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Tue 06 Jul 2021 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm

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Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

Discover and interact with the elements on this magical, multi-sensory journey through an intriguing, immersive digital world where magic meets alchemy and alchemy meets science. Join fellow explorers as you play, discover, create and experience for yourself how a limited number of elements come together to create the almost infinite variety of our Universe.

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Wed 07 Jul 2021 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm

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Venue

Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

Discover and interact with the elements on this magical, multi-sensory journey through an intriguing, immersive digital world where magic meets alchemy and alchemy meets science. Join fellow explorers as you play, discover, create and experience for yourself how a limited number of elements come together to create the almost infinite variety of our Universe.

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Thu 08 Jul 2021 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm

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Venue

Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

Discover and interact with the elements on this magical, multi-sensory journey through an intriguing, immersive digital world where magic meets alchemy and alchemy meets science. Join fellow explorers as you play, discover, create and experience for yourself how a limited number of elements come together to create the almost infinite variety of our Universe.

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Fri 09 Jul 2021 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm

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Venue

Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

Discover and interact with the elements on this magical, multi-sensory journey through an intriguing, immersive digital world where magic meets alchemy and alchemy meets science. Join fellow explorers as you play, discover, create and experience for yourself how a limited number of elements come together to create the almost infinite variety of our Universe.

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Sat 10 Jul 2021 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm

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Venue

Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

Discover and interact with the elements on this magical, multi-sensory journey through an intriguing, immersive digital world where magic meets alchemy and alchemy meets science. Join fellow explorers as you play, discover, create and experience for yourself how a limited number of elements come together to create the almost infinite variety of our Universe.

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Sun 11 Jul 2021 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm

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Venue

Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

Discover and interact with the elements on this magical, multi-sensory journey through an intriguing, immersive digital world where magic meets alchemy and alchemy meets science. Join fellow explorers as you play, discover, create and experience for yourself how a limited number of elements come together to create the almost infinite variety of our Universe.

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Fri 28 Jan 2022 - Sat 05 Feb 2022

Adrien M & Claire B

Venue

Deans Office
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
Phone
0131 560 1580

A duo of interactive installations from Claire Bardainne & Adrien Mondot for you to discover in Summerhall. Start your journey in the Dean’s Office exploring a world created with augmented reality pop up books before venturing out to find Faune in ten locations around the building. A map is available to help you find our Manipulate 22 installation works.

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Sat 09 Apr 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Emily Fong.

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Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
01315601580

How did Emily Fong find herself inside the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, hospital clinics and surgery – observing the journey of the salivary gland from patient to laboratory? What might the salivary gland say of it’s experiences outside of the body and future aspirations? Join Emily for insight into the process of this unique residency

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Sat 09 Apr 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Louise Mackenzie and invited guest.

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Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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01315601580

Co-founder and curator of pop-up cinema experience, BLACK BOX, artist Louise Mackenzie and invited guest will give a talk on the inspiration behind the BLACK BOX programme. Opening the door on the inner workings of scientific research, Black Box is a curatorial cinema project, founded by artist, Louise Mackenzie and scientist, Kasia Pirog in 2019. 

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Sat 16 Apr 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Sonia Mehra Chowla.

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Online

‘The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures’ is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the fragile and endangered coastal ecosystems and wetland habitats of India and Scotland, and their vital role in building resilience to climate change. The project is led by multidisciplinary artist & researcher Sonia Mehra Chawla and creative producer Miriam Walsh (Managing Director, ASCUS Art &

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Wed 03 Aug 2022 - Wed 31 Aug 2022

Venue

Summerhall
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
0131 560 1580

Summerhall’s programme for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 is now live!

Summerhall is a space for everyone. Whether you’re engaging with our performance programme, partying at one of our club nights, grabbing a drink in the pub, or simply soaking up the atmosphere in our hidden courtyard, there is something at Summerhall for you to explore, discover and enjoy this August.

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Fri 04 Nov 2022 @ 11:00 am - Sun 06 Nov 2022 @ 10:00 pm

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Summerhall
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
0131 560 1580

Inspired by the irreverence and innovation of Push the Boat Out’s patron saint, Edwin Morgan, Particle Poem Collider is our way of honouring the work of the festival’s guests while playfully questioning ideas of ownership, copyright and creation. A rather old-fashioned AI (the latest generation are just too good at aping styles, and tend not

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Fri 04 Nov 2022 @ 11:00 am - Sun 06 Nov 2022 @ 10:00 pm

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Summerhall
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
0131 560 1580

Push the Boat Out is delighted to work once more with WHALE Arts, a community-led arts charity and social enterprise at the heart of Wester Hailes. Thanks to funding from Awards for All (National Lottery Fund), Push the Boat Out supported a series of creative sessions on poetry and mindfulness, run by poet Colin McGuire.

