All Events between Fri 14 Aug and Sun 6 Sep

In Juan Cruz's Mensch he evolves a number of interconnected narratives that circulate around the old city of Edinburgh.

Greg Creek's drawings of Edinburgh, city of Enlightenment, encourage a visual journey that maps both place and time, with references to historical, contemporary and fictional events, people and subjects.

In Hark!, singers relate the news of the day, recalling the way information was delivered to people prior to the Enlightenment and mass literacy. 

Letter Writing Project invites viewers to think about communicating with absent friends, family and loved ones by writing the letters they always meant to, but have never had the opportunity or time to do so.

Coley questions belief systems and investigates architectural structures inhabited by and invested with faith.

Digital film of animated clay figures presents a fictional encounter philosophical and theological thinkers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal.

A concert of rarely performed songs by Haydn performed by the exquisite voices of Collegium Vocale Gent accompanied by rising star Kristian Bezuidenhout.

Alexander Broadie, Sir Timothy Clifford, Juliana Engberg and Duncan Macmillan discuss Visual Art and the Enlightenment.

Curator Juliana Engberg in conversation with artists Gabrielle de Vietri, Nathan Coley and Greg Creek, as part of our Conversations with Artists series.

Faith Healer influenced a generation of Irish writing for the theatre and creates a mosaic of narratives that is both seductive and terrifying.

Diaspora is a sweeping, panoramic performance exploring memory, migration, assimilation and the triumph of the human spirit.

Traditional Gaelic song, contemporary music, vintage and modern film, actors, singers and acrobats tell the story of the 'Birdmen' of St Kilda.

An evening with one of the world's best loved singers Sir Willard White, including songsby Ives, Britten, Quilter, well known spirituals and Copland's Old American Songs.

Acclaimed British artist Tacita Dean emphasizes the aspects of quiet devotion, internal contemplation and external dedication that defines this small ecclesiastical community.

Tom Devine, Arthur L Herman and Ong Keng Sen discuss the theme Scotland Exports the Enlightenment.