Tag: Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) hosts its next InnovationNation public lecture – InnovationArts – on Monday 3 August, with the latest instalment featuring the CEOs of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and the...

Edinburgh International Festival today announced a three year commitment to a programme of arts education and workshops with Castlebrae Community High School in Craigmillar.  Festival Director joined the guerrilla knitting group this morning to...

Today Fergus Linehan introduced his first programme here in Edinburgh, but the Irishman is far from a novice. His previous roles have included directing the Sydney Festival, the Dublin Theatre Festival and Vivid LIVE.  Today he revealed...

The City of Edinburgh Council spends £2.3m on the Edinburgh International Festival and there are many council-owned buildings which are used during the month long cultural event.The Edinburgh Reporter spoke to Culture & Sport...

The Scottish Government has awarded £200,000 to the Edinburgh International Festival to present the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s classic novel ‘Lanark’, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External...

With eight different versions of its cover page (each having a different portrait) the 2015 Festival Programme was launched this morning at The Hub. Festival 2015 runs from Friday 7 August to Monday 31 August...

The new Festival Director Fergus Linehan will today announce the full programme for 2015.The meeting at The Hub is always long awaited by all the journalists who attend as they serve the best bacon...

Scottish Government £2.25m Edinburgh Festivals Expo funding confirmed for 2015/16 Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs, has confirmed £2.25m in funding to support the ambitions of Edinburgh’s festivals.Announced today, the next...

Today the news that the classical music fans in the city have been waiting for - the new Festival Director unveils his choice for the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival. In truth there will be a...

The Edinburgh International Festival Director Fergus Linehan will announce his classical music concerts and recitals programme tomorrow at a media conference at The Hub on Castlehill beginning at 11am.This will be his first year...

In an announcement this morning Virgin Money has confirmed that it will pay for the fireworks concert to close the Edinburgh International Festival for a further three years. The Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish Chamber...

Whether it was modesty, reticence or goodness knows what else, Edinburgh International Festival director – and respected composer – Jonathan Mills had left it until the final concert of his final Festival to programme...

Quadrangularis Reversum, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Belly Drums, Spoils of War: even just the names of the outlandish instruments invented and constructed by American maverick composer Harry Partch are astonishingly evocative. That’s without even hearing the...

The 2014 Edinburgh International Festival came to a close tonight with the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, marking the final event of Sir Jonathan Mills’s eight year tenure as...

On so many levels, it’s hard not to react to South African artist Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B with appalled disbelief. Yet the stories it tells of the astonishing cruelty and barbarism carried out in...

Edinburgh International Book Festival opens todayNew hotel for LeithFringe and Festival reviewsGaza ProtestEdinburgh International FestivalThe Book Festival has an atmosphere all of its own. The Edinburgh Reporter loves the press yurt!Over 800 events will...

Appetite Direct has been chosen to cater Edinburgh International Festival venues for the next three years in a five figure sponsorship deal which takes the company one step closer towards its goal of doubling...

MONDAY 4TH AUGUST 2014GENERATION: Curator's Tour. Senior Curator Lucy Askew leads an introductory tour of the GENERATION exhibition at Modern Art One, introducing key artists and themes.  This part of the exhibition includes spectacular...

The Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and sponsor Virgin Money launch Fireworks Fridays, celebrating the build up to the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert - the spectacular annual event which brings Edinburgh’s summer festival season to...

Following on the success of the Big Wheel in Princes Street at Christmas time Underbelly has announced this morning that it is bringing it back for the summer! This will be the newest addition to...

Edelweiss flew into Edinburgh for the first time today on its new Zurich to London route.The CEO of Edelweiss the leading Swiss leisure airline flew the plane himself, and was given the usual water...

Not a top ten? Well, with the sheer richness of the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival programme, picking out 15 of the best events just seemed fairer. Its war-and-peace theme provides one of the boldest...

Over 2,400 artists from 43 nations have been invited to Edinburgh to perform in the annual showcase of the world’s great performing artists.Jonathan Mills, Director of the Festival since 2007 steps down after this...

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Protecting investment in frontline services in Edinburgh for young, old and vulnerable residents was a priority at the Council budget meeting today which lasted till after 4pm and which you can read as it...

Unique Festival opportunity for budding photographer as the Edinburgh International Festival Photographer 2014 competition launches.Emerging photographers are being invited to apply for the position of Festival Photographer 2o14 The Edinburgh International Festival and The...

 A trilogy of plays about James I, II and III of Scotland was unveiled at Edinburgh Castle this morning, and the plays are promised to be a vividly imagined and mysteriously playful version of...

Edinburgh International Festival are advertising for a Programme Development Officer. This is a temporary position beginning in January. Applications must be in by Friday 20 December 2013.This is the job advert which you can...

 Light & Shade Exhibition by Stuart Armitt, Festival Photographer 2013 An exhibition of the work of photographer Stuart Armitt marks the culmination of a year which began with his selection from more than a hundred photographers...

Magical Virgin Money Fireworks Concert enthrals audiences across Edinburgh The Virgin Money Fireworks Concert drew to a stunning close, the sky filled with giant walls of silver and golden crackle effect fireworks, bursting 225 metres above Edinburgh...