17 August 2012
The Ellie & Oliver Show
12–12.30pm
Every Friday during the festival, artists, friends and flatmates Ellie Harrison & Oliver Braid will be broadcasting their radio show live from the Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion.
An antidote to the overly serious tendencies of the art world, the Ellie & Oliver Show emphasizes honesty and optimism as its co-hosts help each other negotiate their individual, and sometimes idiosyncratic, ways in the world.
The Ellie & Oliver Show offers a rare insight into the day-to-day lives of two of the freshest and more unusual new voices on the Scottish art scene.
Listen in at: www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/listenlive.
17 August 2012
Whistler, Debussy and the Nocturne
12.45—1.30pm
Whistler’s enemies derided his Nocturnes for their vagueness. Whistler replied that he wasn’t trying to paint nature, he was trying to create harmony, in the same way as musicians. Debussy, when he wrote his Nocturnes for orchestra, was inspired by Whistler’s paintings, and seemed to be suggesting that his music could work like those paintings. Peter Dayan, University of Edinburgh, compares Whistler’s Nocturnes with Debussy’s,conjuring up that invisible common ground where the two arts meet.
Free to attend, no booking required.
17 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm.
To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com
Tickets £30.
17 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Footie in the Alley
3—5.30pm
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: Footie in the Alley. A free-form football match going from one side of Rose Street to the other. Exploring the notion of free-form play as essentially how we make sense of the world around us, participants can join in, change sides and navigate their own rules.
The tour is free to join and all are welcome, but booking required. Tours will commence from The Waiting Place at St. Andrew Square.