The Edinburgh Reporter June 2019

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WHAT'S ON
Theatre Art Music Shows Festivals
Day by day guide - What’s on in June
1 June Happy Birthday
Typewronger Books 4a Haddington
Place EH7 7AE
2 Hidden Door Weekender ends
today with Cigarettes After Sex at
Leith Theatre EH6 4AE
Family Funday at St Bride’s Centre
with games and craft making. Make
your own Carnival headband
3 Honeyblood at Summerhall
Glasgow based grunge rock Ticket
£13.75
4 Neither Wolf Nor Dog Film by
Scottish director Steven Lewis
Simpson Screening with Director
Q&A at Dominion Cinema 18
Newbattle Terrace EH10 4RT
Yoga Tuesdays at St Bride’s
Community Centre and the Linten
Adie Community Choir meet for
rehearsals Or you can try your hand
at Egyptian Belly Dancing
5 Scottish Opera The Magic Flute
produced by Sir Thomas Allen
Festival Theatre EH8 9FT Tickets
from £47.50 Until 15 June 2019
6 Edinburgh International Book
Festival programme will be
launched today
Edinburgh Festival of Cycling
EDFOC begins until 16 June HSBC
Breeze ride for women Russell Road
zigzags to Stockbridge
7 Art in Healthcare exhibition until
16 June at the Botanics
RSPB Fun weekend starts at
Secret Herb Garden 32a Pentland
Road EH10 7EA
8 Leith Festival A week of
community events with music,
theatre, dance and tours.
Americana in Leith, Leith Depot
138-140 Leith Walk. FREE
The Spice Girls BT Murrayfield
Stadium Tickets from £56 upwards
The Moonwalk takes place
tonight
9 Edinburgh Academy Choir and
Choral Society Usher Hall
EDFOC SPOKES Family cycle and
picnic from 11.00am on Middle
Meadow Walk cycling along the
Innocent Railway track
10 University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate Open Day - all
departments will be open
11 EDFOC SPOKES Bike Breakfast
at City Chambers 7.45am
An Evening with The Church -
Starfish 30th anniversary La Belle
Angele 11 Hastie’s Close EH1 1HJ
Ticket £25.25
12 Graeme Easton’s playlist with
Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan
Live podcast show where Graeme
talks to sporting personalities and
find what music they listen to.
Audience can ask questions!
13 Phoenix Community Choir
Summer Concert at Leith theatre
Café Voices Storytelling Centre
Relaxed session oral storytelling
and poetry Ticket £4.50
14 Film Fest in the CIty begins at
4.30pm with Groundhog Day. Films
free all weekend.
At the Palace of Holyroodhouse
A Royal Wedding : The Duke and
Duchess of Sussex opens. Display
of wedding outfits Tickets from £15
EDFOC SPOKES Public meeting
Edinburgh Connecting our City
Transforming our Places with Daisy
Narayanan Deputy Director of
Sustrans
Fringe Preview Assembly Roxy
EH8 9SU Stephen Buchanan and
Andy Field Ticket £5
Leith Festival 2019
From 8-16 June get on down
to Leith where they are having a
pageant, gala day and a festival.
The Leith Festival is a true
community event.
The new event this year will be
Leith’s Official Dog Show run by
Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home in
front of their marquee at 2.30pm
on Saturday 8 June at 2.30pm at
Leith Links. LeithLate will take
over the main stage with a cutting
edge selection of bands and young
people from local schools will
entertain with Scottish country
dancing.
There are 66 events in 37
venues - 50 events are totally
free to attend. The 2019 Pageant
theme is ‘Leith’s Maritime
Heritage: Across the Seas’. Expect
colourful costumes, pirates, sea
creatures and Pulse of the Place
samba band, comprised of local
schoolchildren, at the front, with
the Mock Lord Provost Sandy
Campbell (who will be wearing the
traditional Provost gown).
The procession departs Pilrig
Park at 12noon on 8 June
processing along Balfour Street,
down Leith Walk, Constitution
Street, Queen Charlotte, and onto
Leith Links.
Roads will be closed only when
the parade is passing.
Off the beaten track join The
Living Memory Association
THELMA at the Little Shop of
Memory in Ocean Terminal where
they would love you to share your
memories on the specially set up
radio station set up for the Festival.
15 Scottish Fiddle Orchestra
Summer Fling Usher Hall EH1 2EA
Funny Women Awards Beehive Inn
18 Grassmarket
Edinburgh Whisky Festival
Assembly Rooms EH2 2LR
Masterclasses and tasting Tickets
from £20
16 Dads Rock Family takeover
at Tynecastle for the sixth year in
a row the dads charity will run an
event with music, baby massage,
yoga and stadium tours
Sunday Classics The Planets : An
HD Odyssey with the RSNO
At the Botanics - Communities
Growing Health. Drop in cooking, art
and gardening event
EDFOC Leith Links to Portobello
Family Ride Begins at 10.00am at
Crops in Pots Community Croft 57
Queen Charlotte Street EH6 &EY 5
mile round trip Take a picnic.
