1 August 2013
Artist guided walk: Lines Lost
Walk begins at 1.40pm
Discussion at RSA begins at 4pm
Free admission
Join artist Stuart McAdam for a guided walk along the Innocent Railway Path, the route of the capital’s first railway line which was closed in 1968, and learn about his nomadic journeys and walking as a methodology for art production.
His latest project, part of a residency at Deveron Arts, is based around the infamous Beeching Railway cuts of the 1960’s which saw a network of rail routes closed in Aberdeenshire as a result of Dr. Richard Beeching’s recommendations. Through a series of performative walks along these routes, McAdam aims to bring into focus the contemporary issues surrounding this legacy. As part of an ongoing investigation into slow travel as art practice, the artist will be joined by Claudia Zeiske, Director, Deveron Arts. All are invited to participate in this walk, share their thoughts and contribute to the artist’s research.
The walk will start at the entrance to the Innocent Railway path at Duddingston Road West and will finish at the Engine Shed, St Leonards Lane. For those travelling from the city centre to join the walk, the number 42 bus stops close to the start of the walk.
The day will finish with a discussion at the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture with a panel of specialists in the fields of art & walking and the history of the railways.
1 August 2013
Robert Montgomery: burning of Edinburgh Fire Poem
10–10.30pm
Free admission
Join us as artist Robert Montgomery sets light to his commissioned work to bring the opening day of the festival to a close. Part sculpture, part performance, Montgomery's poem, sculpted in oak will burn fiercely with the castle as a backdrop, and its charred remains will stand as testimony to its burning for the duration of the festival.
2 August 2013
Parley Discussion: Real Life Parledonia (curated by Ross Sinclair)
2–5pm
Free admission. Book tickets.
Artist Ross Sinclair adopts the role of ring master to direct a loose array of speakers, performers and artists, in debating questions such as: 'what is Parley? And what is Caledonia? And how might they come together locally, nationally and internationally? What is the job description of 'artists' in a small damp Northern European country in 2013? What is a 'creative life' and how can the idea be articulated by ourselves and others at this particularly complicated moment in time?'.
This event will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
Based in a world where cats and dogs engage in wild debate over issues of identity and independence. A vote will determine whether they rid themselves of the moniker of 'pet' and all associated ties to their petitude.
Parley for Power is a short play written for the festival by poet Michael Pedersen (Neu! Reekie!) and award-winning playwright/novelist Alan Bissett.
Performed alongside visuals and puppets crafted by artist Carla Easton and with music written and performed by Easton (TeenCanteen) and Eugene Kelly (of indie legends The Vaselines).
Parley for Power promises humour, pathos, a potpourri of philosophy, plus the odd dash of something political.
This performance will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
2 August 2013
Andrew Gannon: Balancing on the skirting in all the corners
7–9pm
Free to attend, no booking necessary.
Andrew Gannon’s live works/performances defy easy classification. He is interested in lightness, in what constitutes work, in how close to nothing something can be and failure as a method of exploring the world.
Balancing on the Skirting in all the corners is one in a series of performances by Andrew Gannon over August.
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
21 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
2 August 2013
Preview: The Complaints Choir and Kenny Watson
6:30–9pm
Free to attend, all welcome
A drinks reception for two of this year's commissions: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh and Kenny Watson's The Days & Fascia.
This is a chance to see work by artist Kenny Watson including Days, the result of over 12 months spent painstakingly amassing individual posters from newspaper vendors around the city.
The event will include a live performance by The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh and also the chance to see the video installation The Complaints Choir.
2 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 6–6:20pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
2 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 7–7:20pm
Free to attend
The first of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of residents of the city who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
3 August 2013
Steel Harmony
1–5pm
Contact Jupiter for booking details.
To celebrate the opening of Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's exhibiton, the Caribbean steel drum band Steel Harmony - another of Deller’s long-term collaborators - will perform covers of hits by Joy Division, Buzzcocks and other seminal UK indie bands.
