POLICE are seeking the assistance of the public to trace a 15-year-old male missing from the Drylaw area.
Ahmed Bader was last seen around 1400hrs, Monday 30th March 2026, near to the Meadowbank area. Ahmed’s family are extremely concerned for his wellbeing.
Ahmed is described as a Black male, around 6 feet tall, medium build, with short black afro hair. He was wearing a light blue navy tracksuit, a black gilet, and black trainers.
Extensive enquiries are ongoing to trace Ahmed. Enquiries thus far have revealed that Ahmed has connections within the Gorgie area.
T/PS Laura Elliott said: It is out of character for Ahmed not to be in touch with his family and friends. We just want to know that he is safe and well.
If anyone has seen Ahmed or has any information or knowledge as to his whereabouts, please contact Police as a matter of urgency.
Anyone with information is asked to call officers at Drylaw Police Station on the Police non-emergency number, 101, quoting incident number 1433 of the 31/03/2026.
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Fort Kinnaird is inviting families to get involved with its schedule of fun activities throughout the Easter break (3rd – 20th April), including free Easter and spring themed sustainability workshops at the Leith Collective, and a range of great discounts and offers across the centre.
Liam Smith, centre director at Fort Kinnaird, said: “We love seeing families and friends spend quality time together at the centre over the Easter period and, this year, we’re pleased to be back with a whole host of seasonal activities and offers, with everything from Easter workshops to bath bombs on the agenda!”
Egg-citing Easter fun at Fort Kinnaird includes:
Leith Collective workshops: From 3rd – 6th April, Leith Collective is inviting families to its free Easter workshops where children can use recycled materials to make bird feeders and wildflower planters or paint Easter eggs. On Easter Saturday and Sunday, there will also be an egg hunt in store. For more information, head to Leith Collective’s Instagram.
Easter bath bomb parties at Lush: Lush is hosting a calendar of Easter parties between 3rd and 17th April, with visitors who sign up via Eventbrite able to make their own exclusive bath bomb, get involved in Easter-themed games, and take home a goodie bag including an exclusive product and samples, for £15 per person.
Kids eat free at Frankie & Benny’s: Between 30th March and 17th April, Frankie & Benny’s is offering a children’s main, two sides, a drink, and a dessert for free with every adult main purchased. Full information can be found on the website here.
Fort Kinnaird’s opening times will remain the same as usual over the Easter weekend, however opening hours at individual retailers may vary and visitors are encouraged to check with specific venues ahead of their trip.
Good Friday (Friday 3rd April): 9am – 9pm
Easter Saturday (Saturday 4th April): 9am – 6pm
Easter Sunday (Sunday 5th April): 9am – 6pm
Easter Monday (Monday 6th April): 9am – 9pm
For more information and to plan an Easter visit to Fort Kinnaird, go to:
17 projects spanning Stornoway, Forres, Fort William, Dundee, Lochgilphead, Greenock, Glasgow and Edinburgh have received £265,000 in the second round of Immersive Arts funding to support artists from all backgrounds to utilise immersive technologies.
With three distinct grant amounts available – £5,000, £20,000 and £50,000 – the funding supports artists at different stages of their creative development: to explore, experiment or expand how they make work that uses technology to actively involve an audience.
The Game by Biome Collective (Malath Abbas and Andy Truscott) received a £50,000 Expand grant to create an immersive sound-walk artwork through Dundee. Using a mobile app and headphones, audiences will walk through the city to explore football as a lived culture; their route, pace and pauses triggering different audio elements and composition.
Inspired by Andy Truscott’s father, a lifelong Dundee United supporter living with dementia, it preserves everyday journeys as a public artwork. The current prototype will be expanded through co-design with Alzheimer Scotland and local partners including Dundee United Community Trust, UNESCO City of Design Dundee and V&A Dundee, with the aim of a public release and city-wide launch event rooted in Dundee’s football heritage.
Malath Abbas said: “We’re proud to have secured Expand funding from Immersive Arts for The Game. For Biome Collective, this support recognises our ongoing work to push the boundaries of immersive arts and create experiences that extend beyond traditional screens into shared public space.
“It enables us to develop ambitious ideas with our partners and deliver innovative, accessible work for real audiences.”
Andy Truscott added: “Being a part of the Immersive Arts programme is a huge step forward for our project. Fundamentally, The Game is about the rituals that define us. By weaving together personal memories of Dundee’s football culture with the physical act of walking through the city, we’re creating a living archive.
“This support allows us to honour stories, like those of my father, and transform everyday matchday routines into a shared, immersive experience for the whole community.”
Benefitting from a £20,000 Experiment grant, Wild Wings of Hope in Edinburgh are developing an Augmented Reality (AR) experience for hospice patients and families bringing art, nature and technology together to create moments of beauty and connection in times of loss.
A £5,000 Explore grant for Lana Enix in Greenock will support development of responsive environments using large-scale projections of 3D simulations that metamorphosise in real-time in response to audience presence and behaviour.
Funding for Immersive Arts is provided through a collaboration between the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England (ACE), the Arts Council of Wales (ACW), Creative Scotland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Funding from Creative Scotland, ACW and ACNI is provided by The National Lottery.
Morgan Petrie, Creative Industries Manager at Creative Scotland, said: “Our congratulations to this round of funded artists whose innovation and creativity are truly inspiring.
“The power of Immersive Art’s focus on technical and artistic innovation, balanced by a deep commitment to inclusion at all stages, means that we are developing a strong grassroots network of tomorrow’s global leaders in the emerging fields of creative technology.
“Today’s recipients will be key participants in the interdisciplinary networks of production and distribution needed for this ecology to thrive.
“Our support for this programme reflects our commitment to driving innovation across the creative economy. By investing together with partners from all four UK nations, we are helping to build a stronger network of people and organisations working in creative innovation.
“The new ideas and approaches supported through these awards will open up fresh ways for audiences to connect with culture, helping to shape how the arts continue to enrich people’s lives throughout the 21st century.”
Verity McIntosh, Director of Immersive Arts and Professor of Immersive Arts and Culture at University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), said: “We are delighted to be able to support so many extraordinary UK artists and projects through this latest funding announcement.
“Our thanks to the incredible partners and funders who continue to make it possible for artists to develop their practice and make bold new works with powerful cultural impact, connecting UK creativity with audiences around the world.”
The Scotland-based projects will be supported by cultural organisation Cryptic, and can be found below:
Organisation/Individual
Activity
Amount
Location
Dæmon Clelland
Charged Encounter
£50,000
Glasgow
Biome Collective
The Game
£50,000
Dundee
Adrian Hon
Strandfall
£20,000
Edinburgh
Wild Wings of Hope
Wild Wings of Hope in VR
£20,000
Edinburgh
Company Hame
The Shape of Grief -VR
£20,000
Forres
NOCTURN
Good Enough: Multisensory Queer Storytelling in Scotland
For local sports clubs every penny and pound counts. More than 8,000 clubs across the UK are getting a much-needed financial boost after registering as a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). In doing so, they are able to claim a variety of tax reliefs including business rates and gift aid.
Tax reliefs for grassroots clubs means they can become financially sustainable, keep membership fees affordable and re-invest in their facilities so they can focus on delivering the best sports and social opportunities for local people.
With thousands of clubs already registered and receiving financial support through tax reliefs, Sandeep Ghelani, Senior Policy Advisor from HMRC outlines the benefits of the scheme and encourages other clubs to register today.
Is your Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) eligible to register for tax relief?
To be eligible for tax relief as a CASC, clubs must be based in the UK, provide facilities for eligible sports and encourage people to take part. The club must also be set up with a governing document, open to the whole community with limited fees, organised on an amateur basis and to be managed by ‘fit and proper’ people. More about eligibility can be found on GOV.UK.
What reliefs are available to clubs once registered?
After registering with HMRC, clubs will be eligible for a number of financial reliefs on income, gains and profit including:
Business Rate relief
Gift Aid relief
Corporation Tax exemptions
Tax relief on fundraising events
Capital Gains exemption
Inheritance Tax benefits
You can find out more about the tax reliefs claimed through the CASC scheme on GOV.UK.
Two of the most popular reliefs claimed are for business rates and gift aid. In 2025 alone, CASCs benefitted from £40 million in business rates relief and £3 million in Gift Aid relief.
Two clubs who have benefitted from their registration as a CASC include Salisbury Rugby Football Club and Frocester Cricket Club.
Alastair Downey, Chairman of Frocester Cricket Club, a long-established and thriving CASC explains how the tax reliefs have helped the club: “Mandatory 80% business rates relief and access to gift aid has provided vital financial support over the years.
“Without this we would have been unable to build our new cricket pavilion, of which more than £25,000 in funding was from gift aid contributions.”
