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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TheatreManipulate 2020: Lamp, Shadowbird and Island Home
We round up our coverage of this year's Manipulate festival with three ambitious shows that strive for thought-provoking visual spectacle, with varying degrees of effect Read more »| 14 Feb 2020 -
TheatreManipulate 2020: Sketches, Canto X and Up
Conceptual dance, object theatre and Dante's Inferno: our coverage of Manipulate continues Read more »| 14 Feb 2020 -
Uk FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival: The 2020 programme
The newly independent Glasgow Short Film Festival announces its jam-packed five-day programme of over 180 screenings Read more »| 13 Feb 2020 -
MusicWide Days 2020: Showcase artists announced
The six bands to play this year's Wide Days new music showcase in Edinburgh have been revealed Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
TheatreManipulate 2020: Remember?, Transfigured, and A Brief History of The Male Fragile Ego
Manipulate presents mesmerising and multilayered work from Nunah Theatre, Oceanallover and Jordan & Skinner Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
TheatreManipulate 2020: Twa Pirate Quines, Dreams of The Small Gods & After Chekov
Puppetry, performance art and pirates: our writers report on three, entirely different stories told at this year's Manipulate Read more »| 12 Feb 2020
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Uk FestivalsParasite comes to Glasgow Film Festival in black & white
Glasgow film fans will be the first to see the new black and white version of Best Picture-winner Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s wildly inventive class satire, the colour version of which is currently going great guns in UK cinemas Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
FilmScott Graham & the cast on Scottish small-town drama Run
Shell and Iona director Scott Graham returns with third feature Run. Sitting down with The Skinny and some of the film's cast, Graham tells us how his tale was inspired by a visit to his hometown and the story of a Bruce Springsteen obsessed fisherman Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
TheatreWorkers Theatre on Something Has to Happen Festival
We catch up with the folk from The Workers Theatre about radical art, how a theatre cooperative works and why their upcoming festival – Something Has To Happen – couldn't be more timely Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Uk FestivalsStag & Dagger Glasgow adds more bands to line-up
Ghostpoet, Just Mustard and Mush join the line-up for the Glasgow all-dayer Read more »| 31 Jan 2020 -
Uk FestivalsKelburn Garden Party 2020: first acts announced
Max Cooper, Andrew Weatherall, Free Love, Swim School and Squiggles are among the first acts to be announced for the 2020 festival Read more »| 31 Jan 2020 -
Uk FestivalsSoma Skool announces 2020 line-up
Annual electronic music conference and showcase event, Soma Skool has revealed the first wave of names for its 2020 edition, including a panel discussion hosted by The Skinny Read more »| 30 Jan 2020 -
Uk FestivalsThe Skinny at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
We're presenting a chat on the future of cinema at Glasgow Film Festival – and helping throw a whopper of a party as well... Read more »| 29 Jan 2020 -
Uk FestivalsDays of the Bagnold Summer set for Glasgow Film Festival
The Skinny are teaming up with Glasgow Film Festival for the Scottish premiere of the new film by Simon Bird, with a soundtrack by Belle and Sebastian Read more »| 24 Jan 2020 -
Uk FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2020 opening film
Glasgow Short Film Festival opens with a hybrid of film and performance, with the 2020 edition also hosting a rare gig from synth pioneer Felix Kubin Read more »| 23 Jan 2020