Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Four dancers explore the fragility and humour of touch. How are we connected even when separated by distance, time or context? How do we touch without touching? We question the … T-Dance
Visual Arts As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, artist Charles Avery creates an element from his fictionalised island, a project he has been working on for the last ten years. Focusing on the old port town of Onomatopoiea, Avery transports a … Charles Avery : Tree no.5
Performance An investigation into what happens when we discover that our parents are flawed human beings, and that at some point, sooner than we think, they are suddenly going to disappear from our lives. Intimate and funny, this play presents a … Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone
Theatre To Space is your telescope into a future and capsule that will preserve the past. Scientist and performer Dr Niamh Shaw has dreamed of space travel from the age of eight. After a year of interviewing astronauts, astrophysicists, space industries … To Space
Visual Arts The Talbot Rice Gallery hosts the first Scottish showing of work by Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009), an artist who has drawn much interest and intrigue in her work over the years. Featuring a series of framed works from Darboven’s … Hanne Darboven : accepting anything among everything
Performance In 1885 Sarah Henley throws herself off a bridge. She lives. In 2015 Sarah talks about this and other things that push us over the edge. It is not about suicide, well, only a bit, it’s about love and what … I Gave Him An Orchid
Music Following a huge audience response to its introduction in the 2014 Festival, Secret Garden Music returns with a unique series of free, pop-up concerts, twice each afternoon, for audiences of all ages from 2 to 102. Major international and Irish … Kilkenny Arts Festival : Secret Garden Music
Performance An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory … Anna-Helena McLean : Titania
Performance Internationally acclaimed performance from Herald Angel Award winner Spitfire Company influenced by the works of Václav Havel, especially by his play Audience and its legendary film adaptation. What happens when a brewer and a persecuted politician, alter ego of Václav … Antiwords
Visual Arts Fabienne Hess draws inspiration for her TRG3 project, Hits and Misses (from the archive), from the University of Edinburgh’s Collections, which have been undergoing extensive digital archiving since 2012. Hess has responded to the collection by creating three elements to … Fabienne Hess : Hits and Misses (from the archive)
Festivals Performance An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory … Anna-Helena McLean : Titania
Performance J runs so fast she bursts into a million tiny pieces, her atoms unknitting themselves and spreading across the universe. Blair stands on a broken pier with a glass of white wine in one hand and a pint of Guinness … Fable
Festivals Performance The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Performance Project HaHa welcomes you to an upside-down world. A fertile, green landscape that sews together the silence of possibility and the noise of waiting. Beautiful, placid perhaps, but we will not just sit and study little things, we will look … Project HaHa
Festivals Performance A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague … Thaddeus Phillips : 17 Border Crossings
Visual Arts Artist Sara Barker unveils her permanent commission for Edinburgh’s Jupiter Artland, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Barker works with a variety of materials and methods to create her sculptures, drawing inspiration from the outside world and organic … Sara Barker : Separation in the Evening
Visual Arts Dr Marc Glöde introduces a new perspective of Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor’s work, celebrating what would’ve been his 100th birthday. Brought to Summerhall by the Polish Cultural Institute in London and Polnisches Institut Berlin, the exhibition focuses on the … Tadeusz Kantor : Inbetween Structures
Performance Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual in a way that, according to one audience member, “leaves everyone feeling blessed”. Join Queen … The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
Visual Arts Artist Anne Hardy takes familiar materials, objects and sounds and transplants them into the domestic space of the Common Guild gallery. By doing this, Hardy challenges our perceptions of these objects, and creates an environment that seems at once familiar, … Anne Hardy : TWIN FIELDS
Performance Ventoux is the most fearsome mountain encountered on the Tour de France. It is also the story of Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani, whose drug-fuelled race back in 2000 was the greatest the world of cycling had ever seen. Ventoux … Ventoux
Performance ABACUS is a baroque presentation delivered by Japanese cult-icon Paul Abacus about the future of national borders, the workings of contemporary persuasion, and our evolving relationship to the screens in our public and private spaces, including our pockets. Inspired by … ABACUS
Festivals Visual Arts Have you ever wondered how the world looks from the point of view of a hammerhead shark, with its hyper-stereo vision? How about a horse, which has exceptional peripheral vision? Or a chameleon, which can look backwards and forwards at … Denis Connolly : Meta-Perceptual Helmets
Festivals Visual Arts After two sell-out runs, Architects of Air are back for a third year in Kilkenny Castle Park with another luminarium – or giant, light-filled inflatable sculpture – for you to explore. Mirazozo is the sister to Miracoco – the luminarium … Kim Lucas : Mirazozo
Visual Arts The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Festivals Nine Lives is an exhibition showcasing the work of a new generation of architects who, together with curator Emmett Scanlon, were selected to represent Ireland at three international architecture festivals in 2015, as part of the New Horizon_architecture from Ireland … Emmett Scanlon and Carrie Lynam : Nine Lives
Visual Arts Artist Lauren Gault introduces a series of sculptures set within the grounds of Jupiter Artland as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Fusing her sculptural work with her interest in the resonance of ordinary materials, Gault has created a … Lauren Gault : Lipstick-NASA
Performance A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague … 17 Border Crossings
Performance Shelley Mitchell talks to Summerhall TV about her Edinburgh Fringe show, Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943. A remarkable true story of four young Hungarian artists and their life-changing conversations they had with what they came to call angels. Gitta Mallasz, … Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943
Visual Arts One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of … David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter
Visual Arts Artist Phyllida Barlow turns the Fruitmarket Gallery spaces upside down with a new series of large and dominant sculptures in her exhibition, Set, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Responding to the spaces, Barlow’s monumental pieces sit, stacked, … Phyllida Barlow: Set
