RSA New Contemporaries 2025
Now in its 16th year, RSA New Contemporaries 2025 showcases the work by 63 graduates selected from the 2024 Scottish undergraduate degree shows. Exhibition prizes worth a total value of over £25,000 are on offer, including the £15,000 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize, supported by William Grant and Sons
Red Carpet: Wild Rose
Wild Rose is the world premiere staging of the award-winning film of the same name. The production at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh is written by Nicole Taylor and directed by John Tiffany
RSA New Contemporaries Installation
The seven day long installation of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries exhibition has begun. The exhibition will feature 63 graduates selected from the 2024 degree shows of the Scottish Art colleges and schools.
The Scottish Colourists - Radical Perspectives
A bold use of colour is at the forefront of the colourist movement and this curated display of artworks, showcased within the stunning Victorian vaulted ceiling of Dovecot Studios. The exhibition is supported by a series of displays on the Dovecot Balcony Gallery of contemporary Scottish artists working with colour in creative and challenging ways in media including watercolour, acrylic, oil, wood and textile
Patterns of the Past
Ammna Sheikh is a British/Pakistani artist whose practice celebrates the richness of her Pakistani cultural heritage. Her solo exhibition, Patterns of the Past at the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh, explores the handmade, generational techniques and histories that have been carefully passed down in her family over the past 70 years
In Orcadia
The Royal Scottish Academy presents In Orcadia, an exhibition of artwork inspired by Orkney's landscape and natural environment. The exhibition includes a new body of work from Samantha Clark, the inaugural winner of the RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting. The exhibition runs from 25 January to 2 March at RSA Galleries on The Mound in Edinburgh.
Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany
The Royal Scottish Academy presents Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany, an exhibition inspired by the extensive studio gift left to the Academy by the family of sculptor Benno Schotz RSA (1891-1984). It highlights international artists and Academicians who have chosen to make Scotland their home
Scottish Conservatives Visit Distillery
Scottish Conservative leader, Russell Findlay and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Andrew Bowie visit the Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky Experience.
Assembly Hall
Combining Arthurian cosplay and contemporary dance, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young present their new dance work, Assembly Hall at the Festival Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival
The Marriage of Figaro
Komische Oper Berlin’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro has its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival
Nigamon/Tunai
Nigamon/Tunai, a new dance/theatre work by Indigenous artists, Émilie Monnet, from Canada, and Waira Nina, from the Colombian Amazon . The UK Premiere takes place as part of the Edinburgh International Festival
Ilumina
São Paulo-based collective Ilumina, founded by violist Jennifer Stumm to unite leading soloists with rising talent from Latin America explore movement, rhythm and non-classical forms in their Beanbag Concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival
All Talk Cross Question Live
The All Talk series of interviews at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival concludes with Cross Question Live hosted by the guest presenter, Matthew Stadlen
Red Arrows over Edinburgh
The Red Arrows fly over Edinburgh Castle at the start of a performance of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
All Talk with Jess Phillips MP
The penultimate in the All Talk series of interviews at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the guest presenter, Matthew Stadlen, who is interviewing the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips MP
All Talk with Crick, Curtice and Taylor
The All Talk series of interviews at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival features the guest presenter, Matthew Stadlen who is interviewing Sir John Curtice, Brian Taylor & Michael Crick
EIBF - Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley, journalist who has recently released a new book, Vulture Capitalism, and takes part in a talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
EIBF - Julian Clary & Harry Woodgate
The Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from 10 - 25 August 2024 at its new home, Edinburgh Futures Institute. Harry Woodgate (winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year at the Book Awards) and actor and comedian, Julian Clary before Woodgate illustrated scenes from their astonishing adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic children’s story, The Happy Prince. Accompanied by a live, performed reading from Julian Clary
Iain Dale All Talk with Miriam Margolyes
At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the All Talk series of interviews features the guest presenter, Matthew Stadlen who is interviewing the British-Australian actress Miriam Margolyes OBE
All Talk with Humza Yousaf
The All Talk series of interviews at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival features the guest presenter, Matthew Stadlen, who is joined by former First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf