Lib Dems one year from Scottish Parliament election
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton and Edinburgh Northern candidate, Sanne Dijkstra-Downie, mark one year out from the Scottish Parliament election by visiting a business in Stockbridge, which now falls within the seat of Edinburgh Northern. This seat has undergone significant boundary changes since the last Scottish Parliament election, with the party winning the area covered by the new seat in the 2022 local elections by 29.3% to the SNP’s 25.0%
Scottish Conservatives One Year to Scottish Election
Scottish Conservatives leader, Russell Findlay kick starts the Scottish Election campaign with one year until the polls open.
Summerhall Arts' 2025 Festival Fringe Programme Launch
Summerhall Arts launches the inaugural Summerhall Arts Festival Fringe Programme which includes a programme of performance and visual art this August.
RSA Annual Exhibition 2025
Now in its 199th year, the RSA Annual Exhibition provides a platform for contemporary painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, photography and installation, alongside work by some of the country’s leading architects.
Edinburgh Easter Play
Edinburgh’s Easter Play celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a new production which explores the topic of masculinity. In the company’s most diverse production ever, Scottish-Nigerian actor Michael Ogidi becomes the first person of colour to play the role of Jesus
Russell Findlay calls for affordable net zero transition
Scottish Conservatives leader, Russell Findlay delivers a speech calling for an affordable transition to net zero at the Novotel Hotel in Edinburgh. He also declared the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of women a ‘victory for common sense’.
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
As Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake arrives in Scotland as part of its 30th anniversary tour, Scottish cast members recreate a moment from this iconic dance production in costume at Inverleith Park in Edinburgh.
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