30 August 2011
Artlink Tours: In the Loop & In the Frame
11-12pm
For further information and to book: [email protected] or 0131 229 3555
In the Loop is an audio assisted tour for visitors with hearing loss and In the Frame is a verbal description tour for visitors with a visual impairment. Join us for a walk around the exhibitions with Zoë Fothergill, Curator, Education & Development.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
30 August 2011
Sounds from Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh, 1951
1-2pm
Free
Booking Essential
A sound installation in the EAF Pavilion with introduction from Alice Ladenburg
The Edinburgh People’s Festival (1951-1954) was set up as a true celebration of Gaelic and Scottish culture and pre-dates the Fringe Festival as a response to the perceived elitism of the International Festival. The first People’s Festival Ceilidh (held in Oddfellows Hall and arranged by renowned Scottish poet and folk song collector Hamish Henderson) was considered to be one of the catalysts for the folk revival in Scotland.
Sounds from Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh will be playing at the Pavilion on the hour, every hour throughout the day.
A project by Alice Ladenburg in association with The School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives and courtesy of the Alan Lomax Archive
www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/archives.htm
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH1
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