Tomorrow, Talks & lectures

Tax evasion, avoidance and non-collection cost £120 billion while benefit fraud was below £5 billion (2010). Katy Clark MP, Mark Serwotka (PCS leader) and Owen Jones discuss who’s really scrounging. With over 24 times as much lost to tax cheats, why do we hear little about them but so much about benefit scroungers? We…

A free, hour-long peek backstage at the inner workings, characters, scenes and high points of The Pirates of Penzance.

Learn more about the library's collections with this special tour and talk.

Graphic design as an extreme sport. Andie Airfix talks about the challenges working with music’s ‘megastars’ including Metallica, Thompson Twins, Stones, Doa, Leppard, Zeppelin and more. Talk dates: May 10/11; (Def Leppard). 17/18; (Metallica). 12/19/24; (Music design; Early Days). 8/15/22/25; (Music design; Latter Days).

A free, local literature festival run by West Dunbartonshire Libraries that nevertheless manages to book some big name authors for its programme of talks, signings and more unusual events. This 11th edition sees Alasdair Gray, William McIlvanney and Allan Massie join non-fiction writers Margaret Evison, Tom Devine and DA…

Scottish football architecture has an illustrious history: Hampden was once the biggest football arena and Ibrox has the honour of hosting the first football arena disaster in 1902. Richard McBrearty talks about this as part of the More Than A Game: How Scotland Shaped World Football exhibition programme.

Regular talks on museum staff's favourite objects from the collection.

Award-winning traditional African acrobats from Ghana, West Africa. A breathtaking performance, not to be missed. A family friendly event (i.e. suitable for all ages).

details to follow. Suitable for ages 16+.

A talk, on the 98th anniversary, about the worst rail disaster in the UK, involving a troop train carrying soldiers from Letih and resulting in 220 casualties.

The full title is If I know that something unknown transcends me, I cease to be merely a ‘human ape’, but am also a human extra-terrestrial: An afternoon of talks and performance. Artists talk about the complexities of communication. Including Rob Kennedy, Catherine Payton, Daniel Grúň and the Július Koller Society.

A series of free talks taking place on Wednesday lunchtimes in various Aberdeen museums. Booking essential for talks at the Maritime Museum.

Melvyn Bragg launches his new novel Grace and Mary at the London Literature Festival. Grace and Mary is a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. John's mother Mary is in her nineties and lives in a nursing home by the sea in Cumbria. Her memory is beginning to fade. During each visit, John recognises…

The MAKLab is the Lighthouse's Open Access Digital Fabrication Studio. In this Pecha Kucha session, members talk about their work.

A series of free lunchtime talks accompanying the Hunterian's exhibition of its earliest catalogue. Attendance at the talks qualifies you for free entry to the exhibition.

An interactive multi-media spoof tutorial, with Theoretical Zombiologist Doctor Austin, teaching you how to survive a hypothetical Zombieism outbreak using science. Supported by Wellcome Trust and University of Glasgow. “Superbly entertaining… Doctor Austin is quirky and engaging, a delicate mixture of innocence and…