Sharon Canavar is Chief Executive of the Harrogate International Festivals. Prior to her appointment she held the position of Operations Director. With a background in music and special interest travel trade she worked for the country’s most successful specialist tour operator;…
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Teresa is a highly experienced speaker, writer and researcher on events and sustainability. She is the director of A Greener Festival, co-founder of the annual Green Events and Innovations (GEI) Conference in London and co-founder of the European sustainability think…
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For USEC2017 we are honoured to have Shona McCarthy, the Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, as our keynote speaker! Shona McCarthy is the current Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society – the charity that underpins the…
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Registration is now open for the 2017 Universities of Scotland Events Conference. Head to the Eventbrite page from this link and sign up for free. This year’s conference is targeted at final year undergraduate and Masters level students on Events…
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The USEC returns to Edinburgh Napier in 2017! Universities of Scotland Events Conference (USEC) is an annual running event, bringing together Events Management students from across seven Scottish universities. USEC2017 is the fifth edition of the event, and the second…
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Over the course of the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival we have been very fortunate to cover some interesting, inspiring and hugely enjoyable events. To round off this year’s coverage, here’s a fourth report from Charlotte Square. Don Paterson’s long…
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Call it a privilege, or a challenge, or an hour in the magnetic presence of a poetic force. Lemn Sissay’s capacity crowd at the Edinburgh International Book Festival saw an hour of captivating warmth, where the cost of a ticket was…
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There was an easy, reverential air in the Corner Theatre on Sunday evening where a packed audience gathered to hear from Jim Haynes. It seems to sit easy enough on Haynes’s shoulders that his various Edinburgh endeavours of the 1950s…
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Award Ceremony, Edinburgh International Book Festival, 18 August 2016 ___ As a celebration of poetry, of life and of Scotland the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award ceremony carved out a beautiful space in Charlotte Square, for an hour of perfect…
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Michael Newton makes it clear, in his talk on Victorian fairy tales linked to his recent anthology, that compilers of such compendiums face a grave risk: will they simply recreate the story collections that they enjoyed as a child? Over the…
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