4 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Things to do on Rose Street
11am—12pm
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: Things to do on Rose Street. Part of an on-going exploration of the standardization of movement by the urban environment. This is an invitation to view the artist as he engages with the architecture along Rose Street.
The performance is free to join and all are welcome, but booking required. Tours will commence from The Waiting Place at St. Andrew Square.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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4 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Parkour Workshop
2—5pm
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: Parkour workshop. Taking inspirations from his performance earlier the same day, this workshop will teach the basics of urban climbing and develop a new tour performance with all of the participants.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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5 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Unsensory Tour
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: Unsensory Tour. How do we relate to a city that presents itself in such visual terms? What does the city become without sound? A tour explores how our bodies interface with Edinburgh.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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8 August 2012
Gallery tour: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15–1.45pm
An informal half-hour tour of the exhibitions, presented by members of the gallery’s team. Free to attend, no booking required.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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13 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: The Hidden Places
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: The Hidden Places. A tour of the spaces between the public realm - the alleys and forgotten spaces, the interstitial zones that are essential, and yet undervalued - the places that reveal the mechanics of the facade that Edinburgh presents.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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15 August 2012
Gallery tour: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15–1.45pm
An informal half-hour tour of the exhibitions, presented by members of the gallery’s team. Free to attend, no booking required.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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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.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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19 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Breakfast Tour
7—10am
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: Breakfast Tour. An early morning walk around the city when its cold and quiet -exploring the city when it is not a city, but a collection of buildings with sleeping bodies inside them. Breakfast and coffee/tea provided, with help from the Mana House Bakery.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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22 August 2012
Gallery tour: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15–1.45pm
An informal half-hour tour of the exhibitions, presented by members of the gallery’s team. Free to attend, no booking required.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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.
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
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24 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.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
25 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Pub!
3—7pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is running a series of performance tours which invite you to engage with the city in different ways. Each tour will be unique.
This performance: Pub! An alternative pub crawl that explores the identity of Edinburgh though Scotland’s favourite pastime - drinking. Moving along Rose Street’s various pubs, the discussions will be guided by visiting speakers, questions to prompt discussion, as well as historical facts and images.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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29 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Nap!
2.30—4pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is our Tourist in Residence during the festival. For his final participatory event he invites you to join him in St Andrew Square - or wherever you are - for a communal afternoon nap.
The intention of this project is to create a “dream tour” of Edinburgh – an event that encouraged you to dream-up your own city. If the rain is keeping you away from taking part in this event, you can still take part in your office or in your home with the help of these instructions from the artist Anthony Schrag.
Edinburgh Is A Mad God’s Dream (Hugh McDermot)
If rain prevents you from joining us at The Waiting Place for Nap!, why not join in wherever you happen to be.
Since we live in a digital world that allows us to do things together while being apart, please take part in this event by having a nap between 2.30–4pm and dreaming of Edinburgh.
To help you dream about the city in new ways, Anthony's prepared an audio track for you to listen to while napping which you can play by clicking here – it features a selection of texts drawn from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” in which a fictional Marco Polo describes to Gengis Khan the different and varied cities he has seen on his travels.
You can send an image of your napping experience to [email protected] which will help us build up a document of all those napping.
We look forward to seeing images of you napping!
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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29 August 2012
Gallery tour: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15–1.45pm
An informal half-hour tour of the exhibitions, presented by members of the gallery’s team. Free to attend, no booking required.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
31 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.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441