Salisbury Rugby Football Club is a successful CASC with 1,000 members. President Nicola Rawson explains the benefits of CASC: “The 80% reduction in business rates and access to gift aid has helped the club enormously.
“We now have newly built changing rooms at the club with was paid for with our own fundraising efforts and almost £25,000 from gift aid contributions. The financial benefits from CASC continue to provide valuable support.”
If you think your CASC could benefit from registering with HMRC, go to GOV.UK to find out more.
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has welcomed strong employer awareness of new paternity and parental leave rules coming into effect this month, while encouraging remaining businesses to get up to speed.
A new YouGov survey, commissioned by Acas, showed that 87% of employers were aware of the changes coming into effect next month, while 12% were unaware.
Major changes to employment law introduced by the Employment Rights Act 2025 will come into effect on 6 April 2026.
Niall Mackenzie, Acas Chief Executive, said:“The Employment Rights Act 2025 represents a major shake-up in employment law, and employers and workers need to be prepared.
“It is encouraging that so many employers are aware of the new rules, but is clearly still an uncertainty for some. It is vital that all employers are aware of their obligations and are ready to act on them.
“Acas is best placed as the independent expert to provide advice and training to employers and workers navigating this period of change.”
Employment Rights Minister Kate Dearden said:“No new parent should miss out on time with their child because they haven’t been in their job long enough. Our reforms to parental leave are putting that right.
“I’m glad to see so many employers are prepared for the changes, to make sure workers get the benefits and security they deserve.”
Changes to employment law coming into effect on 6 April include:
employees will be eligible for paternity leave from the first day of employment- Currently they must have worked for their employer for 26 weeks
ordinary unpaid parental leave, will also become a day one right – currently, employees must have worked for their employer for 1 year to be eligible
the restriction on taking paternity leave after shared parental leave will be removed
eligible fathers and partners will be able to take up to 52 weeks of unpaid bereaved partner’s paternity leave if the mother or primary adopter dies – they must take this leave within 52 weeks of the child’s birth (including surrogacy), adoption placement, or entry to Great Britain for overseas adoptions
Triple Fringe First winning extraordinaires Xhloe & Natasha, legendary comedian and theatremaker Adam Riches, and return of Comedy Award nominees The Creepy Boys, headline 36-strong second Summerhall Arts festival programme announcement – on sale now
Summerhall Arts announces 36 more shows in its 2026 festival programme, including 55% international artists, 24% artists of colour, 60% female, and 30% LGBTQI+ artists
Summerhall Arts is delighted to announce that back-to-back-to-back Scotsman Fringe First winners Xhloe & Natasha will be at Summerhall this festival, presenting their brand new show, Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It
Adam Riches – Fringe legend, Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner, and creator of 2024 hit, Jimmy – returns to Summerhall with new solo show, The Captain
Summerhall Arts’ Mary Dick Award 2026, in collaboration with Birds of Paradise, goes to Patch of Blue and 3hc,who will premiere moving exploration of care, You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next)
The Autopsy Award, for artists working in Scotland, goes to Althea Young, who presents a humorous and horror-filled account of parental ambivalence in The Dreaming
The Meadows Award, for artists of colour from anywhere in the world, is presented to Palestinian multidisciplinary performance artist Fadi Murad, presenting Come Back Home
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees The Creepy Boys return with acclaimed show, SLUGS, and new WIP show, Nude Parade
Other highlights include brand new shows or UK premieres from Salty Brine, Adam Lenson, 81 Productions, Magnetic North, Ballaro Dance, Lightning Rod Special, Sadiq Ali Company, OPE-N, and Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg
Home of boundary-pushing performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, arts charity and year-round cultural hub Summerhall Arts today announces 36 more shows of the 2026 instalment of its renowned festival programme.
Summerhall continues to host diverse and intersectional work, with 60% of the shows female led, 24% led by artists of colour, and 30% featuring an LGBTQI+ narrative. Over 55% of artists and companies are international, bringing work from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, England, Canada, USA, Colombia, Italy, Greece, Germany, France, Netherlands Luxembourg, Malta, Denmark, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to Summerhall’s iconic performance spaces.
This roster of shows reflects an eclectic body of work spanning theatre, performance art, drag, cabaret, puppetry, dance, circus, pole, and comedy, encompassing themes that touch on identity of all forms, digital toxification and misinformation, ongoing conflicts and injustices across the world, mother-son relationships, conspiracies, why men are so odd, existing on the internet, the weight of personal heritage, public vs private apologies, and much more. Music is celebrated throughout the programme, from contemporary opera to Neutral Milk Hotel-inspired cabaret, Korean geomungo, gig theatre, and even one man singing the same song for an hour.
