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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Uk FestivalsUmberto: Night Stalking
We don't know what film Umberto will score at GMFF, but odds on it'll be some freaky shit. Errors bring the synth maestro in for interrogation Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
Uk FestivalsWee Dub Festival @ Various Venues, Edinburgh, 3-5 February
Dub takes over Edinburgh for a second year and, like any good sequel, everything just got a whole lot bigger – to the extent that the ‘Wee’... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
Uk FestivalsMark Thomas: Manifesto
The beauty of the Manifesto show lies partly in its power to renew itself. Mark Thomas makes another vital contribution to political comedy this chilly Sunda... Read more »| 18 Jan 2012 -
International Festivals
Awake On Foreign Shores: Trans Musicales 2011
In search of an alternative winter festival, our Music editor heads for Les Recontres Trans Musicales to find out how the French get down Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
Uk Festivals
Be Manipulated
As Manipulate Festival returns to Edinburgh with another innovative array of visual theatre and animation, we talk to programmer Simon Hart about what to expect Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Uk FestivalsArika 12: Episode 1 – A Film is a Statement
"Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film." From this thesis Arkia 12 have curated a programme of experimental artists' films that's a shot in the arm to the stale form of the traditional film festival Read more »| 03 Jan 2012
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Edinburgh FringeRodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I @ The Festival Theatre
Upon entering the auditorium, the stage appears empty, except for a gong. With a resounding - almost ceremonial - ring of said gong, the overture begins. A b... Read more »| 01 Jan 2012 -
Uk Festivals
Wee Dub Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 3-5 Feb
The Wee Dub Festival is back: this time it's a whole lot bigger and it has a Mad Professor at the controls Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Winter in Venice
The temperature has dropped in Venice, and we've happily swapped ice creams for the best hot chocolates you could possibly imagine. An icy fog has desce... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
International Festivals
Festival Column: The Falls Festival, Tasmania
To me, New Year's Eve is a rubbish night. I almost inevitably find myself switching between the extreme heat of a sweaty party and the extreme cold of Scot... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Welcome welcome, new team!
Buongiorno a tutti!Now that Alex, Clare, Emma and Fran have said their goodbyes and returned to home turf, you have a new set of Information Assistants to fo... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: One team leaves, another arrives
As our team of IAs are getting ready to leave Venice (new team to arrive soon), Emma, Fran and Alex throw in a bit of self-promotion to show us what else they've been up to these past few weeks... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011 -
Uk Festivals
Kaleidoscope Festival, 30 September - 2 October 2011
Braving the elements, just outside St Andrews, the crowd at Kaleidoscope festival enjoy a weekend of music and performance. Photography by Erika Stevenson Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
Uk Festivals
Eastern Promise @ Platform, Saturday 1 October
Easterhouse's Platform host Eastern Promise - an eclectic two day music festival with both local talent and artists from further afield. Photography f... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Perfect Sense
Reunited with Ewan McGregor, Young Adam director David Mackenzie helms this high concept, pseudo-apocalyptic vision concerning the threat of a global vi... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011