Welcome to Edinburgh’s Own World Stage for Performance, Visual and Literary Arts.
2025 Programme | 30 August
Ahalya Dance Academy
Think Circus
Brownbear
Salty Seas
Stepping out of Shadows: Living Statues project
Edinburgh-Kyoto Friendship Garden | 13:00-15:00
The Japanese Tea Ceremony and Storigami with Mio Shudo is returning to the Edinburgh-Kyoto Friendship Garden by popular demand. So is Josephine Morton with a Chinese Knotting exhibition and workshop. Live music by Preetha Nirmala and cultural dance performances featuring the Edinburgh Chinese Arts Association and Ahalya Dance Academy will harmoniously compliment your experience of this heritage garden.
Castle grounds | 13:00-16:00
Think Circus will bring the sense of wonder that circus shows evoke in audiences of all ages to Lauriston Castle this year. Circus workshops and performances that combine human skill, artistry, and entertainment, will create a magical world where imagination takes flight!
Main Stage at the Castle | 16:00-20:00
The Main Stage will be shared by an Irish singer-songwriter, Heidi Talbot, whose enchanting sounds will mesmerise hearts and minds, a Malawian-born reggae musician Luhangah, whose powerful performance will energise bodies, a multitalented and skilled Spanish music and dance group, TuFlamenco, will inflame passion for dance, and the feel-good music by the Scottish Album of the Year nominee Brownbear, will warm hearts with the indie-soul sound goodness.
The music stage will also feature Salty Seas musical theatre performance that sheds light on historic and fictional characters whose lives were affected by slavery and the abolitionist movement in Scotland and beyond. Dramatised stories of John Edmonstone, Joseph Knight and Ann Thompson, David Hume, and Malvina Wells are interpreted through original music, spoken word and dance.
Written by Morgan Njobo and co-composed with Ramcise Modie. Developed and performed as part of the Edinburgh900 Civic Fund Programme.
