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 In February, Charioteer Theatre developed a play exploring Italian immigration in Scotland, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Focusing on the lives of six women, three Italian and three Scottish, A Bench on the Road is the result of research … A Bench on the Road : Compilation
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
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Inspired by visits to les Rencontres d’Arles and charged with furthering photography’s role within contemporary artistic practice, The Photographer’s Collective was established in 2011 to promote and nurture the talent of photographers working in Edinburgh and further afield. The Collective’s … Albie Clark : The Photographer’s Collective 13 – 25 October, 2015
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts “For seventeen years now, my work has been mainly concerned with HIV/AIDS in an African context, and BIRD is only one of three bodies of work in that time not referencing that humanitarian problem. Africa alters one’s perception of a … Alex Flett : Bird
Summerhall Residents Another video in out Summerhall Residents series. This time we came to have a peek in the studio of the Painter and Educator Alexander Mackenzie. mackenzie-inc.com alexandermackenzie.wordpress.com Alexander Mackenzie
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour … Alexander Mackenzie : Invisible
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall I saw him looking at me when I danced, I saw the look in his eyes, I knew what he wanted to call me… Slut is a Kathak dance … Amina Khayyam : Slut
Visual Arts Paintings by the great trumpeter and bandleader, alongside work by another great musician, John Lennon. Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. On until Saturday 30th April. Andrew Clarke : Miles Davis
Visual Arts As part of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival, Perception exhibits the work of Iranian and non-Iranian artists inspired by Iran, in a variety of media. The international open call for submissions drew in work from 250 artists, which a panel of … Anna Montazam : Perception
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
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sat 20 May 2017 – Fri 14 Jul 2017 Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall -}}}}}} : {{{+}}} is the title of Scottish born artist Anneli Holmstrom’s first UK solo show presented as part of Summerhall’s Curated Programme. The work on show … Anneli Holmstrom : -}}}}}} : {{{+}}}
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 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
Art in Scotland This edition of Art in Scotland features an interview with Scottish actor Alan Cumming about his involvement with the refurbishment of the Birks Cinema in Aberfeldy. We also speak to Andrew Goring at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy about the annual … Art in Scotland : Alan Cumming and RSA Open
Art in Scotland Curator and poet Philip Davenport introduces ‘The Dark Would’, featuring work from world-leading poets and text artists exploring the maze of living and dying. A variety of works from contributors such as Jenny Holzer, Richard Long, Susan Hiller, Tom Phillips, … Art in Scotland : Christmas Exhibitions at Summerhall
Art in Scotland This edition of Art in Scotland features an interview with author Robert Irwin about his novel, ‘For Lust of Knowing : The Orientalists and their Enemies’ , a non-fiction work exploring the history of the academic discipline Orientalism. This video … Art in Scotland : Robert Irwin
Art in Scotland LeithLate presents The Mural Project, in collaboration with the artists’ collective Blameless, involving the installation of a new, contemporary mural for Leith on the corner of Halmyre Street and Gordon Street. The artists involved in The Mural Project are: Fraser … Art in Scotland : The Leith Aquatic
Visual Arts Brittonie Fletcher presents LUX SHIFTER, a new exhibition as part of the ACTINIC alternative photography festival. The ACTINIC Festival is a new series of exhibitions and events featuring Scottish and international artists at the intersection of analogue photographic media and … Brittonie Fletcher : LUX SHIFTER
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Roundabout Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff and living up to your family’s expectations is tough. Marc avoids his mum, disguises his cannabis plants with fake tomatoes at the allotment, and … Catherine Paskell : Sugar Baby
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: The Red Lecture Theatre Summerhall favourites Puppet Beings Theatre combine traditional Taiwanese puppet arts with the use of contemporary everyday objects, allowing adults and children to exert their imaginations. In The Backyard … Chen-Cheih Sun : The Backyard Story
Performance A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down. On the way to tell the King, she meets Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky and Turkey Lurkey, but there’s a shocking surprise! Chicken Licken grows up to be the … Chicken Licken and the Little Red Hen
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall Ever Never is a semi-autobiographical story with its roots in the personal journey of Co-coism director Hung Chien-han. Deeply affected by her father’s death and living away from … Chien-Han Hung : Ever Never
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Red Lecture Theatre You meet someone online. All you know is their name and that they seem to like you as much as you like them. In fact, you think you love … Claire O’Reilly : BlackCatfishMusketeer
Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 24th Venue: Red Lecture Theatre What happens to romance when there’s a machine who cooks for you, cleans for you, never forgets your birthday or how you like your tea, tells you you’re beautiful, holds you … Claire O’Reilly : LOVE+
Performance ‘If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.’ Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we cannot talk … Confirmation
Visual Arts David Bailey’s ‘Stardust’ at the Scottish National Gallery is the first major showing of Bailey’s work in Edinburgh since the Dean Gallery’s ‘Birth of the Cool’ in 2001. The current exhibition illustrates the extraordinary range of subjects that Bailey has … David Bailey : Stardust & Birth of the Cool
Summerhall Residents Visual Arts Lust in the Apple’s curator Paul Robertson in conversation with David Rushton. Rushton was a founder editor of Coventry-based Analytical Art and was subsequently a key member of Art & Language from 1972 to 1975, working on the various Indexes … David Rushton & Paul Robertson : Analytical Art, Art & Language and Thereafter
Summerhall Exhibitions 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
