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The Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation (ESAF) is a registered Scottish charity (SC051554) and was established in 2019. Its purpose is to celebrate and promote the rich Christian tradition in a wide range of arts and to do so primarily in the context of Edinburgh’s international summer festivals. To this end, each summer the ESAF organizes the Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts in the Fringe. This co-ordinated programme of events in a wide range of city centre venues takes place in the middle week of the Edinburgh Festival. In recent years the festival has included recitals of music and poetry; exhibitions of flowers, vestments, icons and illuminated manuscripts; talks about architecture and paintings; and dramatic productions. The week always opens and closes with church services. Professor Timothy O’Shea, formerly Principal of Edinburgh University, is Patron of the Foundation. Trustees include the poet Christine De Luca (Edinburgh City Makar 2014-17), the composer Harry Whalley, and Eve Poole, formerly Third Church Commissioner. The Chair of the Foundation and Director of the Festival is Gordon Graham FRSE and the Secretary/Treasurer is the Hon Barnaby Miln.