Theatre, Workshop
Wed 18 May 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
** Book a space for this workshop and receive a promo code for a reduced ticket to Company of Wolves’ performances of Julius Caeser) ** This workshop uses simple mindful movement to recover our sense of play. Over ten years of research, performing and teaching, Company of Wolves have developed training methods to help rediscover a sense of vitality and reconnect us with others, so we can begin to unlock our full creative selves. Suitable for anyone interested in movement, creative recovery and connecting to others. No previous experience of working with movement is required.
Film
Wed 18 May 2022 @ 6:45 pm - 8:15 pm
The Skinny presents a retrospective of short films by the talented, self-taught Glasgow filmmaker James Price with a post show Q&A. With this 2 part event, get tickets for The Safdie Brothers’ Good Time, and buy a ticket for both events at £12. Part of The CineSkinny Film Club at Summerhall.
Film
Wed 18 May 2022 @ 8:45 pm - 10:25 pm
Films don’t get much more frenetic than Benny and Josh Safdie’s Good Time, featuring a pulsating electronic score from Oneohtrix Point Never. With this 2 part event, get tickets for James Price Retrospective, and buy a ticket for both events at £12. Part of The CineSkinny Film Club at Summerhall.
Theatre
Thu 19 May 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Brutus and Cassius fear Caesar will crown himself king. But when they kill Caesar, they unleash forces that threaten to tear their world apart. Five actors immerse us in Shakespeare’s play, creating a world on the brink of crisis, teeming with crowds and politics: a wild ride from the streets of Rome to the steps of the Capitol, from whispers in the night to outright war.
Film
Fri 20 May 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Theatre
Fri 20 May 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Brutus and Cassius fear Caesar will crown himself king. But when they kill Caesar, they unleash forces that threaten to tear their world apart. Five actors immerse us in Shakespeare’s play, creating a world on the brink of crisis, teeming with crowds and politics: a wild ride from the streets of Rome to the steps of the Capitol, from whispers in the night to outright war.
Film
Fri 20 May 2022 @ 9:00 pm - 10:45 pm
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, this Nick Cage accepts a million-dollar paycheck to appear at the birthday party of a mysterious superfan in Spain. ★★★★ Empire Magazine
Music
Sat 21 May 2022
After an incredible debut in 2021, The Great Eastern returns on Saturday 21st May 2022! An all-day music festival taking place across multiple Edinburgh venues, The Great Eastern is brought to you by promoters 432 Presents, in association with Summerhall/Nothing Ever Happens Here and The Queen’s Hall.
Film
Sat 21 May 2022 @ 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Film
Sun 22 May 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Z director Costa-Gavras reunites with star Yves Montand for another gripping thriller. Prague, 1951. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gérard (Montand) is suddenly arrested, tortured, and placed in solitary confinement.
Music
Sun 22 May 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Yorkston Thorne Khan are songwriter James Yorkston (guitar, nyckelharpa, voice), jazz musician Jon Thorne (double bass, voice) and 8th generation sarangi player and vocalist Suhail Yusuf Khan. Meeting by chance backstage in 2015 and playing together ever since, Yorkston Thorne Khan’s musical explorations are well-informed by their rich musical heritage but never reverential, preferring to run with an energy and fun that pushes them to new ground, Rolling Stone calling their Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars album “a game changing masterpiece”.
Film
Sun 22 May 2022 @ 7:50 pm - 9:12 pm
Considered a tour-de-force of editing, featuring excerpts from over 700 films, Paris 1900 is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era. Step back in time to the French capital at the beginning of the 20th century, and the final years of La Belle Époque.
Film
Mon 23 May 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Film
Tue 24 May 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Music
Tue 24 May 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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.
Film
Wed 25 May 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Film
Thu 26 May 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
A victim of deprivation and social exclusion had joined a religious cult that gave him a sense of community, but has since liberated himself from its oppressions and criminal temptations. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Film
Thu 26 May 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:15 pm
Striking miners, indigenous communities left off the hook, market stalls… Filming the invisibles, Kiro Russo’s second feature is a singular city symphony that lays bare the plight of the working classes. A milestone of representation of indigenous communities in cinema, the film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in the last Biennale – Venice Film Festival. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Film
Fri 27 May 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
An alternative anti-imperialist take on the discovery of America, shot in 16mm with images of painstaking beauty. Drawing an arc between 1492 and our present, between the genocide of the Conquista, the slave trade and the witch hunts, the building of a Spanish empire abroad, and the ghost of the civil war. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Film
Fri 27 May 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:15 pm
Nuria and Fabio arrive with their mother Amparo on an unknown island on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They are fleeing armed conflicts in Colombia. Fearful of betraying family secrets, Nuria goes silent. In the midst of this, the family tries to receive compensation for the father’s death and to obtain a visa to emigrate to Brazil. By covering this story, they uncover others about the family’s past. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Film
Sat 28 May 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her in contemporary India. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds. A film that is a love letter, a poem to cinema, and a reminder of the need for collective action in our societies. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Film
Sat 28 May 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
A VHS journey to the heart of one of the most shameful episodes of modern Argentina. Made almost entirely out of archive material, SPLINTERS (Esquirlas) is a firsthand reflection on
Film
Sun 29 May 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Mickaël (Vincent Macaigne) is a night doctor who visits troubled neighbours and cares for those whom no one else seems to – the drug addicts, the homeless, the destitute. His
Film
Sun 29 May 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:48 pm
Thirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a