23 August 2014
Spotlight Tour
11am
Free, no booking necessary.
Arpita Singh, The Roadmap Creeps In the Page of My Notebook, 2012, watercolour on paper
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.
23 August 2014
GENERATION Tours at Modern One
11am, 1pm
Free, no booking required
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Free discussion-led tours of the GENERATION exhibition focusing on key themes and artists.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One)
75 Belford Road, EH4 3DR
0131 624 6200
23 August 2014
Let's Make a Picture Book (Childrens Illustration Workshop)
11:30am-12:30pm
Free, limited places. Book tickets here.
An interactive class in which we will design characters and create a story together, illustrated by MA student Laura Darling. Laura specialises in children's picture books and finds inspiration everywhere. She loves animals and you will often find her at the zoo drawing characters for her books.
Requirements: participants to bring a small object or toy.
Parents and 10 children age 3-8 max.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
23 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Art and Commonwealth
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Steve Carr, Burn Out, 2009, 16 mm film transferred to video, video still
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
23 August 2014
Tessa Lynch: Artist Talk
2pm
Free with entry to Jupiter Artland.
Tessa Lynch, Selfie (public sculpture) 2013, Courtesy of the artist
Tessa Lynch has put together a panel of experts who will discuss the issues that Raising puts forward. The artist explores areas such as land claiming rights, collective production as a mode of making, contemporary housing and dwelling. The discussion will take place on the sculpture following its construction. A workshop with the artist will precede the talk.
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Nr Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900
23 August 2014
Out of Left Field
3pm
£3 (£2 concession)
Out of Left Field incorporates an exciting variety of elements which serve to challenge and engage with the audience. The performance utilises all of the crucial elements which make up a sporting contest: competitors, security guards, umpires, mascots, scorekeepers, opening ceremony performers and, most importantly, a live audience.
Out of Left Field draws on its participants' strengths in a range of disciplines and blurs the line between art and sport. An interactive piece, the work is brought into existence by the audience’s presence and participation. It encourages them to question the behaviour of crowds, the effect of commentary on real-time happenings, and the characterisation of figures in the public eye. It is an all-inclusive affair; everyone involved plays the game.
31 July – 31 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers 2014, photograph by David Anderson
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.
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
Collective
City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
0131 556 1264
Dovecot Studios
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
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.
Katie Paterson100 Billion SunsConfetti cannon, 3216 pieces of paperInstallation view Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk, Edinburgh, 2014Image courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
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.