Tag: culture
First major exhibition of artist Donald Smith presented by CAC
The City Art Centre and Ann Lanntair, Stornoway will, this summer,present, Eileanach: Na dealbhan aig Dòmhnall Mac a’ Ghobhainn / Islander: The Paintings of Donald Smith. Running from 29 May to 26 September 2021,...
Long standing chair of Leith Theatre stands down
Founding member of Leith Theatre Trust, Jack Hunter, will be standing down as Chair of Leith Theatre on 27 May 2021 after 16 years of involvement. Vice Chair, Roland Reid, stepped down at the...
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival striking the right note in July
2021's Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival will take place from 16 to 25 July 2021. Across the ten days, over 40 digital events will be streamed, including 20 concerts from Assembly Roxy which will...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 will take place in August this year
Announced today by Edinburgh International Film Festival is their return in a new and innovative form this summer, with the event running 18-25 August 2021.
Championing Scottish and UK filmmaking, the Festival will include physical...
At The Scottish Gallery – An Artist’s Life, Act I – Alexander Goudie
Flamboyant and confrontational, Scottish figurative painter Alexander Goudie (1933-2004) was part of a generation of influential painters who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s, and whose reputations are ripe for...
2021 Edinburgh Science Festival programme launches
Edinburgh Science has revealed the programme for its annual Science Festival, the world’s first and still Europe’s biggest. This year the festival moves away from its usual Easter holiday dates to take place –...
Children’s Festival opened today and will run until 6 June
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival finally reopened its doors two years after celebrating its 30th anniversary, with a programme of online and outdoor theatre and dance for young people. It is the first of...
City Art Centre presents ‘Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay’
Market Street's City Art Centre presents Marine, a two-floor exhibition of artworks by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006). Finlay was an internationally renowned Scottish artist and Britain’s most significant concrete poet of the 20th century....
NYCOS returns to singing after 14 month wait
Most of Scotland moves to Level 2 restrictions today (Monday 17 May) enabling up to 30 people to meet outside to sing! Singing face to face has not been possible since March 2020 which...
Groundbreaking Charles H. Mackie retrospective to reopen City Art Centre
With a full range of safety measures in place to ensure the safety of visitors and staff, Edinburgh’s City Art Centre will re-open its doors to the public on Saturday 15th May 2021 ....
Wedding open day at Dovecot Studios
Dovecot Studios has announced a Wedding Open Day for couples to meet handpicked suppliers and realise their wedding dreams and explore the former Victorian Bathhouse turned Tapestry Studio.
Dovecot Studios is a unique and inspiring...
‘The Human Swan’ visits Edinburgh ahead of her appearance at ESF
Sacha Dench, ‘The Human Swan’ - an inspiring conservationist, adventurer and motivational speaker, visited Edinburgh today (13th May) to film her talk for the upcoming Edinburgh Science Festival. In Conversation with Sacha Dench will...
Edinburgh Art Festival returns 29 July to 29 August 2021
That the Edinburgh Art Festival will return from 29 July to 29 August this year has been confirmed. The 17th edition of the festival will bring together over 35 exhibitions and new commissions in...
Leading performing arts venues call on Government to review social distancing rules
With the Federation of Scottish Theatres, eleven of Scotland’s leading performing arts venues, collectively call on the newly returned Scottish Government to urgently review the social distancing requirements required in their venues as Coronavirus...
Scots DJ, Denis Sulta, to stream exclusive performance from Edinburgh Castle
Denis Sulta, the Scottish DJ and producer, dancefloor juggernaut, global talisman, is set to stream an exclusive, epic DJ set from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. Performing from the iconic Western Defences of Edinburgh...
‘Toll’ – a new exhibition by Edinburgh-based artist Andrew Brooks
There’s an exhibition opening as lockdown eases, in an unconventional gallery space in a corner of Edinburgh, that might help us to pause and reflect on what has happened before we rush out and...
Summer Fair at Dovecot Studios to celebrate local makers and designers
Dovecot Studios will showcase 24 designers and makers in its world famous Tapestry Studio in early June, offering visitors the opportunity to support our local creative economy.
Taking place in Dovecot’s airy spaces, visitors will...
HES sites across Scotland set to reopen as Covid restrictions ease
As Edinburgh Castle gets ready to open its doors to visitors once more, the Honours of Scotland are set to go on public display again.
The Honours, which includes the Crown and Sceptre of Scotland,...
Annual film competition for Scottish youth launches
The youth programme of Edinburgh International Film Festival – EIFF Youth – has launched their annual film competition, the New Visions Short Film Competition.
The competition is open to all 15-25 year olds residing in...
Edinburgh’s Lord Provost recognises 50 years of the EAFS
Archaeologists use the objects left behind by people to help uncover their stories. Often there is plenty of written material about those prominent families who live in the ‘Big House’ but much less is...
‘When the Sun Meets the Sky’ – presented by Capital Theatres in association with...
A new project has been announced by Capital Theatres developed in partnership with Traverse Theatre which is aimed at people with a lived experience of dementia and older people experiencing isolation and sensory deprivation.
Delivered...
‘Another Time, Another Place’ opens at The Scottish Gallery
'Another Time, Another Place' is a beautiful conversation between renowned artist Victoria Crowe OBE and poet Christine de Luca – both of whom have produced twelve works in this exciting collaborative exhibition.
In concert with...
‘Archie Brennan: Tapestry Goes Pop!’ to open at Dovecot Studios
Pop artist, weaver, bodybuilder and former Mr Scotland, Archie Brennan changed the course of modern weaving and is considered one of the greatest unrecognised pop artists of the twentieth century. Unrecognised because he chose...
Kate Downie’s ‘Between Seasons’ to open at The Scottish Gallery
Kate Downie has, like so many artists, been forced to work within the confines of her own home over the last year. Whereas much of her work pre-2020 addressed the infrastructure of human migration...
Beltane Fire Society returns to the digital realm with new May Queen
The spirit of Beltane will be brought to life in a digital format once again this month with their online celebration, BOnFire 2021 (Beltane Online Fire Festival). BOnFire takes place on Beltane night, Friday...
2021 Children’s Festival launches its 2021 hybrid programme
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival has announced its 2021 hybrid programme of online and outdoor theatre and dance for young people following months of planning (and re-planning).
The digital programme.
The digital programme will include streamed...
Edinburgh Tradfest 2021 kicks off with ‘Shetland Springs’
Friday 30 April sees Edinburgh Tradfest kicking off with 'Shetland Springs', a specially commissioned event presented in association with the Shetland Folk Festival.
Following the great success of 2019’s What A Voice, which celebrated female...
Talent Lab Connects 2021 programme participants announced by EIFF
Six projects have been announced by Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) for the upcoming edition of Talent Lab Connects programme and confirm that following a successful delivery last year, the 2021 version will again...
Shows which will reopen the Festival Theatre and King’s Theatre announced
The first shows to appear on the stages of the Festival Theatre and King’s Theatre in more than a year have been announced by Capital Theatres.
Both The Donmar Warehouse’s 'Blindness' and Original Theatre Company’s...
Exclusive floating hotel, Fingal, to host special Skerryvore livestream
Skerryvore, the multi-award-winning Scottish band, have announced a special livestream show to be broadcast from Edinburgh’s exclusive floating hotel, Fingal on Saturday 24 April 2021 – and tickets go on sale at 9am today,...
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