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Practical Advice: Staying Safe & Free Water First Aid and Medical Enjoying the Festival Tap water in Scotland is both Emergencies We’re glad to say the first nine delicious and clean. Free tap water WCEMS first-aiders will be on site in Solas Festivals have been accident is available to all festivalgoers from the stables over the weekend. free and we are very keen to keep all the bars and food outlets on site Please alert a steward immediately things that way. The advice here is as well as from the cold water taps in the event of an accident or on the campsite. medical emergency. offered to help make sure that happens. Wear Sunscreen If you need to contact our For Information On Site Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you Stewarding or Health and Safety There is a notice board at the only one tip for the future, Information Point outside the team over the weekend, please sunscreen would be it. The long stables which will be updated phone us on our on-site term benefits have been proven by regularly for any last-minute emergency contact scientists. programme changes or important number 07456760867. announcements. Our friendly, Drugs helpful team at the Information The (Glass Free) Site We are a family-friendly festival and Point or the Box Office are available It’s our first year at this we have a zero-tolerance policy on to answer any questions. You can also look for updates on our beautiful site and it is illegal drug-taking. If you are important to us that the festival is a offered illegal drugs on site, please Facebook and Twitter pages. good experience for the owners of inform a Solas Festival steward Errol Park. We are surrounded by a immediately. We will always call the Stewards police if illegal drugs are Our stewarding team is there to working farm and a key rule for discovered. Solas Festival (just like Glastonbury!) help you. Please respect any is NO GLASS ON SITE including request they make and follow any the campsite. After the festival there Alcohol guidance they offer. will be cattle and horses on the Only alcohol bought at the bar areas we are using and glass is may be consumed in the stables Vehicles dangerous for both livestock and or on the main festival field, The car park is situated adjacent to vehicle tyres. Please use (recyclable) please co-operate with stewards on the campsite. No vehicles are alternatives. making this happen. Our priority is to maintain the festival permitted anywhere else on site unless they have been issued with a No Go Areas as a safe, family-friendly and peaceful environment. Excessive pass by the festival office. Some areas of Errol are out of drinking will not be tolerated, nor bounds. They will be clearly marked will under-age drinking, nor Disabled access and we ask you to ensure that you behaviour which intimidates or We want Solas to be accessible to and your family members respect disturbs other festivalgoers. Anyone everyone! There is a reserved area these limits. in breach of this policy may be for disabled camping where cars asked to leave the festival. may be parked adjacent to tents. All Belongings the festival venues are wheelchair So far Solas Festival sites have been Smoking accessible and accessible toilets are friendly and safe, but we can’t take Smoking is illegal in enclosed public located at all toilet blocks. There is any responsibility for items which areas. Solas Festival will enforce a also disabled parking on site in the are lost or stolen. So where no smoking policy in all enclosed car park in front of the big house. possible, we hope you have left structures. Please place cigarette We understand that not all your Monet originals and diamond butts in the bins. disabilities are visible: if you have tiaras at home. Please report lost any access requirements which you property to the Information Point at need assistance with, do not the entrance to the field. Keeping Children Safe We will make every effort to keep hesitate to ask a steward and we children safe on site, but parents will do our best to accommodate Fire Safety you. Small barbecues are allowed in the are responsible for their children at all times. If your child is lost, please designated area behind the tell a Solas Festival steward campsite, but please do not light immediately. The Box Office can any open fires anywhere on site. provide you with a plain wristband Never leave barbecues unattended for your child’s wrist on which you and be fire safety conscious when can write your own mobile number, using camping stoves or gas lamps. allowing Solas Festival staff to Personal generators are not contact you if your child becomes permitted on site. separated from you. 2 3

Welcome to Solas Festival 10, The Gathering! And join us Essential Information as we gather together radical and beautiful voices from 01 Site Map 02 around Scotland and the world and create a temporary Welcome community in which to explore art, music, spirituality, 03 Talks and Literature 04 politics, and life, and have a good dance! This year we are Performing and Visual Arts 08 celebrating our tenth birthday. Can you believe there has Children and Families 10 been a decade of Solas, nearly a whole month of stunning, Participate 12 sunny Solas days (and a few rainy ones). Rest and be Thankful 13 Over the last decade we have tried to gather Music 14 together the most thoughtful, challenging, and talented Young People 17 musicians, artists, activists, dancers and thinkers that . Methodist Partners 18 Scotland and the wider world have to offer and to create a UNESCO-RILA Partners 19 truly special space where we can enjoy the spaces in Saints and Sinners 21 between these things, to find where we can all meet and what can be shared. This year is no different and we are thrilled to have our most international and exciting bill yet, with musicians from Malawi (Gaspar Nali) to Skye Solas Festival 2019 has been made possible with the (Niteworks) lighting up the main stage, and Clydebank generous and imaginative support of: (Kapil Seshasayee) to Iran (Farzane Zamen) rocking the Stables. We’re delighted to be hosting the Scots Makar, The Solas Festival Saints our national poet, Jackie Kay, for the first time whilst Our wonderful volunteers exploring the bright future of Scottish poetry with rising Partners stars Nadine Aisha Jassat and Juana Adcock. Elsewhere, UNESCO Chair, Prof Alison Phipps politics is spilling out across the field with Charles The Methodist Church in Scotland Forsdick talking about the Haitian revolution, Kenny Ekklesia MacAskill talking about the Glaswegian revolution, and Refugee Festival Scotland Joanna Cherry MP and Andy Wightman MSP in Funders conversation with each other. Creative Scotland For kids of all ages we have the extraordinary EventScotland puppetry of Shane Connolly who will be performing in his Alexander Moncur Trust caravan as well as bringing Galoshins to life in the Stables, We are also incredibly grateful for the hard work and plus a silent disco, Mr Boom, and the incredible Unicorn talents of the following people: Dance Party. And there are sessions to make dens, Jasheen McKenzie, Richard Knott, Emma Bennett, Bella discover beasties and cook on an open fire. Hoogeveen, Scott Paget, Ian Manson, Gareth Ruddock and We’re thrilled to be at a new site and in a new Giraffe CIC, Dave and Wilson Lochhead, Colin Shields, Keith Burns and Dominic Tooley. community here at Errol Park. We hope you think that the park is as beautiful as we do and spend your time soaking Staff Team: up the atmosphere and the sunshine bouncing off the Debs Hahn, Henry Bell, Morag Wells and Maddie Hands. silvery Tay. On Saturday please do also take the time to Solas Festival Trustees: stroll down into the village and visit the Errol Village Gala Frank Strang (Chair), Dot Reid (Vice Chair), Paul Clelland for some food, games, heavy horses and special Solas (Treasurer), Emma Bennett (Secretary), Sarah Rose Graber, guest performers. Mary Ann Kennedy, Jasheen McKenzie, Gareth Ruddock, Mark Russell. Enjoy Solas Festival 10! Throw yourself into this gathering of sights, sounds, and ideas. We’re delighted Solas Festival is a charity registered in Scotland, that you are a part of it. No.SC041434, and a Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in Scotland, No. SC371181 Solas Festival, 74 Norse Road, Glasgow, G14 9EF Frank Strang Email: [email protected] Festival Chair 4 JOSIE LONG ALASTAIR MCINTOSH SARA SHAARAWI & JUANA ADCOCK

04 01 02 Three time Edinburgh Comedy Trump and the Highland Clearances Award nominee and presenter of The mother of the American president Radio 4's short cuts, Josie Long, is emigrated from the Isle of Lewis in 1930. It is back with the beginnings of her first little recognised that the social background new show in three years. Last year of her time had been afflicted by 7 types of she had a baby, and she thinks she cultural trauma, beginning with Highland may be the first person ever to do Clearance evictions of her family. How might Poetry Reading this have shaped The Donald’s background? that, so she has a lot of revelations. Award winning Playwright Sara This is a show about welcoming Alastair will explore what is known about intergenerational trauma. Shaarawi comes from Cairo. Her plays someone to the world in all of its have been developed by the likes of wonderful glory, it's about Nonviolence and the Future of Christianity03 the Royal Shakespeare Company and tenderness and love but also about performed around the world. Mexican how you try and find that when the Since Christianity became incorporated into world feels like it's hurtling towards the Roman Empire its history has been bound poet Juana Adcock is one of the most the apocalypse. up with violence, too often a violent religion exciting writers in Scotland today. Join of violent men of violent times. If the faith is them for readings as they explore the to have a future, and a worthy contribution relationships between Arabic, Spanish, NADINE AISHA JASSAT on the table of world faiths, how might its English and Scots in their work. original values of nonviolence shape Third Millennium Christianity? JUDE LEVERMORE

CHRIS MCQUEER

Poetry Reading 05 Nadine performs work from her debut collection, Let Me Tell You This, which has drawn praise from writers such as 07 Jackie Kay, Hollie McNish and Nikesh Telling Stories 06 Working with Polarities Shukla for its exploration of racism, When an argument has two sides, and heritage, and the restorative bonds Chris is an award winning author from between women. Glasgow. Taking inspiration from both sides are right and need each Named as one of 30 Inspiring Women everyday life in the east end and his other to experience the whole truth, Under 30 in Scotland, Nadine Aisha past jobs as a shoe salesman, barber what do you do? This will be a Jassat is a writer and creative and crime scene cleaner, he has been practical exploration of the how ideas practitioner exploring storytelling and described as 'Limmy meets Irvine of polarities can prevent organisations social justice. Her work has drawn Welsh' and 'Charlie Brooker on and individuals getting stuck. significant acclaim, including being Buckfast'. His first book, Hings, has Jude Levermore is Head of Mission for shortlisted for the 2018 Edwin Morgan been adapted into a series of short the Methodist Church in Britain, and a Poetry Award, and she has performed films for BBC Scotland. At Solas, he will believer that the world can be widely, including at the Edinburgh read from his collections, talk about the transformed by people acting stories behind the stories as well International Book Festival. collaboratively. answer any questions. 5

STEVE GREER Strange(r) Scotland the Brave? 09 08 What journey has Scotland been on Steve Greer explores since the founding of a modern performances that invite Scottish Parliament? Drawing on a audience members to consider their relationship new book, Scotland the brave? to strangers – and to each Twenty years of change and the other – in public spaces. future of the nation, this panel looks Whether asking you to walk in particular at the people's story - holding hands with and where the country might be someone you’ve only just going next in a world challenged by met or offering the chance climate change, threats to democracy to remotely ‘control’ a and many other challenges. performer’s actions, such Sim on Barrow, dir ector of beliefs and work asks its audience to examine the unspoken rules of ethics think-ta nk Ekklesia ; Gerry Hassan, everyday encounters, and begin to imagine alternatives. a uthor and politica l commenta tor ; Sally But what happens when the promise of performance F ost er-F ult on, hea d of Chr istia n Aid clashes with the conditions of the real world? Scotla nd, and A lison P hipps, UNESCO Cha ir in Refugee Integr a tion thr ough La ngua ges and the Ar ts at the Univer sity of Gla sgow. Steve is a lecturer in theatre practices at University of Glasgow who writes about culture and contemporary performance.

