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Edinburgh Festivals Ideas Challenge

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  • What if large maps were placed in key tourist areas to show where the venues are. Similar to the maps on rose street or in malls.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by deleted deleted

  • What if The book festival expanded by getting authors to read excerpts from their books on street corners. Live video links could be shown around tt

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Karen Stringer

  • What if you allow to leave public from office and work to enjoy and celebrate festival days !!!

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Jignesh Patel

  • What if we encourage a 'Charity Day': with donations to a charity fund, allocated through public voting; or venues picking a charity to support

    Submitted over 14 years ago by michael ross

  • What if the Book Festival relocated to the Meadows, to allow it to expand without the constraints of Charlotte Sq's limited size.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by michael ross

  • What if More use was made of Leith for temporary accommodation, venues etc, helping regeneration through tourism income.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by michael ross

  • What if we have Festival cultural Tartan Day, similar to NY, where everyone is encouraged to wear kilts/tartan, and tourists encouraged to buy

    Submitted over 14 years ago by michael ross

  • What if Ingliston or similar was used to house a 'performer city' including cheap accommodation eg tents, pods, wigwams (like The Tent, Munich?))

    Submitted over 14 years ago by michael ross

  • What if what if Ingliston was used as a festival venue ?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by michael ross

  • What if You encourage people to show their creativity and respect to their culture. During festival free transportation & food should be provided.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Jignesh Patel

  • What if you dedicate a bit more time to children education through entertainment and get a great green soldiers to spread the word among their peers

    Submitted over 14 years ago by zoki zonga

  • What if there was a treasure hunt around the city, following clues that lead around historical and touristic locations, teaching about the city?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Colin Gray

  • What if the BBC were consulted on which media innovations from their coverage of the 2012 Olympics could be implemented in Edinburgh as well?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by David Jarman

  • What if anyone could point their camera at a Festival event and create a live video stream for anyone in the world to watch online?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Yann Seznec

  • What if you had a festival to educate people about ways to acquire a healthy lifestyle :)

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Gabriela Fischer

  • What if you used augmented reality so that when a festival goer points their mobile at a venue. number it lists the upcoming events.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

  • What if you had a festival moments app where people could share their photos of the festival as the action happens?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

  • What if karaoke on the mile!!

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Max Fine

  • What if more electronic tickets were used instead of queueing for hours at box offices? Use mobiles to show tickets & check in at different venues.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Alex Purvis

  • What if we Have food stands offering free food by the local restaurant venders, this will promote their busines and make the festival more enjoyable

    Submitted over 14 years ago by ilya bzov

  • What if We get famous bands who feel philantropic to perform free concerts right in the festival, and the closer seats will have a small fee like 5$

    Submitted over 14 years ago by ilya bzov

  • What if Spudrail got their act together on providing an adequate service for Festival time so more people could see sense and escape to Glasgow?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Culture Squawk

  • What if there was a mystery ticket, which provided a fixed cost 'taster' of 5-10 shows across a number of chosen festivals.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Brian Baglow

  • What if all the performance data the Festivals hold were released. The 2010 API is great, how far back is similar data available?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Matthew S

  • What if all the URLs on the Fringe website didn't disappear next year? People have linked to previous productions, their pages should remain.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Matthew S

  • What if each venue listed in the programme(s) indicated which bus(es) stopped there or nearby?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Harriett Ferziger

  • What if performers were rewarded for being green (eg. sustainable travel or eco-print) via reduced Fringe fees? Or increase fees for the un-green!

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Martin Reynolds

  • What if IRN-BRU sponsored late trains between Glasgow and Edinburgh at Festival time, and the trains became shows in themselves, with entertainment

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Martin Reynolds

  • What if instead of bulky programs full of adverts there is the option of a cheaper, basic more paper-friendly version with only info about the event

    Submitted over 14 years ago by gordon wilkinson

  • What if there was a tent showing mock the week repeats for free, then folk woudnt have to fork out £20 to see lazy performers do the same jokes.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by John Fernie

  • What if There was a loca resident discount on tickets

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Kiki Leith

  • What if we linked concert to venue e.g. Holst's planets at the observatory or Handel's water music on the Forth?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Colin Brown

  • What if we linked concert to venue e.g. Holst's planets at the observatory or Handel's water music on the Forth?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Colin Brown

  • What if Late night public transport was improved to Glasgow

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Frances Rickus

  • What if Edinburgh festival had a collecting box for Book Aid at every venue

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ros Wesson

  • What if you create a 'Deal of the Day' website/app that festival goers can subscribe to that provides offers on Accommodation, Events and Transport?

    Submitted almost 15 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

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