LOOKING forward to the upcoming Our Land festival? Here's a quick line-up of the events taking place across Scotland. For more information about the events, and for links to tickets, head over to the Our Land website.
7th August
2 – 5.30 pm Birnam Arts Centre, Birnman: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
11/18/25th Aug
7 – 9.00 pm Argyll Community Centre, Saltcoats: Three Towns Debating Society present a month of discovery, learning and conversation on helping the Three Towns to flourish.
12/13th Aug
TBC Dumfries: Rematch: A public event from the Stove Network that reclaims the streets of Dumfries through public football activities.
13th Aug
13:00 pm Dalkeith Country Park: A Gentle Stroll for Land Reform. Join us for a friendly trespass on the Duke of Buccleuch’s estate while learning about the flora and fauna of the land.
16th Aug
7.00 pm The Stove Building, Dumfries: The Stove Network presents a screening of Land Terra: Common Weal’s feature film comparing land issues in Scotland and Brazil.
18th Aug
8.30 pm Ex-Service Men’s Club, Huntly: Huntly Film Community present a screening of CommonWeal’s Land Terra followed by a discussion in the pub.
20th Aug
TBC Area between Huntly and Braemar (final location tbc): Howff Warming: As part of artist Tim Knowles project Exploration Aids. Event explores the gap between ‘right to roam’ theory and practice. Includes a mass walk to a howff . Will include a discussion on land access and infrastructure.
25th Aug
6 – 8.00pm Regent Lecture Theatre, The University of Aberdeen: The Environmental Implications of Redistributive Land Reform – A lecture by Malcolm Combe, Dr Jayne Glass and Dr. Calum Macleod.
27th Aug
7 – 10.00 pm The Corn Exchange, Haddington: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
TBC Buchanan Street, Glasgow City Centre: The Wish Tree Project: Urban Land Reform. The Wish Tree Project aims to get folk to imagine and articulate routes towards a better future for the society we live in and will facilitate discussion on urban land.
Throughout the day across Fife: A series of satellite events across Fife leading up to Dunfermline event the next day.
28th Aug
10.00 am Cowgate Occupy Camp and the Old Town, Edinburgh: Cowgate Occupy Camp - A day complete with picnic/barbecue, speakers, a forum for discussion, a film screening and a community ceilidh.
7.00pm Queen Anne High School, Dunfermline: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
7.00 pm Grand Hall, Kilmarnock: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
30th Aug
7.00 pm Blairgowrie area, venue tbc: Women and the Distribution of Land in Scotland. A meeting and discussion forum to address practices such as masculine primogeniture (boys and men inheriting land before girls and women) and inequality in control of land as an essential human resource.
31st Aug
7.30 – 10.30 pm United Church of Bute hall, High Street Rothesay: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
3rd Sept
11 am – 3 pm Glasgow’s East End: A cycle tour of the East end of Glasgow that explores land use, dereliction and community empowerment as part of Soil City project from Open Jar Collective.
4th Sept
TBC Locations Across Scotland: Don’t Frack Scotland Day. A range of events arranged in locations affected by fracking plans. Events organised by the local groups that make up the Broad Alliance of communities opposed to fracking and all unconventional gas extraction.
10th Sept
TBC The Gal Gael Trust, 15 Fairley Street Glasgow. G51 2SN: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
17th Sept
12 – 4.00 pm The Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore: National Our Land Festival speakers event with local organisers, interactive sessions and music.
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