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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Edinburgh International Festival comes to Craigmillar
Senior Pupils introduce their school as a Festival venue
Pupils at Castlebrae Community High School, in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh, today hosted their own launch...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – a full and varied anniversary programme
Fergus Linehan, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival announced the 2017 festival programme this morning at the Assembly Hall on The Mound. He had just...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – our first recommendations
EIF unveiled its 70th Anniversary programme from the august Church Of Scotland Assembly Hall on The Mound earlier today.
To an accompanying sleek and chic...
Edinburgh festivals – 70 years of culture
As a reminder that this year marks the 70th anniversary year of Edinburgh festivals the overarching body EdinburghFestivals.com has produced a video to remind...
More funding for festivals in their 70th year
The Scottish Government has confirmed a further £300,000 of funding to the Edinburgh festivals to help them celebrate their 70th year.
The various festivals were...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – Mogwai Play Atomic ****
It seemed appropriate to conclude the Festival with Mogwai performing the OST to Mark Cousin’s film, Atomic, live.
Subtitled Living in Dread and Promise, Cousins' film nods...
Edinburgh International Festival – Così Fan Tutte: racial and sexual abuse should shock audiences...
by Eleanor Smith, Edinburgh Napier University
The new production of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte’s classic opera Così Fan Tutte has attracted no shortage of...
Virgin Money Fireworks attracts audience of 250,000
Last night the festivals which have taken over the city for the last month and more came to a spectacular close.
The Virgin Money Fireworks Concert 2016 filled...
Edinburgh International Festival takes over £4million in ticket sales
The announcements are flooding in even before the day is out. It appears that the festivals this year have without exception been record-breaking.
The 2016...
Letter from Scotland
It’s the last weekend of the cultural invasion we call the Edinburgh Festival. The 3,500 shows are taking their last bow and the final...
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 REVIEW – Yann Tiersen ****
Whilst sat waiting for French composer, Yann Tiersen, to address the stage, conversing with another journalist sitting in your booth who writes for a German...
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 – Songlines
Songlines criss-crosses Edinburgh for a unique celebration of singing
Today the Edinburgh International Festival staged Songlines, a free participatory event at venues across the Lothians celebrating the...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – Sigur Ros ****
Sigur Ros met with huge applause and standing ovation on Tuesday night, as they took to the stage of The Edinburgh Playhouse for the last...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: Measure for Measure ****
From the offset, it’s evident that Declan Donnellan’s Measure for Measure is going to be bold and modern.
There is no elaborate set to establish...
Edinburgh International Festival – Scottish Ballet
Sensuality, brutality and spellbinding spectacle come together in a double bill of major contemporary dance works from Scotland’s national ballet company, radically contrasting in...
Edinburgh International Festival – Godspeed You! Black Emperor*****
Setting a desolate Western scene with their raw introduction, Godspeed You! Black Emperor played to a diverse audience last night. With strings, guitars, drums...
Edinburgh International Festival – Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret ****
Barry Humphries gathered himself on stage and got lost in a monologue about bookshops, one that was a little disconcerting, about their demise and...
Edinburgh Festival – Flit at The EICC
Award-winning composer and Lau’s visionary accordionist Martin Green brings together Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Mogwai’s Dominic Aitchison, Becky Unthank from The Unthanks and Edinburgh-born folk...
Edinburgh International Festival – Alan Cumming sings Sappy Songs
The star name of this year's Festival is undoubtedly the boy frae Angus, Alan Cumming.
His Scottish accent has not left him even after living for...
Edinburgh International Festival – Wind Resistance
There can be few more spiritually uplifting experiences in natural world phenomenon than witnessing the spectacular arrival of so many thousands of Pink-footed geese...
Festival poster competition winners announced
Three designs have been chosen as winners of the Edinburgh International Festival Fireworks Concert Poster competition.
At the Virgin Money Lounge yesterday evening the three...
Edinburgh International Festival comes to Craigmillar
The Edinburgh International Festival hosted a special programme launch for staff and pupils from Castlebrae Community High School this morning, as part of the...
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 programme online now
Arts writers and critics in Edinburgh had today in their diaries for a long time, as the Edinburgh International Festival programme launch took place earlier.
Festival Director Fergus...
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