Rachel Hazell, who is based between Edinburgh and the Hebridean Isle of Iona, and known as The Travelling Bookbinder, will be sharing all she has learnt about the power of creativity at her talk The Benefit of Booksat this year’s Artists’ Bookmarket at the Fruitmarket Gallery. Rachel has explored and taught this ancient craft of bookbinding allContinue reading “Fruitmarket Gallery’s Annual Bookmarket Hosts Rachel Hazell”
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Scotland’s Silent Film Festival Hippfest Announces Programme for Its 15th Edition
This year, the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness again plays host to Scotland’s silent film festival, HippFest, as it celebrates its 15th anniversary. The 2025 programme will celebrate over 100 years of filmmaking from cinematographers from across the globe, along with the customary programme from the Golden Age of Hollywood. All films are accompanied by a varietyContinue reading “Scotland’s Silent Film Festival Hippfest Announces Programme for Its 15th Edition”
Scottish Opera’s Primary Schools Tour Explores Burns in The Tale o’ Tam o’Shanter
In a show created to re-introduce young people to the works of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, Scottish Opera’s Primary Schools Tour visits Schools with the Bard’s classic, The Tale o’ Tam o’ Shanter. The fully booked tour heads to 120 schools in Glasgow, Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Stirling, the Highlands, Clackmannanshire, Aberdeen, Angus, Fife, Lanarkshire,Continue reading “Scottish Opera’s Primary Schools Tour Explores Burns in The Tale o’ Tam o’Shanter”
Saxophonist Revisits Golden Sands at the Queen’s Hall
Helena Kay returns to the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh on Thursday 13th February for the second in a series of four concerts that the saxophonist has been invited to curate by the venue. Promoted under the Jazz Thursdays banner, the concert features Kay’s quartet revisiting the saxophonist’s internationally acclaimed second album, Golden Sands, with support fromContinue reading “Saxophonist Revisits Golden Sands at the Queen’s Hall”
New Play from Scottish Theatre Maker Comes to Capital Theatres and Tron Theatre
Following a performance at Dublin’s Scene + Heard Festival in February 2025, emerging Scottish theatre maker Liam Rees brings his new playThe Land That Never Was, to Scottish audiences. The Land That Never Was tells the true story of Gregor MacGregor who, in 1820, announced that he was not only the son of a localContinue reading “New Play from Scottish Theatre Maker Comes to Capital Theatres and Tron Theatre”
Traverse Announces New Partnership with Scottish Casting Network
Bringing new workshops nationwide, The Traverse, The Tron, Dundee Rep, Citizens, Royal Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatres will host events, resulting in three open casting workshops being held each year. The workshops will be free to attend and will allow actors to perform in front of directors, producers, and casting directors from across Scottish theatre, televisionContinue reading “Traverse Announces New Partnership with Scottish Casting Network “
We Will Hear the Angels Fruitmarket Gallery
Edinburgh theatre company Magnetic North bring their moving and thoughtful piece of theatre, We Will Hear the Angels, to the Warehouse performance space at the Fruitmarket Gallery this late winter. Taking its title from Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya, and inspiration from Hitchcock’s 1954 classic film, Rear Window, the piece exposes various states of loss andContinue reading “We Will Hear the Angels Fruitmarket Gallery”
HelloArt Set to Host Edinburgh’s First Chinese Lunar New Year Market
HelloArt is delighted to announce the Chinese Lunar New Year Market – the first of its kind in Edinburgh. This event will take place at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall and aims to bring the rich traditions and cultural celebrations of the Lunar New Year to life for all to enjoy. The market will feature a variety ofContinue reading “HelloArt Set to Host Edinburgh’s First Chinese Lunar New Year Market”
After the End of History: British Working-Class Photography 1989 – 2024 at Stills
Edinburgh’s Stills Gallery is delighted to host the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024. The group exhibition brings together working-class artists who use photography to explore the nuances of life in all its diversity today, turning their gaze towards both their communities and out to the wider world.Continue reading “After the End of History: British Working-Class Photography 1989 – 2024 at Stills”
Restless Natives: The Musical Zooms up to Leith Theatre
The 1985 Scottish film, Restless Natives, that made the masked motorbike riding characters of two Edinburgh teenagers, The Clown and the Wolfman local heroes, is getting a new lease of life later this year in the form of a stage musical. Fittingly, the new version will be staged at Leith Theatre where it will kickContinue reading “Restless Natives: The Musical Zooms up to Leith Theatre “
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