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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ComedyMagners Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2011
Sometimes it feels like every festival launch you go to these days promises 'More Shows Than Ever Before!'. But, as we all know, it's how good the shows are ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Festival GuideManipulate Visual Theatre Festival: Performance. Strings. Death. Despair. Puppets
Manipulate returns to Edinburgh in February with a celebration of puppetry and visual theatre Read more »| 11 Jan 2011 -
FilmImogène McCarthery
Highlights from the French Film Festival Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
ComedyIn Profile: Russell Kane
We catch up with Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Russell Kane on his way back from the jungle Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival needs your help
Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) needs your help. The GYFF is unique among festivals aimed at younger audiences in that at every stage, from curating the p... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
Festival GuideFestival Watch: Vikings @ Up Helly Aa
Ah, the Vikings and their renown as history's most hirsute bunch of raping, pillaging murderers. Well, perhaps not. Recent research from some cardigan and co... Read more »| 03 Dec 2010
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FilmSheffield Doc/Fest
The Skinny takes a peek at the UK's premier documentary film festival Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
FilmAiM: Sex, Okra and Salted Butter
AiM opens with a bang with Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, a comedy of manners about the life of an African family adapting to Western culture Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
FilmAiM: Sacred Places
Sacred Places tells the story of a Burkina Faso neighbourhood through three characters: Bouba, the local video club owner; Jules Cesar, the Djembé mak... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
FilmAfrica in Motion 2010
AiM returns to celebrate the cinema of the continent that continues to be criminally ignored Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
FilmReel Change: Take One Action Film Festival
This month, discover films which inspire and challenge at the Take One Action Film Festival Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
MusicEmma Pollock on the relationship between the arts and mental health
The arts, with regards to mental health (whether it be positive or negative) are absolutely crucial. It is through the arts that people tend to show their ch... Read more »| 03 Sep 2010 -
MusicMusic Like a Vitamin
Rod Jones and Emma Pollock speak exclusively to The Skinny about the making of First Edition, their contribution to the forthcoming Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
MusicEdge Festival 2010: The Phantom Band
The Phantom Band blew our minds with last year's Checkmate Savage, now they're getting ready to do it all over again Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
MusicEdge Festival 2010: Sneaky Pete's
First up at the Cowgate's live music hub are Irish songstrels Villagers on 6 Aug. Comparisons with Sparklehorse seem fair, and frontman Conor J. O'Brien is n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2010