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What's On Scotland 6 Jun-13 Jun: LeithLate, Southside Film Festival
Three cheers for the return of LeithLate (8&9 Jun), following a break last year due to funding issues – hip hip hooray! We’re teaming up with... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 4-11 Feb: Honor Swinton Byrne Q&A, Jamali Maddix and more
Joanna Hogg’s much-anticipated followup to her heartbreaking, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir hits cinemas this weekend and we ... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 8-15 Apr: Douglas Stuart, Orphans and more
With Douglas Stuart's 2020 debut novel Shuggie Bain – a tender and tenacious tale of poverty and addiction based on Stuart’s child... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 5-12 May: Yardwords, Dundead & more
Street art has been exploding in Glasgow over the last few years and that’s partly due to the success of Yardworks, the festival of urban art... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Comedy
Louis CK accused of sexual misconduct
Unsubstantiated rumours of Louis CK's proclivity for sexual misconduct have swirled around comedy circles for years, but a New York Times investigation ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 29 Feb-7 Mar: Under the Olive Tree & more
Under the Olive Tree Saturdays have become days of concerted solidarity, awareness and protests in aid of the Palestinian people, and that’s the case ... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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What's On Scotland 16-23 Jul: Cryptic's Signal-on-Sea + more
You might have noticed that the Scottish summer can be a tad temperamental. Therefore, when a warm and reasonably sunny spell like this one we&rsqu... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 6-13 Oct: Tenement Trail, Leith Comedy Fest & more
Tenement Trail Various venues in Glasgow, 7 OctIt may be getting cold outside, but music festival season isn’t over quite yet. The mighty Tenement Tra... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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What's On Scotland 31 Oct-6 Nov: Glasgow Print Fair, Scotland Loves Anime
Glasgow Print Fair Are your walls looking a bit sad? Do you love supporting local artists? Are you stuck for Christmas present ideas? If you answered yes to... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
Books
Five events to catch at Aye Write! 2018
Aye Write!, Glasgow's Book Festival, is upon us again, descending on the city across the second half of March. From the brilliant work of Scotland's indie pu... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 13-20 Aug: Fringe comedy + more
Welcome to freedom week. You can now drink alcohol indoors past sundown. You can now have a wee boogie on the dancefloor. You can now go to a gig without the... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 20-26 May: The Great Eastern & Figures of Speech
Head east this weekend! Because one of our favourite city music festivals, The Great Eastern, returns with a shimmering lineup of artists to help kick o... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 10-17 Apr: Record Store Day + more
Record Store Day Record Store Day, the UK’s annual celebration of indie record shops, returns on Saturday (12 Apr). An outrageous list of ne... Read more »| Updated 25 days ago -
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What's On Scotland 4-10 Nov: Mark Cousins's Like a Huge Scotland
Is there a busier filmmaker in the UK than Mark Cousins? He made four feature films in 2021 alone and is currently touring film festivals with his latest, Th... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 10-17 Oct: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival The long-running and essential Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is back with a huge lineup delving ... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
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What's On Scotland 3-9 Nov: Palestinian exhibition Deluge & more
This weekend sees the mixed-media exhibition Deluge (3-5 Nov) come to sett studio on Leith Walk, Edinburgh with the aim of spreading awareness and ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Comedy
Glasgow Comedy Festival: Five under-the-radar picks
Glaswegian comedy fans, get set to hammer your bank account this March. The Glasgow International Comedy Festival returns for its 21st birthday edition with ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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The Skinny Zap Events Guide: 7-13 February
We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
French Film Festival 2019: Five highlights
From some of the cream of the Cannes crop to restored classics and mainstream hits, the French Film Festival is a much-appreciated annual event for the UK&rs... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Film
The 25 must-see films of 2019
Ad Astra Dir. James Gray | Release TBC After taking characters to the New World (The Immigrant) and deep into the Amazon rainforest (The Lost City of Z), J... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Art
GSA Degree Show 2024: School of Design
The School of Design offers perspectives on common themes across various disciplines – 2024's graduating students produce designs with a considered com... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
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The Skinny Christmas Gift Guide 2024
Books Mount Florida BooksI love Mount Florida Books. Great books, great vibes, and did you know they reinvest their profits into Glasgow’s literary an... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
Music
The Skinny on EH-FM: Show Three (Listen Again)
We – Tallah Brash (Music Editor) and Nadia Younes (Clubs Editor) – were back on the radio today (1 Apr) for our third show on Edinburgh community... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival: Read 2021's Young Critics
The curtain has come down on another edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and we're delighted to once again bring you work from the writers ... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
Film
Films of 2018: The criminally overlooked movies
The Breadwinner Dir. Nora Twomey The Breadwinner is an ode to storytelling, revelling in the boundless freedom of animation to create a kaleidoscope of t... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Listen to the Not Your Usual podcast
Not Your Usual is a new series of podcasts from The Skinny – each episode, we'll be having an extended chat with a Scottish creative who's doing things... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Film
Listen to The Cineskinny podcast!
The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies.... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2022
1. Aftersun Dir. Charlotte Wells There is a sense throughout Aftersun of reaching and reaching, of brushing something vital with your fingertips only to ha... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018
25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Art
CCA Highlights – July/August 2019
Anger, solidarity and resistance runs through Sonic Séance: The Gathering (until 28 July). With a varied programme of dance, performance, video and wo... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago