Santa made a triumphant return to Edinburgh tonight with a dazzling show in St Andrew Square Garden and a sleigh ride through the centre of the city. The build-up started at 5pm, with children in reindeer outfits, sugar plum fairies and a Brazilian samba band entertaining the crowd. Santa arrived in St Andrew Square […]
Category: Edinburgh Events
And the winner is? ……………..Santa
A group of Santas were put through their paces at Meadowbank Stadium this morning, to get them gold-medal ready for the tenth Great Edinburgh Santa Run, which takes place this Sunday 9 December. The Great Edinburgh Santa Run turns the city centre into a sea of red and white, as volunteer Santas of all ages run, jog or […]
Seeing Red?
Light Up Scotland for World AIDS Day 2012 Saturday 1st December is the 24th annual World AIDS Day. It is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in support of people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died. Buildings and landmarks are being lit up in red on the 1st December […]
EDINBURGH’S CHRISTMAS ST ANDREW’S DAY
Edinburgh’s Christmas flies the flag for St Andrew’s Day St Andrew’s Day was marked in a very special way as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas and Scotland’s Winter Festivals when around six thousand people turned out to see a spectacular Carnival at the Castle. In the second of two bespoke shows created especially for Edinburgh […]
FIVE METRE HIGH SANTA OPENS EDINBURGH’S CHRISTMAS
Edinburgh’s Christmas got off to a spectacular start last night, as the city marked the beginning of the annual countdown to Christmas. This year, the first of two shows created especially for Edinburgh by performing arts company, Emergency Exit Arts, opened the Christmas celebrations. The second show will be on Andrew’s Day evening […]
We’re all Dreaming of an Edinburgh’s Christmas
With the festive season fast approaching, plans for a bigger and better Edinburgh’s Christmas this year have been unveiled, proving once again that Scotland’s capital is one of the best places to be at Christmas-time. Commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh’s Christmas 2012 runs for six weeks from Thursday 29 November until […]
Rockness Wins Event Management Grand Prix
Loch Ness based music festival Rockness has won the Event Management Grand Prix at the Scottish Event Awards 2012, while the Event Services Grand Prix was handed to Diamond Event Services. The awards, which were handed out at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow last night, also saw the Edinburgh Corn Exchange win Best […]
End of Festival Fireworks
As usual, come the end of the Edinburgh festival I was preparing to watch The Fireworks perched on top of a hill with a good view of the castle, photographing the amazing pyrotechnics from afar. However a couple of days before the event I received an email from the guys at Blipfoto saying that I (and one other Bliper, SlyBaconshots) had […]
Steve Wozniak at the Turing festival Edinburgh
In what seemed a fleeting interview at the Edinburgh Playhouse, during the Turing festival, Steve Wozniak discussed life at Apple, entrepreneurship, his autobiography iWoz and the future of computing and the web. Although hampered by what I though was some poor interviewing by Helen Arney Steve did shine through. I was hoping to hear more […]
LADY RIZO WINS TO&ST CABARET AWARD 2012
Time Out and Soho Theatre are delighted to announce the winner of their inaugural Edinburgh cabaret award: Lady Rizo. Lady Rizo, who this year made her European debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, was unanimously agreed by the judges as the winner of TO&ST, the Time Out & Soho Theatre Edinburgh Cabaret Award, the Fringe’s […]