9 August 2014

Spotlight Tour

11am

Free, no need to book.

Explore the exhibitions at City Art Centre with the help of our Visitor Assistants. Each day there will be a different tour relating to our varied exhibitions. There's no need to book: please meet at reception. 

A portable loop system is available to amplify the speaker. The fm loop system is compatible with hearing aids with a T-switch and can be used with headphones.

9 August 2014

GENERATION Tours at Modern One

11am, 1pm

Free, no booking required

Free discussion-led tours of the GENERATION exhibition focusing on key themes and artists.

9 August 2014

Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Art and Commonwealth

1pm

Free, no booking necessary

Join us at the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk every lunchtime during the festival for a free guided tour of parts of our programme. Led by our volunteers, our tours are a great way to find your way through the city and the festival. All tour routes are flexible and can be altered depending on your interests; if there’s an exhibition you really want to see just ask and we’ll try to fit it in. 

As the Commonwealth Games conclude in Glasgow, we’ll lead this tour to exhibitions that explore work by artists from Commonwealth countries, and that investigate what we hold in common across countries and continents. 

9 August 2014

Enchanting Things

3pm

To unpack the themes of enchantment, theatricality and the everyday present in Augusto Corrieri and Vincent Gambini's exhibition at Rhubaba, Augusto and Vincent will be joined by Carl Lavery, Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow. Featuring a show and tell by Gambini on his research into magic and misdirection.

4 – 9 August 2014

Remote Performances: Broadcasts from Outlandia

4-9 August

For one week in August, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents will be broadcast live from Outlandia, a specially designed treehouse studio and field station located in Glen Nevis.

Both UK and international artists will reflect on ideas of remoteness, history and the tensions between nature and industry, tourism and heritige, whilst transmitting their interactions with the land, in collaboration with art radio station Resonance104.4fm. 

The artists involved are:

Available through our website on the dates above.

remoteperformances.co.uk

thisisliveart.co.uk

31 July – 17 August 2014

The GENERATOR (Ages 4+)

2-4.30pm

Free, drop in.

Drop in to the National Gallery art lab and have fun imagining the art of the future. Using the artworks in the GENERATION exhibition as inspiration to experiment, explore and create your own masterpiece! Travel the boundaries between art and music, invent your personal sculptural technique and find out how to 'un-paint' a picture.

31 July – 31 August 2014

Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers

Designed for children and families, Explorers is a special activity trail through the art festival. Pick up your free activity booklet and map from participating galleries and try a series of fun, creative activities. 

Participating galleries: 

City Art Centre: Mon–Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 12–5pm

Collective: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm

Dovecot Studios: Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6.30pm

All participating exhibitions are free to attend. 

EAF Explorers has been developed by Alchemy Arts.

31 July – 31 August 2014

Art Space

Come and explore the City Art Centre ArtSpace in the Collection Gallery. Have fun experimenting with our inspiring art materials and create landscapes, still lives and portraits. This space is open during normal gallery opening times. 

31 July – 31 August 2014

100 Billion Suns

Various dates between 31 July - 31 August

1pm

Contact Ingleby Gallery on 0131 556 4441 or at [email protected] for more details. 

Ingleby Gallery will stage 10 performances of Katie Paterson’s 100 Billion Suns, timed to mark key events during the Edinburgh Art Festival programme. A hand-held cannon will fire 3,216 pieces of confetti, matching the colour and quantity of all the gamma ray bursts known to have occurred in the universe.

Please contact Ingleby Gallery for further details.

1 – 31 August 2014

Old Royal High School guided walk

Tours leave at 4pm from the City Art Centre reception desk

Every day from the exhibition opening until 31 August we’ll lead a tour from City Art Centre to our second exhibition site at the Old Royal High School on Regent Road, where you’ll discover works by Amar Kanwar and Shilpa Gupta.

1 – 31 August 2014

The House of Adelaida Ivanova

Thu-Sat, 7pm

Free, book your tickets by emailing [email protected].

Villa Design Group present The House of Adelaida Ivanovna, an exhibition of sculptural and scenographic objects providing the set for nightly performances of a new version of Gogol’s drama The Gamblers. The exhibition and performances will form the third part of a year-long project entitled The Inauguration of the Russian Season, dedicated to Villa Design Group’s ongoing research into the lost texts of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol and the larger cultural and aesthetic regimes of Tsarist Russia. This line of inquiry continues the group's interest in queer histories, the relationship between objects and subjectivity, the aesthetics of cultural value and the mining of conservative political regimes for new radical potential. Throughout the project, Villa Design Group narrate the process of an architectural competition of proposals for a new library designed to house Gogol’s lost texts.

In this, the third part of the project, Villa Design Group will re-imagine Gogol’s drama and its themes of criminality, homosociality, facades, games, and neurosis as a conference of interior designers discuss the new library. The interior designers present themselves as a cabal of criminals committed to overturning the functional and rhetorical requirements of architecture, whilst trying to find a traitor in their midst; all set within Yves Saint Laurent’s faux Russian dacha, where they play cards.