New College Festival Programme

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Friday 7 November 

TimeEvent TitlePriceBooking Link
11am-12pm

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: 'The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt'

£12/8Event Page
1-2pm

Manya Wilkinson in Conversation with David Neville

£12/8Event Page
2:30-3:30pmAbi Millar: ‘The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age’£12/8Event Page
4-5pmMustafa Briggs: ‘Islam & The Making of The Modern World’£12/8Event Page
5:30-6:30pmVanessa R. Sasson: ‘The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women’FreeEvent Page
7-8pmShannon Vallor: ‘The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking’£12/8Event Page

Saturday 8 November

TimeEvent TitlePriceBooking Link
11am-12:30pmEntangled Forest: A Creative Writing Workshop with Liz MacWhirter£20Event Page
1-2pmNadine Aisha Jassat: Many Ways to Tell a Story£5Event Page
2:30-3:30pmLiz MacWhirter in Conversation with Jane McKie: ‘Blue: A Lament for the Sea’£5Event Page
4-5pmReligion and Scottish Drama with Greg Walker, Randall Stevenson, Linda McLean and Donald Smith£12/8Event Page
5-6pmDrinks ReceptionFreeEvent Page
6-7pmNiamh Ní Mhaoileoin: ‘Ordinary Saints’£12/8Event Page

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