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Leith Festival – some photos
Leith Festival is a big week running until 16 June when the community tattoo will take place at Malmaison Plaza.
The Gala Day took place...
Sea Rising Portobello will feature the impact of rising sea levels
Sea Rising Festival in Portobello will take place on 22 June on the prom and beach featuring music and highlighting environmental issues.
Grassroots community...
Edinburgh International Book Festival has a new home
The 2024 Edinburgh International Book Festival has a new home in the newly refurbished 18th century building which was home to the Royal Infirmary...
Meadows Festival 2024 – photos
The free volunteer run Meadows Festival takes place this weekend on Saturday and Sunday.
Activities include sports, music stalls and family entertainment, and the fun...
Grammy Winner Will.i.am to Lead AI discussion at Edinburgh TV Festival
The 2024 Edinburgh TV Festival will have as its main attraction Grammy Award-winning, music artist and FYI CEO Will.i.am when he leads the New...
Book Festival ends sponsorship with Baillie Gifford
The Edinburgh International Book Festival have ended their 20-year sponsorship deal with Baillie Gifford, despite claims by the firm that those protesting are doing...
Edinburgh Art Festival 2024 asks audiences to stop and think
This summer Edinburgh Art festival (EAF) will invite audiences to join them to collectively pause and reflect upon the conditions under which we live,...
North Edinburgh Community Festival – a ray of sunshine
This was the third year of the North Edinburgh Community Festival - free family friendly fun in West Pilton Park - and it was...
EIFF 2024 will open with The Outrun
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will show The Outrun which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
The film...
New Town Art Month will showcase independent businesses
NT Art Month, a festival which only launched last year, has announced the line up for its second edition to be held this June....
New director appointed to Edinburgh Science Festival
Edinburgh Science Festival has announced that it has appointed a new director to take over after the retiral of Dr Simon Gage after 34...
Edinburgh Science Festival – how to make your clothes from mushrooms
One of the Festival's key exhibitions is Growing Home at the National Museum, looking at a variety of materials and in particular how biomaterials...
Paines Plough announce show they are bringing to the Fringe in...
As the touring theatre company Paines Plough reach their half century they have announced the show which they will bring to Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
Benedetti – baby already listening to classical music
Violinist Nicola Benedetti says that two months before her due date her baby is already listening to her music.
The classical musician, 36, is due...
EIF programme launched for 2024
EDINBURGH International Festival director Nicola Benedetti, CBE, has hailed the Scottish capital as "the world's true festival city" as she announced a summer event...
Festival programme has community at its heart
The Edinburgh International Festival 2024 will this year bring audiences and artists together more closely than ever under its new theme Rituals that Unite...
Cost of running gala days reduced
New price structure agreed after organisers of Edinburgh's gala days warned some events were “close to folding”
Sky-high ‘amusement device’ licence fees for bouncy castles...
Edinburgh Science Festival – is it time to spring clean space?
As part of Edinburgh Science Festival 2024 there will be a photography exhibition unveiled at The Mound on Friday entitled 'Our Fragile Space: Protecting...
The Sean Connery Foundation establish film festival prize
It has been announced that the Sean Connery Foundation set up by the family of the late 007 star is to sponsor a new...
Edinburgh International Festival to hold huge new opening event in August
This August Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) will stage a new outdoor large-scale event to open the festival created along with a new Principal Partner,...
Film festival dates announced with details of new competition
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will take place from 15 to 22 August 2024, and will comprise ten feature films and ten shorts....
Director of Edinburgh Science to step down
Dr Simon Gage, OBE who has been involved with Edinburgh Science for three decades, and 29 of those as the CEO and Director, is...
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2023
The 30th year of Edinburgh's Hogmanay was celebrated in style with lots of music, hourly fireworks from 9pm until the Midnight Moment and the...
Fireworks from Edinburgh
These fabulous fireworks shots were taken from the north of the city just outside the 'no fly zone' imposed by Police Scotland during Edinburgh's...
New Year is a sell out in Edinburgh
Tickets to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party and Concert in the Gardens have now sold out.
Around 50,000 people are expected to bring in the New Year in the capital. The four-day celebration...
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay – getting ready for the midnight moment
On Hogmanay there will be fireworks from Edinburgh Castle visible across the Edinburgh Skyline with hourly countdown fireworks from 9pm.
The display will culminate in the...
Torchlight Procession 2023
Vikings from Shetland’s South Mainland Up Helly Aa’ Jarl Squad led the Torchlight Procession through Edinburgh city centre for the first time since 2019, and beginning...
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay begins today – day by day listings here
Four days of festivities ushering in the New Year begin this evening with the Torchlight Procession and will continue until New Year's Day.
It...
First Footin’ line up announced for Hogmanay
EDINBURGH’S HOGMANAY ANNOUNCES FULL FIRST FOOTIN’ LINE-UP WITH MORE THAN 30 ARTISTS SET TO TAKE TO VENUES ACROSS THE CITY ON NEW YEAR’S DAY
Edinburgh’s...
Edinburgh’s Christmas from the air
Photographer Craig Duncan was ready when Edinburgh's Christmas opened on Friday evening to take a shot of the first part of the festivities to...
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