From August 2012, Summerhall will be open to the public all year round and will host events in all the City’s major festivals. Read more …
But it’s far more than Edinburgh’s newest and biggest arts venue. Visitors will find theatre and gallery spaces, libraries and small museums, educational and research programmes, studios, workshops and the seven storey Tech Cube.
It’s a new kind of community: a cross cultural village where arts and sciences talk to each other, where high tech rubs shoulders with all the arts including film and television and a craft brewer has revived a three hundred year old tradition of brewing on the site. Our Bar/Café is suitably named The Royal Dick, a nod to our building’s famous veterinary history.
Summerhall has a unique atmosphere. It has already become a favourite location for making films, four alone since we started work in January 2012
Most importantly Summerhall is a work in progress – as more space is developed more ideas emerge. Here the possibilities are endless, “everyone is an artist”.
Jenna Watt's new show Flaneurs explores the 'bystander effect' at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe
Marilyne MacLaren swaps the political fray for the Fringe
Stellar Quines' The List, starring Maureen Beattie, examines the female condition
Feature: Summerhall 2012/Teatr Piesn Kozla & Fringe highlights
Taking a concept to the limits--Amusements
Fringe Venue: Summerhall
Summerhall: Ready for the long haul
Preview: Puellae
Preview: The Stranger
Summerhall, Edinburgh from Wednesday August 1, 2012, until Monday August 27, 2012.