Hidden Door

This Sunday, our second @bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social Taproom Session welcomes award-winning singer/songwriter Mike McKenzie @mikemckenzieonline.bsky.social.

His laid back, inclusive shows have proved a smash with audiences around the UK and beyond.

Tickets: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

We loved last night's Taproom Sessions - huge thanks to the performers, everyone who helped out, everyone who came down and of course @bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social for hosting us ❤️

We're back this Sunday with 5 more acts: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

Photos by James Duncan

TONIGHT from 5pm 👀🍺🎤

We kick off today's Taproom Session at Bellfield Brewery with acclaimed spoken word poet Katie Ailes, whose work explores themes of identity, migration and compassion through a fiercely feminist lens.

Live performances until 10pm

Tix: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

This weekend, Laura McGarrigle AKA Gaze Is Ghost brings "gorgeous songs that linger on in the mind"... "elegant yet complex compositions and tender yet pointed vocals glide through valleys of melody and percussion".

Tickets for Sunday's Taproom Session: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

Joining our packed line-up this Sunday... "one of the finest spoken word and live poetry performers around” 🎤

Iona Lee is a prominent member of Scotland’s live poetry scene, performing on TV and radio as well as venues and festivals all over Europe.

www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

Musician and poet Blair Coron's quiet and intimate music blends modern classical, storytelling and traditional melodies, with themes of nature, people, time and place.

Catch him at the first of our two special nights at Bellfield Brewery for the Taproom Sessions - Sunday 17 Aug

The captivating Esther Swift plays the Bellfield Taproom Sessions on Sunday 17 August - the first of two nights curated by Hidden Door celebrating and showcasing local talent.

“celestial harp playing” - BBC R4

​“mesmerising and heavenly” - jazzwise

Tickets: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

Open Call for Emerging and Early Career Artists!

We’re looking for ambitious early-career artists for a large-scale group exhibition this September at The Paper Factory in Edinburgh, in partnership with Visual Arts Scotland.

Apply by Monday, 28 July.

hiddendoorarts.org/artist-devel...

Open Call for Emerging and Early Career Artists!

We’re looking for ambitious early-career artists for a large-scale group exhibition this September at The Paper Factory in Edinburgh, in partnership with Visual Arts Scotland

Apply by 28 July.

Click here:
hiddendoorarts.org/artist-devel...

Join us this August as we curate two special nights at the Bellfield Taproom Sessions, supporting local artists.

📆 17th & 24th August

w/ Esther Swift, Blair Coron, Gaze is Ghost, Mike McKenzie, Doom Scroller, Thundermoon, Iona Lee, Katie Ailes, Josh Cake & RJ Hunter

@bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social

Are you making bold, physical work that doesn’t fit in traditional gallery spaces?

We're seeking ambitious early-career artists for a large-scale group exhibition at The Paper Factory this September in partnership with Visual Arts Scotland 🎨

Apply by 28 July: hiddendoorarts.org/artist-devel...

Hidden Door x Mark Making Workshop

📅 Thursday 24 July, 6–8:30pm
📍The Paper Factory, Edinburgh

We’re excited to launch our July artist development event!

Explore creative mark-making in this free, hands-on session led by curator Jill Martin Boualaxai.

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Hidden Door 2025 – Voices from the Factory Floor Hidden Door 2025 – Voices from the Factory Floor

New on The Noise of Art…

Hidden Door 2025 - Voices from the Factory Floor

In which I get my hands dirty for once… @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social

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Our artist development event in August, with Creative Edinburgh, will look at fundraising for creative projects

This free workshop will offer advice on how to make your application stand out to funders.

📅 5 August 2025, 10am-12pm
Click here for more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fundraisin...

Hidden Door Festival 2025 review - the transformative Edinburgh event's most site-specific festival yet "When I was your age, I worked in a corrugated cardboard factory!" is a phrase my father was fond of telling me as a teenager, presumably in an attempt to extol the virtues of a good Presbyterian work...

★★★★ Hidden Door Festival @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social 2025 - As art and machinery align in former paper factory, this proves the transformative #Edinburgh event's most site-specific festival yet, says Miranda Heggie theartsdesk.com/new-music/hi...

Tonight at 9:15pm is your last chance to catch SPECTRAL, a stunning aerial and dance spectacle fusing lasers, choreography and light ❤️

Powered by #Funktioncreep, our Dance Stage sponsor and a peerless visual production team renowned for their immersive laser shows.