Summerhall Arts is delighted to announce that triple Fringe First winners Xhloe and Natasha will premiere a brand-new show at Summerhall this festival. Co-presented with Soho Theatre and SoHo Playhouse, the duo – described by The Scotsman’s Joyce McMillan as “the most compelling performers on the Fringe” – will perform Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It. Combining precise choreography, absurdist clowning, and a nine-foot puppet, the show is a piercing exploration of conspiracy and misdirection.
Another legend of the Edinburgh Fringe, Summerhall is thrilled to welcome back Comedy Award winner Adam Riches with a brand new solo theatre show. After embodying fiery tennis player Jimmy Connors in his acclaimed, sell-out, smash-hit, Jimmy (Summerhall, 2024), Riches returns with The Captain – the true story of Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to ever swim the English Channel.
Summerhall Arts is excited to announce the winners of its three festival awards to help support artists to bring boundary-pushing work to the most critically acclaimed venue at the festival. The Mary Dick Award for UK-based d/Deaf or disabled artists, in collaboration with Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, goes to Patch of Blue (Cassie and the Lights) and 3hc, who will premiere You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) – a potent, joyful and moving exploration of care written by disabled actor and writer Keron Day, and former care worker Alex Howarth, supported by Theatre Royal Plymouth.
The Autopsy Award for artists working in Scotland is awarded to Glasgow-based contemporary performance artist Althea Young who will premiere The Dreaming, a stirring blend of autobiography and fantasy that blends performance art, theatre, and choreography, to explore topics including mutant babies, alien insemination and the urge to reproduce.
The Meadows Award, for artists of colour from anywhere in the world, goes to Palestinian multidisciplinary performance artist Fadi Murad and his show, Come Back Home – a contemporary theatre work exploring ongoing grief, dispossession, and how the past continues to inhabit the present, which deals with self criticism, fear, and the unknown through the lens of absurdity.
Summerhall Arts is also delighted to announce the return of several hit shows from past festivals. Edinburgh Comedy Award 2025 nominated Canadian slimeballsCreepy Boys (S.E. Grummett and Sam Kruger) return with their five-star anarchic fever dream about nothing, SLUGS (★★★★ – Financial Times, ★★★★ – Guardian, ★★★★ – Scotsman),and present a new work-in-progress, Nude Parade, which is like a live theatre version of the game of Operation – and it’s trans.Actor, writer, clown, comedian, and all-round nincompoop Scott Turnbull returns with his acclaimed 2025 ‘edutainment show’, Surreally Good; New Zealander’s premiere interactive theatre company Binge Culture return with their 2024 immersive hit, Werewolf, perfect for fans of The Traitors; and Summerhall-based Pickering’s Gin return with a revised version of its renowned immersive Speakeasy Experience.
More returning Summerhall favourites include multi-award-winning theatre-maker and director Adam Lenson, who achieved acclaim for his debut solo show Anything That We Wanted to Be in 2023. Adam premieres Is it too late now to say sorry? – a new collision of gig, storytelling, and autobiographical investigation which psychologises the apology, both personal and public. And Buzzcut Productions (Bark Bark, 2024) return with their signature blend of live camera work, puppetry, and a live score to premiere The Wreck, a new show about two siblings diving a shipwreck and discovering the fate of their family’s seaside nightclub.
Exciting Scotland-based artists will also take to Summerhall’s stages this August, including two shows from this year’s Made in Scotland Showcase: playwright and drag artist Nelly Kelly, in collaboration with Sanctuary Queer Arts, premieres TRANSMISSION – a darkly-comedic blend of DIY cabaret and political theatre exploring Scotland’s shift from world-leading on LGBTQI+ rights to fertile ground for the anti-trans movement; and circus and aerial specialists Sadiq Ali Company (The Chosen Haram) premiere Tell Me – a bold fusion of dance and circus offering a fresh perspective on life with HIV.
Award-winning Edinburgh-based company Magnetic North present We Will Hear The Angels – an atmospheric and poignant exploration of the strange state of melancholy, evoked from the power of sad music. Performed by five-actor musicians – Apphia Campbell, Mia Scott, Greg Sinclair, Daniel Padden and Nicholas Bone – it combines words, movement and music in a soundscape that includes Hank Williams, Orange Juice, Etta James, Bach, and more. Glasgow-based Euan Munro presents Playback, a tragicomic true story about a child YouTuber featuring his own childhood vlogs.