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Nr Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900
3 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 1:45–2:05pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
3 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 1–1:20pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
6 August 2013
Gavin Evans: Diving
7pm
To book tickets, please contact Summerhall box office.
A world premiere of cinematic movements by Gavin Evans, composed and performed live by virtuoso violinist Richard Moore and sonic artist Tom Hull. Uncompromising photographer and film-maker Evans has created a body of work that shines a torch on the darkest recesses of the human condition. In Diving the film is the lyric, the violin the voice. Themes of hurt, impulse and desire are exposed in Summerhall's Dissection Room with the precision of the surgeons scalpel. Harrowing and explosively beautiful Diving explores and reveals suppressed commonalities. Diving demands the audience to look deep within.
This event will be held in the Dissection Room.
6 August 2013
Andrew Gannon: Work with newspaper
7–8pm
Free to attend, no booking necessary.
Andrew Gannon’s live works/performances defy easy classification. He is interested in lightness, in what constitutes work, in how close to nothing something can be and failure as a method of exploring the world.
Work with newspaper is one in a series of performances by Andrew Gannon over August.
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
21 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
7 August 2013
Gavin Evans: Diving
7pm
To book tickets, please contact Summerhall box office.
A world premiere of cinematic movements by Gavin Evans, composed and performed live by virtuoso violinist Richard Moore and sonic artist Tom Hull. Uncompromising photographer and film-maker Evans has created a body of work that shines a torch on the darkest recesses of the human condition. In Diving the film is the lyric, the violin the voice. Themes of hurt, impulse and desire are exposed in Summerhall's Dissection Room with the precision of the surgeons scalpel. Harrowing and explosively beautiful Diving explores and reveals suppressed commonalities. Diving demands the audience to look deep within.
This event will be held in the Dissection Room.
Continuum is an immersive, visceral experience featuring work by visual artist Catherine Street, poet JL Williams and composer improvisers Martin Parker and Owen Green.
At the heart of this performance, Street's film Continuum derives its intense sound and images from the exhausted body of the artist. Street is shown engaged in a sensual and bodily encounter, not only with the physical world but also with the conceptual world of mathematical ideas. She probes her physical limits and at the same moment gives voice to a text that seems to explore those limits in cool theoretical terms. Live readings by Street and Williams weave hallucinatory narratives that allude to the experiential world of human perception alongside a theoretical conception of time and space. William’s rich, emotive delivery is contrasted with Street’s precise voice. Taking cues from the intense audio of the film, Green and Parker’s live performances fill the space with sound that builds in intensity over time. On engaging with this sensory experience and the sometimes disturbing impressions evoked by the performances, the audience is liable to feel a strong emotional response, perhaps of unease, fascination or exhilaration.
The film Continuum was shot by filmmakers Ben Ewart-Dean and Daniel Warren, with sound by Owen Green and performance by Catherine Street and Dmitry Ser. Initially created as part of an artist commission for the Human Race exhibition, funded by Legacy Trust UK and Creative Scotland, Continuum was first presented with support from Generator Projects, Dundee.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
8 August 2013
Aquillos Ensemble
6–6:30pm
Free admission
The Aquillos Ensemble respond to the Man Ray Portraits exhibition, playing works by Satie, Poulenc and Taffanel all composed in the late 19th and early 20th century, and Zemlinsky's last composition, Humoreske.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
8 August 2013
Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Daniel Padden, Colin Broom and eagleowl and friends
7–8.30pm
£7.50. Book tickets.
An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.
Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival.
This concert includes performances of works composed by Daniel Padden, Colin Broom and eagleowl and friends.
Daniel Padden is a composer and musician based in Scotland. His music involves a myriad different instruments and sound sources, moving between countless styles. He has performed and recorded extensively throughout Europe and North America, as a solo artist and as a member of both Volcano The Bear and The One Ensemble.
