Media Releases
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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.
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5 November 2023
The Glasshouse turns Russian opera into Geordie Christmas classic for the Fenwick festive window
For the second year in a row, Britain’s largest family-owned department store Fenwick has turned to The Glasshouse International Centre for Music to provide the soundtrack for its iconic festive window which this year depicts The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
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2 November 2023
Hertfordshire Film Festival returns in 2025
Hertfordshire Film Festival is back on the big screen! The Festival returns in April 2025 to provide an unmissable opportunity for young filmmakers to create and showcase their work at Watford Palace Theatre.
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31 October 2023
Edinburgh Science to collaborate with Getty on PST ART: Art & Science Collide, largest ever arts project in the U.S.
Edinburgh Science, education charity renowned for its education and climate work and the annual Science Festival, is delighted to announce its new partnership with Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Southern California’s landmark art event with more than 60 exhibitions at museums and scientific institutions across the region, all exploring the intersection of art and science.