Urbanism at Edinburgh festivals

AoU Young Urbanist Kathie Pollard shares her suggestions from the 2024 Edinburgh Festivals programming for the interested urbanist. Find titles + dates below, and click any red text for further info and tickets.

Edinburgh Art Festival:

• Exhibition: Before and After Coal: Images and Voices from Scotland’s Mining Communities | Ends 15 September 2024
• Exhibition: Cold War Scotland | Opens 13 July 2024 
• Exhibition: An Irish Impressionist: Lavery on Location |Opens 20 July 2024
• Exhibition: Ade Adesina: INTERSECTION | Opens 27 July 2024
• Exhibition: Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words|Opens 2 August 2024
• Exhibition: Más Arte Más Acción: Around a Tree – A marathon of voices to connect plants and people | Opens 9 August 2024
• Event: Más Arte Más Acción ‘Around a Tree’ BSL Tour + Closing Event | 25 August 2024

Edinburgh Book Festival:

• Event: Remnants: How to Re-assemble a City |13 August 2024
• Event: Gavin Francis & Nathan Thrall: Divide and Unite | 16 August 2024
• Activity: Inside Out: Sky | 17 August 2024
• Event: Thomas Heatherwick: Design for Living | 20 August 2024
• Activity: Inside Out: Water | 25 August 2024
• Event: Jonathan Watts: The Life and Legacy of James Lovelock | 25 August 2024

Edinburgh Fringe:

• Theatre: Tiny Little Town | 31 July - 25 August excl. 12 & 19 Aug
• Theatre: 16 Postcodes | 31 July - 26 August excl. 12 Aug
• Comedy: 3 Queens of New York | 1 - 25 August excl. Wednesdays
• Theatre: An American Love Letter to Edinburgh | 1 - 25 August, every other day
• Theatre: Athens of The North | 5 - 12 August
• Theatre: Gaudi: God’s Architect | 19 - 25 August