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Pick up the pieces with Granton’s Garden Buddies

Community Mosaic afternoon: 9 May at Granton Library

Jill Marple from Granton Library has asked me to pass on the attached invitation to you all – happily the library have received some funding to create a story garden with a community mosaic as part of it, and they would really like members of the community to come along and get involved with creating the mosaic – they would love it to have influences from lots of different cultures.

This will be happening on Saturday 9 May from 2pm -4pm (see poster (below)for details).

No artistic experience is necessary – it will be very relaxed and refreshments will be provided. Please let Gill know if you (or anyone you know) would like to go along – her contact details are on the poster.

It sounds like it will be a really fun way to create something for the whole community to enjoy!

Garden buddies Living In Harmony invite

Rachel Farrier

Development Worker – Living in Harmony

Pilton Community Health Project

Art? Free workshops

Hey, we just wanted to email to say it was great to meet you -we’ve loved meeting people during our performances of Treat, our workshops in the streets or through the books and scripts we’ve left around Edinburgh. Or maybe you picked up some FREE MONEY that we hid in the Grassmarket during our Do You Need This? campaign.

Now we need you. We’re looking for people to help us create art for Edinburgh. Art that speaks to people. That interacts with the public. This could be visual, performance, video or street art. Its really up to you.

We’d love to see you on a Thursday night 7 – 9pm at The Bongo Club.

Workshops and materials are free. Everyone aged 15-25 is welcome to come in and create new work.

For further information on Creative Electric and our work check out:

www.creative-electric.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/CreativeElectric

ART? workshops run on the following dates:

26/3/15, 2/4/15, 9/4/15, 16/4/15, 23/4/15, 30/4/15, 7/5/15, 14/5/15, 21/5/15 & 28/5/15

with work being exhibited at The Bongo Lives Festival.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all again soon.

Best Wishes

Heather & Christie

ART?

Creative Electric

www.creative-electric.co.uk

Lallie Wilson exhibition at North Edinburgh Arts

Lallie Wilson: Exhibition Opening Invite
Friday 20th March
North Edinburgh Arts
6 – 7.30pm

North Edinburgh Arts is pleased to present the first major painting exhibition by the artist Lallie Wilson. Based in Musselburgh, Lallie has a body of mixed media artworks and colourful paintings. The exhibition portrays Lallie’s life story; from a young girl in wartime Britain, to a woman still painting many years later.

Daily opening times of exhibition:

Monday 10am – 5pm
Tuesday – Thursday 10am – 7pm (except Thursdays 1-5pm)

The exhibition will run until 27 April.

North Edinburgh Arts are always on the look out for groups and artists who would like to exhibit their work. Find out more on our exhibition page here.

ART? Treat yourself!

Guerilla Arts Project

Launching on Sunday 8 March with a public performance of

TREAT

Treat:
A performance that explores the development and deterioration of emotion over time.
An interactive experience where audiences and performers share ice cream.
A social experiment.
A beautiful moment to be eaten or shared.

Treat will be performed in various locations throughout the city centre including:

Hunters Square 12.30pm

Teviot Square 1.30pm

The Grassmarket 2.30pm

With more locations to be added or discovered on the day!

Treat is the launch of Creative Electric’s new guerilla arts project supported by Creative Scotland’s Time to Shine fund and Artcore Edinburgh

Join us for performances, ice cream and to find out how you can create artwork for Edinburgh.

Workshops

Creative Electric will be holding workshops that explore visual and performance art inspired by artists that create work on and for the streets.

Street art. Installations. Interventions. Performances. Responses. The work created is up to you.

Workshops will take place on Thursday evenings from 19 March at The Bongo Club and are open to all young people aged 15+. Workshops are free and no previous arts experience is required.

Email Heather at Creative_electric@hotmail.com for more information.

Treat Background

In August 2014 director and theatre artist Heather Marshall worked alongside Kulturhuset and Stoff in Stockholm to create Treat -an exploration into the fragility of 21^st century life. Over a period of four hours she aimed to strip away the human protective façade to find a connection with someone, anyone, anything.

