27 July 2011
Robert Rauschenberg: From Nature to Culture
2pm
Free
An exhibition talk commisioned by Inverleith House to mark the opening of Robert Rauschenberg - Botanical Vaudeville, presented by Victoria Miguel.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR
0131 248 2971
1 – 5 August 2011
Public Art Summer School
10am–5pm
£165 (concessions £140)
Booking essential
Collective is delighted to announce a new opportunity offering 14 places for people to get involved in an intensive and productive week-long experience of thinking, talking and making public art.
This summer school offers an in-depth experience which is related to The indirect exchange of uncertain value at Fettes College, Edinburgh; a Collective offsite project developed with Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan. The project presents a major new work by Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan alongside commissions by Chris Evans and Elizabeth Price.
Broughton High School, 29 East Fettes Avenue, EH4 1EG
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5 August 2011
The indirect exchange of uncertain value: The Performance of Public Art
10.30am–6.30pm
£35 (concessions £25)
Booking essential
Booking is now open for Collective's festival symposium at Fettes College. This symposium offers a full day programme with speakers including Vito Acconci, Fiona Jardine, Elizabeth Price and Owen Hatherley; tours of Fettes and the new offsite project; a performance by Chris Evans; a poetry reading by Tom Leonard with all food provided.
Fettes College, main gate on Carrington Road, EH4 1QZ
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5 August 2011
Talk: Opening Interieur No.493 / Richard Cork and Pat Fisher
5pm
Free, booking advised
To book, [email protected] or 0131 650 2210
Award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster and exhibition curator, Richard Cork will join Principal Curator Pat Fisher to discuss Anton Henning’s installation at Talbot Rice Gallery. The spectacle of the ‘total work of art’, Henning’s role as artist curator and the knowingness of his practice will all be in the frame.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
5 August 2011
The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein – Curators Talk
1pm – 1.45pm
Free
For more information and to book: Nicola Jones on 0131 557 2500
Lucy Whitaker, Senior Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection and co-curator of The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein introduces the latest exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, in a special off-site talk at the Edinburgh Art Festival Solar Pavilion.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
6 August 2011
Saturday Social
3pm
Free, no need to book, just turn up.
Every Saturday join Education Assistant Shawn Coulman at the Talbot Rice Gallery for a relaxed introduction to our current exhibitions. The Saturday Social runs every Saturday for the duration of the exhibitions.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
9 August 2011
Talk: Solar Pavilion
1pm - 2pm
Free
Booking essential limited tickets available.
A chance to find out more about Karen Forbes' Solar Pavilion in St. Andrew Square Gardens, in this lunchtime talk with Sorcha Carey, Director of Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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10 August 2011
Talk: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15pm
Free, to book: [email protected] and 0131 650 2210
Join us for an informal half-hour talk presented by members of the gallery’s team that is designed to fit into your lunch hour. The Wednesday Walkabout runs weekly throughout the exhibition.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
11 August 2011
Everything you ever wanted to know about modern art but were afraid to ask
1–2pm
Free, booking essential
Simon Groom, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, puts himself on the spot in a valiant attempt to answer any questions you may have about modern and contemporary art.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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13 August 2011
Saturday Social
3pm
Free, no need to book, just turn up.
Every Saturday join Education Assistant Shawn Coulman at Talbot Rice Gallery for a relaxed introduction to our current exhibitions. The Saturday Social runs every Saturday for the duration of the exhibitions.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
15 August 2011
Course: Postmodernism in Art: Bad Painting & the work of Anton Henning
10am - 5pm
Free, enrol here
Using an introduction to postmodernism as a backdrop, this Open Studies day-long course taught by James Clegg explores questions of ‘good taste’ and will include lectures at Buccleuch Place and a visit to the Anton Henning Exhibition at Talbot Rice gallery.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
15 – 28 August 2011
The Agent Ria: Spelling the Myth
12.20pm – 1.20pm
£4 entry to screening
To book (from 1 Aug): 0131 243 3596
Join us before the screening for an introduction to The Agent Ria channel, its history and approach.
Fringe Venue 18, Sweet Grassmarket: City 2, Apex City Hotel, 61 Grassmarket, EH1 2JF
Box Office: 0131 243 3596
The Agent Ria: 07989 393 397
16 August 2011
Lunchtime Talk on Elizabeth Blackadder
12.30–1pm
Free, to book [email protected], 0131 558 1200
Guy Peploe hosts a lunchtime talk on the work of Elizabeth Blackadder.
16 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ
0131 558 1200
16 August 2011
Talk: Consuming Passions/Anna Dallapiccola
6pm
Free, to book: [email protected], and 0131 650 2210
Anna Dallapiccola, Honorary Professor of Indian Art, University Edinburgh, will speak on the 'music-inspired' Ragamala paintings on display in the Georgian Gallery. This event will give an insight into these highly symbolic visual interpretations of Indian music that depict romantic and devotional situations.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
17 August 2011
Talk: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15pm
Free
To book: [email protected] and 0131 650 2210
Join us for an informal half-hour talk presented by members of the gallery’s team that is designed to fit into your lunch hour. The Wednesday Walkabout runs weekly throughout the exhibition.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
18 August 2011
Talk: The King James Bible Language and Literature
1.30pm
Free with an exhibition admission ticket.
To book and for further information contact Margaret Findlay on
[email protected] or 0131 529 3963
The King James Bible is an English Bible with origins in Scotland. In this talk Gordon Campbell will describe the language of the King James Bible in terms of the translators' ...
In the seventeenth century its language was deemed to be simple and accessible to all; in the eighteenth century it was regarded as old-fashioned and ungrammatical; the Victorians reverenced its language to the point of idolatry, and the Edwardians thought that Shakespeare might have had a hand in it. The talk will conclude with an account of the extent to which the language of the King James Bible has become embedded in present-day English.
Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester. In October 2010 OUP published his Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 and his 400th anniversary edition of the Bible.
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
20 August 2011
Saturday Social
3pm
Free, no need to book, just turn up.
Every Saturday join Education Assistant Shawn Coulman at Talbot Rice Gallery for a relaxed introduction to our current exhibitions. The Saturday Social runs every Saturday for the duration of the exhibitions.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
24 August 2011
Talk: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15pm
Free
To book: [email protected] and 0131 650 2210
Join us for an informal half-hour talk presented by members of the gallery’s team that is designed to fit into your lunch hour. The Wednesday Walkabout runs weekly throughout the exhibition.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
24 August 2011
Talk: Diarmaid Lawlor on Being 'Public'
1-2pm
Free, booking essential
Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism at Architecture and Design Scotland will talk about the concept of ‘being public’ reflecting on streets, society and the challenge of being ‘public’.
It is interesting to reflect on the fact that about 80% of the public space of our cities and towns are streets. The street is a place to be public. The legislation underpinning most streets in most places suggests that ‘any reasonable act’ is permissible. People can gather. Protests can happen. Exchange is permitted. Conflict can happen.
In the past, streets were the spaces where some of the necessary aspects of our public life were provided. They were sites of shopping, of meeting, of working. Being public was about doing what you had to do, in a public place. Today, being public is a much more complex issue. How we engage with each other is different. What we do is different. How we use spaces, and what we expect of them is different. And yet, when the public nature of the public space of our streets is highlighted, often through conflict, we do reflect, rightly or wrongly on the issue of ‘being public’. What is appropriate, who is appropriate, where is appropriate? What is public?
The pavilion in St.Andrew’s Square is an interesting space to talk about the idea of ‘being public’. Situated, as it is in a public space, its transparency permits visual connection between those inside and those outside. There is nowhere to hide, but to engage in the conversations in the space, and engage in the wider situation of the place.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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25 August 2011
Art Late
5.00pm onwards
Free, booking essential
A regular and extremely popular feature of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Art Late is a specially programmed night of late openings at galleries across the city. An unique opportunity to experience live music, performances and impromptu events in a selection of venues across the city. Participating venues will include Bourne Fine Art, Collective, Ingleby Gallery, Inverleith House, Jupiter Artland, Schop, Sierra Metro, Stills and Tamsyn Challenger.
Art Late will Launch at Ingleby Gallery 5-7pm with a special performance by Ali Cook, followed by Edinburgh Art Festival Tours citywide.
Full Programme of events now downloadable via the following link: ARTLATE Programme 2011
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25 August 2011
Talk: Divine Light - the story of the King James Library
1.30pm
Free with an exhibition admission ticket. Booking essential.
To book and for further information, [email protected] or 0131 529 3963
In 1611 a book was published which would become one of the most familiar and widely read in the world: the King James Bible. But how did this ‘noblest monument of English prose’ come to be?
Guiding us through the forces that shaped King James’ masterpiece, Derek Wilson explores the transformation of religion and society that led to its origin, tells the history of its making, and celebrates the breadth of its unparalleled influence. The story that unfolds will captivate all who enjoy history, religion, literature, or language.
Popular historian Derek Wilson came to prominence thirty years ago with A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. He is the highly acclaimed author of over 50 books and has written and presented numerous radio and television programmes.
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
25 August 2011
What is The indirect exchange of uncertain value?
