Summerhall

🍺 Barney's Beer Pop-Up Taproom is back this weekend! 🍺

🎄 We are so excited to announce this year's Christmas Market will take place across 7th and 8th December! 🎄

❄ Our annual Christmas Market will feature over 70 stalls to browse each day, offering a wide, curated selection of artisanal crafts and goods, making it the perfect place to find unique gifts for family, friends and yourself.

❄ More details to be announced soon. Watch this space!

❄ £3 entry on the door. Under 18s go free.

🎬 Edinburgh Short Film Festival concludes this weekend with three events here at Summerhall! 🎬

📽 Friday: Life on the Edge - Whether it be an emotional edge, the unknown space between life and death, being on the front lines during a pandemic or living in a war zone, these films all explore the extraordinary intensity of life and the after-life.

📽 Saturday: Scottish Shorts - Contemporary Scottish shorts and new filmmakers celebrated in a dedicated Scottish shorts programme.

📽 Sunday: Closing Night and Awards - In Memory - Loved ones are memorialised, a fish shop worker clutches at a forgotten childhood and two famous writers face-off in this eclectic programme of shorts. This programme explores how we experience memory through feelings of loss and breathes new life into who have left this world.

Find more information here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/series/edinburgh-short-film-festival-2024/

🍺 Barney's Beer Taproom 🍺

Starting today, Barney's Beer will be running a pop-up taproom in the Royal Dick.

Running Thursday - Saturday, Barney's are bringing an awesome line-up of beers pouring across the taps, as well as wines, soft and spirits including Summerhall Distillery gins and Broody Hen whisky.

Swipe to see this weekends Taplist --> 🍻🍻

🎨 Just a few days left to see Out of Sight Out of Mind! 🎨

Sprawling three floors of Summerhall, the artworks are made by over 300 people who have experience of mental health issues. It includes films, paintings, sculptures, photography, installations and more.

The galleries are free to enter and are open 11am to 6pm until this Sunday 27th October!

🎈 This Saturday, the Creepy Boys are back! 🎈

You’re invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these h***y little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true.

This is one birthday party you’d be cursed to miss.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/creepy-boys/

🎬 Edinburgh Short Film Festival Opening Night – Another Life 🎬
Friday 25th October

📽 6-11pm - Networking with Cinetopia - FREE 📽
Come along and meet Edinburgh-based filmmakers and find out more about this year’s ESFF!

📽 7:30pm - Another Life 📽
This collection of shorts explores the secret lives of those unseen or unnoticed. Survivors of the apocalypse welcome the dawn of a new day, a mysterious man arrives dead on an airplane, and a small hermit crab struggles to find a new home. Featuring a variety of animation, including the winner of the Jury award for Best animation at SXSW, and the Unifrance Short Film Award winner.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/edinburgh-short-film-festival-opening-night-another-life-n-c-18/

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🎬 Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 🎬
Saturday 19th October

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel/Hukkunud Alpinisti hotell (Grigori Kromanov, 1979)

📽 A myriad of things could point to Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel not being a good example of Estonian cinema. The alpine setting and the exterior of the hotel originate in Kazakhstan, the film’s cast features a number of Latvian and Lithuanian actors (including a signatory of Lithuania’s Act of the Re-Establishment of Independence), and science fiction is not a genre frequently explored in Estonian cinema – in fact, the film is based on a novel by Soviet-Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (the minds also behind Andrey Tarkovsky’s Stalker). Yet none of this stops the film from being repeatedly listed among the most valuable classics from the country.

📽 Opening with a panorama of stunning mountain views, the film follows police inspector Peter Glebsky as he arrives at the titular hotel in response to a call out – but while the guests he meets do seem to be strange humans, there appears to be nothing to investigate: yet. The accidental all-inclusive holiday is not destined to last – in the modernist maze of the hotel’s hallways, Glebsky encounters phenomena that challenge his understanding of the world. Cut off by an avalanche, he tries to solve what is going on.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/dead-mountaineers-hotel-hukkunud-alpinisti-hotell-grigori-kromanov-1979-n-c-15/

🎬 Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 🎬
Saturday 19th October

Short Film Competition

📽 Samizdat presents a unique and vibrant collection of 17 films entered into our Short Film Competition. Out of the 1100+ submissions we received this year, our curators have carefully selected some of the finest contemporary shorts from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, spanning from Estonia to Kyrgyzstan. For this screening, we have chosen seven of these films, each highlighting the variety and diversity of voices from the region.

