My Edinburgh Festival Highlights
/A mini overview of my 4 day #edinburghfestivalfringe adventure.
Impossible to cram-pack everything into 1 minute but this hopefully gives a flavour of the atmosphere!
Thank you to all the amazing performers who poured their extraordinary energy into such fantastic shows! The joy, humour, innovations and - at times - sheer physical daring, endlessly inspire and energise me.
Featured performers, in order of appearance :
@lutrek_art - 'Juliette' / 'Old Blue Eyes' / 'Marie Curie'
@ameliacadwallader - Amelia Cadwallader
@bhoundp - 'Seeds of Memories'
@agoodcatchcircus - 'Casting Off'
@flabbergast_theatre - 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'
@interactearnest - 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
@benzeiulia - #ladywhistledown
@oldtroutpuppetworkshop - 'Famous Puppet Death Scenes'
@circo.goyo - Grego Richter
@melonthehuman - Thomas Stewart
@puppetstate_theatre - 'The Man who Planted Trees'
Paddy McCullagh - 'Paddy the Potato’
@thebananamanofficial - Matt Eberhart
@thejugglinggent - Matthew Kerr
@walkabout_eddie - Edwin Eddie Bond
@yannelvis - Yann Elvis
@lacliquetheshow - ‘La Clique’
@blackbluesbrothers - ‘The Black Blues Brothers’
I urge you to click and discover the pure magic of what they do!!
INTERESTING FACTS
🎉 The Edinburgh Festival is a 3 week performing arts festival that happens every August.
🎉 It started in 1947 and is now in its 75th year!
🎉 It includes a formal ‘International’ festival and a less formal - anything goes - ‘Fringe’ festival.
🎉 The roots of the Fringe were planted in 1947 when 8 uninvited theatre groups turned up in Edinburgh and performed outside the 'official program'.
🎉 The fringe society was officially formed in 1958 and still prides itself on not vetting shows.
🎉 This year the Fringe included 3,334 shows performed by artists from 63 countries!
🎉 My first festival encounter was in 2003 when I started my 5 year MA Fine Art journey in Edinburgh and it's been inspiring me and my artwork ever since!
Watch out for some sketching spotlights coming soon!
