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Queer East Festival: Shorts: All About My Mother (18)

Red Lecture Theatre

A collection of short films that explore the nuances of the mother figure within LGBTQ+ families. With raw emotions and tenderness, these films investigate the complex emotional terrain of these intergenerational relationships, offering a glimpse into the struggles, triumphs and enduring love that shape the intricate bonds between mothers and their queer kids.

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Event Series Big Christmas Weekend
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A Very Crypto Christmas

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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.

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Queer East Festival: Bad Women of China (18) + Q&A

Red Lecture Theatre

Filmmaker and activist He Xiaopei’s first feature-length documentary takes the audience on a journey from the 1920s through to the 2020s, documenting the experiences and desires of three generations of Chinese women – He’s mother, herself, and her daughter – as they come to terms with political and social change.

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Event Series Big Christmas Weekend
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A Very Crypto Christmas

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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.

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Billie Marten

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.

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Cold Turkey’s Festive Frolic

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.

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Nanook of the North (U) with Live Score by S!nk

Main Hall

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.

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Nanook of the North (U) with Live Score by S!nk

Main Hall

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.

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432 Presents…

432 Presents… Arab Strap

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.

Summerhall Singers 10th Anniversary Winter Concert

Main Hall

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.

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Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ with The Transatlantic Ensemble live @ this Xmas

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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…

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Lost Map presents HUMBUG!

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.