Date and joining details

Event

Presenter(s)

20 Oct 2020

The History of the Edinburgh Festival

With film and recordings of the earliest international performers who established Edinburgh as the Festival City.

Mike Lewis
Local Historian and Royal Mile Guide

17 Nov 2020

Luxury Hotel Design in Scotland and Beyond

Hotel architecture and interior design in the twentieth century with a focus on Scottish examples of the 1930s-1970s and concluding with some covered in his latest book, Jet Age Hotels and the International Style 1945-1965.

Bruce Peter
Professor of Design History,
Glasgow School of Art

15 Dec 2020

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Words and Music

The presenters talk about their musical collaborations
over more than 10 years
including video clips from several performances.

Tom Cunningham (composer)
and
Alexander McCall Smith (author)

19 Jan 2021

Is Hydrogen the Answer?

Examining the potential of this new technology

Bill Ireland
CEO, Logan Energy

16 Feb 2021

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Age Scotland

This talk will be about the services available to Edinburgh residents to help them live independently for as long as they want and are able.

Mike Douglas
Director, Social Enterprises

16 Mar 2021

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 • AGM 2021

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 • Owen Kelly: Fly-through video

Doors open at 18.50.

AGM
at 19:00

followed at 19:45 by:

Navigating Complex Futures –

a briefing on the Edinburgh Futures Institute, now taking shape in the old Royal Infirmary Building on the North side
of the Meadows.  The briefing will cover the intellectual vision behind the EFI,
progress so far and plans for the building.

_{Photo courtesy of Edinburgh Futures Institute
with permission of Bennetts Associates.}

Owen Kelly
Deputy Director, Edinburgh Futures Institute