ICS (Institute of Contemporary Scotland), publisher of the Scottish Review, is staging a special event near Edinburgh in the first week of June – the inaugural International Young Scotland Programme.
The programme is open to people living in Scotland who were born outside the UK, aged 18 to 35, in the early years of their careers or doing voluntary work in the community. It is an extension of the existing Young Scotland Programme, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
All places on the programme are free, except the cost of travel to and from the venue. The costs of hotel accommodation and food will be met by ICS.
The event will include debate on issues of the day, dialogue with guest speakers, and the presentation by each delegate of a short paper on a subject of their own choice of ‘current interest or controversy’. The author of the paper judged the most outstanding will be named Scotland International Young Thinker of the Year.
The director of the programme, Fiona MacDonald, said: ‘This is intended as a positive recognition of the increasingly vital contribution being made by people from overseas to Scotland’s proudly diverse and multi-cultural society’.
The programme has been made possible by a generous donation from ICS’s patron, Alan McIntyre.
If you are eligible for the programme and interested in taking part, or know anyone who might be interested, please contact Islay McLeod on her usual email address:
islay@scottishreview.net
and she will send you further details.
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Strapping girders,
lusty arches:
the span of my ambition,
shore to shore
you link me with the old bones,
the new ways,
the true trains that take me
down the path of all my loves.
You lift up your wide arms
to take in the tide,
roll with the shaking wind
that whistles in the rushes
of the wild banks.
You thrill me with your size,
your strong embrace;
you roar with achievement,
you make me proud:
I could hug you.
Let me take the Queensferry train,
slide through you to freedom.
The pipes play
and the kilts sway
to greet us.
You are the opening,
the gap we streak through
to the woolly wilds
of Auld Reekie
and Bonnie Old Dundee;
to the sea of workers’ blood,
the red rust of the past that clings
and hugs the bones of dead engineers.
In the Albert Hotel,
tucked up, I hear you moan in the darkness.
Naked,
I pull back the curtains
and see you floodlit
in all your entrancing glory.
Shine on, shine
you crazy bridge.
You have my devotion,
you have my deepest darkest love.
I would climb you stripped;
I would feel you breathe in the Firth wind.
I give you my heart and soul,
I am frail against your depth.
You will outlive me,
do not mock me,
you are superb.
You are my outstretched lovely;
I will breathe through you,
long for you,
die for you.
Rock me,
go Forth
and inspire me.
Keith Armstrong is a poet and coordinator of the Northern Voices Community Project’s creative writing and community publishing enterprise which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the north-east of England
Keith Armstrong is a poet and coordinator of the Northern Voices Community Project’s creative writing and community publishing enterprise which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the north-east of England
Keith Armstrong is a poet and coordinator of the Northern Voices Community Project’s creative writing and community publishing enterprise which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the north-east of England
Keith Armstrong is a poet and coordinator of the Northern Voices Community Project’s creative writing and community publishing enterprise which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the north-east of England
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