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75th Edinburgh International Film Festival takes place between 12 and 20 August and includes 87 new features, 12 short film programmes, and two large scale retrospectives that celebrate the 2022 Theme of the 50th...

The long-running Taraf de Haïdouks have toured the world for over three decades and can count the likes of Kronos Quartet and Danny Elfman amongst their fans.A taraf is a Romanian folk ensemble...

Alison Skilbeck's critically acclaimed one-woman show, and 2016 sell-out Edinburgh Fringe hit, reveals the public and private life of one of the most extraordinary women of the 20th Century, Eleanor Roosevelt, from her daring...

Winners of the 2019 Grammy award for Best World Music Album, Soweto Gospel Choir bring their Grammy-winning Freedom to Assembly Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Hailing from Soweto (South West Township), a town outside Johannesburg...

The madcap comic play Classic! races through a multitude of classic novels at lightning speed in 60 minutes using some unlikely production styles.Moby Dick becomes a sea shanty, Jane Eyre is a silent...

Liz Lochhead’s gripping retelling of Euripides’s ancient drama takes up residence in the International Festival’s home, The Hub.This restaging from the National Theatre of Scotland is rich with Liz Lochhead’s poetic, Scots-inflected language. Michael...

A profoundly moving story of love and political strife, of home and exile, of parents and children, 'Counting and Cracking' follows the journey of one Sri Lankan-Australian family over four generations, from 1956 to...

International artist, Kostya Benkovich, who fled Russia because of his anti-war stance, first heard this phrase in March 2022 from an unknown lady at the Ministry of Integration in Petah Tikva, Israel. Her sad...

All the way over from Australia, Masters of Choreography is Australia's leading commercial dance theatre and production company. Headed up by Jennifer and Milo Masters, Masters of Choreography have firmly established themselves as a...

The Pleasance are back with a bang and launching things in their usual grand style. The opening gala saw nine fantastic acts - from the over 250 shows making up this year’s programme -...

EIF presents a new production of Dvořák’s best-loved opera, the dark fairy tale Rusalka, features Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw in the title role.One of the 2022 International Festival’s orchestras in residence, the Philharmonia Orchestra...

The 75th Festival opened with a joyful celebration of Australian and Scottish culture in a fusion of circus, dance and music.Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, award-winning contemporary circus powerhouse Gravity & Other Myths and critically...

From Mozart to Muddy Puddles! 'Peppa Pig – My First Concert' is a fun interactive introduction to a live orchestra with everyone's favourite Pig family!Join Peppa as she discovers an orchestra for the first...

Barely Methodical Troupe brings you their five-star hit about group dynamics and camaraderie. Their physical prowess is deftly deployed, as tumbling, flying and catching become challenges and opportunities for individual bids for recognition.KIN was...

From creative minds Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay, The Choir of Man is 60 minutes of unadulterated entertainment that combines high energy dance, foot stomping choreography and the incredible talent of nine ordinary guys...

Join queer cabaret icon and performance tour-de-force Aidan Sadler as they take you on the award-winning journey to Tropicana!Dandelion Cube Bike Tour, Calton Hill, Edinburgh. 2nd August 2022 © 2022 J.L. PreeceNothing is safe from ridicule...

'Caligari' reimagines the 1920 seminal German film ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, with a cast of five actor-musicians taking the stage to tell the victims’ stories of their brutal murders at the hands of...

A recipient of New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly’s hit-making Untapped Award, supported by Methuen Drama, 'Good Grief' is a cathartic reckoning with death and grief through a kinetic maelstrom of outrageous clowning, powerful and...

The madcap comic play Classic! races through a multitude of classic novels at lightning speed in 60 minutes using some unlikely production styles.Moby Dick becomes a sea shanty, Jane Eyre is a silent...

Lost in Translation present an irresistibly colourful, loud and fun show for all the family. LiT are one of the UK’s leading contemporary circus companies and Guinness World Record holders.With thrillingly spectacular circus skills,...

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents a new commission from Scotland based artist Ashanti Harris. Taking the novel Signposts of the Jumbie (1981), written by Faustin Charles, as a starting point, Harris will interlace ideas of...

Edinburgh Art Festival brings together the capital’s leading galleries, museums and established spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art.From photography documenting Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe to carnival-inspired performance art, the...

Duncan Shanks is returning to The Scottish Gallery this summer with 'The Riverbank – A Landscape of Sorrow and Hope'. These vibrant and energetic paintings, heavily inspired by lockdowns and Shanks’ consequential artistic turn...

Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) is the platform for the visual arts which sits at the heart of Edinburgh’s August Festivals, this year celebrating their 75th anniversary season this year.This 18th edition of the festival...

'Finding Buoyancy' is one of three major commissions as the Edinburgh Art Festival celebrates its 18th edition. The project is the result of collaboration with groups and individuals in Wester Hailes, alongside Glasgow based...

Voloz Collective’s 'The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much' has been named as a winner of the Carol Tambor Incentive Award 2022. The New-York based fund was designed to encourage new writing and...

Later on Friday the Edinburgh Food Festival 2022 opens at Assembly George Square Gardens for ten days of chef demos, expert panels, cookery classes and workshops, and some of the best street food and...

Earlier on Wednesday, the Edinburgh International Film Festival announced the programme for its fully in-person 75th Anniversary edition this year.The programme of cinema screenings, live performance and industry dialogues in Edinburgh in the...

Celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, Assembly Festival runs from today until the end of August. The gardens will be open daily offering a mix of street food and lite-bites from some of Scotland’s...

The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is back for 2022, ready to present a fully live festival setting the dial to 10 with over 130 concerts, curated programmes, free events and a jazz school....