In the movement and dance strain of the programme, Summerhall is honoured to be welcoming the world-famous Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg, led by their flamboyant new Director, Mr Chevalier. The Great Chevalier will see the unpredictable director, hailed as the ‘Bad Boy of Folklore’, perform some emblematic classics, including the iconic Pigeon Dance.
Summerhall Arts Fringe Producer and Programmer, Tom Forster, commented: “With the Fringe landscape ever changing, Summerhall Arts believes we should challenge ourselves as a venue to innovate year-on-year to the same frequency that we demand of artists.
“To match demand for intimacy with the audience, the Main Hall’s end-on format after 14 years will be reimagined in horseshoe format for Festival 2026. A specific request made by Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg Artistic Director, Monsieur Chevalier; it is the only layout that can host the renowned Pigeon Dance, and, since the International Festival couldn’t accommodate his request, we at Summerhall Arts proudly stepped in.
“Boasting an infinity ceiling clearance of 6 meters, leading to a stunning ceiling mural by John Kindness, this new vision for our largest venue will make the Main Hall the most beautiful venue in the city – giving artists and Mr Chevalier a backdrop they deserve.”
Tamsin Shasha returns to Summerhall for the first time since her Fringe First-winning Everything I See I Swallow (2019), bringing Forgive Me – a highly personal show about a hyperactive mother and a gaming-obsessed son, which fuses pole performance, video projection and song. Sweat meets spectacle in New York City-based company, Ballaro Dance’s UK premiere of TWELVE: Going The Distance– a 47-minute contemporary dance work divided into 12 three-minute “rounds”, which is set in a boxing gym and unfolds with the intensity of a title bout. The Taiwan Season returns to Summerhall with the UK premiere of Seed Dance Company’s The Wall, a dynamic, emotionally provocative quintet packed with restless and urgent precision.
An immersive highlight is Daydreams from 81 Productions – producers of the acclaimed durational theatre installation, Mother Has Arrived (★★★★★ – The Stage’s 50 Top Shows of 2025). An innovative, cinematic work about insomnia, Daydreams involved 3D projection, performance and an ominous soundscape to lock audiences into a sleepless loop where headlines and half-dreams collide.
Summerhall Arts has a growing comedy presence at the Fringe, and this continues in 2026 with Laurie Stevens, known for her 2025 hit character show, David’s One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven), who this year presents her theatrical debut: An Evening with Gerald Lloyd-Davies. Laurie performs as Lloyd-Davies – an ageing straight Welsh actor, aspiring national treasure and quintessential luvvie. Another star character comedy turn sees actor, artist, and drag king Tessa Parr premiere I AM JOHNNY, performing as very, very male performance poet, Johnny the Biblical Rapper. Co-produced by Camden People’s Theatre, I AM JOHNNY is an unsettling, absurd and hilarious interrogation into the fragile bones of the patriarchy.
Gaulier-trained clown and home-trained OnlyFans content creator Jessica Aszkenasy presents TITCLOWN: daddy’s little girl – a clown show about boobs, the father wound women hold in society, and why it’s so hard to live laugh love with heterosexual men – and features a lifesize Henry VIII doll. Finally, award-winning comedian Conk and Quiet Riot bring a conceptually simple show: Man Sings The Same Song Over And Over Again For An Hour. Which song? You’ll need to come and find out.
Continuing the musical theme, Summerhall is delighted to welcome acclaimed New York-based drag queen, Salty Brine (Stage Fringe Five, 2024). This festival, in his genre-defying cabaret style, he sets his sights on combining Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Anne Frank’s The Diaries of a Young Girl, in HOW STRANGE IT IS (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show).
In the #DANISH showcase, groundbreaking combiners of opera and physical theatre OPE-N present Laughing Out Lonely – a thrilling new solo opera about the faceless existence of life on the internet by composing team Matilde Böcher and Asger Kudahl, with a tour de tour performance from acclaimed countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen. Finally, in PLASTIC, geomungo artist Kim Minyoung merges the traditional Korean instrument with media art, expanding its possibilities into new territories.
