The Hub is one of the main venues used for the Edinburgh International Festival. The Edinburgh Futures Institute has been the main home of the Edinburgh International Book Festival in recent years. San Francisco Ballet's show Mere Mortals, which is described as a provocative myth for the AI age, is part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival programme. The Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe and the film festival were all staged for the first time in 1947. “Festivals Edinburgh have told us themselves that a flat 5 per cent uplift does not reflect the scale of the pressures they’re under and I agree with them.