Sketchy Beats Cafe

Sketchy Beats Cafe Non-profit community arts space,
Pay-as-you-feel practice room downstairs. Opening hours depend on bookings! BYOB, donation-based.
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https://sites.google.com/view/sketchy-beats/home Sketchy Beats is a not-for-profit arts space on Great Junction Street, Leith. The space is an open platform for creatives of any kind to use and share their ideas with the public. The concept started off as an experimental life drawing event, incorporating a live musician, a dancer, a nude model and a live DJ set.

This took place once a month in the basement of Yellow Bench on Leith Walk. As this event gained popularity, money was raised through a crowdfunding campaign to create a community space where creative concepts like this could happen every night. The space is designed to be affordable and accessible to everyone - people who have never organised events before, musicians who have never played outside their own bedroom, artists who have never exhibited before. It aims to be a space where creativity brings the community together, without money being an obstacle. Everything in the space is donation-based. If you want a cup of tea or coffee, you can help yourself and leave a small donation. If you want to bring your own alcohol, just leave a donation for corkage. If you want to organise your own event, it's free to book, we just ask for a donation from each person who comes in. If you are interested in booking the space for your own event, workshop, meet-up or rehearsal, send us a message! You can also book online through our website:
https://sites.google.com/view/sketchy-beats/home

01/09/2026
28/08/2026

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

Without listening to my set life from Sketchys Beats last weekend 😁

What a blast guys honestly such a good night as always. Sketchy nights are one of if not the highlight of my year.

So here it is!

Get it in yer lug holes and have a ball.

Listen to Live Beats | 22/08/26 by ST7N.B on
https://on.soundcloud.com/wjMEOeFwsVcSUOWuyt

26/08/2026

UPCOMING ART CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

📸 Mindful Photography Workshop
Wed 26 Aug, 7pm — FULLY BOOKED

✍️ Calligraphy Workshop
Thu 3 Sept, 7pm — FULLY BOOKED

🫆 Screen Printing Workshop
Wed 9 Sept, 7pm — FULLY BOOKED

🪡 Japanese Sashiko Stitching / Visible Mending
Thu 17 Sept, 7pm — SPACES AVAILABLE

🎨 Traditional Drawing & Painting with Graeme & Eddie
Wed 23 Sept, 7pm — FULLY BOOKED

✨ Intuitive Art Workshop
Thu 1 Oct, 7pm — SPACES AVAILABLE

Search for 'Sketchy Beats Cafe' on Eventbrite for all the booking links :)

21/08/2026

INFO WORKSHOP, DISCUSSION & ZINE MAKING with , an anti-capitalist union in the neighbourhood of Kalk, Cologne!!

📅Saturday, August 22nd
🕛 12 -2 PM
📍 Sketchy Beats Cafe: 208 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh EH6 5LW
🎟️ FREE - NO RESERVATION - JUST SHOW UP!

--Learn about the revolutionary neighbourhood union Kalk Solidarisch, their history, mission & current mutual aid work, which includes free counselling, gardening, food sharing, event organisation & more!!

--Time for discussions & questions. Skill - sharing encouraged!

--Zine-making materials, tea, coffee & light refreshments will be provided.

--We address these questions together: 'When the systems in place to protect us fail (inevitably & continuously), who is there? Where do we go to make change?'

If you love your community but hate capitalism, join us at Sketchy Beats Arts Café on Saturdays!

LOVE & SOLIDARITY!

🖤

16/08/2026
16/08/2026

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208 Great Junction Street
Edinburgh
EH65LW

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