Visual Arts SOMA Contemporary Gallery, 11th August, 6.30. Exhibition runs until the 18th of September. Solo exhibition by Fiona Kelly. Fiona Kelly’s practice encompasses printmaking, drawing and sculptural installations and explores ideas of disposability and regeneration. Kelly’s current work… Fiona Kelly : Dust Breeding
Visual Arts Cork Craft & Design is a social enterprise representing craft makers in Cork City & County. We bring together the very best of Cork’s unique craftmakers and artists; ceramicists, jewellers, textile-workers, furniture-makers, woodturners and carvers, paper and felt makers, sculptors … Siubhán McCarthy : Cork Craft Month 2016
Performance Theatre – Venue: Demonstration Room – Category: Performance Theatre – Age Suitability: 14+ – Times: 11.30 (90 mins) – Dates: 16th – 28th August A man, deep in a coma, hides out in the bedroom of Vincent Van Gogh while his … Debs Newbold : Lost in Blue
Performance Theatre Never Mind the Noise / Haley McGee Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Category: Feature Theatre Age Suitability: 18+ Time: 16.15 (60 mins) Blending storytelling, live art and improvisation, this show is a big romantic gesture. Haley McGee : I’m Doing This for You
Performance Theatre Location: Summerhall, Old lab Times: 20:55pm Dates: 11th – 14th Dood Paard, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth MacBeth and Kurt Cobain and Lady Macbeth and Courtney Love inspire a pitch-black comedy about unbridled ambition, hunger for power … Gillis Biesheuvel Manja Topper : Macbain
Visual Arts During the month of August the Courthouse Arts Centre will have an exhibition celebrating the versatility of Irish wool in both a practical and art context. Exhibitions by professional artists and Craft’s people will display examples of wool use. Also … Maggie Gallagher : All things woolly! A celebration of Irish wool
Performance Theatre Venue: Rose Bruford @ Upper Church, Summerhall Age Suitability: 12+ Times: 20.15 (80 mins) Dates: 5th – 15th August Josef K. wakes up one morning, hungry and disconcerted, only to find himself arrested. He is not told why, nor by … Matt Holt : The Trial
Music Rachel Sermanni + Matt Norris & the Moon Nothing Ever Happens Here at Summerhall 10th August In case you missed it or … would just like to remember a great night. Stripped down and acoustic, the better to hear the … Rachel Sermanni : Summerhall Set
Visual Arts In 2017 the A-listed City Observatory complex on Calton Hill will open freely to the public for the first time in its history. In partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, Collective will save the site, which is on the … Kate Gray : Collective Gallery Vision
Performance Theatre Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 9+ Time: 11.25 (55 mins) Mikey is a sunny boy. He lives alone with his mum. Mikey’s mum has a secret. It’s not well kept. Everyone knows it. Everyone except Mikey. Addie is a … Andy Manley : Mikey and Addie
Visual Arts Local artist and WIT graduate, Denise McAuliffe Hutchinson, has recently completed a Masters in Fine Art Painting at NCAD Dublin. “The weight of attraction # 2” explores a number of concepts surrounding the theme of sensuality. In most situations we … Denise McAuliffe : The Weight of Attraction
Visual Arts Jacinta is a professional artist based on the Carlow/Wicklow border in Ireland. She has a deserved reputation as Ireland’s foremost contemporary canine and equestrian artist. She exhibits widely, her work being shown in the Gormley Gallery, Dublin; The Lee Gallery, … Jacinta Crowley Long : Butler House Exhibition
Performance Location: Summerhall, Main Hall Date: 10th – 28th Time: 10:40pm Het nieuwstedelijk, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth A teenage girl runs away from home to the city. Nobody notices, but is there actually someone looking out for … Adriaan Van Aken : Last Call
Performance One Hundred Homes Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth Venue: The Old Generator, Summerhall Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 14.05, 16.05 (50 mins) Join Yinka in her new Edinburgh home, a small wooden cabin specially built in Summerhall’s Courtyard, … Yinka Kuitenbrouwer : One Hundred Homes
Visual Arts Award winning artist, Maeve Doherty will exhibit her paintings and ceramics at Butler House, Patrick St, Kilkenny during Arts Festival 2016. Her exhibition this year has a coastal theme influenced by the shores of her native South East. Exhibition from … Maeve Doherty : Exhibition of Paintings & Ceramics