Colin Broom is a Scottish composer. He was the founder and co-director of Invention Ensemble from 1998 - 2004. He has worked with several ensembles including Icebreaker, Orchestra of Opera North, Edinburgh Quartet, Tyrolean Ensemble for Contemporary Music, South Bank Gamelan and Red Note. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Having honed their craft over the last 8 years, slowcore miserabilists eagleowl released their critically acclaimed debut album this silent year on Fence Records earlier in the year. For this project they will be collaborating with friends from other Edinburgh acts including Broken Records, Meursault and Nap Sholty.
8 August 2013
Exhibition Preview - Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds
6–8pm
Free to attend, all welcome
The opening of the exhibition Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds, the first Nam June Paik exhibition in Scotland. No other artist has had greater influence on the use of technology in art than Nam June Paik; he prophesied changes that would shape the contemporary world, exemplified in his pioneering ideas, Participation TV, Random Access Information and Video Commune.
The opening includes a live performance by Takehisa Kosugi at 7.15pm.
This exhibition is part of the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Art Festival.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
9 August 2013
Andrew Gannon: Work with balls #1
7–8pm
Free to attend, no booking necessary.
Andrew Gannon’s live works/performances defy easy classification. He is interested in lightness, in what constitutes work, in how close to nothing something can be and failure as a method of exploring the world.
Work with balls #1 is one in a series of performances by Andrew Gannon over August.
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
21 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
10 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 1–1:20pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
10 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 1:45–2:05pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
Winner of the New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust, the poet Billy Letford has received rave reviews for his work which combines experimental structure with cadences and accents of ordinary speech to produce “moments of transcendental insight” (The Guardian). Here, the poet brings his unique voice to the exhibition Coming into Fashion, a Century of Photography at Conde Nast.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
12 August 2013
Andrew Gannon: Work with balls #2
7–8pm
Free to attend, no booking necessary.
Andrew Gannon’s live works/performances defy easy classification. He is interested in lightness, in what constitutes work, in how close to nothing something can be and failure as a method of exploring the world.
Work with balls #2 is one in a series of performances by Andrew Gannon over August.
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
21 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
12 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 8:30–8:50am
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
12 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 9:15–9:35am
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
This performance will take place outside The Scottish Parliament, Canongate, EH99 1SP.
Art Late North is a specially programmed evening of late openings, performances, music, talks and tours involving Edinburgh Art Festival galleries north of the Royal Mile.
This year, Art Late North starts with a performance of new music by Muris, written for Sarah Kenchington's amazing Wind Pipes for Edinburgh instrument installed in Trinity Apse.
A number of tours will then wind their way to participating galleries including Canongate Venture, Edinburgh Printmakers, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Ingleby Gallery, GARAGE, Old Ambulance Depot, Open Eye Gallery, Patriothall Gallery, Rhubaba, The Royal Scottish Academy and Stills, before then joining up at City Art Centre for an exclusive live performance by FOUND.
You are free to join the tours or to make your own way, but please note that gallery closing times differ - click here to download a copy of the schedule with all details.
Please note: The performances have limited capacity. Those who book their place in advance and attend the start of the evening will be given priority access. Other attendees will be let in on a first-come, first-served basis until the venue's capacity is reached.
If you missed out on an Art Late North ticket the following galleries are open late to the public:
Until 9pm
GARAGE is open 7pm - 9pm
Until 8pm
In association with:
15 August 2013
Rosie Nimmo and Stuart Allardyce
6–6:30pm
Free admission
Rosie Nimmo (vocals) and Stuart Allardyce (guitar) will present a programme of music and songs inspired by Man Ray and his contemporaries. Evoking Paris of the 20s and 30s, they will explore jazz and contemporary music of the period that helped shape the imagery and imagination of this great artist.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
15 August 2013
Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Colin Broom and Muris
8–9.30pm
£7.50. Book tickets.
An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.
Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival.
This concert includes performances of works composed by Colin Broom and Muris.
