Events

Events calendar

Upcoming events

• Scottish Place-name Society 04 Oct 06 - 04 Oct 06
  visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website and the Scottish place-name newsgroup
• The Doric Festival 29 Sep 06 - 15 Oct 06
  A twa wikk lang splore o the tung, sangs, music and traditions o oor byous Doric culture. Now in...
• Fest`n`Furious - Dundee`s Festival of Traditional Music 29 Sep 06 - 02 Oct 06
  Includes: Sheena Wellington & Sheila Stewart Two of Scotland's finest traditional singers wit...
• The Soutar Session 01 Sep 06 - 01 Nov 06
  The controversial subject of a Scottish Six news broadcast is a regular story in itself. The Cent...
• Cross Party Group on the Scots Language 03 Oct 06 - 03 Oct 06
  Open to all (by prior contact with SLRC before 27 September ) Email
• Five Pound and Twa Bairns 13 Oct 06 - 14 Oct 06
  The musical play by Mike Gibb and Mairi Paton about three women who lose men in the Tay Bridge di...
• Scots language Society Collogue 14 Oct 06 - 14 Oct 06
  Scots in the Theatre Speakers to include, Chris Robinson, Eilidh Bateman, John Corbett and Ian Br...
• Dae Ye Ken? By Vicki Gausden 25 Dec 06 - 25 Dec 06
  Need to know your oxter from your bahookie? Split thematically and including subjects from feelin...
• 100 Favourite Scottish Poems 30 Nov 06 - 30 Nov 06
  Join the anthology's editor Stewart Conn and contributing poets, including Robert Crawford, Anna ...
• Language And Modern Scottish Fiction 09 Dec 06 - 09 Dec 06
  Forum for Research in the Languages of Scotland and Ulster. LANGUAGE AND MODERN SCOTTISH FICTION ...
• Scottish Writing Exhibition 28 Dec 06 - 30 Dec 06
  Now in our third year, we are very excited to be presenting an expanded exhibition of Scottish wr...
• Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival 16 Feb 07 - 25 Feb 07
  Aye Write! celebrates the rich variety of Glaswegian writing and also brings the very best of Sco...
• Burns International Conference 13 Jan 07 - 13 Jan 07
  This year's International Burns Conference in Glasgow is directed by Dr Gerard Carruthers of the ...
• Rab and Tommy talk Burns 21 Jan 07 - 21 Jan 07
  Tommy Sheridan will discuss Burns poetry with Rab Wilson on the MSP's Sunday Morning with Citizen...
• ASLS Languages Conference 2007 03 Feb 07 - 03 Feb 07
  This year's ASLS Languages Conference on 'Language, Politics and Song' will be held at Glasgow Ca...
• The Scottish Word 26 Jan 07 - 26 Jan 07
  Billy Kay with Rod Paterson, Derek Hoy and Norman Chalmers of Jock Tamson's Bairns in an evening ...
• Iain Anderson in Conversation: Billy Kay 29 Jan 07 - 29 Jan 07
  
• The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2007 26 Jan 07 - 26 Jan 07
  The Wigtown Poetry Competition is the largest poetry competition in Scotland with over 2000 entri...
• Shetland Dialect Meeting 06 Feb 07 - 06 Feb 07
  
