{"id":148470,"date":"2020-06-16T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/16\/edinburgh-international-festival-announces-citywide-ghost-lights-celebration\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:44:27","slug":"edinburgh-international-festival-announces-citywide-ghost-lights-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148470","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh international festival announces citywide Ghost Lights celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festival will roll out a series of \u2018artistic interventions\u2019 across the Scottish capital in AugustA series of \u201cartistic interventions\u201d has been announced by the Edinburgh international festival (EIF) to take place across the Scottish capital in August. The project, entitled The Ghost Lights, will merge \u201cspectacle, performance and participation\u201d in a city that will be considerably quieter this summer since the cancellation of the hundreds of performances that usually take place across its festivals.In a statement, EIF said it has been exploring how \u201cto mark the festival season in a way that will bring some joy to our community, and remind the world of the incredible experience that is the Festival City\u201d. The project is named after the single bulbed light that shines on stage when a theatre is closed and unoccupied. \u201cIt is a symbol that, while the performance is over for now, the building will, once again, be filled with laughter, tears and applause.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/jun\/16\/edinburgh-festival-ghost-lights-project\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh international festival announces citywide Ghost Lights celebration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival will roll out a series of \u2018artistic interventions\u2019 across the Scottish capital in AugustA series of \u201cartistic interventions\u201d has been announced by the Edinburgh international festival (EIF) to take place across the Scottish capital in August. The project, entitled The Ghost Lights, will merge \u201cspectacle, performance and participation\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}