The 36th Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF) has the theme of Lights of the North and takes place in Edinburgh and across Scotland this late Autumn. Over the 11 days of the festival, celebrated storytellers from Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Germany will join leading voices from Scotland in a programme of traditional storytelling. NorwegianContinue reading “Scottish International Storytelling Festival Opens with a Northern Theme”
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An Evening with Carlo Rovelli: Celebrating 10 Years of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Internationally recognised as one of the most inspiring scientific thinkers of our time, is Carlo Rovelli who currently directs the quantum gravity research group at the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France. This September marks a decade since Rovelli’s book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics first presented to the world its poetic vision of science.Continue reading “An Evening with Carlo Rovelli: Celebrating 10 Years of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics”
Karine Polwart Announced as Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow for Year’s Writing Residency
Karine Polwart is a well-respected Scottish writer, musician and storyteller whose work, that evokes a richness of place, hidden histories, scientific enquiry and folklore, spanning collaborations, solo performances, poetic essays, picture books, theatre projects and radio documentaries. She has been chosen by Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery to be the recipient of this year’s Dr Gavin Wallace FellowshipContinue reading “Karine Polwart Announced as Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow for Year’s Writing Residency”
Fruitmarket Gallery’s Annual Bookmarket Hosts Rachel Hazell
Rachel Hazell, who is based between Edinburgh and the Hebridean Isle of Iona, and known as The Travelling Bookbinder, will be sharing all she has learnt about the power of creativity at her talk The Benefit of Booksat this year’s Artists’ Bookmarket at the Fruitmarket Gallery. Rachel has explored and taught this ancient craft of bookbinding allContinue reading “Fruitmarket Gallery’s Annual Bookmarket Hosts Rachel Hazell”
Kasia Molga’s How to Find the Soul of a Sailor Comes to Edinburgh’s Inspace Gallery
Acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, designer and storyteller, Kasia Molga, invites you to explore her first iteration of How to Find the Soul of a Sailor, a deeply personal and innovative project that fuses the past, present, and future through the lens of artificial intelligence and memory. This work is the result of The New Real 2023-2024 commissionContinue reading “Kasia Molga’s How to Find the Soul of a Sailor Comes to Edinburgh’s Inspace Gallery”
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