Syn Festival Edinburgh
syn festival edinburgh cultural festival edinburgh organisation involves individual southern europe syn festival first ran multiartsfestival comprises musical cinema theatre visual art event hosted event numerous venue edinburgh including upper church summerhall adam house teviot row house blue drill hall syn festival edinburgh aim promote ‘the cultural discourse south north mediterranean great britain’ aim reflected composition steering group began edinburgh university hellenic society initiative steering group subsequently included people come greece similarly title signifies intention organiser promote intercultural dialogue website note ‘syn mean “with” “together with” well signifying mathematical addition greek’ syn festival edinburgh collaborated drama international short film festival bethere animation festival alba new music festival also cooperated edinburgh greek festival hosting visual art exhibition accompanied theme film screened latter two festival held teviot row house march may two exhibition edinburgh filmhouse collaboration edinburgh greek festival festival revolved around theme ‘mediterranean’ aim organiser also encourage dialogue around refugee crossing mediterranean festival featured emerging artist performer musician filmmaker part festival visual art exhibition “metamorphosistransformation” ran – march blue drill hall context visual art exhibition artist engaged scottish greek broadly european mythology artist mhairi bellmoodie michael dawson alex hackett alix villanueva rebecca holloway яachel lee axe marnie julia alexandra mee ursula mestre fionnuala mottishaw georgia murray kyle noble ioanna papadimitriou paraskevi papagianni tonia papapetrou despina petridou marissa stoffer roween suess jacqueline thow christopher philip ward susana wessling festival also included greek night music dance food country festival hosted exhibition entitled utopia exhibition involved artist built thomas more utopia festival also included ‘feel vibe band night’ event featured seven band playing diverse music genre world folk music klezmer jazz blue funk fusion ska reggae well industrial live drumcore syn festival edinburgh run event july httpwwwsynfestivaledinburghcouk