Festival guide
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Festival GuideMargins Book and Music Festival: Writing Alive
February 2012: Many people are reported to be excited about the Margins Book and Music Festival this month, as the start of this festival approaches Read more »| 22 Feb 2012 -
Festival GuideBe Manipulated
As Manipulate Festival returns to Edinburgh with another innovative array of visual theatre and animation, we talk to programmer Simon Hart about what to expect Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
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Wigtown Book Festival
The Wigtown Book Festival, 23 Sep - 2 Oct, features high-profile authors Max Arthur, Maggie O'Farrell and Alan Bissett among many others Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
Festival GuideFestival Fever: The Latitude Connection
There's theatre in them there tents – looking forward to performance highlights at the summer festivals Read more »| 08 Jul 2011 -
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Merchant City Festival: Fashion
The Merchant City Festival is now in its tenth incarnation, taking over Glasgow’s central square from 21-24 July this summer. The ever increasing popul... Read more »| 02 Jul 2011 -
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Edinburgh International Magic Festival
Artists from all around the world and the UK will perform at MagicFest 2011, including star of BBC show The Real Hustle Paul Wilson. Kevin McMahon, founder a... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011
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Festival GuideComic Book Guy: Glasgow Comic-Con sells out
Before The Skinny could give it the preview it deserves, Glasgow Comic Con has put up the foreclosure on tickets with a big sign “CON tickets are now S... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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Open Season: Refugee Week & West End Festival
Multi-talented and multi-cultural – we welcome the start of the festival season with an overview of the Central Belt's June offerings Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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Festival Column: TweedLove Bike Week
In a national survey in 2005, listeners to BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme voted the bicycle as the most significant invention since the 1800s, miles a... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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Festival Season: A Summer Wasting
Come drizzle or ash cloud, the Scottish music jamboree will not be defeated – here we cast an eye over the highlights on this summer's typically mental festival calendar Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
ReviewsMayfesto: The Irish Connection
Andy Arnold makes good on his promise to include work from across the Celtic nations through the return of Blue Raincoat Company and Fishamble's Forgotten. B... Read more »| 21 May 2011 -
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Mayfesto: It's a Dead Liberty and Everything Between Us
If we want to rescue politics from the political classes, go to the theatre Read more »| 21 May 2011 -
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Mayfesto: A New Theatre Festival for Glasgow
As Mayfesto returns for a second year, our Theatre editor takes a closer look at their programme of politically-inspired performance Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
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Beltane Festival 2011
Although it has now become associated with a cod-paganism – with fundamentalist Christians worrying at the foot of Carlton Hill about satanism and the ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
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Some Standouts at StAnza
Want to learn more about poetry in one fell swoop? Fancy a trip to St Andrews? Read on... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011