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| SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE |
I attend Celtic Connections festival every January in Glasgow
and enjoy the diverse mix of cultures and music. One of the most interesting aspects
is the platform the festival offers young emerging talent –
*The
young musicians who drew attentions this year – Talisk, Siobhan
Miller, Siobhan Wilson, Friel Sisters, Rura, Alasdair Roberts, Kathryn
Joseph, Misha Macpherson. Elephant sessions, Saltfishforty.I have also been reading of
the backward looking Brexit nonsense – young people did not vote for these poorer
futures – 16 and17 years olds were not allowed to vote in the 2016 referendum.
It’s a tough world for young people these days. Many have no prospects of ever owning their own home or ever having a pension. I worry many are distracted by online game playing too! MEANWHILE many pensioners spend their massive drop downs on holidays and renovating homes. The UK depends on this false London housing bubble that will surely burst.
With Brexit there are very
serious issues over the Northern Ireland border and Scottish rights. I read of
a British/Irish Convention which sat 10 years ago, which addressed questions such as the
Irish language. There is talk of holding another convention over the question of
a hard border. Westminster purposes an electronic border but is this really
workable?
My first thought was - bring
in the teenagers, students, twenty year olds to discuss what kind of future they
want. There is far too much emphasis on what the old want, and it is not their
futures.
This could most certainly is not
be about out dated empire building or 300
year old European religious wars. Many young people are very angry and their futures
are being neglected by selfish baby boomers and their large drop downs.
Our links to Europe – There
are the great European literary traditions from Greece to Rome, to the
Renaissance through the Reformations.
The latest Brexit is that May
wants to leave the EU customs union and single market – in order to join a new
EU customs non -frictionless trade arrangement where the UK can make their own
rules on certain things and abide by the EU rules on others? First we’re in Europe with Opt
Outs now out of Europe with Opt Ins! What’s really going on. Scotland never voted for this foolish Brexit, it makes me angry and sad.
SAVE SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE - http://scottishyouththeatre.org/support-us/
Apparently
the significant Scottish Youth theatre is to loose its funding., in the Year of
Young People.
‘We need to remind ourselves that, as Europe is a whole (and still, in it
progressive mutilation an disfigurement, the organism out of which any world
harmony must develop) so European literature is a whole, the several members of
which cannot flourish, if the same blood-stream does not circulate throughout
the whole body.
The blood-stream of European literature is Latin and
Greek – not as the systems of circulation, but a one, for it is through Rome
that our parentage in Greece must be traced.’
TS Eliot lecture to Virgil
society 1944
