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Find your Smile with Catherine Rayner

Suitable for age 3 - 5

Monday 11 August 10:00 - 10:45

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Grab your party hats and get ready to celebrate all the things that make you smile in this fun, interactive event featuring lots of live-drawing from Catherine in her beautiful style…
 

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Suitable for age 3 - 5

Monday 11 August 10:00 - 10:30

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Join us for a relaxed morning story especially for your littlest readers. Appearing today: David Litchfield…
 

Bookbinding and Ex Libris printing with Edinburgh Printmakers

Suitable for age 12 - 14

Monday 11 August 10:00 - 11:00

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Learn three different bookbinding stitches and make your own sketchbook! Join Namhara Byron Low from Edinburgh Printmakers in a bookbinding and printing session on how to reuse old lithography plates to make your own bespoke name stamp. You’ll get the……
 

Words from the Wards: The Exhibition

Monday 11 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…
 

Thought Exercise: John Kay

Monday 11 August 10:15 - 11:45

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Hear from experts on urgent issues of our time, then join in on the discussion during a wide-ranging, interactive exchange. Today's guest is leading British economist John Kay, sharing his incisive and provocative new book, The Corporation in the 21st…
 

Empowered Voices with Bea Fitzgerald & Manjeet Mann

Monday 11 August 10:30 - 11:30

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Celebrating female narratives and the triumphs of women, be prepared to feel empowered and inspired by women's voices in this special panel event with the House of YA…
 

Olesya Khromeychuk & Jen Stout: Remembering Victoria Amelina

Monday 11 August 10:45 - 11:45

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Victoria Amelina was a Ukrainian novelist, literary festival curator, and, following Russia’s invasion, a war crimes investigator. Halfway through writing her nonfiction account of the war, Amelina was wounded in a Russian missile attack – days later……
 

Shared Reading with Open Book

Monday 11 August 11:00 - 12:00

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Join Open Book Lead Readers for an informal and relaxed shared reading session. Each session will explore a chapter from a debut book from this year's Festival programme. No experience necessary, all reading materials will be provided on the day…
 

Devi Sridhar: Health For All

Monday 11 August 11:00 - 12:00

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What's the key to a longer, healthier life? Is the answer in self-help books and disciplined individual optimisation, or should we be holding governments to account for their policies on everything from pandemic preparedness to water treatment?…
 

Creating the Sad Ghost Club with Lize Meddings

Monday 11 August 11:15 - 12:15

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Join author-illustrator Lize Meddings as she chats about her Sad Ghost Club journey and shows you how to draw your own sad ghost too…