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Welcome to Assembly 2011 and the brave new world of Assembly Festival.

Last year was formidable in being our 30th anniversary of presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was also our last year in the Assembly Rooms as we knew it. The building has been a unique hub and home to much of the magic that has made previous festivals so special. We are proud of the countless organisations who played with us there and the numerous Arts and Entertainment names who've graced the boards under our aegis. This year the building will be closed during the festival and will re open in 2012.

Thanks to Edinburgh University we turn a new page in the history of our organisation, moving the core of our operation to George Square and creating a new performance village around the east side of GeorgeSquareGardens along with indoor spaces in the surrounding buildings. There will be three tents in our new Spiegelgarden, the Teatro Spiegeltent, the Dans Paleis and the Bosco. Sitting beside this will be Mirazozo, a wonderful structure by the makers of visual magic, Architects of Air, with a luminarium to escape into away from the madness of the festival. Around the square there will be four indoor spaces, George Square Theatre, ONE and TWO in the University's David Hume building and THREE which is being specially built for us nearby.

Assembly wouldn't be the same without our Club Bar, where people from the industry and the festival rub shoulders. To house this we are building a new underground concept bar - a complete change from the Georgian splendour of the Assembly Rooms as we move on from the old world to the new.

Also this year we will continue our use of the Assembly Hall with the Hall itself as our premier performance space together with the Rainy Hall and Baillie Room.

The programme we have put together for this year plays to Assembly's core strengths of great theatre and comedy, whilst recognising the new world of cabaret and an endless array of performance genres, some of which haven't been invented yet.