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
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Four dancers explore the fragility and humour of touch. How are we connected even when separated by distance, time or context? How do we touch without touching? We question the … T-Dance
Visual Arts As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, artist Charles Avery creates an element from his fictionalised island, a project he has been working on for the last ten years. Focusing on the old port town of Onomatopoiea, Avery transports a … Charles Avery : Tree no.5
Performance An investigation into what happens when we discover that our parents are flawed human beings, and that at some point, sooner than we think, they are suddenly going to disappear from our lives. Intimate and funny, this play presents a … Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone
Theatre 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
Visual Arts The Talbot Rice Gallery hosts the first Scottish showing of work by Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009), an artist who has drawn much interest and intrigue in her work over the years. Featuring a series of framed works from Darboven’s … Hanne Darboven : accepting anything among everything
Performance In 1885 Sarah Henley throws herself off a bridge. She lives. In 2015 Sarah talks about this and other things that push us over the edge. It is not about suicide, well, only a bit, it’s about love and what … I Gave Him An Orchid
Music Following a huge audience response to its introduction in the 2014 Festival, Secret Garden Music returns with a unique series of free, pop-up concerts, twice each afternoon, for audiences of all ages from 2 to 102. Major international and Irish … Kilkenny Arts Festival : Secret Garden Music
Performance An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory … Anna-Helena McLean : Titania
Performance Internationally acclaimed performance from Herald Angel Award winner Spitfire Company influenced by the works of Václav Havel, especially by his play Audience and its legendary film adaptation. What happens when a brewer and a persecuted politician, alter ego of Václav … Antiwords
Visual Arts Fabienne Hess draws inspiration for her TRG3 project, Hits and Misses (from the archive), from the University of Edinburgh’s Collections, which have been undergoing extensive digital archiving since 2012. Hess has responded to the collection by creating three elements to … Fabienne Hess : Hits and Misses (from the archive)
Festivals Performance An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory … Anna-Helena McLean : Titania
Performance J runs so fast she bursts into a million tiny pieces, her atoms unknitting themselves and spreading across the universe. Blair stands on a broken pier with a glass of white wine in one hand and a pint of Guinness … Fable
Festivals Performance The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Performance Project HaHa welcomes you to an upside-down world. A fertile, green landscape that sews together the silence of possibility and the noise of waiting. Beautiful, placid perhaps, but we will not just sit and study little things, we will look … Project HaHa
Festivals Performance A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague … Thaddeus Phillips : 17 Border Crossings
Visual Arts Artist Sara Barker unveils her permanent commission for Edinburgh’s Jupiter Artland, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Barker works with a variety of materials and methods to create her sculptures, drawing inspiration from the outside world and organic … Sara Barker : Separation in the Evening
Visual Arts Dr Marc Glöde introduces a new perspective of Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor’s work, celebrating what would’ve been his 100th birthday. Brought to Summerhall by the Polish Cultural Institute in London and Polnisches Institut Berlin, the exhibition focuses on the … Tadeusz Kantor : Inbetween Structures
Performance Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual in a way that, according to one audience member, “leaves everyone feeling blessed”. Join Queen … The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
Visual Arts Artist Anne Hardy takes familiar materials, objects and sounds and transplants them into the domestic space of the Common Guild gallery. By doing this, Hardy challenges our perceptions of these objects, and creates an environment that seems at once familiar, … Anne Hardy : TWIN FIELDS
Performance Ventoux is the most fearsome mountain encountered on the Tour de France. It is also the story of Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani, whose drug-fuelled race back in 2000 was the greatest the world of cycling had ever seen. Ventoux … Ventoux
Performance ABACUS is a baroque presentation delivered by Japanese cult-icon Paul Abacus about the future of national borders, the workings of contemporary persuasion, and our evolving relationship to the screens in our public and private spaces, including our pockets. Inspired by … ABACUS
