Jazz Festival tickets on sale today – Streams of Story: An evening of water tales – Inverleith House open weekend – National Library of Scotland shows off the book sculptures – Film at the Botanics
Some tickets for the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival go on sale today. Big names including Van Morrison and Jools Holland along with Mel C will be coming to Edinburgh. Get ready to go online or phone in for your tickets!
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Thursday 24 April 2014, 6.30-8.30pm. £5/£4 conc. Free for water collectors.
Refreshments included.
To celebrate Tania Kovats’ Oceans, The Fruitmarket Gallery presents a fun evening of water tastings, poetry and a chance to hear stories from the water collectors who helped Tania Kovats bring the world’s seas to The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Shetland poet Jen Hadfield will be travelling over sea and land reading work resonant with the themes of the exhibition. Water sommelier Ericka Duffy will also be bringing her tasting skills to the Gallery, giving you a flavour of different mineral waters from around the world.
Supported by The Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Fund.
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Inverleith House at the Botanics is hosting an Open Weekend on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May from 10am to 5pm. There will be events including talks by exhibition staff, performance, live music and special offers on limited edition exhibition catalogues and posters.
Events are free but booking is essential. Email ihouse@rbge.ac.uk to reserve a place.
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Just a reminder that some of the seventeen book sculptures are on display at the National Library of Scotland. They are all wonderful and very much worth a look!
This is one delivered only last summer.
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A film is being shown at the Botanics tonight which they say will change your life. Here is a trailer.
Part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Book your tickets here.
PROJECT WILD THING – official trailer from Green Lions on Vimeo.
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