Who did the Urinal? Not Duchamp! say Glyn Thompson and Julian Spalding in their Summerhall Festival exhibition titled ‘A Lady’s Not A Gent’s’. Thompson and Spalding claim the submission of the urinal (aka ‘Fountain’) to the Independents exhibition of 1917 …

The aim of the Art Shed Collective is to enable emerging artists to meet fresh audiences through a curated programme of socially engaged art works, to be presented this year at the Edinburgh Just Festival 2015. Find out more at …

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 …

‘If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.’ Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we cannot talk …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Since its foundation in 1974, Kilkenny Arts Festival has gathered many of the world’s finest musicians, performers, writers and artists in Ireland’s medieval city each August. For ten days, the city’s historic churches, castle, courtyards, townhouses and gardens offer a …

Festival Director David Teevan welcomes you to the 15th annual Clonmel Junction Festival running from 3rd-12th July. Over the 10 days there is a tremendous variety of music, theatre, literature, street entertainment and visual arts. Film inserts from Chloe McGuire …

Director of Edinburgh Art Festival Sorcha Carey, introduces this year’s festival programme at a special launch in the Dovecot Studios. The festival takes place in venues all around the city, showcasing a mix of well known and up-and-coming artists, contemporary …

Dorine Aguerre, Isobel Lutz-Smith & Marija Nemcenko present Home Away From Home, an exhibition looking at the ‘otherness’ that is often present in quite ordinary spaces. Located in an underground shop, the exhibition aims to peel back the layers of …

Cold on the outside examines the importance of dialogue among artists surrounding contemporary painting today. It focuses upon the work of five painters that has evolved through such discussions after spending an intense period together in rural Norway. Cold on …

Artist Lauren McGhee introduces Below, the other things we can talk about, at this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. A small blacked-out basement holds an immersive installation of video and objects choreographed by light. Light projection functions as a …

This house has been far out at sea is a group exhibition exploring language and the act of story telling. Artists and writers look at the process of story telling and its participatory values. This house has been far out …

Artists Collette Rayner and Robyn Benson present new work in their exhibition Structural Proposition ≥ Sensible Reasoning, which explores the transition between the proposition, representation and the actual. The work looks at the act of model making, ownership and craftsmanship, …

Artists Emily Shepherd and Ellie Harrison explore our relationship with money whilst eating food made to look like money. Based on the ethos of Death Cafe, a reproducible event on the subject of death in a cafe environment, MONEY M€AL …

Artists Callum Monteith and Alex Rathbone chose their favourite bar as the setting for their exhibition State of Mind/Hot Box, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. State of Mind/Hot Box was part of the Glasgow Open …

Artists Daniele Sambo and Hannah Brackston introduce their exhibition Yard, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. This exhibition will take the form of a structural installation occupying and re-imagining a front garden of one of the …

Chris Macinnes has transformed his bedroom into a white cube gallery for the exhibition SimStim, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. Working with three other artists, Stephanie Mann, Sam Dransfield and Aymeric Tarrade, the show featured …

Abigale Neate Wilson and Fionn Duffy introduce their work Bleachfield, based in and drawing inspiration from the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The collaborative project (Alex Kuusik, Josie Rae Turnbull, Mikey Cook & Sharif Elsabagh also showing work) draws together research on …

Director Nick Barley introduces this year’s festival programme, which features over 700 events for adults and children, and includes writers from over 55 countries. Particular highlights include a selection of authors from Mexico, picked by Mexican visual artist Gabriel Orozco, …

Cork Midsummer Festival is an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival that uses the city as its backdrop and inspiration. It provides high-quality arts events, both national and international, for audiences of all ages. Its programme provides opportunities for significant public participation …

Ellen Doggett and Lin Chau, students on Glasgow School of Art’s MLitt programme, present an exhibition and a programme of events at this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. The group present a mix of installation, projection and live performance, …

General Manager Sam Gough presents Summerhall’s busy programme of events, which include the Edinburgh International Science Festival, new gig night Nothing Ever Happens Here, Beer FestivALE and much more. Keep up to date with Summerhall’s exciting programme here.

Talking at the Amnesty International event as part of Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Ian Rankin shares his thoughts on the power of free speech and the written word. Ian Rankin is best known for his Rebus series. Started when …