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We are very excited to welcome you to Summerhall’s 2024 Festival programme: a collection of beautiful work from some of the most creative and talented artists from around the world. The diversity of form and style across the performative and visual arts is better than ever and the variety of what is included here is astounding. You could spend the entire Fringe here and have no need to go elsewhere… in fact we invite you to do just that!
Winner: Outstanding Venue
The Herald Scottish Culture Awards, 2019
Cover image: The Pillars of Creation, Messier 16. Reinhold Wittich (Stocktrek Images)
"The ethos of Summerhall is to keep faith with the founding principle of the Edinburgh International Festival, to ‘heal wounds of war through the language of the arts’, artists, scientists & others linked by shared genius to bridge over every major social divide with new & old voices of insight & protest, love & care for all of the planet & for Europe in the world, multilingual, multicultural, multi-national; the human spirit operating in crises, playful, profound, political too but never propaganda.
The purposes of the arts are to encourage all to look, listen, think & act harder, to see value in what otherwise is foolishly ignored, discarded or wasted.
Summerhall is a uniquely flexible multi-arts multidisciplinary set of exhibition and performance spaces to accommodate all creativity & cross-currents in our sciences & arts. If we are nationalist it is for all countries & people everywhere or nowhere!
Robert McDowell, Director
