Friday 19th March The Clubhouse 8.15pm

Welcome: Gerry Hassan and Jean Urquhart

THE FRIDAY NIGHT BIG DEBATE:

The Coming Election: What Should We Do and How Should We Vote?

Anthony Barnett, founder, Charter 88 and the Convention on Modern Liberty discusses the ideas in his major News Statesman essay published this Friday, ‘Hang ‘em’ ‘One of the leading voices in the UK for liberty.’ The Guardian

Saturday 20th March The Clubhouse

10.00-11.15am

What has happened to Our Public Services? The Case of Health

Alyson Pollock, Edinburgh University and author of ‘NHS PLC’

‘A brave, necessary book. And because you know the government thinks you shouldn’t read it, you probably should.’ British Medical Journal

11.30am- 1pm

Tartan Treachery: The Strange Tale of Radio Caledonia and the War

Gavin Bowd, St Andrews University

1.00-2.15pm Lunch

2.15-3.30pm

Scotland’s 20th Century Story: A View

Catriona MacDonald, author of ‘Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland’s Twentieth Century’

‘Refreshing and original’ The Scotsman ‘A tour de force’ The Sunday Herald

3.45-5.15pm: THE SATURDAY BIG DEBATE.

Politics after the Election: Democracy, Media, Public Life.

Peter Oborne, author of ‘The Triumph of the Political Classes’

‘Oborne never shrinks from challenging the over-spun politicians who cheapen our politics.’ The Observer

Anthony Barnett, founder of Charter 88 and the Convention on Modern Liberty

FRINGE MEETINGS:

6.00pm. Carol Craig, author of the recent ‘The Tears that made the Clyde’

Sunday 21st March The Clubhouse

10.00-11.00am : Ullapool Conversations.

11.15-12.45pm : Film: ‘The First Movie’.

Mark Cousin’s acclaimed film about Iraq and what its like to be a child in war.

‘A terrifically enjoyable and engaging film: open-minded and open-hearted.’ The Guardian

FRIDAY 6th November: Clubhouse Room 8.15pm

Welcome:  Gerry Hassan and Jean Urquhart

A Tongue in Oor Heids: Scots Language, Memory and the Future

James Robertson, author of ‘Joseph Knight’ and ‘The Testament of Gideon Mack’ and the first writer in Residence at the Scottish Parliament.

10pm: Music in the Bar.

SATURDAY November 7th:

10.00-11.30am: A Different Kind of Scotland After the Crash :

Gerry Hassan, economists Jim and Margaret Cuthbert and social policy commentator

Stephen Maxwell discuss the publication ‘The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power’

11.45-1.00pm: ‘Waking up in a cold sweat’: How Young Scots turn Conservative

Antje Bednarek discusses her research into the Scottish Tories.

2.15-3.30pm: 1707 and All That: The Union Then and Now.

Historian Christopher Whatley, author of ‘The Scots and the Union’, the most comprehensive study of 1707 discusses what the Union is and isn’t, how it came about and contemporary lessons.

3.30-4.45pm: Scotland’s Stories of the Future.

Join Stuart Kelly, literary editor of ‘Scotland on Sunday’ and editor of ‘Headshook’, a collection of Scotland’s best writers on Scotland’s future, with James Robertson and

A.L. Kennedy.

5pm – 6pm SPECIAL BOOK SESSION: A Life of an Independent Mind

Denis Canavan, former MP and MSP talks about his new autobiography ‘Let the People Decide’

EVENING:

Ullapool Village Hall.  (promoted by Ullapool Entertainments)

8.15pm-9.30pm: Grey Coast  present  “Fields of Barley” by George Gunn.

Written for the Year of Homecoming.   Actors: Sheila Smith & Peter Gordon

Musical Director Mairi McLennan and directed by Iain MacDonald

SUNDAY November 8th:

10.15-11.30am: Common Land and Rights in Town and Country.

Back by popular demand, Andy Wightman talks about his latest research and book, ‘Community Land Rights: A Citizen’s Guide’.

11.30-1.00pm: Can Scotland rid itself of Nuclear Weapons?

William Walker, co-author of ‘Uncharted Waters: The Scottish Dimension and Nuclear Weapons’

SESSION CHAIRS:  IAIN MACWHIRTER, ALEX BELL AND GERRY HASSAN

Weekend Ticket £50   Individual Session  £8    Telephone  01854 612103 for Accommodation and Ticket Reservations.

Changin Scotland has been a regular event in March and November since 2002.  And since then, people have come from all over Scotland, from all over the world – and from the entire universe of political and cultural thought, artistic endeavour, community activism, philosophical enquiry, international campaigning and sustainable innovation – to delight, enlighten, inform.

The story continues here…………………………………………….

It is a night, a day, another night and a morning of inspiring presentation, free-range discussion, groundbreaking film, rollicking music, good food and drink.

SEE YOU IN THE BAR.

• Full weekend Ticket – £50
• Individual Sessions – £8.00

For Accommodation at The Ceilidh Place or nearby ‘phone

Reception or Effie on 01854 612103.

• Fixed Price Supper (2course) – £13:00
• Buffet Lunch – £  8:50

Click here for the Programme of events…

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