Festival Events 2016
Edinburgh Brass Band
After two hugely popular performances in previous years, Edinburgh Brass Band's To Absent Friends concert has become an annual fixture, anticipated by the local community and band members alike.
Taking inspiration from and honouring absent friends, Edinburgh Brass Band will blend the melancholy with the magnificent. Playing by candlelight in the majestic surroundings of St John’s Church right in the heart of Edinburgh, the concert will be open and free to all.
Sat 29 October 2016; 19:30 – 21:30; St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh. Book your tickets here.
Hibs Stadium
Football fans coming to Hibs Stadium on 29 October and 12 November will have the opportunity to write tributes to dead loved ones and hang them on memory trees before or after the match.
29 October and 12 November 2016
Hibernium Stadium, Easter Road, Edinburgh
Photo by Jeff Winter via Wikipedia.
Celebrating and Honouring Mexican Writers
Scottish PEN and the Scottish Writers’ Centre are holding an event to honour and celebrate the lives of courageous writes who are no longer with us, and honour the courage of the living, particularly the brave writers who speak out against corrupt regimes.
Journalist and writer, Jean Rafferty of Scottish PEN will be hosting an event with readings from a new book, Sorrows of Mexico, sharing stories from one of the most dangerous countries in the world for expressing the right to freedom of expression.
Jean Rafferty is an award winning journalist and author of The Four Marys, Saraband Books (2004), and Myra, Beyond Saddleworth, Wild Wolf Publishing (2012). Jean is passionately committed to freedom of expression and is Chair of Scottish PEN's, Writers at Risk Committee (WAR), who campaign for imprisoned and persecuted writers.
7pm, 1 November 2016It Takes a Village
There is an old African proverb –‘It takes a village to raise a child – meaning, children need the input and support of their whole community to grow into well-rounded adults. But doesn’t it also ‘take a village’ to support someone who is dying?
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (SPPC) worked with award-winning Glasgow based photographer, Colin Gray, to produce this powerful and challenging series of portraits and personal stories. It Takes a Village explores the idea that as people’s health deteriorates, care and support comes in many guises......
This special To Absent Friends display of the exhibition will also give people the opportunity to share their own memories of dead loved ones on memory trees.
1 November 2016
John Gray Centre, Haddington
Remembrance Playlist
Music and memory are strongly intertwined. Hearing a familiar song can transport you to a different time and place, and help you to remember an event, a feeling... or a person.
Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief is putting together a playlist made up of songs that remind people of loved ones who have died.
They can be funny or sad, old or new, uptempo or downbeat. There are as many different reasons for remembering someone as there are people to remember.
Would you like to be on the playlist? Add your song and share a story here.
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