🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 13 - 19 September 2023
Imogen Heap in town, Creative Mornings is back, Colony of Artists this weekend + EHFM turns five
Welcome to the 11th edition of the Culture Minute, a weekly round-up of Edinburgh’s local creative news, events, jobs and opportunities.
🎨 One of Edinburgh’s most unique hyperlocal arts events - Colony of Artists - is on this weekend in Abbeyhill. - The map and programme are here.
🎹 Exciting news for music fans: Imogen Heap has just been announced on the line-up for this month’s Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase. Register for tickets on Eventbrite. Thanks to Nicola Osborne for sharing the details.
⮑ Imogen Heap’s Q&A with Gemma Cairney is part of a wider two-day event and exhibition that ‘celebrates the visionary people and groundbreaking projects that have been part of, and inspired, the Creative Informatics programme over the past five years’. It takes place at Central Hall on 28 and 29 September and will be streaming online too.
⮑ Also announced is a show by singer Chagall, who uses Imogen Heap’s innovative MiMU Gloves in her performance.
⮑ Speakers at the event include more than 30 projects that Creative Informatics has supported in Edinburgh and South East Scotland. The accompanying exhibition is curated by Stacey Hunter of Local Heroes.
🥐 After a year off, the Edinburgh branch of Creative Mornings is making a return. The networking get-together at the Melting Pot on Calton Road on Friday 29 September and is still free, but tickets are required. - All the details and tickets are here.
🫧 If the date of Creative Mornings doesn’t work for you, or you just love zero-pressure free networking with creatives, the next Soapbox event in Leith is on 26 September between 8am-10am. - Details and free tickets are on Eventbrite. The Edinburgh Minute is a proud sponsor.
📡 Thanks to the EHFM team for sharing some highlights from this week’s broadcasting schedule:
“Our visual arts show Framework will be covering Craigmillar Now and their recent archive work on 14th Sept, and the Culture Show on 18th Sept will be talking to Arusa and Halina who run Queen’s Hall series AMPLIFI.”
🥳 There’s a banging line-up of DJs planned as EHFM celebrates five years of broadcasting next month with a special night of music at Sneaky Pete’s. It will be broadcast live on air from the booth. - The full line-up, and details of how to get a shout-out on air / in the club, are on Instagram and tickets are on RA.
🎪 Also celebrating a fifth birthday: Collective marks five years on Calton Hill this weekend with: ‘A celestial performance from artist and maker Zoë Gibson, exhibitions, local makers, street food, creative play sessions, building and astronomy tours and more’. - It’s free. Line-up and timings here.
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📚 There are more developments in the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Baillie Gifford 'greenwashing' row. - Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman.
⮑ On the theme of funding, Brian also reports today that the Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian has been thrown into doubt after the event was stripped of its Creative Scotland funding.
🎤 One festival definitely happening is Push The Boat Out, Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival, at Summerhall for three days in November. It secured National Lottery funding through Creative Scotland for the next two years. - The programme is live and tickets are now available.
“Push the Boat Out is a new festival for Scotland where a venn diagram of artforms come together, cross pollinate and collide: poetry, spoken word, live music, hip hop, songwriting, film, sound, gaming, visual art and concrete poetry.”
✍️ For some live poetry sooner, there’s a book launch today (Wednesday 14 Sept) at the Scottish Poetry Library. “Join us for the launch of Near Nature: Poetry of Dementia, an anthology comprising 50 poems by individuals with dementia, written with the help of teacher and researcher John Killick. The book features beautiful illustrations by artist Sophie Standing.” - Free tickets on Eventbrite. Thanks to a loyal reader for sharing the details.
⮑ 🗣 Poet and writer Michael Pedersen will be in conversation with Gemma Cairney at Topping & Co bookshop on Friday. - Tickets and details here.
🖼 Starting today, the ‘A Closer Look’ exhibition runs for a week at Out of the Blue drill hall in Leith. - Thanks to artist Felicity Inkpen for getting in touch with the details.
📬 Boom Saloon creative studio has launched its new newsletter.
🍌 Dovecot Studios has announced it will showcase the first exhibition in Scotland exclusively dedicated to the commercial textile designs of pop artist and icon Andy Warhol.
📚 The programme for this year’s Scottish Storytelling Festival has been published.