🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 11-17 Oct 2023
Lau-Land, local theatre wins national awards, Fruitmarket festival announced, boom saloon’s climate cinema + happy birthday Sneaky Pete’s
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🏆 Capital Theatres was one of three Scottish winners at the UK Theatre Awards on Sunday. Their dementia-friendly programme, which started in 2015, won the Excellence in Inclusivity award. May Sumbwanyambe won Best New Play for ;Enough Of Him’ and Scottish Ballet won the Achievement in Dance prize for ‘Coppélia’. - Thanks to Thom Dibdin of All Edinburgh Theatre for sharing this news. He has been following the Capital Theatres dementia friendly programme for years has written this feature about the team and their work here.
⮑ 📆 Here are this week’s local theatre listings via All Edinburgh Theatre.
💰 Local success at the national awards theatre awards comes in the same month that the Scottish Government confirmed a £6.6m cut to the Creative Scotland budget. - Brian Ferguson has the latest on the funding fall-out in The Scotsman.
🎭 The Edinburgh Performing Arts Development project has been invited by the Fringe Society to produce a report analysing the existing and potential service provision for artists in Edinburgh. Its goal is ‘to ensure that the new space being developed by EFFS in Edinburgh’s Old Town complements and provides additionality to the city's cultural offer’. - Take part in the survey here. The deadline is Friday 13 October.
“In the UK Government’s Spring 2023 budget, £7m of Capital investment was earmarked for Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS). These funds will support EFFS in achieving its long-held goals for a community-centred space and a home for their year-round services to artists, audiences and community.” - Edinburgh Performing Arts Development project.
🎹 Fruitmarket has announced Deep Time: its first festival of new music, featuring commissions and performances from leading radical and experimental composers, musicians and improvisors. Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley said:
“It’s wonderful to see experimental new music in our new warehouse, a space we built for artistic innovation and exploration. It’s an honour to host these artists as they make space for us to think about the urgent issue of climate breakdown.”
⮑ This weekend Fruitmarket hosts the 15th birthday party of the Sneaky Pete’s venue. Ahadadream and Athens of the North are among those playing. - Tickets are close to selling out.
🎬 boom saloon is holding a film screening followed by an international panel discussion touching on climate change, loss and damage, and hopes for the future. The 28 October screening offers ‘a unique opportunity to view breathtakingly beautiful shorts sharing ecological and humanitarian stories’, whilst the panel brings together Uganda's Prime Minister of the National Youth Parliament, former Foster + Partners' designers and Creative Directors. - Booking is essential. Get tickets here.
🎻 This weekend popular local folk trio LAU bring their Lau-Land festival back to Summerhall and The Queen’s Hall. It’s a series of shows and workshops (where you can learn from top musicians) featuring artists who inspired them, including Kathryn Joseph, Rachel Sermanni, Ciaran Ryan and DJ Gemma Cairney. - The full line up and tickets are here.