Media Releases
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24 July 2024
Dublin Theatre Festival reveals its 2024 programme
Featuring Forced Entertainment, Druid, THISISPOPBABY, Enda Walsh, Beckett, Irish National Opera, Fishamble, Benji Reid and many others, in an ambitious line-up inviting audiences to share a live, collective experience at one of Europe’s leading contemporary arts festivals.
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11 July 2024
Edinburgh International Book Festival celebrates 200 years of seminal Scottish novel with Justified Sinner 200
From an original score composed by Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and narration by iconic author Louise Welsh, to a pop-up choir and state of the art app that transforms the streets of Edinburgh into an interactive story, Justified Sinner 200 is a groundbreaking series of multidisciplinary events taking place as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024.
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10 July 2024
Edinburgh International Film Festival launches 2024 programme
This year’s Festival programme features musical odysseys, dystopian worlds, laughter in the face of darkness, vivid portraits of characters from the fringes of society and reimagined inner and outer spaces. It showcases new work from filmmakers from the UK, US, Canada, Mexico, Norway, China, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Iran and beyond.
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10 July 2024
Edinburgh International Film Festival launches 2024 programme – New Photos
The relaunched EIFF runs from Thursday 15 August to Wednesday 21 August
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10 July 2024
Scotland’s premier new work theatre launches Autumn 2024 season.
As we prepare to dive into the joy and excitement of TravFest24, we wanted to take some time to look ahead to our Autumn season.
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10 July 2024
Edinburgh International Festival announces a new annual youth exchange programme with this year’s project inspired by the World Premiere of The Outrun, based on Amy Liptrot’s best-selling book
Edinburgh International Festival devised a new exchange programme for young creatives to connect young people from Edinburgh with peers from another national or international location.
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4 July 2024
Street soccer hit Same team returns for extra time at travfest24
Back for extra time after a critically-acclaimed premiere run in December 2023, Same Team, by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse, created with Street Soccer’s Women Players, makes its way back into Traverse 1 this August ready to thrill and delight audiences all over again.
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26 June 2024
The Glasshouse introduces the Music Pass initiative, bringing the joy of music to every newborn in the North East
Imagine introducing your little one to the joy of live music from the very start. That’s exactly what you can do with the new Music Pass, announced by The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
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26 June 2024
One of the world’s oldest celebrations of contemporary classical music and sound, Nordic Music Days takes place in Scotland for the first time in its 136-year history.
One of the world's longest running festivals for contemporary classical music, established in 1888 by the NKR (Council of Nordic Composers), Nordic Music Days takes place outwith the Nordic countries for only the third time in 136 years.
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24 June 2024
Edinburgh International Film Festival and We Are Parable announce Special Partnership screening of Black Bear’s transformative new film Sing Sing from director Greg Kwedar and starring Colman Domingo
Based on a remarkable true story, the highly acclaimed drama will have its European premiere on Friday 16 August at the festival