The Hub

Events at The Hub (Castlehill, Royal Mile, Edinburgh)

Conversations: Angelin Preljocaj

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	The French choreographer and artistic director of the Ballet Preljocaj, in conversation with arts journalist Jackie McGlone, talks about bringing his 2010 creation And then, one thousand years of peace to the Edinburgh International Festival. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	18 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Barry McGovern

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	Barry McGovern, world renowned for his interpretations of the work of Samuel Beckett, discusses his adaptation and solo performance of Watt, produced by Dublin’s Gate Theatre, with questions from theatre specialist Dr Olga Taxidou. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	13 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Camille O'Sullivan

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	Singer Camille O’Sullivan talks to BBC Radio Scotland’s Stephen Duffy about interpreting art song and her solo performance in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Rape of Lucrece. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	25 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Emerson String Quartet

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	The members of the incomparable New York City-based string quartet discuss their music and closing The Queen’s Hall recital series for Festival 2012 with composer John Harris. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	31 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Graham Valentine

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	Scots-born actor Graham Valentine talks about performing in Theater Basel’s Meine faire Dame – ein Sprachlabor, the Swiss company’s reinvention of My Fair Lady, in conversation with journalist Jackie McGlone. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	15 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Hebrides Ensemble and Synergy Vocals

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	Members of Scotland’s foremost contemporary music group, Hebrides Ensemble, and vocalists from unique voice ensemble Synergy Vocals, discuss presenting a world premiere at Festival 2012 with Richard Morrison, chief music critic of The Times. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	23 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Les Vents Français

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	The five members of France’s celebrated wind ensemble discuss their work, fresh from their Queen’s Hall recital, with Richard Morrison, chief music critic of The Times. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	15 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Nicola Benedetti

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	Brilliant young Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti talks about performing at the Edinburgh International Festival with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, in conversation with Richard Morrison, chief music critic of The Times. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	17 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: Tom Cairns

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	Director of Opera North’s The Makropulos Case Tom Cairns talks about his new production of Janáček’s popular 1926 opera to BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster Jamie MacDougall. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	12 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Conversations: William Christie

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	William Christie, the American born conductor and musician, and founder of the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants, talks to John Kitchen about presenting Charpentier’s 1688 opera David et Jonathas at Festival 2012. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	17 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: A Classical World

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	Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford University, explores the importance and popularity of the classical world and its influence on modern culture. Chaired by Graham Sheffield, Director Arts for the British Council. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	17 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: A Peaceful Place

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	James MacMillan, composer of Scottish Opera's Clemency, and Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company, join Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy, and Chair Eugene Downes of Culture Ireland, to explore ways in which the Olympic Truce can be applied today and how the arts can promote and support peace and better understanding. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	1 Sep 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: A Very French Connection

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	Ariane Mnouchkine, director of Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir, is joined by Michel Le Bris, founder of book and film festival Étonnants Voyageurs, and author Professor Ian Thompson to discuss Jules Verne’s fascination with Scotland. Chaired by Catherine Lockerbie, the panel explores the cultural bonds between Scotland and France. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	25 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: Athletes and Ideals

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	Louise Martin, Vice Chair of the Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games Scotland, chairs this discussion on what sport means to us today and the values of the classical Greek athlete. With Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA’s Speed of Light, runner and writer Robin Harvie and Professor Douglas Cairns, specialist in the ethics of ancient Greek society at the University of Edinburgh. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	14 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: Choosing Myths and Fairytales

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	Scots Makar, poet and playwright Liz Lochhead discusses her work and its connections with myth and fairytales from Scottish and European traditions with Robyn Marsack, Director of the Scottish Poetry Library. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	28 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: Fresh Voices

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	Jen Hadfield, the English poet and artist, who found inspiration and a new voice when she moved to Shetland five years ago, Scottish teen fiction writer Jamie Jauncey and Lawrence Rhodes, Artistic Director of New York’s Juilliard Dance, discuss regeneration and renewal of the arts. Chaired by Richard Holloway, Chairman of Sistema Scotland. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	27 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: Myth and Enchantment

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	Writer Marina Warner, Wagner specialist Derek Watson and Dmitry Krymov, director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It), examine the roles of myth, fairytale and enchantment in culture and creativity. Chaired by the Head of Literature for the British Council, Susie Nicklin. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	26 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: Representations

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	Matthew Lenton, director of Wonderland, joins Professor Michael Lamb, psychologist and specialist in child development from the University of Cambridge, and Jean Kilbourne, a feminist speaker internationally recognised for her work on the image of women in advertising, to explore depictions of young women in the arts and media. Chaired by the BBC’s arts correspondent Razia Iqbal. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	31 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: Satire

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	Director of Gulliver’s Travels Silviu Purcărete joins Dr Valerie Rumbold of the University of Birmingham and Martin Rowson, cartoonist and author of his own Gulliver story, to discuss the great tradition of satire from which Jonathan Swift’s original tale emerged. Chaired by Guardian columnist and feature writer Lucy Mangan. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	18 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: The Four Nations of the United Kingdom

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	A distinguished panel of creative writers meets to explore the voices of the four nations of the United Kingdom. Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, Scots poet and novelist Jackie Kay, writer and Wales’ first National Poet Gwyneth Lewis and English poet Lavinia Greenlaw come together for a series of readings and to discuss the distinctive voices that comprise the United Kingdom today. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	13 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Encounters: What Does It Mean to be British?

