The midsummer Solas Festival which combines ideas, music, literature and performance near Perth, has unveiled its biggest programme to date.
Running since 2009, the weekend-long family celebration of music and the arts takes place from June 23 to 25 in the steadings and fields at The Bield, Blackruthven.
The programme makes space for challenging debate with activists, writers and thinkers from across the political, cultural and religious spectrum.
With a theme of Home, the programme will encourage discussion and debate around ideas of borders, international cooperation, and migration. The festival has also unveiled two major international collaborations, pairing Scottish artists with like-minded collaborators in Palestine and Ghana.
Booker Prize-winner James Kelman heads up the literary programme, with readings from his new novel The Dirt Road, exploring Americana and roots through the eyes of a Scottish exile and accompanied by live music from the Dirt Roadsters.
Helen Sedgwick, novelist and physicist, discusses her debut novel, The Comet Seekers, while Tawona Sithole will lead a late-night poetry event.
The music programme is described as being “bigger, noisier and packed with exciting home-grown and international talent”.
Along with big-name acts such as White, Mercury Prize nominee C Duncan, and Lau, the festival presents the results of an international musical collaboration. Last year, the festival sent Scottish hip hop artists Declan Welsh and Louie Bhoy to Palestine to perform at Solas’ sister festival Bet Lahem Live.
They toured the West Bank, and collaborated on a series of performances with Palestinian artists. Both musicians will talk about their experiences and perform the work created and the film of their trip, by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Iain Hendo, will also screen at the festival.
Debate, discussion and the sharing of ideas are important parts of the Solas Festival ethos, and UNESCO chair Professor Alison Phipps will curate a strand of talks and performance events around the current refugee crisis, while land activist and Green MSP Andy Wightman hosts a series of discussions on democracy and ecology.
This year there will be a pop-up festival-within-a-festival celebrating a diverse range of shorts, feature and documentary films coming from Africa.
With family-friendly activities at the heart of the programme, there will be a number of activities for children of all ages including workshops in crafts, dance, drumming and circus skills, and a petting zoo.
