Tag: Edinburgh Award
Vote for the person you think should win The Edinburgh Award this year
The much-coveted Edinburgh Award is seeking its seventh recipient as nominations are launched to find the successor to Dame Elizabeth Blackadder.
First launched in 2007, the Award is a way for Edinburgh citizens to pay a lasting...
The City honours Dame Elizabeth Blackadder
With a poem specially written and performed by the Edinburgh Makar, Ron Butlin, a speech by the President of the Royal Scottish Academy, Arthur Watson, and a speech by the Lord Provost the Rt...
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder receives the Edinburgh Award
The sixth person to be honoured with the much-coveted Edinburgh Award has received her accolade at the City Chambers tonight. Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, the Queen’s Painter in Scotland, received an engraved Loving Cup at the...
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder to get Edinburgh Award
One of Scotland’s most popular artists is to receive the much-coveted Edinburgh Award.
Elizabeth Blackadder, who is the Queen’s Painter in Scotland, will be presented with an engraved Loving Cup at a ceremony in early 2013.
She...
City Council honours Professor Peter Higgs
The fifth person to be honoured by the people of Edinburgh with a special award for making an outstanding contribution to the city will receive his accolade at the City Chambers tonight.
Professor Peter Higgs,...
George Kerr gets his Edinburgh Award handprints
We thought there was something afoot last week at the City Chambers where one of the paving slabs was covered with plywood. Turns out this is what they were waiting for! The fourth person...
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