Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
ArtNew Histories: Talking Statues with Scottish Storytelling Festival
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival returns with a hybrid programme including a strand, Talking Statues, which asks us to reimagine who we choose to publicly memorialise Read more »| 06 Oct 2021 -
BooksCase Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The genre-busting new novel from Booker Prize nominee Graeme Macrae Burnet is a masterclass in diversion Read more »| 06 Oct 2021 -
ArtSharon Hayes introduces her Ricerche film works
Sharon Hayes' series of art films, Ricerche, see her interviewing large groups of people all at once. The simple premise belies the complexity of the work that emerges, and its sharp insights on sex and sexuality Read more »| 06 Oct 2021 -
FilmECA Animation Graduates Look to the Future
While most of the film industry ground to a halt during the pandemic lockdowns, animators continued to work industriously in isolation. We speak to three recent graduates from Edinburgh College of Art to hear what their future holds Read more »| 05 Oct 2021 -
ArtCat and Éiméar McClay on their Market Gallery residency
Cat and Éiméar McClay are recent graduates who are crafting a singular body of work surrounding religious oppression and queer ways of being, through a heady combination of experimental writing and cutting-edge digital media technologies Read more »| 05 Oct 2021 -
MusicGive and Take: Norwich post-punks Sink Ya Teeth
Norwich post-punk electro-funk duo Sink Ya Teeth are finally getting to share their pre-pandemic album with the world – we catch up with them ahead of two Scottish dates Read more »| 05 Oct 2021
-
BooksOldladyvoice by Elisa Victoria
A foul-mouthed nine-year-old narrator makes for an extremely unconventional coming-of-age tale from Elisa Victoria, translated by Charlotte Whittle Read more »| 05 Oct 2021 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-up: October 2021
October is another stacked month for new Scottish music, with releases continuing to arrive at a rate that's hard to keep up with, but we’ll do what we can. Here goes. Read more »| 04 Oct 2021 -
ArtArt Events in Scotland: October 2021
Our pick of October's best art events across Scotland, from Jupiter Artland's last month of 2021 to a host of IRL events in Dundee as part of The Ignorant Art School Read more »| 04 Oct 2021 -
FilmScottish Film Events: October 2021
October brings a brand new cinema to Edinburgh (kinda), and more festivals than you can shake a stick at Read more »| 04 Oct 2021 -
BooksScottish Poetry News: October 2021
As the seasons start to turn, our poetry columnist Beth Cochrane dives into October and all the lyrical goodness that awaits Read more »| 04 Oct 2021 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: October 2021
Stages across Scotland get back into the swing of things with excellent shows to catch in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee Read more »| 04 Oct 2021 -
MusicPaisley's The Spree festival returns this October
From The Twilight Sad, Arab Strap and Kathryn Joseph to silent discos and comedy workshops for kids, there's something for everyone at Paisley's The Spree festival Read more »| 30 Sep 2021 -
MusicLive Music in Scotland: October 2021
The best of a big month in Scotland's gig venues, with shows from beabadoobee, Joesef, Snapped Ankles, The Snuts, and ungoogleable London duo JOHN Read more »| 28 Sep 2021 -
MusicStina Marie Claire – A Souvenir of a Terrible Year
A Souvenir of a Terrible Year is an intimate and emotionally raw portrait of pandemic life from Honeyblood's frontwoman Read more »| 28 Sep 2021