Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Burns Unbroke : David Mach Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four … Burns Unbroke : David Mach
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused … Burns Unbroke : Calum Colvin
Festivals Visual Arts Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused … Burns Unbroke : Ciara Dunne
Visual Arts Sat 25 Nov 2017 – Sun 07 Jan 2018 09:00–17:00 (Mon-Fri), 10:00–17:00 (Sat), 11:00–16:00 (Sun) (during the café opening hours) _ Venue: The Library Gallery 2016 winner of the RSA Open Exhibition award Summerhall Prize. An exhibition of new and recent work by Edinburgh based … Michael Dawson : EXIT FROM COALTOWN
Events Sunday 10th December, Summerhall 11:00–17:00 Over 70 stalls and food vendors Children’s porcelain painting activities Christmas wreath workshop with Garlands Florist Further details on our website summerhall.co.uk Christmas Market 2017
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Dates: 6th October to the 30th November Venue: Sciennes Gallery Curated by Jon Blackwood Captured State brings together six artists from the Republic of Macedonia to exhibit in Scotland for the first time. Whilst contemporary art from Macedonia has not … Jonathan Blackwood, Verica Kovacevska & Igor Toshevski : Captured State
Visual Arts Venue: War Memorial Library Curated by Gabriella Daris ‘I decided to use the last ten years at the end of the 20th century to look at my Self. The great Tibetan poet sage Milarepa had said that self was an … Liliane Lijn : Early Events: Five Narrative Sculptures
Visual Arts Dates: 3rd of August to the 24th September Venue: Long Corridor Elsa in Philadelphia fills in the gaps in the critical period between Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s disappearance from New York and re-emergence in Philadelphia in the spring of 1917. Beginning … Glyn Thompson : Elsa In Philadelphia
Visual Arts Dates: 2nd of August to the 30th of September Venue: Meadows Galleries and Corner Gallery This retrospective comprises drawings, performance artifacts and video documentation, encapsulating different series of artworks made from the 1970s onwards, up to MacLennan’s current practice. Some … Alistair MacLennan : Air A Lair
Performance Theatre Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Dates: 8th to the 27th of August This production, directed by Rafat Alzakout, will be the world premiere of the new play by young Syrian author Mudar Alhaggi. It tells the story of a young writer … Rafat Alzakout & Christin Lüttich : Your Love Is Fire
Performance Theatre Venue: The Dissection Room, Summerhall Dates: 15th to the 26th of August ‘A Welcome! To you and to me and our spikey, sticky, shameful bits!’ With a raucous chorus of original music, award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars and four belting … Rachel Mars : Our Carnal Hearts
Performance Theatre Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Dates: 15th to the 27th of August From what might be a news desk, an office, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre – two people speak up, speak out and blow the whistle on … Rachel Baynton : A Machine They’re Secretly Building
Performance Theatre Dates: 17th to the 27th of August Venue: Upper Church Trigger warning – subjects of rape and sexual assault. The Völvas is an international feminist performance ensemble. The Vagina Dialogues is a cabaret-style theatre and variety piece that includes a … MJ Ashton : Vagina Dialogues
Performance Theatre Venue: Upper Church, Summerhall Dates: 15th to the 27th of August Tibaldus, made up of Timeau De Keyser, Hans Mortelmans and Simon De Winne, is one of Belgium’s most exciting and innovative young companies. Their work is fierce, surprising and … Timeau De Keyser & Hans Mortelmans : Ivona, Princess of Burgundia
Performance Theatre Venue: Upper Church Dates: 4th to the 27th of August ‘Three strangers meet in the middle of nowhere, in a Crossing Place far from the communications network of civilisation. In their meeting, the last untouched space is tarnished forever’. The … Johan Bark & Chris Mawson : The Crossing Place
Performance Theatre Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Photos of ex-boyfriends, emails, texts, audio recordings and poetry. Struggling with her love life, Julie Cafmeyer experiences orgasms, despair, rejection and heaven. In an intimate setting, and with you … Julie Cafmeyer : Bombastic Declaration Of Love
