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LMNS puts musicians centre stage with brand new website
A brand new website from Live Music Now Scotland (LMNS) is putting musicians centre stage with the aim of bringing live music back to...
Festival Fringe will see long-awaited staging of Grid Iron’s ‘Doppler’
The Edinburgh-based theatre company, Grid Iron, is pleased to confirm that its site-responsive outdoor adaptation of Erlend Loe’s best-selling book Doppler will take place...
Recipients of first Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund announced by Fringe Society
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society announced today (Thu. 3rd June) the recipients of the first ever Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund, with five...
Kate Downie’s ‘Between Seasons’ opens 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...
Edinburgh resident is part of a new portrait series from The National Lottery
Edinburgh resident, Akiko Kobayashi, is part of a new portrait series called ‘Ticket To Your Happy Place’ shot by photographer Tom Oldham and commissioned...
Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project awarded Edinburgh Medal
The 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival awarded the prestigious Edinburgh Medal to anthropologist and author Heidi Larson, the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
‘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...
‘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...
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...
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