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	In a provocative keynote address, Robert McCrum, associate editor of The Observer and author of Globish, argues that it is not a suicide mission to define Britishness in terms of our inheritance and that, properly expressed, the definition can be a passport to a renewed and vigorous participation in global affairs. In collaboration with British Council Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	12 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Green Shoots

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	Get stuck into the city's little nooks and crannies with a tour of its green spaces. Take in a herb project, a children's garden that's been hidden in history and the Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden, which is usually closed to the public. Ages 16+. View full details
The Hub	23 Jun 11am 3 Jul 6.30pm	0131 473 2000 £7 in advance; £8 on the door

Healing Herbs In The City

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	Led by a medical herbalist, this walk talks you through the uses of common weeds and plants as well as some more exotic species, passing through an urban wildlife garden not usually open to the public. Ages 16+. Booking is essential. View full details
The Hub	9 Jun 11am 22 Sep 11am	0131 473 2000 £8 in advance; £10 on the door

Masterclass: Alim Qasimov Ensemble

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	One of the foremost mugham singers in Azerbaijan, Alim Qasimov performs with his ensemble as part of Festival 2012. In this Masterclass the ensemble presents the complex art of Azerbaijani mugham, illustrating a thousand years of musical tradition with vocal and instrumental performances. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	22 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Masterclass: Homayun Sakhi Trio

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	Master of the Afghan rubab Homayun Sakhi brings his trio to perform in Edinburgh for Festival 2012. In this Masterclass the trio presents the music making and performance style of the Afghan tradition and provides an insight into its long history. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	16 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Nationhood Today

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	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)
The Hub	30 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Primer for a Failed Superpower

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	Winner of the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, the TEAM presents a work in progress. Primer for a Failed Superpower will (likely) tell the tale of two cities: Washington, DC (then) and Detroit (now). It will (likely) be about a group of characters who were awesome in their 20s. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	24 Aug Fri 2.30–3.15pm & 5–5.45pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Reflections on Song: Ian Bostridge with Sir John Tusa

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	Internationally celebrated English tenor Ian Bostridge discusses his recent collection of essays on music, A Singer’s Notebook, with Sir John Tusa, cultural commentator and former Managing Director of London’s Barbican. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	28 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Reflections on Song: Rebecca Evans and Malcolm Martineau

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	Welsh soprano Rebecca Evans and Malcolm Martineau, two of the UK’s leading artists of their generation, discuss the art of singing and accompaniment with music writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	22 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Reflections on Song: Sir Thomas Allen

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	Major international star, English baritone Sir Thomas Allen reflects upon his career as a singer with music writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	11 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Reflections on Song: Toby Spence

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	World-renowned English tenor Toby Spence shares his thoughts and ideas on singing in the company of music writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	29 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Study Day: Personal Mythology

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	Mythic stories may reveal hidden worlds. Psychologist and storyteller Professor Jonathan Young draws on his work with mythologist Joseph Campbell. The day is highly participatory and explores how metaphors can reveal elements of psychological life through storytelling and conversation. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	29 Aug 11am	0131 473 2000 £12

Study Day: Polish Modernism – Szymanowski and Lutowski

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	Professor Stephen Downes, Deputy Head and Director of Research, School of Arts, University of Surrey, explores the music of Szymanowski and Lutoslawski, offering unique insights into their work. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	16 Aug 10am	0131 473 2000 £12

Study Day: Szymanowski's Homeland - Europe's Forgotten Orient

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	In a panel organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, contributors rediscover the orient in Szymanowski’s music and, by exploring his work from a post-colonial perspective, add a new dimension to our understanding of this cultural icon. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	16 Aug 5pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Tales from a Turbulent World: Can Journalism Really be the First Draft of History?

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	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)
The Hub	30 Aug 2.30pm	0131 473 2000 £6

Truce

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	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)
The Hub	30 Aug Noon	0131 473 2000 £6

Villa+Discurso

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	1970s Chile – the main torture and extermination centre of General Pinochet’s regime is the notorious Villa Grimaldi. Thirty years later, three women argue about how to remodel the same blood-soaked building complex and how modern Chile should respond to this awful and unwanted legacy, in Guillermo Calderón’s poignant and moving play, Villa+Discurso recreates the last hours in office of Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile from 2006 until 2010, with an imaginary farewell speech. Chilean… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
The Hub	20 Aug–21 Aug Mon & Tue 7.30–9.45pm	0131 473 2000 £25

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