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March 30, 2021 9:54 am
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Burns&Beyond, Edinburgh’s flagship Burns Festival made a surprise return to the city in March to spread Love, Hope and Kindness with the Scottish premiere of Yvette Mattern’s spectacular Work of Art – Global Rainbow – which lit up the skies above the capital. Originally scheduled for late-January as part of the capital’s Burns Night celebrations, but postponed due to lock-down... View Article
January 26, 2021 5:02 pm
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Luve, Hope & Kindness as Burns&Beyond with Johnnie Walker returned in 2021 for a FREE online programme of music and poetry from across Scotland and Beyond… Burns&Beyond returned for a third year celebrating the life and legacy of Robert Burns for 2021 with a series of FREE online events presenting art and culture from some of Scotland’s leading performers and... View Article
September 1, 2020 3:17 pm
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UNIQUE EVENTS ARE BACK WITH A BRAND NEW DRIVE-IN MOVIE EVENTS SERIES! Unique Events and partners Edinburgh International Film Festival, have hailed the opening weekend of their new Drive-In Movies project a huge success, with audiences of over 4,000 people flocking to Edinburgh Airport to experience a 4-day outdoor cinema extravaganza for people of all ages, which included family favourites,... View Article
February 3, 2020 11:34 am
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Unique Events have had a fun-packed start to 2020, producing ‘Lidl Live’ with KT Tunstall, a series of charity concerts and promotional campaign, counting-down to the opening of Lidl’s 100th Scottish store and celebrating their 25th anniversary in Scotland. Over 4,000 people enjoyed spectacular live shows, taking in Aberdeen Beach Ballroom, Strathpeffer Pavillion, Ayr Town Hall and ending with a special night... View Article
September 24, 2019 11:14 am
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The cream of International crime writers descended on Stirling last weekend for the spectacular Bloody Scotland Festival, which over 8 years has established itself as one of the UK’s leading literary events. To start things in spectacular style, Unique Events once again produced the opening Torchlit Procession event, which leads participants from the stunning surroundings of Stirling Castle to the... View Article
September 5, 2019 7:57 am
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Unique Events are pleased to announce the return of Burns&Beyond with Johnnie Walker in January 2020, along with the first shows at the all new ‘Burns&Beyond Festival Club’ located in Edinburgh’s famous Assembly Rooms, George Street from Thursday 23 – Sunday 26 January. Opening the Burns&Beyond Festival Club on Thursday 23 January is Scottish music legend and inspirational artist Edwyn Collins. Recently celebrating his 60th birthday, the musician,... View Article
August 20, 2019 1:09 pm
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For 4-days in August (Thurs 15 – Sun 18 August), Unique Events helped transform Deaconess Gardens, Edinburgh into The Lidl Garden at the Fringe, presenting a packed programme of FREE activities and performances for all ages, featuring some of the very best in comedy, music and performance from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A family daytime programme allowed younger audiences to get... View Article
June 18, 2019 11:58 am
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Edinburgh’s largest outdoor cinema event ‘Film Fest in the City’ returned to St Andrew Square last weekend with another packed 3-days of FREE outdoor cinema produced by Unique Events on behalf of our clients Edinburgh International Film Festival and Essential Edinburgh. The fantastic line-up of free screenings ran from Friday 14 – Sunday 16 June 2019 and welcomed over 15,000 visitors... View Article
May 30, 2019 10:28 am
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Illuminight with Lidl, the light and sound spectacular in Kilmarnock’s Dean Castle Country Park, will return this year from Wednesday 23 October to Sunday 17 November with an all new show and exciting new theme to be announced later in the summer. Tickets for the 2019 event go on-sale 10am, Friday 31 May from www.illuminight.co.uk Presented by East Ayrshire Leisure... View Article
May 8, 2019 9:04 am
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Exciting announcement from our friends at Social Bite as this year Sleep in the Park goes global with ‘The World’s Big Sleep Out’! Unique Events will be back in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens for one last Sleep in the Park fundraiser, but this time we will be producing an official event in London’s Trafalgar Square, which along with Times Square NYC... View Article
May 7, 2019 1:07 pm
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The ever-popular (and totally FREE) Film Fest in the City event is returning to St. Andrew Square Garden this June, with another packed weekend of outdoor cinema produced by Unique Events on behalf of our clients Edinburgh International Film Festival and Essential Edinburgh. A fantastic line-up of free screenings running from Friday 14 – Sunday 16 June 2019, will once again... View Article
November 20, 2018 12:36 pm
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Unique Events Directors Penny & Al were delighted to attend the Scottish Thistle Awards and be awarded Best Cultural Event or Festival for Unique Events’ role in Sleep in the Park for Lothian and Borders. Last year 8,000 people joined the world’s largest sleep out in Princes St Gardens to raise £4 Million and call for an end to homelessness in... View Article
