The Edinburgh Art Festival is an affiliation of institutions, galleries and artist-led organisations with a shared commitment to celebrating, presenting and communicating art of the highest quality in Edinburgh during the August festivals. The Edinburgh Art Festival brings together the individual strengths of the city’s visual arts organizations to create a critical mass of activity within a festival framework. By bringing together an international season of visual arts for a wide public, the festival achieves a higher visibility for the participating arts organisations and artists, creating a stronger context for their work. (Source: Edinburgh Art Festival)

Aim:

To ensure people throughout Scotland have regular access as audiences to a broad and diverse range of high quality art including music, crafts, visual arts, dance, drama and literature, and to international artists.
To maximise the opportunities for creators and performers in Scotland to develop towards the highest standards of professional and artistic excellence.
To raise the prestige of Scotland’s different artforms nationally and internationally.
To improve the international profile of Scotland’s artists.
To enrich tourists’ experience of Scotland.
To bring communities together and boost local economies.
Festivals features:

Festivals come in many shapes and sizes. There are festivals which celebrate one artform, like music or literature, and those which involve lots of different kinds of arts and entertainment. To find out more about festivals taking place throughout Scotland, as well as international festivals featuring Scottish artists. (Source: Scottish Arts Council)

愛丁堡藝術節是協會、畫廊和藝術家組織之間的聯系紐帶，他們共同致力于在愛丁堡舉行的八月藝術節頌揚、上演和交流高質量的藝術。愛丁堡藝術節將城市的視覺藝術組織的單個力量匯集起來，從而在節日的框架下形成表演活動的中流砥柱。此外，該藝術節猶如一盞明燈，通過為廣大公眾匯聚全球的視覺藝術，為參與的藝術組織和藝術家們照明道路，創造一個展示自我的卓越舞臺。（來源：Edinburgh Art Festival）

目標:

確保所有蘇格蘭人民從觀眾的角度，定期接觸繽紛多彩的高質量藝術，包括音樂、手藝、視覺藝術、舞蹈、戲劇和文學，并有機會與國際藝術家“親密接觸”。
為蘇格蘭的創作者和演員們創造發展藝術的最大空間，使他們精益求精，向一流的專業藝術水平邁進。
提高蘇格蘭各式各樣的藝術表演在國內外的聲望。
進一步改善蘇格蘭藝術家的國際形象。
豐富來到蘇格蘭觀光旅游的客人的閱歷。
團結各個組織，推動當地經濟發展。
節日特色：

節日的形式和規模豐富多彩。有的只頌揚一種藝術形式，如音樂或文學；有的則涉及多種不同的藝術和娛樂表演。發現更多蘇格蘭舉行的藝術節，和體現蘇格蘭藝術家特色的國際藝術節。（來源：Scottish Arts Council）

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