A special service to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will take place in the University of Glasgow chapel on Sunday 25 January.

In place of the traditional sermon, Dr Gerry Carruthers, Head of the Department of Scottish Literature, will speak on Burns.

The service will also include musical performances with a special composition by postgraduate student Katy Cooper of ‘A man’s a man for a’ that’ while James MacMillan’s arrangement ‘The Gallant Weaver” will be performed by the University Choir and organist.

The service will commence at 11am and the offering will be donated to the Beatson Pebble Appeal, which is raising money to build the Translational Research Centre, the final part of the Glasgow Centre for Cancer Research.

Reverend Stuart McQuarrie, Chaplain of the University of Glasgow, said: “With the 250th anniversary of Burns’ birth falling on a Sunday this was the perfect opportunity to commemorate his life and works.”

For further information contact Stuart Forsyth in the University of Glasgow Media Relations Office on 0141 330 4831 or email s.forsyth@admin.gla.ac.uk

First published: 21 January 2009

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