THE EDINBURGH Festival Fringe Society has announced a new format for its prestigious Allen Wright Award. The award, which recognises the best writing from arts journalists under 30 years old, will offer prizes for the best Fringe review and the best Fringe feature in 2017.
The winners will be selected including Phil Miller, Arts Correspondent for The Herald, Yasmin Sulaiman, Editor of The List, and Thom Dibdin, Scotland Correspondent for The Stage.
The Allen Wright Award was established in 1998 to commemorate Allen Wright, the first Arts Editor of The Scotsman newspaper, a post he held from 1964 to 1993.
Following his death at the age of 65, the Fringe Society set up the Allen Wright Award in 1998.
The 2017 shortlist will be revealed at a reception on August 23 to which all entrants will be invited, at Fringe Central, the Fringe Society’s centre for participants, media and arts industry professionals taking part in the Fringe. The winners of the award will be revealed on August 26.
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PLATFORM in Easterhouse is to host an exhibition by the artist Colin James Tennant. The show, Paint it Red, is the culmination of a year-long photography project that has developed through conversations, interactions and experiences gained while working in Easterhouse.
The exhibition, which is free, runs from September 9 to November 19 and on October 29 the artist will also be in conversation with Tonia Lu, curator of Here, Today – a photo essay that takes a look at the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people living in Cumbria, in the north of England.
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