#HiddenDoor2025

Great day at @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social in #Edinburgh yesterday last day today Production Line of Dreams were outstanding on 10pm tonight

At the intersection of craft beer and contemporary art, Hidden Door and Festival sponsor Bellfield Brewery are proving just how good a creative collaboration can taste.

Click here to learn more:
hiddendoorarts.org/future-relic...

#BellfieldXHiddenDoor #FestivalBeer #CraftMeetsCulture

🚨 FINAL DAY at Hidden Door 2025 🚨

Your last chance to explore the Paper Factory and all the secrets within...

Today is free and open for all ages until 6pm. After 6pm we’re ticketed and over 18s only.

Line-up and tickets: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

#HiddenDoor2025

Inside of a disused paper factory that has now been repurposed as an arts festival venue

Artwork saying “The Head Of The Sacrificial Horss Is The Dawn”

Graffiti mural saying “what’s love got to do with it?” With a depiction of the paper factory in the past in the background

Inside of the factory a gig with a percussion band consisting of 4 drummers

Lovely evening spent in @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social this evening

Photo of the Tinderbox Orchestra on stage with a young man in a red hoodie and embroidered jeans rapping into a microphone while two young violinists in casual street clothes play, with drums and colourful digital screens in the background and a blue laser light catching the camera.

A photo of the Paper Factory floor, with grey concrete and industrial yellow metal beams in the background, a blue industrial tarpaulin on the floor, and a man who is a percussionist in a blue boilersuit with rolled up sleeves and a cap, drumming on a large square piece of blue machinery with wires coming out of it. This was part of a dance and percussion performance called 'Ghost in the machine' at Hidden Door Arts Festival.

Julia Sorenson delivering feminist spoken word poetry on a stage of rough floor boards, in front of a very large piece of machinery which is lit in different coloured lights, painted yellow and creme with industrial metal balustrades around it, a small audience sitting on chairs listening to her, and a large dark blue lit factory warehouse in the background.

Hidden Door Arts Festival at The Paper Factory was utterly brilliant. Each year, they bring to life abandoned industrial places with music, spoken word poetry, dance, street art, light displays, digital & sculptural art installations. This year was superb ✨️🔥👏💛
@hiddendoorarts.bsky.social #Edinburgh

Some pics from yesterday at #HiddenDoor2025

Can't believe it's the penultimate night already!

If you haven't explored The Paper Factory yet, why not spend your Sunday afternoon here ahead of our closing party.

Catch it before it's gone! 🏭 👀

📸 Chris Scott, Dan Mosley, Karen Patel

From gluten-free innovation to cultural collaboration, Festival sponsor Bellfield’s ‘For the Free’ ethos continues to redefine what inclusive brewing can look (and taste) like.

Click here to find out more:
hiddendoorarts.org/future-relic...

#ForTheFree #VeganBeer #IndependentBrewery

TONIGHT at Hidden Door 2025 in Edinburgh

Only 2 nights left of this year's festival. A packed line-up of music + DJs alongside stunning visual art and pop-up performances, all nestled within a huge factory transformed for the arts.

FINAL release of tickets for tonight: hiddendoorarts.org/tickets/

🎛️ Warehouse meets waves!

Ishmael Ensemble land at Hidden Door 2025 with experimental, electronic-infused jazz.

Expect fog, synths, and soundscapes.

🗓️ Hear them tomorrow - Sunday 15 June
🎟️ hiddendoorarts.org/tickets

#IshmaelEnsemble #Jazztronica #HiddenDoor2025

After 3 days of sunshine, the inevitable rain clouds have rolled in ☔️

The majority of our festival is indoors, but please dress for the weather.

Today's packed line-up is the perfect remedy to a rainy day, kicking off right now: hiddendoorarts.org/whats-on/

#HiddenDoor2025

Congratulations to @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social on pulling off their most impressive festival to date. World class art, music, dance and performance in an abandoned paper factory on the edge of Edinburgh. 👏🏻 You have to see this space to believe it…

Samwooddoowmas is a musical project by Sam Wood that defies easy categorisation, blending ambient, techno, and field recordings of experimental sounds.

Experience it all in-person on Saturday 14 June at Hidden Door.

Tickets on sale now - www.hiddendoorarts.org/tickets

Tucked into Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill, Festival sponsor Bellfield Brewery’s taproom has become a local favourite — combining small-batch beer, rotating street food, and creative community vibes.

Click here to find out more:
hiddendoorarts.org/future-relic...

#BellfieldTaproom #EdinburghEats

Hidden Door Festival highlights so far... ❤️

We're open until Sunday at The Paper Factory in Edinburgh 🏭

Line-up: hiddendoorarts.org/tickets/

#HiddenDoor2025