🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 15 - 22 January 2025
£5m for music school, Refractions film/photo fest, dozens of book events, corto.alto at the Usher Hall + new £24k writers' fund
Welcome to the 73rd edition of the Culture Minute, a weekly round-up of Edinburgh’s local creative news, events, jobs and opportunities. If I’ve missed anything please get in touch.
The most-viewed links from the last Edinburgh Culture Minute:
- 🎭 Summerhall says HMRC charges are dropped.
- 🎞️ Grassmarket Community Picturehouse unveils programme.
- 🎵 BBC Introducing at Sneaky Pete’s.
News:
🎵 The Royal High School Preservation Trust announced a funding package potentially worth £5m from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The building on Calton Hill is set to be transformed into the National Centre for Music. Construction is due to kick off this summer, aiming for completion and opening in summer 2027. - Full details on the project’s page here. There’s also a video feature on the project here.
🎭 Starting today and running until 18 March: Refractions: New Conceptions of Film + Photography - part of Edinburgh Art Festival’s year-round civic programme. It aims to connect marginalised people with creativity through film, theatre, photography, ceramics and writing. Venues include McDonald Road Library, Embassy Gallery, St Margaret’s House and a beach photoshoot hosted by Stills.
⮑ There are workshops on experimental theatre, you can document a nature walk through photography, learn about writing art criticism or shape clay in response to sensual film. The workshops are led by ‘an exceptional collection of local creatives, with care at the core’. - The full programme is here.