On Thursday 3rd June, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS) announced the recipients of the first ever Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund, meaning that fifteen different productions can bring work to the world-renowned festival with shows taking place in both 2021 and 2022. The £75,000 fund was raised in 2020 through the Fringe Society’sContinue reading “First Recipients of Fringe Society Artist and Venue Recovery Fund Announced”
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Three Scottish Arts Organisations Join Ranks for Outdoor Festival: Live at 40
For a few weeks later this summer, Scottish Opera, Citizens Theatre and Scottish Ensemble come together for an outdoor festival of live theatre, music and opera to be held at Scottish Opera’s Production Studio car park at 40 Edington Street, Glasgow. The location, that hosted Scottish Opera’s five-star production of Puccini’s La Bohèmelast September, nowContinue reading “Three Scottish Arts Organisations Join Ranks for Outdoor Festival: Live at 40”
Edinburgh International Children’s Festival Blooms in the Botanics and Beyond
Two years after celebrating its 30th anniversary, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (EICF) presents a hybrid festival of outdoor and digital events of theatre and dance for young people with many online shows available to watch any time during the Festival, the first of the Edinburgh festivals to do so in a sector which has been hitContinue reading “Edinburgh International Children’s Festival Blooms in the Botanics and Beyond”
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival 2021 Programme Unveiled
This July, Scotland’s largest rural performing arts festival returns with an outdoor and online performance programme celebrating the people and creativity of Dumfries and Galloway. The 42nd programme, that runs from 16th till 25th July, has the central theme of Hame’ll Dae Me – a tribute to the burgeoning artists and world class performers of the regionContinue reading “Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival 2021 Programme Unveiled”
This Year’s Edinburgh Science Festival Theme – One World: Science Connects Us
The annual Edinburgh Science Festival (ESF) is the world’s first and still Europe’s biggest of its kind. Having been postponed from its usual slot around the Easter holidays, it will take place instead this year from Saturday 26th June to Sunday 11th July. With the theme One World: Science Connects Us, and the 26th UNContinue reading “This Year’s Edinburgh Science Festival Theme – One World: Science Connects Us”
‘Human Swan’ Sacha Dench Visits Edinburgh Ahead of Edinburgh Science Festival
Sacha Dench has earned the name of The Human Swan after flying 7000km by paramotor from Arctic Russia across 11 countries to the UK to help save the Bewick’s swan. This conservationist, adventurer and motivational speaker is visiting Edinburgh ahead of her talk as part of Edinburgh Science Festival (ESF) 2021. Dench visited Edinburgh toContinue reading “‘Human Swan’ Sacha Dench Visits Edinburgh Ahead of Edinburgh Science Festival”
Calton Hill Alive with the Sound of the National Youth Choir of Scotland
The dawn chorus on the Calton Hill had some company on Monday 17th May! Taking advantage of the easing of restrictions that allow up to 30 people to gather outside to sing, 29 singers from the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS) gathered with their conductor Christopher Bell to be the first to sing inContinue reading “Calton Hill Alive with the Sound of the National Youth Choir of Scotland”
August 2021 Holds Promise of Return of the Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF), the platform for the visual arts at the heart of Edinburgh’s August festivals, has been running since 2004. It brings together the capital’s leading galleries, museums, production facilities and artist-run spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art. Each year EAF comprises newly commissioned artworks by leadingContinue reading “August 2021 Holds Promise of Return of the Edinburgh Art Festival”
Iconic Movie Fatal Attraction Comes to UK Stages in 2022
Nearly 35 years ago, a film hit the cinemas that has remained in the public consciousness since then. That film was the multi-Oscar nominated blockbuster, Fatal Attraction that told the salutary tale of happily married New York attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) who meets editor Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) on a night out in theContinue reading “Iconic Movie Fatal Attraction Comes to UK Stages in 2022”
Urgent Call to Scottish Government from Group of Scottish Arts Venues
Now that Scotland has a newly returned government, a collective call has been made to them by eleven of the country’s leading arts venues, going under the umbrella of the Scottish Theatre Producing Consortium, along with the Federation of Scottish Theatre, with an important message. The message is that the Scottish Government urgently reviews theContinue reading “Urgent Call to Scottish Government from Group of Scottish Arts Venues”
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