Summerhall Arts is also delighted to welcome two uncategorizable shows from the city of Philadelphia to Edinburgh. Koan Brothers – aka Mason Rosenthal, Sohrab Haghverdi, and Benjamin Rosenthal – will present Foriegner, a dizzying solo, anti-identity, anti-comedy, avant-clown show that follows one asylum seeker’s attempt to win an O1-B visa, awarded to individuals of artistic brilliance.
And from Lightning Rod Special, the creators of Fringe First winning Underground Railroad Game (2018) comes Lions, an unsentimental two-hander part-clown show, part-eulogy about fathers, life on hold with corporations after death, and the myths of what it means to be great men.
Also from the US, LA-based multidisciplinary artist, performer and film critic, Gregory Nussen brings a metatheatrical piece about the politics of storytelling and truth, loosely inspired by Italo Calvino’s lf On a Winter’s Night A Traveler. A solo show without a fourth wall, QFWFQ (pronounced “kfwoofk”) touches on everything from architecture, jazz, gender identity and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Staying on politics and identity – in the #DANISH showcase, Danish-Israeli artist Boaz Barkan brings Our Other Organ, a dissection of antisemitism and its impact on Jewish identity, which culminates in the creation of a “new Zionist body” and its structures of violence and domination. Atop a mortuary table, Barkan digs into a living body to uncover a new organ – the place where racism resides.
Summerhall Arts also welcomes two shows from Ireland. Joy Nesbitt’s Julius Caesar Variety Show scrutinises both the theatre sector and the exploitation of identity in a play that sees a Black actor, a Woman actor, and a Straight White Male actor compete to impress a respected director set on reinventing a Shakespeare play in “unorthodox” ways. And Martha Knight’s new play, The King of All Birds, utilises both voice and vocoder to explore our shared history with the sky: the years it remained untouched, the first ventures into it, and our endless climbing up.
Continuing the animal theme, Hotter Project (makers of 2023 hit, The Last Show Before We Die (★★★★★ – The Guardian), in association with Speakerphone Productions and Soho Theatre, will premiere HAM – a kinky eco-hijacking of Hamlet about meat, madness, and the power of shame that twists the classic high-brow tragedy into a sordid wrestle between a vegan and a sausage-lover.
Finally, from Lyn Gardner-recommended double act ‘Britney’ – aka Ellen Robertson (Vladimir, Mickey 17, The Pale Horse) and Charly Clive (Pure Rooster, Pure, The Lazarus Project) – comes Jitters, a brand new two-hander about ownership, tradition, and the all-important ‘L’ word of any relationship: leverage. And contemporary storyteller and theatremaker Nathan Jonathan takes us back to Y-2-K with They’re Just Small Town (Northern) Lads – a funny and heartfelt solo show about growing up mixed-race in a Northern-industrial-town. Expect gelled quiffs and flip-up phones in an exploration of identity, class and belonging at the turn of the millennium.
These 36 new shows are now on sale. They join seven shows that went on sale in February: As Far As We Know (YESYESNONO), GOOD ENOUGH? (HIMHERANDIT), LANDSFRAU هموطن (Mariann Yar), PUTTANA (Beatrice Festi and TeatroEETS), SAND (Kook Ensemble), Tether (Wonder Fools and Theatre SAN), and Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life (Keith Alessi).
The next and final Summerhall Arts festival programme announcement will be on Wednesday 6th May, before the commencement of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 from 6th –31st August.
PICTURE (TOP): Clockwise from top left: Salty Brine (Credit: Alex Brenner), Forgive Me, Adam Riches: The Captain (Credit: Matt Stronge, Design: Will Andrews), Come Back Home, The Dreaming (Credit: Tiu Makkonen), Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It (Credit: Morgan Mcdowell), You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) (Credit: Patch Studio), & TRANSMISSION (Credit: Tiu Makkonen).
Public transport is an essential part of everyday life, but for people who are deaf or have hearing loss – journeys by services like trains, buses or ferries can be a huge challenge.
Inaccessible audio announcements, a lack of deaf awareness amongst staff and no signed information for deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users are all barriers that can lead to stress, missed journeys and seriously affect people’s confidence when using public transport.
That’s why RNID is asking people who are deaf and have hearing loss to take part in a major survey. Whether you use public transport regularly, or avoid it altogether, your answers will be invaluable and help us work with transport providers, policymakers and technology companies to push for real, lasting improvements.
The survey, which closes on the 13th April, is part of a major project funded by the Motability Foundation and can be accessed here: www.rnid.org.uk/transport-survey
Kind regards,
Victoria Boelman,Director of Insight and Policy, RNID
– the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.
