The Crossway festival is a major cross-cultural literary festival, running this week in Glasgow’s Merchant City. The major new festival will start on 9 April, to celebrate Irish and Scottish culture, featuring 24 events across the 6 days up to 15 April (Sunday). Venues across the city will host Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and English events in the festival, like a reading each afternoon, with another one following in Scottish Gaelic and Irish in early evening. Four major Irish films will also be shown in the early afternoon.
All events across the main venues of Tron Theatre, City Halls and Babbity Bowster, the famous public house, are free and the event will bow out in true Celtic fashion with a major legs up on Saturday night. From readings to live music, plus Imle, the celebrated Irish-language band, will br featured, along with weekend’s Festival Party and Cabaret. Over the week, major fiction-writers, translators and famed poets will participate.
The Irish Pages Editors spoke outlining the idea behind the festival that has an aim to foster and expand the apparently weak links between Scotland and Ireland, across the channel, through Crossways. They said it will pull together noted Irish cultural figures, musicians and writers, and even Scottish peers, from both North and South, all into a well balanced and planned festival that focuses on the Irish people’s contribution in writing, culture, language and history, for Glasgow and Scotland.
To see the programme for the free event, go to the relevant web-page (http://irishpages.org/wp-content/uploads/Crossways-Programme-of-Events-1-1.pdf). However, booking is recommended for events to be held at the Tron Theatre.
