Performance In Poker Night Blues, Tennesse Williams’ masterpiece, a Streetcar Named Desire, is undone, dismantled and distilled to its essential elements. Heightened physicality, dance, humour and an original text blend together to create this intense, touching and steamy fusion between East … Poker Night Blues
Performance Combining puppetry, magic and scientific-demonstration, The Assembly of Animals gives a glimpse into the inner workings of a laboratory looking for life in everyday objects. As a performed sculpture, a series of delicately composed experiments reveal a proliferating system of … The Assembly of Animals
Visual Arts Emma Finn’s darkly humorous videos transport us to uncomfortable liminal places that sit somewhere between reality and invention, spaces where real people have drawn-on faces, and babies are sent in the post. All of Finn’s work is driven by ‘the … Emma Finn : Double Mountain
Performance An old-fashioned exhibition room with fitted carpet, various things on panels and in display cases. At the back sits an attendant, whilst in the middle of the room Kristien De Proost attracts all the attention. She runs and keeps on … On Track
Visual Arts Inverleith House presents the first UK showing of American artist John Chamberlain (1927-2011), as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Featuring work from early to mid career, the exhibition demonstrates Chamberlain’s use of unusual and hard-wearing materials; transforming discarded … Paul Nesbitt : John Chamberlain
Performance Tommy leaves his safe town up on the hill to see the sea. On his way he meets everyone who for some reason isn’t allowed or doesn’t belong in the city. A journey through music history that gives the floor … The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy
Performance Choose your own path through an imagined world… or perhaps your neighbour will choose it for you. Without leaving your seat, you – or most of you, anyway – will be able to go wherever you want. If not, don’t … We This Way
Visual Arts Have you ever wondered how the world looks from the point of view of a hammerhead shark, with its hyper-stereo vision? How about a horse, which has exceptional peripheral vision? Or a chameleon, which can look backwards and forwards at … Denis Connolly : Meta-Perceptual Helmets
Performance Jenny is a mischievous little girl who loves playing with her Dad. But he has to put on his business suit, pick up his briefcase and go to work. When Jenny grabs hold of his overcoat to stop him leaving, … The Overcoat
Performance While walking over 3500km through Germany, Gerling took photographs of people he met during his wanderings, creating portraits in the form of photographic flipbooks. On stage, Gerling recounts the stories of those who let themselves be photographed. Gerling describes great, … Portraits in Motion
Visual Arts Senior curator Rachael Thomas, introduces the work of artist Etel Adnan, which is currently on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Adnan works across many outputs of creativity including writing, art, poetry and tapestry and all aspects of … Rachael Thomas : Etel Adnan
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Inspired by Milton’s epic poem with less words, more dance and never before seen levels of divine incompetence. The Lost Dog’s restaging of the creation of everything. A show for anyone … Paradise Lost : Fringe Interpretation of Milton’s Classic Poem
Performance Originally inspired by the demolition of The Chartists Mural in Newport, South Wales, Smash It Up explores the destruction of art, culture and public space. Beginning as a performance lecture, and using performance art and physical theatre, it explores the … Smash It Up
Visual Arts House for an Art Lover presents ‘Bodies of Work’, a new exhibition by artist Fraser Taylor. Featuring a series of large scale canvas pieces, monochromatic and colourful works, prints and video work, the exhibition explores the evolution of Taylor’s work … Fraser Taylor : Bodies of Work
Performance Gather round, gather round for the moon’s magical, mystical story about a tippetty-top tap dancer called Marina Skippett, whom he has been watching at night. With stunning puppetry, original live music to sing along to and tap-dancing that will make … The Tap Dancing Mermaid
Performance A clock, a town, a sunrise on an empty open coffin and the wind. The wind, who’s dead set on sticking someone in it by sunset. Down in the dust bowl the air’s so thick folk just can’t see what’s … Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)
Visual Arts Curator of Lust and the Apple Paul Robertson, introduces the work of Mexican artist Cisco Jimenez, as part of the gallery’s summer exhibitions programme. You Will Have a Long and Happy Life is Jimenez’s first UK exhibition, and shows a … Cisco Jimenez : You Will Have a Long and Happy Life
Performance Last year, Jonny accidentally told his four-year-old niece that climate change would end the world. To stop her crying, he and Paddy promised to fix it. They really tried very hard… A new show about family, friendship and environmental disaster … Jonny & the Baptists : The End Is Nigh
Performance To Space is your telescope into a future and capsule that will preserve the past. Scientist and performer Dr Niamh Shaw has dreamed of space travel from the age of eight. After a year of interviewing astronauts, astrophysicists, space industries … To Space
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Lost Dog’s restaging of the creation of everything. Inspired by Milton’s epic poem with less words, more dance and never before seen levels of divine incompetence. A show for anyone … Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
Visual Arts Maya Glaspie and Camila Richardson introduce the Basement Art Club, a new space in Leith’s creative district offering opportunities for artists and creative practitioners. Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/artleithwalk?fref=ts The Basement Art Club
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. We started out wanting to change the world with a performance. We felt like idiots. Then we danced a lot. We jumped. We called on the folk traditions of Sardinia … Idiot-Syncrasy
Performance Seven of Scotland’s most dynamic, provocative and lyrical spoken word artists: Rachel Amey, Bram E Gieben, Harry Giles, Jenny Lindsay, Ali Maloney, Rachel McCrum and Sam Small, present original solo shows, blending poetry, music and theatre in a different performance … Shift/ : A Best of Spoken Word
Visual Arts Renowned conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, brings a text piece to the dry stone dyke wall of the garden at Lust and the Apple Gallery, in Midlothian. Curator and owner of the gallery Paul Robertson, muses over the message ‘This As … Lawrence Weiner : Untitled 2015
Performance Eight years after Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko fatally drank poisoned tea in London, the public inquiry into his death has thrust him back into the spotlight in 2015. 2Magpies do not know who killed him, but they do know what … The Litvinenko Project
Festivals Established in 1957, Dublin Theatre Festival is an annual event that brings together artists, theatre-makers and audiences from Ireland and around the world. The festival currently takes place over 18 days from the final Thursday in September to the second … Willie White : Dublin Theatre Festival 2015
Performance Grandad and Me is a living storybook about loss, longing and the treasures of memory and imagination. We meet a young girl who is missing her Grandad – he has gone, even though his favourite job was being her Grandad. … Grandad and Me
Performance The premiere of Simon Thacker’s latest pioneering intercultural explorations with a special trio line-up of his award-winning Indo-Western ensemble. It features Scotland’s visionary guitar virtuoso/composer with the soulful voice khamak playing of Raju das Baul, spectacular exponent of one of … Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti
Visual Arts Malcolm and Leel are young emerging artists from Korea who have been based in Scotland for the last few years. Attracted to the intimacy of hidden and inaccessible areas, Malcolm and Leel create small delicate interventions into buildings. Works will … Malcolm and Leel : I Don’t Want to Leave My Chair
Performance Awkward Happiness is a reflection on the futility of happiness. We have an uncanny ability to find lovers with demons complementary to our own. Is happiness something that we seek in another person? This moving and thought-provoking physical performance is … Awkward Happiness
