1 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.