Get Snappy in Stockbridge!

Get Snappy in Stockbridge
Digital photography competition
Send us your favourite image taken in and around Stockbridge.

Open to all levels but you must be library members, you can join online here – https://bit.ly/2vwmOim

Please email your entries to stockbridge.library.edin@gmail.com

Subject: Get Snappy in Stockbridge
Please supply your name and library membership number
5MB limit on images.
Closing date: 1st April 2019
The prize for the winning entry is a lovely framed art print of Stockbridge [courtesy of Wee Blue Coo]

An exhibition of all entries will shown in the library from 8-30 April.

 

Exhibition of Photographic Illusions opens

Mackie’s of Scotland are sponsoring the Exhibition of Photographic Illusions Now You See It, Now You Don’t at The Scottish Storytelling Centre.

To celebrate the Year of Young People, MagicFest have partnered with Edinburgh Young Carers and YouTube superstar Professor Richard Wiseman for a jaw-dropping photo exhibition.

The exhibition recreates a series of the most famous optical illusions, staged all over Edinburgh, with 30 young carers aged between 5 and 17 involved in the planning team and as models.

The Scottish Storytelling Centre will present the exhibition, while the Museum of Childhood will reveal the tricks of the trade, explaining how the illusions were created, and interviewing some of the young carers who were involved.

Sponsors Mackie’s of Scotland & Jessops provided funding, equipment – and ice cream.

The exhibition is open to the public from 13th December to 26th January.

Admission is free.

My Stylist and Me: Charlie Miller exhibition at Ocean Terminal

THERE is a bond that exists between a client and their hairdresser that sometimes cannot be fulfilled by anyone else. There is a trust that covers many different things.

Charlie Miller, one of Edinburgh’s top hairdressing companies, has launched its ‘My Stylist & Me’ photo exhibition in the Image Collective Gallery on the second floor at the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre.

The vision to explore the salons’ diversity in clientele and highlight the rock-solid bonds and personal relationships that have evolved, was celebrated at a drink’s reception in the gallery with some of the 26 participating stylists, their clients and other invited guests.

Jason Miller, joint managing director, said: “We are delighted to showcase some real-life client hairdressing and to collaborate with Ocean Terminal shopping centre on this exhibition.

“Working in the hair industry, you get to meet a lot of clients with their own styles, personalities, quirks and habits. As a hairdresser, it is our job to correctly interpret their needs and make sure we give them exactly what they are looking for. This exhibition is a reflection of our ways of seeing, being and doing and the end experience.”

The exhibition of 26 individual images runs throughout December 2018 and January 2019.

‘My Stylist & Me’ exhibition
The Image Collective Gallery
Management Suite, 2nd Floor
Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre
Leith EH6 6JJ

Edinburgh art/photography exhibition expresses work of artists with sight loss

An exhibition of photography and painting by two artists with sight loss opens in Edinburgh on Saturday [August 4th]‘Kaleidoscope: a blind vision of colour and light’ will express Rosita McKenzie and Fiona Powell’s ways of seeing through abstract depictions of the landscape and world around them. Continue reading Edinburgh art/photography exhibition expresses work of artists with sight loss

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Shoreline: exhibition opens this weekend

Celebrate Edinburgh’s stunning shoreline and the exciting community regeneration underway along the 27km from Queensferry to Joppa – visit the exhibition, meet the people and delight in their art, then make your mark by tagging the shoreline map to say which area you think should be preserved and which could be improved.

You are invited to join us:

Friday, July 27

18:30 – 20:30 John Hope Gateway

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Arboretum Place

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Edinburgh’s coastline communities have a proud heritage of distinct social and cultural traditions where a sense of community has endured. Time has not always been kind, industries have suffered and sensitive redevelopment is required. Yet, this seaboard is home to an internationally important flora and fauna which could soon harvest new benefits for those along the shore.

The Edinburgh Shoreline project has launched at a time of community desire for regeneration. It presents a real opportunity for tangible change. Steered by those who use the area for work and play – with backing from key agencies – it could become an enduring testament to the power of communities celebrating their past and protecting their future.

A new vibrancy can be felt in all kinds of activity around the beaches, harboursides and proms. Natural habitats can be at the heart of this Renaissance.