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ScotlandsFest: Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe

ScotlandsFest: Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe at St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

The Provocateurs: AI and Economics / Midwife Crones Fight Back

The Provocateurs: AI and Economics / Midwife Crones Fight Back at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

All Star Poetry

Pin-drop silence, riotous laughter, and back-of-the-neck goosebumps are just a few common side effects from our poetry evenings, and it doesn’t get much better…

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh

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Clown Show

Roll up, roll up for theatre-maker Geoff Sobelle’s contemporary portrait of America as a falling-apart circus.Geoff Sobelle and his troupe of clowns have set up…

King's Theatre, Edinburgh

The Provocateurs: Superhero Porn / Hookers for Jesus

The Provocateurs: Superhero Porn / Hookers for Jesus at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

Mahler’s Das klagende Lied

Seize a rare chance to hear Gustav Mahler’s epic cantata Das klagende Lied (The Song of Lamentation).The Edinburgh Festival Chorus performs with a team of first…

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Scottish Comedy Legends: Sanjeev Kohli

Scottish Comedy Legends: Sanjeev Kohli at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

ScotlandsFest: No Scotland No Party!

ScotlandsFest: No Scotland No Party! at St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh

Routes to Roots

Scottish violinist Catriona Price and Argentinian musicians El Guapo present a genre-defying celebration of music making.Catriona Price sold out The Hub in 2023…

The Hub, Edinburgh

Matt Haig: The Midnight Train

Few authors take residence inside a reader’s heart like Matt Haig, who follows up his multi-million copy bestseller The Midnight Library with a new story set in…

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Missouri Williams: The Vivisectors

Missouri Williams’ work holds up a mirror to the many contradictions that make up our humanity.

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Maria Stepanova: The Disappearing Act

Severed from her homeland and language, the exiled writer at the centre of The Disappearing Act has a lot in common with her creator, Maria Stepanova.

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Katy Hessel: How to Live an Artful Life

As modern life pulls our attention in every direction, how can we carve space for our creative lives? Katy Hessel has a few ideas – 365 to be exact.

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The Front List: Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak has published 21 books, including 13 acclaimed novels, and been translated into 58 languages.

McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Sally Hayden & Roxani Krystalli: War and Peace

In This is Also a Love Story, Sally Hayden – Orwell Prize-winning journalist and author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned – offers a staggering account of human kin…

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Django Reinhardt's Hot Club Jazz Meets Scottish Folk

Django Reinhardt's Hot Club Jazz Meets Scottish Folk at The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh

The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh

Sarah Howe, Rachel Long & Sarah Stewart: Lyric Memory

Poetry has the capacity to say what other forms cannot. In Sarah Howe’s Foretokens, for example, the T. S.

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Angelos Epithemiou – Can I Just Show You What I Got

Angelos Epithemiou – Can I Just Show You What I Got at Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh

Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh

Fatima Bhutto & Ayşegül Savaş: Who Am I Now?

Some life events are so all-consuming that they melt you down and remake you anew.

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Sebastian Mallaby & Tim Wu: The Extraction Machine

Tech development continues at an unprecedented rate; how do we ensure it works for the good of humanity, not the enrichment of a few?

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Nu Metal Karaoke

Nu Metal Karaoke at Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh

Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh

Scotland to the World: On Adaptation

Words can create melody, rhythm, even symphonies. Our Scotland to the World series takes this a step further, pairing some of our most notable writers and accla…

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Matthew Hayhow: Bring Out The Gimp

Matthew Hayhow: Bring Out The Gimp at The Parliament Arms, Edinburgh

The Parliament Arms, Edinburgh

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Pavel Haas Quartet

Europe meets the US in a celebration of the string quartet, with music from Dvořák, Korngold and Martinů.The Czech Pavel Haas Quartet bring their characteristic…

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Gaelic Bookbug

Halò a h-uile duine! Join our friends from Scottish Book Trust for Gaelic songs, rhymes and stories in this special Gaelic Bookbug Session.

