Language: French, Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. Prestigious Catalan director Isaki Lacuesta investigates memory and trauma in this film about the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris. Isaki Lacuesta investigates the deep marks that witnessing a terrorist attack leaves in the memory
Language: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polynesian with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. The Best Film of 2022 for Cahiers du Cinéma, Pacifiction is a dreamy, tropical, visually-stunning cinematic journey which deserves to be experienced in the cinema. On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti,
Language: Catalan, Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. A programme of short films and a conversation with directors Alba Bresolí and Meritxell Colell on the new wave of Catalan cinema and literature reflecting on the rural world and Catalan countryside. In 2022,
A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. The film will be introduced by Director Meritxell Colell and followed by a Q&A. A fierce filmmaker defendant of cinema as experience, Meritxell Collell’s second film is a poetic journey in which she once again
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.
In this two-day workshop on micro cinema theatre, participants will explore how video and cctv cameras, projectors and simple everyday objects can be used to discover secret worlds usually hidden to the human eye.
365: Stories and Music is major new collection of modern Scottish short stories by James Robertson, and music from Aidan O’Rourke. In 2013, one of Scotland’s leading authors, James Robertson, decided to write a short story every day of the year – each story was 365 words. Scottish fiddler and composer Aidan O’Rourke (of Lau)
MANIPULATE is BACK with a BANG for 2023; come and celebrate with us! With exclusive pop-up performances, a cracking playlist featuring some of the greatest ever animated music videos, sneak peeks of highlights from across the festival and a visit from our commissioned giant illuminated puppets, what’s not to love?
Jill Lorean is Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop) in collaboration with Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit) and drummer Peter Kelly. Jill muses on nature, relationships, love, sorrow, motherhood and memory over frenetic, hypnotic drum beats and playful, subversive bass and guitar lines. Poster Paints are Carla J. Easton and Simon Liddell. Two beloved Scottish musicians
On January 13th, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra will release The Great White Sea Eagle, the follow up to James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s The Wide, Wide River – a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021. The record didn’t start life as a follow up; in early 2021,
Festival favourites Ljubljana Puppet Theatre return with Moč, an intimate puppet-object miniature exploring power, weakness and control.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. All ticket holders have been contacted and full refunds have been processed. If you bought tickets through SeeTickets, they will be in touch shortly to process refunds. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
Experience exciting new visual theatre works from six Scottish artists, presented here in the early stages of their development.
Kasia Zawadzka returns with this powerful aerial and physical theatre performance Ill Lit, using the Japanese art of Shibari (rope bondage) to explore mental health, cycles of repetition and the struggle to break out.
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,
In this workshop for visual theatre performers, Al Seed will work with participants to explore approaches to identifying, developing and pitching ideas for future shows with audiences, presenting partners and collaborators in mind.
Sand is a highly visual work-in-progress performance which tells of the very old mythical being the Sandman, blending theatrical styles to bring his world to life though movement, object manipulation and shadow puppetry.
This event is Free-Ticketed War | Oppression | Dystopia conference/film-screening by Adrien Sina Conceived in 2020 by Adrien Sina, dance historian and curator of the exhibitions Feminine Futures, the series War | Oppression | Dystopia is prolonged at the Centre Pompidou with this event especially conceived in tribute to the Ukrainian artists. War | Oppression
Plutôt La Vie curates an evening of fantastic fantasy, the weird, the wild and the off-beat! Join us for an evening of drinks, delirium and sublime stupidity. Enjoy four clowning performances over the course of an hour and a half in the Summerhall Gallery Bar.
A classic roots reggae and dub meeting between two handbuilt Jamaican-style soundsystems: Mighty Oak Sound (Edinburgh) and Crucial Roots (Glasgow), where each crew go toe to toe, selection for selection all night, hosted by MC Dandelion. This is a rare chance to see two of Scotland’s finest roots reggae sound systems in action in a
A critical discussion between three leading puppeteers in Scotland, exploring contemporary puppetry practice from the perspective of gender. We will explore issues around whose stories are told in puppetry, and what kind of gender roles appear in those stories, gender balance in programming and how women’s work is presented and critically discussed, the process of
