DOCSLIB.ORG

Spring/Summer Events 2013

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA Spring/Summer Events 2013 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9EW tel: 0131-668 2232 fax: 0131-668 2777 [email protected] www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it Special Event / Evento Speciale Frame logo Saturday 27 April – Sunday 21 July 2013 Stills, Scotland Centre of Photography 23 Cockburn Street, Developed in partnership with The Italian Cultural Institute and Links logo Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Second Sight is part of a three-year cycle of projects entitled Image/Identity, focusing on the phenomenon of human migration. Conceived to reflect the growing trend of migration both as a differentiated and as an integrated part of everyday life, the project will consider how contemporary society is shaped by the migration of peoples, what they are drawn to and what they leave behind. The first in the series, Second Sight, will explore the transformation of the lives of people from rural Italy who, after 1940, emigrated to urban communities throughout Europe. Historical and contemporary photography, film screenings, online archives and events will illuminate the nuances of our international cultural heritage, question the cultural stereotypes we take for granted, and build up an understanding of the plurality of experiences and identities which make up Scotland’s people today. For more information please see: www.stills.org New Arts Sponsorship Grants supported by the Scottish Government in conjunction with... Left: Quotidiana by Valentina Bonizzi, cinematography by Seamus McGarvey 3 Second Sight Exhibition Second Sight Online Archive Second Sight Exhibition Second Sight Online Archive: Scotland & Migration A specially designed online archive of photographs documenting migration to Scotland. This website celebrates the cultural diversity of people living in Scotland by sharing photographs of experiences of migration into the country. Second Sight invites people to bring their historical and contemporary photographs to be scanned and uploaded onto theFrame logo Robert Capa (1913-54) website to create the first Girl with Suitcase image-based archive of Near Venafro, 1943. migration to Scotland. The site will enable people to search by key words associated with In Stills' main gallery, photographs by Frank Monaco (USA 1917- migration: Preparation, Departure, Journey, Arrival, Acclimatization, 2007) and Robert Capa (Hungary, 1913-54) capture moments of Integration, Return. refuge, upheaval and separation in Italy during and after WWII, while Links logo works by Adrian Paci (Albania 1969) and Fausto Colavecchia (Italy We invite people to come to Stills individually or in groups, and to 1959), address the leap of faith made by labour-motivated migrants. join us in a creative session to tell through your photographs stories of travel and new lives. Filmed in Scotland, France and central Italy, newly commissioned video works by Agapito Di Pilla (Italy 1972), Valentina Bonizzi (Italy The sessions will take place in our comfortable reception space and last about a half an hour depending on how many images you share with us. Please join 1982) and Maria Thereza Alves (Brazil 1960) explore how people us on Saturday 11 May, Saturday 22 June or Sunday 14 July, where we will be sustain family and employment relationships in different countries recording stories and scanning photographs from 11am-4pm. The team will be for prolonged periods of time and offer insight into the complexity happy to provide a tour of the Second Sight exhibition during your visit. of our feelings towards the places we come from and return to. Contact us at [email protected] www.stills.org/current-group Open every day at Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh. www.stils.org Stills would like to thank Tony Macaroni and Arts and Business Scotland New Arts Sponsorship Grants for their funding and partnership in producing Second Sight. 4 5 Second Sight Events Second Sight Events Discussion & Film chart their journey of discovery examines the motivations and Screening: Europa and creative process. Joe circumstances which stimulated our First Migrant Gallagher, director of Europa migration to Scotland during our First Migrant, will read the late 19th century and Thursday 9 May, 5.30pm excerpts from the play. question some of the cultural Italian Cultural Institute, 82 stereotypes that have become Followed by screening of Nicolson Street, Edinburgh established. Followed by Q+A Women of Molise, 7.15pm of York) will discuss UK and discussion. Director Agapito Di Pilla will immigration policy and the introduce and screen his treatment of migrant groups film (60 mins) which follows Film screening: from 1905-45, the impact of the photographic journey of SOS Arandora Star the sinking of the Arandora photographer Frank Monaco Tuesday 14 May, 12.30-2pm