The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (aka ‘HippFest’) was launched in 2011 and has since become a key annual event in the cultural calendar, drawing audiences from across Scotland and beyond. This very special festival of film takes place at the exquisite jewel of art deco style that is the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness. Reopened inContinue reading “Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Announces 2024 Programme”
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Midlothian Artist Commissioned to Create Covid Memorial Benches
As part of the national Scottish Government-funded project ‘Remembering Together,’ which will see Covid memorials installed in all 32 local authority areas across Scotland, local Artist Yvonne Weighand Lyle from Mayfield has been selected as Lead Artist to design commemorative Covid benches for Midlothian Yvonne was born and raised in Mayfield, Midlothian and is excitedContinue reading “Midlothian Artist Commissioned to Create Covid Memorial Benches”
The House at Manipulate Festival 2024
The jaunty sounds of The Teddy Bears’ Picnic could easily lull audiences into a false sense of security as they anticipate the performance of The House from Denmark’s Sofie Krog Teater. That illusion is already shaky as the magnificently created set that is the eponymous house stares out at the audience like a creepy gappedContinue reading “The House at Manipulate Festival 2024”
One Bum Cinema Manipulate Festival
Some years ago, a fellow cinema audience member coined a beautifully apt phrase while observing the number of single people occupied in a variety of ways as they awaited the start of a screening. The neat and apposite phrase was ‘…in solitary union.’ At this year’s Manipulate Festival, that oft embraced concept of viewing filmsContinue reading “One Bum Cinema Manipulate Festival”
Fronteiras Theatre LabBrings La Niña Barro to Assembly Roxy This March
Making a Scottish comeback, Edinburgh-based multilingual theatre group Fronteiras Theatre Lab (fronteira meaning ‘border’ in Portuguese) is set to bring their intimate physical theatre show La Niña Barro to Assembly Roxy this March. The show’s three day run will coincide with International Women’s Day. An ongoing creative project first formed in 2013, this run marks a decade since La Niña Barro’s original premierContinue reading “Fronteiras Theatre LabBrings La Niña Barro to Assembly Roxy This March”
February Sees Return of Artists’ Bookmarket to Fruitmarket
Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ book culture returns to the galleries for its 14th edition, and for the third year Artists’ Bookmarket runs in tandem with Edinburgh Zine Library who will be bringing their Zine Festival to Fruitmarket’s Warehouse. Both events run over two weekend days with stalls laid out to showcase an array of workContinue reading “February Sees Return of Artists’ Bookmarket to Fruitmarket”
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Announces New Competition and Dates
A revitalised Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will inaugurate a competition for its 77th edition, which will run from 15th to 21st August 2024. Under new leadership that comes with a new vision, EIFF is poised to accelerate the discovery of new talent through significant prize-money awarded to the filmmakers of the Best Feature FilmContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Announces New Competition and Dates “
Festival Theatre Usher Wins Prestigious Unsung Hero Award
A long-serving usher and weel kent face at Festival Theatre, Graham Simpson, has been celebrated as an Unsung Hero of musical theatre at this year’s National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals. Graham, who first joined the Festival Theatre in 1994, marked the start of his 30th anniversary with the organisation through a surprise award atContinue reading “Festival Theatre Usher Wins Prestigious Unsung Hero Award”
Jekyll & Hyde Royal Lyceum Theatre
Jekyll & Hyde is so deeply embedded in the English lexicon as a metaphor for living a disparate double life, that having read the 19th century novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, seems barely required. In its time, Edinburgh born writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s small book created shock waves among theContinue reading “Jekyll & Hyde Royal Lyceum Theatre”
King’s Theatre Awarded £2 million Towards Greater Accessibility by UK Government
The UK Government’s Community Ownership Fund is the source of a £2 million award made to Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre and is seen as a welcome boost to the ongoing redevelopment project which began in February 2023. This funding will help make the King’s Theatre fully accessible for the first time in the building’s history, withContinue reading “King’s Theatre Awarded £2 million Towards Greater Accessibility by UK Government”
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