Hidden Door
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Hidden Door is a Nonprofit, volunteer-run art / music / theatre / dance / spoken word / film festival transforming abandoned spaces. Our mission is to Develop a platform for delivering the arts to the general public through events that create an exciting, innovative and high-impact audience experience, and bring about a deeper engagement with the arts as a result.
Hidden Door
3y ago
Our next Hidden Door Live show goes live on Thursday 24 June 2021, 8pm What does the site of a rave look like to future archaeologists? What would they understand from the snippets of decipherable footage and discarded artefacts? Taking the notion that archaeology eavesdrops on the past, would the iconic smiley face of acid ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
Hidden Door is taking on a striking outdoor location for this year’s festival, taking place 15 -19 September 2021, and is inviting artists to contribute to help shape the visual identity of the site. This year’s event will take place in a large, enclosed industrial yard on the site of the old Granton Gasworks in North ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
We’re excited to reveal that Hidden Door Festival 2021 is heading to Granton Gasworks, with the festival taking place in the shadow of the historic gas holder. The site at West Shore Road will be transformed into an outdoor celebration of music, visual art, theatre, dance and spoken word from 15 – 19 September 2021 ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
SALTYDOLLS presents !T’S TH!S (UTOP!A) A pop anthem for imagined futures. A SALTYDOLLS manifesto. A love song to the feminist manifestos that came before us. A boot up the arse of the patriarchy and a rallying call. Theatre company SALTYDOLLS will provide a taster of what they’ll be doing at Hidden Door Festival in September ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
Hidden Door is launching a new initiative to support recent visual art graduates who have been denied the crucial opportunity of a physical degree show due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Graduate Support Network aims to support emerging artists across Scotland who graduated in 2020 or 2021. The network will provide paid opportunities to exhibit ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
Hidden Door will return this summer for an outdoor festival of music, visual art, theatre, dance and spoken word, organisers have announced. An early release of tickets go on sale today, with the event set to take place 15 – 19 September 2021 in a mystery location somewhere in Edinburgh. Over the five days, Hidden ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.” – Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End For as long as humans have dreamed, we have looked at the world around us and wondered how to make it better – how to make it perfect. These attempts ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
Emerging Scottish artist Chell Young curates Imagined Realities; a unique live stream experience that will take you on a journey through a labyrinth of real and imagined spaces by artists Heather Lander, Noel Griffin and Chell Young herself. Fictional and physical realms become entangled as you move from space to space and a live set ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
For our next 2-week Hidden Door Live project, we bring you The Soapworks Residencies! The Soapworks is a 100-year-old factory in Leith. Originally a soap and wool factory, and used for storage in the 60s and 70s. It is now looked after by our friends at The Biscuit Factory who are generously allowing us to ..read more
Hidden Door
3y ago
Join us Thursday 18 March, 8pm as musician and composer Esther Swift presents The Call – a stunning outdoor performance that will see a group of musicians gather (socially distanced) to perform a piece that Esther has composed, and which she’ll conduct using handmade flags. This is going to be one epic performance from a ..read more