Star in motivating migration in 1950 through rural Italy to Italian Cultural Institute, 82 from Scotland and secondary migration after WWII of Playwright Maggie Rose and document the lives of women Nicolson Street, Edinburgh immigrants already settled in author Salvatore Cabras will affected by migration. Followed Director Anna Chiappa (Canada) Scotland. Followed by Q+A explore the original meaning by Q+A and discussion. (See p4) will introduce her film SOS and discussion. of the term ‘Europa/Europe’. Arandora Star. Followed by Discussion & Along this path they revisit screening, Q+A and discussion. the Greek myth of ‘The Rape Presentations: Migrant Film Lounge of Europa’ and its symbolic Pathways: Historical Presentations and Stills, Scotland Centre of implications. The figure of Photography, 23 Cockburn diversity in the Italian Panel Discussion: Alien Europa appears in statuettes, Street, Edinburgh experience Policies & the Italian bas-reliefs, frescos, mosaics, Friday 10 May, 6pm 27 Apr 2013 – 21 Jul 2013 vases, paintings, coins, and Experience during WWII Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Throughout May, June and July, everyday items. It is certainly Tuesday 14 May, 2-5pm Italian Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Film Lounge will screen a varied among the most frequent Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson programme of films by artist- subjects represented artistically Presentations by Rosanna Street, Edinburgh through the ages. Their research Carnevale (publisher, Cosmo directors including Adrian Paci, outcomes are a brand-new play, lannone) and writer Nicoletta Speakers: Dr. Wendy Ugolini Agapito Di Pilla, Andrea Segre, Europa, our First Migrant (see Franchi (author, La Via (University of Edinburgh), John Huston, Harun Farocki p17) and an exhibition. The talk, della Scozia, published by Anna Chiappa (Canada), Ron and others. accompanied by images, will Fondazione Paolo Cresci) which McQuaid (Napier University) For more information please see and Ignazio Cabras (University [email protected] 6 7 Exhibition / Mostra Exhibition / Mostra Craig Coulthard and Elaine Shemilt 29 April - 24 May 2013 Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh The Institute is delighted to present an exhibition of works by Elaine Shemilt and Craig Coulthard which will compliment the themes of the exhibitions by Valentina Bonizzi at the National Portrait Gallery, and Second Sight at Stills Gallery. The images in the series Anagrafe and The lives in Between lead us through the birth, marriage and death archives of the communities of The lives in between Picinisco and Filignano, in Central Italy where for more than one hundred and fifty years, these ‘anagrafe’ records scrupulously list the Elaine Shemilt, gradual change in population and its diaspora throughout the world. Per la Fiducia, a set of four ceramic plates, is inspired by remnants of the ‘pavimento’ floor in the church of San Michele, San Pietro Infine, Italy. Perched uneasily on the remains of a bombarded hilltop, the shell of the church is a seventy-year-old monument to the fifteen days of Allied and German bombing during December 1943 which ended the life of the village and caused its people to emigrate to new beginnings. www.nationalgalleries.org New Arts Sponsorship Grants supported by the Criag Coulthard, Per San Pietro www.stills.org Scottish Government in conjunction with... 8 9 Music / Musica Literature / Letteratura Antonio Forcione, Sketches of Africa Fifth Annual St Andrews Book Conference International Exchange in the European Book World Saturday 18 May, 8pm, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh 20-22 June 2013 Antonio Forcione is an award- New Seminar Room, St John’s House, St Andrews University winning acoustic guitarist, multi- instrumentalist, composer and The history of the book has been artist of great talent. He breaks built on the solid foundations the mould of most conventional of national, local and individual guitar sounds, in the fields of studies of printers, publishers and jazz, Spanish, African, Brazilian publishing networks. While this or improvised music. makes good sense from a practical His albums have consistently and logistical point of view, it risks topped UK and international obscuring the essential fact that the jazz charts and worldwide he production and sale of books was, has shared the stage with some of the world’s most accomplished from the early days of print, a trans-national and international trade. musicians, including Martin Taylor, Trilok Gurtu, Andy Sheppard, Books and texts moved effortlessly across national boundaries. The Soweto Gospel Choir, Sarah Jane Morris and many more. building of a library, and the economics of the industry, depended on the efficient functioning of an international market, and He has also recorded a
Recommended publications
  • Edinburgh Festival News Snippets 2012-2013

