Event listings
A listing of all University of Edinburgh festival events in 2013.
Fringe events
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Killing Roger | 1-25 August, 12.40pm | Academics in Law worked with Sparkle and Dark for a puppetry play on assisted dying. |
| Jack and Jill and the Red Postbox | 5-11 August, 2.40pm | Theatre performance encouraged us to think about how we live alongside those who have dementia. |
| James Tait Black Prize for Drama award ceremony | 5 August | Winner of drama prize announced and a reading of the winning play. |
| Rethinking the past: Harem!, ‘Red Terror’, Ice cream history?, Death in the Kremlin | 7, 26, 28, 29 August, 2pm | Series of free one-hour lectures challenging historical beliefs around death, sex and ice cream. |
| City Glimpses (Oxygen) | 12-31 August | Interpretative dances behind windows that were inspired by stories and memories. |
| Colours (Oxygen) | 14, 15, 16, 17 August, times vary | Joint work of the University and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. |
| Edinburgh Skeptics | 18 August, 7.50pm | Introduced the philosophy of time travel with only minimal technical detail and mention of Dr Who! |
| Music of Charlotte Seither (Oxygen) | 26 August, 11.00am | A unique opportunity to hear extraordinary works prior to their outing at the BBC Proms. |
International Festival events
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Talbot Rice Gallery festival exhibition | 9 August - 19 October | First Scottish exhibition of works by the renowned Korean artist Nam June Paik. |
| Leaving Planet Earth | 10-12, 14-19, 21-24 August, 8.00pm | A new work by Grid Iron Theatre received its world premiere at the 2013 Festival. |
| Interfaces: Language in a Technical Age | 10 August, 2.30pm | Jon Oberlander explored the cost to privacy of technological power. |
| Cybraphon | 21 August, 2.30pm | Cybraphon, the autonomous and emotional robot band, was welcomed to its new home. |
| Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques | 21 August, 11.00am | Christophe Rousset, the celebrated French harpsichordist performed. |
| How a Pipe Organ Works | 22 August, 5.00pm | John Kitchen demonstrated the technology behind the Usher Hall organ. |
| Christophe Rousset Harpsichord | 22-23 August, 5.45pm | Harpsichord virtuoso Christophe Rousset explored the remarkable richness of Baroque music. |
| Glitch'd: Purposeful Mistakes | 28 August, 12.00pm and 2.00pm | Interactive media art projects explored how the 'glitch' can be beautiful. |
| Synthetic Biology: Where Organic Meets Digital | 29 August, 12.00pm | How synthetic biologists, designers, artists, engineers and computer scientists can work together. |
| Art and Technology | 29 August, 2.30pm | Discussion on the relationships between the arts and technology. |
| Lost in Translation: Making Scholarship Accessible | 29 August, 5.00pm | The relationships between research and the media and the demands of addressing different audiences. |
| Shaping Things: Artefacts and the 3D Printer | 30 August, 12.00pm and 2.00pm | Play at 3D Chinese whispers, adapting objects and artefacts using time-lapse technology. |
| The Edinburgh University Festival Lecture: Art, Mind and Machine | 30 August, 2.30pm | Explored the complexities of music, mind and the application of technology in a therapeutic setting. |
| Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | 30 August, 8.00pm | One of the world’s truly great ensembles, famed for the nobility and sophistication of its sound. |
| Verdi Requiem | 31 August, 8.00pm | The Festival’s Usher Hall concerts came to an epic conclusion with Verdi’s powerful Requiem. |
Book Festival events
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Positive approaches to Dementia | 13 August, 2.30pm | Poet John Killick shared stories about dementia with Professor Ian Deary. |
| The Independence Debate with Kirsty Wark | 13 August, 4.30pm | Nicola McEwen and Charlie Jeffery co-ordinated an event on independence. |
| How do we know who we are? | 14 August, 12.30pm | Professor Ian Deary chaired a look at the neuroscience of memory with Suzanne Corkin. |
| The Heritage Industry | 15 August, 4.00pm | Can two leading Edinburgh-based authors shed light on the future of heritage? |
| Judging a book by its cover | 17 August, 5.00pm | How can a story convincingly be conveyed on a book jacket? |
| James Tait Black Prize | 24 August, 6.30pm | Shortlisted authors read their work and the winner of the James Tait Black Prize was awarded. |
| Horror and Weirdness, a Scottish Peculiarity | 26 August, 11.30am | Leading writers discussed the dark side of fiction. |
Art Festival events
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Collins & Goto: Spirit in the Air, CO2Edinburgh | 1-22 August | An art-based climate initiative developing empathetic ways of thinking about our environment. |
| Paul Rooney and Leeds United | 1 August - 1 September | New video and text works from Paul Rooney who trained at Edinburgh College of Art. |
| Krijn de Koning (co-commissioned with Edinburgh Art Festival) | 1 August - 1 September | De Koning developed a new work for the extraordinary space of the Sculpture Court. |
| Postgraduate Degree Show | 17-25 August | ECA celebrated the work of more than 80 postgraduate students from a range of disciplines. |
just Festival events
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| In sight of peace | August - dates and times vary | CTPI (Peace building through the Arts project) and IASH co-sponsored a photojournalism exhibition. |
| Faith in Media | 12 August, 6.00pm | Speakers included Professor Jolyon Mitchell - are the media portraying the real image of religions? |
| Muslim - Christian Encounters | 19 August, 6.00pm | Event that explored what can be done to improve Christian-Muslim encounters in Scotland. |