| 1 | | | Kajal Ahmad, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Sarah Maguire: Reading | Readings by three poets, as part of the Poetry Translation Centre 2008 tour. For the tour, Kajal Ahmad's poetry was translated by Mimi Khalvati and Choman Hardi. | POETRY PERFORMANCE | |
| 2 | | | The Pakistani Film, Media and Arts Festival | A description for The Pakistani Film, Media and Arts Festival | FESTIVAL
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| 3 | | | Speaking in Tongues | 'Meetings of Asian-Scots and Gaelic poets' in a 'project which brought writers from various cultural backgrounds together, run by Janet Paisley in Glasgow in 1997'. Source: Wish I Was Here: a Scottish multicultural anthology, ed. by Kevin MacNeil and Alec Finlay (Edinburgh: pocketbooks, 2000), p. 11. | POETRY WORKSHOP
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| 4 | | | Commonwealth Arts Festival 1986 | A series of events linked to the Commonwealth Games, an international sporting event hosted by Edinburgh in 1986. The Arts Festival took place between 17 July and 2 August 1986, and included readings, panel discussions, exhibitions, music and dance events, film showings and drama productions. | FESTIVAL | |
| 5 | | | Englishes in Britain (panel discussion) | A panel discussion, organised as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, held in Edinburgh. The discussion was chaired by Philip Hobsbawn; the discussants were Blake Morrison, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead and Tony Curtis. | FESTIVAL | |
| 6 | | | Southern Cross (poetry reading) | Organised as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, held in Edinburgh. | POETRY PERFORMANCE | |
| 7 | | | Burning an Illusion | A young British-born black woman begins to question her attitude to love and life and desire for middle-class respectability and security through marriage. Feature film, presented as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, held in Edinburgh. | FESTIVAL | |
| 8 | | | Women's Writing in the Commonwealth (panel discussion) | Presented as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, held in Edinburgh. The discussion was chaired byLalage Brown, and the discussants were Margaret Attwood, Elaine Feinstein, Eunice de Souza, Amryl Johnson and Emma Tennant. |
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| 9 | | | Rum and Scotch: Poems by Caribbean and Scottish Writers (poetry reading) | Presented as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, held in Edinburgh. The contributors were John Agard, Grace Nichols, Fred d’Agiar, David Dabydeen, Amryl Johnson, Lynford French, Sorley MacLean, Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard, Edwin Morgan, Sheena Blackhall, and James Berry | POETRY PERFORMANCE | |
| 10 | | | Drama (panel discussion) | Presented as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, held in Edinburgh. | FESTIVAL | |