6 August 2014
Festival Detours: Eilidh MacAskill at City Art Centre
3pm
Tickets £4, or a family ticket for four people costs £10. Book tickets.
Ages 8 and above.
Eilidh MacAskill, The conference call of the birds
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.
Eilidh MacAskill is the founder of Fish and Game, a company creating entertaining experimental performances that straddle theatre and live art, with a particular interest in work for children. This performance, set within the surroundings of Edinburgh Art Festival's exhibition of work from around the Commonwealth, Where do I end and you begin, is called The Conference Call of the Birds. It’s created with award-winning composer Greg Sinclair and invites you, the audience, to take on the role of the birds who can’t make it to Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games.
In association with The List.
John Osborne
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.
John Osborne is a writer and poet whose funny, sweet-natured stories have received critical acclaim and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His show John Peel's Shed was a sell-out at Edinburgh Fringe in 2011. For this Detours performance, he will bring his storytelling talents to the surroundings of Collective's Ross Sinclair: 20 Years of Real Life exhibition.
In association with The List.
Collective
City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
0131 556 1264
Luke Wright: Fat Dandy
contains strong language
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.
Luke Wright is an acclaimed performance poet whose work brings a varied cast of characters to life. His live performances have taken him all over the world, and he is a regular performer at the Edinburgh festivals. For this edition of Festival Detours he will perform in the surroundings of Talbot Rice Gallery's Counterpoint exhibition.
In association with The List.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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.
Singer-songwriter Neil Pennycook plays solo and unplugged in one of his last performances as Meursault in the surroundings of New Media Scotland's Alt-w exhibition.
In association with The List.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750