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Alistair Darling
Date	Location
The man who was at the helm when disaster hit the economy tells the story of how some of the biggest financial institutions in the world were brought back from the brink. View full details and ticket info
17 Jun 6pm	Harmony Garden, Melrose

Amaan
Date	Location
An exhibition created by asylum-seeking and refugee women in Glasgow. Part of Refugee Week. View full details
14 Jun–24 Jun Mon & Tue 10am–8pm; Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sat 9am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	Hillhead Library, Glasgow

The Ambassador (Ambassadøren)
Date	Location
Danish documentarist/satirist/provocateur Mads Brügger decides to expose the high-stakes game of political and economic corruption in Africa. How to go about this? By carrying a hidden camera as he buys a diplomatic assignment to the Central African Republic and sets up a match factory staffed by Pygmies to serve as a front for a diamond-smuggling operation. A gonzo exposé of neo-colonialism that is bound to stir up controversy. 'Brügger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron… View full details and ticket info
25 Jun 6.10pm 24 Jun 4.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Arms Trade Treaty Panel Discussion
Date	Location
A topical and informative discussion about the upcoming arms trade treaty negotiations, with speakers including journalists Billy Briggs and Jackie Kemp, academic George Wilkes and SNP MSP Marco Biagi. The chair is Shabnum Mustapha of Amnesty Scotland. View full details
6 Jun 7.30pm	St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

The Art of Flight
Date	Location
Guerilla documentary charting the plight of refugees attempting to escape civil war in Sudan. View full details
20 Jun 5.30pm GRAMNet and BEMIS screening, preceded by the Refugee Survival Trust's short film, Destitution. Part of…	CCA, Glasgow

Au Pair
Date	Location
The exploitation of au pair women who come from overseas to work in richer countries is the subject of this compassionate and hard-hitting documentary. The film looks at the lives of three Philippine women who work as au pairs in Denmark. Struggling in their new country to earn money for their families back home, the women face social marginalisation and the imminent expiration of their work permits. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 2.25pm 26 Jun 6.35pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Bremner, Wark and Naughtie
Date	Location
Three faces from the front line of political journalism (and political satire) reveal the secrets they've encountered during their careers. View full details and ticket info
16 Jun 9pm	Harmony Garden, Melrose

Brian Taylor's Big Debate
Date	Location
Air your views on the week's goings-on as BBC Scotland's Political Editor brings his debate to town. To book a seat or contribute a question, email brian@bbc.co.uk. Booking is essential. View full details
15 Jun 12.15pm Part of Dundee WestFest.	Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

Charles Glass with Rory Bremner
Date	Location
The accomplished war reporter and journalist in conversation with Rory Bremner. View full details and ticket info
14 Jun 7.45pm	Harmony Garden, Melrose

Coalition
Date	Location
Spontaneity Shop / Pleasance Theatre Trust. It's 2014 and Britain's coalition government has only six months left to run. The Conservative Prime Minister and his Lib Dem Deputy haven't spoken for months, the economy's flat-lined and government MPs are threatening to defect right, left and centre. Lib Dem leader Matt Cooper has to make a series of last, desperate gambles to save his party. A fast-moving comedy satire starring Thom Tuck, Phill Jupitus, Jo Caulfield, Alistair Barrie, Jessica… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 2–3.30pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 2–3.30pm	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 2–3.30pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh

Democracy for Scotland
Date	Location
Exhibition of archive material from the collection of the Scottish Political Archive, which collects material relating to the political history of Scotland in the 20th and 21st centuries. View full details
27 Apr–10 Jun Tue–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun 2–5pm	Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Stirling

Document 10 Film Festival
Date	Location
This documentary film festival uses international film to raise the profile of human rights and social issues that are not exposed in the mainstream media. This year is the festival's tenth anniversary, so there are a number of special events including a retrospective of the best films from the last decade as well as the usual wide range of films from reportage to cinematic essays, investigative journalism to left-field experiments, plus an accompanying programme of art, live music and talks. View full details
20 Oct–23 Oct Times vary	CCA, Glasgow

Dundee Arts Cafe
Date	Location
A talk by Andrea Ross: Govern-mental! Losing Focus on Sustainable Development. View full details
12 Jun 6pm	McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
Date	Location
Week-long festival from Scotland's Colleges in partnership with Creative Scotland, aiming to highlight the importance of radical thinking as an agent for change in education. Activities happen across Scotland and online, with opportunities to debate, find out more about education, and experience new schools of thought, including meditation and environmental and wild food activities. View full details
11 Jun–15 Jun Times vary	Various Venues, Scotland

