Event Schedule
Thursday 11th August
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End of Life Choices – Personal is political
Time: 10:30am - 12pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
A Sporting Chance – open schools to community access
Time: 10:30am - 12pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Prostitution – the buyers and sellers
Time: 12:30pm - 2pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Whose Town is it Anyway?!
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
WASPI Women – Righting a wrong
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Information and disinformation: Controlling the narrative as a tactic of war – and peace
Time: 3pm - 4:30pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Disability and the future of work
Time: 3pm - 4pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Solving the global cost of living crisis: Is a Wellbeing Economy part of the answer?
Time: 5pm - 6:30pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
In Conversation with Professor A.C. Grayling
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Friday 12th August
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Twenty-first Century Migration and Asylum Policies
Time: 10:30am - 12pm Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
The Climate Crisis Hasn’t Gone Away
Time: 12pm - 1:15pm Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
Are the Strongmen of Politics Killing Democracy?
Time: 12:30pm - 2pm Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
Cost of living crisis – food and fuel as legal human rights?
Time: 2:15pm - 3:45pm Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
Scotland, racism and the legacy of a transatlantic slavery trade
Time: 4:15pm - 5:30pm Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
In Conversation with John Barnes
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
Saturday 13th August
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LGBTI+ Elder Care
Time: 10:30am - 12pm Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
National Theatre of Scotland's rehearsed reading of Holding/Holding On
Time: 1pm - 2pm Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
Care, love and understanding?
Time: 2:15pm - 3:30pm Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
Data vultures destroying democracy
Time: 2:30pm - 4pm Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
Do You Trust Politicians?
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
The State of the UK Union
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
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How to find us
Please try to arrive 30 minutes prior to event to allow time to pass through security at the Scottish Parliament.
Getting to Holyrood by bus
Visitors can use the Lothian Buses service numbers 35 (nearest stop Canongate).
There are a number of other bus routes a short walking distance away. Details of all local bus services can be obtained from Lothian Buses.
Getting to Holyrood by train
The Parliament building is a 15-minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley train station. Information about train services to and from Edinburgh is available from National Rail.
Getting to Holyrood by road
Our postcode is EH99 1SP. The nearest car parks are St John's Hill or on New Street, next to Waverley Station.