Jekyll & Hyde Events
We've programmed ten days of events to get us all inspired by Stevenson and the Edinburgh he loved.
The public book launch is on Thursday 21st February and the main program runs until Sunday 2nd March. You can find all our Reading Campaign events in our What's On section. With exception of the walking tours, booking is essential.
We have put up a photo gallery and a press gallery so you can see what we have been up to so far.
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Exhibitions and Displays:
Capital Collections online exhibition
See beautiful old photographs of Edinburgh in Robert Louis Stevenson's day, in this specially cereated online whirl through choice aspects of the city's photographic archives, newly digitised.
Stevenson Exhibition at the Writers' Museum
Situated in Lady Stair's House, built in 1622, The Writers' Museum houses the most significant Stevenson collection in the United Kingdom, from portraits and manuscripts to personal exhibits. Come and see the very cabinet made by Deacon Brodie that sat in Stevenson's childhood home and is thought to have been one of the inspirations behind the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Comics Grow Up! April-May 2008 at the National Library of Scotland
The forthcoming exhibition will present the historical development of comics and graphic novels from their earliest beginnings to contemporary diversity. It will also reveal the vitality of the current Scottish writers and artists at work in the medium. Includes exclusive artwork by Cam Kennedy.
Visit the National Library of Scotland's online Stevenson resource at www.nls.uk/rlstevenson
Our public programme of events has now ended.....But there are snapshots of the campaign and events on our campaign gallery pages.
Start of the Public Campaign
6pm Book Launch - sorry, fully booked !
Join Cam Kennedy and Alan Grant at the Jekyll & Hyde pub to celebrate the launch of four new graphic novel editions of the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, published by Waverley Books and Barrington Stoke.
Free but ticketed - booking essential. Call 0131 557 9821 or email events@cityofliterature.com to book your free ticket.
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10am Free Books made available
Free copies of Jekyll & Hyde made available via Edinburgh's public libraries and selected outlets. Last year they flew out of the doors, so make sure you don't miss out.
For full details click here.
1pm Poems Aloud: Jekyll and Hyde
Search your bookshelves for your favourite poems about double lives, and read out loud or just come to listen. There is a special Robert Louis Stevenson theme, but bring along poems by other poets to the Scottish Poetry Library for this event.
Call 0131 557 2876 or email reception@spl.org.uk to book your free ticket.
5-6pm Blackwell's Book, South Bridge
Book signing by comic book legends Cam Kennedy and Alan Grant. Blackwell's will have plenty copies of the Jekyll & Hyde graphic novel for sale.
Free.
7pm Hyde and Seek with Ian Rankin - sorry, fully booked !
Discover the inspiration behind Robert Louis Stevenson's most outstanding work of fiction, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Join author Ian Rankin on a journey to uncover the people and places that so inspired Stevenson to create this gruesome tale. Ian will be in discussion with Catherine Lockerbie, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and will be held at the Central Library.
Call 0131 242 8104 or email read@edinburgh.gov.uk to book your free ticket.
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all day Jekyll & Hyde Week at Ocean Terminal
Sat 23rd Feb - Sat 2 Mar
Head down to Ocean Terminal for their Jekyll & Hyde Week. At Waterstone's hear local author Brian McCabe or actor Alan Galloway read from the book, see a performance by a costumed actor or take part in the Treasure Hunt to win a Jekyll & Hyde graphic novel. You could even have your photo taken with Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde...
Visit Ocean Terminal, Leith to get involved in the free events.
11am Van Helsing - Film Screening
Vue cinema at Ocean Terminal were due to show The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as part of Jekyll & Hyde week - this had to be cancelled. The replacement film will be Van Helsing.
Tickets £3.70 from the Vue box office, Ocean Terminal.
1pm Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - The Film
Dominated by John Barrymore's stagy bravura, the celebrated transformation scenes and Struss' excellent camerawork this early adaptation has been hailed the best of the seven American silent versions of Stevenson's story. 1920 - USA - 63mins - PG.
Filmhouse website
Call the Filmhouse Box Office on 0131 228 2688 to book your ticket. (£4.50/£3.00)
1-3pm Jekyll and Hyde: The Graphic Novel - sorry, fully booked !
