Fringe Festival

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe celebrates arts and culture from all over the world for three weeks in August. Artists and performers take to hundreds of stages all over the city to present all sorts of shows. We had tickets to see the Oxford Imps on Wednesday, August 20. The Imps are a comedy troupe from Oxford that present improvisational comedy.

When we stepped off the bus on our way to see the Imps, we heard piano music. Investigating, we found:

We wandered through the University of Edinburgh. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland, symbolizing strength, innocence, and power.

This is an example of an old wooden pipe that used to supply water to people.

Wandering on, we found:

The Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh is an interdisciplinary unit within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Walking through the book tent.

Lots of kids came to the Book Festival, a slam dunk activity for teachers during the first week of school.

McEwan’s Lantern

Teviot Row House is one of the student union buildings at the University of Edinburgh

McEwan Hall

There were posters all over advertising Fringe events

Performers like the one in aqua handed out flyers.

Posters were inside the venues too.

The Imps were quick witted and a lot of fun.

We had a great time. Tomorrow we plan to take a Hop On Hop Off bus tour.