Performance Theatre Théâtre de L’Ancre Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 17.25 (75 mins) Jean-Marc Mahy entered prison at the age of seventeen. He spent nearly 20 years detained, three of them in solitary confinement. On stage with performer Stephane … Jean-Marc Mahy (with Philip Crispin) : A Man Standing
Performance Theatre Inspector Sands, The Lounge Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Age Suitability: 12+ Time: 15.25 (80 mins) 97 years go by in a flash. An afternoon lasts an eternity. In a care home lounge somewhere off the A1, Marsha Hewitt begins the … Ben Lewis : The Lounge
Performance All the Things I Lied About Katie Bonna and Paul Jellis in association with Soho Theatre Venue: Roundabout Age Suitability: 12+ Time: 16.40 (60 mins) Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? Fringe First winner … Katie Bonna : All the things I lied about
Visual Arts Nicola is from Waterford and received the Garter Lane 6 Month Studio Award after graduating from Visual Art in WIT in 2015. Fragments of Dreams is an exhibition of watercolour illustrations with a fairy tale quality. During the process of … Nicola Chestnutt : Fragments of Dreams
Music Performance Venue: Summerhall Roundabout Category: Comedy Music Roundabout Theatre Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 19.35 (60 mins) A riotous new musical comedy epic about friendship, inequality and betrayal. Please let Summerhall know if you require wheelchair spaces within Roundabout. We require 24hrs … Jonny & the Baptists : Eat the Poor
Performance Venue: The Dissection Room Category: Cabaret Music Theatre Age Suitability: 18+ Time: 20.00 (90 mins) The fantasmagorical DIVE return!! Edinburgh’s finest purveyors of weirdo cabaret and decadent performance take up their Tuesday night festival residency. Dive : C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
Visual Arts Exhibiting artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel talk about the new work in their exhibition, and the themes that inspire their wider artistic practice. This launch reception celebrates Donovan & Siegel’s ambitious, organic and highly visible new artwork Rust Garden, … Hallie Siegel : The Rust Garden
Performance With their friendship and complicity spanning almost two decades, Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi meet again to dance together. Summerhall Venue: Demonstration Room Category: Dance & Physical Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 13.30 (55 mins) From 4th to 14th August, Summerhall Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi : Happy Hour
Music Performance Venue: Summerhall Basement Installation Music Performance Age Suitability: PG Times: 20.15 (60 mins) With live accompaniment from Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, FK Alexander sings along to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang Over … FK Alexander : Over the Rainbow
Performance Theatre Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Big in Belgium Feature Theatre Young Audiences Age Suitability: 9+ Time: 10.00 (60 mins) In September 2004, during a school hostage drama in Beslan, the greatest of evils (terrorists) chose the greatest good (a group of … Gytha Parmentier : Us/Them
Visual Arts 29 July – 22 October 2016 Location: Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR, Scotland, UK A UK premiere exhibition of new commissions and existing artwork by Toronto artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, that explores the enduring legacy … Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel : History Machines
Visual Arts Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art. We bring together the capital’s leading galleries, museums and artist-run spaces, alongside new public art commissions by established and emerging artists and an innovative programme … Sorcha Carey : Edinburgh Art Fest 2016
Visual Arts Ruth Duignan is a Leitrim based fashion designer. She graduated from the fashion department of the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. In 2008 she completed a 6 month internship in Tokyo at the Japanese menswear label, Aptform. … Ruth Duignan : Previewing ‘Future Makers 2016’
Performance Theatre A ludicrous and inventive interpretation of the Brontë myth, taking the real and imaginary worlds of the Yorkshire siblings as inspiration. With only a handful of props, two performers deconstruct not only gothic themes of love, madness and revenge, but … Publick Transport : We Are Bronte
Visual Arts The Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that shaped Alice Neel’s life, through a retrospective of drawings and selection of late paintings. Emphasising the psychological perception that would allow Neel (1900-1984) to produce some of the … Pat Fisher : Alice Neel, The Subject and Me