📽 This block of shorts includes a dark romantic comedy from Ukraine, an exploration of Kazakhstan’s search for a new national identity, and a Moldovan film about intersex people and the stigma they are exposed to. These films offer a hard-hitting glimpse into the most pressing social, political and cultural issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia today.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/short-film-competition-n-c-18/

🎬 Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival comes to Summerhall this Saturday! 🎬

The first screening of the night is Animations of the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997)

📽 ‘Take a kilogram of ideas (if possible, not too confused), fifty kilograms of talent, and a few thousand drawings. Stir it well and then with a bit of luck you won’t get the right answer to your question.’ – members of The Zagreb School of Animated Film

📽 Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024 is proud to present the second instalment of bizarre, eerie, and unique animated films from the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997).

📽 A surgery is performed on a bust of Joseph Stalin, a yeti living in the mountains of Kazakhstan gets to listen to The B-52s, a school of vengeful fish attacks a seaside village, and a man pawns his face to buy a lottery ticket – this is a collection of some of the most dreamlike and thought-provoking shorts from a time and place where the animated image served as a stage for radically unprecedented artistic and political expression.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/animations-of-the-late-eastern-bloc-1980-1997-n-c-18/

A reminder the Royal Dick is open 7 days from 12 noon. Come in for a pint and a bite to eat!

See our website for food menu and kitchen opening times.

🎨 Out of Sight Out of Mind has launched! 🎨

Sprawling three floors of Summerhall, the artworks are made by over 300 people who have experience of mental health issues. It includes films, paintings, sculptures, photography, installations and more.

The galleries are free to enter and are open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am - 6pm. Out of Sight Out of Mind runs until 27th October.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for HER by Jennifer Adam “excels with its superb cast and straight-arrow writing” Corr Blimey https://corrblimey.uk/2024/10/09/review-her-summerhall-edinburgh/

🎟️ Don’t miss your last chance to see the show tonight Summerhall - advanced booking strongly advised: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/her-by-jennifer-adam/2024-10-10/

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Statement from Summerhall Management Ltd:

"Summerhall Management has had a winding up petition presented against it by HMRC. The petition is in relation to unpaid Corporation Tax. We believe there is no corporation tax due to HMRC and have been working with professional advisors to address and resolve matters with HMRC. Summerhall Management are defending the proceedings raised and we hope a resolution can be achieved which will allow us to deal with this and move on quickly.

At this time, we must follow a very strict set of guidelines imposed upon us of what we can and cannot do, please bear with us whilst we work to fully understand the situation. The team are already in communication with those we work with who may be affected by this action, but we intend to trade as best we can, and in line with what is permissible, whilst we defend this action.

The landlord, on whose behalf we manage the building, have also been made aware and will be in direct communication with their tenants as required."

- Robert McDowell, Director Summerhall Management Limited.

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⚔ Baby Bushka ⚔
Tuesday 8th October

"With enchanting multi-part harmonies, a full rock band, choreographed dancing, and theatrical props and costumes, there's a strong current of drama, emotion, humor, weirdness and an undeniable magic — not unlike Kate Bush herself" - KPBS

🏹 The magic and music of Kate Bush is brought to you by this 8-women powerhouse ensemble from San Diego, California who perform a ‘wonderfully bewitching’ operatic pop night of exhilarating music bursting with wit, creativity and humour.

🏹 With great respect and wide eyes, this powerhouse troupe delivers “other-worldly versions” of your favourite Bush songs “from the ethereal to the bombastic and back again”.

🏹 Filled with four-part harmonies and epic choreographed dancing, Baby Bushka captures the wonder of Baroque Pop and beauty of ’80s glam into a night of virtuoso musical creativity you have to experience to believe.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/baby-bushka/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=baby_bushka

🌈 HER by Jennifer Adam 🌈
Strange Town
8-10th October

🌟 HIM and HER. They go way back. Pals since babies and totally inseparable. Until they weren’t. Loosely reconnecting at high school, they’re now 17 and barely recognise each other. What can guys and girls really have in common anyway? How could they possibly understand each other now? After everything that’s happened? He’s seen some things. And she’s about to. Now, they’ll need each other more than ever.

🌟 HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks, how can you be the change you want to see in the world, when you feel like the world is fighting against you?

🌟 Following a successful run in 2023 Strange Town Touring Company are excited to revive this play which feels more relevant and vital than ever. The show is part of a series called the Future is Unwritten, issue-based plays that raise awareness, provoke discussion and stimulate debate.

Tickets here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/series/her-by-jennifer-adam/