New Commission
7 - 26 Aug
In Juan Cruz's Mensch he evolves a number of interconnected narratives that circulate around the old city of Edinburgh.
New Commission
7 - 27 Aug
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.
7 - 27 Aug
In Hark!, singers relate the news of the day, recalling the way information was delivered to people prior to the Enlightenment and mass literacy.
New Commission
7 - 27 Aug
Children have been asked to answer some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning art and aesthetics in an engagingly honest video response.
7 - 27 Aug
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.
New Commission
7 - 27 Aug
Coley questions belief systems and investigates architectural structures inhabited by and invested with faith.
7 - 27 Aug
Digital film of animated clay figures presents a fictional encounter philosophical and theological thinkers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal.
The Opening Concert
14 Aug
Handel's Judas Maccabaeus has a star line up of soloists and promises to open the Festival in style.
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