Tag: What’s On
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...
Edinburgh International Festival – MACRO
The 75th Festival opened with a joyful celebration of Australian and Scottish culture in a fusion of circus, dance and music.
Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, award-winning contemporary circus powerhouse Gravity & Other Myths and critically...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Peppa Pig – My First Concert
From Mozart to Muddy Puddles! 'Peppa Pig – My First Concert' is a fun interactive introduction to a live orchestra with everyone's favourite Pig family!
Join Peppa as she discovers an orchestra for the first...
Assembly Festival – KIN – Barely Methodical Troupe
Barely Methodical Troupe brings you their five-star hit about group dynamics and camaraderie. Their physical prowess is deftly deployed, as tumbling, flying and catching become challenges and opportunities for individual bids for recognition.
KIN was...
Assembly Festival – The Choir of Man
From creative minds Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay, The Choir of Man is 60 minutes of unadulterated entertainment that combines high energy dance, foot stomping choreography and the incredible talent of nine ordinary guys...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Tropicana’ – Aidan Sadler
Join queer cabaret icon and performance tour-de-force Aidan Sadler as they take you on the award-winning journey to Tropicana!
Dandelion Cube Bike Tour, Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
2nd August 2022
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Nothing is safe from ridicule...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Caligari’ – ChewBoy Productions
'Caligari' reimagines the 1920 seminal German film ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, with a cast of five actor-musicians taking the stage to tell the victims’ stories of their brutal murders at the hands of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Good Grief’ – Ugly Bucket
A recipient of New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly’s hit-making Untapped Award, supported by Methuen Drama, 'Good Grief' is a cathartic reckoning with death and grief through a kinetic maelstrom of outrageous clowning, powerful and...
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Lost in Translation’s ‘Hotel Paradiso’
Lost in Translation present an irresistibly colourful, loud and fun show for all the family. LiT are one of the UK’s leading contemporary circus companies and Guinness World Record holders.
With thrillingly spectacular circus skills,...
Edinburgh Art Festival – Ashanti Harris: Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents a new commission from Scotland based artist Ashanti Harris. Taking the novel Signposts of the Jumbie (1981), written by Faustin Charles, as a starting point, Harris will interlace ideas of...
Edinburgh Art Festival 2022 opens its doors!
Edinburgh Art Festival brings together the capital’s leading galleries, museums and established spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art.
From photography documenting Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe to carnival-inspired performance art, the...
New exhibitions at The Scottish Gallery
Duncan Shanks is returning to The Scottish Gallery this summer with 'The Riverbank – A Landscape of Sorrow and Hope'. These vibrant and energetic paintings, heavily inspired by lockdowns and Shanks’ consequential artistic turn...
Edinburgh Art Festival gets underway
Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) is the platform for the visual arts which sits at the heart of Edinburgh’s August Festivals, this year celebrating their 75th anniversary season this year.
This 18th edition of the festival...
David Lemm making art from the tramworks
Tracks is an exhibition of new work by David Lemm using materials harvested from the tramline construction on Constitution Street to explore process, artefact and the built environment.
Alongside a piece of track itself, Lemm has focused on...
Installation of sails in Wester Hailes by artists Pester & Rossi for 2022 EAF
'Finding Buoyancy' is one of three major commissions as the Edinburgh Art Festival celebrates its 18th edition. The project is the result of collaboration with groups and individuals in Wester Hailes, alongside Glasgow based...
Carol Tambor Award for Fringe show ‘The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much’
Voloz Collective’s 'The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much' has been named as a winner of the Carol Tambor Incentive Award 2022. The New-York based fund was designed to encourage new writing and...
Edinburgh Food Festival launches 2022 programme
Later on Friday the Edinburgh Food Festival 2022 opens at Assembly George Square Gardens for ten days of chef demos, expert panels, cookery classes and workshops, and some of the best street food and...
2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival programme revealed
Earlier on Wednesday, the Edinburgh International Film Festival announced the programme for its fully in-person 75th Anniversary edition this year.
The programme of cinema screenings, live performance and industry dialogues in Edinburgh in the...
Honeybee workshops for a buzzin’ day out
Sustainable honey business Webster Honey, which has four hives in the gardens at Cambo Gardens and The Stables Visitor Centre at Kingsbarns, is running a series of honeybee workshops there for customers who want...
Edinburgh Festival of cycling – bikes and music this weekend
The mini Edinburgh Festival of Cycling is taking place this weekend at Bridgend Farmhouse.
This is today's programme (and there is more taking place tomorrow)
Edinburgh International Festival – Gabriel Byrne’s solo show Walking With Ghosts added to the...
Actor Gabriel Byrne will bring his solo show Walking With Ghosts to the Edinburgh International Festival this summer from 24 to 28 August in a UK premiere.
The performance which is adapted from his 2020...
Assembly Festival opens its doors from today in George Square Gardens
Celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, Assembly Festival runs from today until the end of August. T
he gardens will be open daily offering a mix of street food and lite-bites from some of Scotland’s...
2022 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival kicks off tomorrow
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is back for 2022, ready to present a fully live festival setting the dial to 10 with over 130 concerts, curated programmes, free events and a jazz school....
Celebrating 200 years since a royal visit at the Museum of Edinburgh
A selection of pottery from the Alastair Leslie collection related to the Royal visit of George IV to Edinburgh two centuries ago will be on display in the pottery galleries at the Museum...
Get ready for Doghailes at the end of the month
It’s almost time for Doghailes at Newhailes Estate in Musselburgh on 31 July.
Enjoy some good family time together and take your four legged friend along with you to Doghailes. With fun competitions, shopping,...
Edinburgh Festival Carnival returns the streets of the Capital
Returning to the streets of Edinburgh on Sunday 17 July, the Edinburgh Festival Carnival is ready to present the world in one city.
Edinburgh Festival Carnival is Scotland’s largest multicultural celebration. For eight years this...
EIF makes free tickets available for a special concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra
To coincide with American Independence Day and its 75th anniversary year, Edinburgh International Festival has released more than 3,000 tickets to a special free concert featuring one of the USA’s leading orchestras, The Philadelphia...
Rarely seen works from Scottish artist Alan Davie exhibited at Dovecot Studios
The centenary exhibition celebrating the work of Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), 'Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World' will run - concurrently with 'RAPHAEL - Raffaello Magister' - at Dovecot Studios until near...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 – Pakistan to 60s Glasgow – a mother and daughter’s...
Actor and comedian Lubna Kerr is returning to the Fringe with a freshly updated version of her acclaimed show Tickbox.
The one woman show explores the experiences of different generations of a middle class Pakistani...