Colin Broom is a Scottish composer. He was the founder and co-director of Invention Ensemble from 1998 - 2004. He has worked with several ensembles including Icebreaker, Orchestra of Opera North, Edinburgh Quartet, Tyrolean Ensemble for Contemporary Music, South Bank Gamelan and Red Note. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Muris are a conceptual composition and improvisation group, led by Neil Davidson and Liene Rozite. Both musicians are also members of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and crypto conceptual science fiction anti band Asparagus Piss Raindrop.
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
The band GOL uniquely fuse traditional Persian arrangements with contemporary electronica, jazz and world music. For the Art Festival, GOL will give a one-off performance within the Nam June Paik Resounds exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
16 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 5:30–5:50pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
16 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 6:15–6:35pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
16 August 2013
Fashion Show: 21st Century Kilts and Iona Crawford Fashion Show
6.30–8pm
Free with the price of an exhibition ticket (Adult £5, concessions £3.50)
Participants will enjoy a beer and a special tour of Dressed to Kill and Coming into Fashion. Howie Nicholsby's 21st Century Kilts offer a unique and modern interpretation of the iconic traditional Scottish garment - the kilt. Renowned for innovative and intricate garment structure fused with trademark tailoring, the Iona Crawford collections are unashamedly elegant.
17 August 2013
Andrew Gannon: Standing work
7–8pm
Free to attend, no booking necessary.
Andrew Gannon’s live works/performances defy easy classification. He is interested in lightness, in what constitutes work, in how close to nothing something can be and failure as a method of exploring the world.
Standing work is one in a series of performances by Andrew Gannon over August.
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
21 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
17 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 1:45–2:05pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
17 August 2013
Performance: The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh
Performance time: 1–1:20pm
Free to attend
This is one of The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh's public performances on the streets of the city, led by composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson. The Complaints Choir is made up of Edinburgh residents who have come together to sing their complaints outloud. Come and see if you agree!
17 August 2013
Performance: JRF Rogue Milliner and “Hustle” Dance Troupe
2pm
Free with the price of an exhibition ticket (Adult £5, concessions £3.50)
Experience a double feast for the eyes with spectacular millinery from the creative mind of JRF Rogue Milliner fused with the expert stylings of “Hustle” Dance Troupe and set to a carefully selected playlist on JRF's trusty gramophone at the City Art Centre.
19 August 2013
Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Daniel Padden and Brian Irvine
7–8.30pm
£7.50. Book tickets.
An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.
Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival. Each concert in the series will feature a different performance programme of works.
This concert includes performances of works composed by Daniel Padden and Brian Irvine.
Daniel Padden is a composer and musician based in Scotland. His music involves a myriad different instruments and sound sources, moving between countless styles. He has performed and recorded extensively throughout Europe and North America, as a solo artist and as a member of both Volcano The Bear and The One Ensemble.
Brian Irvine is Northern Irish composer whose body of work reflects an obsessive love of music creation in all its forms. It includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale community oratorios, film and dance scores as well as numerous ensemble, solo, chamber pieces. Together with his own 12 -piece ensemble (BBC Radio 3 music award winners) he has toured extensively throughout the world. For the last four years he has been the Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast and is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster.
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
Lead singer with Idlewild, Woomble is highly acclaimed for his solo releases of contemporary folk, and will perform an acoustic set in response to the exhibition From Fleece to Fibre at Dovecot Studios.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
Art Late South is a specially programmed evening of late openings, performances, music, talks and tours involving Edinburgh Art Festival galleries south of the Royal Mile.
This year, Art Late South starts at Edinburgh College of Art with a special performance of Parley for Power, a musical play written by Alan Bissett and Neu Reekie's Michael Pedersen, with puppets and music by Carla Easton of TeenCanteen and Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines.
Tours then depart for galleries including Dovecot Studios, New Media Scotland and Summerhall. The final performance was from The Merrylees in the Georgian Gallery of Talbot Rice Gallery.
Parley for Power is a short play written for the festival by poet Michael Pedersen (Neu! Reekie!) and award-winning playwright/novelist Alan Bissett.
