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New festival programme unveilings, a new Scottish showing of Vermeer paintings, and BBC Radio 6's Change The Tune campaign.
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Former feature writer and music editor of The Scotsman, former arts editor and features editor of the Sunday Herald, sometime contributor to BBC Radio Scotland on (variously) music, films, visual art and pirates.
Former feature writer and music editor of The Scotsman, former arts editor and features editor of the Sunday Herald, sometime contributor to BBC Radio Scotland on (variously) music, films, visual art and pirates.
New festival programme unveilings, a new Scottish showing of Vermeer paintings, and BBC Radio 6's Change The Tune campaign.
The connection between art and activism in the late 20th century UK is the subject of a new exhibition opening in Edinburgh next week, one focussing on women artists in particular and landing in the capital fresh from a blockbuster run in a prestigious London gallery.
This month he draws on his 30 years of experience to perform An A-Z Of Orchestral Triangle Playing, an irreverent and humorous account of life in one of the worldâs top orchestras. Mick Doran appears at Perth Theatre, Perth on May 28 (8pm) as part of the Perth Festival, and Glasgowâs Websterâs Theatre on May 29 (8pm).
A huge multi-media spectacular devoted to one of the 19th centuryâs most famous and celebrated artists will soon be landing in Glasgow, offering newbies and aficionados alike an intimate look at his life, work and legacy â and in a way the artist himself could never have imagined.
Luke Sutherland is a musician and author. Raised in Orkney and Perthshire he was a founder member of 1990s Glasgow post-rock group Long Fin Killie and then formed Bows with Danish singer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen. He has performed with Mogwai and is currently a member of experimental band Rev Magnetic. His debut novel, Jelly Roll, was nominated for the 1998 Whitbread Prize and his autobiographical 2004 novella, Venus As A Boy, was later adapted by the National Theatre of Scotland. On May 11, in a live performance at Edinburghâs Cameo Cinema as part of this yearâs Folk Film Gathering, he will premiere his new soundtrack for Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenkoâs iconic 1930 masterpiece Earth, alongside fellow Scottish musician Seamy Wu (3.15pm).
Glasgowâs much-loved festival of outdoor theatre is returning in June for another season of drama which, as always, has the works of William Shakespeare at its core. But with the ongoing widening of the repertoire, this yearâs programme will also include adaptations of a pair of 19th century literary classics from England and Norway, both of which turn on the experiences of women.
SinĂŠad Gleeson is a prize-winning Irish author whose 2019 essay collection Constellations: Reflections From Life won an Irish Book Award and was later shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, one of Scotlandâs top literary awards. In 2022 she collaborated with Kim Gordon, guitarist with cult America band Sonic Youth, to co-edit This Womanâs Work, a book of essay on music written by women. This month sees the publication of her debut novel, Hagstone, set among a community of women on a rugged island which is home to reclusive artist Nell. Whatâs the last book you read?
Catherine Prasifka says: âIf youâd asked me, when I was a teenager, what I felt about social media, I would have said: âThereâs a capacity for harm but also a capacity for goodâ. But I think the direction everything is going in is diminishing the capacity for good, and making capacity for harm so much greater.â
A new museum dedicated to the life, work, legacy and quirky vision of one of Scotlandâs best-loved artists opens next weekend overlooking his beloved Clyde estuary and close to where he spent much of his working life.
The madness, as Graeme Armstrong refers to it, was the life he led as a boy embedded in gang culture and its attendant dangers: violence, drink, drugs, criminality.
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