Heather is concerned by the exposing nature of many of today’s performance artists work and wants to keep something back for herself. Is this possible when a performer is laid bare in front of an audience over a length of time with only the drip of ice cream to focus on?

Does the façade deteriorate just as the ice cream does?

Whilst Treat was open to all it was aimed at audiences aged 15+ who may not necessarily attend arts events. It was staged in a nightclub space in the main square of Stockholm. Studion had floor to ceiling windows and an open door policy so that audiences could wander in and out or observe from outside.

There was no pressure to stay for any set amount of time, although many did stay for the full four hours. Many of the audience members said that they enjoyed the informal setting which allowed them to visit the cafe, chat to friends and engage with the performance in their own way.

Through her work with Creative Electric Heather aims to challenge how we view theatre. She is excited to create a new version of Treat for Edinburgh with short pop up performances on 8 March and durational performances at The Hidden Door Festival.

Creative Leith collaborates on ‘Love Leith’ bruncheon

LEITH CREATIVE Project Launch

Saturday 14 February 2015, 11.30 – 3.00pm

It’s been a quiet start of the year for Citizen Curator but we are back this month with some interesting new collaborations …

In partnership with LeithLate we are launching Leith Creative at a very special ‘Love Leith’ Creative Bruncheon in conjunction with Out of Blue Drill Hall.

Leith Creative is a research project investigating the cultural resources and creative industries that make up the wider area. As part of this we have been talking to some of the creative hubs that inhabit Leith, but to find out more we want to hear from individual artists and organisations living, or working, in the area. What are the success you have had or challenges that you face?

To find out more …

Join us at the Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street for informal networking, where a host of family friendly Bruncheon treats will be available from the OOTB café, as well as live music from local Leith musicians, curated by William Douglas.

This is a free event but booking is appreciated.

If you can’t make it on the day, remember to fill out and share this online survey.

Also remember to check out our new Leith Creative facebook page for future events.

For further details contact

Citizen Curator

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

21 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT

44+(0)7812167130

info@citizencurator.com

www.citizencurator.com

‘like’ us on Facebook

Citizen Curator is a contemporary arts organisation working with the history and identity of Leith and North Edinburgh. This project is supported by Creative Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Council and the Leith Benevolent Society

Our Leith Creative logo, and soon to come interactive map, is by artist/designer David Lemm. David also has work on display at the Edinburgh Printmakers, until 7 March.

Giant Christmas Doodle at Broughton High School

Burgerman loves Broughton artwork

In the run up to the holidays Broughton High School pupils have created a giant Jon Burgerman-style feast for the eyes at the main entrance to the school.

A talented group of young artists was formed – S1 pupils Robin McGillivray, Rachel Moir, Aisha Maughan, Dexter Black, Bayley Glasgow and Keeley Muir worked alongside Advanced Higher pupils Harriet Johnston, Owen Morrison, Victoria Sturgeon and Rose Subido – and after being set the challenge, the group set about adorning the windows with a herd of reindeer and festive characters which have come alive in the sky above a rooftop scene.

They worked away together over a couple of weeks to create an ‘inspired Christmas doodle’ which has raised many a smile on the way into the school!

As well as the enjoyment that being involved in a project like this brings to participants, visitors and other pupils admiring the display, the artists heard that artist Jon Burgerman himself thinks it’s awesome and has actually retweeted some of our amazing artwork!

Oh, the joys that Christmas brings! Ho ho ho!

Natalie Wingate (Broughton High School teacher)
Callum McLeod (CLD Worker Forth & Inverleith)
Photographs by Len Fife

Leith exhibition will be big draw

Exhibition celebrates Edinburgh College illustration graduates’ work

An exhibition celebrating the talented illustrators nurtured by Edinburgh College will go on display in Leith tomorrow. This is the first exhibition of the work of former illustration students who have graduated and are now working in the industry.

The exhibition, titled ‘Alumni’, will be on display at the Creative Exchange from 21 November to 4 December.

