Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, is inviting everyone to celebrate this year’s International Dance Day on Saturday 29th April and take part in the summer term starting just two days after, on 1st May. Audiences can now choose from over 50 dance classes for people of all ages and all levels of dance experience forming Dance Base’s summerContinue reading “Dance Base Celebrates International Dance Day This Weekend”
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Multi Media Climate Production Pibroch Set to Tour Scotland
Pibroch is a multimedia theatre production exploring the parallels between the current Climate Emergency and the Piper Alpha disaster that took place in the North Sea in 1988. Pibroch uses poetry created by Aberdeenshire-based writer and artist John Bolland, who is a former oil worker, climate activist, member of North East Scotland Climate Action NetworkContinue reading “Multi Media Climate Production Pibroch Set to Tour Scotland”
Edinburgh Tradfest – This Year Looking Better Than Ever!
FESTIVAL DATES: Friday 28 April – Monday 8 May 2023 Over the 11 days of the Festival, hundreds of artists and musicians will perform, including American folk singer, two-time winner, and six-time Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, who will kick off the festival at the Assembly Rooms on Friday 28 April supported by special guests Roo Geddes & Neil Sutcliffe. OverContinue reading “Edinburgh Tradfest – This Year Looking Better Than Ever!”
Scottish-Nordic Festival Returns This Month
After 3 years of waiting, Northern Streams Festival will be celebrating Nordic & Scottish Music, Song & Dance fully in person again, in Edinburgh & Dundee. Taking place 27-30 April, the 2023 festival features as its guests: Fromseier & Hockings – (Ditte & Sigurd) a Danish Folk Award winning fiddle/guitar/voice duo from Denmark with songsContinue reading “Scottish-Nordic Festival Returns This Month”
“Creative Genius” Simcock Composes Himself for Orchestral Manoeuvres
Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock joins the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra on a four-date Scottish tour from 27th to 30th April. A classically trained musician who has performed at the highest level in both jazz and classical music, Welsh-born Simcock was the first musician from a jazz background to be awarded the prestigious BBC NewContinue reading ““Creative Genius” Simcock Composes Himself for Orchestral Manoeuvres”
Tour Dates Announced for Dear Billy, NTS’ Love Letter to Billy Connolly
Who doesn’t know the man affectionately known as The Big Yin, Billy Connelly? Certainly nobody in Scotland, but his reputation as a uniquely skilled comic is universal in the Western world, if that’s not a contradiction in terms! The story of his life growing up in Glasgow and influencing his work is legendary. From workingContinue reading “Tour Dates Announced for Dear Billy, NTS’ Love Letter to Billy Connolly”
Scottish Opera Launches Schools Project Based on Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love
Scottish Opera (SO) has announced a new project entitled The Elixir of Love: Three Ways to Stage an Opera, an enterprise aimed at pupils in the third year of secondary education, and focusing on the expressive arts curriculum including Music, Art & Design, and Drama. These lessons are based around the 19th century Italian composerContinue reading “Scottish Opera Launches Schools Project Based on Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love”
Novelist Andrew O’Hagan Premieres First Play at 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Award winning Scottish writer Andrew O’Hagan, whose last novel Mayflies was successfully adapted for television, brings his first play, The Ballad of Truman Capote, to premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Already the subject of two films, Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006), the radical American novelist will now be the focus of a ScottishContinue reading “Novelist Andrew O’Hagan Premieres First Play at 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe”
Visible Fictions Brings New Thriller Aimed at Young Adults to Glasgow This Summer
Created by leading production company Visible Fictions, Ghosthunter is an interactive production designed for older teens and young adults. Part immersive theatre and part expansive escape room, the show weaves new technology and chilling live horror in this performance event. Taking inspiration from paranormal programmes like Ghostwatch and Most Haunted, audiences are invited to step into a detailed recreation ofContinue reading “Visible Fictions Brings New Thriller Aimed at Young Adults to Glasgow This Summer”
Lyra Presents Third Annual Young Artist’s Festival with Bright & Wild 2023
Over two weekends in May, the Bright & Wild 2023 festival will celebrate the talent and creativity of young people from Greater Craigmillar (Edinburgh) who are taking part in Lyra’s Young Artists programme. The festival will showcase four new productions that the Young Artists commissioned themselves, through the company’s child-led approach. This approach saw theContinue reading “Lyra Presents Third Annual Young Artist’s Festival with Bright & Wild 2023”
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