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The Stray Notes Choir

The Stray Notes Choir at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

How to Write the Future: A Workshop with Saleem Haddad

Join filmmaker and Floodlines author, Saleem Haddad, to explore how, as writers, we can imagine the future in times of turbulence and uncertainty, and how to cr…

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The Provocateurs: Should You Trust Anyone? / 200 Monks, 1 Dead Frog

The Provocateurs: Should You Trust Anyone? / 200 Monks, 1 Dead Frog at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

Tareq Baconi & Saleem Haddad: Fire and Flood

Both Tareq Baconi’s Fire in Every Direction and Saleem Haddad’s Floodlines consider the generational impacts of family myths and global conflicts – the former t…

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Seasonal Quartet: New European Ensemble & Ali Smith

Ali Smith’s evocative Seasonal Quartet novels are brought to life anew in this special collaboration with Netherlands’ New European Ensemble (NEuE).

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

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RÓIS

RÓIS brings her experimental sound to The Hub, blending folk music, ancient Irish rituals and addictive electronic beats.RÓIS (pronounced RAW-sh) is an experime…

The Hub, Edinburgh

Angela Flournoy & Agnes Lidbeck: Love and Politics

We’ve all felt relationships changing shape as they’re buffeted by external winds, but none have written about this quite as beautifully as Angela Flournoy and…

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Pitch It Good – Live

Pitch It Good – Live at Gilded Saloon, Edinburgh

Gilded Saloon, Edinburgh

House of YA x Edinburgh International Book Festival Spiegeltent Takeover

House of YA is back! They’ll be taking over the Spiegeltent again this year with another selection of the hottest titles in Young Adult fiction, all wrapped in…

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Alastair Savage – The Fiddle and Robert Burns

Alastair Savage – The Fiddle and Robert Burns at St Mark's ArtSpace, Edinburgh

St Mark's ArtSpace, Edinburgh

Caledonia Screaming: 50 Years of Punk

Hey! Ho! Let's Go! It’s been 50 years since the first punk gig in Scotland so we’re throwing a suitably anarchic bash to celebrate.

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But Tell It Slant: A Workshop with Katie Goh

Kickstart your creative nonfiction writing project with Katie Goh – writer, editor, and author of Jhalak Prize-shortlisted memoir, Foreign Fruit.

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Mere Mortals

San Francisco Ballet presents a provocative myth for the AI age, in their futuristic retelling of Pandora’s Box.Open Pandora’s Box and come face to face with th…

The Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh

Colin Currie Group plays Steve Reich

The experts in Steve Reich’s minimalist music celebrate more than half a century of his work.Pioneer of minimalism, Steve Reich is a living legend in contempora…

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Showtime – West End Musical Choir

Showtime – West End Musical Choir at Brewhemia, Edinburgh

Brewhemia, Edinburgh

Sekoya

Sekoya at Valvona & Crolla, Edinburgh

Valvona & Crolla, Edinburgh

Chris and Lizzie Hall present: Stay Hydrated Live!

Chris and Lizzie Hall present: Stay Hydrated Live! at Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh

Scots Storytelling with the Scots Language Centre

Bring the bairns alang fir a Scots storytelling session. Abody’s welcome, whither ye ken Scots weel ir ye ir jist lairnin. It’s goin tae be braw!

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Eyal Weizman: Ungrounding

Director of the organisation Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman is a world-leading expert on the relationship between conflict and the built and natural enviro…

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Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us

In an age of global instability and civic decline, what’s gone wrong and what can ordinary people do to bring positive change to the world?

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Fern Brady: High Energy Unpleasant

With her bestselling memoir, Strong Female Character, comedian Fern Brady proved her caustic wit could handle the heaviest themes on the page as well as on stag…

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First Edition: Equator

Start your day with the facts. Equator magazine is dedicated to politics, culture, and art, founded on the conviction of a small group of writers and editors th…

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Writing the Darkness with Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness is a titan of Young Adult literature. Author of modern classic, The Knife of Never Letting Go, he returns to the world of the bestselling Chaos Wal…

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