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Managing Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Joanna Baker, introduces some of the highlights from this year’s festival. Photo credits : ‘The Poet Speaks’ featuring Patti Smith and Philip Glass by Stephanie Berger  

From 1979 Red Star ran a fortnightly Cinema at the Netherbow on Edinburgh’s High Street (now the Storytelling Centre). The loose collective included Wilson Smith, Dave Nielsen, Ian Currie, Ruth Mcilroy, Alan Robinson and Dave Rushton. Red Star was established …

Nile Rodgers performed recently at Summerhall as part of the 7×7 project – a musical and visual arts collaboration with the Belgian visual artist J P Muller. Here Nile talks about his recent involvement with Daft Punk and the record …

Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Nick Barley introduces highlights from this year’s August Festival.

Children and Education Director Janet Smyth, introduces this year’s Children’s Book Festival highlights, forming part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square.

Children and Education Director Janet Smyth, introduces this year’s Children’s Book Festival highlights, forming part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square.

Director of The Edinburgh International Book Festival, Nick Barley introduces highlights from this year’s August Festival.

Short feature from 2004 follows Angelika Schnabel painting a Black Thangka while introducing the Karma Gardri tradition of painting at Samye Ling, the Tibetan Buddhist Centre at Eskdalemuir in Dumfries & Galloway.

Scottish writer and poet McGuire, performs one of his pieces at Neu! Reekie! #33.

Third year students of Edinburgh College of Art, Ellen Love and Jenny Salmean, combine their two areas of study, Intermedia art and Painting, to produce the exhibition ‘Medium’. Held as part of the Talbot Rice Gallery’s June programme ‘Make Shift’, …

Morvern Cunningham, event organiser of Leith Late, introduces the multi arts festival held in multiple venues on Leith walk. Featuring music, visual arts, films and spoken word, in the space of three hours, Leith Late took over 17 places this …

Sculptor Tim Sandys talks about the chemical processes and experimental nature behind his work, and his selection for the Prologue exhibition currently held at Summerhall. The Prologue project selects three emerging visual artists and one emerging curator, and gives them …

One of the best tunes of the night at Neu! Reekie! 33 was Admiral Fallow performing ‘Guest of the Government’.

A short interview with Stevie Jackson, Belle and Sebastian musician and songwriter, along with three of the songs performed at Neu! Reekie! in May 2013.

Six artists working in and around Philadelphia are represented in this exhibit put together by EIXchange and Summerhall as the first of several cultural exchange exhibits between American and Scottish artists. We will hear more about the EIXchange programme in …

Director of the festival, Paul Bruce introduces Paulina Salas Ruiz’s film ‘Tong: Do You Speak It?’, and Andy Gonzalez, who discusses Gregor Fergie’s ‘All Kinds of Twisted’ performed by the Acid Fascists.

Summerhall TV caught up with Clout Theatre in April this year to film their play, ‘How a man crumbled’. The film will be premiered in July while our trailer also provides a taster for Clout’s 2013 Festival appearance, featuring their …

Summerhall TV caught up with Clout Theatre in April this year to film their play, ‘How a man crumbled’. The film will be premiered in July while our trailer also provides a taster for Clout’s 2013 Festival appearance, featuring their …

Summerhall Curator Paul Robertson introduces the art exhibitions running up to and included in the Edinburgh International Art Festival, at Summerhall in August.

Trish O’Grady’s film of John Durnin explaining the rationale of repertoire as distinct from repertory theatre at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Glasgow based artist and Turner Prize nominee Ciara Phillips talks to Summerhall TV about her exhibition ‘And More’,  which is a collection of screen prints on paper and textiles. These works are made in response to the Botanic Garden’s archival …

Sorcha Carey, the director of the Edinburgh Art Festival, talks to Summerhall TV about the festival programme and its plans to celebrate its 10th birthday.  

Self professed “poet and tragedian” Jock Scot takes to the stage for Neu! Reekie! 31 at Summerhall in April.

Formerly one half of Arab Strap, frequent collaborator with various artists throughout Scotland, and lyrical powerhouse, Aidan Moffat speaks to us as he performs a selection of solo songs at Neu! Reekie! 31 at Summerhall, Edinburgh.

Mia Nelle Drøschler talks to Summerhall TV about her exhibition ‘DreamEscape’, which looks at the idea of a world without the presence of humans. Mia’s work consists of a series of digital collages of nature, created from photographs that are …

Anatomy # 4 at Summerhall. Curated by Ali Maloney & Harry Giles and filmed by Capture UK. A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a platform for performance artists of all disciplines; beyond scratch, it creates …

Italian born artist Valentina Bonizzi talks to Summerhall TV about her work for the exhibition Migration Stories, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Valentina uses photography and video to look at migrant experiences of women from 1850 to the present …

An interview from Highland Perthshire News with students from Breadalbane Academy talking about their recent exhibition at the Aberfeldy Gallery and their career plans are for the future.

Edinburgh based four piece, Jen and the Gents, popped by Summerhall to perform a few songs for Summerhall TV. The band comprising of Jen Ewan (vocals and guitar), Martin Beer (bassist), Lewis Scott Diamond (guitar) and Stuart “Pockets” Crout (drummer) …

Scottish poet McGuire performed his new poem called Reverence for the Almighty at the Poetry Club Glasgow as part of Neu! Reekie!’s “The Holy Show” special. Performed again in Edinburgh as part of Neu! Reekie!’s monthly show at Summerhall. A …