Featuring more than 1000 Burns Suppers across all 7 continents and in 75 countries around the world, this resource seeks to record, illustrate, and offer new insights into the ways in which the tradition of the Burns Supper continues to be maintained, adapted and reimagined in the 21^st century.

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Supper Map filtered to show suppers that served haggis and feature images, with Shangri-La hotel, Orchard Grove Road, Singapore selected

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is delighted to launch this new interactive map of Burns Suppers Worldwide to mark the tradition’s 225^th anniversary in 2026. This resource seeks to record, illustrate, and offer new insights into the ways in which the tradition of the Burns Supper continues to be maintained, adapted and reimagined in the 21^st century, in Scotland and by communities across the world.

The first ever Burns Supper was celebrated on the 21^st of July 1801, when nine friends, patrons, and admirers of poet Robert Burns (1759-96) gathered at Burns Cottage in Alloway to recite his poetry, perform his songs, enjoy a meal of haggis, and toast his memory with whisky. What began as an intimate remembrance quickly turned into an annual global celebration to mark Burns’s birthday on the 25^th of January each year, involving millions of people worldwide and spanning all 7 continents.

Rooted in Scottish tradition, and now enjoyed and adapted by people all over the world, the Burns Supper offers a truly global example of a Social Practice of Living Heritage – one that continues to evolve each year by encountering new audiences and by incorporating heritage traditions and cultural practices from different places.

The Burns Suppers recorded on this map are a combination of events that have been submitted via a global survey and events that have been plotted by the project team based on publicly available sources. As such, the level of detail available for each Supper necessarily varies depending on its source, and not all filters can be applied to every event.

All filtered searches will yield results based on the events containing information relevant to your search. You can use the filters to find out more information about an event’s frequency, host, dining style, entertainment, dress code, charity donations, multicultural status, music, and dance, as well as the number of guests in attendance, the toasts raised, foods eaten, drinks served, and poems and songs recited or performed. There is also an advanced filter option that enables you to search by country, source, images and videos.

This map will be updated biannually in March and August each year to record new Burns Suppers. If you would like to submit an event, please complete the global survey, and send any photographs, videos, or recipes that you would like to share to arts-burnssupper@glasgow.ac.uk. We look forward to hearing from you, and we hope you enjoy exploring this resource!

Project team

Research for this project and resource was undertaken by a project team consisting of:

Professor Pauline Mackay, Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and Professor of Robert Burns Studies and Cultural Heritage at the University of Glasgow

Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman, Research Associate in Scottish Literature at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies

Brian Aitken, Digital Humanities Research Officer for the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow