Wednesday Sep 1st
Culture & Cuban Revolution
The revolution doesn’t tell you “believe”! It tells you –“read”! Fidel Castro Aida Bahr, a leading figure in Cuban culture, is to speak on Culture and the Cuban Revolution as a guest of the Faculty of Hispanic Studies at Edinburgh University. Ms Bahr is a prize-winning writer of fiction, literary criticism and screen writing, who hails from Cuba. She has been the director of the Oriente Publishing House, based in Santiago de Cuba, since 1998. A member of the National Union of Writers and Artists, she is one of the organisers of the Havana International Book Fair. She also [...]
Thursday Aug 26th
Dance Base in Leith
Edinburgh’s legendary Dance Base is coming to Leith, specifically the Thomas Morton Hall behind Leith library. Dance Base encourages and celebrates the potential for dance in everyone. As Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, they offer a vibrant and uplifting focal point which reaches out and inspires well-being and creativity and cultivates a future for dance in local, national and international communities. Dance Base has been active as an independent company promoting and delivering dance activity in the city of Edinburgh since 1994. The company undertook a major development with the move into new, purpose-built premises in the heart of Edinburgh’s [...]
Wednesday Aug 25th
September Song
EDINBURGH PLAYS HOST TO SCOTLAND’S FIRST EVER SEPTEMBER CONCERT Global Commemoration of 9/11 attracts leading Scottish musical talent With few able to articulate in words the horror of the 9/11 atrocities in New York, the world turned to music to express the inexpressible, and the September Concert phenomenon was born. This year, Scotland will, for the first time, join more than 200 countries in this global day of ‘music for peace’ with a special evening of music, free to the public at the capital’s Festival Theatre. Headlined by acclaimed Scottish choirs, InChorus and the Lothian and Borders Police Choir (absolutely [...]
Review: Dan Antopolski
Turn of the Century: I must admit to having a bit of a crush on Dan Antopolski. Not only have I always had a bit of a soft spot for skinny, somewhat gawky looking boys with a slightly awkward way of carrying themselves, I do like a man who’s in touch with his feminine side. And Antopolski talks about his two young daughters, now, as he informs us, aged five and three, with an attractive combination of tenderness and bewilderment. His descriptions of fatherhood are like a realistic and honestly written parenting manual. With swear words. His 2009 Fringe [...]
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