Celtic Connections, Glasgow, Scotland
Exclusively for Celtic Connections, our special featured guests are Aysanabee, Mimi O’Bonsawin, Suba Sankaran (Mahabharata, The Barbican 2025), Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding), Clerel and the Glasgow Create Choir. More special guests to be announced!
January 31st, 2026
Exclusively for this Southbank performance, our special featured guest is
Peggy Seeger.
Guest singers include Suba Sankaran (Mahabharata, The Barbican 2025), Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding), Clerel and the Chislehurst Schools Choir.
February 7th, 2026
Southbank Centre, London, UK
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Artists shaping our destiny is at the heart of Letters to the Future, a multidisciplinary concert.
Music Director, 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.
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
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 Nijenhuis, Rhiannon Rosalind, Robin Mazumder, Johanna Mizgala, Julie Pellissier-Lush, Kiki Benzon….and YOU. Contribute a letter.
Credits
Producers : Miranda Mulholland, Morgane Lachance
Artistic Director : Miranda Mulholland,
Andrew Shaver : Director
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