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 FestivalsLowlands Festival 2019: Report
With its incredible and sprawling line-up, how more people haven’t yet discovered Lowlands is unclear. It’s a beaming gem just waiting to be unearthed Read more »| 05 Sep 2019 -
Uk FestivalsOff the Beaten Track: Scottish Gigs & Festivals Calendar
We speak to the organisers of Kirkcaldy's Tae Sup Wi' a Fifer and Glasgow's Freakender, and shine a light on the cavalcade of events still to come this year in venues across Scotland Read more »| 05 Sep 2019 -
Theatre"Fresh, Vital and Urgent": The Panopticon at Eastern Promise
We speak to the team at Platform and director Debbie Hannan about upcoming show, The Panopticon Read more »| 05 Sep 2019 -
Uk FestivalsGlasgow Youth Film Festival: Young Programmers' Highlights
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival Young Programmers – the GFT's team of sharp young film-fans aged 15-18 – introduce some of the films screening in this year's festival Read more »| 05 Sep 2019 -
MusicThe Great Western: new Glasgow music festival announced
Songhoy Blues, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Free Love and Sacred Paws lead the first wave of bands for the brand-new festival in Glasgow this November Read more »| 04 Sep 2019 -
Uk FestivalsBerwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2019 preview
One of the UK’s most adventurous moving image festivals enters its 15th year, trailing a constellation of lush cine-poetry, sensorial encounters with the natural world and a nocturnal lullaby from Lav Diaz Read more »| 29 Aug 2019
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Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh Book Festival: Queering History
We listen in as Kate Charlesworth and Luke Turner discuss their books which aim to add to a queer historical canon Read more »| 29 Aug 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh Book Festival: The Final Weekend
As the Edinburgh International Book Festival draws to a close, The Skinny stopped by one final round of the festival's 2019 events, encompassing writers from across Scotland, the UK, and wider world Read more »| 29 Aug 2019 -
International FestivalsLocarno Film Festival 2019: The Skinny's Highlights
This year's edition of the Swiss festival was delivered under the leadership of new artistic director Lili Hinstin, with world premieres of new films from Pedro Costa and Simon Bird, alongside career awards for the likes of Song Kang-ho and John Waters Read more »| 29 Aug 2019 -
ArtJanet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's Night Walk for Edinburgh
Night Walk for Edinburgh is an imaginative, exciting and emotional tour through Edinburgh's Old Town Read more »| 28 Aug 2019 -
Uk FestivalsSQIFF announces 2019 programme
Scottish Queer International Film Festival is back with a programme featuring a celebration of ballroom culture, Latinx legends and Janelle Monáe Read more »| 28 Aug 2019 -
FilmTom Schiller on lost masterpiece Nothing Lasts Forever
In 1984, a comic sci-fi starring Bill Murray disappeared without a trace when it was canned by its studio. 35 years later, Nothing Lasts Forever gets its Scottish premiere as part of Weird Weekend – we find out more from its director, Tom Schiller Read more »| 26 Aug 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Man Who Planted Trees @ Storytelling Centre
Puppet State Theatre's fabled show is a deeply warm and exquisite delight Read more »| 26 Aug 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeReservoir Dugs @ The Space
This Scottish adaptation of Tarantino's classic plays for laughs but delivers on dramatic violence Read more »| 26 Aug 2019 -
Edinburgh Fringe(Can This Be) Home @ Scottish Storytelling Centre
Spoken word artist Kolbrún Sigfúsdóttir and flautist Tom Oakes' collaboration is a glorious and unabashedly pro-EU meditation on immigration, culture shock and Brexit Read more »| 26 Aug 2019