Festivals, Cultural and City Events

Social Media Photo Competition

Upload your festival pictures for your chance to win tickets, access to exclusive events and other festival related goodies.

 

This year, we are running a social media competition asking students, staff and members of the general public to contribute posts capturing their own involvement and experience of the festivals in Edinburgh.

Each week during the festival we will be spoiling our lucky winners with amazing prizes  - these will be brought together in  themed packages that will highlight the range of the University’s interaction with the festivals.

We'll judge the entries on wit, creativity and popularity (and you'll get extra brownie points if your image demonstrates a link between festivals and the University of Edinburgh...)

UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS HERE AND SHOW US YOUR FESTIVAL or simply tag your Tweets or Instagram photos with #HeartEdfFest

 

OUR EXCITING PRIZES

 

WEEK PRIZES WINNERS
22nd July - 1st September

The complete shortlist for this year's James Tait Black Book Prizes - Britain’s oldest literary awards (8 books in total).

FICTION

  •  You Don't Have To Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits (Faber and Faber) - winner
  •  Beatlebone by Kevin Barry (Canongate)
  •  The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber)
  •  The First Bad Man by Miranda July (Canongate).

BIOGRAPHY

  • 1606, William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro (Faber and Faber) - winner
  • The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare (Faber and Faber)
  •  Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights (Bloomsbury)
  •  John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr (Chatto and Windus)
OVERALL WINNER
19th - 25th August
  1. One Assembly VIP Club Bar pass
  2. Two Cakes and Two Drinks from Mimi's Bakehouse on George Square
  3. Pierre Boulez: A Celebration as part of the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival (26th August, 2 tickets)
  4. The Improverts as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (27th August, 2 tickets) (This show stars at 0030 therefore it is technically 28th August but advertised as the evening before)
  5. Project Flavour Behaviour: Personality Test with the Scotch Malt Whisky Society as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (28th August, 2 tickets)
  6. Kader Abdolah: the Life of Muhammad as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (29th August, 2 tickets)
  7. Choice of three movies at the Film in the Old College Quad series (16th - 18th September, 2 tickets per film)
WEEK 5 WINNERS
12th - 18th August
  1. Is Polling good for democracy? as part of the Festival of Politics (20th August, 2 tickets)
  2. Asylum Found - Ahmed al-Malik, Lucy Popescu and Ben Rawlence with Bidisha  as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (21st August, 2 tickets)
  3. Iain Stirling: Onwards! as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (22nd August, 2 tickets)
  4. The SOLD OUT Adam Boulton: In Conversation as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (23rd August, 2 tickets)
  5. Amelia Ryan: Lady Liberty as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (23rd August, 2 tickets)
  6. Worbey and Farrell's Rhapsody as part of the Edinburgh Festival  Fringe (24th August, 2 tickets)
  7. The SOLD OUT John Prescott: In Conversation as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (25th August, 2 tickets)
  8. The SOLD OUT Vince Cable: In Conversation as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (26th August, 2 tickets)
  9. POSH as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (26th August, 2 tickets)
  10. Sara Khan: Can reason conquer extremism? as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (28th August, 2 tickets)
WEEK 4 WINNERS
5th - 11th August
  1. One Underbelly VIP Abattoir Bar Pass
  2. The James Tait Black Prize ceremony plus drinks reception as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (15th August, 2 tickets)
  3. The SOLD OUT Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay event as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (17th August, 2 tickets)
  4. Language and Identity as part of the Just festival (17th August, 2 tickets)
  5. ECA Masters Degree Show private tour (18th August, 2 places)
  6. James VII: A Misunderstood King? as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (19th August, 2 tickets)
  7. Artificial Intelligence Revolution as part of the Festival of Politics (19th August, 2 tickets)
  8. Who Will Win America? as part of the Festival of Politics (20th August, 2 tickets)
  9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence showing as part of the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival (21st August, 2 tickets)
  10. Lippy as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (25th August, 2 tickets)

 

WEEK 3 WINNERS
29th July - 4th August
  1. One Assembly VIP Club Bar pass
  2. Spring Awakening as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (6th August, 2 tickets)
  3. The Eidolon Project publication as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival
  4. Deep Time tickets  as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (7th August, 2 tickets)
  5. The Scottish Endarkenment Torch Lit Tour as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (10th August, 2 tickets)
  6. David Steel: My Life in Politics as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (11th August, 2 tickets)
  7. Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Language Lessons on the NHS as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (11th August, 2 tickets)
  8. Brown Bag Talk: Why it took 150 years for the Confederate Flag to come downas part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (12th August, 2 tickets)
  9. Opening night of the ECA Master’s Degree Show as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (12th August, 4 tickets)
  10. Mitch Benn: Don’t fear The Reaper as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (14th August, 2 tickets) 
WEEK 2 WINNERS
22nd July - 28th July
  1. One Friend of the Fringe Pass
  2. Ready Steady Chef Heat 2 as part of the Edinburgh Food Festival (31st July, 2 tickets)
  3. Ready Steady Chef Heat Final as part of the Edinburgh Food Festival (31st July, 2 tickets)
  4. Assembly Festival Gala launch  at The Assembly Hall on the Mound (3rd August, 2 tickets)
  5. Underbelly Festival Gala launch on 3rd August at Udderbelly, George Square Gardens (3rd August, 2 tickets)
  6. Pleasance Festival Gala launch on 6th August at the Pleasance Courtyard (6th August, 2 tickets)
  7. Pre-View as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (8th August, 2 tickets)
WEEK 1 WINNERS 

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