Hidden Door festival is known for opening-up urban spaces as a platform for new and emerging artists, musicians, theatre-makers, performers, film-makers and poets, showcasing new work and creating engaging environments for the public to experience, explore and discover. 2025’s Hidden Door will as usual comprise music, art, dance, theatre and spoken word by emerging talent, and will be taking-over a massive former paper-making site near Edinburgh Airport – the festival’s biggest site yet.
As always, the festival promises a highly-varied programme of vigorous and fresh talent in almost every area of the arts, and while the full 2025 programme is yet to be announced, the organisers have put together a celebratory launch party featuring live music from songwriter Jane Weaver on Friday 22nd Nov and energetic post-punk band HotWax on Saturday 23rd Nov, alongside visual art and performances, giving audiences a preview of some of the extraordinary spaces within the new complex.
The Paper Factory is a 15.5-acre site occupied by the former Saica paper and cardboard manufacturing facility on the western edge of Edinburgh, featuring a mix of warehouses, factory floors, offices and outhouses, adjacent to the Edinburgh Gateway tram and rail station, affording excellent transport links to the city centre as well as to Glasgow and the west.
Hidden Door is a registered charity and all ticket sales go straight into its events and ensuring all its creative contributors are fairly paid.
