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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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 -
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
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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 -
MusicSpotlight On... King Wine
Ahead of their debut album release, Glasgow's King Wine talk to us about video game electronica, the joy of embarrassment and let us in on a special first listen of the album Read more »| 25 Aug 2022 -
ArtThe Skinny on... Hanna Tuulikki
We quiz British-Finnish artist, composer and performer Hanna Tuulikki as she brings her new sound composition and touring outdoor rave featuring collected bat echolocation sounds to Arbroath's Hospitalfield Read more »| 23 Aug 2022 -
BooksHarry Josephine Giles on a golden age of trans fiction
Ahead of an Edinburgh Book Festival event with Shola van Reinhold and Torrey Peters, Harry Josephine Giles discusses the ever-changing world of trans literature Read more »| 22 Aug 2022 -
MusicIbeyi @ Leith Theatre (EIF), Edinburgh, 18 Aug
The true magic of Ibeyi’s music lies in the unique and sublime symbiosis between sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz. There is no greater evidence of this than tonight at the Leith Theatre Read more »| 22 Aug 2022 -
MusicJenny Hval @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 18 Aug
Jenny Hval matches one of the best albums of the year with an exquisite performance Read more »| 22 Aug 2022