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Men with Pens

Saturday 9 August 20:00 - 21:00

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Over the spring, award-winning poet, author and playwright Ross MacKay led a series of creative writing workshops for men living with mental health conditions. Working with groups at the AK Bell Library (Perth) and Granton Library (Edinburgh) the men……
 

Words from the Wards: The Exhibition

Sunday 10 August 10:00 - 21:00

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Following the success of the Words from the Wards project, we worked with Edinburgh College of Art students to illustrate the collected stories. Join us to view the stories and illustrations side by side in our new festival gallery…
 

Jonathan Watts: Dom Phillips’ How to Save the Amazon

Sunday 10 August 10:15 - 11:15

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Today we speak to Jonathan Watts, the Guardian's global environment editor, to celebrate Phillips' life and work…
 

Olia Hercules: A Taste of Ukrainian History

Sunday 10 August 10:30 - 11:30

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When Russia launched its most recent invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story…
 

Harriet Walter: Beyond The Bard

Sunday 10 August 11:45 - 12:45

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Jackie Wylie talks to Walter (renowned for her Oliver Award-winning stage performances, and her many screen appearances including Succession and Killing Eve) about what it's like to step into Shakespeare's shoes…
 

Sunil Amrith: The Burning Earth

Sunday 10 August 12:00 - 13:00

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In The Burning Earth, environmental historian at Yale University and MacArthur Genius fellow Sunil Amrith creates an ambitiously complete history of the way 500 years of human development has driven environmental change and destruction…
 

Katie Kitamura: Authenticity Unmasked

Sunday 10 August 13:30 - 14:30

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Join author of Intimacies, Katie Kitamura, as she discusses her hotly anticipated new novel, Audition, exploring what it means to truly know our authentic self and the different roles we play to the outside world…
 

Gettin Stairtit wi Writin Scots: A Workshop with Harry Josephine Giles

Sunday 10 August 14:00 - 15:30

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Today, Orcadian poet and novelist Harry Josephine Giles (Deep Wheel Orcadia and Them!) leads a series of exercises for folk looking for a way into working with Scots…
 

Thought Exercise: Deborah Baker

Sunday 10 August 14:30 - 16:00

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Together, participants will discuss the precariousness of democracy, how history repeats itself, and why resistance isn't just urgent - it can actually work…
 

Marina Warner: A Place of Sanctuary

Sunday 10 August 14:45 - 15:45

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Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Marina Warner joins us today to ask profound and urgent questions about the right to safety, home, freedom of movement, and peace…