11 August 2012
Photography Workshop for Sighted People
11am—3pm
Organised by Contemporary Art Exchange to complement the exhibition Through the Looking Glass, Dimly. For more information and to book a place please email [email protected].
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
21 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
11 August 2012
Rip Off Workshop!
1.30–5.30pm
Inappropriate appropriation is the order of the day in this fun collage workshop. Taking the work of subversive artists, The Chapman Brothers and others as inspiration.
Places are £40 each (or £35 for concessions) and are strictly limited.
To book, please email [email protected] or call the number below.
Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479
11 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Walking Beauty
2—4pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is running a series of participatory tours which invite you to engage with the city in different ways. Each performance tour will be unique.
This performance: Walking Beauty. Exploring Edinburgh and its relationship to the classical/romantic notion of “beauty” through performance - tracing the arc of the Fibonacci sequence (The Line of Beauty) through the city and exploring “high art and architecture” contrasted by its dirty and forgotten alleyways.
The tour is free to join but booking is essential and numbers are limited.
Tours will commence from The Waiting Place at St. Andrew Square.
11 August 2012
Talk: Saturday Social
3–3.30pm
An informal talk based around the current exhibitions of Donald Judd and Tim Rollins & K.O.S., led by gallery staff.
Talbot Rice Gallery
University of Edinburgh
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
11 August 2012
A Tapestry of Many Threads
7.30pm (1 hr)
Alexander McCall Smith and composer Tom Cunningham mark Dovecot’s centenary with the world premiere of this dramatic musical production, performed among the looms used to create the tapestries that inspired it.
Tickets: £15 (Sat £16), Concessions £14 (Sat £15), available from www.dovecotstudios.com