The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has started selling tickets to this year’s event through their own website. Previously, however, Edinburgh’s festival has refused to sell tickets prior to confirmation of the full program line-up, so as not to favour certain productions. Recently, this has been altered as venues began selling ticket through their own outlets. Neil Mackinnon, the Fringe’s [...]
The Botanic Gardens have today unveiled a new festival focusing on pinhole photography. The event is scheduled to run for two weeks, and is designed to be accessible to both professional and amateur photographers, as well as interested members of the public. Kenny Bean organised the exhibit and has been working as a photographer for [...]
Today Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens starts hosting the Pinhole Photography Festival. It’s the first festival of its kind in Edinburgh and celebrates the art of photography without using a lens. The simple technique works with a tiny hole in the camera, which replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in [...]
The Leith festival looks set to face a dramatic downsize due to public funding cuts. One of Edinburgh’s largest and most renowned festivals, it is likely to lose many of its benefactors, includingEdinburghCity Council. The event relies heavily on public and charitable funds, which are diminishing at an alarming rate. Edinburgh City Council is just [...]
This weekend sees the launch of ‘Fiddle 2011′ in Edinburgh city centre. Boasting traditional music, lively ceilidhs and world class performers the Scots fiddle festival promises to be an action packed, fun filled event for all the family. Listen here: Tickets for ‘Fiddle 2011′ are available from the Queen’s Hall Box Office on 0131 668 [...]
by Jane Bretin Scotland is inaugurating its first silent film festival in Falkirk today. The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema is set to last three days, from Friday to Sunday and will feature a number of all time classics as well as less famous movies. The festival includes the screening of a dozen films to [...]
By Richard Morgan Nearly a month after the close of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival, the figures are in, and, once again, records have been broken. However, this was not the case for all tourist attractions. Figures released, which claimed that two million tickets had been sold, a 5% rise from 2009, blasted critics who suggested that [...]
by Kirstyn Smith The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is due to close this Sunday after receiving a £4.5 million grant to go towards a long-awaited restoration. The financial aid, awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will help the gallery’s planned revamp which will cost, in total, approximately £17.6 million and follows a donation of £5.1 million from the [...]
By Sarah Mackinnon Polish culture is set to claim its own place among the throng of cultural celebration which Edinburgh has to offer . It has been announced that a Polish Cultural festival will take place for the first time on the 20th to the 26th April this year. The Spring programme is packed full [...]
If you think you could use a good laugh or some relaxation after the miserable start to this year, then Glasgow is the place to be for festival fun this March, boasting both comedy and literature events in the coming weeks. The Bank of Scotland Aye Write book festival launched this weekend and will continue until the 14th, while Magners Glasgow International [...]
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