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This is a list of [[Arts festival|arts and cultural festivals]] regularly taking place in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]. |
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== The festivals == |
== The festivals == |
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Revision as of 14:30, 12 May 2018
This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The city has become known for its festivals since the establishment in 1947 of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which runs alongside it. The latter is the largest event of its kind in the world.
The term Edinburgh Festival is commonly heard, but strictly speaking it is a misnomer. There is no single Edinburgh Festival. Typically, when people use the phrase, they are thinking of the largest individual festival, the Fringe. Some may also use it as shorthand for the Edinburgh International Festival. Largely, the usage arises from confusion. The city's festivals are regarded by many visitors as part of the same event, even though they are distinct events put on by different, unrelated organisations. Within the industry, people more correctly refer to the "Edinburgh Festivals" (plural).
The festivals
Listed in chronological order by 2018 start date, with year of foundation in brackets
April
- Dead by Dawn (1993)
- Edinburgh International Science Festival (1988)*
Easter time
- Ceilidh Culture (1951)
May
- Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (formerly the Imaginate Festival) (1990)*
June
- Edinburgh International Film Festival (1947)* [1]
- Edinburgh Annuale (2004)
July
August
- Edinburgh Art Festival (2004)*
- Edinburgh International Festival (1947)*
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe (1947)* [2]
- Edinburgh Free Fringe (1996)
- Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2007)
- Edinburgh Military Tattoo (1950)*
- Just Festival (formerly the Festival of Spirituality and Peace) (2005)
- Edinburgh International Book Festival (1983)*
- Edinburgh Mela (1995)
- Edinburgh International Television Festival (1976)
October
- Africa in Motion (2006)
- Scottish International Storytelling Festival (1990)*
- Festival of Politics (2005)
December
- Edinburgh's Hogmanay (1994)*
Uncertain dates
- Edinburgh People's Festival (2002, but claims heritage from earlier festival of same name 1951–1954)
Defunct festivals
- Edinburgh Interactive Festival (2003)
- Edinburgh International Internet Festival (1999)
- Edinburgh Swing Festival (2006)
- iFest (2007) — the Internet Festival and Conference
- West Port Book Festival (2008) – a free book festival involving secondhand bookshops in the West Port area
Notes and references
- ^ Moving times at EIFF
- ^ Fringe Facts Archived 27 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine. edfringe: Official site of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2005. Accessed 26 June 2005.
External links
- Edinburgh Festival City
- Edinburgh Festivals a guide to the festivals that take place in Edinburgh which are members of Festivals Edinburgh
- EdinburghFestivalGuide.co.uk a comprehensive listing of all (small and large) Edinburgh festivals
- Template:Dmoz
- Edinburgh Festival Guide
- A History of the Edinburgh Festivals
- Edinburgh Festival Classroom resources
- National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE (selection of archive films about the Edinburgh Festival)
