Tue 21 Jan 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Thu 23 Jan 2020
SHHE
19:00 - 23:00
SHHE is the alter-ego of Scottish-Portuguese artist and producer Su Shaw. Her upcoming self-titled debut album tracks a period of intense personal change. The resulting record is a sparse, haunting and atmospheric... [more]
Sat 25 Jan 2020
Chinese Visual Festival
Chinese Visual Festival: Four Springs (PG) - screening
19:00 - 21:00
A special Chinese New Year screening of an award-winning independent documentary following a family in remote Guizhou over four Chinese New Year celebrations, charting life, love and loss. Four Springs is a... [more]
Sat 25 Jan 2020
Rhythm Machine
23:00 - 03:00
Rhythm Machine is a monthly club night based in arts venue & former veterinary school Summerhall.Each month resident DJs Yves and William Francis (and guests) play unboundaried dance music across genres on the main... [more]
Sun 26 Jan 2020
Art in Healthcare
Arts & Health Day
10:00 - 15:30
Art in Healthcare is delighted to invite you to a one-day programme of creative workshops in yoga, singing and printmaking. 10am-11am - Yoga workshopThis will be a session suitable for beginners and those with... [more]
Sun 26 Jan 2020
The Women on the 6th Floor / Les Femmes du 6eme étage (12A) - screening
17:00 - 18:10
Warm-hearted French comedy, set in 1960s Paris and starring the excellent Fabrice Luchini as a stockbroker in the stuffy world of the Parisian haute bourgeoisie. He falls for the family's new Spanish maid (Natalia... [more]
Tue 28 Jan 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Thu 30 Jan 2020
MICHAEL HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND
19:30 - 23:00
Liverpool’s Michael Head brings his band The Red Elastic Band to Edinburgh in 2020. Making his name as a member of The Pale Fountains alongside Chris “Biffa” McCaffrey, Head has built a cult following of loyal... [more]
Fri 31 Jan 2020
The Ninth Wave + Savage Mansion + Heir of the Cursed
19:30 - 22:30
The Ninth Wave, Savage Mansion & Heir of the Cursed come to Summerhall this January. The Ninth Wave are a four-piece band whose music is majestic dark post-punk laced with stealth pop hooks and a... [more]
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Fri 31 Jan 2020
A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego
20:30 - 21:20
Company: Jordan & Skinner Andrea has been giving her lecture, but it's not been going well. Previous presentations were marred by protests. She's hoping the open-minded audience at manipulate will hear her out.... [more]
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Cirqulation: Other Worlds
21:30 - 22:30
Company: Delighters Supporting: Cascade Juggling Cirqulation is Scotland's ongoing circus cabaret night, showcasing new acts by established and emerging artists. Featuring Scottish and international guest... [more]
Fri 31 Jan 2020 - Sat 01 Feb 2020
Metamorphosis: The Animated Body
10:00 - 17:00
Company: Nataly Lebouleux & Kieran Sheehan (Improbable Dolls) Supporting: Art Council England, Home. ALRA. Superbia, Waterside Arts, Creative Industries Trafford A workshop for confident dancers and... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Ma Biche et Mon Lapin
14:00, 15:00
Company: Collectif Aïe Aïe Aïe Supporting: Ministère de la Culture - DRAC de Bretagne, Conseil Régional de Bretagne, Conseil Départemental d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Ville de Rennes et Rennes Métropole. A show on... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Pearly Oyster Productions: A Retrospective
17:30
From potato prints to dancing clarinet reeds, the drawings of Eduardo Paolozzi to Queen Boudica, Roger Ballen's photographs to the everyday challenges faced by one random person - a weird and wonderful programme of... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
A Taste of Quebec
15:30 - 16:25
Company: Festival Stop Motion Montréal Founded in 2009, Festival Stop Motion Montréal, the world's first festival devoted exclusively to stop frame animation, presents a brilliantly diverse selection of some of... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Twa Pirate Quines
14:30 - 14:50 & 15:30 - 15:50
Company: Fiona Oliver Larkin Support: Puppet Animation Scotland, Creative Scotland, Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre "My great grandma was a pirate." "No, really she was. I found this old trunk, see, in the... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Animated Highlights: 2019
14:00 - 14:55
Company: Edinburgh Short Film Festival manipulate are delighted to welcome Edinburgh Short Film Festival. This year they have curated another dynamic and vibrant programme of award-winning international short... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Transfigured
20:30 - 21:40
