🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 16-22 August 2023
The insider's guide to finding festival shows and navigating reviews without the stress, how to write a funding application + this week's local creative industry jobs and opportunities
Welcome to the Culture Minute, Edinburgh’s weekly round up of local arts happenings. We’re into the second half of festival month. There are 12 days of Fringe shows left. At the end of this newsletter you’ll also find local creative sector jobs and opportunities.
📆 Let’s quickly take stock of this month’s ongoing festivals and when they’re on until. Each link takes you to their event listings.
🎤 Fringe: ongoing, runs until 28 August.
đź“š Book Festival: ongoing, runs until 28 August.
🎨 Art Festival: ongoing, runs to 27 August.
🎞 Film Festival: starts Friday 18th, runs to Wednesday 23rd August.
⮑ As part of the EIFF, Cinema Under The Stars is on this weekend at the Old College Quad. Highlights include Everything Everywhere All at Once, Parasite, Puss in Boots and The Lego Movie. - See the full line-up and get tickets here.
📙 There’s also the Book Fringe, organised by three local independent bookshops, running until 28 August.
📖 Two in-depth articles in this week’s Art Mag compare the new directions taken by Edinburgh’s Art Festival and the International Festival. - By Susan Mansfield, Art Mag (page 49 onwards).
đź‘€ Lots of us are still seeking out recommendations for shows. Here are the show reviews from reliable local sources, followed by your weekly round-up of non-festival related local events.
