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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International FestivalsLes Trans Musicales de Rennes 2019: The Report
As the legendary French festival enters its fifth decade, it's business as usual – a truly global, cutting-edge affair Read more »| 16 Jan 2020 -
FilmUncut Gems
The Safdie brothers follow up Good Time with another frenetic New York drama, as Adam Sandler gives a great performance as a brash jeweller who dabbles in various suspect tradings across the city Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
FilmCaitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl to close Glasgow Film Festival
This UK premiere starring Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein will be joined by French drama Proxima, starring Eva Green, which will open the festival Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival to turn the Arches into Neo-Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival announce its first set of special event screenings, which will turn the Argyle Street Arches into Neo-Glasgow for a weekend of special immersive film screenings of sci-fi cult classics from Total Recall to Tank Girl Read more »| 11 Dec 2019 -
Uk FestivalsBelle & Sebastian to headline Doune the Rabbit Hole
Motown legends Martha Reeves and the Vandellas are also among the first wave announced today for the Stirlingshire festival, alongside Pussy Riot, The Bluebells and Girl Ray Read more »| 10 Dec 2019 -
Uk FestivalsTerminal V: 50:50 gender split in 2020 line-up
Terminal V's April edition is shaping up pretty nicely, with its latest artist announcement including Avalon Emerson, Ben UFO, Honey Dijon, Octo Octa and many more Read more »| 04 Dec 2019
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FilmAll change at EIFF as artistic director Mark Adams steps down
After five years, Mark Adams steps down from his role as artistic director of Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s an opportunity for a fresh start for a festival that’s in need of reinvention Read more »| 29 Nov 2019 -
Uk FestivalsNo Bounds 2019: Festival Report
Sheffield's No Bounds Festival explores the intersection of light and sound and highlights great originality and creativity across both artforms Read more »| 28 Nov 2019 -
MusicThe Great Western Festival, Glasgow, 23 Nov
We don our finest raincoats and hit the slippery streets of Maryhill for the debut edition of the Great Western Festival Read more »| 28 Nov 2019 -
MusicTRNSMT's 2020 line-up: Stale, pale and male
As TRNSMT announce the first wave of acts for its 2020 edition, the festival's line-up fails to show any improvements on past criticisms Read more »| 27 Nov 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival lines up film score retrospective for 2020
EIFF celebrates the work of Ennio Morricone, Mica Levi and Delia Derbyshire in its 2020 retrospective Read more »| 20 Nov 2019 -
FilmAtlantics
Mati Diop's feature debut Atlantics feels like the work of an experienced master Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
Uk FestivalsFokus: Films from Germany Preview
German film celebration Fokus returns this winter – we dive into the programme, which takes us back to the hope and creativity of the Weimar era, the darkness of National Socialism and to the most daring works of New German Cinema today Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
ArtArika Episode 10: Experimental Science, Radical Politics
Cutting-edge maths and physics is paralleled with experiences of Black, POC, Queer, Trans and Indigenous communities in Arika's latest programme in Glasgow Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
TheatreBright Sparks: Traverse's First Stages festival
This month, the Traverse will give six new writers, plucked from a pool of 400 open submissions, an opportunity to showcase their work as part of the new First Stages Festival. The Skinny speaks to three of the playwrights selected Read more »| 04 Nov 2019