Welcome to Edinburgh’s Own World Stage for Performance, Visual and Literary Arts.
2024 Programme | 15 September
The Sitar Project
Inga Dale
Samba Sene & Diwan
Edinburgh-Kyoto Friendship Garden | 13:00-15:00
The Japanese Tea Ceremony with Mio Shudo is returning to the Edinburgh-Kyoto Friendship Garden by popular demand. So is Josephine Morton with a Taiwanese Knotting exhibition and workshop. Live music by the Sitar Project and cultural dance performances featuring the Chinese Community Dance Group and Ahalya Dance Academy will harmoniously compliment your experience of this heritage garden.
Stewards House at the Castle | 15:00-16:00
Inga Dale will host a poetry reading and performance poetry event that features local poets capturing their lived experience and reflections in their original verses. Inga will be joined on the poetry panel by Raheema Sayed, Thabo Mokolobate, and Noon Salah Eldin. Diverse voices of the new generation of poets will share their understating of the past, present and future.
Main Stage at the Castle | 16:00-19:00
The Main Stage will be shared by an electro-pop and Afrobeat singer-songwriter Fifidiny, a new collaboration project between Billy Got Waves and Leon Power, an Alternative Latino singer-songwriter Oriana Setz, Celtic-inspired harp-led indie-pop performer Dara Dubh and the household name Samba Sene & Diwan bringing their signature Senegalese rhythms.
