UK Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny UK festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and line-up information for arts, film, music and comedy festivals around the UK.
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FilmFrench Film Festival UK 2013: Vive le cinéma!
With an eclectic programme of Francophone movies screening over a month in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the French Film Festival UK (7 Nov–7 Dec) shows that, in terms of cinema, the Auld Alliance is alive and well Read more »| 29 Oct 2013 -
Festival GuideDance @ THAT Festival
A youth festival would be quite poor without dance in it; after all, it is how many young people interact – in clubs, or in dance classes (or dare I sa... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
FilmAfrica in Motion 2013: A Continent on the Move
Africa in Motion is back for its 8th edition with another stellar programme of contemporary cinema from the African nations Read more »| 07 Oct 2013 -
Festival Guide
THAT's The Way To Do It: THAT Festival 2013
Now in its second year, THAT Festival is bringing the cream of Scottish theatre, performance, music and literature to Stirling's Macrobert arts centre. We asked curator Alice McGrath to tell us about the highlights of the programme Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
MusicLiverpool International Festival of Psychedelia @ Camp and Furnace, 27-28 September
As one of the most anticipated dates in Liverpool’s gigging calendar, this year the onus on Psych Fest was to open the weekender to a bigger audience t... Read more »| 02 Oct 2013 -
Film
Play Poland 2013: Poster Boys
Play Poland returns this year with a focus on the great Polish tradition of movie poster design and welcomes legendary graphic designer Andrzej Pągowski to the festival Read more »| 01 Oct 2013
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Comedy
X and Y: The First Women in Comedy Festival
The premise of the first UK Women in Comedy Festival is the subject of much debate, but either way, it's happening, and in a big way, with gigs all over Manchester throughout the month. We choose some chuckles Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
Festival Guide
THAT festival @ Macrobert
THAT festival returns to the Macrobert, and brings three days of theatre, dance, art, and spoken word performances for young people to a venue appropriately&... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Film
Scotland Loves Anime 2013: The Fourth Impact
Scotland's annual spotlight on Japanese animation goes from strength to strength, with a 2013 line-up that includes fan favourites, special guests and quite a lot of robots. Attendance may be advisable to prepare for the eventual rise of the machines Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Music
Spinning Coin / The Yawns / Orzelda @ Music Language Festival, 7 Sep
Reminders of Glasgow’s fading industrial heritage are not hard to find. Disused warehouses are plentiful in this city, which is handy if – l... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Film
Take One Action 2013: Salma
Award-winning documentarian Kim Longinotto discusses her new film Salma, one of the highlights of Sisters, a new strand in Take One Action film festival (27 Sep–12 Oct) Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Film
Take One Action 2013: The Cost of Action
Take One Action film festival (27 Sep–12 Oct) is back with another packed programme of films asking big questions and exposing injustices from across the world. We look at the films in one of its new strands, The Cost of Action Read more »| 10 Sep 2013 -
Festival Guide
First Thought, Best Thought: A Look at Write Now Festival
Combining six brand new one-act plays, workshops and script-in-hand readings, Liverpool's Write Now Festival lays bare the writing and rehearsal process, as Ian Moore explains Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
Film
Venice Film Festival 2013: Never Trust a Beautiful Woman in a Transit Van
Our second report from the 70th Venice Film Festival: Under the Skin and Tom at the Farm Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
Film
Venice Film Festival 2013: Planes, Boats and Mobiles
Our first report from the 70th Venice Film Festival: The Wind Rises, Night Move, Philomena and The Canyons Read more »| 04 Sep 2013