Edinburgh Student Arts Festival - ESAF

Welcome to the Edinburgh Student Arts Festival. The inaugural Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (ESAF) is Edinburgh’s first city-wide student arts festival that brings together all five higher education and further education institutions across the city. Over the last three years our organisation has worked with over 1,000 emerging creatives, engaged with over 4,000 members of the public and supported over 300 volunteers. ESAF is a social enterprise that initially provided emerging creatives with a platform to showcase their work to the public. We have since evolved into an organisation that provides a space for anyone to give creativity a go. We believe everyone has creative potential and we promote cultural participation through training, skills and career development opportunities for our members. We work with our partners to provide and create fresh content making the creative sector more accessible via podcasts, docu-series and interactive events. We also run an annual, award-winning, multi-arts festival t