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”
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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”
Skye Residency for Young Harpist Announced Thanks to Collaboration
As part of an ongoing collaboration between Live Music Now Scotland, the organisation that gives emerging artists the opportunity of performing at the start of their careers, and the Isle of Skye’s only established chamber music society, Skye Chamber Music, harpist Sophie Rocks will take up the first in a series of creative practice residencies.Continue reading “Skye Residency for Young Harpist Announced Thanks to Collaboration”
Hit Musical The Stamping Ground Returns for Scotland-wide Tour in 2023
The Stamping Ground, the new stage musical featuring the hits of Runrig, one of Scotland’s most well-loved bands, is set to hit the road on a Scotland-wide tour later this year, marking 50 years since the band was formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973. The show, that is a co-production between Raw Material andContinue reading “Hit Musical The Stamping Ground Returns for Scotland-wide Tour in 2023”
Five AI Artists Awarded New Real 2023 Development Grants
As part of the Art Programme: Uncanny Machines, from The New Real, a world-leading and Edinburgh-based AI research hub, five AI artists have been awarded The New Real 2023 Development Grants to explore the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and the social implications of recent developments in AI. Each of the five artists is exploring imaginative ideasContinue reading “Five AI Artists Awarded New Real 2023 Development Grants”
Edinburgh International Children’s Festival Launches 2023 Programme
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (EICF) launches its programme with an exciting lineup of activities, events and performances for young people, schools, families and industry professionals. Showcasing world-leading work from across 11 different countries, the renowned festival offers a packed programme of circus, comedy, dance, storytelling and theatre for young people. This year, the programmeContinue reading “Edinburgh International Children’s Festival Launches 2023 Programme”
Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews Returns for Second Edition
The well-loved Byre Theatre is again playing host to and producing Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews who announces its second edition, with a bold and innovative programme that champions filmmakers, audiences and all those who cherish the power of cinema. Last year’s inaugural festival affirmed itself as not only a major new event inContinue reading “Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews Returns for Second Edition”
Magnetic North to Restage Intimate Adaptation of Thoreau’s Iconic Novel Walden
As part of their Spring residency at Fruitmarket, theatre company Magnetic North are restaging a version of their seminal production of Walden. The story is based on Henry David Thoreau who walked into the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts on 4th July 1845 and decided to stay. He found a spot next toContinue reading “Magnetic North to Restage Intimate Adaptation of Thoreau’s Iconic Novel Walden”
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