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The First Scottish Business and Cultural Meeting on the 27th September, 2012, featuring speakers Stephen Westwood, Ilse van den Meijdenberg.

The First Scottish Business and Cultural Meeting on the 27th September, 2012, featuring speakers Christopher Harvie and Dr Ing. Henri Masson.

Paul Robertson’s interview with Kommissar Hjular and Violet Storm introducing their Noize performance at Summerhall.

Industrial action at Birmingham’s BRMB local commercial radio station. The NUJ were demonstrating against a reduction in local news content and its replacement with a national news feed.

Red Star’s 1982 account of the workers’ film movement of the 1920s and ’30s, showing the influence of the Comintern Cultural Policy and the 4th International on European documentary film-making. During the 1930s 16 and 9.5mm film stock was used …

A short TU/TV film for the National Union of Journalists and Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom recording the union breaking transfer of jobs to Rupert Murdoch’s News International printing plant in Wapping.

A chance to see rare copies of the deluxe OU journals (with their allied artworks) and to hear the recordings from the records released with OU. Introduced by the French composer Frederic Acquaviva, a friend of OU’s editor Henri Chopin, …

Following Summerhall’s world premier of the exhibition Figure Studies Summerhall are pleased to present a recent French & English documentary produced by Le Laboratoire and featuring David Michalek and ‘Figure Studies’.

Here Simon Hart introduces the wide variety of the work and educational engagement of Puppet Animation Scotland. Together with the Federation of Scottish Theatre PAS  are organising a two day seminar at Summerhall featuring the choreographer and performer Liz Lerman. …

Archie Shepp’s performance that took place at Summerhall 2012.

Avant-garde spoken word, film and music fusion night describing itself as ‘playing host to the sinister and the sanguine’.

A Red Star film of the Edinburgh Latin American Solidarity Committee demonstration up to the US Consultate where Leith MP Ron Brown MP hands in a petition. The film is accompanied by an interview on Radio Forth with one of …

Red Star’s film of a march in Glasgow protesting at the treatment of political prisoners on hunger strike at Armagh Prison’s H-Block.

Protesting against Trident and NATO Red Star’s short film set to music-of-the-day covers a large anti-nuclear demonstration in Glasgow. Red Star Cinema was set up by artists, printers and friends involved with Rock against Racism and School Press. Red Star’s …

With the help of his exhibition at Summerhall, Paul Robertson introduces the work of Wolf Vostell by tracing the movements and associations with other artists involved in European ‘happenings, ‘decollage’ and the later ‘destruction in art’ movement (DIA). Drawing on …

Set in Quebec, The List is an award-winning story of a woman struggling to adjust to rural life. The play’s director Muriel Romanes and actor Maureen Beattie describe Stellar Quine’s production at Summerhall and the audience’s reaction to a performance …

In a newly commissioned work, David Michalek returns to Summerhall to pay homage to the cinematic and photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. Using clever “trip-wire techniques” Muybridge was the first person to photograph movement too fast for the human eye to …

Robert Wyatt pays tribute to jazz musician Archie Shepp, both of whom contributed to Jean Pierre Muller’s exhibition 7 x 7th Street at Summerhall. On 1st August 2012 Archie performed to a packed audience in Summerhall’s Dissection Room.

The Big Noise is an orchestra programme based in Raploch, Stirling that aims to use music making to foster confidence, teamwork, pride and aspiration in the children taking part – and across their wider community. Speakers discussed the impact of …

John Need is a photographer based at Summerhall. He discusses how he got into photography and what it’s like working in a place like Summerhall.

John Hegley composes and sings an impromptu fado between acts at Neu!Reekie!. The second of regular nights of avant-garde poetry, music and film at Summerhall the 26th October featured poet, writer and critic Douglas Dunn, folkie Fifer James Yorkston and …

A celebration of the hard work of staff and volunteers who helped make the Festival at Summerhall so wonderful.

Paul Robertson introduces the photographs, installations, videos and performance-lecture of Carolee Schneemann in her exhibition at Summerhall until the 27th September.

With an interest in photography at a young age, Peter Dibdin became a commercial photographer in 2005. His work has been shown in New York and Korea, and he has also worked with the National Theatre of Scotland. Here he …

David Rushton, former member of Art & Language, introduces the ‘Indexes and related work’ exhibition focusing on the group’s influential activities between 1972 and 1974. In the Courtyard Gallery at Summerhall until 27th September 2012.

Musician Robert Wyatt interviewed about his contribution to Jean Pierre Muller’s exhibition 7 x 7th Street at Summerhall.

Small Narration operates somewhere between a performance and video art, between a personal confession and an academic lecture. “When in 2006 we discovered that my grandfather was a long-time collaborator of the communist Security Services, I had moved away from …

Jonathan Freemantle introduces the ideas informing this year’s Edinburgh International Fashion Festival that have brought the work of Amanda Harlech, Hussein Chalayan, Sissell Tolaas, Kostas Murkudis, Jeurgen Teller, Stella Tennant, Bebaroque, Borcher, Pam Hogg and more …. to Summerhall.

‘The Stranger,’ the famous existentialist novel by Albert Camus, is brought to life for the theatre in this acclaimed adaptation by Morten Kirkskov, performed for the first time in English by the award-winning Brazilian actor Guilherme Leme at Summerhall.

Carolee Schneemann is a pioneer in many artistic disciplines. Having consistently challenged concepts of sexuality and gender identity in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation art, video art and, most importantly, performance with key works such as Meat Joy (1964) and Interior Scroll (1975), …