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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ArtBe United: Celebrating ten years of activism
Be United turned ten years old in 2024 and in 2025, the organisation has more huge ambitions for Black creatives in Scotland. We meet co-founder and director Emma Sithole to find out more Read more »| 16 Jan 2025 -
ComedyBuilding the Tension: Adam Flood on Late Night Comedy Rave
Unlikely bedfellows comedy and rave go together better than you think, according to Adam Flood Read more »| 16 Jan 2025 -
Musicjasmine.4.t. – You Are the Morning
You Are the Morning debuts jasmine.4.t as a sincere new horizon in indie rock Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
TheatreWest Bank Diaries: Bethlehem Calling at Celtic Connections
Celtic Connections presents Bethlehem Calling, a unique production bringing together theatremakers, audiovisual artist and musicians for a work based on the diaries of teenage girls growing up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during the second Intifada Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
ArtCosy Craft: Meet interior design duo Granite + Smoke
We speak to the founders of Granite + Smoke – recently shortlisted for a Dezeen award – to find out more about the duo putting joy into January Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
Musicjasmine.4.t on You Are the Morning
Singer-songwriter Jasmine.4.t is determined to use her up-and-coming status to give back to the trans community, and starts 2025 off on a high note with her boygenius-produced debut album You Are the Morning Read more »| 14 Jan 2025
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FilmScotland on Screen: Bryan M. Ferguson on Pumpkin Guts
Bryan M. Ferguson's latest short film is Pumpkin Guts, a stylish and hugely imaginative blend of 80s slasher movie and creature feature, shot in Glasgow's Southside for £800 Read more »| 13 Jan 2025 -
MusicThe Weather Station – Humanhood
On The Weather Station’s restless, swirling, visceral new album, Tamara Lindeman considers the state of being human Read more »| 13 Jan 2025 -
ClubsHigh Sobriety: Glasgow's alcohol-free party, Good Clean Fun
As a sober-curious generation of clubgoers are opting to snub booze year-round, we catch up with Glasgow's monthly alcohol-free party Good Clean Fun, as well as some of its regulars Read more »| 10 Jan 2025 -
ArtSummerhall to host Edinburgh Fringe programme in 2025
Things are looking brighter at Summerhall – the troubled arts venue now have HMRC off their back and now Summerhall Arts have confirmed they will deliver a Fringe programme this August Read more »| 10 Jan 2025 -
ComedyGlasgow International Comedy Festival returns with its biggest lineup ever
Glasgow will be wall-to-wall comedy this March as the Glasgow International Comedy Festival returns with shows from the likes of Catherine Bohart, Jamali Maddix and Ania Magliano plus loads of local heroes like Susie McCabe, Fern Brady and Larry Dean Read more »| 09 Jan 2025 -
ArtNational Galleries Scotland: Beagles & Ramsay
Beagles & Ramsay's Sanguis Gratia Artis (Black Pudding Self Portrait) is on display for the first time since being added to Scotland's national collection. We talk to the artists about making work with their own blood Read more »| 09 Jan 2025 -
ArtArts Under Pressure: Scotland's Art Scene in 2025
Venue closures. Funding chaos. A cost of living crisis. Last year was not a banner one for Scotland's arts and culture sector. We ask some members of this community how things might improve in 2025 Read more »| 09 Jan 2025 -
BooksAria Aber on her debut novel Good Girl
We chat with German-Afghan author Aria Aber about her debut novel Good Girl and the complexities of conveying the desires and destructions of the diasporic experience Read more »| 09 Jan 2025 -
BooksScottish Books Events: January 2025
Some book launches, poetry nights and a seance for Rabbie Burns over this month – here are our January literary highlights Read more »| 08 Jan 2025