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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

Performance

Location: Summerhall, Main Hall Date: 10th – 28th Time: 10:40pm Het nieuwstedelijk, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth A teenage girl runs away from home to the city. Nobody notices, but is there actually someone looking out for …

Adriaan Van Aken : Last Call

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

WHO RUN THE WORLD The candy pink beat that permeates a number of Liz Waterston’s text based video works hypnotically pulse out fluoro lights reminiscent of the flickering neon that underpins midnight strolls through dark places: karaoke evenings where we …

Alan Holligan : Liz Waterston, Edinburgh College Residency Artist 2015

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

Visual Arts

Alex Hetherington of Modern Edinburgh Film School presents MOTHS, a project featuring the work of Zoë Fothergill, Anne McGuire, Lucy Skaer, Katrina Vallé, Amy Pickles, Mairi Lafferty, Anna Lucas, Allison Gibbs, Jenny Brady and Bobby Niven. Each artist contributes to …

Alex Hetherington : MOTHS

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

Events

This Friday, Summerhall will play host to an evening of entertainment featuring music, comedy, aerial acrobatics, performance, magic and more, to raise money for two children’s charities – Hope and Play for the Children of Gaza and Orkidstudio. A live …

Alice Nelson : The Variety of Life

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

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

Festivals Performance Theatre

Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Join Amy on a videogame adventure like no other. Battle the minions of fear, loneliness and despair using your collective powers of human connection and emotional resilience. Only together …

Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World

Festivals Performance Theatre

Dates: 3rd to the 27th of August Venue: Kings Hall, Main Space After numerous North American tours, the critically acclaimed, multi award-winning Mouthpiece makes its UK premiere. Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her …

Amy Nostbakken & Norah Sadava : Mouthpiece

Visual Arts

Artist Andrew Carnie is exhibiting two works as part of this year’s visual arts programme from Summerhall, Edinburgh International Science Festival and ASCUS. Slice is a slide-dissolve work that explores the body as a theatre of action, and Magic Forest, a …

Andrew Carnie : Magic Forest and Slice

Performance Theatre

Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 9+ Time: 11.25 (55 mins) Mikey is a sunny boy. He lives alone with his mum. Mikey’s mum has a secret. It’s not well kept. Everyone knows it. Everyone except Mikey. Addie is a …

Andy Manley : Mikey and Addie

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 …

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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

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

Traverse in Time is a series of panel discussions that look back at the rich history of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, and the individuals who were involved in its illustrious past. Taking place at Summerhall on Tuesday 6th August 2013, this …

Art in Scotland : Steven Berkoff

Art in Scotland

This edition of Art in Scotland features the musical talents of two-piece band The Wellgreen, and singer/songwriter Linden, when they performed at Neu! Reekie! 39, at Summerhall. Stuart Kidd from The Wellgreen talks to us about their work, inspirations and …

Art in Scotland : The Wellgreen and Linden

Performance

Awkward Happiness is a reflection on the futility of happiness. We have an uncanny ability to find lovers with demons complementary to our own. Is happiness something that we seek in another person? This moving and thought-provoking physical performance is …

Awkward Happiness

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

Performance Theatre

Inspector Sands, The Lounge Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Age Suitability: 12+ Time: 15.25 (80 mins) 97 years go by in a flash. An afternoon lasts an eternity. In a care home lounge somewhere off the A1, Marsha Hewitt begins the …

Ben Lewis : The Lounge

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

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

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