Part of the Representation of South Asian Women in Scottish Culture showcase. Ae Fond Kiss (2004) – screening and discussion. Director: Ken Loach. Screenwriter: Paul Laverty. Featuring Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Shamshad Akhtar, Ahmad Riaz, Ghizala Avan and Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh Partly conceived as a response to the changing attitudes towards Muslims in the wake
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Following on from the success of our first quarterly Makers Market in March, Summerhall are excited to be hosting our next market in June! Featuring a rotating medley of stall holders past and present, you’ll be guaranteed to find artisanal, handmade and high quality goods – and with free entry to the market, you’ll have
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.
Join the Summerhall Singers community choir at their annual Summer Concert! This year’s repertoire theme is colours! Expect an eclectic mix of songs, old and new. Suitable for all the family, and musical tastes, this will be a wonderful hour of song and merriment.
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An urgent and compelling solo performance using improvised live double bass, electronic music and experimental film to reflect on the overwhelm of news headlines, government manipulation and the increasingly chaotic times we’re living through. More importantly, it’s about how art can help us cope. The Relentless Approach of Better Times invites you on a journey
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Now in its second year, FIRST DATE serves up a dazzling variety of romance books, events discussing genre boundaries, subversive politics, queer joy, and feminist pleasure, *and* an all-day marketplace to find your next (or maybe your first?) romance read.
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You are invited to a summer celebration in our sunny courtyard this June! Summerhall’s very first mini food and drink festival will feature a range of local food vendors and refreshing summer beverages. In the Courtyard Bar, slushies are back on, with both alcoholic and alcohol-free options to choose from. And in collaboration with Alexander
Convenient, tired and vapid, ‘East-meets-West’ is a cliché that has for decades been used to sell the ‘Hong Kong story’ to the world. Yet in the forgotten legend of Harry Odell, Hong Kong’s first impresario, a rediscovery of the city’s soul awaits.
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We’re raising the roof and the temperature at Summerhall’s inaugural summer disco, with R&B bangers, sun kissed classics and poolside pop transporting you to the beach. Hawaiian shirts, beach inflatables and sunnies at the ready. Strictly school disco vibes – think glitter, glowsticks and refreshing snacks.
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.
June is Pride month, and to celebrate, the CineSkinny Film Club has teamed up with the brilliant streaming service MUBI for a screenings of the fantastic queer drama Monica.
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Echoes of Prince is a very special and unique show, an opera funk in tribute to The Kid Of Minneapolis, created by the Parisian funk band, Echoes Of, better known recently as Jéroboam on Space Grapes Records and Echoes Of A New Dawn Orchestra for Kyoto Jazz Massive. If you get a chance to see
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Elevate is a night showcasing the brilliant and diverse talents of disabled musicians from Drake Music Scotland. This gig is a celebration of diversity, creativity and the power of music. The line up features a number of groups and solo performers playing classic covers and original compositions, all backed by a house band. The evening
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT. The performers are Tam Dean Burn, Bill Drummond and a Congregation of no more than 40 People. HEAR HARD is performed in three acts.
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FLARE* Festival is a community focused wellness event that showcases all the unsung heroes in the local small business space, who have a service or product which is for the benefit of YOUR well-being! Think yoga, breath work, neuroscience, fitness, meditation, nutrition, cold water therapy, massage, tarot reading, sound baths, dance etc all under ONE
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A public lecture by bioartist Tarsh Bates, Umeå University. This seminar presents an overview of my artistic research with the human as a queer ecology, taking seriously the agency and response-ability of micro-organisms within ecologies
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.
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Album launch for Adam Stafford’s new long player, Daylight Slavings, on Gerry Loves Records. To welcome the record, Stafford will lead a trio at Summerhall’s Old Lab, with support from Bell Lungs.
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Sometimes, Forever, the immersive and compulsively replayable new Soccer Mommy full-length, cements Sophie Allison’s status as one of the most gifted songwriters making rock music right now.
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.
Join Goose’s Quizzes for an exclusive preview of their phenomenal Edinburgh Fringe game show – the Elimination Game! Anyone can answer, anyone can win, anyone can be eliminated… test your knowledge – and your luck – to see if you will claim your moment of glory!
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