Media Releases
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22 March 2024
48th ST MAGNUS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Friday 21 June to Saturday 29 June 2024
An unusual venue - a 50ft life-size sperm whale – runes, tunes and Scandic connections cast a spell over Orkney this summer.
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18 March 2024
Perth Festival of the Arts returns with a celebration of art and culture from 22 May to 1 June and on Saturday 8 June 2024
In its 52nd year, Perth Festival of the Arts returns on 22 May to 1 June and on 8 June, bringing a vibrant and diverse programme showcasing world-class talent from Arts and Culture. This 12-day celebration of the arts will see artists and performers from across the globe arrive at the Gateway to the Highlands.
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14 March 2024
Belfast Ensemble & Ulster Orchestra
The Ulster Orchestra and the award-winning Belfast Ensemble join forces for one night in the city’s Ulster Hall to premiere Conor Mitchell’s Riot Symphony.
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7 March 2024
Cat Power, Jordan Rakei, Chilly Gonzales, Bat for Lashes and more announced for Edinburgh International Festival 2024
From 2-25 August 2024, Edinburgh International Festival becomes a hub of international and local talent in the world’s Festival City, presenting a hand-picked programme of world class opera, dance, music and theatre.
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1 March 2024
Full Cast Announced for new stage adaptation of Sunset Song, touring Scotland this Spring
Dundee Rep Theatre, in co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, have revealed the full ensemble cast that will star in their thrilling new adaptation of Sunset Song, which will tour stages across Scotland this Spring.
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27 February 2024
Guidebooks written by children for adults: award-winning artists Andy Field and Beckie Darlington launch the next instalments in their renowned Book of Your Town series, now featuring Crawley and Thetford
Part creative imaginings and part actual guide, The Book of Your Town is a series of guidebooks to a town or a city created by up to 250 local school children aged between 8 and 11. Written and edited by children, the book allows readers to experience a town or city through the eyes of that place’s youngest inhabitants.
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15 November 2023
Scottish Ensemble announce Concerts by Candlelight taking place across Scotland this December
Scottish Ensemble bring moments of stillness and contemplation amidst the slight chaos of the festive season with music to warm your soul as they perform their annual Concerts by Candlelight across Scotland.
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13 November 2023
Scottish Ensemble presents the first of two specially-commissioned performance films with Glasgow production company Forest of Black: Anna Meredith’s “Tull”
The musical score comes alive when a forest of pink plinths – each with their own independent character – grows homogeneously in response to the music. Scottish Ensemble musicians – as if museum objects on display – balance precariously on top, whilst performing Anna Meredith’s gripping piece with laser focus.
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13 November 2023
Daisy Dickinson commission kicks off two-year partnership between The Glasshouse International Centre for Music (formerly Sage Gateshead) and international arts commissioner Mediale
On Tuesday 14th November 2023 London-based director/visual artist Daisy Dickinson will be unveiling Three Hundred and Thirty Three: Part One, the first of a triptych of films set in and around the ancient sites and nature of the north east of England, co-commissioned by Mediale and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, and developed and co-produced by From The Other.
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7 November 2023
St. Joseph’s Academy students set to wow with professionally performed compositions in collaboration with The Cumnock Tryst
Pupils in the Higher and Advanced Higher Music classes at Kilmarnock’s St. Joseph’s Academy are being given the chance to hear their original compositions performed by a professional ensemble in a public concert in their school.