Samizdat presents a unique and vibrant collection of 17 films entered into our Short Film Competition. Out of the 1100+ submissions we received this year, our curators have carefully selected some of the finest contemporary shorts from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electrofolk scene with music that transcends stereotypes using a combination of manipulated samples, synths, drum tracks and earthy Northumbrian fiddle and voice to capture her audience. Her aim? To shake up genres and traditions, challenge perspectives and call for a fairer future.
Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
In this hypnotising sci-fi noir, inspector Glebsky arrives at a remote hotel in response to a call out: except there is nothing to investigate, yet. As he meets its strange guests, the hotel is cut off from civilization by an avalanche – and bizarre events start to unfold.
Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band Hejira performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist/guitarist Hattie Whitehead, this band fully captures the poetry, passion and beauty of Mitchell’s masterpieces.
Afro Celt Sound System are among the pioneers of the contemporary world music scene. Their ground-breaking fusion of African, Gaelic and Bhangra influenced sounds has won the hearts and minds of audiences since the group’s beginnings over 25 years ago.
Meteor Airlines on Saturday 19th October has now moved to a different venue, and will instead take place on Monday 21st October. The new venue for this event will be: The Ballroom at Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. For the first time, Meteor Airlines is set to bring their unique sound to Scotland. This event is an exciting opportunity for Scotland’s audiences to experience the rich, culturally infused rock music of Meteor Airlines, a band that not only entertains but also educates and connects listeners to the Moroccan Amazigh culture.
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.
Los Bitchos on Wednesday 23rd October has now moved to a different venue. The new venue for this event will be: The Caves, Edinburgh. All tickets will be valid for the new venue. Los Bitchos is back and better than ever! Since the launch of their much-loved debut album, ‘Let the Festivities Begin,’ with City
This show will now take place at Cabaret Voltaire. All tickets remain valid. Beside Trawbreaga Bay, in Co. Donegal, in an old schoolhouse with a suitcase full of borrowed recording gear, Oisin Leech strums gently on an acoustic guitar and watches the tide pull the water away from this ancient inlet. The thickness of Oisin’s
This collection of shorts explores the secret lives of those unseen or unnoticed. Survivors of the apocalypse welcome the dawn of a new day, a mysterious man arrives dead on an airplane, and a small hermit crab struggles to find a new home. Featuring a variety of animation, including the winner of the Jury award
Last Night From Glasgow are delighted to bring wojtek the bear and Xan Tyler to the capital. They’ll be joined on the evening by very special guest Martin Metcalfe of Goodbye Mr McKenzie & The Filthy Tongues.
Straight from the heart of Nigeria, Rhythm & Revolution welcome for the first time to the UK and Scotland, high-energy Afrobeat band Lagos Thugs, joined by special guest, Indy Dibongue, the official guitarist of Tony Allen (France/Cameroon). Join us to celebrate the life and music of the legendary Fela Kuti and Black History Month.
You’re invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these horny little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true (think Oh, Hello meets those twins from The Shining, meets My Super Sweet 16).
Darkness treads light as a feather. The sinister yet beguiling images that DARKHER aka Jayn Maiven paints with her ethereal vocals, guitars, and added strings conjure iridescent cinematic scenes, in which it becomes hard to tell whether there lies beauty in darkness or if it is the other
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Welcome to MICROSTERIA where the micro is made massive. Join us on Saturday 26th October as Summerhall host 2024’s final edition of MICROSTERIA. After an immense year of Dissection Room parties and multiple festival takeovers, Maranta have packed in some astounding and strange acts for the Halloween special.
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.
This gig has been rescheduled for 2025, new date to be announced soon Hailing from the vibrant music scene of Guinea, West Africa, Natu Camara has taken the world stage by storm with her powerful vocals and magnetic presence. Her presence and music resonate as a harmonious blend of legendary voices such as Miriam Makeba,
Enter the Hellmouth this Halloween for a club night with 90s bangers, hot vampires, spooky happenings and more. For one night only, Summerhall becomes The Bronze so bring your best Slayer energy! Featuring demon DJs, Halloween treats and a special performance from burlesque star and queer cabaret queen Nova Duh.
Edwin Raphael on Sunday 3rd November has now moved to a different venue. The new venue for this event will be: Voodoo Rooms (Speakeasy), Edinburgh. Doors will be from 19:30. All tickets will be valid for the new venue. How do you anchor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities at once? For Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-raised,
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.
Prepare to be moved! Come along to Rock the Boat, Summerhall’s longstanding monthly poetry open mic, put on by Push the Boat Out: Edinburgh’s International Poetry festival. Sign up to perform your work or just drop by to listen – there’s something new every month
Recently deemed one of Vic Galloway’s (BBC Scotland) ‘Ones to Watch’ Glasgow artist – Grayling along with her all star band will play Summerhall’s Old Lab on the 7th of November.
Independent from the jump and fueled at times by willpower and community alone, B. Dolan has expanded his creative influence beyond music into film, poetry, and songwriting over the past fifteen years.
This programme of shorts explores those who live on the edge and the challenges they face. Whether it be an emotional edge, the unknown space between life and death, being on the front lines during a pandemic or living in a war zone, these films all explore the extraordinary intensity of life and the after-life.
Genre-bending quartet Idiogram launch their debut album ‘Reunion of Broken Parts’. Unconstrained by convention or expectation, their music blends influences from post-prog, rock, electronic, ambient and classical. Reflecting a shared love of the weird and the beautiful, the result is a compelling musical journey, all delivered with joyful conviction.
Contemporary Scottish shorts and new filmmakers celebrated in a dedicated Scottish shorts programme. Co-curated with Glasgow Media Access Centre, including shorts commissioned via GMAC’s ‘Little Pictures’ programme and some ESFF in competition filmmakers to watch out for. Networking follows the screening.
Loved ones are memorialised, a fish shop worker clutches at a forgotten childhood and two famous writers face-off in this eclectic programme of shorts. This programme explores how we experience memory through feelings of loss and breathes new life into who have left this world. Including a BFI funded drama, and a UK premiere for
Immerse yourself in an enchanting world as the mesmerising quartet CALAN grace our stage with their unique brand of power-folk.
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.
Los Angeles-based musician Tashi Wada works within a heady, intergenerational slipstream bridging storied East and West Coast art music institutions, and the DIY experimental scenes that emerged in the 2000s and 2010s.
Niamh Bury on Thursday 14th November has now moved to a different venue. The new venue for this event will be: Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh. The doors will open at 19:00.
All tickets will be valid for the new venue.
Ever since releasing her first single with Claddagh Records in July 2023, Dubliner Niamh Bury has been hailed as one of Irish folk’s most exciting new talents; a particularly prestigious coup during a time when the genre is garnering so much attention around the world.
Project Smok on Saturday 16th November has now moved to a different venue. The new venue for this event will be: Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh. All original tickets will be valid for this new venue Project Smok is the neo-trad trio of Ali Levack, Ewan Baird and Pablo Lafuente, whose nonconformist and progressive Scottish traditional music has set
Ibibio Sound Machine on Monday 18th November has now moved to a different venue. The new venue for this event will be: La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. All tickets will be valid for the new venue. Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new
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.
Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channelling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace and sharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort of nasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos. Fuelled by the onslaught of
With a set packed with new material, Edinburgh locals Picture The Scene will be bringing some very special guests along for the night! All previous shows in Edinburgh have sold out, so act quickly and grab a ticket.
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.
After their successful debut destruction of Summerhall in May, Edinburgh metallers Disposable return to the Old Lab to celebrate the release of their third full length album It’s Blood That Trickles Down, a highly charged, confrontational cut of 15 tracks of finger pointing thrash.
Leith-based bands Day Sleeper and Scarred Lip round out 2024 with a special joint headline show, with support from Annie Booth.
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.
Edinburgh’s baroque-pop sons Logan’s Close take to the stage at Summerhall, with support from Berstrum and the Men.
Cahill//Costello are an ambient duo from Glasgow, Scotland and consist of guitarist Kevin Daniel Cahill and drummer Graham Costello. Their process fuses elements of minimalism and ambient music to create a shared, highly emotive soundworld, without regard for over-complication or unnecessary tangents.
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 seventh serving.
As part of our Big Christmas Weekend, the Edinburgh Ceilidh Club are coming to the Main Hall for a special festive evening of reeling
In this workshop, participants of all ages and skill levels will learn how to work with eco-resin, mix pigments, and cast them into set of six stunning Christmas decorations.
These handmade ornaments will not only add a touch of charm to your own Christmas tree but will also make wonderful, heartfelt gifts for loved ones.
Summerhall’s annual Christmas Market returns with over 70 stalls to browse each day! Our highly anticipated Christmas Market will feature a wide, curated selection of artisanal crafts and goods, making it the perfect place to find unique gifts for family, friends and yourself. This year, the market will include a pet photography pop-up where you
In this workshop you will learn what’s terrazzo, how to work with eco-resin, mix colours and cast your very own terrazzo mini tray.
Once you’re all done with this fab activity, your tray will be ready to take home and enjoy, plus it makes a beautiful, handmade gift!
Summerhall’s annual Christmas Market returns with over 70 stalls to browse each day! Our highly anticipated Christmas Market will feature a wide, curated selection of artisanal crafts and goods, making it the perfect place to find unique gifts for family, friends and yourself. This year, the market will include a pet photography pop-up where you
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.
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.
