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Acting Up: Rehearsed Reading
Tearaway Writers present - Pay What You Can £12.00 / £10.00 / £8.00
A night of performed writing, featuring darkly humorous, dramatic, and comedic plays by the talented local writing group, the Tearaway Writers. Running time: 1h 45m Ages 12+ Contains some sensitive subjects such as death and...
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Relaxed drawing @ Wardlaw
Drop into the Wardlaw Museum to relax and draw. Find a place in the galleries and take inspiration from great artworks, capture the detail of an ancient artefact or bring a stuffed animal to life. Easy going, all talents welcome. We'll provide the materials. No booking...
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Children's Classic Concerts: Big Top Brass
Pay What You Can: £15, £12, £10
Roll up, roll up... Children's Classic Concerts presents Big Top Brass. A carnival of musical acrobatics and live magic, with bells, trills and circus skills -- this is the Greatest Show! Performed by CCC's brass quintet, Thistle Brass, and presented by Owen Gunnell alongside our spectacular Magic Circle magician, this promises to be an...
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Karine Polwart: Light Beyond the window
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Karine Polwart is a multi-award winning Scottish songwriter, folk singer, and storyteller. Her songs evoke a richness of place, hidden histories, scientific curiosity and folklore. Trees and rocks speak. Birds flit in and out of vision. and the stars know everything. She conjures the beauty and magic, the sorrow and complexity of the world...
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Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner
Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington. Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance...
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Alien worlds and ourselves
StA-CES networking event
The St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science (StA-CES), cutting across both the sciences and the humanities, would like to invite you to a networking event on Fri, 31 May, taking place from noon until 3pm (lunch provided) at the Learning Loft of the Wardlaw Museum on the Scores. The event includes the opportunity to...
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Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry
About climate justice: what does it mean and what lies ahead?
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Tahseen Jafry of Glasgow Caledonian University. In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled...
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ROH 23/24 Season: Message in a Bottle (12A)
The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive. Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance--theatre show from five--time Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince, inspired by and set to the...
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Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow
Mapping Genocide - What numbers and location can, and cannot, tell us about the Holocaust
In this lecture, Professor Knowles, a leading practitioner of historical GIS, will contrast counting and mapping data about 1,142 Holocaust ghettos to the brutal specifics of genocide in Eastern Galicia and Lithuania, and to what one family experienced during eight mass atrocities in their hometown. She will argue that many scales, methods, and sources...
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Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive
An exploratory workshop
With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records...
