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Fergus Linehan retweeted
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Fergus Linehan as our next CEO. An internationally respected arts leader, Fergus is known for leading the Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Festival, Vivid Live at the Sydney Opera House. He starts on the 1 June 2023.
Delighted to hand over the Festival Director mantle to Nicola Benedetti after this year's season. What an inspired appointment by the festival's trustees!
More here: eif.buzz/3vtevTf
710 days ago we closed the 2019 Festival. Tonight, almost two years later, audiences & artists are back together as we launch the 2021 season. We will always be grateful to those whose creativity, hard work & encouragement got us back onstage. Thank you.
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Thanks to the artists, supporters and our amazing festival team for giving us a 2021 Edinburgh International Festival programme. Live and streamed performances @edintfest 7 - 29 August Full details eif.co.uk xitter.cf/i/status/1400015998946…
The 2021 Edinburgh International Festival programme is here 🎉
Welcome back to live performance, welcome back to your Festival. Discover our artists & performances now: eif.buzz/2naxNr4
Tickets on sale from 11 June & we’ll see you live, outdoors & online this August!
Fergus Linehan retweeted
So thrilled our short film has been selected for @CSIFFILM1 in South Carolina 🤩
Excited to announce #shirleyandjane was just selected by Cinema Sisters International Film Festival 🙌💪🏆
Mogwai have been good to us round @edintfest Atomic at The Playhouse, Deep Time Opening Event in 2016 and blistering shows @LeithTheatre for Light on the Shore. Brilliant news here. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
Looking forward to @manipulatefest under the new directorship of @dawn_rebecca manipulatefestival.org/whats…
Please spread the news about this project that @edintfest is working on with @theskinnymag to support and promote new writing about the performing arts.
📯 OPPORTUNITY ALERT 📯
We've teamed up with @Edintfest for a new longform writing series centred around the arts in Scotland
We're looking for pitches from Scotland-based early career writers on theatre, music, performance + dance
DETAILS HERE: theskinny.co.uk/art/features… [1/6]
Didn't realise Other Music had shut down. 😢 Spent obscene amounts of money there through the 00s. youtube.com/watch?v=YsAL994y…
Fergus Linehan retweeted
We're delighted that our performance of Götterdämmerung with Sir Andrew Davis and @RSNO from the 2019 International Festival has been nominated for this year's Classical Music Award at the South Bank #SkyArts Awards 🎉
📷 Ryan Buchanan
ALT A conductor wearing a tux reaches down to shake the hand of an orchestra's first violinist. The orchestra stands behind them holding their instruments and looking out into the audience.
ALT The Royal Scottish National Orchestra perform on stage at the Usher Hall alongside a conductor and two soloists, as an audience looks on.
Tonight at 8pm join us for the premiere of 'Lament for Sheku Bayoh' by @HanLavery
@NTSonline @lyceumtheatre @edintfest
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Huge congrats to the brother @hlinehan on Inside Politics winning Best Podcast at #journoawards2020
Congrats to @irishtimesaudio Inside Politics - announced by our own @hannah_lou as the Best Podcast at the #journoawards2020
👏 @hlinehan @DecConlon @shoesanne @JR_JennyR @PatLeahyIT & all involved
Fergus Linehan retweeted
PUSH THE BOAT OUT is a new festival launched today - Norman MacCaig's bday - by @jennyniv & myself. Edinburgh's 1st ever bespoke International Poetry Festival to be held over 4 days at @summerhall in Oct 2021. Details follow @PTBOpoetry & our new website: pushtheboatout.org/
What a delight to wake up to a fully formed and beautifully curated festival programme. Thanks and congratulations to all @sydney_festival sydneyfestival.org.au/explor…
Fergus Linehan retweeted
#LorneP1 had an amazing time creating their own dances to help learn about counting amounts! Thank you @edinfest for our amazing new resource! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #LorneStage
So sorry to hear of the death of Toots Hibbert. Toots and the Maytals were due to perform @LeithTheatre as part of the final weekend of our festival this year. R.I.P. theguardian.com/music/2020/s…
Great discussion here right now Artists in the Age of Covid @edintfest @CultureSummit youtube.com/watch?v=QM1ycB4H…