Sign in
☰
People MPsHouse of LordsGovernmentOppositionPartiesCommittees Votes Commons votesLords votesVotes by issueTopicsStats & rankingsParliament in numbers Legislation BillsEarly day motionsPetitions Elections Election resultsConstituenciesWho is my MP? Scotland OverviewMSPsScottish GovernmentVotesBillsMotionsCommitteesConstituencies & regionsElections Search Sign in

Motion · S5M-16002 · 25 Feb 2019

BEMIS Year of Young People

Lodged by Gail Ross Standard Motion 19 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates BEMIS Scotland on the finale of its Year of Young People 2018 and Scottish Winter Festivals 2018-19 events, which was held in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 26 January 2019 as part of the world-renowned Celtic Connections festival; notes that BEMIS Global Ensemble, which headlined the concert alongside the Basque percussion group, Oreka TX, Indian dance group, Dance Abinaya, and Japanese drummers, Tsuchigumo Daiko, represented a unique celebration of Scotland’s diversity, its traditions and cultural heritage; celebrates that the group, compromising people from African, Indian, Iranian, Jewish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Japanese communities in Scotland, showcased a unique representation of Scotland that had been further encapsulated in BEMIS-led events during the Year of Young People 2018, St. Andrew’s Fair Saturday 2018 and the Scottish Winter Festivals 2018-19; warmly congratulates the 73 local community events held across the country where citizens from over 25 self-identified international, European and domestic ethnic and cultural minority communities, who call Scotland home, embraced St. Andrews Day, Burns Night and other important dates by using diverse language, music, dance, poetry, food and song to articulate Scotland in 2019, and pays tribute to the partnership approach adopted by BEMIS to engage key institutions in the year’s celebrations, including Celtic Connections, the Scottish Football Association, The Fair Saturday Foundation (Bilbao) and Dundee St. Andrew’s Fusion Festival, which has helped to build a profile and showcase the best of Scotland’s traditions and diverse communities.

Supporters (19)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.