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The Ambassador (Ambassadøren)
Date	Location
Danish documentarist/satirist/provocateur Mads Brügger decides to expose the high-stakes game of political and economic corruption in Africa. How to go about this? By carrying a hidden camera as he buys a diplomatic assignment to the Central African Republic and sets up a match factory staffed by Pygmies to serve as a front for a diamond-smuggling operation. A gonzo exposé of neo-colonialism that is bound to stir up controversy. 'Brügger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron… View full details and ticket info
25 Jun 6.10pm 24 Jun 4.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Arms Trade Treaty Panel Discussion
Date	Location
A topical and informative discussion about the upcoming arms trade treaty negotiations, with speakers including journalists Billy Briggs and Jackie Kemp, academic George Wilkes and SNP MSP Marco Biagi. The chair is Shabnum Mustapha of Amnesty Scotland. View full details
6 Jun 7.30pm	St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Au Pair
Date	Location
The exploitation of au pair women who come from overseas to work in richer countries is the subject of this compassionate and hard-hitting documentary. The film looks at the lives of three Philippine women who work as au pairs in Denmark. Struggling in their new country to earn money for their families back home, the women face social marginalisation and the imminent expiration of their work permits. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 2.25pm 26 Jun 6.35pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Coalition
Date	Location
Spontaneity Shop / Pleasance Theatre Trust. It's 2014 and Britain's coalition government has only six months left to run. The Conservative Prime Minister and his Lib Dem Deputy haven't spoken for months, the economy's flat-lined and government MPs are threatening to defect right, left and centre. Lib Dem leader Matt Cooper has to make a series of last, desperate gambles to save his party. A fast-moving comedy satire starring Thom Tuck, Phill Jupitus, Jo Caulfield, Alistair Barrie, Jessica… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 2–3.30pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 2–3.30pm	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 2–3.30pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh

The Festival of Politics
Date	Location
The only festival of its kind to be hosted in a UK parliament, the Festival of Politics features famous names from politics, media and the arts in debates and cultural events. Most are free apart from a reservation fee, and all events are themed around a politically-inspired topic – last year's was the suitably zeitgeisty 'Renewing Politics in the age of New Media', and involved talks about the uses of Twitter on politics, and the ramifications of the internet for freedom of information. View full details
17 Aug–18 Aug Times vary 24 Aug–25 Aug Times vary	The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Festival of Spirituality and Peace
Date	Location
Based in St John's Church on Princes Street and having emerged from the Fringe six years ago as a festival in its own right, this multi-faith series of events marries creativity and peace-making in a three-week programme of talks, discussions, performances, film screenings, food events, exhibitions and family activities. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Gabriel over the White House
Date	Location
In this outrageous political fantasy made at the bottom of the Depression, a political hack is elected president of the United States. After suffering a near-fatal car accident, he is inspired by the angel Gabriel to seize dictatorial powers in order to lead the nation out of its woes. View full details and ticket info
28 Jun 4.15pm Print courtesy of The Library of Congress. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Retrospective…	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Hitler Alone
Date	Location
Paul Webster. This one-man show is an imagined solitary hour of rumination by the Fuehrer before his suicide in the Berlin bunker. It is culled from his own words and historical sources. His thoughts range over his past, present and future in moods that veer from extreme violence to lyricism, jocular reminiscence to brutal rage, touching affection to murderous hate. His themes are world history, the arts, women, Stalin and Churchill, the British Empire, dear friends, total war and the Jews. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
9 Aug–23 Aug Mon–Sun 9.30–10.45pm	Inlingua Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Karen's Way: A Kindertransport Life
Date	Location
Yellow Leaf Theatre. Based on her autobiographies and poems, Karen Gershon's story, told with unflinching honesty, is one with which few things outside of Ann Frank can compare. Karen's Way is by Vanessa Rosenthal, whose Holocaust play, Exchanges In Bialysdtok, represented the BBC at the European Broadcasting Union in Helsinki. Karen criss-crossed wartime Britain from Edinburgh to Leeds to Bristol and beyond. From trainee Palestine pioneer to chorus girl to Edinburgh student, she went from… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 3.05–4.25pm	theSpace @ Venue45, Edinburgh

