Festive Festival Friday
Join us to experience the Edinburgh Festival Chorus singing festive classics for NHS Lothian patients and staff.
This is the last in our series of events for 2024 in partnership with Edinburgh International Festival.
Friday 13 December 2024
- 11.15am: Cafe, Anne Ferguson Building, Western General Hospital
- 1pm: The Mall, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
- 3.15pm: The Hive, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Music is a powerful tool: it evokes memories, it helps alleviate stress and anxiety, and it provides comfort at difficult times. For patients and staff in hospitals, however, accessing live musical performances is not always possible. So, we’re working together to bring the healing power of music to them!
To maximise accessibility and impact, our performances are held in spaces that are the most convenient for patients and staff. Each performance will be approximately 30 minutes, giving staff the opportunity to participate during breaks.
Patient, Blackford Ward, Royal Edinburgh HospitalThe performance was top notch, I was moved to tears by the first song.”
Bringing the transformative power of the arts to hospital settings
Last year we welcomed world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra to our hospital sites to perform for patients. Find out what staff and patients had to say about this collaboration with Edinburgh International Festival.
With thanks to Edinburgh International Festival.
