Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), that was recently host to Banksy’s landmark Cut & Run exhibition, will become a flagship store as the artists Beagles & Ramsay three new ‘NHOTB & RAD’ fashion lines are unveiled, alongside numerous sculptures and videos. The title refers to the Scottish duo long-standing alter egos, New Heads onContinue reading “Scottish Artist Duo Beagles & Ramsay Reveal Radical Transformation of GoMA”
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Love and Revolution (Te estoy amando locamente) Spanish Film Festival 2023
Post Franco Spain, and in particular the beautiful Andalusian city of Seville, is the setting for the directorial feature debut of Alejandro Marín. It is June 1977 and homosexuality is still illegal in Spain but a burgeoning movement to change that is the driver of this film. The opening scene is of a neighbourhood weddingContinue reading “Love and Revolution (Te estoy amando locamente) Spanish Film Festival 2023”
Scottish International Storytelling Festival Starts New Podcast Series This October
This year’s Scottish International Storytelling Festival, that runs from 13th to 29th, sees its first ever new podcast series Another Story. Opened by Storyteller Gauri Raje, it includes six insightful episodes featuring some of this year’s festival performers reading their favourite stories and discussing this year’s festival theme ‘Right to be Human’ chosen to celebrateContinue reading “Scottish International Storytelling Festival Starts New Podcast Series This October”
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Comes to Cinemas This October
Following its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August 2023, this film version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde will be shown at selected cinemas in Scotland and UK. Based on the original 19th century novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, this version has been reworked for contemporary audiencesContinue reading “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Comes to Cinemas This October”
Works from Iconic Book Publisher Café Royal Books to Go on Display for First Time
Stills, a centre for photography based in the heart of Edinburgh since 1977, will host a new exhibition celebrating the work of Café Royal Books, an independent publisher dedicated to post-war photography from Britain and Ireland with a particular interest in unseen or overlooked work. Since 2012, Café Royal Books have been producing weekly publicationsContinue reading “Works from Iconic Book Publisher Café Royal Books to Go on Display for First Time”
2:22 – A Ghost Story Festival Theatre
The evenings are getting cooler, the nights are getting longer and we just so happen to be knocking on the very month of October: it seems the perfect opportunity for The Festival Theatre to unleash its rather macabre fare upon the Edinburgh public! You know, I have to admit in all my life of goingContinue reading “2:22 – A Ghost Story Festival Theatre”
In The Company of Women Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
Catalan director Silvia Munt has set her latest film, Las Buenas Compañías (In the Company of Women), in Errenteria in the Basque country in 1976, a time just after Franco’s rule when abortion is illegal in Spain. Bea, played by Alicia Falcó who beautifully captures the quietly angry rebel, is an androgynous 16 year oldContinue reading “In The Company of Women Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival”
Vasil/Wasyl Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2023
An after dark phone conversation where Alfredo (Karra Elejalde) is telling his daughter Luisa (Alexandra Jiménez) that he has a homeless Bulgarian man sleeping on his couch, opens Avelina Prat’s awarding winning 2022 film, Vasil/Wasyl. Vasil (Ivan Barnev) is a champion chess, bridge and backgammon player, thanks to his Soviet style education in Bulgaria. HeContinue reading “Vasil/Wasyl Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2023”
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet Festival Theatre
Matthew Bourne has taken Shakespeare’s play and made it into something very much his own, without losing the heart of the story. Set in the (not too distant?) future in the Verona Institute, which appears to be an asylum/young offenders place of incarceration for youths deemed to be wayward and so may prove to beContinue reading “Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet Festival Theatre”
Open Letter in Support of Lammermuir Festival Funding Sent to Creative Scotland
The Lammermuir Festival, whose programme was met with great acclaim and was cited as one of its most successful, was met with the shock news of finding out just days before its opening that Creative Scotland was not supporting its 14th festival, having invested in the event for thirteen years. Losing the cultural funder’s supportContinue reading “Open Letter in Support of Lammermuir Festival Funding Sent to Creative Scotland”
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