 – Step into the Arlington Baths
- Creative Heritage Cafe – Dalmuir
- The Wizard of the Kremlin at GFT
- Children’s Walk for Gaza, Glasgow Green
- WestFest 2026: Full Programme Announced
- Everbody to Kenmure Street at GFT
- Connected Community Talk: Stolen Stories
- National Theatre Live: All My Sons
- Old Kilpatrick Graveyard, Walk and Talk
- Foraging Walk at The Saltings, Old Kilpatrick
- Writing Short Stories like Agnes Owens with Kirstin Innes
- Mayday: That Sinking Feeling, University of Glasgow – live performance
- Book Launch: The History of Working-Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in Scotland, 1855-1939
- Celebrating the Music of John Martyn
- Responding to Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’ University of Glasgow
- The Scotland Channel presents Hillhead Hoolie
- Could you open your home and heart to a guide dog puppy, and help change a life?
- California Schemin at GFT
- Take 2: Where The Wild Things Are, GFT
- The Room plus Greg Sestero Q and A
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.