The exhibitors completed the college’s HND Visual Communication: Illustration course between 2009 and 2014, and the exhibition is intended as a celebration of their success in starting their careers as illustrators. The exhibition features a range of art using different mediums including pen and ink, digital art, spray-paint and lino-cut prints.

Sculpture Workshop to unveil stunning new building

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop to launch Creative Laboratories next month

**Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop will proudly unveil the new Creative Laboratories building – an architecturally stunning facility specifically designed for sculptors – on 20 November.**

Situated on old railway sidings in Newhaven, Creative Laboratories will create a cultural hub, dedicated to the research and production of contemporary visual art.

Designed by Sutherland Hussey Architects as an inspiring environment where artists can make and present work, the new facility is equipped with viewing and meeting spaces designed to bring audiences closer to the art being made. It will feature a 22.5m high triangular tower, a dramatic new addition to Edinburgh’s iconic skyline.

The building has been fully funded by the Arts Funding Prize for Edinburgh administered by Foundation Scotland by means of an anonymous £3 million donation.

Irene Kernan, director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) said: “This is an amazing opportunity for Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop which will enable us to fulfil our ambitions to create a world class sculpture centre in the city.

We are very fortunate to have an internationally renowned architectural practise on our doorstop in Sutherland Hussey Architects. The Arts Funding Prize represents a major investment in future generations of artists and will be a major resource for our local community in Newhaven as well as the city as a whole.”

A single-storey pavilion surrounds an outdoor courtyard linking a series of internal and external environments for events and the production and exhibition of work; Incorporating sculpture bays, project spaces, and a foundry the new facilities will complement those already in use at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Bill Scott Sculpture Centre, also designed by Sutherland Hussey, which opened in July 2012.

To mark the beginning of ESW’s new International programme, Johanna Billing will be in residence in November. A print commission by Miranda Blennerhassett and Bronze edition by Kate Ive will also launch with the opening of the new building.

At the heart of the new facility the tower is a statement of ESW’s progressive, interdisciplinary ambition. It will house a new sound commission by Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby and Rob St John and will act both as a visual and cultural beacon attracting visitors to the complex.

This large outdoor arena will enable sculptors to make ambitiously-scaled pieces while a public cafe overlooking the courtyard will encourage greater interaction with the wider area.

Feeling sheepish about the referendum!

Voters ‘flock’ to see referendum artwork!

With Thursday’s independence vote the only topic of conversation all around the country, Leith-based artist Elaine Forrest has created a timely ‘discussion piece’ – a referendum sheep’s skull!

The sculpture is studded with 20,5000 Swarovski crystals and features both a Saltire and Union Flag. The price? £3500 – a real baa-rgain!

The artwork was commissioned by George Pirie Antiques for a referendum window at their Howe Street showroom.

George Pirie said: “It only went up last week but I’ve already had lots of customers come in to say how much they like it. It’s not meant to be political at all – it’s about history and celebrating an event.”

The skull, alongside other referendum-themed pieces, will be on display until this Friday – the day we’ll find out where Scotland’s future lies.

So hurry – ewe don’t want to miss it!

LIGHTS OUT tonight

Today is the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and to mark this we are inviting everyone (from large-scale organisations like Blackpool Illuminations, Tower Bridge and Piccadilly Circus to thousands of people at home) to turn out their lights, leaving on a single light or candle for a shared moment of reflection.

You can also get involved by tweeting a LIGHTS OUT selfie or an image of your moment using the hashtag #LIGHTSOUT. And you can download the free LIGHTS OUT Jeremy Deller app and watch Deller’s short film, available for just one hour from 10pm tonight. At 11pm, the film will disappear.

Jeremy Deller is one of a number of artworks commissioned across the UK as part of LIGHTS OUT.

It’s also your last chance to write your LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Almost 20,000 letters have been sent to the Unknown Soldier since the project began in June.

Letters have arrived from all over the United Kingdom and beyond, and many well-known writers and personalities have contributed. Stephen Fry, Malorie Blackman, Andrew Motion, Dawn French, Joanna Lumley and more.

Submissions will close at 11pm tonight. Don’t miss your chance to add your voice to this new war memorial.

For further information visit www.1418now.org.uk