Tag: What’s On
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 17
Yesterday (29th Aug) was the final day of Edinburgh's International Book Festival. Returning to the Edinburgh College of Art for a second year, it was very much 'back to business' compared to the, pared...
What’s on in Edinburgh this September – Cinema on the Shore
The Shore will host an outdoor cinema in September - with free and low price tickets available for a programme of films all of which have a connection to the sea.
Cinema on the Shore will...
EIBF – Day 11 – Katherine Rundell
The poetry of John Donne feels as fresh, funny and radiantly beautiful in the 21st century as it must have done in the 17th.
In her talk with Stuart Kelly, popular writer and academic Katherine...
Assembly Festival – Class of ’22
Members of the 2022 Assembly Festival team gathered outside the festival’s eponymous home, Assembly Rooms on George Street, to celebrate 40 years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The team members recreated the very first team...
Edinburgh International Festival – We are Monchichi
How do we come together when everything is pushing us apart? What language do we choose? How do we face the mountain of cultural stereotypes?
Shihya Peng was born in Taiwan, but she lives in...
EIBF – Day 7 – Graeme Macrae Burnet
When reading a novel, who can we trust to tell us the truth? Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel Case Study, set in mid-60s London, plays with ideas about truth and reality through the story of...
Assembly Festival – S.O.E.
S.O.E. is a new play about two remarkable women in the WW2 Special Operations Executive.
The WW2 Special Operations Executive is tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. As a wireless operator, life expectancy is six...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Cluster Art’s ‘Class of 22’
Join the ‘Class of 22’ in their current Scottish adventure. Fresh from down under, Australian collective Cluster Arts showcases 48 unique dancers, astonishing acrobats and charismatic characters at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
After three...
Edinburgh International Festival – Samsara
Inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, 'Samsara' is a spellbinding piece for two dancers that traces the steps we take, both forward and backward, in search of our higher selves.
UK/Indian dancer Aakash Odedra...
Assembly Festival – 360 ALLSTARS
Basketball freestyling, Cyr Wheel, breakdancing and BMX flatlanding.
The phenomenal 360 ALLSTARS deliver a supercharged urban circus boasting a stellar cast of World Champion and World Record holding artists and athletes, 360 ALLSTARS is a...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 5 – Ricky Ross
Thursday's author was Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross, who was at Central Hall - a new venue for EIBF - publicising his book 'Walking Back Home (Deacon Blue and me)'
It’s 30-odd years since 'Real Gone...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 5 – Vashti Bunyan
This year's EIBF is dispensing with the daily, multiple author photo calls and are limiting them to a few per day so there will be no large galleries of many authors to see, just...
Assembly Festival – Second Body’s ‘Concept for a Film’
Second Body return with two new pieces honouring the power in small acts of creativity and to shed light on social-political issues by fusing music, theatre and cutting-edge sciences.
'Concept for a Film' blends radical...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Garry Starr’s ‘Greece Lightning’
Garry Starr… The Myth… The Legend… returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an hour of award-winning, unpredictable and exuberant physical comedy for anyone and everyone with a heart, soul, and funny bone. No...
Gretchen Peters at The Queen’s Hall
For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected artists.
“If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as ‘On A Bus To St. Cloud,'” People Magazine wrote, “she has already...
Edinburgh Art Festival launches new Community Wellbeing project in Wester Hailes
Set to launch in Wester Hailes in the west of Edinburgh is a major new commission as part of the 2022 Edinburgh Art Festival, as it celebrates its 18th edition. A group of people...
Edinburgh International Festival – The Book of Life
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, one million people were killed in 100 days. The unthinkable became commonplace and a country was torn apart.
A quarter of a century later, Rwandan artist and activist Katese...
Edinburgh International Festival – Scottish Ballet’s ‘Coppelia’
Scottish Ballet test the boundaries of dance, theatre and film in this distinctive new version of the classic ballet, blending location and real-time filming with projection and live performance in a world premiere.
What does...
Edinburgh International Festival – The Book of Life
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, one million people were killed in 100 days. The unthinkable became commonplace and a country was torn apart.
A quarter of a century later, Rwandan artist and activist Katese...
75th EIFF launches on the ‘Glorious Twelfth’
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...
Edinburgh International Festival – Taraf de Caliu
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...
Assembly Festival – Alison Skilbeck – Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London
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...
Assembly Festival – Soweto Gospel Choir
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Classic’ – Hope Mill Theatre
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...
EIF – National Theatre of Scotland’s ‘Medea’
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...
Edinburgh International Festival – Belvoir – Counting and Cracking
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Kostya Benkovich – ‘The Suitcase’
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...
Assembly Festival – Masters of Choreography – ‘Beats on Pointe’ and ‘Wanderlust’
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Theatre Trust Opening
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 -...
Edinburgh International Festival – Rusalka
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...
