Details here of the May Day plans for Inverness and additional information about the UNISON Family Fun Day in Aberdeen, both on Saturday 4 May.
See also the STUC list of May Day events. And Glasgow Friends of May Day latest is below...
Inverness
Inverness (organised by Inverness and District Trades Union Council)
Assemble 10.30 am at Inverness Castle
March off 11.00 am down Castle Street onto Bridge Street turning onto Bank Street crossing the Grieg Street Bridge onto Huntly Street and finishing up at Friars Shott, Huntly Street.
Various speakers. I&DTUC would appeal to you to encourage members of your Trade Union and friends to join with us in making this an event worthy of holding each year in the City of Inverness.
Aberdeen
ABERDEEN (organised by Aberdeen Trades Union Council
Assemble: 11am Rubislaw Terrace, March down Union Street. Rally: Castlegate
For more information contact: Brian Carroll on 07826 890 342.
UNISON Family Fun Day, Union Terrace Gardens 12.30pm-4pm.
Bouncy Castle, T'ai Chi, Art Attack,Stand Up Comedian, Face Painting, Magician and
Free Food (Cafe 52) and Live Music: Forest Fire, Flaxman, Iain MacDonald, Mark Ayling
ALL WELCOME ALL FREE
Glasgow
The Glasgow May Day celebrations will
take place this year in the O2 Academy, Eglinton Street.
Assemble: 11.30 am George Square. March off: 12 noon. Rally: O2 Academy
Speakers include Neil Findlay MSP, Alvaro Sanchez the Political
Counsellor from the Venezuelan Embassy, Lillian Macer -Convenor UNISON
Scotland, No2 Bedroom Tax Campaign and Tommy Gorman.
For more information contact: Tricia Donnelly on
0141 334 9983
AND GLASGOW FRIENDS OF MAYDAY update:
MayDay Celebrations step
up a gear in Glasgow
Things are hotting up as
Glasgow gears up for the most prominent MayDay celebrations for a number of
years. In a major concert, Comedian and activist, Mark Thomas; marxist
magician, Ian Saville, and former BBC Young Folk Musicians Siobhan Miller and
Jeana Leslie join political song master Arthur Johnstone, and harmonica
virtuoso, Fraser Speirs, in a star studded line-up at the Great MayDay
Cabaret that crowns this years’ Friends of MayDay activities.
Mark Thomas has done a
number of recent events in Glasgow, and was approached to headline the city’s
MayDay Cabaret when he chaired the hugely successful Tony Benn film preview
during the Celtic Connections festival. The concert is scheduled for Monday May
6, in the city’s Oran Mor from 7.30pm. Tickets are £12.50 from the venue or
(including a booking fee) from www.oran-mor.co.uk. It is sponsored by the Co-operative
Membership.
News is also breaking of
an intriguing set planned by singer/writer Dave Anderson. He has been working
with the Co-Op Funeralcare Brass band to develop a ‘crossover’ set with
different musical strands. Dave said “I’m really looking forward to working
with a brass band of the quality of the Co-op. This is a first for me but they have
a great reputation as a fine band. I’m sure we’ll deliver a new and exciting
set!”
The previous day (Sunday
5) the traditional Mayday march assembles in George Square at 11.30am. The
march winds its way through the city to the O2 Academy in Eglinton Street,
where Alvaro Sanchez, the Political
Counsellor from the Venezuelan Embassy, Neil Findlay MSP and disability
campaigner, Tommy Gorman will speak.
These are the highlights
of a range of activity in the two weeks around MayDay that ranges from walks to
comedy, to films and theatre.
The hugely successful
film, The Happy Lands, returns to Glasgow to be shown again at the GFT.
This great film deals with the General Strike and the subsequent lock-out in a
pit village in Fife. Made by Theatre Workshop with local community volunteers
and actors, this was a hit of the recent Glasgow Film Festival, and we are
really glad it has returned. GFT on Sunday May 5 at 3.45pm.
Other films are being
screened by Glasgow’s anti-racism campaigners, Hope not Hate, who are
premiering From Cable Street to Brick Lane on Friday evening May 3 at
7.30pm in Partick Burgh Halls - All welcome. And the Scottish Cuba Solidarity
Campaign screens Will the real Terrorist please stand up? at their
social evening in the STUC on Friday 10 May at 7.30. Free but ticketed. Tickets
on the door.
Other Concerts feature
too. A group of Matt McGinn afficionados have come together to stage a tribute
to the great folksinger. In St Andrew’s in the Square on Friday May 3 tickets
£10 from info@glasgowwoodrecycling.org.uk
The highly-praised talk
by Scottish composer, Bill Sweeney on Music and the Working Class Movement,
has been revived by the Morning Star Campaigns Committee as part of their Our
Class, Our Culture series. This year at the STUC on the evening of Wednesday
May 8. At 7.00pm, Free.
Along with all these
goodies - the programme for which is being supported by the STUC as part of its
There is a Better Way Campaign, and Thomsons Solicitors - the regular
Tron series Mayfesto returns for another year - www.tron.co.uk/mayfesto/
and a Play, a Pie and a Pint continue their innovative programming each
lunchtime at Oran Mor.
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