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

24/04/2025

Due to high demand we are excited to finally launch a DJ workshop session at Sketchy Beats Cafe, where Rodent will be teaching basic DJ skills for those interested in taking a step into the music industry!

This event is for femme and non-binary identifying people to help make the Edinburgh music community more diverse and inclusive.

LEARN BASIC SKILLS / OPEN DECKS / NETWORKING / A SAFE SPACE FOR ALL.

Because of the limited capacity and interest for this event, this will be ticketed at £5. The money will go directly to the Cafe as Sketchy Beats is a non-profit community space that survives solely on donations. This also covers BYOB if you wish to have a drink!

Tickets via resident advisor—link in comments.

18/04/2025
18/04/2025

Time for my Ableton Live + Novation Launchkey Mini DEBUT head start ahead of next week's Kite debut LP (side one!) live launch 🤩 Exciting times. Lots of debuts. I feel like I'm entering a new era of music geekery... I'm hoping to push all the right buttons - literally! 🎹

Tonight at Sketchy Beats Cafe 😎 Join us for a joyous night of music!

This evening! This class is fully booked, but it's worth putting your name down on the waiting list as we sometimes get ...
17/04/2025

This evening!

This class is fully booked, but it's worth putting your name down on the waiting list as we sometimes get last minute cancellations:)

Join us for a Creative Monoprinting and Collage Workshop with Georgie, a seasoned printmaker and artist.

This evening 🥲
16/04/2025

This evening 🥲

It's Wednesday (sigh....)

Which means it's time (sigh...)

For Sad Song Club (sigh...)

Join us at the world famous arts café for an evening of BYOB Sad banter.

Sign-up at 7, curfew at 11 (ish)

Entry by donation; we ask every patron to give what they can to support the space; keep the beats sketchy for future generations!

See you tonight (sigh....)

Tomorrow! This class is now fully booked but you can add your name to the waiting list 🖌️
12/04/2025

Tomorrow! This class is now fully booked but you can add your name to the waiting list 🖌️

Joining street art and calligraphy.

11/04/2025

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208 Great Junction Street
Edinburgh
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Sketchy Beats Cafe is a not-for-profit arts cafe 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 n**e model and a live DJ set. This took place once a month in the basement of Yellow Bench, a Polish Bistro on Leith Walk. As this event gained popularity, we raised the money through crowdfunding to create a community space where creative events like this could happen every night. Since the cafe opened in October 2015, members of the local community have organized all kind of events in the cafe: live hip-hop nights, art exhibitions, poetry slams, live music jams, DJ showcases, climate change discussions, life drawing sessions, craft fairs, charity fundraisers, birthday parties and much more. The space is designed to be affordable and accessible to everyone - people who have never organized events before, musicians who have never played outside their own bedroom, artists who have never exhibited before. The cafe aims to be a space where creativity brings the community together, without money being an obstacle. The space is available for anyone to organize their own events, parties and workshops, from the early evening into the small hours. If you are interested in using the space, just message the Sketchy Beats Cafe page with your idea and a suggested date and time.