Nationhood Today
Date	Location
Broadcaster Sheena McDonald discusses the changing face of nationhood today in Scotland with the distinguished line-up of Professor of Constitutional Law Christine Bell, Grierson Professor of Literature Susan Manning, Professor of Politics Charlie Jeffery and Alvin Jackson, Richard Lodge Professor of History. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Aug 5pm	The Hub, Edinburgh

NewsRevue
Date	Location
Canal Cafe Theatre. Guinness World Record-breaking Fringe favourites mock the year's news events, mercilessly lampooning those in the public eye. No one is safe - politicians and celebrities alike come under fire in a turbo-charged barrage of bladder-threateningly funny songs and sketches that are so close to the bone you can almost see white. The sing-off between Cameron and Salmond, in a hilarious re-working of Destiny's Child's Independent Women, makes it worth the ticket price alone. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 6.20–7.20pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 6.20–7.20pm	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 6.20–7.20pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

The Scottish Political Archive
Date	Location
Sarah Bromage from the University of Stirling presents this illustrated talk on Scotland's political history, featuring politicians' personal papers and archival photographic, oral and other material dating back to the 20th century. View full details
27 Jun 10.30am	Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh

The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance 1950–1980
Date	Location
Talk and launch of new book looking at the impact of the 20th-century sexual revolution on governance in Scotland. Try not to think about Alex Salmond. Tickets available from the front desk at Blackwell's Edinburgh. View full details
31 May 6.30pm	Blackwells, Edinburgh

Shadow Dancer
Date	Location
When a young IRA member is forced to turn informant for MI5, nobody expects the disastrous chain of events that is about to unfold. Adapted by Tom Bradby from his own 2001 novel, this outstanding thriller from Oscar-winning director James Marsh (Man on Wire, Project Nim) boasts outstanding central performances from Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough as the main protagonists caught in a complex web of political intrigue, set against a deeply insightful depiction of pre-peace process Belfast. View full details and ticket info
29 Jun 8.15pm 30 Jun 7.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Song and Sectarianism
Date	Location
Find out about the sectarian past (and, in some cases, the equally sectarian present) of various songs, and what their songwriters might have meant when they wrote them. With musical accompaniment from Bonnie Dudley Edwards. View full details
23 Aug 6pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Tahrir: Liberation Square
Date	Location
An exhilarating, immersive, impressionistic account of the revolution that lead to the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February last year. Director Stefano Savona's camera weaves through crowds chanting slogans, captures the horror when it is realised that live ammunition is being used on protestors, eavesdrops on heated discussions about what kind of government should replace Mubarak, and, finally, witnesses the joy of victory. Visually beautiful, hypnotically intense, this… View full details and ticket info
22 Jun 6.10pm 24 Jun 1pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Take One Action Film Festival
Date	Location
An politically charged film festival, founded on the belief that 'cinematic experiences can inspire lasting change.' Expect a series of talks and programmes showing how films can be used to empower communities on an international stage. View full details
20 Sep–30 Sep Times vary FIlms shown at Edinburgh Filmhouse and GFT.	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Tales from a Turbulent World: Can Journalism Really be the First Draft of History?
Date	Location
BBC Special Correspondent Allan Little gives the Edinburgh University Festival lecture, chaired by Vice Principal and Head of Humanities and Social Science Professor Dorothy Miell. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Aug 2.30pm	The Hub, Edinburgh

Times of Troubles: Britain's War in Northern Ireland
Date	Location
Launch of a new academic study of the British Army in Northern Ireland, by Andrew Sanders and Ian S Wood. View full details
7 Jun 6.30pm	Blackwells, Edinburgh

Truce
Date	Location
Composer Nigel Osborne, Reid Professor of Music, and Dr Igor Stiks are joined in an interactive workshop by Dr Olga Taxidou and broadcaster Professor Jolyon Mitchell to explore the concept of truce in the arts. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Aug Noon	The Hub, Edinburgh

World Press Photo Exhibition 2012
Date	Location
The World Press Photo Award highlights the best press photography from around the world. This exhibition displays the short list on display in Edinburgh as part of a global tour. View full details
5 Jul–28 Jul Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5.30pm	The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

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