    Edinburgh Festival News Snippets 2012-2013

    Home Festival History News Pre-Festival Stuff Festival Time Newbie? Witterings Links Site Map News Snippets - August 2012 to August 2013 2011-2012 | 2010- 2011 | 2009-2010 Edinburgh International Festival 2013 statistics posted September 2nd, 2013. updated September 3rd, 2013. Edinburghguide.com provides the released figures for the 2013 festival. In essence, the number of tickets issued rose from 141,544 in 2012 to 158,500 this year. However, box office income was down from £2.83m in 2012 to £2.43m. It is claimed that a greater number of free and discounted tickets account for these changes. The EIF states that 80% of all tickets were "sold" with 48% of performances being sold out. A later article appeared in The Stage. Venue news from Summerhall, Assembly Roxy & Traverse posted August 30th, 2013. The Herald has been reporting over the last couple of days that the company which runs the Summerhall venue is currently being pursued by HMRC for unpaid income tax and VAT amounting to around £200K. Thom Dibdin mentions that Assembly Roxy is to receive a grant of £30K from Creative Scotland to help it to turn the venue into a permanent 200 seater theatre. He also relays the statement made by Orla O'Loughlin on the BBC's programme to celebrate 50 years of the Traverse that they are considering a new home. The programme can be found on the BBC's iPlayer. Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 statistics posted August 27th, 2013. The 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe finished yesterday. As has become traditional the Fringe Society published this year's statistics part way through the final day.
  • Image: Brian Hartley

    Image: Brian Hartley

    IMAGINATE FESTIVAL Scotland’s international festival of performing arts for children and young people 6-13 may 2013 TICKETS:0131 228 1404 WWW.TRAVERSE.CO.UK Image: Brian Hartley IMAGINATE FESTIVAL FUNDERS & SUPPORT ABOUT IMAGINATE Every year Imaginate receives financial and in kind support from a range of national and international organisations.We would like to thank them all for their invaluable support of the Imaginate Festival. Imaginate is a unique organisation in Scotland,leading in the promotion,development If you would like to know more about our supporters or how to support us,please visit: and celebration of the performing arts for children and young people. www.imaginate.org.uk/support/ We achieve this through the delivery of an integrated M A J O R F U N D E R S BEYONDTHE FESTIVAL annual programme of art-form development, learning supported through the partnerships and performance, including the world Imaginate believes that a high quality creative Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund famous Imaginate Festival, Scotland’s international development programme is the key to unlocking festival of performing arts for children and young people. creativity and supporting artistic excellence in the performing arts sector for children and young people in THE IMAGINATE FESTIVAL Scotland. This programme creates regular opportunities for artists and practitioners, whether they are students, T R U S T S A N D F O U N D AT I O N S PA R T N E R S Every year the Festival and Festival On Tour attracts established artists or at the beginning of their career.
  • Survival Guide

    Survival Guide

    Edinburgh Festivals SURVIVAL GUIDE Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith INTRODUCTION The original Edinburgh Festival was a wonderful gesture. In 1947, Britain was a dreary and difficult place to live, with the hardships and shortages of the Second World War still very much in evidence. The idea was to promote joyful celebration of the arts that would bring colour and excitement back into daily life. It worked, and the Edinburgh International Festival visitor might find a suitable festival even at the less rapidly became one of the leading arts festivals of obvious times of the year. The Scottish International the world. Edinburgh in the late summer came to be Storytelling Festival, for example, takes place in the synonymous with artistic celebration and sheer joy, shortening days of late October and early November, not just for the people of Edinburgh and Scotland, and, at what might be the coldest, darkest time of the but for everybody. year, there is the remarkable Edinburgh’s Hogmany, But then something rather interesting happened. one of the world’s biggest parties. The Hogmany The city had shown itself to be the ideal place for a celebration and the events that go with it allow many festival, and it was not long before the excitement thousands of people to see the light at the end of and enthusiasm of the International Festival began to winter’s tunnel. spill over into other artistic celebrations. There was How has this happened? At the heart of this the Fringe, the unofficial but highly popular younger is the fact that Edinburgh is, quite simply, one of sibling of the official Festival, but that was just the the most beautiful cities in the world.
  • Classes Residencies Workshops

