Festival and Devolution · event 1 of 10

1947

The Festival, and the Fringe. The Edinburgh International Festival is founded as an act of postwar cultural reconstruction. Eight uninvited companies perform anyway and create the Fringe by accident.

The Festival and Devolution era

  1. 1947
  2. 1950
  3. 1964
  4. 1995
  5. 1996
  6. 1997
  7. 1999
  8. 2004
  9. 2014
  10. 2023

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