leith festival

We could just stick our logo on the Leith Festival website and be done with it.  But where’s the fun in that?  Instead we like to roll up our sleeves and get stuck in Smeato-style by staging our very own Leith Festival event. First time round, we put on a 21 year retrospective of our work.  Standing room only.  A sell-out.  (It was free.) Next time, we ran a 1 Minute Movie Festival called YaTube and simultaneously twinned Leith with Rio De Janeiro.  What a laugh.

In 2008, we lowered the drawbridge on our barge and invited people to turn up to “Irn-Bru Uncovered”, a frank and fearless exposé revealing the truth behind our advertising of Scotland’s other national drink.

This year, it's was all about Leithal Images.  We invited local Leithers to simply submit photos of  Leith. We had a fantastic response and selected about 30 images for our exhibition on the Barge. 

You will find a small number of the chosen images on Page 2.