Based in a world where cats and dogs engage in wild debate over issues of identity and independence. A vote will determine whether they rid themselves of the moniker of 'pet' and all associated ties to their petitude.
Performed alongside visuals and puppets crafted by artist Carla Easton and with music written and performed by Easton (TeenCanteen) and Eugene Kelly (of indie legends The Vaselines).
Parley for Power promises humour, pathos, a potpourri of philosophy, plus the odd dash of something political.
This performance will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court as part of Art Late South, an evening of gallery tours and performances. Please note, tickets for Parley for Power do not guarantee entry to other performances at Art Late South - though we will happily accommodate you if there's space.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
22 August 2013
Fashion Show: Jane Davidson - A preview of the Autumn/Winter 2013 Collections
6.45pm
Free with the price of an exhibition ticket (Adult £5, concessions £3.50)
Jane Davidson, a family run independent designer boutique based in Edinburgh, will showcase its Autumn/Winter Collections 2013/14 with a fashion show. The event will start with a refreshment, followed by a tour of Coming into Fashion. Hair by the Charlie Miller artistic team.
24 August 2013
Festival Detours: Louise Ahl (Ultimate Dancer) at Inverleith House
6–6.40pm
£4. Book tickets.
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
Louise Ahl is an exciting contemporary choreographer and performer, whose alter-ego Ultimate Dancer will create a one-off performance at Inverleith House, interacting with the exhibition Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations.
Spectators are to meet at 6pm at the West Gate to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on Arboretum Place.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
Inverleith House
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR
0131 248 2971/2849
24 August 2013
Performance: JRF Rogue Milliner and “Hustle” Dance Troupe
2pm
Free with the price of an exhibition ticket (Adult £5, concessions £3.50)
Come and watch as JRF Rogue Milliner’s glorious pieces adorn the heads of "Hustle" dance troupe, who will be jiving to songs of yesteryear. DJ-ed by JRF and his magnificent vintage gramophone at the City Art Centre.
26 August 2013
Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Brian Irvine and eagleowl and friends
7–8.30pm
£7.50. Book tickets.
An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.
Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival. Each concert in the series will feature a different performance programme of works.
This concert includes performances of works composed by Brian Irvine and eagleowl and friends.
Brian Irvine is Northern Irish composer whose body of work reflects an obsessive love of music creation in all its forms. It includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale community oratorios, film and dance scores as well as numerous ensemble, solo, chamber pieces. Together with his own 12 -piece ensemble (BBC Radio 3 music award winners) he has toured extensively throughout the world. For the last four years he has been the Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast and is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster.
Having honed their craft over the last 8 years, slowcore miserabilists eagleowl released their critically acclaimed debut album this silent year on Fence Records earlier in the year. For this project they will be collaborating with friends from other Edinburgh acts including Broken Records, Meursault and Nap Sholty.
29 August 2013
magic_hour_005: Click Here To Start, with Catriona James and Lucy Pawlak (performance)
7–8.30pm
Free, booking not required.
Lovely Sky will culminate in a series of enactments of the space with physical performer, Catriona James.
James and Pawlak will work with the written materials, maps and architectural structures produced over the course of the month to devise a series of potential encounters.
Catriona is an actor and physical performer based in Cardiff, with a particular interest in devised work and cabaret. Recent work includes outdoor site-specific dance projects with Constanza Macras DorkyPark in Berlin, and National Theatre Wales in North Wales.
Please see www.catrionajames.com for full credits and up-to-date news.
29 August 2013
Fashion Show & Pop up Shop: Jaggy Nettle DIY: A Global Collective
6.45pm
Free with the price of an exhibition ticket (Adult £5, concessions £3.50)
DIY is a global collective of the world’s hottest new design talent working exclusively with Scottish fabrics. Launching at the City Art Centre with Jaggy Nettle in collaboration with three of China’s most hyped young design stars via the mediums of catwalk, designers and pop up shop.