Understand the craft behind the bars in this panel with some of Scotland's foremost rap and hip hop artists. Join Bemz, Queen of Harps and Dave Hook as they lift the lid on their lyrics, telling the backstory to their songs and explaining how they seamlessly meld wordplay with rhyme, timing with cadence.
This panel will be chaired by Arusa Qureshi, author of Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop. In association with The Skinny.
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READ MOREDubliner Niamh Bury has been hailed as one of Irish folk’s most exciting new talents and you can catch here at the Old Lab - Summerhall on Thursday 14th November!
READ MOREDon't miss Ibibio Sound Machine when they play Summerhall Edinburgh on Monday 18th November!
READ MOREThe Jim White Trio, with special guest Trey Blake, play Summerhall on Sunday 16th February.
READ MOREEdinburgh Dub Club returns to Summerhall for a historic meeting between our own much loved Mighty Oak Sound and Newcastle mainstay Common Unity Sound.
READ MOREThe Hot 8 Brass Band are renowned for including elements of funk, hip hop, rap, and its local variation, “bounce” in their music and you can catch them at Summerhall on Monday 17th March!
READ MOREGizmo Varillas, a UK based Spanish singer songwriter, plays Summerhall Edinburgh on Sunday 18th May!
READ MOREA lecture about spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening is taking place at The Open Door Community Centre, Edinburgh on various dates throughout the year.
READ MOREThe voices of Edinburgh’s communities shape an ever-evolving sound installation inside St Giles’ Cathedral's magnificent interior.
READ MORECome along to the Costume Society Scotland's season of varied talks on fashion, costume, textiles, accessories and related subjects between between October and April at Augustine United Church!
READ MOREFollowing the recent release of his autobiography ‘A Very Simple Mind’, Derek Forbes is now on tour promoting it! Catch him at The Voodoo Rooms on 12th November!
READ MOREThis discussion at Edinburgh Futures Institute considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
READ MOREThe PGA are delighted to welcome Sir Nick Faldo to Edinburgh this November for an exclusive lunch where guests will have the opportunity to hear all about his remarkable, lifelong career in golf.
READ MOREJoin the rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek for a celebration of his life and thought. Expect dialectics, psychoanalysis, and jokes!
READ MOREJoin us to celebrate the launch of Carina Contini’s new book, The Contini Cookbook at this special supper event on 13th November!
READ MOREJoin us at the Institut français d'Ecosse on 14th November for this talk on Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield in Menton.
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