Learn how to create your own contemporary, nature-inspired Christmas wreath using a mix of Scottish grown materials and take home a beautiful decoration that oozes rustic charm and celebrates the best of Scottish landscape.
Glasgow based street theatre company Adrenalism bring their trademark anarcho-slapstick style indoors this festive season with their new show “A Very Crypto Christmas”. Middling corporate hacks Warren and Stew present a christmas theatre show that is part business edu-tainment session, part investment seminar but fully doomed to fail.
Expect slapstick violence, physical theatre, clunky metaphors and razor-sharp satire of our current grotesque political reality.
As part of the Summerhall Big Christmas Weekend, the annual Christmas Market will invite stalls of local, specially curated businesses on 2nd-3rd December.
As part of the Summerhall Big Christmas Weekend, the annual Christmas Market will invite stalls of local, specially curated businesses on 2nd-3rd December.
Learn how to create your own contemporary, nature-inspired Christmas wreath using a mix of Scottish grown materials and take home a beautiful decoration that oozes rustic charm and celebrates the best of Scottish landscape.
Folk singer-songwriter Billie Marten performs at Summerhall in celebration of her fourth album, ‘Drop Cherries’, a collection of songs packed full of feeling. Plus special guests.
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.
Cold Turkey is a scrumptious festive buffet of music, spoken word and arty weirdness, featuring Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen, and Withered Hand. This is the mouth-watering sixth serving, and 2023’s special guest is the Welsh wonder, Charlotte Church. We’ll also be joined by co-host and opener Gemma Cairney.
To support Filmhouse’s campaign to OPEN THE DOORS, Edinburgh trio S!nk perform their epic live soundtrack to Nanook of the North – Robert Flaherty’s iconic film examining Inuit culture in the icy Arctic. S!nk’s score juxtaposes a sense of pervading harshness with the humorous spirits who inhabit this inhospitable environment.
To support Filmhouse’s campaign to OPEN THE DOORS, Edinburgh trio S!nk perform their epic live soundtrack to Nanook of the North – Robert Flaherty’s iconic film examining Inuit culture in the icy Arctic. S!nk’s score juxtaposes a sense of pervading harshness with the humorous spirits who inhabit this inhospitable environment.
Arab Strap started out as an intimate project with home-recorded tapes shared between friends, but after the unexpected success of their inimitable debut single ‘The First Big Weekend’ they quickly found themselves, along with pals Mogwai, as some of the most exciting and cherished music coming out of Scotland.
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.
Join the Summerhall Singers community choir at their 10th Anniversary Winter Concert! This year, our theme is ‘Seasons’! Expect an eclectic mix of songs, old and new, and some Christmas Carols thrown into the mix. Suitable for all the family, and musical tastes, this will be a wonderful hour of song and merriment.
After multiple sell out shows, inc two back-to-back dates at this year’s Fringe, the ‘Transatlantic Ensemble’ return to Summerhall by popular demand, for a Xmas special performing Fleetwood Mac’s iconic ‘Rumours’ album in its entirety, plus loads of other well-known Fleetwood Mac classics. Ask anyone & believe what you hear…
Brooklyn-based rapper Nappy Nina has carved out a distinctive niche within contemporary hip hop. Her storytelling skills and conversational, but precise flow have seen the MC collaborate widely over the course of a young career, with figures ranging from hip hop veterans such as Quelle Chris and Stas Thee Boss, to DIY and avant garde
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 be fine xxx So come along to the inaugural Dinnae Stress December Disco for a stress-free night of titillating
HUMBUG! is the annual festive gathering of live music from Pictish Trail’s Lost Map label, with very special guests, spread across a whole day. The line-up is a closely guarded secret for the time being… but expect an assortment of the country’s best singer-songwriters, break-neck indie rock, mind-warping psychedelia and explorations in electronica.
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.
Fancy a Hogmanay that’s a little bit different? come along to Summerhall for our ‘Off the Street’ Hogmanay party! We invite you for a night to remember with the legendary Soul Foundation.
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.
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
Are you over 50 and do you have a story to tell? Tricky Hat is welcoming people aged 50+ to join their performance company The Flames, to create a show that challenges pre-conceived ideas of how older people think and what they aspire to. No experience is necessary, there is no acting, and you do not need to memorise a script. You just need to be yourself, interact with everyone involved and be up for a possibility!
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
This one-of-its-kind event is your permission slip outta your day-to-day, and into a realm of wellness wonder where we champion the unsung heroes in the wellness business space. These passionate individuals are on a mission to serve, contribute, and make a positive impact on your well-being.
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 wonderful local music scene, featuring two of Scotland’s finest new acts, Nikhita and Azamiah. Nikhita is an artist based in Edinburgh. Using music
Manipulate’s animated shorts programme celebrates extraordinary animation from around the globe, showcasing a dizzying range of styles, techniques, genres and ideas. The programme is co-curated with guest creatives, each looking at animation from different social and artistic perspectives. Shorts 1 is co-curated with Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival in Glasgow and offers a unique collection
Part of Manipulate Festival 2024, their animated shorts programme celebrates extraordinary animation from around the globe showcasing a dizzying range of styles, techniques, genres and ideas. The programme is co-curated with guest creatives, each looking at animation from different social and artistic perspectives. Manipulate’s second shorts programme is curated by Manipulate Arts Associate Programmer Natasha
Screening as part of Manipulate Festival 2024. A small village looted in darkness, a family forced to flee. The two oldest children, Kyona and Adriel are quickly separated from their parents facing the road of exile alone. They embark on a heroic journey which takes them from childhood to adolescence in search of shelter, peace
