Transcript Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh
Music & Art
Edinburgh celebrates art
and music every year, it is
the city of festivals that
are known all over the
world.
Attracting over one
million overseas visitors a
year, Edinburgh is the
second most popular
tourist destination in the
UK.
Edinburgh
Festival
which is a series of separate events
running from the end of July until
early September each year.
Some of the events are:
 Edinburgh International Festival
 Edinburgh Art Festival
 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Which are a very short list among
the very varied shows containing
music, film, theatre, book, tattoo,
science, fashion etc.
Edinburgh International
Festival
is a festival of performing arts, over three weeks from around
the middle of August.
The International Festival brings top class performers of music
(especially classical music), theatre, opera and dance from
around the world to perform.
The festival also hosts a series of visual art exhibitions, talks and
workshops.
Most interesting events that
are about to come in 2013:
 Leonardo da Vinci: The
Mechanics of Man - explores
the artist’s groundbreaking
work in anatomy.
 Media Skins – „try to absorb a
proliferation of LED images.”
 Fidelio - Beethoven’s only
opera is a cry of defiance
against oppression and an ode
to liberty and truth.
Edinburgh Art Festival
Scotland's largest annual
festival of visual art,
showcasing the best
contemporary art in the
context of some of the most
important artists and
movements of modern and
historical periods.
2013 exhibitions
Edinburgh Printmakers
Rachel Maclean: I HEART SCOTLAND
Maclean explores Scotland’s romantic past
through the lens of contemporary political
debate.
Bourne Fine Art
The Scottishness of Art over Two Centuries
In ten works, this exhibition concisely
explores the competing romanticism,
rationalism and realism of Scottish art from
1750 – 1970.
Edinburgh
Jazz & Blues
Festival
Edinburgh Jazz Festival was set up in 1978 by banjoplayer and guitarist, Mike Hart. Mike's initial focus was
on traditional jazz and a host of events taking place for
free admission in pubs.
By the mid-80's the Festival added ticketed events, and
broadened its musical policy to swing and mainstream
jazz and occasionally some more modern groups.
For 2013 expect some Glenn Miller classic, as everything from big band
favourites to skiffle, ragtime and freeform jazz. All on the menu at over 100
shows in a festival that just keeps growing.
Regular highlights of the festival programme
include Mardi Gras in the Grassmarket,
where many of Edinburgh oldest and best pubs
can be found and show off their stuff
for free in the sun.
Previous years have seen
the legendary BB King
in the capital.
EDINBURGH
Literatur
Included below are Literary, music & theatre museums, such as The
Writers´ Museum in City of Edinburgh. Unique and rare collections of
books, music, scripts, stamp collections, sacred texts and map-making
can be discovered at the Literary museums. At the Music & theatre
museums you will gain an insight into the performing arts through
pictures, costumes and memorabilia from some stars of the stage and
silver screen.
Edinburgh is full of great literary
organizations where people in the
city can get involved with words.
The National Library of Scotland
recently underwent a major
redevelopment to make it more
accessible to the public, and the
Writers' Museum showcases
three of the country's finest
writers: both are free and open to
the public.
In the growing Literature Quarter
on the Royal Mile nestles the
Scottish Storytelling Centre, home
to a brand-new theatre and bright
cafe as well as creative exhibitions
and events, and the Scottish Book
Trust, our national agency
supporting readers and writers.
Further down the hill sits the
Scottish Poetry Library, the light
and welcoming home to a vast
selection of poetry books and
pamphlets, which regularly brings
in poets for evening events.
This is the place to find out exactly what makes
Edinburgh such a literary capital. Read about
Edinburgh's contribution to the world of books;
find out about the tours that run through the
city; check out the bookshops - chains,
independent and antiquarian. Have a look at our
interactive map, featuring just a few of
Edinburgh's literary landmarks: use it as a
starting point for your own journey around our
city.
Scotland's publishing industry is thriving, and
Publishing Scotland, based in Edinburgh, has
information for publishers and writers as well as
housing BooksfromScotland.com, Scotland's
online bookshop and literary resource. If you are
in Edinburgh, you can borrow books at any one
of the 26 lending libraries, part of a network of
140 library and information services that are
housed in the city.
The original Edinburgh
Literary Pub Tour.
The award winning Edinburgh Literary
Pub Tour was the first literary tour
launched in Edinburgh in 1996! Since
then it has carried in excess of 150,000
satisfied customers on a dramatic literary
trail across Edinburgh. It is regarded by
many as a pioneer in its field, and a
"Must-see" cultural attraction in guide
books throughout the world. Why does it
stand out from all the rest? Performed by
professional actors, not academics or
guides reciting from books, it represents
great value for money and a very high
entertainment factor! Edinburgh is the
world's first UNESCO City of Literature,
pioneer in an international network of
UNESCO Creative Cities. This title bestows
international recognition on Edinburgh
and Scotland as a world centre for
literature and literary activity, a city
brimming with fantastic libraries,
bookshops and authors, and packed with
places of literary significance.
Join the intrepid duo, Clart (as in muck!) and our cleanhankied intellectual McBrain, who will lead you on a
brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds,
courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh's Old and New Town.
A hilarious duel of wits across three hundred years of
great writing and colourful characters!