Visual Arts Dates: 2nd August to the 24th of September Venue: Demarco European Art Foundation – 1st Floor Corridor This Time in History, What Escapes is an installation about Afghanistan, where the humanitarian and political crisis continues and ISIL / Islamic State … Rose Frain : This Time In History, What Escapes / Afghanistan
Performance Theatre Dates: 11th to the 26th of August Venue: Army Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont St Let’s spend an hour playing together. As members of The Mayers Ensemble we’ll explore boundaries, personal histories, gender, race. Throughout her life, choreographer Pauline has … Pauline Mayer : What If I Told You
Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Upper Church The young performer Suzanne Grotenhuis won a prize for her previous theatre show at a Belgian theatre festival. The money was meant to produce a new show. But she decided … Suzanne Grotenhuis – On Ice:De Nwe Tijd
Visual Arts Dates: 2nd of August to the 24th of September Venue:Sciennes Gallery supported by British Council Sri Lanka Curated by: Colombo Art Biennale Artistic Director Annoushka Hempel The Sri Lankan VA programme presented at the 2017 Festival is a journey of … Annoushka Hempel, Maya Bastian & Radhika Hettiarachchi : Return: In Search Of Stillness
Performance Theatre Dates: 11th to the 27th of August Venue: Basement FK Alexander returns with her Total Theatre Award-winning sell-out 2016 show. FK sings live against a wall of noise music, to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang … FK Alexander : (I Could Go On Singing) Over The Rainbow
Performance Theatre 4th – 27th august 2017 Venue: Roundabout, Summerhall Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That’s what happens when you’re best friends forever. But when Lorna gets a place at University, and Grace gets pregnant, … Elinor Cook : Out of Love
Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall New contemporary all-female circus from award winning director Ellie Dubois, last seen at Summerhall with Ringside in 2015. What do you expect when you go to the circus? The … Ellie Dubois : No Show
Festivals Performance Dates: 4th to the 26th of August Venue: Main Hall Rising star choreographer Cousins takes one of Shakespeare’s most beloved heroines, the curious and courageous Rosalind, and asks whether women still need to emulate stereotypical masculinity to find equality in … James Cousins : Rosalind
Performance Theatre Dates: 6th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab A new play by award-winning Finnish playwright-director Jari Juutinen based loosely on Büchner’s classic Woyzeck. A theatrical kaleidoscope and a mixture of a TV game show, interrogation and a Kafkaesque … Jari Juutine : I Am Faransis W.
Performance Theatre Dates:5th to the 27th of August Venue: Kings Hall, Main Space, Summerhall Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humorously dark folk tale woven together with a high-energy concert. This music-theatre hybrid starring international Klezmer sensation Ben Caplan is … Ben Caplan & Christian Barry : Old Stock A Refugee Love Story
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 8th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Having kids is not an easy decision. Now imagine you have a learning disability… Woah! Can they do that? Do they even have sex? Yes, yes ‘they’ do. Fast … Alison Colborne & Joyce Lee : MIA Daughters Of Fortune
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Demonstration Room, Summerhall Mireille & Mathieu unpack their paraphernalia at a flea-market. Objects and toys they pick up turn out to be bursting with stories. Gentle, poetic, cruel or comical scenes follow … Erik Bassier and Kathleen Wijnen : Arm
Performance Theatre Dates: 17th to the 22nd of August Venue: Army Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont St One man’s love letters from the front line. Towards the close of WW2, Army signaller Dennis Marshall wrote a series of moving letters to his … Tom Poulson : The Last Post
Art in Scotland Visual Arts 28 July – 30 September 2017 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs takes its title from a damming review of David Storey’s novel ‘Radcliffe’, which was critical of all the qualities Sutcliffe admires, namely its bleak, alienating … Stephen Sutcliffe : Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs
