Festival Brochure

Today was a very quiet day at work, and very dull. It was also very hot. The weather has been pretty warm for the past few days and I sit right by a window at work and so by the middle of the afternoon it can get really hot! It always seems to be either too hot or too cold.

After work I took the bus to the Filmhouse cinema to collect the brochure for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which was just released today. Usually the Film Festival is in August at the same time as the other festivals, but this year, for the first time, it's moved to June. In August there are always a lot of arts festivals in Edinburgh. There is the Edinburgh International Festival, which features classical music, dance, opera, lectures and theatre , the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which focuses mainly on comedy, theatre and more popular music and entertainment, the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and the Edinburgh Book Festival. Apparently the organisers of the Film Festival felt that they were getting overshadowed with all the other things happening at exactly the same time and so decided to move it to two months earlier. It feels weird though, because I almost always go to the Film Festival but I'm so used to it being an end of Summer thing. I usually take my holidays over the two weeks of the Film Festival and the other main festivals. I don't think I will this year though, so it frees up a couple of weeks. The booking opens on Friday, so I'm taking the day off for that, because the really big, popular films and events fill up really fast.