Company: Oceanallover In 2002 on a country road, a pack of cards was thrown from a car window and over a hedge. While in the air the pack burst open and the cards were scattered across hedge and field and road. Some... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Shadow Bird
14:45, 15:45
Company: Mary & David Grieve Supporting: Puppet Animation Scotland, Creative Scotland, Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Rod and shadow puppetry, immersive light-projections and music, telling a melancholic... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Island Home
16:30, 18:15
Company: Katanari Combining storytelling, object theatre, puppetry, pop-up and art installation elements, Slovakian puppeteer Katarina Cakova weaves together short symbolic stories to create an allusive,... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
(CANCELLED) Verge is Burning
16:45 - 17:25
Company: Jamie Rea A man, an eccentric, stands on the edge, confronted with a choice. Choose who you are. Create your armour. Control whatever it is that confronts you. An eccentric man in a suit? What is real?... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Finger Fatale
16:45, 17:45
A burlesque-inspired ‘hand-tease’, celebrating the fluidity, versatility and down-right sexy movement that a hand can perform. A short form piece of hand puppetry which cheekily celebrates one person’s awakening... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Story of Now
18:45 - 19:15
Company: Third Thread Arriving in this moment, with ourselves, with each other, with you. We listen and respond to what is present, telling a short form story of now through movement, media, silence and sound.... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Obvious Unrest
16:30 - 17:10
Company: Faux Theatre Collective Supporting: Creative Scotland A high impact, but grittly low-tech visual theatre exploration of the force and grip of intense mood. Stark text free theatre exploring the effects... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Pitch Event
14:30 - 15:30
Company: Surge Two work in progress performances from the recipients of 2019 Surge Bursaries exploring dynamic and challenging physical theatre in an indoor setting. The recipients have worked with leading... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Temple of the Tattie
14:15, 15:15, 16:15, 17:15
Company: Temporary Commons The gods left this place some time ago, weary of our fractious fighting. All we have now is trade and agriculture. Food, a precious commodity. We turn to it's elusive magic for guidance.... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020
Heartsore
16:45 - 17:25
Artist: Petre Dobre Heartsore was Devised by Petre Dobre during a residency with the Macrobert Arts Centre as BSL Director Trainee in 2019. It is performed with Irina Vartopeanu, an undergraduate at the Royal... [more]
Mon 03 Feb 2020 - Wed 05 Feb 2020
Nasty Puppets
10:00 - 17:00
Company: Gavin Glover A workshop with leading puppeteer Gavin Glover for all inquisitive theatre practitioners - actors, dancers, puppeteers, physical theatre practitioners, film makers and directors - who want to... [more]
Mon 03 Feb 2020 - Sat 08 Feb 2020
Cabaret@Manipulate
19:45 - 20:15 (Doors 7pm)
Join us each evening at our festival café from 7PM for socialising, drinks and informal cabaret performances presented by some of Scotland's leading physical and visual theatre makers. There will also be late night... [more]
Mon 03 Feb 2020
Tue 04 Feb 2020
Dreams of the Small Gods
21:00 - 21:50
Creator: Zinnia Oberski Support: Creative Scotland Woman as animal, as human, as goddess or spirit-being - visited by a horned magus - this creative is called upon to transform herself. Inspired by the... [more]
Tue 04 Feb 2020
La Cérémonie
18:00 - 18:40
Company: Tortoise in a Nutshell and Collectif Aïe Aïe Aïe Supporting: Puppet Animation Scotland, French Institute, Rennes City Council The ritual of observance and procedures. A grand performance. Once voiced... [more]
Tue 04 Feb 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Wed 05 Feb 2020 - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Fault Lines
21:00- 22:15
Company: Two Destination Language A fashion show on the fracture between feminism and fabric. A catwalk which takes you from Haute Couture to bargain bin, from big beats to near silence. Five diverse performers... [more]
Thu 06 Feb 2020
Fri 07 Feb 2020 - Sat 08 Feb 2020
Open The Owl
21:00 (both days), 17:00 (8th Feb)
Company: Lutkovno Gledališče Ljubljana / Centre Dramatique National D'Alsace Supporting company: Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Culture, City of Ljubljana A man is given the chance to gain all the worldly... [more]
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Trainspotting (15) - screening
19:00 - 20:35
The Academy Award-nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Beyond... [more]
Sat 08 Feb 2020
