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 FestivalsCeltic Connections: Ani DiFranco @ O2 ABC, 20 Jan
Folk revivalist Jim Moray proves a wonderfully apt choice for kicking off this evening, his mostly traditional compositions tending towards the darker side o... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
Uk FestivalsCeltic Connections: Alasdair Roberts and Muntu Valdo @ Tron Theatre, 19 Jan
Pairing Cameroonian sawa-blues with traditional Scottish folk, Celtic Connections again takes roots music and unearths its global interlinks. Muntu Valdo&rsq... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: The Walkmen @ Òran Mór, 19 Jan
Even if you are only lucky enough to catch five minutes of Laki Mera’s set, it’s still plenty of time to know that you’re watching somethin... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Uk FestivalsCeltic Connections: Giant Sand @ ABC2, 15 Jan
For a band formed in 1985, Howe Gelb’s Giant Sand manage to sound fresher and more unique tonight than most of the acts who have come and gone like the... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2011
Sometimes it feels like every festival launch you go to these days promises 'More Shows Than Ever Before!'. But, as we all know, it's how good the shows are ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival: Performance. Strings. Death. Despair. Puppets
Manipulate returns to Edinburgh in February with a celebration of puppetry and visual theatre Read more »| 11 Jan 2011
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Imogène McCarthery
Highlights from the French Film Festival Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
Uk FestivalsIn Profile: Russell Kane
We catch up with Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Russell Kane on his way back from the jungle Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival needs your help
Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) needs your help. The GYFF is unique among festivals aimed at younger audiences in that at every stage, from curating the p... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
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Festival Watch: Vikings @ Up Helly Aa
Ah, the Vikings and their renown as history's most hirsute bunch of raping, pillaging murderers. Well, perhaps not. Recent research from some cardigan and co... Read more »| 03 Dec 2010 -
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Sheffield Doc/Fest
The Skinny takes a peek at the UK's premier documentary film festival Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
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AiM: Sex, Okra and Salted Butter
AiM opens with a bang with Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, a comedy of manners about the life of an African family adapting to Western culture Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2011 open for business
Submissions for EIFF 2011 are now open Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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AiM: Sacred Places
Sacred Places tells the story of a Burkina Faso neighbourhood through three characters: Bouba, the local video club owner; Jules Cesar, the Djembé mak... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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Africa in Motion 2010
AiM returns to celebrate the cinema of the continent that continues to be criminally ignored Read more »| 29 Oct 2010