November 14, 2018 3:39 pm
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We’ve been having a great time in Kilmarnock with our second season of Illuminight with Lidl! There are a few more days to go but so far: • Over 4,500 hot chocolates have been made by the team • 41 Speakers are used across the event • 1300 Festoon lamps illuminating the walkways and warming zones • 1428 Lights creating... View Article
July 18, 2018 1:30 pm
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We were delighted to be invited along to the Sunday Herald Culture Awards last Thursday 12th July. The Sunday Herald team were keeping very tight lipped about why they wanted us to be in attendance but we were happy to head along and enjoy the night! After a great evening celebrating some incredible performances and winners, particular shout out to... View Article
June 26, 2018 2:00 pm
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Last weekend we welcomed over 10,000 film fans into St Andrews Square to Film Fest in the City. Spirits were high despite the slightly damp conditions, a particular highlight of the weekend being the two Paddington movies where our audience were treated to marmalade sandwiches supplied by our chums at Mackays. The most popular film of the weekend was definitely... View Article
May 4, 2018 10:17 am
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We’re delighted to work with, once again, East Ayrshire Leisure to produce Illuminight at Kilmarnock’s Dean Castle Country Park. Running from Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 18 November Illuminight, which last year welcomed over 38,000 people, is a magical experience for all the family with stunning visuals, state-of-the-art lighting installations and music along a trail showing Dean Castle and the... View Article
May 1, 2018 3:05 pm
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We’re delighted to once again deliver three days of free outdoor screenings at St Andrew Square Garden, Edinburgh at Film Fest in the City with Mackays Working with our clients, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Essential Edinburgh, Unique Events will deliver all production and site services for this immensely popular free open-air cinema event, Film Fest in the City with Mackays from... View Article
December 12, 2017 2:55 pm
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This weekend saw Unique Events deliver Sleep in the Park – a massive fundraising success with over 8,000 people sleeping rough to support Scottish charity Social Bite. So far over £3.6 million has been raised to help eradicate homelessness in Scotland within the next five years. In addition to the monetary donations, 164 job opportunities and 33 temporary housing solutions were donated... View Article
December 6, 2017 2:01 pm
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Following the success of the event last year the second Red, Red Rose Street Festival, celebrating all things Burns, returns to the city centre in January 2018 with an even bigger and better programme of events. Focused around Rose Street, the Burns celebrations will include a Burns Supper, two family ceilidhs, Burns Club comedy nights, Captivate Theatre’s musical of... View Article
December 1, 2017 5:49 pm
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We are delighted to announce the success of ILLUMINIGHT, the fire and light spectacular in Kilmarnock’s Dean Castle Country Park which ended Sunday 19th November. The inaugural event welcomed over 38,000 visitors during its four week run. Presented by East Ayrshire Leisure, created and produced by Unique Events in collaboration with production specialists Black Light, Illuminight celebrated the re-opening of Dean Castle... View Article
November 7, 2017 10:49 am
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ILLUMINIGHT, the brand new fire and light spectacular in Kilmarnock’s Dean Castle Country Park, is proving to be this autumn’s hottest ticket with thousands of visitors enjoying the event over the opening weekend and over 12,500 tickets already snapped up for the run. Due to popular demand, new family-friendly sessions have been added to ILLUMINIGHT each weekend until Sunday 19... View Article
September 8, 2017 4:41 pm
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We were delighted to produce and facilitate the Opening Ceremony activity for the new Queensferry Crossing on Monday 4th September. The Queensferry Crossing sits alongside the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge – three iconic structures spanning three centuries of cutting-edge civil engineering and we were honoured to play a role in such a historic and memorable occasion.
August 30, 2017 12:01 pm
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We are delighted to be working with Social Bite to launch the World’s largest ever ‘Sleep-out’ with a mission to eradicate homelessness in Scotland in 5 years Thousands expected to sleep rough in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens and city centre this December Live concert featuring A-list ‘buskers’ Liam Gallagher, Deacon Blue, Amy Macdonald and Frightened Rabbit. All playing rare... View Article
August 1, 2017 9:57 am
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ILLUMINIGHT All new fire and light spectacular launched for Dean Castle Country Park, Kilmarnock Tickets on-sale 10am, Friday 4 August A brand new fire and light spectacular in Kilmarnock’s Dean Castle Country Park is set to be this autumn’s hottest ticket. ILLUMINIGHT will be a magical experience for all the family with stunning visuals, state of the art lighting installations... View Article