CRITICAL RESPONSE PROCESS: A PRIMER
14:00 - 17:00
Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (CRP) is a method for giving and getting feedback on work in progress, designed to leave the maker eager and motivated to get back to work. Join us for a half day event where you... [more]
Sat 08 Feb 2020
After Metamorphosis
15:30 - 17:00
Company: Lewis Sherlock & Ali Maloney When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect… A choreography of movement, words, and visuals... [more]
Sat 08 Feb 2020
The Full Monty (15) - screening
19:00 - 20:35
After the steel mill they work at shuts down, a group of unemployed men decide to get involved in the stripping business to earn a living. They invest the money they have saved to get started. It won the BAFTA Award... [more]
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Slum Village x Abstract Orchestra
19:30 - 22:30
Chances are, if you are anywhere near the Detroit music scene, you’ve heard of the influential hip hop trio that makes up Slum Village. The group was founded in the early 90’s by 3 childhood friends: Baatin, T3,... [more]
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Dog Soldiers (15) - screening
19:00 - 20:45
During a routine nighttime training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a small squad of British soldiers expected to rendezvous with a special ops unit instead find a bloody massacre with a sole survivor. The savage... [more]
Sat 15 Feb 2020
Lisa O'Neill
19:30 - 23:00
Lisa O’Neill started writing songs & music at an early age in her native Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan, Ireland. She moved to Dublin, aged 18, to study music on a full time basis. Early on she was welcomed... [more]
Sat 15 Feb 2020
Planet Caramel
Planet Caramel's Summerhall Brawl
19:30 - 22:00 (show starts at 8pm)
Scotland’s leading sketch comedy trio are about to face the fight of their lives. With evil property tycoon/boxing legend Lord Punch planning to turn Summerhall into a luxury student hotel, the Planet Caramel boys... [more]
Sat 15 Feb 2020
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15) - screening
19:00 - 21:05
DJ Alan Partridge becomes an unlikely negotiator when the radio station is held hostage by a disgruntled Pat Farrell, Alan's colleague, who is afraid of losing his job after the radio station is sold. Part of... [more]
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Black Midi
19:00 - 22:00
London's Black Midi make an otherworldly noise that spans wonky post-punk, funk and math rock, leaving no gap unfilled or un-weird. Their exceptional debut album Schlagenheim was nominated for the Mercury Prize and they... [more]
Tue 18 Feb 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Start to End perform The Blue Nile's Hats
19:30 - 22:30
Start to End return to Summerhall, this time to perform The Blue Nile's classic second album 'Hats' ft. Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) on vocals. Start to End are made up on some of Scotland's leading young... [more]
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Withnail and I (15)
19:00 - 20:48
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood (Paul McGann) and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and... [more]
Sat 22 Feb 2020
London to Brighton (18) - screening
19:00 - 20:26
Kelly (Lorraine Stanley), a prostitute, is sent by her pimp, Derek (Johnny Harris), to procure a young girl for aging gangster Duncan (Alexander Morton). She brings back 11-year-old Joanne (Georgia Groome) -- but sex... [more]
Sat 22 Feb 2020
Optimo (Espacio)
23:00 - 03:00
The legendary duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes return to Summerhall with another Optimo (Espacio) evening this February. Renowned for their visionary and exploratory musical approach during DJ sets, as well as... [more]
Sun 23 Feb 2020
Guy - screening
17:00 - 18:55
French comic and director Alex Lutz portrays a pop singer from the 1960s in this hilarious mockumentary for which he won best actor César last year (the 2020 Césars are on the evening before this screening). Lutz,... [more]
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Wed 26 Feb 2020
Simply Whisky
Whisky Fight Night - Clash In The Capital
19:00 - 21:30
A unique and unmissable event for your whisky tasting and viewing entertaining, Whisky Fight Night pits competing whiskies and industry personalities head to head in a blind tasting format for the audience to judge... [more]
Fri 28 Feb 2020
London Astrobeat Orchestra celebrate Abbey Road
19:30 - 22:30
It's 50 years since The Beatles’ last ever recorded studio album Abbey Road, so London Astrobeat Orchestra have prepared a special night to celebrate. The iconic album topped the charts for months after its... [more]
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson: A Retrospective - screening
19:00 - 21:00
