Event

Edinburgh International Festival 2010 runs from 13 August – 5 September in the city’s major theatres and concert halls in a celebration of the diverse modern-day cultures of North, Central and South America, and Australasia.

Artists from California, New York and New England, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, as well as Spain, Holland and the UK join together in Scotland’s capital to give Festival 2010 a distinctive feel as it explores the contemporary cultures of the ‘New World’.

As part of the activities supported under the EU’s ‘European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion’, the world famous Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company  will be performing at the September Edinburgh International Festival.

Programme

Wednesday 1st September
10h - 10h30Press Conference in the presence of

• Jonathan Mills, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival
• Paco Peña
• Neil Mitchison, Head of the EC office in Edinburgh
• June Burrough, national campaign ambassador of the European Year 2010

Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd , Saturday 4th September

• 20h - 22h“Quimeras” performance by Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company

Venue: The Edinburgh Playhouse
18-22 Greenside Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3AA
UK