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 FestivalsEIFF 2022: Kung Fu Zohra
Kung Fu Zohra sheds some much-needed light on womxn’s self-defence but too often the film uses comedy to diverge from the actualities of abusive relationships Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: Three Times Nothing
Three homeless men win big on the lottery in this French comedy taking on the country's administration systems. The film's message gets lost, though, as the story descends into sentimentality Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
Edinburgh FestivalsCommunity Care as a Creative Practice in Wester Hailes
Sofia Cotrona reflects on Community Wellbeing Collective's commission in Wester Hailes, in a piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 31 Aug 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: My Small Land
Coming-of-age drama My Small Land explores the struggles of a Kurdish girl attending high school in Japan Read more »| 31 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Week two recap
As another August comes to an end, we look back on highlights of the final week of Edinburgh International Book Festival Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: Black Mambas
Lena Karbe’s documentary explores issues of race, gender and class in South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit Read more »| 29 Aug 2022
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Edinburgh FringeRob Madge: My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) @ Udderbelly
Part monologue, part cabaret, Rob Madge shows off their palpable star power in My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringePeaceophobia @ Q Park
Alongside its fast cars, dizzying theatrical devices and pounding beats, Common Wealth's Peaceophobia counters prejudice with stories of humour, passion, and belief Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FestivalsWalking with Ghosts @ King's Theatre
Gabriel Byrne's adaptation of his own best-selling memoir is a tribute to the small moments that never leave us, and to the Irish diaspora experience of displacement and exile Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeCrizards @ Assembly George Square
Will Rowland and Eddy Hare’s cowboy show is full of character play and rootin-tootin' fun Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeFills Monkey: We Will Drum You @ Pleasance Courtyard
The new show from Yann Coste and Sébastien Rambaud is a genuinely inventive hour of musical clowning – and a whole lot of drumming Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeJoshua Bethania wins So You Think You’re Funny?
London stand-up Joshua Bethania wins the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? award, with Scottish comic Mark Black taking second place Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
ArtCéline Condorelli: Thinking through Skin
Isla Valentine Wade unpacks Céline Condorelli's first survey exhibition at Talbot Rice, in a piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
ArtAshanti Harris on the importance of Carnival
Hazel Peters speaks to Ashanti Harris about her exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille. This article was commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeCrybabies @ Pleasance Dome
Crybabies' new show Bagbeard is a lo-fi mashup of Hollywood tropes, delivered with a distinctively British sketch sensibility Read more »| 26 Aug 2022