EAF
Special
Events
2007
The Edinburgh Art Festival Special
Events are completely free of charge.
To ensure a place we recommend you
book in advance at the Information
Station at Stills, Venue 32,
either in person
or by phoning
00 44 (0) 777 169 3470.
Throughout the Festival our specially commissioned talks and walks explore
common themes in the
exhibitions but also address the wider context
of the city of Edinburgh – its geology, its green spaces, the historic
old town and the impressive modernist buildings. Pre-booking for these
popular
events is a must and we recommend that you wear sensible footwear on
walks.
Over the weekend of 10 & 11 August, we are throwing a hoolie* and
you are invited. Based
on successful nights in London, New York and Amsterdam, on Friday 10
August, Edinburgh’s galleries will open late into the evening.
See an exhibition after work without having to sneak
out early, or pop in on your way to the theatre.
Enjoy a drink with friends and take part in a range of events featuring
guest DJs, cutting-edge music
and specially curated art tours. All within easy reach of Edinburgh’s
great bars and restaurants.
On Saturday 11 August join us for good
clean fun at the EAF Family Day.
Just down
the hill from the city centre, the world famous Royal Botanic Garden
is an oasis of calm
and creativity. Lively interactive events offer
families the opportunity to explore the exhibition at Inverleith House – introducing
you to the rich
and varied world of modern and contemporary art.
*hoolie – a lively Scottish party.
Sunday 29 July
Walk
Graham Domke – Pop into Art Galleries
1pm, Meet at Stills, 23 Cockburn St
A popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass produced, young, witty,
sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business tour round a number of exhibitions
in the city centre.
Wednesday 1 August
Interactive Story Tour
The Cat’s Whiskers
10.30am – 12 noon and 2 – 3.30pm
Stills, 23 Cockburn St
‘The Cat’s Whiskers’ takes children aged four and above
and their families on a fabulous storytelling adventure. Visiting three
Festival venues and exploring contrasting exhibitions, this tour engages
children in the tale of one cat’s exciting adventures in Edinburgh
during the Art Festival. Bring your own whiskers, ears or tail!
Saturday 4 August
Talk
Ilana Halperin: Towards Heilprin Land
12.30pm, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street
Ilana Halperin delivers her celebrated performative lecture on volcanoes.
Ilana explores the relationship between geological phenomena and daily
life and this is given a particular focus to Edinburgh by specially commissioned
Geological Tours by Angus Miller.
Saturday 4 August
Walk
Angus Miller: (Geowalks) Geological Walk
2.30pm and 4.30pm
Meet at the entrance of the Scottish Parliament
Volcanoes at the heart
of the City of Edinburgh? Absolutely! Enjoy a guided tour around Hutton’s Section at Holyrood Park, the most
famous geological site in Edinburgh. Angus is passionate about helping
people to discover Scotland’s rich geological heritage and linking
past and present use of the landscape to the rocks beneath.
Wednesday 8 August
Talk
Sara Barker (Cove Park) and Steve Mykietyn (Futureacademy):
Artists and Residencies
6pm, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street
Sara Barker is an artist based in Glasgow and is currently showing at
Mary Mary. Sara undertook a residency at Cove Park in 2005, and subsequently
joined the staff
as Programme Assistant. She will talk about Cove Park’s history,
development, and residency programme from both perspectives.
Steve Mykietyn studied at Massachusetts and Edinburgh Colleges of Art.
His work deals with mysticism, belief and pop-culture. A coordinator
for Future Academy, Steve
has just completed a residency at Sumu, Finland.
Wednesday 8 August
Interactive Story Tour
The Cat’s Whiskers
10.30am – 12 noon and 2 – 3.30pm
Stills, 23 Cockburn St
‘The Cat’s Whiskers’ takes children aged four and above
and their families on a fabulous storytelling adventure.
Visiting three Festival venues and exploring contrasting exhibitions,
this tour engages children in the tale of one cat’s exciting adventures
in Edinburgh during the Art Festival. Bring your own whiskers, ears or
tail!
Friday 10 August
Event
Art Late
From 6pm at venues across the city.