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Fri 04 Nov 2022 @ 11:00 am - Sun 06 Nov 2022 @ 10:00 pm

Venue

Old Lab
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
0131 560 1580

An immersive soundscape of poetry awaits in the Old Lab, Summerhall. Escape all those noisy chattering poets and sit quietly in the dark and absorb some of the sounds of the most iconic poetry audio from the last 60 years. Free, unticketed, throughout the Festival. AUDIO ONLY

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Fri 04 Nov 2022 @ 3:00 pm - Sun 06 Nov 2022 @ 10:00 pm

Venue

Summerhall
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
0131 560 1580

Google makes its money auctioning words to the highest bidder. It’s known as linguistic capitalism, and it means that your search queries will always return the most lucrative version of the word you searched for, regardless of your intent. The monetary exchange value of language has therefore become more important than its linguistic value. The

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Thu 02 Feb 2023 @ 8:00 am - Sun 02 Apr 2023 @ 8:00 pm

Venue

Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
01315601580

365: Stories and Music is major new collection of modern Scottish short stories by James Robertson, and music from Aidan O’Rourke. In 2013, one of Scotland’s leading authors, James Robertson, decided to write a short story every day of the year – each story was 365 words. Scottish fiddler and composer Aidan O’Rourke (of Lau)

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Fri 10 Feb 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Curated by Adrien Sina

Venue

Red Lecture Theatre

This event is Free-Ticketed War | Oppression | Dystopia conference/film-screening by Adrien Sina Conceived in 2020 by Adrien Sina, dance historian and curator of the exhibitions Feminine Futures, the series War | Oppression | Dystopia is prolonged at the Centre Pompidou with this event especially conceived in tribute to the Ukrainian artists. War | Oppression

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Wed 21 Jun 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Venue

Dissection Room
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH9 1PLUnited Kingdom
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0131 560 1580

The John Byrne Award is going out with a bang! Join us at Summerhall in Edinburgh on Wednesday 21 June for an evening filled with art and conversation. Come along and celebrate our wonderful artists. We will be showcasing the amazing work of all this year’s shortlisted artists and monthly winners, and will be announcing

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Thu 09 Nov 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Venue

Main Hall & Meadows Galleries

Join us for an evening of art and exploration, examining the topic of neurodivergence through the lens of philosophy, psychology, music, art and poetry. Our speakers and performers will introduce the audience to the social, cultural and political questions surrounding the issue of neurodiversity, as well as providing an insight into the internal experience of

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Fri 24 Nov 2023 - Sun 26 Nov 2023

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Club Room

An immersive audio guide leads its listener through a series of images; an unreliable narrator, its tone fluctuates between direct, abstractly poetic, and contemplative, provoking questions about the tension between what our eyes perceive and the guide’s narration. Does the audio align with how we view the photographs? How many ways can an image be

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Sat 17 Feb 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Venue

Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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01315601580

Mella Shaw, the artist behind ‘Sounding Line’ , currently exhibiting as part of the Summerhall Arts inaugural exhibition season FORM: a season of exhibitions by female contemporary artists, will give an illustrated presentation on their inspiration, creative practice and current exhibition. Between 11:00 – 12:00 there will be a chance to view the galleries and

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Sat 17 Feb 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Venue

Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
01315601580

Camila Ospina Gaitán, the artist behind ‘An Uncanny Feeling that She was Being Watched’, currently exhibiting as part of the Summerhall Arts inaugural exhibition season FORM: a season of exhibitions by female contemporary artists, will give an illustrated presentation on their inspiration, creative practice and current exhibition. Between 11:00 – 12:00 there will be a

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Sat 17 Feb 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Venue

Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
01315601580

Emma Hislop, the artist behind ‘What is Left Behind’, currently exhibiting as part of the Summerhall Arts inaugural exhibition season FORM: a season of exhibitions by female contemporary artists, will give an illustrated presentation on their inspiration, creative practice and current exhibition. Between 11:00 – 12:00 there will be a chance to view the galleries

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Sat 17 Feb 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Venue

Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Summerhall
Edinburgh,EH91PLUnited Kingdom
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Phone
01315601580

Rowan Walker, the artist behind ‘Foreign Objects’, currently exhibiting as part of the Summerhall Arts inaugural exhibition season FORM: a season of exhibitions by female contemporary artists, will give an illustrated presentation on their inspiration, creative practice and current exhibition. Between 11:00 – 12:00 there will be a chance to view the galleries and meet