16 August 2012
Art Late North
6—10pm
Art Late North features late openings and specially programmed performances at Edinburgh Art Festival galleries north of the Royal Mile.
The evening starts at 6pm outside Ingleby Gallery with a collaboration between Edinburgh International Fashion Festival and Edinburgh Art Festival, featuring a dramatic pop-up performance at Callum Innes’s new light installation The Regent Bridge.
Accompanied by live music, the performance will showcase a selection of PLEATS PLEASE Issey Miyake pieces interacting with the subtle glow of Innes’s installation as daylight begins to fade and the colours of The Regent Bridge begin to grow stronger.
Free gallery tours will then depart at 7pm, winding their way through participating galleries including Edinburgh Printmakers, Superclub, Rhubaba, GARAGE, Open Eye Gallery, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Collective and Stills.
The evening will end with an intimate, acoustic performance by contemporary folk singer Alasdair Roberts amongst the Scottish Colourists exhibition at City Art Centre.
Art Late is sponsored by Heineken.
Free to attend, booking required.
Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
23 August 2012
Art Late South
6—10pm
Art Late South features late openings and specially programmed performances at Edinburgh Art Festival galleries south of the Royal Mile.
The evening starts at 6pm at Dovecot Studios for a tour of Weaving The Century and a screening of Tim Taylor's Swimming the City in the weaving studios, a former public swimming baths.
A free tour will depart at 7pm, winding its way to several participating galleries before arriving at Summerhall for a performance by Muscles of Joy, an experimental, all-female seven piece art-folk/post-punk band who's recent debut album was longlisted for Scottish Album of the Year Award.
Exhibitions are open late at participating galleries including Edinburgh College of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, Melvin Moti's One Thousand Points of Light at National Museum of Scotland, New Media Scotland and Summerhall.
Free to attend, booking required.
