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Wind Instruments in Period Performance Period performance has been famously dubbed ‘the most modern sound around’. Clarinettist and Director of the Royal College of Music Professor Colin Lawson discusses the value of using period instruments  today with Alexander Hayward of National Museums Scotland. Tuesday 20 August 2.30pm Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Scotland Tickets £6 1 hour approximately

Unknowable Futures In the face of today’s ongoing technological revolution, author and journalist Ben Hammersley examines how we must consider today what we do not know for tomorrow. Chaired by journalist Robert Dawson Scott. Saturday 10 August 5.00pm The Hub Tickets £6 1 hour approximately eif.co.uk/interfaces Special Offer – Buy a ticket for 4 to 6 events and save 20%– Buy a ticket for 7 to 10 events and save 30%

Vieux Carre Tron Kirk  Price -  £5 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Classic sounds of the jazz age from Newcastle six piece band swing, ragtime, New Orleans style from the 20s and 30s – perfect for a post Mardi Gras pint.

A video of the 2002 OBIEwinning production of Racine’s Phèdre, set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding Plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, hidden cameras, and badminton…
‘This blend of ironic seriousness, heightened theatricality and multimedia ballet has developed into one of the sharpest of theatrical instruments’ The Village Voice
Monday 12 August 12 noon1 hour 15 minutes
New Media Scotland
Tickets £4
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The Moleskine Diaries Author and journalist James Harkin uses the Moleskine diaries phenomenon to explore what our desire to identify with niche product, media and culture brands can tell us about ourselves. Chaired by Robert Dawson Scott. Thursday 15 August 2.30pm The Hub Tickets £6 1 hour approximately eif.co.uk/interfaces Special Offer – Buy a ticket for 4 to 6 events and save 20%– Buy a ticket for 7 to 10 events and save 30%

The New Leonardos Hamish Innes-Brown from the Bionics Institute Melbourne draws on the experience of commissioning music for cochlear implant users to explore how artists utilise and influence technology. Chaired by Stephen Allen of National Museums Scotland. Thursday 22 August 2.30pm Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Scotland Tickets £6 1 hour approximately

The Leisure Revolution Jesse Schell, Distinguished Professor of Entertainment Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and technology entrepreneur Chris van der Kuyl discuss the gamification of design and its potential for widespread influence. Chaired by writer Ben Hammersley. Supported by The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Turing Festival. Sunday 11 August 5.00pm The Hub Tickets £6 1 hour approximately eif.co.uk/interfaces Special Offer – Buy a ticket for 4 to 6 events and save 20%– Buy a ticket for 7 to 10 events and save 30%

2.30pm – 3.30pm The Green Table: choreographed in 1932, The Green Table is known as Kurt Jooss’s masterpiece.In this film of a performance in the 1960s by Folkwang Ballet, the dancers include a young Pina Bausch. Portrait of Mary Wigman: at the end of the roaring twenties Mary Wigman provoked a real revolution in the world of dance. Film

The Internet and Free Will Aleks Krotoski, social psychologist and presenter of Radio 4’s Digital Human, untangles the World Wide Web, asking how much of a revolution it really is. Are we in danger of letting Google and Facebook take over our lives, and can we reclaim control over the machine? Chaired by Robert Dawson Scott. Sunday 11 August 2.30pm The Hub Tickets £6 1 hour approximately eif.co.uk/interfaces Special Offer – Buy a ticket for 4 to 6 events and save 20%– Buy a ticket for 7 to 10 events and save 30%    

The Earl of Sidcup's Gramophone Jass Band Royal Overseas League 1.30pm Price - £10 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) The newest (and youngest) band on the Edinburgh traditional jazz scene deliver high energy New Orleans jazz, bringing the world of the 1920s speakeasy back to life.