Notice board Search for creators of landmark 1974 show in Glasgow

● Yes Dunfermline & West Fife will tonight welcome guest speaker Simon Forrest, CEO and founder of Shetland tidal energy company Nova Innovation, to their meeting at 7pm at Abbeyview Bowling Club, Dunfermline. Free entry, all welcome.

● Free Highlight Talks continue at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, at 2.30pm tomorrow, when Jennifer Smith, professor of sociolinguistics at Glasgow University, will talk on Mapping Scots In The 21st Century, considering how users of Scots, dialects of Scots and English with Scots variants structure sentences, phrases and words.

● Believe in Scotland is holding its first-ever March and Rally for an Independent Scotland in Glasgow on Saturday, in partnership with Pensioners for Independence. Confirmed speakers include First Minister Humza Yousaf. See www.believeinscotland.org for more details. The Brechin Hub has arranged a 50-seater bus for the event, costing £10 per seat and calling at the towns in Angus and Broxden near Perth. Book by emailing dwsmart2@hotmail.co.uk.

● Colin Fox's new book War And Peace In Ukraine: A Socialist Perspective, making the case for a negotiated political settlement to the conflict in Ukraine, will be launched at 7pm on Tuesday, April 23 in Words and Actions for Peace, 58 Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh. All welcome.

● Billy Kay will be talking about his new book Born in Kyle: A Love Letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood on Thursday, April 25 at the Lochgelly Centre in Fife, on Saturday, April 27 at the AK Bell Library in Perth, on Thursday, May 2 at Cupar Library in Fife, on Thursday, May 11 at the Boswell Book Festival in Ayrshire and on Wednesday, May 29 at Coldside Library, Dundee.

For more details visit www.billykay.scot

FIFTY years ago, Glasgowbased Strathclyde Theatre Group created a landmark theatre production that is to be celebrated this year with an exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival.

The organisers are looking for memories and memorabilia from the more than 100 actors, musicians and technical crew who took part in The Golden City.

This epic Scottish production was a pioneering example of what is now known as immersive theatre and was lauded by The Herald’s critic as: “Always absorbing, often deeply moving and at moments can without hyperbole be called stupendous … brilliantly justifies the time and work put into it.”

After a week-long run in August 1974 in Glasgow Cathedral, the production transferred to St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh where The Guardian declared The Golden City to be “the festival’s single dramatic sensation” and it won a coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award, the only amateur company to do so that year.

Strathclyde Theatre Group was an offshoot of the University of Strathclyde whose members also included students from Glasgow University, Glasgow School of Art and other colleges from around the city and the west of Scotland.

Many of its alumni went on to work in film, theatre and television. I am writing on behalf of the organisers of the Golden City 50 event, who want to hear from anyone who was involved in creating or taking part in The Golden City, or who wishes to assist with the celebration.

They can be contacted at this email address: stg@goldencity50.info Roger Green

Ealing, London

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