Gravity Beer Festival
Brought to you by the teams behind Barney’s Beer and Summerhall, Gravity Beer Festival will welcome 15 breweries from all around the UK across four sessions on 29th and 30th September.Renowned... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Instalodecoración: Transforming The Everyday
Olmo Blanco
Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there... [more]
Focus x Carhartt WIP Launch Party
Focus began life in April 2001 in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, with the aim of helping and promoting Scottish Skateboarding and selling a carefully curated selection of clothing, footwear and... [more]
Love in the Arena
Soundclashshow.com presents Love in the Arena, featuring for the first time playing together two of Scotland’s top Sound Systems: Mungo’s Hi Fi from Glasgow and Messenger Sound from... [more]
Mediterraneo 10th anniversary special edition! With The Badwills, Bristol Branch, and TuFlamenco
Mediterraneo is 10 years old, and it’s time to celebrate with a huge party edition of Edinburgh's very own world music concert series! So come join us for one wild night of live Italian Pizzica,... [more]
A Supportive City
It’s hard being a poet. Whether you’re writing your first funding bid, looking to rent some office space, or trying to find a support network, it can be difficult to know where to start. Or, once... [more]
MASSAOKE: Greatest Hits Live (SOLD OUT)
!!SOLD OUT!!BRING THE SING!After a sell-out, 5-star run at this year’s Fringe, the “greatest party band of all time” (according to Britain’s Got Talent at least) – Rockstar Weekend... [more]
(CANCELLED) Push the Boat Out: Wondering Jews: Makars Make Muzik
Unfortunately this event has been unavoidably cancelled due to personal circumstances If you have purchased a ticket for this event a member of our box office team will be in touchWhat does it... [more]
Yeah You / Off Brand
Yeah You is the Welsh father/daughter duo Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas. Their spontaneous sonic outpouring spews unfiltered into jagged pop requiems made from a variety of tools in endlessly... [more]
Savage Mansion
Savage Mansion return with their fourth album 'The Shakes', and an Edinburgh headline show in support of their strongest, boldest record yet - a set of 11 songs which better than ever capture the... [more]
Artist Talk: We Pretended It Wasn’t Green
A talk from the artist about his exhibition, We Pretended It Wasn't Green.James Stephen Wright will discuss his work We Pretended It Wasn’t Green, a generative animation showcasing a frog and... [more]
The Great Eastern
A FESTIVAL OF MUSICAL EXPLORATION + DISCOVERY Tickets available on the day from Summerhall's courtyard. After an incredible debut in 2021, The Great Eastern returns on Saturday 21st May 2022! An... [more]
Fri 14 Jun 2024 - Fri 21 Jun 2024
From One Grows Another
Jamie King
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Jamie King is an Edinburgh based artist working in both painting and sculpture. He holds a studio at Summerhall and regularly makes work at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Previous works, entitled... [more]
The Relentless Approach of Better Times
An urgent and compelling solo performance using improvised live double bass, electronic music and experimental film to reflect on the overwhelm of news headlines, government manipulation and the... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
Postindustrial Ecologies
Dawn Felicia Knox
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Interlinking, multimedia installations by Dawn Felicia Knox exploring the way plants and fungi work together to undo the toxic residue of industrialisation. Moving through deep time into the... [more]
waverley.
Five-piece band from Edinburgh. Founded on dramatic dynamic shifts and duelling vocals, waverley. fuse Americana inspired indie rock with folk-rooted songwriting. A group of childhood friends,... [more]
Artist Talk: Post-Industrial Ecologies
A discussion with artist Dawn Felicia Knox about her exhibition, Post-industrial Ecologies.Artist Dawn Felicia Knox will discuss her exhibition, Post-industrial Ecologies, grown from a decade of... [more]
Artist Talk: Mythic Instruments
Emma Hislop will give an illustrated presentation on her work that comprises the exhibition 'Mythic Instruments'.Presented by Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, in partnership with Edinburgh... [more]
Nanook of the North (U) with Live Score by S!nk
**New matinee showing added due to high demand**Edinburgh trio S!nk perform their epic live soundtrack to Nanook of the North (1922) in support of Filmhouse’s campaign to OPEN THE DOORS. S!nk... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
A Topography of Micro Planets
Imogen Hero
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Photographic artist Imogen Hero uses her expertise in analogue photographic techniques combined with scientific processes to examine the interconnectedness of life in the Universe. The work in this... [more]
Summerhall Makers Market
Following on from the success of our Big Christmas Weekend, Summerhall will be hosting quarterly Makers Markets to showcase fantastic makers - from Edinburgh and beyond - beginning this... [more]
Azamiah + Nikhita
Edinburgh’s community radio station EHFM are teaming up with Mare Music for an Independent Venue Week special in Summerhall’s Old Lab. The show is a celebration of both local talent and our... [more]
Nanook of the North (U) with Live Score by S!nk
**New matinee showing added due to high demand**Edinburgh trio S!nk perform their epic live soundtrack to Nanook of the North (1922) in support of Filmhouse’s campaign to OPEN THE DOORS. S!nk... [more]
Fri 01 Dec 2023 - Sun 25 Feb 2024
Sounding Line
Mella Shaw
11am - 5pm Wed - Sun
Mella Shaw is an artist and an environmental activist using themes of balance, tipping points, fragility, and loss to raise awareness and inspire change.In this work her focus is on the overuse... [more]
249’s Queer Party for All - Dinnae Stress December Disco
249 is a Ramshackle Queer Party for All with live music, open-mic and club-anthems. Whether you like this time of year or not, we wanted to throw a gigantic queer party to say, dinnae stress, it'll... [more]
Blue Giant Orkestar + Bado Réti Group
Blue Giant Orkestar are a tunetastic trans-European gold-plated instrumental hydra of nuclear brass, searing fiddle, pounding tuba, one enormous Russian concert accordion and a percussion section... [more]