Wednesday, August 9, 2023
In Conversation with Dame Evelyn Glennie OBE
Time: 11am to 12:15pm
In partnership with Edinburgh International Festival
£8 full price and £6 concession
Event description
Join the world’s premier solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, in conversation with the Deputy Presiding Officer Liam McArthur MSP, to discuss her career and her thoughts on this year's Edinburgh International Festival’s theme – Where Do We Go From Here?
With over 40 solo recordings, she is a double Grammy award-winner and BAFTA nominee who composes for film, theatre and television.
Awarded an OBE and with over 100 international awards, her charity The Evelyn Glennie Foundation embodies her life-long mission to teach the world to listen and help to create a society where communication and social cohesion are improved by the act of listening.
BSL description:
Accessibility
All Scottish Parliament event locations:
- are accessible by lift or level access, and venues are accessible to wheelchair users
- welcome guide dogs or other assistance dogs
Some venues are fitted with induction loop facilities.
Please contact us in advance if you have any access requirements.
Further information on accessibility at the Scottish Parliament.
British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation is available at this event.
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