Toy Story 4 at 3.00pm at Festival
Theatre -part of Edinburgh
International Film Festival EIFF
17 At The Stand Red Raw at
7.00pm Open mic night when you
can see up to ten new acts. This is
where everyone starts!
18 Shane Koyczan Teviot Bristo
Square EH 8 9AJ Canadian spoken
word artist Ticket £20
19 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
King’s Theatre EH Tickets from
£25.75
Edinburgh International Film
Festival begins today until 30 June
2019
20 Royal Highland Show until 23
June at the Royal Highland Centre
Ingliston.
21 Southern Exposure 2 day
festival at Summerhall with Pictish
The Lark
By Jean Anouilh, contemporary
translation by Gill Taylor
Performances 4th - 8th June,
7:30pm Bellfield, Portobello
Tickets £12 advance, £15 on the
door www.theegtg.com
Joan of Arc. Saint, saviour or
someone who heard voices?
Against the backdrop of the one
of the world's longest wars, a 17
year old peasant girl led an army
of men into battle and carved a
victory that defined France. She
claimed God told her to do it; the
church says she’s a witch and
should be burnt alive.
Jean Anouilh's classic play tells
the tale of how Joan convinced
the church, the state – and her
dad - to let her tackle an apparently
impossible feat. And then plays
witness at her trial: a nineteen year
old uneducated woman held to
account for her successes by the
world’s most educated men.
Anouilh published the script
in 1953, having lived through
the occupation of France by the
German army during the Second
World War. His observations about
how the French sense of identity
was squeezed provide a poignant
context to this story. But he makes
“no attempt to explain the mystery
Trail, Piroshka, Be Charlotte and
others
22 Conversations with Nick Cave
Usher Hall
23 Storytime with Morag Hood
Waterstones Kinnaird Park FREE
New Town walking tour starting
at the Scottish National Portrait
Gallery 2.00pm Tickets £12
24 Songbirds and Troubadours
Usher Hall EH1FREE
25 Chapter and Verse Opium 71
Cowgate London based Alt rock
quartet Ticket £7.70
26 Wild and Majestic : Romantic
Visions of Scotland opens at
National Museum of Scotland
Tickets £10
27 At the National Library of
Scotland at 2.00pm Golf’s first
celebrity superstar was young Tom
Morris, son of the legendary golf
pioneer, Tom Morris. In this talk,
Florida-based journalist and avid
golfer Stephen Proctor presents
a stirring and evocative history of
Tommy's life.
28 EIFF presents Tommy Smith
and the Scottish National Jazz
Orchestra, Sketches of Spain at
7.30pm at Queen’s Hall
29 Ride the Night Women v
Cancer night ride. Cycle 100k,
through the city at night to support
charity. Start is at Queen Margaret
University. Circular route around
Edinburgh landmarks.
30 Great Scottish Walk and Run
Festival The 10K walk travels
through Cramond Village, River
Almond Walkway, Dalmeny Estate,
Lauriston Castle and along the
Silverknowes foreshore.
of Joan”. That’s up to the audience.
EGTG is staging the Scottish
premiere of a new script
translation. Gill Taylor translated
Anouilh’s French script for
performance by her own theatre
group in East London ten years ago
– wishing to find words that bring
to life the spirit, vitality and fire of
Joan in a way that’s meaningful for
modern day audiences.
Message from
Jazz Festival
Chair
by Councillor Jason Rust
Among the myriad of festivals
there is the Edinburgh Jazz and
Blues Festival (EJBF) from 12
July 2019. EJBF offers an annual
snapshot on the Scottish jazz
and blues scenes, and also gives
a perspective on an international
world – this year from Asia and
Australasia, to North and South
America to Europe. There is a
special welcome for our partners
in Oslo and Brussels, and, for the
first time, in 2019, from Piemonte.
The opening concert of our
Festival celebrates the man who
started it all; the music he loved;
and the spirit of those early
Festivals he created. Mike Hart,
the Festival’s founder, died late last
year, and we mark his passing with
a Memorial concert, and dedicate
this year’s programme to him.
Jools Holland, Davina And The
Vagabonds, Hamish McGregor,
Rumba de Bodas, Red Stripe Band,
New Orleans Swamp Donkeys, Tim
Elliott, and many more regulars are
back.
We’ve got a host of new guests,
coming for the first time: Melvin
Taylor, Papa Chubby, Meschiya
Lake, Donny McCaslin, Kenny
Wayne Shepherd, Zac Harmon,
Jamison Ross amongst a host
more. There’s also a wider range
of venues than ever before from
Oxgangs to Granton.
The current Scottish jazz and
blues scenes are so dynamic that
whatever you thought last time,
there’s something new happening
now.
We’re especially blessed with
young talent. There’s never been
such quality in such quantity as
there is right now. This is the
most exciting time to hear AKU,
Mark Hendry, Matt Carmichael,
Bernadette Kellerman, Liam
Shortall, Jed Potts, Georgia Cecile,
Fergus McCreadie, STRATA, Nicole
Smit…
Dress as you like, but be ready
to enjoy some of the most
exhilarating music and atmosphere
you will experience all year.
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