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Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 3, 12th Aug
And, we're off! Or, at least, we are. The EIBF kicked off on Saturday, but, hey, there's only one of me....
And it was the usual fair. An extra and two no shows. At least...
Edinburgh Festival – ‘Hard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer’ at The Lyceum
Aggression. Sensuality. Vulnerability. 'Hard to Be Soft' is a dance prayer about — and for — the people of Belfast.
Created by Belfast-based choreographer and dancer Oona Doherty, with driving music by...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – ‘Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation’ at The Studio
The writer leads his followers towards the end of this world and the start of a new one. The book he’s written predicts it all — the equations, the black hole, all the words...
Edinburgh Fringe – Nikki & JD bring ‘Knot’ to the Assembly Roxy
Physically exhilarating and touchingly poignant, 'Knot' is the internationally acclaimed circus and dance work by Nikki Rummer and JD Broussé.
These talented performers use hand-to-hand circus skills to tell the tale of an impossible...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – ISH Dance Collective bring ‘Elements of Freestyle’ to the EICC
In this adrenaline-fuelled explosion of extreme urban sports, breakdance, music and theatre, ISH Dance Collective create breathtaking poetry in every single moment.
Elements of Freestyle is about those redeeming seconds that make a complicated...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Company2 Bring ‘Le Coup’ to The Circus Hub
Acrobats from Australian troupe Company2’s Fight Night-inspired, Edinburgh Fringe circus show 'Le Coup' got into the zone for their Edinburgh Fringe run with a boxing masterclass by the head coach and some of the...
‘Walter the Wanderer’ comes to the Edinburgh Fringe
Walter the Wanderer is everything a children's illustrated book could ask for and it will be launched in Edinburgh on 12th August at Edinburgh University.
Author, Pavle Sabic, has teamed up with World Record holding...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Pleasance Press Launch
The Pleasance held their opening Gala today to introduce some of the performers from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival who will be appearing at the venue throughout the next couple of weeks.
It...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘The Secret River’
Kate Grenville’s The Secret River is widely considered to be one of the most important Australian novels of the 21st century. Playwright Andrew Bovell has transformed the novel into a deeply moving, unflinching journey...
Edinburgh Fringe – Danny MacAskill debuts ‘Drop and Roll Live’
Danny MacAskill’s Drop & Roll Live is a main highlight of this year’s Underbelly Circus Hub programme and is set to astound Big Top audiences like never before.
After five years touring the world,...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – The National Theatre of Great Britain presents ‘Peter Gynt’
Peter Gynt is a provocative, raucous reboot of Ibsen’s epic verse play, created by David Hare and directed by Jonathan Kent, in a major co-production with National Theatre of Great Britain.
Scottish star James McArdle...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Race Horse Company present ‘Super Sunday
This Fringe, prepare to be transported to a dystopian fair ground at the end of the world where acrobatic chaos reigns supreme.
Let Finnish circus superstars Race Horse Company be your guide in a...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – One Two, One Two present ‘Everything I Do’.
Irish live performance company, 'One Two, One Two', is making its debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with its award-winning theatre show 'Everything I Do'.
Based on personal material, 'Everything I Do',...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Gravity and Other Myths perform ‘Backbone’
A high-octane spree of physical virtuosity, Backbone tests the limits of strength: physical, emotional, individual and collective.
Staged with a deceptively DIY aesthetic and dispensing of trickery and distraction, this is circus that goes...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019- Machine de Cirque presents ‘La Galerie’
A white room. White walls. Eight performers. Machine de Cirque make their UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with La Galerie. A piece that changes so rapidly and completely that the theatre looks...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Barely Methodical Troupe with ‘Bromance’
International award-winning smash hit 'Bromance' is back!
Five-star circus about camaraderie and affection.
Audacious, touching, exhilarating tour-de-force of physical heroics where handshakes become handstands and backslaps become backflips.
Among the UK's hottest circus companies, Barely...
World Premiere of Scottish Ballet’s ‘The Crucible’ at the EIF 2019
Pioneering choreographer Helen Pickett unleashes the full emotional force of Miller’s gripping, and still fearsomely relevant, drama of suspicion and accusation in a brand-new narrative ballet, given its world premiere at the International Festival...
Swim in Colour at Jupiter Artland: Joana Vasconcelos and Trisha Brown
Jupiter Artland introduces its newest spellbinding artwork, a fully functional swimming pool. Pressed into a previously unexplored area of the sculpture park, Gateway, appears like a fluid flower in a kaleidoscope of drizzled colours....
New Zealand Acts Confirmed for 2019 Edinburgh Tattoo
With ten days until Opening Night, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has confirmed the New Zealand Army Band, The Lochiel Marching Drill Team and The Pipes and Drums of Christchurch City will be in...
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop EAF Exhibitions
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is holding a series of exhibitions of work from three contemporary sculptors which will be displayed for, at least, the duration of the...
‘Travelling Gallery’ Announces Spring 2019 Exhibition
'Displaced' was announced today as Travelling Gallery's Spring 2019 exhibition, which will tour from 6th March to 30th June 2019 across Scotland. The cross-artform exhibition will show work for the first time in...
Jupiter Artland’s ORBIT Youth Council needs YOU!
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Celebrate the words and music of Scotland with The Saltire Society
The Saltire Society will host a series of free events celebrating Scottish music and poetry
during this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
The performances will take place throughout August at The Saltire Society headquarters just off the Royal Mile and will...
Fundraiser to celebrate new arrivals to Edinburgh at St Mary’s Cathedral
The unique contributions of Edinburgh’s refugee and migrant communities will be celebrated in an exciting evening of music, art and discussion this St Andrews Day. The fundraising event - Nov 29 7.30-9 pm -...
Emu Last out the Door at the Museum of Childhood
Staff prepare Museum for 5-Month Refurbishment Closure
Curators have been packing away hundreds of artefacts, including dolls, toy cars and an Emu Puppet (pictured), as the Museum of Childhood closes for refurbishment.
Opened in 1955 as...
70th Anniversary Award for Edinburgh International Festival
EIF receives 2017 Fair Saturday Award
The Edinburgh International Festival has been awarded a Fair Saturday Award at the opening gala of Fair Saturday 2017 which took place at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on Monday...
Edinburgh’s Streets to be lit up with Lantern Parade
Edinburgh’s biggest ever celebration for Diwali expected to involve thousands of participants.
The colourful and vibrant Festival of Lights – which symbolises victory of light over darkness and good over evil – is celebrated by...
D. E. Stevenson: Prolific Edinburgh Author Finally Commemorated
Egnliston Crescent, hidden in the leafy green streets of Edinburgh's West End, is a short walk from Haymarket train station; a place where thousands of travellers will enter into the city. Edinburgh attracts tourists...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at St Mary’s Cathedral
Join London Concertante, one of the UK’s leading chamber ensembles, at the stunning St. Mary’s Cathedral on Palmerston Place for a fabulous night of Mozart, Vivaldi, and more!
Praised for making concerts exciting no matter...
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