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Edinburgh’s Hogmanay responds to Covid-19 with innovation and the first fully online celebration in the festival’s history
Fare Well is a new poem by Jackie Kay that bids farewell to 2020 and wishes a better year for 2021
Narrated by David Tennant and others, Fare Well underscores the UK’s largest swarm drone display, recorded in the Scottish Highlands and cut to spectacular views above Edinburgh
Visit www.edinburghshogmanay.com to witness the spectacle for yourselves from 7pm on 29 December
Edinburgh, Scotland – Filmed in the Highlands near Spean Bridge, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay tonight hosts the premiere of the first instalment of its 2020 online celebrations, entitled
Edinburgh’s New Year celebrations to go online with a virtual Hogmanay Phoebe Taplin
Torchlit processions, fireworks, lasers, concerts, cannons and ceilidhs … Edinburgh’s annual new year celebrations are some of the biggest in the world. They span several crowded, fun-packed days and nights and draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city’s streets for a series of giant parties. This year, however, Hogmanay is going online for the first time and a new virtual programme will feature one of the UK’s largest-ever drone shows.
Charlie Wood and Ed Bartlam are directors of the entertainment company Underbelly, which has produced Edinburgh’s Hogmanay since 2017, along with parts of the fringe and other major UK festivals. They described their plans for this year’s “proudly Scottish” celebration: “With 2020 being the year it has been, we want to ring out the old year and hurry in the new year, with a message of hope at a world-class event.”
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Torchlit processions, fireworks, lasers, concerts, cannons and ceilidhs ⦠Edinburghâs annual new year celebrations are some of the biggest in the world. They span several crowded, fun-packed days and nights and draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to the cityâs streets for a series of giant parties. This year, however, Hogmanay is going online for the first time and a new virtual programme will feature one of the UKâs largest-ever drone shows.
Charlie Wood and Ed Bartlam are directors of the entertainment company Underbelly, which has produced Edinburghâs Hogmanay since 2017, along with parts of the fringe and other major UK festivals. They described their plans for this yearâs âproudly Scottishâ celebration: âWith 2020 being the year it has been, we want to ring out the old year and hurry in the new year, with a message of hope at a world-class event.â
Jackie Kay meets Brit Bennett: ‘I can t write about the pandemic. No part of me wants to revisit this year’ Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
During the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, books written by black authors were suddenly on everyone’s wishlists and timelines. They climbed to the top of the bestsellers charts and were picked up by avid anti-racists and clueless Instagram influencers alike. They were also left on the shelves by those who ordered them in a blinding flash of white guilt and didn’t bother to read them. Google “black authors 2020” and you’ll get dozens of reading lists. On many, you’ll see Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half, published in June. And on others, you’ll find the work of Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar (Scotland’s poet laureate).
âIâm really excited to read your next bookâ: Brit Bennett (left) and Jackie Kay. Photographs: Sean Pressley, Jamal Yussuff-Adelakun. Illustrations: Nasreen Ahmed. All for the Guardian
During the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, books written by black authors were suddenly on everyoneâs wishlists and timelines. They climbed to the top of the bestsellers charts and were picked up by avid anti-racists and clueless Instagram influencers alike. They were also left on the shelves by those who ordered them in a blinding flash of white guilt and didnât bother to read them. Google âblack authors 2020â and youâll get dozens of reading lists. On many, youâll see Brit Bennettâs novel, The Vanishing Half, published in June. And on others, youâll find the work of Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar (Scotlandâs poet laureate).