MagicFest continues to amaze
The presents may have been opened and the turkey gobbled up, but MagicFest reaches its peak this weekend – with loads for all the family to enjoy.
Since it started on 17 December the 16th annual Edinburgh International Magic Festival has been a huge success.
Among the big hits so far was Shape Shifters, a joyful and visually striking new performance for younger children, with spectacular costumes by designer Alison Brown.
Telling the story of two animal friends, who have to decide what to do when a new creature comes along, it fuseddance, theatre, and jaw-dropping illusions, with creative input from Lea Kyle, world champion of quick-change magic.
And there’s so much more to look forward to according to MagicFest organiser and co-founder Kevin Quantum, who said: “It’s been a fabulous 16th MagicFest so far, with big successes like Shape Shifters, and it all reaches its peak this weekend with some of the very best shows still to come.”
Today at Filmhouse
Filmhouse is revelling in being able to screen the festive favourites after a couple of years when their doors were closed.
Today they are showing:
- The Muppet Christmas Carol at 3.15pm and 5.45pm
- Sunset Boulevard at 3.30pm
- L’Atalante in a 4K restoration at 1.15pm and 6.10pm
- The Tale of Silvan at 3.15pm
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- It’s A Wonderful Life at 12.00pm, 2.45pm and 5.30pm
- The Shining at 5.15pm
- The Shop Around The Corner at 12.30pm
Book now for your favourite – FIlmhouse is closed on Christmas Day but opens again from 26 December with a 4K restoration of I Know Where I’m Going!
Tesco opens new store at Bughtlin Market
A new Tesco Express store has opened its doors in East Craigs.
Located at 1 Bughtlin Market, EH12 8XP, the new Tesco Express Bughtlin Market offers residents and visitors a convenient, modern place to shop.
The store will be open seven days a week from 6am until 11pm, and has created three new jobs for the local area while also retaining the existing team from the business which previously operated on the site.
Tesco Express Bughtlin Market will offer a wide range of products for everyday needs, whether customers are picking up breakfast on the go, buying lunch or collecting ingredients for dinner.
Store features include a Costa Coffee machine, National Lottery terminal, Payzone service, external InPost lockers and a 24-hour ATM.
Charlene Watson, Store Manager at Tesco Express Bughtlin Market, said: “We are pleased to open the doors to our new store and to join the East Craigs community. Our aim is to serve this large and diverse community with a friendly and dependable local store that people can rely on and we look forward to welcoming customers in the days and weeks ahead.”
Tesco Express Bughtlin Market is located at 1 Bughtlin Market, Edinburgh EH12 8XP.
Planning ahead
Plan what you are going to do next week with our handy list here which begins from Monday with the Torchlight Procession.
Torchlight Procession
29 Dec, 6–8.30pm, The Meadows
Tickets from £18
A river of fire will weave through the city as 15,000 torchbearers illuminate the Old Town, led by Massed Pipes & Drums and Shetland’s South Mainland Up Helly Aa’ Jarl Squad.
Night Afore Concert
Peat & Diesel + RuMac, hosted by Levi Heron
30 Dec, 6–10.30pm, Ross Bandstand
Tickets from £32.50
Peat & Diesel headline a 5,000-cap show beneath Edinburgh Castle, joined by RuMac and hosted by Cèil-tech DJ Levi Heron.
Ho Ho Hogmanay
Susie McCabe, Larry Dean, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, Ayo Adenekan
30 Dec, 10pm, Assembly Rooms
Tickets from £22.50
A top-tier night of Scottish comedy led by Susie McCabe.
Lau by Candlelight
Lau
30 Dec, 7.45–9pm, St Giles’ Cathedral
Tickets from £27
An intimate, candlelit performance from acclaimed trio Lau.
Concert in the Gardens
Wet Leg, Hamish Hawk, Lucia & the Best Boys
31 Dec, 8pm–12am, Ross Bandstand
Tickets from £73
Wet Leg headline the year’s biggest party at the foot of Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party
31 Dec, 8pm–12.45am, Princes Street
Tickets from £33
45,000 revellers, live music, DJs, street theatre, screens, funfair rides and fireworks in one of the world’s best New Year’s celebrations.
First Footin’
1 Jan, 2–8pm, venues across the city
This is a free programme of live music and performance across St Giles’, Greyfriars, Portobello Town Hall, Virgin Hotels, Leith Arches, Fruitmarket, Cold Town House and more. Includes performances from Valtos, Basque Country artists Maren,Mikel Urdangarin and Olaia Inziarte, Tinderbox Orchestra (with Kathryn Joseph, James Emmanuel, Rachel Sermanni), Sean Shibe & Aidan O’Rourke, Theo Bleak and others.
https://edwinterfest.com/hogmanay
Season’s Greetings
On Christmas Eve we hope you are planning a Christmas with people you love in a warm place. We all know this is not the best time for everyone. There is a housing emergency in Edinburgh, and likely to be a social care emergency any time soon.
We are taking a break from these daily articles but will be back bright and breezy at a date in late January to be confirmed. Meantime our daily news coverage continues and we hope you enjoy reading it. Our January paper has gone to press and will be posted out to all our subscribers shortly. Copies will be available from our stockists from the end of the month onwards.
Happy Christmas to everyone.
ICYMI – read our December issue here