    Classes Residencies Workshops

    9 September – 8 December 2017 PROFESSIONAL DANCE classes residencies workshops dancebase.co.uk WELCOME Autumn Term 2017 Welcome to our always surprising and inspiring professional programme – full of newly embodied ideas and opportunities for the dancers and makers of the nation. This term we have a true legend coming to visit and personally the first and so possibly the most influential guru of mine: The great Lindsay Kemp will be in the house in October. Lindsay was mentor to many including Kate Bush and David Bowie – the latter even came to stay at the mad and glorious basement flat in Drummond Street here in Edinburgh whilst writing his album Hunky Dory. I was scullery maid and gin pourer but also a devoted student of Lindsay’s. His shows were like something from another fabulous, glittering, over-made-up planet. A planet I’ve been visiting regularly ever since! As well as this amazing news, we will be welcoming our new DEBS (graduate dancers) who will be mentored by Al Seed, one of our great Scottish artists of physical theatre. Add to this up to two free classes a week for professionals and countless residency showings on Fridays, and it all starts to add up to a pretty awesome Autumn. As always, I’ll remind you that our Friday afternoon showings by companies in residence are open to all and free to attend. I hope to see you there, as well as |at the Lindsay Kemp-led autumn showcase and our Youth Dance showcase at the Traverse in November. Morag Deyes MBE, Artistic Director [email protected] BOARD Chairman Edward ACrozier Members
  • Presenting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

    Presenting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

    Presenting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ARTS COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND TOI AOTEAROA March 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival | General Planning March 2017 1 Guide to presenting A message from the British Council The Edinburgh Festivals, which take place in August in Scotland each year, are the premiere global arts markets, at the Edinburgh enabling artists and producers to sell works which can go on to tour internationally for years. Festival Fringe To support New Zealand’s wonderful artists, arts companies We have collated advice and tips to and organisations to access the festivals and form connections in a big way through the Momentum programme help you prepare a general plan for helps confirm Edinburgh as the Arts Capital of the world. the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. All this More importantly, though, it contributes to the significant information has been generously provided difference that the arts make to a world where voices count, and where creativity explores, nurtures and expresses the by New Zealand artists and companies notion of connection. In these troubled times, it is connection, who have performed at the festival and/or not exclusion, that will make the difference. participated in the Momentum Programme, It is our privilege to be able to support the artists and a capability building programme jointly communities who, through their endeavours, all hold a mirror to our humanity. supported by Creative New Zealand, British Council and Creative Scotland. Graham Sheffield Director Arts Supporting New Zealand artists and British Council companies at Edinburgh Creative New Zealand is proud to support New Zealand artists and companies at the Edinburgh Festivals.
  • Performance Suitable for Audiences with Profound and Multiple Theatre Learning Disabilities

    Performance Suitable for Audiences with Profound and Multiple Theatre Learning Disabilities

    Show Title: Home Dates: Aug 21-24, 26-28 Age Suitability: PG Venue: Pleasance Courtyard Performance Suitable for Audiences with Profound and Multiple Theatre Learning Disabilities A tale of unexpected friendship. Exploring a new and unknown world, Home immerses audiences with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) in a multisensory story of discovery. Home is the latest bold and exciting production from Frozen Light. The world is not how they remember it. Where are they now and where is their home? Scarlet and Olive must learn how to survive and create a future together in an environment that is full of surprises. Will the stars shine on this unexpected friendship? And how will they face the challenges that lie ahead? See below for our list of relaxed performances Relaxed Performance Show Title: Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Role-Playing Game Dates: 2nd-28th of August Age Suitability: 14+ Venue: Sweet Holyrood Theatre Watch the most ambitious tabletop role-playing game ever attempted: an improvised epic brought to life over a whole month. Experience live storytelling at its most legendary in a fun and informal setting. Adventurers Wanted is designed to be accessible – whether you’ve played role-playing games before, or have no idea what they are, the adventure is open to all to watch and play. What happens is down to the players: there’s no way of knowing where the adventure will end up, but it’s guaranteed to be unlike anything else at the Fringe! Show Website: www.adventurers250.wordpress.com/ Relaxed Performance Show Title: AnimAlphabet the Musical Dates: 14-Aug Age Suitability: U (0 and older) Venue: Pleasance Dome Children's Shows Treble Clef Island is a wonderful land of music, song and dance, but there's a problem.
  • Edinburgh Festival News Snippets

    Edinburgh Festival News Snippets

    Home Festival History News Pre-Festival Stuff Festival Time Newbie? Witterings Links Site Map News Snippets - August 2008 to August 2009 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 Fringe 2009 ticket sales and other statistics posted September 1st, 2009. Initial statistics have been put out by the Fringe Society for the 2009 festival. They are summarised in The Guardian and The Scotsman. The headline figure is a new record of 1.85m tickets sold. This beats the previous record of 1.7m in 2007 by 9%. Other stats include: 18,901 performers in 34,265 performances of 2,098 shows; comedy made up 35% of the overall programme, theatre 28% and music 16%. While there is no breakdown of audience figures so far the feedback from some venues appears to indicate that increases in attendances at comedy shows may well be attributable to the Scots. As previously stated, despite apprehension in various quarters buoyant ticket sales are not totally unexpected this year. 2010 and 2011 will be more problematic years as the effects of the recession impact on employment numbers. Comedy is least likely to be affected as its audience tends to be younger and is more likely to have the necessary disposable income. Fringe venues complain about costs posted August 30th, 2009. The Scotsman reported that Fringe chief, Kath Mainland, is to meet venue chiefs who are concerned about rising costs and the future viability of medium-sized venues. More on the expense of putting on shows at the festival posted August 30th, 2009. This time it is Tommy Sheppard, director of The Stand Comedy Club, writing in The Scotsman on the difficulties faced by comedians.
  • Venues North Edinburgh Fringe 2019

    Venues North Edinburgh Fringe 2019

    Venues North Edinburgh Fringe 2019 Welcome to the Venues North Venues North members: Edinburgh Fringe Festival guide! Venues North is not a closed network or an exclusive group of venues, but open to any venue in the North that shares our commitment to artist development and new work. Venues North is a network of venues from across the North of England who are committed to supporting artists to create new work. Our aim is to work together as Current members include: venues to support new and emerging artists from the North to get their work more widely seen regionally, nationally and internationally. ARC , Stockton Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Over the course of the year, Venues North members support many artists and companies to create new work, and we are pleased to see so much of this on show Bolton Octagon, Bolton Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal Slung Low’s HUB, Leeds Carriageworks, Leeds Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax Each of the shows featured in this guide has been supported by one of our Cast, Doncaster Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough members, and we are proud to be collectively presenting such an outstanding Contact , Manchester Sunderland Culture Company, Washington programme of work. Creative Scene, Kirklees The Civic, Barnsley We hope you choose to see some of it in Edinburgh this year. Gala Theatre, Durham The Dukes, Lancaster Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre, Chorlton Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate The Lowry,
  • 2013 Annual Review

    2013 Annual Review

    Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 01 – 25 August edfringe.com ‘The excitement of the Edinburgh Fringe is infectious and empowering, a blast of rude energy ... there’s a heady sense that anything is possible.’ The Independent ‘It’s the biggest and best arts festival on the planet, and the comedy hub for acts from across the globe.’ Time Out London Sponsors CALEDONIAN ‘It is, quite simply, the greatest show on earth.’ The Scotsman ‘What an opportunity the Fringe offers – it’s nourishing art in every form.’ Miriam Margolyes Supporters ‘As an accredited producer at the Edinburgh Fringe for the past 13 years, it is very easy for me to sum up both the Edinburgh Fringe Society and its Arts Industry Office: essential.’ Richard Jordan, Producer Partners ‘Being at the Fringe changed my life in about a million TM ways... Never underestimate what your efforts have meant T S to thousands of performers, writers, directors and technical C R At The National Gallery Of Scotland artists and designers.’ Elaine Liner, Fringe Participant Copyright Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Ltd 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written prior permission of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Ltd is a company limited by guarantee and incorporated in Scotland (No SC046605). Registered Charity No SC002995. Registered office:180 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS Telephone: 0131 226 0026 Fax: 0131 226 0016 Email: [email protected] Foreword Welcome‘The excitement to the Edinburgh Festival of the Fringe Edinburgh Society’s partners. Fringe It is not is only infectious their financial and contributions 2013 review.
  • Threeweeks EDINBURGH

    Threeweeks EDINBURGH

    THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL | WEEK ONE ISSUE | WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK ThreeWeeks EDINBURGH ALSO INSIDE… THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE BRYONY KIMMINGS Edinburgh’s Eastenders: EastEnd Cabaret THE MAGNETS PLUS Luke Wright | The Grandees | Haley McGee | It’s Dark Outside | The Dead Secrets | Ben Van Der Velde 2Faced Dance Company | Cerrie Burnell | Monkey Poet | and plenty of brand new ThreeWeeks reviews START POINT Hello there,For all we’re the latest ThreeWeeks, festival newsnice to as meet it breaks you For lots of info about all things ThreeWeeks check www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/informationwww.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/news Reaching out with a new identity: Just Festival Contents Edinburgh International Centre For talks amongst its programme, the ThreeWeeks 2013 wk1 World Spiritualities and Creative Just Festival is like a mini-Fringe in Space, we now have over 70 different itself. With such an eclectic line-up, START POINT organisations involved across the Newbigging is predictably hesitant to project”. pick out highlights. But pushed she Caro writes… 04 Billed as “an annual celebration of says: “We’re definitely excited about Letter To Edinburgh 04 culture, faith, philosophy and ideas”, the play ‘Tejas Verdes’, marking 40 religion is obviously a theme running years since the Chilean coup d’etat, A poem from Luke 04 through this particular outpost of our series of award-winning European Edinburgh’s festival month, though it films showing at The Filmhouse, and INTERVIEWS has never been just for the religious. a concert of Japanese folk music near “Our focus is on diversity” says the start”.
  • 27 March 2020

    27 March 2020

    Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network present in partnership with Royal & Derngate, Northampton 26 - 27 March 2020 Shining a light on new British musical theatre mercurymusicals.com musicaltheatrenetwork.com Welcome Theatres like ours exist to bring people together and we were so looking forward to welcoming such an array of musical theatre talent to Northampton this week from across the country and beyond. Sadly that is not possible right now, but we’re determined to continue to champion all the artists who were to perform on our stages this week, so we’ve taken the decision with Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network to still publish this year’s BEAM programme, to salary and continue to support all the artists who were due mercurymusicals.com to perform during this week’s showcase and to encourage all who were due to attend to share and distribute their work with one another online. We are so grateful to those of you who were due to be attending this week who have kindly donated the cost of your ticket towards helping us to pay our artists and freelancers. Many of you who attended the UK Musical Theatre Conference here last year will have heard us talk of our commitment to developing new musical theatre for mid-scale regional venues and tours. We’ve had a thrilling year since in which we’ve hosted dozens of artists in Northampton to create original work in partnership with Perfect Pitch, China Plate, Musical Theatre Network, Mercury Musical Developments, Scottish Opera and Improbable. Thanks to the support of an Arts Council England “Ambition For Excellence” grant and partnerships with several midscale venues nationwide, we’re also excited to be able to announce that five of the projects we’ve developed here this year have been fully commissioned.
  • May All Our Voices Be Heard

    May All Our Voices Be Heard

    JUST THE TONIC EDFRINGE VENUES 2019 FULL LISTINGS AND MORE 1st - 25th August 2019 EDINBURGH FRINGE PROUDLY SPONSORED BY NO ONE - TOTALLY INDEPENDENT 7 venues 8 Bars 4000 performances 98.9%* 19 performance spaces 182 shows comedy *THE OTHER 1.1% ARE FUN AS WELL… CHALLENGE: GO FIND THE OTHER 2 SHOWS INSIDE! MAY ALL OUR VOICES BE HEARD www.justthetonic.com Big Value is the best Big Value compilation show at The Fringe. It’s an Comedy Shows excellent barometer of The longest running stand up compilation show on the fringe. We ask promoter people who are going Darrell Martin to take a look at at it’s fine heritage. to go on to big things. Starting in 1996, with a line up that included The show is currently produced by Darrell And I’m not just saying Milton Jones and Adam Bloom, the Big Value Martin, who runs Just the Tonic. It wasn’t Comedy Shows have been selecting the always that way. Many years ago Darrell was that because I did it. stars of the future for almost 25 years. a keen performer that was desperate to be part of the show. Comedians such as Jim Jeffries, Pete Harris was the person who set it all up. Sarah Millican, Jon Richardson and He ran a chain of clubs called Screaming ROMESH Romesh Ranganathan are some of Blue Murder. According to Adam Bloom, it all RANGANATHAN came out of a conversation where Adam said Big Value Comedy Show 2011 + 2012 those who were first exposed to the to Pete that he wanted to go to Edinburgh but couldn’t afford it.