Edinburgh's International Festival is teaming up with a high school for a new three year relationship which will bring art to pupils, and the pupils to the festival.
The festival will be working with Castlebrae Community High School, in the Greendykes area of Edinburgh, until the end of 2017.
The festival, describing the initiative as a "residency", will give pupils and staff access to workshops at the festival's base at The Hub, involve a series of events with artists in the school and encourage attendance at performances during the festival.
From Castlebrae with Love will be a film and music project inspired by the singer and songwriter King Creosote's popular From Scotland with Love, which will be performed at this year's EIF.
Pupils and teachers will work with a team of artists and filmmakers to create a film with music to be shown in The Hub, on the Royal Mile, on August 15 before the performance of From Scotland With Love.
Other activities include the festival's Art of Listening project - currently being researched and documented by Harvard University - where young people develop their listening kills.
Pupils will also interact with people attending at the Festival, both staff and audiences, by creating an installation at the Festival's Hub.
Pupils will also have work experience sessions with the festival.
Fergus Linehan, the director of the festival, who unveiled the 2015 programme last week, said: "This is a really exciting development of the year round work the Festival does in schools across the city.
"Through our work with Castlebrae Community High School we hope to demonstrate how the arts and creative approaches can help to support schools in a practical way and improve perceptions of the school in its community.
"The future of the Festival and the arts is in the hands of young people, we have to get out and make ourselves part of their everyday lives and expectation."
Sally Hobson, head of creative learning at the festival said the project offers a "remarkable opportunity for the partners to collaborate in the creation of a specially tailored programme of activities and events designed to enhance understanding of how the arts can impact on every area of our lives."
Councillor Cathy Fullerton, vice convener of education at the City of Edinburgh Council, said: "I'm delighted that the EIF have linked up with Castlebrae Community High School for this unique project.
"The three year residency really will give the pupils a chance to be creative and inspire them.
"It's not often a school gets such a fantastic opportunity to tap into such international artistic talent and I'm sure it will spark the pupils into expressing themselves in a way they had never thought possible."
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