18 August 2011
The Gallowa Hills (1783 / 1953 / 2011)
11 - 4pm (30mins - every hour, on the hour)
Free, no booking required
Sounds from... The Gallowa Hills
A sound installation in the EAF Pavilion
Ten recordings (taken between 1953 - 1961) of Scottish traveller and folk singer, Jeannie Robertson, singing 'The Gallowa Hills', a song believed to originate from 'The Braes of Galloway' by William Nicholson (Scottish poet, born August 1783)
A project by Alice Ladenburg in association with The School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives
www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/archives.htm
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
18 August 2011
Talk: The King James Bible Language and Literature
1.30pm
Free with an exhibition admission ticket.
To book and for further information contact Margaret Findlay on
[email protected] or 0131 529 3963
The King James Bible is an English Bible with origins in Scotland. In this talk Gordon Campbell will describe the language of the King James Bible in terms of the translators' ...
In the seventeenth century its language was deemed to be simple and accessible to all; in the eighteenth century it was regarded as old-fashioned and ungrammatical; the Victorians reverenced its language to the point of idolatry, and the Edwardians thought that Shakespeare might have had a hand in it. The talk will conclude with an account of the extent to which the language of the King James Bible has become embedded in present-day English.
Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester. In October 2010 OUP published his Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 and his 400th anniversary edition of the Bible.
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
18 August 2011
Venetian Ball
10pm - 3am
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Wee Red Bar
Edinburgh College Of Art
74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH3 9DF
To celebrate the launch of LINE magazine’s ‘Illuminated Artist’ issue and the installation of the Virtual Biennale project within Karen Forbes’ Solar Pavilion during the EAF, we will be hosting a Venetian Ball.
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 221 6000
15 – 28 August 2011
The Agent Ria: Spelling the Myth
12.20pm – 1.20pm
£4 entry to screening
To book (from 1 Aug): 0131 243 3596
Join us before the screening for an introduction to The Agent Ria channel, its history and approach.
Fringe Venue 18, Sweet Grassmarket: City 2, Apex City Hotel, 61 Grassmarket, EH1 2JF
Box Office: 0131 243 3596
The Agent Ria: 07989 393 397