Evening events, Visual art, Video art

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Neu! Reekie!

Avant-garde spoken word, film and music fusion night describing itself as 'playing host to the sinister and the sanguine'.

The Poetry Club, Glasgow

Fri 14 Jun

£8

Neu! Reekie! heads back to Glasgow, this time taking along indie trio Sparrow and the Workshop, filmmakers Kim Moore and Gareth Griffiths (with their protest film Hell Unltd) and poet, novelist and performer Kevin Williamson. Plus, a mystery guest! Ooh, who could it be?!

Summerhall, Edinburgh

Fri 31 May

£7 / 0845 874 3001

With readings from American poet Krystelle Bamford and short story writer McGuire; music from Stevie Jackson of Belle and Sebastian and pop folkies Admiral Fallow; and the usual selection of animated goodness.

The Atlantic Cable

A cross-disciplinary evening, featuring a network of scholars, artists and musicians who come together to exchange ideas and culture beyond national borders (and that wide, wide expanse known as the Atlantic Ocean).

The Glad Café, Glasgow

Thu 23 May

Free / 0141 636 6119

The first ever Atlantic Cable, featuring talks by Dr Michael Morris (Glasgow University), Dr Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen); music from Joe Black, Siobhan Wilson, and Jill O'Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop); and video work from artist Annie Crabtree (Picture Window).

  • 19:00 – 22:30

Bang on a Can All-Stars

Ghosts of the past and present collide through video and sound technology in this evening-long project from the internationally renowned Brooklyn-based Bang on a Can All-Stars, an electric chamber ensemble that brings together some of the world’s most adventurous musical thinkers. The Field Recordings project looks back…

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Fri 23 Aug

£12–£34 / 0131 473 2000

Edinburgh Printmakers Short Film Award

This award ceremony features a selection of films from final year students and graduates working across digital media in the Scottish arts colleges. Booking is essential.

Edinburgh Printmakers

Fri 28 Jun

£3 (Students free) / 0131 557 2479

  • 19:00 – 21:00

The FAIR Project

Masters of Contemporary Art students from Edinburgh College of Art are the helm of this year's FAIR, which sees the gallery handed over to six groups, each charged with interpreting the concept of 'fair'. The result is a programme of music, comedy, film, performance, exhibition and installation that plays out over three…

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Thu 23 May

Free / 0131 650 2210

  • 18:00 – 20:00
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The Glitch Kitschen

Deep house, jungle, garage, ambient and experimental electronic music club night, set to visuals created by artists. Presented by Chaos Theory.

The Waiting Room, London N16

Thu 23 May

£4–£5 / 020 7241 5511

With Alphabets Heaven, P-Hocto, Unsafe Girl, Rami Ali, Acra, Rukaiya Russell.

John Smith: Early Shorts

Rhubaba Gallery presents a selection of earlier short films from the brilliant John Smith: Associations, The Girl Chewing Gum and The Black Tower.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Mon 27 May

£5 / 0131 228 2688

  • 18:30

Julie Brook in Conversation

The landscape artist, who works in a multitude of media, sits down to discuss her practice and solo exhibition made, unmade with a number of different cultural workers, from administrators to a filmmaker to a choreographer to a poet.

Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

Thu 30 May

Free / 0131 550 3660

Tonight's discussion with Scottish poet, writer and musician Don Paterson centres on language, poetry and artistic practice.

  • 18:00 – 19:30

Soulnessless – Cantos I–IV

Terre Thaemlitz's four part audio and video work on his theme of Soulnessless investigates medical gender transitioning and patriarchal gender constructs, hauntings experienced by undocumented Filipina(o) workers in Japan, electronic audio devices used by nuns in convents and the secret anti-war functions of all-male…

Tramway, Glasgow

Sat 25 May

Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501

Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.

  • 19:30

Toxic/No Future/No Past/Charming for the Revolution

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present their droll, trans-temporal films which carefully re-present the 'other' and the socially outcast.

Tramway, Glasgow

Sun 26 May

Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501

Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.

  • 19:30