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Simone Seales and Mele Broomes: Dearest

Wednesday 13 August 20:00 - 21:30

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Cellist Simone Seales' Dearest (a debut poetry and music album with an accompanying zine) is a reflection on the warmth and nostalgia of first love, drawing on Patricia Highsmith's classic romance, Carol…
 

Future Library

Wednesday 13 August 20:15 - 21:30

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Norway's Future Library is a powerful gesture of hope for a world beyond our lifetime. Every year, for 100 years, an author writes a new book to be placed inside its walls; every text remains unread until 2114…
 

Adam Buxton: I Love You, Byeee

Wednesday 13 August 20:30 - 21:30

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The ramblechats on Adam Buxton's smash-hit podcast are never predictable, but always charming and enlightening, and the same applies to the tales in his idiosyncratic new memoir, I Love You, Byeee…
 

Baby and Toddler Rhymetime with Craigmillar Books for Babies

Suitable for age 0 - 2

Thursday 14 August 10:00 - 10:30

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Why not try? Children's Creativity and AI with SCWBI and Chloe Savage Children's Creativity and AI with SCWBI and Chloe Savage Sun 10 Aug 18:15 - 19:15
 

First Edition: On Trusted Reporting

Thursday 14 August 10:00 - 11:00

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Start your day with the facts. High quality, thorough, and trustworthy journalism has never been more important in helping us understand the world as it really is, so in our First Edition events you can join leading journalists from across the media (and…
 

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Suitable for age 3 - 5

Thursday 14 August 10:00 - 10:45

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Join us for a relaxed morning story especially for your littlest readers. Check website for today’s author…
 

Words from the Wards: The Exhibition

Thursday 14 August 10:00 - 21:00

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Following the success of the Words from the Wards project, we worked with Edinburgh College of Art students to illustrate the collected stories. Join us to view the stories and illustrations side by side in our new festival gallery…
 

Karen Downs-Barton: What it Means to Belong

Thursday 14 August 10:15 - 11:15

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Has anywhere sounded more ominous than the 'Home for Crying Children'? Join Karen Downs-Barton, whose playful new poetry collection Minx effortlessly blends forms in a lyrically vivid evocation of a childhood distinctly less ordinary…
 

Renga Poetry: A Nature Writing Workshop with Karen McCarthy Woolf

Thursday 14 August 10:30 - 12:30

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How do we write in collaboration with other humans and the more-than human? Join poet Karen McCarthy Woolf (Top Doll, Seasonal Disturbances) for this exploratory workshop on renga poetry…
 

Philip Marsden & Vanessa Taylor: How We Use the Natural World

Thursday 14 August 10:30 - 11:30

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The natural world, and humanity's fraught relationship with it, slips into focus in this event…