The Festival of Politics
Date	Location
The only festival of its kind to be hosted in a UK parliament, the Festival of Politics features famous names from politics, media and the arts in debates and cultural events. Most are free apart from a reservation fee, and all events are themed around a politically-inspired topic – last year's was the suitably zeitgeisty 'Renewing Politics in the age of New Media', and involved talks about the uses of Twitter on politics, and the ramifications of the internet for freedom of information. View full details
17 Aug–18 Aug Times vary 24 Aug–25 Aug Times vary	The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Festival of Spirituality and Peace
Date	Location
Based in St John's Church on Princes Street and having emerged from the Fringe six years ago as a festival in its own right, this multi-faith series of events marries creativity and peace-making in a three-week programme of talks, discussions, performances, film screenings, food events, exhibitions and family activities. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Gabriel over the White House
Date	Location
In this outrageous political fantasy made at the bottom of the Depression, a political hack is elected president of the United States. After suffering a near-fatal car accident, he is inspired by the angel Gabriel to seize dictatorial powers in order to lead the nation out of its woes. View full details and ticket info
28 Jun 4.15pm Print courtesy of The Library of Congress. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Retrospective…	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Hitler Alone
Date	Location
Paul Webster. This one-man show is an imagined solitary hour of rumination by the Fuehrer before his suicide in the Berlin bunker. It is culled from his own words and historical sources. His thoughts range over his past, present and future in moods that veer from extreme violence to lyricism, jocular reminiscence to brutal rage, touching affection to murderous hate. His themes are world history, the arts, women, Stalin and Churchill, the British Empire, dear friends, total war and the Jews. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
9 Aug–23 Aug Mon–Sun 9.30–10.45pm	Inlingua Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Home Sweet Home
Date	Location
Photography exhibition created by Women Asylum Seekers Together London, documenting their lives in the UK. Part of Refugee Week. View full details
9 Jun–24 Jun Mon–Thu 10am–5pm; Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm	Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Infinite Detention in Scotland
Date	Location
Short films around the subject of indefinite detention in the UK, followed by a panel discussion. Part of Refugee Week. View full details
19 Jun 6pm	CCA, Glasgow

Karen's Way: A Kindertransport Life
Date	Location
Yellow Leaf Theatre. Based on her autobiographies and poems, Karen Gershon's story, told with unflinching honesty, is one with which few things outside of Ann Frank can compare. Karen's Way is by Vanessa Rosenthal, whose Holocaust play, Exchanges In Bialysdtok, represented the BBC at the European Broadcasting Union in Helsinki. Karen criss-crossed wartime Britain from Edinburgh to Leeds to Bristol and beyond. From trainee Palestine pioneer to chorus girl to Edinburgh student, she went from… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 3.05–4.25pm	theSpace @ Venue45, Edinburgh

Lama Khemsar Public Talk: Global Warming
Date	Location
Lama Khemsar presents his thoughts on the impact of human behaviour on global warming, natural disasters and diseases. View full details
13 Jun 7pm	St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

Lunchtime Talk: Sixty Years, Six Lives
Date	Location
See the newly-opened photography exhibition by Ian Berry, and hear a talk by Joe Brady from the Scottish Refugee Council. Part of Refugee Week. View full details
20 Jun 12.30pm	Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, Paisley

Nationhood Today
Date	Location
Broadcaster Sheena McDonald discusses the changing face of nationhood today in Scotland with the distinguished line-up of Professor of Constitutional Law Christine Bell, Grierson Professor of Literature Susan Manning, Professor of Politics Charlie Jeffery and Alvin Jackson, Richard Lodge Professor of History. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Aug 5pm	The Hub, Edinburgh

NewsRevue
Date	Location
Canal Cafe Theatre. Guinness World Record-breaking Fringe favourites mock the year's news events, mercilessly lampooning those in the public eye. No one is safe - politicians and celebrities alike come under fire in a turbo-charged barrage of bladder-threateningly funny songs and sketches that are so close to the bone you can almost see white. The sing-off between Cameron and Salmond, in a hilarious re-working of Destiny's Child's Independent Women, makes it worth the ticket price alone. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 6.20–7.20pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 6.20–7.20pm	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 6.20–7.20pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

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