The organisers of Edinburgh's Hidden Door Festival, the ten-day event being held at the abandoned former Royal High School, are asking for members of the public to help prepare the area for the event.
Taking over the huge building, on Regent Terrace, the Hidden Door Festival will temporarily regenerate the site for the event that will include a celebration of arts, culture and music.
Fans will be desperate to see what the spooky-looking building will look like after it receives its makeover, and now, organisers are allowing volunteers to come forward before the festival in June, to help set up.
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Posting an update on Instagram, the team said that every weekend until June 9, they will be clearing, tidying and transforming the huge building, and they could really use more than one extra pair of hands.
They added: "If filling skips, pulling up weeds, painting and building stuff sounds good, get involved!
"Email us at volunteer@hiddendoorarts.org for more info or just drop by for an hour or two, any time from midday on the following dates: Saturday 21 / Sunday 22 May, Saturday 28 / Sunday 29 May, Saturday 4 / Sunday 5 June.
"We’ll have overalls, PPE and refreshments on hand. See our website for more details - https://hiddendoorarts.org/."
Hidden Door do what their name suggests. They open up abandoned and forgotten urban space to bring life to the area once more, usually in the form of mini festivals including music, art, film, dance and more.
Hidden Door is a volunteer-run charity funded through ticket sales, sponsorship and fundraising. All money goes straight back into the festival and paying their creative contributors.
Edinburgh Live previously reported how the impressive building with neo-Grecian columns had lain dormant since the 1960s.
Is it understood that the Hidden Door Festival will also include a bar terrace for revellers to enjoy a scenic drinking area, with the top of Regent Terrace offering some of the finest views of Arthur's Seat in the city.
Speaking about the prospect in January, David Martin, creative director of Hidden Door, said: “This is such an incredible site for Hidden Door. It is such a privilege to be able to bring one of Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings back to life.
“It feels really exciting, in what is still a very challenging period for the arts, to invite Scotland’s newest, most daring artists, dancers, theatre-makers, poets and musicians to take over such a prestigious building that has been dark for so long and flood it with creative energy.
“It feels important to bring Scotland’s young creatives right into the centre of the city this time to celebrate what they do.”
