Evening Lectures

Schedule

Mon Oct 02 2023 at 07:00 pm to Mon Dec 02 2024 at 08:30 pm

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The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh | Edinburgh, SC

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Monday, Nov 6th – Demarco's Edinburgh with Richard Demarco and Roddy Martine

– About the Events and Speakers –

Nov. 6th:

The Edinburgh Festival of those days was a much more accessible village... The ground rules were well enough understood. Everything about it was containable. The Fringe was the seed bed for talent and ran happily in step with its established elders and betters. They both knew their place.

But then something equally remarkable was about to take place in the New Town of the city I knew and loved...

The same year, Roddy Martine is born. In 1963 when, at the age of sixteen, he interviewed Sir Yehudi Menuhin and David Frost for an Edinburgh Festival magazine he edited and the following year, met Marlene Dietrich.

Both Richard and Roddy have unique perspectives on the most remarkable international festival of the arts the world has ever known. They have witnessed its evolution over the years and are passionate believers in the power of creativity within everyone.

In this fascinating book, Richard – the 2013 UK recipient of the Citizen of Europe medal – explores the original world vision of Sir John Falconer and Rudolph Bing and, with Roddy, recalls the highs and lows of The Edinburgh International Festival, The Fringe, Art, Book, Jazz and Television Festivals, and The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Now in its eighth decade, can the Edinburgh Festival survive? Where do we go from here?

About the Authors:

RICHARD DEMARCO is an artist and patron of the visual and performing arts. He has been one of Scotland’s most influential advocates for contemporary art through his work at the Richard Demarco Gallery and the Demarco European Art Foundation. He has attended every Edinburgh Festival since its inception in 1947, and he was a cofounder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1963.

RODDY MARTINE is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He regularly works as a columnist on a wide range of newspapers and periodicals throughout the UK. Roddy is also the author of over twenty books.


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