Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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ArtSculptor Charlotte Barker on her solo show Flotilla
Charlotte Barker's elegant sculptures critically sit on the borderlines of art, design, craft, ornament and functionality. We meet her ahead of her upcoming solo show at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
InternationalZinnie Harris on her three EIF shows
The Skinny speaks to Zinnie Harris about her not one, not two, but three shows at the Edinburgh International Festival this year Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
ArtPatrick Staff interview: EAF show Observers’ Walks
Patrick Staff presents a Collective Observers’ Walk which combines diligent history telling with sharing of erotic nighttime adventures on Calton Hill Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
ArtPlatform 2017: Emerging Artists at Edinburgh Art Festival
Platform returns with a new crop of selected emerging artists, this year including those working diversely with alternate histories, 'retrofutures', large scale and functional sculpture (a fold-down bell tower) and science fiction filmic forms Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Art
EAF 2017: Pester and Rossi and Walker & Bromwich
Edinburgh Art Festival includes two artist duos who each make use of celebratory and collaborative performance – Pester and Rossi, and Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich. Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Art
Stranger than Fiction: Manaf Halbouni on What If?
Manaf Halbouni speaks candidly about his recent new film work made in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, in response to Middle Eastern politics and the Syrians that have recently settled as new Scots Read more »| 27 Jul 2017
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Art
EAF Commissions 2017: The Art Crawl
Make a day of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2017 Commissions programme with our handy guide to eating and drinking along the route Read more »| 20 Jul 2017 -
BooksUnbound 2017: Stornoway to India
When virtuoso artists from Indian and Scottish folk traditions combine, the results are rich and rewarding. We speak to musicians Dalbir Singh Rattan and James Yorkston to find what they will bring to two sides of the same night at Unbound Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Books
Unbound 2017: A Taste of Babble On
A taste of what you can expect over Unbound's riotous middle weekend, from three performers from the Babble On section of the programme Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Books
Unbound 2017: Introducing Fun Lovin' Crime Writers
Six of the UK's top crime writers will try not to kill a tune when they hit the Unbound stage as The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, so we asked them each to soundtrack murder scenes from their own books Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Books
Unbound 2017: Dive Queer Party
Dive have been redefining the Scottish queer club scene in recent years. Now they plan to leave their mark on Unbound, bringing their riotous party to the Spiegeltent. Annabel and Annabel explain the fun and importance of these safe spaces Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Books
Unbound 2017: The Last Poets
Some call them the true Godfathers of Hip-Hop and whether you've heard of them or not, you've definitely heard 'em. The Last Poets come to Unbound to see if "y'all are the gangsters that everybody says you are." Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Books
Unbound 2017: An introduction
As day becomes night, Unbound opens for free literary events in the Spiegeltent during Edinburgh International Book Festival – 16 nights of music and performance, viewing the festival's grand themes through the looking glass Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
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Unbound 2017: The Programme
A night by night guide to goings on in the Charlotte Square Spiegeltent. Events kick off at 9pm, although you might want to arrive half an hour earlier to join the queue (or more, if it looks like a popular choice). Each is, as always, completely free Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
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Teenage Superstars
Lively doc from Grant McPhee (Big Gold Dream) exploring the Scottish music scene from the mid-80s to the early 90s Read more »| 03 Jul 2017