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Friday 11pm - 3am Saturday 11pm - 3am Sunday 11pm - 3am

Pollyanna

Pollyanna showcases performance art, drag, live music and the best and messiest of Fringe talent. Late night cabaret in the Fringe. Hold your cocktails tight.

It's 'down-and-dirty' (Scotland on Sunday) late-night cabaret, Pollyanna. Amongst DJ's, drinking and flirting, join host Pollyfilla, 'slightly terrifying, slightly post-apocalyptic' (FreshAir.org.uk), for a showcase of performance art, drag, comedy and best/messiest Fringe talent. Featured in To Do List’s Top 40 Unmissable Fringe Shows 2015. 'Pollyanna at Paradise Palms provided stages for all man

ner of freaky queer experimenta, drag and otherwise. The sight of Pollyanna host Pollyfilla marauding on all fours around the bar, heels akimbo, was a reminder of the idea that drag can go wild' (NotTelevision.net). Please catch if we fall offstage…

11/11/2023

Festival latest! OMOS at and Aesthetica Film Festival this weekend and Rencontres Internationales in Paris last weekend

Screening in the Q***r Shorts Film Competition and Artist's Film Competition. 👀👀👀👀

31/07/2023

✨ACT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
We have an incredible line-up for our 3 Aug cabaret show. First tantalising announcement is… Nothing More to Say Theatre, who are at the Fringe with their show 52 Monologues for Young Transs*xuals

'What's the worst thing that's ever made you feel like a woman?' Nothing More to Say's award-nominated debut is an 'experimental' and 'audacious' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (BroadwayWorld.com) hour of verbatim and cabaret theatre. We sat down with other trans women to get sleepover-honest about bodies, s*x, and love. Now, armed with killer dance moves and lots of baby oil, we're leading you through a fever dream of hilarious and gut-wrenching confession. We're going from pleasure to pagan ritual, from Barbara Streisand to B**M. And no – there are no actual monologues…”

More announcements to come…

Join us at 11pm on 3 Aug at Paradise Palms, 41 Lothian Street for our free q***r cabaret party!

https://pollyanna.org.uk/Cabaret

18/07/2023

OPEN CALL q***r cabaret performers!
Be part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe legendary messy freak cabaret show Pollyanna! Its our 9th year, back at Paradise Palms !

“Pollyanna is the only q***r collective you want to see this Fringe." ★★★★★
Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

Performers each paid a fee, plus a drink and just great q***r night . At the start of the fringe its also a great time to promote your show, and we fully support plugging it and flyering.

3 August full show
4 August mini show

Drop an email ASAP to [email protected] with info on what you would do for a 5-8min late night slot. We love the weird, s*xy, experimental, raucous and political.
Get in touch!

14/07/2023

☀️Back in Berlin!☀️
TOMORROW 15 July 2023, 8pm, free
and launch themselves into Berlin's oldest q***r venue in their Boston Bar for

✨SHADES: Q***R BLACK CABARET✨
☀️It's going to be 37degrees in Berlin and 100degrees in your minds 🧠

In partnership with
as part of the OMOS exhibition at KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin - on until 30 July!

On the keys 🎹 = Albert Thorne

10/07/2023

Pollyanna cabaret is BACK for ONE-NIGHT ONLY of q***r cabaret party!
Thursday 3 August at Paradise Palms 11pm to 1am, FREE

Kick off your Fringe with "the only q***r collective you want to see this Fringe." ★★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
“Pollyanna is ‘It’s a show, a happening, a movement… Your life is poorer for not having been yet’ ★★★★★ ScotsGay

Plus pop-up show on Fri 4 August... ######

25/06/2023

OMOS goes to Rio!

✨You can now catch OMOS in Rio de Janeiro on 2 July 2023, screening at at .rio Museum of Modern Art ✨

So excited to be sharing OMOS around the world ➡️ OMOS is still on show in a solo exhibition at KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin until 30 July

04/05/2023

OMOS at KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst / KINDL Centre for Contemporary Arts, Berlin

Solo exhibition 5 March - 30 July 2023

5-months of OMOS in Berlin! Go catch it now....!

OMOS (2022) feiert die zeitgenössische „Black Performance“ und würdigt unter Bezugnahme auf Shakespeares Ein Sommernachtstraum Schwarze Darsteller am schottischen Hof des 16. Jahrhunderts. Das 20-minütige Werk ist die erste Filmarbeit von Cabaret-Künstler*in Rhys Hollis, bekannt als einf...

09/02/2023

We are soooo excited to announce that OMOS will the the opening film at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023!

🌟22 March: Screening + Q&A + performances + drinks!
🌟20:30
🌟Glasgow Film Theatre
🎫Book now http://glasgowshort.org/shows/opening-event-omos

It’s official, the first look at is here! 💥

Taking centre stage at our opening event, we’re delighted to screen OMOS and share its multi-sensory delights. This moving and moreish artistic collaboration between award-winning artists pays homage to Scotland’s untold Black history and celebrates Black performance in Scotland.

Riding high on the success of political revenge fable TERROR NULLIUS (GSFF 2019), Australian collective Soda Jerk will return to GSFF with more delicious morsels. Made entirely with sampled footage from mainstream media, their new feature Hello Dankness, constructs a rogue and meme-filled commentary on recent American politics.

Special thanks to our official media partner, The Skinny, for supporting this screening!

💫 You really don’t want to miss this…

Book now: bit.ly/3lmxPid

21/10/2022

OMOS is a new-moving image exhibition showcasing Black and Black LGBTQ excellence in Scotland. Catch it at Stirling Castle until 7 December!

Links in bio ✨

[Image: Divine holds up her arms up, fingers curled, wearing a white outfit with cut-outs, in Puck's Glen.]

18/10/2022

OMOS: Behind the Scenes

Extraordinary cinematographer Ambroise Leclerc on set with Kheanna Walker ().

Experience OMOS, the new moving-image exhibition, at Stirling Castle () - running until 7 December!

Links in bio 💫

[Image: In the middle of Puck's Glen lies a shiny dance pole. Kheanna Walker lies at the bottom of the pole, wrapped up in her body. Ambroise Leclerc kneels in the foliage, holding a camera, filming Kheanna.]

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Paradise Palms, 41 Lothian Street
Edinburgh
EH11HB

Opening Hours

Friday	11pm - 3am
Saturday	11pm - 3am
Sunday	11pm - 3am

Website

http://www.anightwithpollyanna.com/

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“A cacophony of rampant filth and backyard decadence, Pollyanna is the only q***r collective you want to see this Fringe.” ★★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

“It’s packed and noisy, rowdy and messy, q***rly experimental and reassuringly different” ★★★★ The Scotsman 2017 ★★★★ The Scotsman 2016

Pollyanna, the infamous late-night showcase of provocative performance, q***r cabaret and abstract experimenta has returned. Pollyanna is back for its fourth year and this year is going to be bigger, messier and glitzier than ever before as we join forces and bring you ‘La Tropilocal’ at Paradise Palms and ‘Spontaneous Combustion’ at Fireside. Join us for 10 nights across the Fringe for a late-night selection of q***r talent and get ready to indulge yourself in the beautiful, the disastrous and the unpredictable.

At the helm is our very own alt-drag q***r creature, Pollyfilla. Previously Pollyfilla has stunned audiences with the infamous ‘Brexit: The Musical’ and ‘Theresa: The Musical’ so expect more mess this year. Pollyfilla is joined nightly by resident queen of queens, Desert Storm, and Pollyanna’s very own DJ, Kathmandu, who will be playing us into the night.