Community Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents This installation by the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz was produced by The Knitting Circle and Beyond Borders Scotland in response to the capture and persecution of Yazidi girls and women by ISIS/Daesh. Inspired by photographs taken by Falah Shakarm of the … Beyond Borders : A Mile in their Shoes
Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents Visual Arts The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdistan’s military forces. Unit 70, based in Sulaimaniyah, has a detachment of female Peshmerga who train to be combat ready and in theory may face ISIS on the frontline. The unit also performs an important political … Beyond Borders : WOMEN AT WAR
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Introduced by Dorian Branea, the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and forming part of Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh Festival 2015. Featuring some of the most internationally recognizable Romanian artists, directors, writers and musicians in tandem with … Dorian Branea : Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh 2015
European Local TV Visual Arts Jessica Lloyd-Jones who exhibited at Summerhall during the Science Festival last year now has a new exhibition on at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre. But you don’t have to go all the way to Ireland to see it, just tune in to our video. … Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has … Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion
Summerhall Sessions Drawing inspiration from Summerhall and its current place within the arts in 2013, owner Robert McDowell disentangles arts and cultural policy. Robert McDowell : What is our arts context? Culturally, Economically?
Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sarah Dawson introduced this year’s Africa in Motion season of films showing in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The opening night birthday party is on the 23rd October at Summerhall and the season continues till the end of October with a screening … Sarah Dawson : Africa in Motion, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake