Tricky Hat presents The Flames. The Flames will reignite in a striking and innovative mix of film, music and performance to explore stories about life after fifty, presenting a fresh look at how we approach ageing. Join The Flames for a unique performance of devised work, taking inspiration from everyday life, to challenge pre-conceived ideas
Come join us for the Edinburgh Record and CD Fair at Summerhall’s Gallery Bar, featuring a large selection of vinyl and CDs (both new and second-hand) for sale. Drop by our charity stall (all proceeds go to the Grassmarket Project!) with large selection of niche DVDs. The Gallery Bar will be open from 8:00 on
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.
Untutored life drawing with an occasional rotation of themes – ranging from narrative with props and costume, to more conceptual ideas. Come and enjoy a space where the line between model and performer blurs, where newness and surprise thrives. Here’s what happens: whether you’re a seasoned pro or don’t know a pencil from a pen,
Singer and harpist Rachel Newton draws on poems and ballads that are hundreds of years old, working them into her contemporary compositional style to create a rich sound that is ambitious, original and unique.
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.
Untutored life drawing with an occasional rotation of themes – ranging from narrative with props and costume, to more conceptual ideas. Come and enjoy a space where the line between model and performer blurs, where newness and surprise thrives. Here’s what happens: whether you’re a seasoned pro or don’t know a pencil from a pen,
RURA are set to return to stages across the UK with their hotly anticipated fourth studio album Dusk Moon, in March 2023. The award-winning quartet have been a mainstage highlight at the world’s leading folk music festivals for over 10 years, touring across Europe, Canada, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and return to UK venues
The duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes return to Summerhall’s Dissection Room with another one of their eclectic and euphoric sessions which has made them legends in the Glasgow and international club scene. Going strong for over 25 years, Optimo Espacio are still throwing some of the best parties on the planet. Isa is
The Glasgow Dreamers are: Citizen Bravo, Malcolm Benzie and Raymond MacDonald, plus guests. 2023 is the centenary of the birth of the late Scottish humourist, poet, philosopher and surrealist Ivor Cutler. This performance celebrates his unique musical output, and features Emma Pollock (The Delgados) and Rick Anthony (Rick Redbeard, The Phantom Band) performing a slew
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.
Untutored life drawing with an occasional rotation of themes – ranging from narrative with props and costume, to more conceptual ideas. Come and enjoy a space where the line between model and performer blurs, where newness and surprise thrives. Here’s what happens: whether you’re a seasoned pro or don’t know a pencil from a pen,
Art is only the dream of a designated comfort break. Parody is the pawn of power. Creativity is an advertising space. Breath is a privilege and a luxury. The world is aflame… All hail discordia! Performance cabaret ANATOMY return to Summerhall for their first live show in three years, bringing a mixture of live-art shenanigans
Good times, world grooves and great dancing! The Branch has a drive to get the dance floor moving to traditional sounds from around the globe. They play up-tempo Brazilian forró and baião with a sprinkling of samba, zydeco and ceilidh – any style that suits their trademark sound of fiddle, accordion, driving percussion and vocals.
Welcome to Microsteria! Where the micro is made massive. A brand-new night of live electronically-mutated music, combining visuals, costume and performance. Following the collaborative success with Chell Young and Vomiton in 2021/22, local acid-pop duo Maranta bring the illusory world of Microsteria to Summerhall’s Dissection Room. With performances from: MARANTA MERMAID CHUNKY JOCKFOX CATGUT
A powerful day of connection, confrontation and collaboration. Mantra Men’s Council is our introductory experience. A powerful one-day retreat for men who want to explore, express and connect to their authenticity. We’ll work together as men in a safe space, supporting each other as we go, inviting each man to step outside their comfort zone
A game show. A nurse. A chicken shop. Dolly Parton. A golden umbrella. Making it rain. Quite a lot of hopping. Some bingo. Zero hours contracts. You better work bitch. I Hate it Here is an interactive devised piece about zero hours contracts and instability. It centers on Plang, an elderly care worker who loves
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.
Untutored life drawing with an occasional rotation of themes – ranging from narrative with props and costume, to more conceptual ideas. Come and enjoy a space where the line between model and performer blurs, where newness and surprise thrives. Here’s what happens: whether you’re a seasoned pro or don’t know a pencil from a pen,
Alasdair Roberts is a Glasgow-based musician – primarily a singer and guitarist – born in Germany and raised in central Scotland. Acclaimed by Folk Radio UK as ‘one of our most talented, important and relevant songwriters and song-adapters’, he has released several critically-acclaimed albums via Drag City Records over the past two decades.
Company of Wolves presents a solo work by Anna Porubcansky. Unbecoming is a performance about loss and rage, told by a woman and a mother. Rage – at all we become when we don’t have a choice. Loss – of all we haven’t become. And how we unbecome. Using traditional song, soundscape, myth and movement,
Summerhall is extending award-winning Northern Irish artist John Kindness’ exhibition, The Odyssey, until June 30th 2023. The re-launch will be accompanied by an Artist Talk by Kindness held in Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre, followed by a drink’s reception in the Main Hall where Kindness‘ permanent ceiling installation is located. The galleries will be open to
Having led a bit of nomadic existence since the closure of The Electric Circus in 2017, the club famed for its spinning wheel of musical categories returns to Summerhall, the venue that saw two memorable nights either side of the pandemic (NYE 2019 and August 2022). Fresh from selling out Glasgow’s legendary King Tuts Wah
This double-feature screening will be followed by a hybrid Q&A session, featuring Dir. Tin Fu Huang (online) and Dir. Tammy Cheung (in-person), hosted by Dr. Fraser Elliott (in-person). Nail 指月記 Taiwan / 2002 / B&W / 45 mins / No Dialogue Nail is Director Huang Ting-fu’s year and a half long (a year of filming
