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Founded in 2001, this vibrant company of black and Asian dancers aims to promote diversity, exploring themes of identity and ...
Ballet BC, Canada’s leading contemporary dance company from British Columbia, aims to create dance at its most essential: ...
John Henry Newman was a Church of England priest who in 1845 converted to Roman Catholicism. For the last forty years of his life he lived at the Oratory he had built in Birmingham. During this time, ...
Edinburgh's Princes Street, in the New Town, is one of the most prominent streets and the main shopping thoroughfare in the Scottish capital. The famous gardens that run alongside Princes Street is ...
Passengers will be riding the 3-mile Edinburgh Trams extension to Newhaven starting at noon on Wednesday, 7 June, it was announced today. The tram will take 22 minutes between Newhaven and Princes ...
The Union Canal, which opened 200 years ago this month, is the inspiration for a series of commissions at this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. The festival unveiled its programme yesterday with some ...
There’s just over a month to go before the start of the “rebooted” Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024. There are only 37 new feature-length films, whereas the pre-pandemic Edinburgh Film ...
Thomas Søndergård, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's Music Director is working through Mahler's symphonies. Mahler's Ninth is the last the composer was to complete. It was the only work to be ...
Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme of The Truth We Seek is a timely one. EIF Director Nicola Benedetti calls it ...
“The first fall of snow is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another, quite different. If this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” Such an enchanting ...
Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja last performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 1983. The Orchestra's Music Director, Thomas Søndergård, when telling us he was a mere young tympanist in the ...
Dawn Sievewright (Rose-Lynn ), Blythe Duff (Marion), Janet Kumah (Susannah), Louise McCarthy (Jackie), Alfie Campbell (Lyle), Lily Ferguson (Wynonna). Ensemble cast for other cameo characters, singers ...