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Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh digitally features 20 carefully selected films from the island
20, carefully selected, films from a variety of genres have been chosen to be 'shown' digitally at 2020's Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh.
Taiwanese Hokkien-Language Cinema
Taiwanese...
Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh offers a unique insight into the island’s cinematography
The producers of Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh are pleased to announce their plans for the first ever, free to access Festival, taking place digitally...
New online platform – ‘Fringe Marketplace’ – launched to connect industry with professional and...
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society launched 'Fringe Marketplace' today (Tue 11th Aug), a dedicated showcase platform designed to connect arts industry delegates all over...
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo shares touching tribute to audiences near and far
On 7th August 2020, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is paying homage to its incredible audiences, performers and staff on what would have been...
Golden Ticket Raffle launched by The Pleasance Theatre Trust
The Courtyard doors may be closed this summer but the Pleasance Theatre Trust are already thinking ahead to 2021.
To mark the first day of...
Guerilla Art at Edinburgh Barracks Launches ‘Army@TheVirtualFringe’
Dame Kelly Holmes, Mark Rowley & Rosie Kay join the Army for three weeks of online performances, screenings, readings and workshops
Guerilla artist Heather Marshall...
Dovecot Studios Edinburgh to host two new exhibitions this August
Featuring the very best of contemporary jewellery and Scottish textiles, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh is hosting two new exhibitions - Dazzle Contemporary Jewellery and CLOTH#20...
‘Modern Masters Women’ – Exhibition to open at The Scottish Gallery
Despite having always been integral to the institution of art, many women artists have found opposition in the narrative of art history, and have...
New exhibition heralds the reopening of Dovecot Studios
Following a period of temporary closure, Dovecot Studios - including the Dovecot Shop - in Edinburgh is reopening to the public from 15 July.
Visitors...
Dovecot Studios to launch major fundraising campaign to tell the story of significant Scottish...
Tapestry weaver, innovator and iconoclast, Archie Brennan (1931-2019) was, and is, one of the greatest unrecognised British artists of the twentieth century.
Why unrecognised? Most...
House of Jack opens new dance studio at Ocean Terminal
An exciting range of street dance classes and workshops has been brought to Ocean Terminal with the opening of a new dance studio by...
‘Classical Edinburgh’ Photography Competition
A fascinating new exhibition at Edinburgh's City Art Centre connects the work of architectural photographers Edwin Smith and Colin McLean whose images, created 50...
Scottish Ballet – The Snow Queen
Scottish Ballet's 50th anniversary year will be brought to a spectacular close this winter with the World premiere of Christopher Hampson's 'The Snow...
Touching Stitches at the University of Edinburgh Library
A remarkable archive of needlework that lay neglected in a cupboard for 50 years will be displayed at the University of Edinburgh over the...
May Morris – Art and Life
Dovecot Studios are staging a landmark exhibition exploring the life and work of May Morris (1862–1938). The youngest daughter of William Morris (1834–96), she...
The House of Jack Christmas Show 2019 (I)
They went, they saw, they had to have thought it was brilliant!
Not being a theatre, dance or any other kind of critic, it was...
Gorgie Farm – Boyack calls for answers before new management
The ailing Gorgie City Farm was thrown a lifeline at the weekend as it was revealed that 10 interested parties have expressed interest in...
REVIEW – Edinburgh Studio Opera Gala 2019
Edinburgh Studio Opera is a student opera society within Edinburgh University which serves to nurture Edinburgh’s young opera talent, putting on two main productions...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 – Day 17, 26th August
Awwww..... My in-boxes have all gone silent....... Oh, well.
So, they thought it was all over... Well, they're all all over. Until next year....
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 – Day 12, 21st Aug
Another day, another raft of authors taking to the grey carpet. Mariella Frostrup has to take the award for the 'Cheeriest Person in the...
EIF 2019 – Oona Doherty Recruits her Sugar Army for ‘Hard to be Soft’...
Aggression. Sensuality. Vulnerability. 'Hard to Be Soft' is a dance prayer about — and for — the people of Belfast.
Created by Belfast-based choreographer...
2019 Sit-up Award Won by ‘Who Cares’
The 2019 SIT-UP Award has been awarded to LUNG and The Lowry in partnership with Gaddum for its production Who Cares currently moving audiences...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – ‘Hear Word!’ from Nigeria to The Lyceum
'Hear Word!' is Nigerian pidgin English for ‘Listen and Comply’. In this unflinchingly honest performance, ten of Nigeria’s biggest stars of theatre, film and...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – Opera Ventures and Scottish Opera bring ‘Breaking the Waves’ to...
'Breaking the Waves' is a wrenching moral drama about a woman’s twisted bargain with God. Based on Lars von Trier’s controversial film, US composer...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – Komische Oper Berlin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ at The Festival Theatre
Eugene Onegin marks the return of Komische Oper Berlin and its Artistic Director Barrie Kosky to the International Festival after their spectacular The Magic...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – LiT Circus Return to the Fringe with ‘Hotel Paradiso’
Irresistibly colourful, loud and fun show for all the family.
Thrillingly spectacular circus skills, physical comedy, clowning, theatrical storytelling and slapstick combine in this...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Lost in Translation Circus demo their Guinness World Record
Two of the Fringe’s leading circus performers from the show Hotel Paradiso set a new Guinness World Record for most somersaults on the Korean...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 4, 13th August
Day 4 and a second day in succession at the EIBF. A few more well kent faces this time around. From an Olympic Champion...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – ‘Oedipus’ by the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
The modern age. A plague has ravaged Thebes. The oracle believes the city is doomed because the murder of King Laius remains unpunished.
The...
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