Tag: Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival 2020 – At The Queen’s Hall
The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has already entranced us with My Light Shines On at the beginning of the month.
Now it is the turn of the Edinburgh venues which would have been full...
Edinburgh International Festival 2020 – watch online for now
The 2020 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) may have been cancelled, but the desire to create is very much alive.
There is now a variety of films available now for you to watch at your leisure....
Edinburgh International Festival – My Light Shines On
The name of the 'opening event' of the 2020 Edinburgh International Festival comes from Primal Scream lyrics to their hit song, Movin' on Up.
This is an opener with a great deal of thought behind...
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 the show’s opening weekend with a specially created tribute, to...
All Edinburgh Festivals cancelled in 2020
Now we know that these are very strange times indeed.
Our Edinburgh Festivals which bring such life and brightness to Edinburgh each summer in August, will not take place this year.
An announcement from...
Edinburgh International Festival – Orchestre de Paris are en route
Orchestre de Paris set to visit 2019 Edinburgh International Festival
Today the Edinburgh International Festival revealed that the Orchestre de Paris will perform at the Usher Hall as part of the 2019 International Festival. The announcement...
Edinburgh International Festival – Midsummer
David Greig and Gordon McIntyre’s exquisite miniature Midsummer is expanded and enlarged with a live band bringing to life its heart warming songs and irresistible humour, in residence at The Hub throughout the International...
Aberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event: Five Telegrams
The Edinburgh International Festival 2018 began tonight with a modern light and sound production which harked back to the time a century ago when young men were still fighting in a world war.
Young people...
Standard Life Aberdeen Opening Event : Five Telegrams takes place on Friday
The Standard Life Aberdeen Opening Event: Five Telegrams takes place outside the Usher Hall on 3 August 2018, 10.30pm
The Standard Life Aberdeen Opening Event: Five Telegrams is a free, outdoor performance comprising large-scale...
Edinburgh in August – Things you must not miss – our recommendations
In August there is just so much to see, and the fear of missing the important is all the greater. Here is our list of recommendations of what to see and do. If you have...
Baker quitting Festival role
Managing Director of Edinburgh International Festival, Joanna Baker is stepping down at the end of the year.
She has had a long career with EIF since joining them as Marketing and Public Affairs Director in...
Theatre – Royal Lyceum announce 2018/19 programme
The Royal Lyceum has announced an exciting and World Premiere rich 2018/19 Season.
Artistic Director, David Greig is in understandably celebratory and justifiably good spirits about his signatory panache for not only pushing the boat...
Letter from Scotland
It seems stamping out sectarianism in Scotland is not easy. This week, The Scottish Parliament repealed a law passed only seven years ago which made it a specific offence at football matches to stir...
Edinburgh International Festival 2018 – pushing the boundaries
This year The Edinburgh International Festival will have a new venue at Leith Theatre alongside the rather more established homes at the Usher Hall, The Queen's Hall, the Lyceum, The King's Theatre, The Hub,...
Theatre – On the horn of a dilemma – Rhino’s Return to Lyceum
There is something strange in the neighbourhood, again - and this is what The Edinburgh Reporter had to say about this fearfully prescient, contemporary absurdist nightmare at last year's IET premier -
'This machete head-massage...
Edinburgh International Festival 2018 – full programme now available
The 2018 Edinburgh International Festival was launched at the McEwan Hall this evening by Festival Director Fergus Linehan in tandem with Managing Director Joanna Baker. The beautifully refurbished building is a fabulous venue for...
Edinburgh International Festival 2018 – In conversation with Fergus Linehan
Fergus Linehan has been Festival Director for three festivals and 2018 will be his fourth. He continues to bring a fresh look to the most august of August festivals. This year alongside what you...
Festival partnership with Castlebrae concludes after three years
Edinburgh International Festival’s partnership with Castlebrae Community High School comes to a close.
In 2015 the Edinburgh International Festival began a three year partnership with Castlebrae Community High School supported by City of Edinburgh Council,...
Edinburgh festival experts on hand at Aberdeen conference
Experts who run some of the festivals in Edinburgh are attending a conference in Aberdeen this Friday to talk about their experiences and explore best practice with others from across Scotland.
FESTIVAL! is a four...
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...
Fireworks will mark the end of the 70th Festival
This evening from 9 o'clock there will be a large fireworks display set off from Edinburgh Castle in the customary end to the biggest arts festival in the world.
£4.3million of tickets have been sold...
Edinburgh International Festival – ‘Yo, Carmen’ Photo Call
A pioneer in contemporary flamenco, iconoclastic Seville-born dancer and choreographer María Pagés has challenged traditionalists with her sensual rethinks of Spanish dance, and her confrontations of hard issues.
Visionary and flamboyant, and blending dance, music,...
Edinburgh International Festival – ‘Vuelos’ Photo Call
Created by Aracaladanza, a multi award-winning dance theatre company from Madrid specialising in works for children and young people, Vuelos is a magical dance theatre work for children and families that challenges you to...
70 years of the Edinburgh Festival
What 70 years of the Edinburgh Festival has done for the arts – and the economy
Adam Behr, Newcastle University
Sir Rudolph Bing, co-founder and first director of the Edinburgh International Festival, once said: “The opera...
Standard Life Opening Event : Bloom
This was as good as Leo Warner of 59 Productions had quietly told us it would be, but all the better, as we knew the work that had gone into making both the music...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – public art installation
A public art installation created by Edinburgh secondary school pupils is now open at Old College Quad
The Edinburgh International Festival unveiled Blueprint for the Future today. It is a free art installation which shows off...
Letter from Scotland
Edinburgh was an unlikely place for the largest arts festival in the world to begin, 70 years ago. Yet the project has proved an ever record-breaking success, despite the rain and umbrella-tossing wind which...
Edinburgh International Festival has a new chairman
Edinburgh International Festival has chosen Professor Niall Lothian as its next Chairman.
Professor Lothian first joined the Board of Trustees of the EIF in 2011 and was elected as Deputy Chairman in 2014. He will...
Glamping accommodation option for the Festival
Dundas Castle has launched its August glamping options for festivalgoers and the site includes ten luxurious canvas cottages set around the loch on the beautiful estate just outside Edinburgh.
The location is on the shores...
OPINION – Scotland’s dazzling visitor attraction numbers are not quite what they seem
Anna Leask, Edinburgh Napier University
Scotland’s visitor attractions are outstripping those in the rest of the UK, according to a new report. They recorded a whopping 15.6% increase in visitor numbers between 2015 and...
