Festival Soundings of Edinburgh – on-line event 11.30am-1.00pm Saturday 18 September or 6.00pm-7.30pm Tuesday 21 September – FREE admission
Festival Soundings of Edinburgh is a FREE online group walk to explore the venues, places and spaces of past Edinburgh festivals revealed through audio recordings of the memories of city residents and visitors.
We invite you to join us and share your own Edinburgh festival memories and especially of which places and spaces added to or detracted from your enjoyment of the city.
Led by Dr Louise Todd of Edinburgh Napier University and Andrew Stuck at the Museum of walking this online event will take approximately 90 minutes and visit several festival venues.
If you are unable to attend either of these group sessions, you can download an abridged geolocated sound walk to follow a suggested walk through the city. Go to Sonic Maps https://sonicmaps.xyz and search for Festival Soundings
Special thanks to Jack Pedersen and Benedetta Piccio for their contributions, research, audio interviews and sound walk production.
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