# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Letters to the Future at Celtic Connections
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 31 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” 
Percy Bysshe Shelley. 

In order to create the future we want, we need to be able to imagine it. We need to ask our artists - and the artist within each of us, what kind of a future it is. 

Michele Stodart (The Magic Numbers) leads an international house band performing original songs written for the production by acclaimed UK and Canadian songwriters John Smith, Emily Barker, Catherine MacLellan, Chris Luedecke and more alongside newly commissioned letters from beloved writers including Robert Macfarlane, David Suzuki and Jeanette Winterson. 

Music Director: Michele Stodart
Special Guest Singers: Aysanabee, Suba Sankaran, Wesley Stace, Mimi O’Bonsawin, Clerel, Sadie Jemmett

House band: Miranda Mulholland, Kevin Fox, Dean Drouillard, Darren Beckett and the Glasgow Create Choir. 

Folk music driven and ideas powered, this 75 minute concert invites audiences to reflect on the future of truth, cities, indigeneity, rivers, joy and the transformative role of art. 

Letters to the Future is a testament that artists don’t just reflect the world, they shape its unfolding. 

"Art does not imitate life, art anticipates life."
 - Jeanette Winterson

Duration : 75 minutes 
Format : Multi-disciplinary concert with original songs, letters and projections 

Featuring original songs written by 
John Smith, Jean Clerel, Lorraine Segato, Chris Luedecke, Emily Barker, Sadie Jemmett, Wesley Stace, Michele Stodart, Aysanabee, Catherine MacLellan, T. Thomason, and Mimi O’Bonsawin

Featuring original letters written by
David Suzuki, Robert Macfarlane, Jeanette Winterson, Peggy Seeger, David Sax, 
The Disability Collective, Brendan Van Niejenhuis, Rhiannon Rosalind, Robin Mazumder, Johanna Mizgala, Julie Pellissier-Lush, Kiki Benzon….and YOU. Contribute a letter on our website!

Lou Cope : Dramaturg

Projectionist/Lighting Design : Frank Donato

Visual Design : Joel Gregorio

Sound Engineer : Dylan Bell

Videographers/Photographers : Good Job High Five (Brittany Farhat & Matthew Fong)

Project Manager: Tali Trow

Publicity: Peter Hall, Partisan PR

Developed with support from the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund and in partnership with Theatre Aquarius and the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Canada

You can learn more at letterstothefuture.music.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/glasgow/letters-to-the-future-at-celtic-connections/200029391906946
- **Event Categories**: art, entertainment, music, literary-art, concerts, performances, theatre, photography
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.celticconnections.com/event/1/letters-to-the-future/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=glasgow-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Glasgow
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Tramway
- **lat**: 55.840851900761
- **long**: -4.2670929812013
- **full address**: Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Miranda Mulholland (https://allevents.in/org/miranda-mulholland/23258172)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 31 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Miranda Mulholland
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, entertainment, music, literary-art, concerts, performances, theatre, photography
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Letters to the Future at Celtic Connections ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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