Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtArt Walk Porty: Stories in the Salt
This year’s Art Walk Porty examines the watery geographies of Portobello through residencies, workshops and film screenings Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: September 2022
There's still loads more music festivals to catch up and down Scotland this September - Plus plenty gigs we think you'll love Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: September 2022
Festival season isn't over, it's just getting started! Soma Skool, Shapes at the Jail and Cultivate Festival all return this month, alongside Goodfootin' Festival, FLY Open Air and AVA Connections Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
ArtScottish Art Events and Exhibitions: September 2022
A plethora of exciting new exhibitions are taking place across Scotland throughout September Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
FilmScottish Film Events: September 2022
Scottish cinemas have quite a lineup this month: saucy 30s Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe being an icon in the 60s, Kinuyo Tanaka addressing love and sex head-on in 60s Japan, David Cronenberg creeping us out in the 80s, and werewolves attacking in 1981 Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
MusicA Celebration of Culture: IYS and Scotland in Colour
As their Scotland in Colour festival returns for its fourth year, we chat with Chidera Chukwujekwu and Sara Elbashir from Intercultural Youth Scotland to find out more Read more »| 29 Aug 2022
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FilmEIFF 2022: Black Mambas
Lena Karbe’s documentary explores issues of race, gender and class in South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
ArtThe Skinny on…The Skinny
To mark the 200th issue of The Skinny, we interview The Skinny about all of their favourite things Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
BooksIndustry of Magic & Light by David Keenan
In the prequel to This Is Memorial Device, David Keenan explores an alternative 1960s via Airdrie and Afghanistan Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
BooksAnother Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
Alycia Pirmohamed's new poetry collection is a fluid exploration of ancestry, change and memory Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
ArtOur Movement, Our Stories: Rhys Hollis on OMOS
We meet artist and performer Rhys Hollis as they prepare to open OMOS at the Royal Scottish Academy Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
MusicTune-Yards @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 24 Aug
Merrill Garbus and co. brew an unholy concoction of loops, ukes, shrieks and communal fervour to get the people going Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
ArtCéline Condorelli: Thinking through Skin
Isla Valentine Wade unpacks Céline Condorelli's first survey exhibition at Talbot Rice, in a piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
ArtAshanti Harris on the importance of Carnival
Hazel Peters speaks to Ashanti Harris about her exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille. This article was commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
MusicPerfume Genius @ St Luke's, Glasgow, 22 Aug
Perfume Genius brings true showmanship to a cathartic performance in the intimate surrounds of Glasgow's St Luke's Read more »| 25 Aug 2022