ANDY WIGHTMAN & JOANNA CHERRY RICKY ROSS AND MURRAY FOOTE 11 10 Off the Record Singer/songwriter and broadcaster Ricky Ross in conversation with former Daily Record Editor Murray Foote. Ricky and Murray will discuss a Andy Wightman MSP in conversation range of topics covering politics, with Joanna Cherry QC MP his time in the editor's chair, the 2 of our elected representatives in future of the media industry and conversation, exploring the personal and their shared love of Dundee United. the political.

49 ABI HEWITT 12 DAVE HOOK Love Welcomes Should Scottish people Women refugees have come rap? Solareye MC and together to start Love Stanley Odd frontman Welcomes, the first social Dave Hook presents his enterprise in Ritsona, Greece, using materials -that include auto-ethnographic study the fabric of life vests worn by refugees on their journeys to of hip hop in Scotland. Greece. Abi Hewitt talks about starting a justice enterprise in a refugee camp that impacts the whole community? 6

KENNY MACASKILL JACKIE KAY 13 14

Former Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill will be speaking about his book Glasgow 1919 and the Rise of Red Clydeside. January 1919 saw 10,000 British troops and tanks appear on the streets of Glasgow to deal with what the Secretary of State for Scotland called a Photo Denise Else Poetry Reading Scottish Bolshevik Revolution. Scots Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, Jackie Kay MBE is one of Scotland, and the UK’s, best loved poets. She is a HENRY BELL 15 professor of Creative Writing and has worked extensively for screen and stage. Her memoir Red Dust Road took her from her home in Scotland to her biological father in Nigeria won the Scottish book of the year award in 2011. Josie Long will introduce a career spanning reading of Jackie’s poetry.

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA In this centenary year of The Battle of George Square our very own Henry Bell explores the A much-loved contributor to Solas Festival, momentous life of John MacLean and the Pádraig is a poet and theologian from Ireland events that shaped it from the Great War and the Great Unrest, to the Rent Strike and the Feed the Beast: poems about Russian Revolution. Bell examines Maclean’s masculinities and devils 17 work as an organiser and educator, his Pádraig’s new poetry book There is no such imprisonment and hunger strike, and how he thing as the past will be released in 2020. It became the early hero of radical Scottish reflects on stories of masculinity, reparative Independence. therapy, demons and devils and danger, oh my! Enjoy a preview of some of the poems. GUTTER MAGAZINE 10TH BIRTHDAY Storytown Sessions 19 18 Poems and Songs always have 16 a story about them: a story of how or why they were written; a story about the person who Tenx9 is a storytelling sensation where inspired them or the people people have up to ten minutes to tell a they were written for. Join Gutter is Scotland's magazine of new writing, true story from their lives. Our theme Padraig on stage as he this year is pets - a pet you tried to keep, publishing the best new prose and poetry from explores some of these or kill, a pet you loved, or a pet that stories with Robert Softley established and emerging writers around saved you. Bring your furry friendly Scotland and the World. Join them for a session of tales. Let Pádraig know if you have a Gale, Jackie Kay and other poems and chat to celebrate ten years of the mag. story. musical guests. 7

MERRYN GLOVER FERGUS MCNEILL & ALISON PHIPPS 22 Author Merryn A Creative Conversation: Criminal Justice, Migration and Glover, the first Integration writer-in-residence for the Cairngorms National Park, will be leading 2 creative workshops

Written in the Palm 20 A poetry workshop using the outline of In this session, Fergus and Alison will reflect on and illustrate how creative the hand and a collaborative gathering processes and practices have become intrinsic to their lives and work as, of words to reflect on everything we do respectively, Professor of Criminology and Social Work and UNESCO Chair of with our hands and therefore our Refugee Integration through the Arts, both at the University of Glasgow. impact on others and the world. By sharing stories, poetry, pictures and songs, they will try to demonstrate the 21 importance of the arts in helping us understand, represent and respond to the Discovering the Spiritual Journal challenges of integration associated with crime and punishment and with migration and border control. A session introducing the practice of keeping a spiritual journal with a CALUM RODGER presentation of some of the approaches COLIN CAMPBELL 24 to this discipline, examples from 25 Creating music from science, published classics and time to try out melodies from stem cells, chord some writing exercises. (2 hour session) progressions read as DNA, Fulbright scholar Colin Campbell explores the overlaps between DOUG GAY science and song and unlocks A Balm in Gilead? 23 the molecules that make us up.

RUSSELL MCLARTY 26 Calum Rodger is a Glasgow- Story-Make Ceilidh based poet and performer. He is If mainstage is not your thing join the Scottish National Poetry Slam Russell on Saturday evening for a Champion 2019, representing home-made ceilidh, a mixture of Scotland at the Poetry World Cup stories and whatever you bring to in Paris in May. His publications the party. include Know Yr Stuff: Poems on Hedonism, Glasgow Flourishes The Edinburgh Books and the Iowa (both from Tapsalteerie), and PORTS (from SPAM Press). He Books: Marilynne Robinson’s literary JOHN MASON MSP 50 likes performing poems about dialogue with Calvinism in the Gilead How do politicians stay sane in a video games, modern life and novels . social media world? Chill out in the Scottish culture and identity, all Doug Gay is a Kirk minister who yurt and hear John share how social with tongue-firmly-in-cheek. teaches theology at Glasgow media impacts his role as an MSP. University. His current research is focusing on theology and the arts. DANA MACPHERSON Nichiren Buddhism 51 An short introduction fo Nichiren Buddhism with Dana MacPherson member of SGI-UK. Explanation of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, 5min chanting and Q&A. (20mins) 8

THREE PINTS ON A SUNDAY ROBERT SOFTLEY GALE 27 28

Robert Softley Gale is an established figure in For the last two years it’s been the same. They’ve met every Sunday the Scottish arts scene: a disability rights to shoot the breeze over three pints. Today, things are different. activist, actor and performer, writer, artistic The world is going to end, and the pub is locked. But not even the director and supporter and advocate of equality end of the world will stop them from having their three pints on a of access to the arts for disabled people Sunday. whether as artists or audiences. Don’t miss him in conversation with Padraig O’Tuama (Storytown Sessions). Three Pints on a Sunday is a new piece of spoken word theatre from At the core of Robert’s working practice is a Colin Bramwell (Umbrella Man) and Hannah Lavery (The Drift), belief that by creating key partnerships, we can about friendship, alcohol, and climate change. Don't miss the debut develop an arts sector in Scotland that is of this hilarious and moving collaboration between two of inclusive of disabled people and that reflects Scotland's most exciting poets. the society in which we live.

LITTLE FAWN THEATRE UNICORN DANCE PARTY PLAYBACK THEATRE 29 30 31 With Edinburgh Playback Theatre

Playback is a unique form of interactive theatre where participants and audiences are invited to share moments and stories from their lives.

The stories are heard, honoured and witnessed by the performers who bring them to life using The Little Fawn is a wonderful, Unicorns are real! voice, movement, dance, music travelling puppet theatre: a and song. The playback theatre 1960s Cheltenham Fawn These unicorns are spreading joy style is a powerful tool for caravan magically transformed by busting some sweet moves and affirming life experiences and into a bespoke creative and encouraging you to join the fun! building community. performance space for children Clap your hands, dance to some and their families. fantastic jams and find your inner unicorn! Featuring the mystical The Little Fawn has become a talents of Sarah Rose Graber & Solas favourite. Don’t miss it! Melanie Jordan 9 DOWNS WITH LOVE MARNIE WAKES FLUX THEATRE: 32 33 THE RAG TALE BAND 34

Performed by Cutting Edge Theatre By Simon Meek; performed by Paula Nugent. A modern, Scottish interpretation of “Downs With Love” tells the story of The Musicians of Bremen (Brothers Beth, a young girl who has Down’s Grimm), The Rag Tale Band tells the An experimental and thought- Syndrome. She is helped by a new tale of four animals banding provoking performance piece. support worker, Tracy and they together, sharing their unique soon strike up a friendship. abilities, celebrating their Every performance of Marnie Wakes differences and discovering the is different, as its core structure - power of unity. This family friendly On a Friday night, she goes to the recollections on a life - is designed show uses Physical Theatre, pub to watch Mark, a local singer. to be read in any order. So come Puppetry, Music, Storytelling and Beth loves Mark but the problem is - Circus to promote the value of along and discover who Marnie is in Mark loves Tracy who loves both of environmental care, wildlife the knowledge that every viewing is them. Complex and challenging protection and the need for an eco- entirely unique and personal to you. issues arise for all. social transition of our communities.

LIGHT FIELD A Participatory Sound and Light Installation by 35 Saffy Setohy and Bill Thompson Visually and sonically captivating, Light Field is an off-grid, participatory installation made of light, people and the sound of light. A field of glowing beacons and sound-emitting lanterns await activa- tion. A multi-part sound-score is gently amplified through kinetically powered lanterns. Light Field invites people to both become part of and alter the ambient installation. Your responses to the instructions subtly affect the installation, generating an emergent choreography of ele- ments. Light Field changes over time as people come and go, creating an extraordinary and unique experience for those activating it, and for those watching and listening nearby or from afar. 10

RSPB CAMPFIRE COOKING MR BOOM 36 37

38 Become a mini-best detective by joining RSPB Scotland on one of An all-age activity that will help Mr Boom - the children's one- their bug walks. You’ll get the you feel right at home, even in the man band from the moon chance to explore the site looking middle of a field. Gather round the returns to Solas Festival. campfire with our resident outdoor This lunar character has been for bugs and figuring out what you cooking experts, try your hand at arriving on Planet Earth since find. easy, tasty recipes. For adults or 1984 and continues to enchant accompanied children aged 7+, and delight wee Earthlings with We’ll be running 3 30-min walks on and there must be at least one an exciting mix of action songs, Saturday & Sunday, with space for adult present for every two circle dancing and spontaneous 10 kids (with accompanying adults) children taking part. There will be a banter. small charge to cover the cost of ingredients. Cosmic fun for all the family! FAMILY FILMS FISCHY MUSIC 41

Aardman Animation (U) 39 Creature Comforts and Aardman Shorts -- the Great British Public are re imagined as plasticine animals in these charming and funny short films from the makers of Wallace and Gromit. Elsewhere in Wat's Pig we get Aardman's classic take on the Photo Sandy Butler prince and the pauper. Since 1998, Fischy Music songs like Build Up Workshop 42 Monsters Inc. (PG) 40 and Stronger have been a memorable, feel- This workshop for ages In this Pixar classic a city of monsters good feature of life for primary-age children 6-12 , prior to the with no humans called Monstropolis and their families. Their acclaimed songs and Mainstage concert, will centres around the city's power company, live events combine top quality music, teach a few songs so humour, hope, and positive messages. Monsters, Inc where n order to power the that those who attend Stephen and Suzanne are delighted to present city, monsters have to scare children so are able to get on- Solas with a workshop (ages 6-12) and that they scream! stage and perform with concert (all ages) - carrying on their mission to Stephen and Suzanne help children manage the ups and downs of for part of the concert. life. Participative musical fun for ages 0-100! 11 THE BEAN COUNTER DANCE WORKSHOPS SILENT KNIGHTS 46 43 Macrobert Arts Centre Macrobert Arts Centre is a cultural hub for Stirling, the Forth Valley and Scotland. It offers a huge range of activities, from live performances to comedy, dance, drama and art, as well as learning activities for all ages and abilities. Get down and join the Mini Boogie - 5-6 years 44 amazingly fun Silent Disco, Come and explore, high and low, fast and grab your headphones, and slow, all the moves you can think of. In pick between 2 DJ's spinning this workshop we’ll use imagination, tunes simultaneously, red props and play to create our own channel v blue channel, you movements to some funky beats. decide! Expect great music spanning the decades. Junior Creative Dance - 7-11 years45 The Bean Counter is about the In this workshop we’ll put our creative Official of a jelly bean counting brains into gear. Exploring contemporary competition. It is a character and jazz dance styles through a range of comedy about a ‘jobsworth’ who games and dance motifs, we’ll build up uses some unusual counting our own movement routines. methods to count how many beans are in a jar. HAIR BRAIDING The Official is Alice Mary Cooper, a clown and theatre maker 47 originally from Sydney, now based in Edinburgh.She makes work for all ages and is passionate about sustainability and making work that has the environment at its heart. 53 INSTINCTIVELY WILD Learn how to braid your own or GUIDED MEDITATION Den Building 48 someone else’s hair with contemporary or classic plaits in this Such Folly: Meet at the Rest The drop-in,‘watch and practice’ and be Thankful yurt for a immensely guided meditation through popular workshop. Your hair doesn’t need to Instinctively be super-long to take part - just long the trees to the beautiful Wild gang enough to gather into a pony tail. Errol folly, with some music return to Hair bands, brushes & mirrors on arrival from Suzanne help you supplied. Children under 7 must have Butler. Some quiet time for build some dens on our new adult supervision. festival site. meditation, prayer and/or reflection. Led by Frank Wild Nettle String making 52 Strang (Solas Chair) and We’re not entirely sure what Russell McClarty (Place for this session is, but we are Hope). certain it will be fun! 12 VERENE NICOLAS GOSPEL CHOIR SILENT KNIGHTS 57 56 Get down and join the Silent Disco, grab your headphones and pick between 2 DJ's spinning tunes simultaneously, red channel v blue channel, you decide! Expect some great music spanning the decades with a few guilty pleasures thrown in! Biodanza 54 Solas regulars will know that Brian Find rhythm, dance, breathe, have fun, McGlynn's Gospel Singing workshops connect and relax. This workshop will give are something of a phenomenon at MOVING MYTH DANCE you a taste of this energising and the festival. Enthusiasts claim it's a WORKSHOP 59 transformative dance practice. Our theme natural high; come and discover the joy of community singing of some will be: “Dance your Liberation!”, and the Moving Myth explores the concept Gospel classics for yourself. music will be great. of 'oneness of self and environment' through movement, Give Voice to the Soul 55 FESTIVAL CAFE 58 mark-making and creative writing. Facilitated by Dana MacPherson. Discover the Quaker practice of 'seeing that Late night entertainment from a 90min outdoor somatic movement of God in everyone', reimagined by U.S. selection of Solas artists and exploration. 16yrs+. Bring a author, poet and activist Parker Palmer in friends. Your chance to strut your his work of creating spaces that are stuff, if you feel so inclined. Hosted blanket, water and wear loose hospitable to the Soul. A workshop where on Friday by Olivia and Alan, and on clothing. silence and poetry will be special guests. Saturday by Decagram and guests. RAJESWAR & SUEKALI 61 OPEN MIC 60 Indian Raga DANCE THE CHARLESTON It's arguable that Solas Festival has 63 one of the best Open Mic's in the country. Another chance to turn up and strut your stuff along with other talented festivalgoers.

CAPOEIRA 62 Indian raga can help you sing from a Come along and get those feet moving in Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art place of deep relaxation, your whole this fun and energetic introduction to the form that combines music, dance, body resonating, your voice flowing fabulous Charleston Dance. Our friends martial art and gameplay. There free. A unique opportunity for anyone from MacRoberts Arts Centre will teach you are common movements and who loves to sing - from complete some key moves so you can try out a songs, but nothing is beginners to professionals, to choreographed: the players and routine. Strictly eat your heart out… discover profound freedom, fluidity Open to all abilities – no experience needed. musicians play off each other and every game is unique! and resonance.

THE BIG SOLAS CHOIR With Corrina Hewat 64 The Strength of a Song: Corrina is a harpist, singer, composer, MD, recording artist and musical collaborator and coordinates the Celtic Connections Festival public workshops. Come and sing with a group of like-minded individuals, opening your voice and hearts, releasing any worries you may carry while learning a song you’ll love for life. You will feel rejuvenated as the harmony we create will fill your souls! 13

This year for the first time we are delighted to introduce our new wellbeing yurt - The Rest and Be Thankful - with plenty on offer over the weekend for all ages and abilities. Numbers get bigger every year for Mark’s morning yoga class, or come and try chi walking, Pilates or special children’s yoga and mindfulness sessions. We hope you enjoy the quiet and restfulness of this space over the weekend. MARK RUSSELL LINDSEY PORTER 66 Morning yoga 65 Mind your yoga This 60-min session blends Ease yourself off after a night yoga postures (including under canvas with this chilled modifications) breath work morning of movement and and sharing ways to support meditation. better mental health. Mark has been studying yoga for Suitable for beginner to 12 years. He’s a Solas stalwart and intermediate levels. brings his humour and expertise to this morning session. Suitable for Kids’ yoga (ages 3-10) 67 interested beginners and A 30-min session of fun and experienced enthusiasts alike. The creative yoga with a summer theme, with some mindfulness and breathing class will be a gentle hatha vinyasa activities. Please advise of any allergies or conditions before the session. flow with pranayama and a short Lindsey has practiced yoga since 2003. She’s passionate about sharing the benefits period of meditation. of yoga for health and mental wellness.

DONNA NELSON 68 JEN WILSON SARAH ROSE GRABER 69 Kids’ yoga Serendipity: Creativity Through (ages 3-7 & Happy Accidents 7-11) Teens’ yoga If you thought good fortune in (age 12-16) your life is all down to chance, then theatre artist and Fulbright Fun classes scholar Sarah Rose invites you to suitable for think again. Come along for her different age groups, focussing on TEDx talk and participate in a pranayama (breathing exercises), playful workshop to learn how you asanas (postures & movement) and Pilates - all levels & ages 70 A mat-based class that strengthens, can create happy accidents in your relaxation to leave you feeling own life. refreshed, calm and in the festival tones, relaxes, and improves posture mood! and flexibility. NICK CONSTANTINE Mindful Movement 71 All the best stuff for your body, mind 73 LORRAINE CLOSE and soul: Pilates, yoga and meditation Yoga for inclusivity 72 combined into one class. Jen Wilson is an award-winning yoga, A discussion around the work of pilates and meditation teacher. Edinburgh Community Yoga, the importance of encouraging inclusion Chi and accessibility in yoga, and the MORGAN WINDRAM role of yoga in supporting good 74 Walking mental health. We’ll begin with a Yoga and Ultrarunning Walking lighter is a gentle practice that breath-based practice focussing on Morgan is one of the best ultrarunners reduces the stress on your joints and compassion, and end with a nindra in Scotland! Come and hear how she improves your physical and mental for deep rest. blends yoga and running, and be wellbeing and fitness. Lorraine has a background in prepared to do a little movement too… Nick has been practicing yoga for over nursing in a wide variety of settings. 20 years, teaching in Whitley Bay and across Scotland. 14 NITEWORKS 75 Niteworks are Innes Strachan (Synth/Keys), Allan MacDonald (Pipes), Christopher Nicolson (Bass) and Ruairidh Graham (Drums).

Childhood friends and long-term fellow musicians from the Isle of Skye, Niteworks blur the lines between Scottish traditional, folk and Gaelic music with contemporary electronica, creating a unique and exhilarating sound.

Live, Niteworks come into their own, with notable headline UK performances at Cambridge Folk Festival, Hebridean Celtic Festival, Skye Live and internationally in Germany (Rudolstadt), Borneo (Rainforest World Music Festival) and Belgium (Schotts Weekender) in 2017.

STINA TWEEDDALE KOBI ONYAME AFSHIN KARIMI (HONEYBLOOD SOLO) 76 77 78 Music is part of the reason that Iranian singer and keyboardist Afshin Karimi fled his country three years ago, not only because he feared persecution after changing his religion, but because the kind of music he was making was banned by authorities. Afshin is also a member of Musicians In Exile, Honeyblood’s third album sees Stina perhaps the UK’s most unorthodox Kobi Onyame is a Ghanaian, UK-based Tweeddale finding her most ensemble, made up entirely of ambitious form and steely focus yet. independent recording artist, producer asylum seekers and refugees. and songwriter. Described by Three albums in she has stepped OkayAfrica magazine as "the UK hip- THE ROAD forward to finally claim the mantle of hop game's unintentional preacher of 79 the project she birthed seven years sunny vibes…”, his music is a vibrant ago as a her sole vision. Stina takes spectacle that draws heavily on African the reigns in collaboration with none- culture. “Kobi” is an acronym for his other than super-producer John real name and “Onyame”, the Akan Congleton (Angel Olsen, St Vincent) word meaning God; the pseudonym for the most definitive Honeyblood acts as a constant reminder of his faith LP to date, consolidating the and to remind him to take God with him everywhere he goes. Glasgow-born band as one of the The ultimate party band for the most important UK names. Solas Sunday night bash. “From the Lemonheads to the CAMPSITE SESSIONS La’s, Big Star to the Byrds, Pulp Head down to the LOUD campsite for weird and wonderful acoustic to Prince and Teenage Fanclub sessions with some of the best of the festival as well as the freshest local to Teenage Dirtbag, we love talent. Timings and listings will be on a board by the caravan, but them all”. remember time is an illusion and festival time is doubly so. 15 SUPA AND DA KRYPTONITES JESSICA DANZ SOLAREYE 80 81 82

