Yannick is the latest absurdist comedy from prolific French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, who previously directed Rubber, Mandibles and Deerskin. Watch this slice of Gallic deadpan surealism for free with The CineSkinny Film Club and MUBI.
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland's top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
A new open mic night every Wednesday night in the Royal Dick, hosted by Summerhall resident Tonegarden Studios. We welcome solo performers, duos and even full bands - and a full backline is provided!
Explore the microscopic world of fern rhizomes in this artist-led workshop.Investigate the intricate microscopic worlds found just below the ground in the rhizomes of ferns. Learn to use various microscopes and polychromatic stains to identify different cellular structures. Join artist Dawn Felicia Knox in her intercellular search to learn how plants navigate the pollution humans have left
Roseanne Reid visits Edinburgh Summerhall on Thursday 4 April 2024, with special guest Tom Webber. 2023 has seen Roseanne release the wonderful sophomore album LAWSIDE, which has been nominated for UK album of the year at the UK Americana Music Awards, alongside Ward Thomas and Far From Saints. Roseanne Reid's world has changed in some
Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song – jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll – into some stew that is impossible to categorise with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy.
Edinburgh-based David Bowie tribute band, paying homage to his songwriting brilliance, spanning six decades of musical invention and originality.
Bring the sing to the greatest musicals of all time! This show is a dream come true for fans of the Musicals, as we raise the curtain on all your favourite hits from stage and screen. Featuring songs from MAMMA MIA, HAMILTON, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, GREASE, FROZEN, DIRTY DANCING, EVITA, CATS, LES MIS, JUNGLE BOOK,
An evening of adventurous electronic music, this collective forged in the clubs of Berlin bring you into a world where Ethereal drones and pulsating beats combine to create a sonic landscape, blurring the lines between club, electronic and experimental music.
Fans of Leftwich's earlier work will associate him with a rich but pared-back acoustic singer-songwriter sound. Hits such as Atlas Hands and Shine - both from his Top 40 debut Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm - were infused with a charming wistfulness. Artistic transformation is often associated with a blast of fanfare - the dramatic
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, waverley. thrive in communal writing and self recording sessions. The results of these sessions are seen in their debut EP, 'It Makes An Emptiness Of A Crowded Place', which
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland's top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
A new open mic night every Wednesday night in the Royal Dick, hosted by Summerhall resident Tonegarden Studios. We welcome solo performers, duos and even full bands - and a full backline is provided!
BBC Radio Scotland's multi-award-winning topical comedy panel show Breaking the News is returning for its twenty-seventh series and you can now apply to be in the audience!
From the propulsive immediacy of the bass and drums’ taut groove, it’s clear something has changed in Broken Chanter's world. Thudding, powerful odes to the strength of collectivity and togetherness, David MacGregor’s Broken Chanter bristle with energy and empathy on their incendiary third album Chorus of Doubt. Recorded (and produced) by Paul Savage over 2023’s
Get your game face on and extend your reality as we explore how creative technologies and on-screen innovation are changing how we play and experience the world around us – and worlds we can only imagine.Virtual production is one of the most exciting new technology areas and Scotland has a global reputation for game, film
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 enchanting mushrooms intricately woven into a constantly changing narrative influenced by real-time earth data from satellites spinning above us.As climate change continues to affect our planet, We
Alongside the artwork of yeast-human bread, a tasting event will be held to provide a theatrical genetic dining experience for the participants to explore their personal morality calculus by eating food fermented by fictional hybrid organisms with a variety of DNA fusions. Through ordering, tasting and becoming with the food, we invite you to calculate
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 Futures Institute
Alongside the artwork of yeast-human bread, a tasting event will be held to provide a theatrical genetic dining experience for the participants to explore their personal morality calculus by eating food fermented by fictional hybrid organisms with a variety of DNA fusions. Through ordering, tasting and becoming with the food, we invite you to calculate
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 research moving through geology, industrial archaeology and ecology across one plot of land. Dawn has been exploring ferns found in the fossil excavated when the site was a coalmine as well
Shamanic Dimensions Of Pregnancy is for women who are pregnant or planning to be, for birthworkers, birth keepers, for people birthing themselves or their lives in whatever form.
Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen explores (peri-)menopause as a powerful rite of passage in a woman’s life, often feared and misunderstood. As our fertility wanes, we move from the Summer season of our lives to the Autumn. This is a time to claim our harvest, embody our wisdom and lead our communities.
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland's top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
A new open mic night every Wednesday night in the Royal Dick, hosted by Summerhall resident Tonegarden Studios. We welcome solo performers, duos and even full bands - and a full backline is provided!
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland's top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
Alongside the artwork of yeast-human bread, a tasting event will be held to provide a theatrical genetic dining experience for the participants to explore their personal morality calculus by eating food fermented by fictional hybrid organisms with a variety of DNA fusions. Through ordering, tasting and becoming with the food, we invite you to calculate
Experience a performance from Edinburgh Napier University's graduating music students: indie folk group Curiosity Shop, led by Sonny Scott; indie rock singer-songwriter Calum Anderson; and Frobisher, a contemporary jazz fusion group led by bassist Louis Taige Hodgson. This triple bill showcases the diversity of music hailing from Edinburgh Napier University.
Alongside the artwork of yeast-human bread, a tasting event will be held to provide a theatrical genetic dining experience for the participants to explore their personal morality calculus by eating food fermented by fictional hybrid organisms with a variety of DNA fusions. Through ordering, tasting and becoming with the food, we invite you to calculate
The Woolly Good Gathering is a new Edinburgh event being held on the 26th and 27th April 2024 to celebrate craft and fibre lovers with a festival of crafts, workshops, talks, food, music and good company.
Di and Sheila will explore the design process using 4 examples of reinventing knit in new ways through a slide show and samples. They will discuss the journey from inspiration, through colour, shape, form and stitch.
We'll cover sizing, layout, construction, yardage, neck lines, cuffs, hems & using partial motifs and short rows to help with shaping. Using the student's own swatch and body measurements, we'll work through a series of worksheets to plan out their custom design
Cyanotype is a very old photography technique which needs only UV light and some small objects to create a stunning image. In this workshop Jeni will give you a brief history of the technique, showing examples of their own as inspiration.
The Woolly Good Gathering is a new Edinburgh event being held on the 26th and 27th April 2024 to celebrate craft and fibre lovers with a festival of crafts, workshops, talks, food, music and good company.
Elizabeth will talk about Shetland lace knitting and the Shetland Hap. In Shetland dialect a hap is a shawl, these have been knitted for centuries in the islands. They are used for everyday wear, weddings and also christenings. She will be showing examples of her own and her mother’s lace knitting and haps.
Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul (pronounched Breetch-er Hime-bowl) is a leading purveyor of experimental Celtic music. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde's style is rooted in her language and culture, but draws inspiration from a variety of global piping traditions, such as from Eastern Europe, Cape Breton and Ireland.
A Certain Ratio have announced details of a new album produced by Dan Carey, and an extensive UK tour for spring 2024. It All Comes Down to This, their 13th studio album, will be released on 19 April 2024. The new album is the purest distillation of their essential sound ever committed to tape, and
Lonnie Holley’s art and music, born out of struggle, hardship (but perhaps more importantly), out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music and filmmaking.
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland's top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
For two years Insider Trading have haunted the Edinburgh underground circuit, becoming a staple of the post-punk scene. A blend of textural post-rock with furious walls of sound reminiscent of 80s no-wave with gentler melodic aspects of slowcore, they have carved a unique sonic identity in the Edinburgh gig landscape.
Dan Willson is Scotland's acclaimed singer songwriter Withered Hand. He has released three albums and a number of EPs over the last 15 years and has toured internationally, amassing a devoted following while staying close to his DIY roots in the underground music scene. Kathryn Williams is a Mercury Music prize-nominated English singer songwriter who
Described by Distorted Sound Magazine as a “furious, unrelenting combination of gritty vocals, blistering riffs and hammer-blow like drums”, Edinburgh’s veteran thrashers Disposable have been delivering their energetic and ferocious brand of metal to crowds in the U.K. and Europe for almost 15 years. Support from Brasser and Slow Karma
