Scotland's love letters to the world lights New Year celebration

Message from the Skies returned to the Hogmanay celebration in Edinburgh along with Scotland's literature and culture.

Hogmanay, a Scottish word for the last day of the year, is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner.

Co-commissioned by Edinburgh International Book Festival, the celebration projected six love letters to Europe onto iconic buildings and landmarks, marking Scotland's shared cultural, historic and social connections with this family of nations.

Six Scottish writers — Billy Letford, Chitra Ramaswamy, Kapka Kassabova, Louise Welsh, Stef Smith and William Dalrymple — came together from the worlds of poetry, journalism, fiction, travel, history and theatre to write their love letters to Europe with a range of different composers and projection artists from Scotland.