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The Leith Festival is an annual Arts festival held in Leith, Scotland. Its origin can be traced back to at least 1907.

History
The Scotsman has reported that a precursor to the current day festival was established 100 years before the 2007 event.

Current festival
At present the Leith Festival is an Arts festival held in Leith, Scotland.

The Leith Festival was revived in the early 1990s. It takes place in June each year and include Leith Festival Gala Day which started in 1907 as the Leith Gala.{{citation needed|date=April 2013} The current version of the Leith Festival started in the early 1990s. It takes place in June each year

Tom Allan of the Guardian wrote in 2010 that "This year's ten day Leith Festival got off to a flying start over the weekend with Leith Gala Day. There was a Samba band and dancers, a giant sound system for Edinburgh reggae legends Messenger, and hundreds of stalls sporting everything."

In 2011 it was launch with a Guerrilla Art attack or wool Bomb attack which reported by the BBC (10 June 2011) as "Trees have been wrapped in woolly jumpers as part of a guerrilla arts project to mark the start of the Leith Festival. More than 6,000 knitted squares have been wrapped around 20 trees in Leith Links to open the festival."

Venues and Performers etc.
The Festival takes place in and around Leith.