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 FestivalsLeithLate reveal 2019 weekender plans
Art festival LeithLate has launched details of its LeithLate19 Weekend, including an all-female music line-up at Leith Gala Day, an all-female graffiti artist jam and the return of LeithLate's Mural Tours Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsAlchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: 2019 Report
We look back at the highlights from the ninth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where melancholic woodland creatures wandered the high street and hallucinatory work was playing on screen Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeGilded Balloon reveals full Edinburgh Fringe programme
There are Fringe comebacks for Craig Ferguson and Angus Deayton, Sage Francis and B. Dolan bring their brand of indie-rap, there’s a Belle & Sebastian musical (kinda) and Eric Andre brings his stand-up to Edinburgh for the first time Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeBelle & Sebastian play heading to Edinburgh Fringe
Belle & Sebastian’s iconic 1996 album If You’re Feeling Sinister is being turned into a "play with songs" at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeSummerhall launches its 2019 Fringe programme
Extinction Rebellion take over two spaces, Kathryn Joseph headlines Nothing Ever Happens Here, Rachael Young brings her Grace Jones celebration NIGHTCLUBBING and the mighty Trevor Lock delivers his stand-up sermon COMMUNITY CIRCLE Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsKing Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Summer Nights Festival line-up announced
The King Tut’s grassroots music festival returns for its eighth year and with a new format. This year the festival will be running for seven weeks, rather than just two Read more »| 15 May 2019
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International FestivalsCannes 2019: The Dead Don't Die
The star-studded The Dead Don't Die is exactly the kind of zombie movie you would expect from Jim Jarmusch, for better or for worse Read more »| 15 May 2019 -
International FestivalsAnything Can Be News: Venice Biennale 2019 review
The Venice Biennale 2019 is a (mostly) topical and politicised edit of artists' practices from across the world, and its best artworks challenge audiences' complacent world views borne of hands-off and uncritically smartphone-based spectatorship Read more »| 14 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsThe Rise of Community-Led Festivals in Scotland
The teams behind Southside Fringe and Hidden Door to find out why and how they set up their community-led festivals Read more »| 10 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsToy Story 4 coming to Edinburgh Film Festival
The fourth instalment of the much-loved Toy Story franchise will screen at EIFF the weekend before the festival kicks off proper Read more »| 10 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsRiverside Festival: La Cheetah introduce their stage
La Cheetah Club's booker and programmer Grahame Ward, aka Wardy, introduces the La Cheetah 10 stage at this year's Riverside Festival in Glasgow Read more »| 09 May 2019 -
International FestivalsTracking Shot: Charlotte Prodger on their Venice Biennale work
Charlotte Prodger's new work is a development of their enquiries into experimental artistic film movements, while at the same time prioritising queer subjectivity within a constellation of aesthetic, political, social and personal narratives Read more »| 07 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival to close with Lowry biopic Mrs Lowry & Son
The world premiere of a biopic of LS Lowry, with Timothy Spall as the iconic British painter, will bring this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival to a close Read more »| 07 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsIndian Summer returns to Glasgow with Courtney Barnett, The Beths and more
Glasgow is getting a new four-part music festival to round off the summer, headlined by Aussie songwriter Courtney Barnett Read more »| 03 May 2019 -
International FestivalsCharlotte Prodger’s Venice Biennale work to tour Scotland
Charlotte Prodger’s new Scotland + Venice Biennale work will tour Scotland at the same time as it premieres at the 58th International Art Exhibition Read more »| 01 May 2019