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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FilmMasculinity in Crisis: Peter Mackie Burns on Rialto
Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
FilmHow we watch movies in the age of streaming
Not a year goes by without some blowhard predicting the death of cinema, but in 2020, the dominance of streaming platforms is becoming hard to ignore. Join us at GFF to discuss how we watch films in the age of streaming Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
FilmAlice Winocour on Glasgow Film Festival opener Proxima
Disorder director Alice Winocour tells how new film Proxima, which follows an astronaut juggling space training with raising her young daughter, is still very much an "earthy" movie Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
FilmDystopian Sci-fi at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Hoping for a bright, shiny future with flying cars and labour-saving technology? Glasgow Film Festival's daily retrospective suggests some less upbeat possibilities for humanity Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
BooksPaisley Book Festival: Radical voices, rebel stories
As the very first Paisley Book Festival gets ready to shake up Scotland’s literary scene, we ask three of its appearing writers to reflect on their experiences, challenges and hopes for the Scottish publishing industry Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
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
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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 -
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