5th August 2024 8th August 2024 |
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1.30pm-2.30pm | |
St Columbas by the Castle 14 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 2PW |
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£10 | |
Event organiser/part of ScotlandsFest | |
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Explore creativity, unravelling new works, traversing fiction, poetry, paintings, politics and personalities. With free speech silenced or murdered; with 'others' made monstrous by race, religion, nationality, gender; when governments court populism and clickbait media devalues humanity; when politicians streamline lying for votes, malevolent incompetence rules. We’re in trouble. Freedom of expression is Scottish literature’s antidote. Only the arts give trustworthy truths. Such matters are under the spotlight in this thought-provoking session.
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