Based on successful nights in London, New York and Amsterdam on Friday
10 August Edinburgh’s galleries will open late into the evening.
Enjoy a drink with friends and take part in a range of talks and events,
featuring guest DJs, cutting-edge music and poetry and specially curated
art tours.
Click here for more details on ART LATE
Saturday 11 August
Event
Family Day
11am – 2pm, Inverleith
House
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Celebrating the exhibitions of the legendary William Eggleston and Rosita
McKenzie Inverleith opens it’s doors to children and families for
a day of art style fun and dancing. Dress up, travel back in time and
dance away to the sounds of the 1970s at the disco, use fuzzy felts to
make you own Eggleston picture, feature in your own Polaroid Portrait,
watch how the plants are prepared for the Botanics Herbarium, make you
own Garden Collage. Why not try a bit of everything?
This event is free and you can take part in activities from 11am until
2pm.
Simply pop to the Botanic Gardens and follow the Family Day signs!
Saturday 11 August
Talk
John Calcutt: Putting myself in the Picture:
Festival art and... that reminds me
6pm, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street
John Calcutt is a senior lecturer at Glasgow School of
Art. A former art critic for Scotland On Sunday and
The Guardian, he has written extensively on
contemporary Scottish art.
Saturday 11 August
Walk
Graham Domke – Pop into Art Galleries
1pm, Meet at Stills, 23 Cockburn St
A popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass produced, young, witty,
sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business tour round a number of exhibitions
in central locations with references to popular culture.
Sunday 19 August
Walk
Clive Fenton: Modernist Architecture Walk
1pm and 3pm, Meet at South West Corner
of St Andrew’s Square
Inspired by the Festival exhibitions of Alex Hartley, Nathan Coley and
Michael Craik, Architectural Historian Clive Fenton navigates us from
St. Andrew’s Square to Sciennes in search of great buildings by
Basil Spence
and William Kininmonth.
Thursday 23 August
Talk
Richard West: Photography Lecture
6pm, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street
In response to the strong showing of diverse photographic practice at
this year’s Festival, Richard West will talk about contemporary
art photography in the UK.
Richard West is editor of Source and The Vacuum.
Source is a quarterly review of contemporary photography in Britain and
Ireland and The Vacuum is a cultural
Paper for Belfast.
Friday 24 August
Talk
Anthony Auerbach: Reading Material – International
Necronautical Society Lecture
7pm, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street
Scratch under the surfance of our beautiful city and discover the dark
side. Founded in 1999 the International Necronautical Society (INS) is
a semi-fictional organisation described as “replaying the avant-garde
along the faultline of death”. Anthony Auerbach is an artist and
theorist and concerned with cross disciplinary practices. He is responsible
for the INS Inspectorate Berlin aerial reconnaissance phase.
Friday 24 August
Walk
Catherine Street: Edinburgh’s Death Spaces
and the Word’s
8pm, Meet at Stills, 23 Cockburn St
Artist Catherine Street creates a journey drawing on the City’s
dark side of the imagination. Catherine is an Edinburgh based artist
whose work explores themes of myth, politics and the supernatural. Street
will weave stories of Edinburgh’s old town in response to Auerbach’s
INS lecture.
Saturday 25 August
Nature Walk
Art and Environment
12 noon, Meet at Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art
Here at the Art Festival we notice that what’s happening in the
media is often reflected in the Festival programme. There is a great
deal of environmental concern today, rightly so we think! From the Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art and The Dean, along the Water of Leith
to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, artist Charlotte Watters explores
artworks in natural settings including Charles Jencks, George Rickey,
Richard Long, Richard Wright, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andy Goldsworthy,
Rose Frain, Alan Johnston and Barbara Hepworth.
Sunday 26 August
Nature Walk
Jardins Publics and the Book Festival
12 noon, Meet at the entrance of the Edinburgh Book Festival
in Charlotte Square Gardens
Charlotte Watters unearths artists from the Edinburgh International Festival’s
visual art programme curated by Katrina Brown - Michael Lin, Apolonija
Sustersic and Meike Schalk, and from the Edinburgh Book Festival - Alice
Betts and Fanny Lam Christie.
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