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Open Weekend and National Ecumenical Service 
Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 June David
Livingstone Centre, Blantyre 
To mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in Scotland.
Commemorating the victims of slavery, past and present and seeking to eliminate the legacies of slavery.


Programme
Saturday 16 June
12.30 Scottish Churches Racial Justice Annual Conference
1.30 Talks on Scotland and the slave trade, and slavery today
2.30 Glasgow Gospel Choir & Hamilton Salvation Army Citadel Band
3.00 Scottish National Ecumenical Service with Rev Marjorie Cooper and Rev Arlington Trotman
From 1.30: museum tours; storytelling; drumming workshops; stalls; slave trade artefacts; exhibition.
Sunday 17 June
Celebrating African and Scottish Culture
From 12.30: museum tours; storytelling; drumming workshops; stalls; slave trade artefacts; exhibition
Everyone welcome
Parking limited: good train service from Glasgow Central Station (low level) to Blantyre.
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