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
25 years on from the release of The Seahorses’ seminal album Do It Yourself, acclaimed vocalist Chris Helme will revisit the iconic record with a series of one-off acoustic performances. Formed by Stone Roses’ guitarist John Squire, the English alternative rock band released their first and only album in 1997 to an outpouring of adoration from fans at home and
The London Astrobeat Orchestra have ignited a movement where cult western band repertoires are blended with African influences and have made quite an impact in doing so. The band bring together the finest West African session musicians in the UK with legendary band leader and bassist Edd Bateman hosting rhythmic influences from Senegal, Guinea Conakry,
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.
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,
Los Angeles-born musician Art Terry recorded a song a day for 52 days during lockdown; his partner Helena Smith created an accompanying video each day, which she edited into the Self Isolation Songbook short film. The film harnesses philosophy, anxiety, playfulness, nostalgia and hope to reflect the times we are in. It was selected by
For all the little fans of dancing and live music from around the world, it is Carnevale time! The time to wear a costume, to put on a mask and to dance, dance, dance! Come and jump, dance and warm up your Saturday afternoon in Summerhall’s Dissection room with some live pizzica tarantella and tammuriata