Jessica Danz is an award- A high-octane, award-winning 10- winning performer and piece band. Packed with a tight composer, bring together and tasty horn section, a classical and folk elements to Rapper, poet and hip-hop academic, chameleon-style rhythm section, craft haunting and original Solareye has toured extensively complemented with soulful material for voice, violin and throughout the UK and around the female vocals and fronted by a piano. Jessica will be globe with critically acclaimed socially-conscious rudeboy. performing songs from her alternative hip-hop group Stanley Odd new album, Under the World. and as a solo artist. His debut solo Don’t miss the rap workshop on album – All These People Are Me – Sunday! was described by Ian Rankin as “a RAVI stunning album… The great TINDERBOX ORCHESTRA 85 contemporary Scottish novel in rap 84 form”. Don’t miss his talk too. KAPIL SESHASAYEE 83

Singer-songwriter and multi- instrumentalist Ravi (aka P Freeman) unites guitar, kora, The young people of Tinderbox soulful vocals and infectious Orchestra bring a 20 piece band to world rhythms, with original Solas festival with a spellbinding and traditional songs from set of new music. Driven by an unshakeable desire to help young around the world. His music is people grow in confidence through the result of a lifetime Kapil Seshasayee is a polymath, and a music, this pioneering collective exploring the edges of world true original talent, both as a songwriter work with hundreds of children & sounds. and as a soundsmith. Combining Carnatic young people each year. guitar ornamentations and stunning BRASS, AYE? 88 vocals with unorthodox instrumentation such as the aquaphone, Kapil manages to HYYTS 87 be truly experimental yet still accessible. His debut LP is a concept album based around India’s caste system. 86 BEST FOOT RECORDING STUDIO Brass, Aye? began life in 2012 in Many of our contributors are migrants, Glasgow, welcoming all players of a global diaspora of cultures and Drawing from influences as horns and drums. The band has traditions. Run by Best Foot Music, the diverse as Kanye West, Scissor gone from strength to strength, Recording Studio documents the music Sisters, Arcade Fire and Frank underpinned by the sense of fun and arts of communities and Ocean, HYYTS meld concepts to which attracts players from all individuals who have moved to the UK, create their progressive, backgrounds. Their current shows preserving them for education and unique take on pop. include singing, dancing and lots research. of crowd participation. GASPER NALI HEISK 16 89 90 MARTHA FFION 91

Malawian musician Gaspar Nali taught himself how to make his trademark babatoni. A traditional 3-metre-long, single-string bass, Vibrant six-piece HEISK are a powerful Martha Ffion is the musical project of constructed from a oil drum, cow hide and new force on the folk scene. Their Claire Martha Ffion McKay. She began eucalyptus, it’s played with a stick and a beer relentlessly energetic music stems from writing music when she moved to bottle. The results are joyously catchy and their roots in Scottish traditional music Glasgow and learned to play guitar. original Afro-beats that you’ll want to dance to. and combines it with punchy riffs and Her debut album, ‘Sunday Best’, was Gaspar’s videos, shot near his home on the grooves. among twenty albums long listed for northern shore of Lake Malawi, have made him 2018’s SAY Award. something of a YouTube phenomenon! JOSIE AND PABLO 93 SAVOURNA STEVENSON & STEVE KETTLEY BEERJACKET 92 94

2017 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Winners Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente are a vocal/guitar duo like no other. Since joining forces in 2016 Josie and Pablo Clarsach virtuoso Savourna joins Nearly 5 years since the release of his last have taken the scene by storm, quickly forces with old friend album, Darling Darkness, Beerjacket becoming one of Scotland’s most in- saxophonist Steve, showcasing returns with his most ambitious project to demand live acts at festivals and venues her compositions - a dynamic date. Accompanying the 12 songs is a across the country and in 2017 they were blend of haunting melodies, collection of 12 short stories; intertwined pulsating rhythms and stirring with the music, intended for consumption nominated for ‘Folk Band Of The Year’ at the ‘MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards’. improvisations, daring yet alongside it. This pairing creates an accessible. ethereal tone which binds the stories with a dreamlike, magic realism quality.

HARRY BIRD AND THE BRUACH RUBBER WELLIES 95 96 Original, entertaining and thought provoking, the Rubber Wellies are a travelling folk outfit skippered by Glasgow based singer-songwriter and circus musician Harry Bird. With over ten years of experience together on the road they have Local band Bruach formed in Errol entertained audiences all over after its members tried to organise a Europe and beyond in the manner of folk night in the local pub. They try to the musical troupes of old. walk the line between raw, rustic folk and polished arrangements of traditional tunes. 17 FARZANE ZEMEN AREF GHORBANI FOLKIFY 99 97 98

Iranian musician, composer and Folkify offers 'folk for folk' hosted by singer Aref Ghorbani learned violin multi-instrumentalists Sandy Nelson and Farzane Zamen is an Iranian singer- as a child but, recognising his Morna Young. songwriter and music producer based talent as a singer, began training in Glasgow. Her main focus as a with Iranian classical singers and From Bowie to Beyonce, the duo present performer is to create multi genre self-learning the setar. Despite new, acoustic arrangements of your shows, mixing her own written songs musical and artistic censorship, his with Persian and Azerbaijani folk music. favourite songs with a folked up spin. Ever musical career developed in Iran heard 'Poker Face' as a country ditty, '500 Miles' as ballad or 'Crazy in Love' as a jig…? In this session Farzane will take you on and he moved to the UK in 2018. This is Folkify. her musical journey moving to Aref facilitates ‘Musicians in Exile’ Glasgow, showcasing music from in Glasgow, where he can now sing Southern Iran to Azerbaijan. and play music freely. JONNY AND THE BAPTISTS 100

Musical satirists Jonny & the Baptists – real names Jonny Donahoe & Paddy Gervers – are among the hottest musical comedy acts on the UK scene, regularly appearing on TV, radio, at festivals and most recently a 50-date UK tour of their hit show “Eat The Poor”. From silly songs to satirical anthems, their riotous live blend of comedy and rock gig has won adoring fans across the country.

