Syn Festival Edinburgh is an annual volunteer run multi-arts festival that offers emerging Scotland-based artists the opportunity to introduce and promote their work to wider audiences. This year's festival will focus on raising awareness and funds to support Edinburgh based organisations involved with helping refugees through various art events. 

We cannot achieve this year's goals without your help! 

Syn Festival Edinburgh

Syn Festival is an annual multi-arts festival initiated in 2013 by the Hellenic Society of the University of Edinburgh.Throughout its course it supported and promoted a variety of exhibiting and performing arts including photography, painting, illustration, film, mapping projection, theatre, physical theatre, dance, music of different genres and influences, as well as a selection of experiential and skill-providing art workshops.

Our goal is to bring together members of the vibrant and outstanding community of artists in Scotland and to offer the participating artists a forum through which they can communicate and promote their work to wider audience and create a professional and artistic network, generating opportunities for future collaborations and artistic recognition.

This year, we also aspire to raise awareness and ignite dialogue about the current refugee crisis, to inform the public about Edinburgh based initiatives that are taking place at the moment and are working directly with refugees and promote Syn Festival’s initiative in raising money to support organizations that are currently helping refugees.

But we need your help for that.

As a volunteer led initiative, we rely entirely on our volunteers’ hard work for the realization and success of the festival. We receive no funding and we make no profits. What is more, all the wonderful events that take place during the festival are free of charge for the public and we intend to keep it so.

That is why we need your support in order to be able to cover the festival’s running expenses, to keep working on trying to make Syn Festival even bigger and better and to create a cultural hub which will foster artistic exchange between artists and the local community of Edinburgh and to provide support to as many Scotland based artists as possible.

Even the smallest contribution can make a real difference to us.

Spread the word and help us make Syn Festival one of the most notable free festivals in Edinburgh!