Ankur Festival Colour Blind Writing

Are the voices and stories we read in plays and hear on stage a truthful representation? How do we encourage a diverse and relevant artistic culture and whose responsibility is it? Or does it already exist?

Join a panel of leading playwrights and theatre makers to discuss cultural diversity and identity in Scottish theatre hosted by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. David Greig, Topher Campbell, Annie George, Nabil Shaban and AJ Taudevin join the discussion.

Ankur Festival is a free, multi-artform weekend event, where local artists, academics and the general public interrogate the issue of race and ethnicity in contemporary Scotland. Driven by questions “Where are you really from?” and “Do you have to be white to be Scottish?”, as well as examining the subject of growing up mixed race. A compelling range of responses, notions of dual heritage, immigration and clashes of culture will be explored through an eclectic programme of performance, art, music, poetry, film, comedy and discussion.