Edinburgh Festivals

Deadly serious: Edinburgh Comedy Tour revisited

Streets are busy with people but we have nowhere to go. Walking the old route of the first Edinburgh Comedy Tour, Fay Young wonders what kind of city will emerge from lockdown. […]

Just do it: A Wall Is A Screen in Leith

How to create a pop-up, open-air short film festival? Just do it. When darkness falls city streets and blank walls take on a different identity. Is that a threat or a promise? […]

Walking the Walk with LeithLate

“Leith’s great and more people need to know that. Hopefully, by attending LeithLate, they’ll start to love Leith as much as I do.” Edinburgh is not short of festivals but the multi-arts event organised by Morvern Cunningham with The Skinny as media partners is something different. Celebrating creative life in what is now surely the capital’s most interesting street, LeithLate returns for a second year on Thursday 28 June when a night of quirky invention will spread along Leith Walk. […]