Edinburgh Festival News
The Scientific Approach
In anticipation of this year's International Science Festival, we're keeping a weekly video blog of interesting scientific queries from across the globe.
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The Science of Success
Author Hamish McRae shares an excerpt from his new book that outlines why the Edinburgh Festivals are one of the world's most successful organisations, and hints that there's a greater lesson in it for us all.
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Free bus service for Edinburgh's Hogmanay
Local party-goers and international visitors alike attending the world famous Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations will be able to enjoy free buses home after the celebrations.
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Tattoo's Diamond Jubilee
2010 marks the Diamond Jubilee Year for the world famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Tickets for this celebrated summer event are NOW ON SALE.
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Edinburgh's Hogmanay extends programme
Edinburgh's Hogmanay has unveiled the full 2009-2010 programme, extended this year to a five day festival of music, family entertainment and dance, including brand new programmes on the 30th of December and the 1st of January.
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Get Tae Dance!
Scottish culture gets a make-over this Edinburgh’s Hogmanay as Off Kilter combines traditional Highland, ballet, hip-hop, Indian classical and contemporary dance in a spectacular showcase of styles that are alive and kicking in Scotland today.
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Ring in the New Year
Tickets for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2010 are NOW ON SALE! This year’s five day programme is brimming with superstar talent and promises to be one of the biggest shows ever.
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New leadership at the EIBF
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Barley as its new Director.
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The fine art of storytelling
Scottish International Storytelling Festival Director Donald Smith takes time to talk about the triumph of stories in Edinburgh.
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The Storytellers unite
The leading storytellers from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Caribbean are descending upon Edinburgh with the best of Scotland’s tellers for a 10-day celebration of tall tales and living cultures.
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The grand finale
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus accompanied by a dramatic choreographed fireworks display above Edinburgh Castle impressed the thousands in attendance on Sunday 6 September. This magical evening of live music and pyrotechnic wizardry wraps up the Edinburgh summer festival season each and every year.
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And the winner is...
As the Fringe draws to a close the standouts of this year's festival are standing up to be recognized. We have compiled a compendium of this year's various award winners.
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Best in Britain
The Edinburgh Festivals have been voted the number one tourist experience in the UK according to readers of the Rough Guide. The guide claims you’ll need “the stamina of an ox, the appetite of a hippo and the nocturnal characteristics of an owl."
Learn more >>
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Made in Scotland
A showcase of some of Scotland's most exciting theatre and dance at the Fringe, Made in Scotland is a wonderfully eclectic and diverse programme of dance, theatre, musical theatre, puppetry, site-specific performance and work for children. The program includes some of Scotland's most highly respected theatre and dance companies in addition to a number of Scotland's most dynamic independent artists.
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Enlightenments of Homecoming
The Edinburgh International Festival presents a series of work new to Scotland to take a contemporary view of ideas and questions that first arose in Edinburgh during the 18th century Enlightenment.
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The best (and worst) gags of the Fringe
London comic Dan Antopolski won the Dave Award for the 2009 Funniest Joke of the Fringe for his hedgehog humor, one of many highly-memorable jokes this season. As voted for by comedy faithful, here are the best and worst of 2009.
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Only in Edinburgh
From toilet stalls to cloakrooms to the Fawlty dinner table, the Festival has inhabited some pretty peculiar places in 2009. Here's a list of the slick site-specific performances that you'll only see in the Festival City.
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My Festival
The most compelling personalities of the Edinburgh Festivals share their stories about the how the greatest festival experience in the world turned them into the life of the party.
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