Visual Arts Using Tintoretto’s creative presence and the atmosphere engendered by his great masterworks, studying their subtlety and responding to them with drawings and paintings of his own, Pulsford attempts to re-live Tintoretto’s experience of inventing them. War Memorial Library Gallery, Summerhall 11:00–18:00 (NOT … Mark Pulsford : Alla Presenza di Tintoretto/In the Presence of Tintoretto
Visual Arts Married for 51 years, Dawson and Liz Murray share a great passion for plants and have spent the twenty-one years since they moved to Fife designing a beautiful garden which provides a constantly changing source of inspiration for their work. … Liz & Dawson Murray : The Romance of the Garden: Fragments and Memories
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Well-known bioartists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) present their landmark work Pig Wings (2000). Advances in tissue engineering, xenotransplantation and genomics promise to render the living body as a malleable mass. Questioning the effect … Oron Catts : Pigs Wings + Work in Progress
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Ting-Tong Chang: Sciennes Galleries, Summerhall Using robotic devices to simulate living animals, P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness brings lifelike characteristics to lifeless animal bodies. The sophisticated mechanism of each automaton contain within them a notion that life can be … Ting-Tong Chang : P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Synthetica, Summerhall Saturday 31 — Sunday 13 May A selection of works forms a brief retrospective on the incredible career of Marta de Menezes. The concept of identity and a dichotomy between the natural and the artificial are recurrent themes … Marta de Menezes : Meadows Gallery
Books Festivals Matt Haig spoke in front of a packed Book Festival audience about the importance of reading and writing in maintaining mental health and its role in helping him conquer depression, as part of the Festival’s Staying Well strand. Matt said … Matt Haig : Reasons To Stay Alive
Visual Arts Sat 20 Jan 2018 – Sat 17 Feb 2018 Summerhall Venue: Basement Gallery I An Exploration of Line by Garvald Edinburgh Artists A line joins two points- what happens between these two points is where the creativity occurs. Following on … Morven Macrae : A Stitch and Line
Visual Arts Sat 18 Nov 2017 – Sun 14 Jan 2018 Summerhall Venue: Corner Gallery Firstly I would like to thank the good people at HUBLOT and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. *Tears in my eyes*. Well, Tony (Schiavone) before I … Jacob Kerray : The Great White Hope
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts 25 January – 10 March 2018 Summerhall Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival offering diverse creative responses to Robert Burns. Featuring over 30 visual artists, an Alternative Burns Night, a Flyting competition, a tailor made programme of music … Burns Unbroke
Visual Arts 25 January – 10 March 2018 Summerhall Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival offering diverse creative responses to Robert Burns. Featuring over 30 visual artists, an Alternative Burns Night, a Flyting competition, a tailor made programme of music … Burns Unbroke
Visual Arts Sat 20 Jan 2018 – Sat 17 Feb 2018 Summerhall Venue: Basement Gallery I An Exploration of Line by Garvald Edinburgh Artists A line joins two points- what happens between these two points is where the creativity occurs. Following on … Morven Macrae : A Stitch and Line
A month after the horrific shootings that took place in the offices of Parisian satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, Scottish PEN invited panelists Joyce McMillan (journalist and critic), Greg Moodie (cartoonist) and Alan Bissett (author and playwright) to the Red Lecture … Scottish PEN : Are we still Charlie?
Visual Arts Sat 18 Nov 2017 – Sun 14 Jan 2018 Summerhall Venue: Corner Gallery Firstly I would like to thank the good people at HUBLOT and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. *Tears in my eyes*. Well, Tony (Schiavone) before I … Jacob Kerray : The Great White Hope
Theatre Following on from the critically acclaimed Doubting Thomas, Jeremy Weller (winner of six Fringe First awards) and Grassmarket Projects return with part two of a devised trilogy with Thomas McCrudden: a former gangland enforcer who struggles to change from a … Doglife
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused … Burns Unbroke : Ross Fleming
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Burns Unbroke : David Mach Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four … Burns Unbroke : David Mach
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused … Burns Unbroke : Calum Colvin
The Scottish National Gallery and ARTIST ROOMS present this special ‘In Conversation’ event as part of the exhibition ‘Louise Bourgeois : A Woman Without Secrets’, on the 26th October 2013. Senior Curator Lucy Askew talks to Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois’s … On Louise Bourgeois : In Conversation
Theatre Clout Theatre combine Lecoq physical theatre and the absurdist tones of Daniil Kharms to bring you a visceral and bizarre adaptation of How A Man Crumbled. A Fringe hit in 2012, the cast returned to Summerhall in Spring 2013 for … Clout Theatre : How a Man Crumbled
Traverse in Time is a series of panel discussions that look back at the rich history of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, and the individuals who were involved in its illustrious past. Taking place at Summerhall on Wednesday 21st August, playwright Jo … Traverse at 50 : Traverse Through Time Panel #8
Music Following their sell-out success in August 2013, The One Ensemble were invited back to Summerhall to perform ‘Saint Seven’. Performed in the round, the piece is a dramatic hybrid of voices and instruments that seamlessly interweaves elements of experimental, folk … The One Ensemble : Saint Seven
John Byrne in conversation with Joyce McMillan in the Main Hall at Summerhall. Face to Face : John Byrne in conversation with Joyce McMillan
Visual Arts Sat 25 Nov 2017 – Sun 07 Jan 2018 09:00–17:00 (Mon-Fri), 10:00–17:00 (Sat), 11:00–16:00 (Sun) (during the café opening hours) _ Venue: The Library Gallery 2016 winner of the RSA Open Exhibition award Summerhall Prize. An exhibition of new and recent work by Edinburgh based … Michael Dawson : EXIT FROM COALTOWN
Visual Arts Sat 25 Nov 2017 – Sun 07 Jan 2018 09:00–17:00 (Mon-Fri), 10:00–17:00 (Sat), 11:00–16:00 (Sun) (during the café opening hours) _ Venue: The Library Gallery 2016 winner of the RSA Open Exhibition award Summerhall Prize. An exhibition of new and recent work by Edinburgh based … Michael Dawson : EXIT FROM COALTOWN
Events Sunday 10th December, Summerhall 11:00–17:00 Over 70 stalls and food vendors Children’s porcelain painting activities Christmas wreath workshop with Garlands Florist Further details on our website summerhall.co.uk Christmas Market 2017
Visual Arts Venue: War Memorial Library Curated by Gabriella Daris ‘I decided to use the last ten years at the end of the 20th century to look at my Self. The great Tibetan poet sage Milarepa had said that self was an … Liliane Lijn : Early Events: Five Narrative Sculptures
Visual Arts Dates: 3rd of August to the 24th September Venue: Long Corridor Elsa in Philadelphia fills in the gaps in the critical period between Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s disappearance from New York and re-emergence in Philadelphia in the spring of 1917. Beginning … Glyn Thompson : Elsa In Philadelphia