Insane pigeons, a misguided monkey, the existential crisis of an animated GIF, stifled musicians, the poetry of Robert Burns and fracking are just some of the characters and subjects tackled in the animated worlds of... [more]
Sat 29 Feb 2020
The Big Moon
19:00 - 22:00
The Big Moon is a London four-piece band formed in 2014 by Juliette Jackson. Their debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension, was released on 6 April 2017, containing a number of singles previously released... [more]
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Dead Man's Shoes (18) - screening
19:00 - 20:30
Set in a small, bleak Derbyshire town. After seven years in the army, Richard returns to find out what happened to his beloved brother Anthony, who latched on to the local drugs cartel and became the butt of their... [more]
Tue 03 Mar 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Tue 10 Mar 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Blanck Mass
19:30 - 22:30
Electronic artist from the UK and one half of F*ck Buttons. Blanck Mass is a heavy, shimmering and orchestral work defined by manipulated field recordings, warm analogue synth, heavy sub and deep drone. Power has... [more]
Fri 13 Mar 2020
Wolfgang Flür (Ex-Kraftwerk)
19:30 - 23:00
A member of Kraftwerk during the group's golden era, Wolfgang Flür was the band's electronic percussionist from 1973 to 1987. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Flur became the third member of the band in 1973,... [more]
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Sun 22 Mar 2020
Yorkston Thorne Khan
19:30 - 22:30
Yorkston Thorne Khan are touring the UK in support of their third album, Navarasa: Nine Emotions, tackling Robert Burns and Sufi poetry via Dick Gaughan and Amīr Khusrow Dehlavī, traditional Scottish songs, ragas and... [more]
Tue 24 Mar 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Tue 24 Mar 2020
A ONE WOMAN RAP MUSICAL BY RACHAEL MCGILL, PERFORMED BY HANNAH WALKER
Dawn
16:00 - 17:00 & 19:00 - 20:00
Original music by Calum Howard & directed by Ruth Mary Johnson Dawn is a hairdresser who likes to rap. Her life changes after an encounter with a trafficked Vietnamese teenager and the discovery of a mysterious... [more]
Sun 29 Mar 2020
Lee Scratch Perry
19:30 - 23:00
Regarded with awe throughout the music world, Lee “Scratch” Perry holds status as one of the most enduring and original reggae producers and artists of all time. From his early days in the 1960’s as a singer and... [more]
Sun 29 Mar 2020
The Bridesmaid / La Demoiselle d’honneur (15) - screening
17:00 - 18:55
When the master of French thrillers Claude Chabrol meets the mistress of English suspense fiction Ruth Rendell, the result is a potent if very classic blend. It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta (Laura... [more]
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Edinburgh Ceilidh Club
20:00 - 23:00
The Edinburgh Ceilidh Club bring you Edinburgh's best regular ceilidhs. Every Tuesday evening we have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands at Summerhall. The bands have a caller who will teach the dances, so the event is... [more]
Wed 15 Apr 2020
Superfan
Like Animals
19:30 - 20:30
Like Animals by SUPERFAN is a funny and poignant theatre piece inspired by the true stories of research scientists’ attempts to communicate with animals. Returning to Summerhall after a successful Fringe 2019... [more]
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Grace Petrie
19:30 - 22:30
Grace Petrie’s unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over an army of loyal fans across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes. She’s... [more]
Sun 26 Apr 2020
A Faithful Man / L’Homme fidèle (15) - screening
17:00 - 18:15
Nine years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel (Louis Garrel) gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne (Laetitia Casta). It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon... [more]
Sat 16 May 2020
65daysofstatic
19:00 - 23:00
For a decade, 65daysofstatic could generally be found on the peripheries of any scene trying to claim them, headed in the opposite direction. From their immediately recognisable aesthetic of glitches and urgent guitars... [more]
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Viagra Boys
19:00 - 23:00
Viagra Boys are a Swedish post-punk band from Stockholm. The band formed in 2015, with several members coming from the bands Les Big Byrd, Pig Eyes and Nitad. In 2018, they released their debut album Street Worms.... [more]
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Lankum
19:00 - 22:00
Lankum are a four-piece group from Dublin, Ireland with an alchemical ability to combine traditional folk roots with contemporary undercurrents to forge music that is dark, mysterious and transcendental. Made up of... [more]