Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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BooksHyeonseo Lee @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 30 Aug
Hyeonseo Lee, North Korean Defector and author of The Girl With Seven Names, at the Book Festival. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
BooksGeorge the Poet @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 21 Aug
George the Poet on spoken word, traditional poetry and his personal history at the Book Festival. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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Edinburgh Book Festival: Yuri Herrera & Julia Rochester
First Book Award nominees Yuri Herrera and Julia Rochester come to the Edinburgh Book Festival. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
BooksA L Kennedy @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 18 Aug
Author A L Kennedy discusses her new novel Serious Sweet, and contributing to the Doctor Who canon with The Droston's Curse Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
BooksHermione Lee @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 20 Aug
Hermione Lee discusses archivists, Virginia Woolf and Penelope Fitzgerald at the Book Festival. Read more »| 28 Aug 2015 -
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Edinburgh Book Festival: Sean Michaels & Anna Smaill
The Us Conductors and The Chimes authors discuss their latest novels at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Read more »| 28 Aug 2015
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Limmy @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 22 Aug
Glasgow comedian Limmy appears at the Book Festival to read from his first book Daft Wee Stories. Read more »| 28 Aug 2015 -
International
Seven: Ballet am Rhein @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 20 Aug
Ballet am Rhein perform an interpretation of Mahler's Seventh at the Edinburgh International Festival. Read more »| 28 Aug 2015 -
International
Weight x 3 / 5 @ Lyceum, 17 Aug
Tao Ye has been rapidly promoted as a choreographer of international stature. It’s fair to say that his work is challenging. The two pieces performed m... Read more »| 28 Aug 2015 -
Film
The Messenger
Though pitched as a supernatural thriller, The Messenger dwells more on its protagonist’s own troubled life than the conspiracy he uncovers, but that&r... Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
Film
Dope
In Rick Famuyiwa’s subversive coming-of-age misadventure comedy, three high school “90s hip hop geeks” get mixed up in drug trafficking and... Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
Books
Edinburgh Book Festival: John Darnielle & Gavin Extence
John Darnielle and Gavin Extence discuss mental health and their latest novels – Wolf In White Van and The Mirror World of Melody Black respectively – at the Edinburgh Book Festival Read more »| 24 Aug 2015 -
Music
Oh, FFS: A Q&A with Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos used to listen to second-hand Sparks records while living in a grim pre-trendy Finnieston flat. Now the Franz Ferdinand frontman is making records with the Californian group under the name FFS. This is the full transcript of our interview. Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Art
In Pictures: The Skinny Showcase @ EAF
Running from 31 July-23 August 2015, The Skinny Showcase at Hill St Design House, Edinburgh, represents the second group show outing as part of Edinburgh Art... Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
International
The Encounter @ EICC, 16 Aug
Performed and directed by Simon McBurney of Complicite, The Encounter is an astounding, immersive show. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015