1-2pm
Free
Booking essential
In this talk Kate Gray, Director of Collective will give you an insight into the process that lead to the works being sited at Fettes College and take bookings for a one off Art-Late tour of the project with transport and champagne.
The indirect exchange of uncertain value is a project developed by Collective with Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan with new commissions by the artists and Elizabeth Price and Chris Evans. Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan have a dialectical approach to making art; producing absurd or contradictory interventions as a means of considering or examining a situation. The indirect exchange of uncertain value continues this approach by siting artworks ‘against context’ at Fettes College.
The project has been developed through a discussion about the nature of public and private space within Edinburgh, and the instrumentalisation of art within the public sphere.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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26 August 2011
Colm Toibín
1-1.30pm
Free, booking Essential
Acclaimed novelist Colm Toibín will read from a new piece written for Fast & Slow Time, a book published to accompany Richard Forster's current exhibition at Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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27 August 2011
Saturday Social
3pm
Free, No need to book, just turn up.
Every Saturday join Education Assistant Shawn Coulman at Talbot Rice Gallery for a relaxed introduction to our current exhibitions. The Saturday Social runs every Saturday for the duration of the exhibitions.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
29 August 2011
A Passion for Glass - Curators Talk
1-1.45pm
Free, booking essential
A Passion for Glass - Curator's Talk
The A Passion for Glass exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland showcases over 100 examples of modern British and Irish glass. Join Rose Watban, Senior Curator of Applied Art and Design and curator of the ehibitiion, to hear more about the show and the Museum's contemporary glass collection, in a special off-site at the Edinburgh Art Festival Solar Pavilion.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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29 August 2011
Conversation with Federico Calo
7.30-9pm
Free and refreshments provided
A chance to hear controverisal photo-artist and videomaker, Federico Calo, in conversation.
For full information, www.bigthingsonthebeach.co.uk
77 Promenade, EH15 2EL
30 August 2011
Sounds from Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh, 1951
1-2pm
Free
Booking Essential
A sound installation in the EAF Pavilion with introduction from Alice Ladenburg
The Edinburgh People’s Festival (1951-1954) was set up as a true celebration of Gaelic and Scottish culture and pre-dates the Fringe Festival as a response to the perceived elitism of the International Festival. The first People’s Festival Ceilidh (held in Oddfellows Hall and arranged by renowned Scottish poet and folk song collector Hamish Henderson) was considered to be one of the catalysts for the folk revival in Scotland.
Sounds from Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh will be playing at the Pavilion on the hour, every hour throughout the day.
A project by Alice Ladenburg in association with The School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives and courtesy of the Alan Lomax Archive
www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/archives.htm
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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31 August 2011
Talk: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15pm
Free
To book: [email protected] and 0131 650 2210
Join us for an informal half-hour talk presented by members of the gallery’s team that is designed to fit into your lunch hour. The Wednesday Walkabout runs weekly throughout the exhibition.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
31 August 2011
What makes art public?
1-2pm
Free
Damian Killeen from Big things on the Beach discusses how how the public could me more involved in the creativity and production of art.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
3 September 2011
Botanical Vaudevilles/Urban Rhymes
2pm
Free
In this talk Dr Dominic Paterson will examine Rauschenberg's work of the 80s and 90s in relation to his own earlier paintings, collages, combines and sculptures.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR
0131 248 2971
3 September 2011
Saturday Social
3pm
Free. No need to book, just turn up.
Every Saturday join Education Assistant Shawn Coulman at Talbot Rice Gallery for a relaxed introduction to our current exhibitions. The Saturday Social runs every Saturday for the duration of the exhibitions.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
3 September 2011
The Big Talk
2-3.30pm
Free and open to all.
Venue: Mum's Cafe
Lively conversation, led by Rocca Gutteridge of Artachat. ‘What Makes Art ‘Public’?’. Free and open to all.
Portobello Indoor Bowls and Leisure Centre
20 Westbank Street (Portobello Promenade)
EH15 1DR
0131 657 9193
8 September 2011
Talk: David Fergusson on The King James Bible Scotland
1.30pm
Free with an exhibition admission ticket. Booking essential.
To book and further information, [email protected] or 0131 529 3963
The emergence of the King James Bible in Scotland was slow and gradual. Despite its authorised London publication in 1611, it did not fully supersede the Geneva Bible for about 50 years. Nevertheless, it became the standard translation in use, permeating almost every aspect of Scottish culture.
This lecture by David Fergusson, Professor of Divinity and Principal of New College at the University of Edinburgh, considers its appearance in Scotland and its subsequent impact on church, literature, education and scholarship. A brief assessment of the rapid decline in use of the King James Bible since about the 1960s will also be offered.
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993