21 August 2015
Friday Walking Tour
1pm
£4
Book here, or purchase from the Festival Kiosk on Blair Street
Our enthusiatic volunteers will show you around.
Every Friday at 1pm, we end the week with a Walking Lunch Tour. Armed with a brown-bag lunch, this tour is designed to give you a snapshot of the festival during your lunch break.
The tour requires booking at least 24 hours in advance.
21 August 2015
GARAGE presents: Skatgobs, The Y Bend and special guests
7-9pm
Free
Skatgobs is the visceral voal improv trio of Phil Minton, Dylan Nyoukis and Luke Poot. Despite having performed together in various combinations and incarnations, this will be the first time they've appeared in Scotland as a trio. Channeling and contorting the voice intoenveloping textures and contours that can be subtley crepuscaular one moment and howlingly nightmarish the next, all three are peerless vocal performers.
For more details and suprises, visit the GARAGE website.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
The first female, Scottish Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history, Carol Ann Duffy's combination of tenderness and toughness, humour and lyricism, unconventional attitudes and conventional forms, has won her a very wide audience of readers and listeners. We are privileged to have her at Talbot Rice Gallery as part of this year's festival.
Carol Ann will collaborate with musician, composer and actor John A Sampson for the event.
Please note, this performance recommended for age 12 updwards.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
‘Adam Dome’ of General Register House, ceiling of top-lit domed rotunda.
Image credit: Deb Marshall, Courtesy of the Keeper of the Records of Scotland
Trace is a new, part-improvised, group-vocal acoustic performance work created within and in response to the vast, neo-classical ‘Adam Dome’ of General Register House.
It emerges from an experimental vocal process of ‘opening up’ and ‘re-articulating’ relationships with space and place in the immediate and intimate moment that each work is made. For the Edinburgh Art Festival, the place is the historic purpose-built eighteenth century home of Scotland’s contemporary working archive of personal history.
This durational performance work will evolve moment-by-moment through a dynamic interchange between the vocalists and the acoustic dynamics of the space, and people who are present. There will be no special seating for this short performance, allowing the audience to move and experience the shifting quality of the sound from different positions within the room. Their movement, in turn will influence the performance of the vocalists and the acoustics of the room.
Using sound as a sculptural medium to explore perception of place and time through site-specific and immersive works, Deb Marshall’s approach is intensely personal and wholly public. It is collaborative in that no work is ever completed solo – depending always on the presence of others participating with or without intent as performers or audience. Her works emerge through live or pre-recorded sound interventions that respond to and challenge the meaning of what is manifest in the visual field - the nature of the specific place and the objects within it.
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13 – 27 August 2015
David Sherry: Avoiding Answer
Thu 13, How do small fish survive in the big sea, 1—3pm
Thu 20, Journey unknown, 1—3pm
Thu 27, Baggage Performance, 1—3pm
Image courtesy of the artist, 2015
During the festival, artist David Sherry will draw attention to the events of everyday life through juxtaposing subtle interventions alongside absurd observations. From exploring the role of humour through street interventions, to manifesting the concept of personal ‘baggage’ into a physical reality, this playful work reflects on the social interactions and awkwardnesses that are an inherent,
if painful, part of being human.
Sherry will be presenting a number of live performances in St. Andrews Square, city centre. His performances ‘look at the role of an artist as a global citizen, processing this concept in a set of serious and ridiculous ways. Juxtaposing commonplace tasks with primitive ideals. Searching for ones primitive self while languishing in a world of virtual distractions.’
With support from Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow and Mother’s tankstation, Dublin.
30 July – 30 August 2015
Explorers
Designed for children and families, Explorers is a special trail through the art festival, with activities focussed on key exhibitions and commissions from the festival programme. Download an activity pack here.
Participating galleries and exhibitions for 2015 include:
Dovecot Gallery: Kwang Young Chun, Aggregations
Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6.30pm
Ingleby Gallery: Charles Avery, The People and Things of Onomatopoeia
Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm. Sun, 12pm-5pm (August only)
Old Royal High School: Kemang Wa Lehulere, Join the dots
Mon—Sun, 10am—6pm
Activity pack available to download soon.
Summer School
Take part in our free to attend Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers Summer School that involves a guided visit to the artwork and a practical art activity class.
Training for facilitators, teachers & support workers
Work with artists in Edinburgh Art Festival venues to explore how to engage your groups with the free galleries, commissions and events on offer.
Thu 30 July
Upper Primary P5–P7:
Tue 11 & Wed 12 August
Lower Primary P1–P4:
Thu 13 & Fri 14 August
All workshops are free to attend but booking is essential. For information and booking, please contact Kate MacKay: [email protected]
30 July – 30 August 2015
Free Daily Guided Tours
Sat-Thu, 2pm
Free
During the festival, each afternoon at 2pm there are free guided tours of venues, leaving from the festival Kiosk on Blair Street (no booking required).
With different routes to choose from , these are a great way to find your way through the city and explore the festival.
1 – 30 August 2015
Art Late has finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Film Screenings have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Festival Detours have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Artist Talks have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Explorers has finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Special Events have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015