Join Simon Barrow and Gerry Hassan as they present the latest installment in their Scotland After the Virus event series: Art and Culture in the Scotland after the Virus.

The Scottish arts and culture has arguably been one of the hardest hit sectors by COVID-19, with creatives campaigning for support as theatres, museums, event spaces and the like were forced to close - and remain closed still.

Joined by Joyce McMillan, Flavia D'Avila, Peter Arnott and Ankna Arockiam, Barrow and Hassan will explore Scottish arts and culture post COVID-19 - what the scene looks like, what opportunities can arise and the actions that will be crucial to ensuring the continued richness of Scotland's arts and culture.

With the support of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust.

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Scotland After the Virus edited by Gerry Hassan & Simon Barrow

Simon Barrow is Director of Ekklesia, the beliefs and ethics think-tank. He has written and contributed to numerous books, including co-editing Scotland the Brave? (Luath Press, 2019) and A Nation Changed? (Luath Press, 2017), both with Gerry Hassan. His latest volume, on composer Michael Tippett, will be published in 2021. He is also a co-founder of the Scottish Football Supporters Association. He was previously assistant general secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the official ecumenical body. He lives in Leith, having moved to Scotland ten years ago.

Gerry Hassan is Research Fellow in contemporary history at Dundee University and has written and edited over two dozen books on Scottish and British politics including The Strange Death of Labour Scotland (with Eric Shaw, Edinburgh University Press, 2012), Caledonian Dreaming (Luath Press, 2014), Independence of the Scottish Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and The People’s Flag and Union Jack (with Eric Shaw, Biteback Publishing, 2019). He edited with Simon Barrow two previous collections: Scotland the Brave? (Luath Press, 2019) and A Nation Changed? (Luath Press, 2017). He has written and commented widely in the Scottish, UK and international media and his writing and commentary can be found at: www.gerryhassan.com

Flavia D'Avila is a Brazilian-born theatre director based in Edinburgh. She is the Artistic Director of Fronteiras Theatre Lab, working with new writing, devised, multilingual and transcultural theatre. Flavia is the Events and Membership Coordinator of Theatre Directors Scotland, part of the core group leading the Migrants in Theatre movement, and has recently completed her phd thesis on syncretic theatre and devising at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/University of St Andrews. You can follow her constant rants on Twitter: @fronteirastl

Joyce McMillan is a cultural commentator and theatre critic for The Scotsman, and also writes a political and social commentary column for the paper. She has been involved in many campaigns for democracy and human rights, both in Scotland and internationally, and has been a freelance journalist, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, for more than 25 years. She was a Visiting Professor in the School of Drama and Creative Industries at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh from 2006 to 2010.

Peter Arnott is a playwright, author and director. He is the writer of some 50 professionally produced theatre plays principally in Scotland. Recently he has been Writer in Residence with the Traverse Theatre and the ESRC Genomics Forum at Edinburgh University, and later held a joint fellowship at IASH, also through the Traverse.

Ankna Arockiam is a Glasgow based singer and a researcher of Indians in Western classical music. She is co-founder of Shared Narratives, a platform to support and highlight the work of researchers of colour who work predominantly in the performing arts, and a Board Member with Nevis Ensemble and Children's Classic Concerts.