An unmissable opportunity to meet the authors. Cam Kennedy (artist) and Alan Grant (writer), legends of the comic book world, follow up the stunning success of their graphic novel of Stevenson's Kidnapped. Hear how they transformed Jekyll and Hyde into strip version, then try your hand at this remarkable creative form and get feedback from the masters of the craft. Bring paper and pens to the National Library of Scotland.
Call 0131 623 3845 or email events@nls.uk to book your free ticket. Event suitable for young adults over 11.
There is a fantastic transcript of a similar event with Cam Kennedy during last year's One Book - One Edinburgh campaign on the Forbidden Planet website.
4-6pm Waterstones, 13-14 Princes Street (East End)
Book signing by comic book legends Cam Kennedy and Alan Grant. Also featuring an instore performance of Jekyll and Hyde: A Specimen. Waterstones will have plenty copies of the Jekyll & Hyde graphic novel for sale.
Free.
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Deacon Brodie’s Old Town
Storytelling Tour
supported
11am, 1pm, 3pm
meet at the Scottish Storytelling Centre
8pm Double or Quits - New Writing
Strange concoctions. Violent rages. Two-faced reprobates. Cheap laughs. Settle down with a pint in a cosy Old Town cellar, and enjoy feverish new fiction on the theme of duality. Presented by Writers' Bloc, Edinburgh's most changeable spoken word collective, at the Canons' Gait pub on the Canongate.
Call 0131 557 9821 or email event@cityofliterature.com to book your ticket. (£3/£2)
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6pm Gothic Fiction/Gothic Cities Discussion
This event is sponsored by Napier University.
This event brings together three academics to discuss the Gothic and how it relates to Jekyll and Hyde. Prof Glennis Byron (Stirling University) will speak on the gothic; Prof Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh) on Jekyll & Hyde, Hogg and gothic Edinburgh; Prof Laurence Davies (Glasgow University) on gothic London and Edinburgh. Dr Linda Dryden (University of Napier) will chair the speakers' event and Richard Dury (scholar and editor of the RLS website) is coming over from Bergamo for the debate after the talks.
The audience will be invited to join in the debate and explore the Gothic themes of Stevenson's novel. The event is open to all, but Sixth form students are particularly welcome to St Augustine's Church.
Call 0131 557 9821 or email event@cityofliterature.com to book your free ticket.
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7pm The Big Read - Jekyll and Hyde
This special event brings together book groups from across Edinburgh to discuss the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Join our guest panel as they delve into Stevenson's dark tale of duality in McDonald Road Library.
Call 0131 242 8104 or email read@edinburgh.gov.uk to book your free ticket.
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7pm and 9pm Jekyll and Hyde: A Specimen
- 7pm show fully booked - extra 9pm show added !
Real life or nightmare? Edinburgh or London? Dark or light? And are these guys separate or just two faces of the same story? Experience Robert Louis Stevenson straight from the hip.
Storytelling with style, devised by Donald Smith and produced at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, this 45-minute dramatisation will be followed by an exclusive post-show discussion with the adaptor, the performers and One Book - One Edinburgh team. Stevenson's story raises significant contemporary issues. How should we interpret it today? And is Edinburgh a Jekyll and Hyde city?
Due to popular demand, we're delighted to announce a second performance of Jekyll & Hyde: A Specimen at 9pm on Saturday 1 March.
Call 0131 556 9579 or email reception@scottishstorytellingcentre.com to book your £5 ticket.
Guided Walks:
There are several guided literary tours to coincide with the One Book - One Edinburgh reading campaign that will take you to well-known, and lesser known, Edinburgh city centre places that are of special interest to RL Stevenson and the Jekyll & Hyde story. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.
In the Footsteps of Stevenson
Literary Tour
12.30pm and 2.30pm
meet at the Writer's Museum
The 12.30pm tour on Sunday 2 March has been cancelled, but there will still be a 2.30pm event.
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The Jekyll and Hyde City
Gothic City Tour
7pm
meet outside St Giles' Cathedral
