Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh FestivalsSculptor 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 -
Edinburgh FringeBilal Zafar on Love, Hate, Twitter and Biscuits
Bringing the biscuits to the Mash House for his second Edinburgh Fringe hour, Bilal Zafar chats about social media and sophomore syndrome Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Meet Fringe innovators Berk's Nest
An interview with Katie Churchill, Owen Donovan and Phoebe Bourke, the producers and directors behind some of the Fringe's most imaginative shows Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh FestivalsZinnie 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 -
Edinburgh FestivalsPatrick 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 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe on a Theme: 5 theatre shows on grief
With grief emerging as a key theme to the 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we look at a selection of plays that explore the various and sometimes complicated state of bereavement Read more »| 28 Jul 2017
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Intersections
I Will Survive: How to Dodge Fringe Burnout
Newsflash – festival season is a mental health minefield. Here's our crowd-sourced guide to keeping it together this August, whether you're here for one day or the entire month Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Platform 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 -
Edinburgh Festivals
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 -
Travel
Living in Adelaide
One Adelaide resident makes a convincing case for everyone to move to a land down under Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh Festivals
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 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Trygve Wakenshaw on Trygve vs a Baby
If he is eligible for the Best Newcomer award, our money is on young Phineas Wakenshaw. We speak to his father Trygve about sharing the limelight with his son Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Joseph Morpurgo on Gothic Horror show Hammerhead
After his 2015 award nominated show Soothing Sounds for Baby, Joseph Morpurgo is back at Pleasance Courtyard and he is reworking a classic of literature Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe 2017: Food & Drink Shows
From the compelling to the slightly confusing, we round up the food-inspired shows at this year's Edinburgh Fringe that have attracted our attention Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
We Can Be Heroes: Bob Slayer on the Edinburgh Fringe
Panel Prize winner Bob Slayer chats to us about what makes a Heroes show as his Fringe empire expands in 2017 Read more »| 27 Jul 2017