

"Everybody Comes to Holyrood" aims to create a timely
dialogue between a distinctly local phenomenon and the practice
of a range of contemporary artists.

Every year the urbane reserve of Edinburgh is jolted into the festival
season. Once almost entirely the domain of "high culture",
recent years have seen the definite ascendance of the full-scale
international media circus. Television crews chase leads down cobbled
wynds. Rumours fly about the city as to exactly which screen stars
are ensconced in The Witchery. And papers gossip about who will
–allegedly- be putting in an appearance en route to the inevitable
highlands wedding…
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