• One Book One Edinburgh - Graphic Novel Event 02 Feb 07 - 02 Feb 07
  Join world-famous artists Cam Kennedy and Alan Grant to discuss their new graphic novel of Steven...
• Both Sides of Hadrians Wall 17 Feb 07 - 17 Feb 07
  Selkirk Lapwing Press present a series of readings to promote their new anthology Both Sides of H...
• The Singers Gathering 24 Feb 07 - 25 Feb 07
  24th -25th February: - a celebration of unaccompanied and group singing, focussing on the evolvin...
• Street Gangs of Dundee 09 Apr 07 - 09 Apr 07
  Dundonian rap poet Gary Robertson, takes us back to the 1960's and 1970's when territorial identi...
• Scottish Parliament election 03 May 07 - 03 May 07
  For more information about how to vote read the Scots version of the Electoral Commission's leafl...
• Debateable Lands - The Languages and Literature of South West Scotland 25 May 07 - 27 May 07
  The annual ASLS conference held this year in Dumfries explores the languages and litertature of S...
• Launch of Life of Alexander Scott 07 Jun 07 - 07 Jun 07
  A biography of Alexander Scott, entitled 'Auld Campaigner', by David Robb, will be launched at 6...
• The Old Town Poetry Tour 21 Jun 07 - 25 Jun 07
  As a component of the Old Town Festival, Ken Cockburn, in conjunction with Polygon, will be takin...
• Cross Party Group on Scots 19 Jun 07 - 19 Jun 07
  Meeting of the Cross Party Group on Scots. For information contact the Scots Language Centre. All...
• John Skinner Bicentenary Celebration 30 Jun 07 - 30 Jun 07
  The 16 June 2007 marks the bicentenary of the death of the Rev. John Skinner (1721-1807) who was,...
• Shetland Forwirds AGM and Ordinary Meeting 26 Jun 07 - 26 Jun 07
  For more information contact Shetland Forwirds at braeview@lineone.net
• Palavar at Dundee 23 Jun 07 - 23 Jun 07
  The Friends of Wighton have organised a Cappuccino Concert in Maryatt Hall, Dundee for Saturday 2...
• Shetland ForWirds AGM 24 Jul 06 - 24 Jul 06
  The Annual General Meeting of the Shetland dialect group, Shetland ForWirds.
• New book from Janet Paisley 02 Aug 07 - 08 Nov 07
  Writer Janet Paisley will be giving a series of talks and readings from her new historical novel ...
• Seventh Symposium on Language and Politics 07 Nov 07 - 09 Nov 07
  The Seventh Symposium on Language and Politics will take place during 7-9 November 2007 at Queen'...
• William Soutar Walks launch 19 Nov 07 - 19 Nov 07
  Two new walks based on the poetry and places associated with the writer and bard William Soutar a...
• Doric Cabaret Evening 01 Dec 07 - 03 Dec 07
  As pairt o the city o Aiberdeen’s St Andra’s Weekend, the Associe o Grampian Storytellers is ...
• Perth Burns Club 01 Dec 07 - 01 Dec 07
  The Perth Burns Club is tae haud its fowert Yearly Day o Scots Culture in the theatre o the AK Be...
• Langage Conferance 08 Dec 07 - 08 Dec 07
  The Forum for Speirings anent the Leids o Scotland an Ulster (Forum for Research in the Languages...
• Banffshire Field Club 08 Dec 07 - 08 Dec 07
  The Banffshire Field Club will be host tae J Derrick McClure on Seturday 8 December at the Commun...
• Billy Kay on 'The Scottish World' 12 Dec 07 - 12 Dec 07
  Billy Kay is tae gie a talk anent ‘The Scottish World’ at the Abertay Historical Society on W...
• Stuart McHardy Traditional Night 12 Dec 07 - 12 Dec 07
  Screivar an Scots steerar Stuart McHardy is tae sing tradeetional sangs at the Dumfaurlin Fowk Cl...
• Convention o Modren Leids Associe 30 Dec 07 - 30 Dec 07
  Professor John Corbett, fae the Versity o Glesca, will be giein a paper cryed ‘The Future Oors?...
• Revisiting the Makars 07 Jan 08 - 07 Jan 08
  The Text Society for Leids o Scotland (Scottish Text Society) is tae haud the first in a screed o...
• Supper Wi Burns 23 Jan 08 - 24 Jan 08
  The Scots Centre for Storytelling is haudin a Supper Wi Burns on Wadensday 23 an Thursday 24 Janu...
• Clarinda 25 Jan 08 - 02 Feb 08
  The first warld shawin o the play ‘Clarinda’, bi play-screivar Mike Webb, will be 7.30pm on 2...