19 Our partners in the UNESCO-RILA team have brought together an amazing range of activities. Visit them in The Refuge .

The UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA), hosted at the University of Glasgow, undertakes a programme of work focused on multilingual knowledge exchange in the area of refugee and humanitarian protection, with a focus on fostering integration through creative and cultural expressions. The Chair builds on research findings and partner priorities in such a way as to promote creative, practical multilingual action for change at all levels of society, in all contexts.

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Haiti: the unfinished revolution Haiti is often dismissed as the Storytelling In this Third UNESCO-RILA lecture We tell stories to put meaning into poorest country in the Western at Solas Alison Phipps will the past, the present and the Hemisphere. Charles Forsdick – present her new book (with 50% future. Join Gameli for a multi-arts author of a recent biography of the discount for festival goers) storytelling session. He tells leader of the Haitian Revolution, Decolonising Multilingualism. The traditional Ghanaian and book is a poetic, activist’s Toussaint Louverture – looks contemporary folktales, using academic exploration of her behind the headlines to explore the musical instruments from various attempts at decolonising and her history of the nation that was the parts of Ghana, words, action and manifesto for decolonising movements. The session is for first Latin American country to multilingualism. declare independence in 1804. both children and adults.

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3D Storytelling Tawona Sitholé invites you to a 3D storytelling workshop, in How do plants help us build a Refugee Voices Scotland which you will be creating a new life? Come and hear stories Podcast invites you be part of folktale, using the body as the from refugee gardening and our 'live audience' for our shows starting point. The story print projects and create a recorded at Solas! There’ll be a created will be shared with papercut landscape reflecting series of interviews and, time the diverse environments we permitting, there will be an young dancers, poets and audience Q&A. actors in Ghana and Zimbabwe, call home with artist and as a token of friendship. gardener Martha Orbach. 20 DETENTION DIALOGUES ARABIC LANGUAGE UNDER SCOTTISH SKIES 108 107 After the huge success of last year’s Palestinian Arabic language taster, we are back again to offer you a new Palestinian Arabic lesson. Drawing from the Online Arabic from Palestine language Detention Dialogues is a piece of course we developed in documentary theatre that gives voice to collaboration with the Islamic migrants’ stories. Three of these dialogues, University of Gaza (Palestine), we featuring real-life testimonies, will be will teach you a few sentences and performed at three different locations words in Arabic and give you a wee across the festival. A discussion about flavour of Palestinian culture and asylum and detention will follow. traditions. A collaboration between Ice and Fire and Scottish Detainee Visitors’ Life After PORTRAIT DRAWING WITH I. D. CAMPBELL 110 Detention Group. Join UNESCO RILA affiliate artist I.D. Campbell for a portrait AHRC TRANSLATING CULTURES drawing workshop. EXHIBITION 109 Together, we'll reflect on the 2019 marks the conclusion of the Arts and lives of the featured models we Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are drawing, who are from ‘Translating Cultures’ theme refugee backgrounds. This exhibition gathers together a number of Beginners and experienced ‘objects in translation’ and ‘objects of artists are all welcome. translation’ which have been identified by ‘Translating Cultures’ researchers to illustrate their research questions or practice. The ANTI-SLAVERY KNOWLEDGE NETWORK with Charles Forsdick and Lennon Mishi 111 exhibition is a prelude to a more extensive online exhibition and glossary which will The Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network works reflect outputs from over 100 projects. with partners to address modern slavery. Together they demonstrate that participatory arts-based strategies, rooted in heritage, can KIDS’ COLOURING SESSION allow Global South communities to play a 112 central role in tackling contemporary slavery. Two of the network members – Lennon Mishi and Charles Forsdick – give an overview of this work and the challenges it entails.

PARTICIPATORY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP 113 Led by Tawona Sitolé - books and pencils Participatory photography offers a supplied. The colouring book is based on unique opportunity to investigate themes in the Broken World, Broken Word and document individual and performance piece, which explores issues cherished moments. of borders, detention, language and This workshop, led by Pieter van der expression. Houwen, UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist, will focus on how participatory photography has been reinvented in this new digital era. SOLAS FESTIVAL SAINTS 21 114 We’d like to ask you to consider becoming a Solas Saint, a group of saintly people who support us throughout the year by making a monthly or a one-off donation. We literally would not survive without this financial support, and each year the funding Plant some ideas for the future climate seems to become more difficult as lots of arts organisations struggle to stay We at Solas like Errol, our new home! Come and join some board members for a session planting some fruit trees for us all to en- afloat. joy in 2020 and beyond. We’d like to chat about ideas for the fu- Your donation would help us survive the ture of the festival and how we use this lovely site and how you winter months; maintain free child places might help make those ideas happen. and heavily reduced tickets for young Gather at the Stables entrance and prepare to get your hands people; and offer hospitality to refugee dirty! visitors and others who might not be able to attend. So if you have a little to spare you can sign up online via our website. Or, talk to a member of the Solas team over the festival weekend. Event Scotland page