Edinburgh
Festival
of The
Sacred
Arts
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Celebrating the Sacred Arts in August
This Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts is an initiative of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation, a registered Scottish charity (SC051554). It began in 2018 and 2024 was its most successful year yet. The seventh Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts will take place between Sunday August 10th and Saturday August 16th, 2025. Opening with a church service in St John's Episcopal Church on Princes Street (guest preacher Rowan Williams, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury) and closing on Saturday August 16th with Choral Evensong at St Michael and All Saints, Tollcross (guest homilist Archbishop Leo Cushley), the week between is packed with exhibitions, music, poetry, architectural visits and film. The highly successful competition for young composers of sacred music established in 2024 will be repeated, with a corresponding competition for young poets of religious poetry established for 2025. Full details of all the events can be found HERE.
Find out the WINNERS of the Young Poets Competition!
This Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts is an initiative of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation, a registered Scottish charity (SC051554). It began in 2018 and 2024 was its most successful year yet. The seventh Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts will take place between Sunday August 10th and Saturday August 16th, 2025. Opening with a church service in St John's Episcopal Church on Princes Street (guest preacher Rowan Williams, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury) and closing on Saturday August 16th with Choral Evensong at St Michael and All Saints, Tollcross (guest homilist Archbishop Leo Cushley), the week between is packed with exhibitions, music, poetry, architectural visits and film. The highly successful competition for young composers of sacred music established in 2024 will be repeated, with a corresponding competition for young poets of religious poetry established for 2025. Full details of all the events can be found HERE.
Find out the WINNERS of the Young Poets Competition!
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The Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation gratefully acknowledges generous financial support for the 2025 Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts from: The Binks Trust Christian Arts Trust The Church Hymnary Trust H R Creswick Trust Edinburgh Society of Organists Royal College of Organists Canonmills Church Geoff and Mary Ball Download our 2025 programme
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