Performance ‘Art is a cupboard! We are not cakes!’ Lecoq-trained Clout Theatre invite you to dive into the absurd world of the Russian poet, iconoclast and false moustache wearer Daniil Kharms. Three bouffonesque characters intent on telling ‘The Old Woman’ story … How a Man Crumbled by Clout Theatre
Performance 24 hours, non-stop. From 6am to 6am next day. The play tells the twenty-four life stories in one slow-going, lazy day, suspended in time. With no hope for change. Most of the time filled by a cappella music, to break … 24hr by Waclaw Miklaszewski/Szwalnia Theatre
Performance Mother Tongue is a multi-character, autobiographical performance piece written and performed by actor and bestselling author, Jillian Lauren. Revolving around the themes of adoption, blood, tribe and identity, Mother Tongue traces Jillian Lauren’s circuitous and humorous journey to get pregnant … Mother Tongue
Summerhall Sessions Visual Arts Artist Carolee Schneeman presents her talk ‘Mysteries of the Iconographies’ on the 4th August 2012, which coincides with her exhibition ‘Remains to Be Seen’, held at Summerhall. Carolee Schneeman : Mysteries of the Iconographies
Performance This first Edinburgh performance of ‘Carmen Funebre’ was staged in the playground of Drummond Community High School. It is a short extract from the Capital News collaboration between Edinburgh students and Scotsman newspapers in 1996. This year Teatr Biuro Podróży … Teatr Biuro Podrozy at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012
Books From Edinburgh Television’s series ‘The Book Show’, Francesca Atkinson takes a look behind the scenes at D C Thomson’s iconic comics – The Beano and The Dandy. Behind the Scenes: Beano and Dandy
Music Summerhall TV’s Emily Malloy interviews Sean from Jekyll & Hyde about their free rock gigs every Sunday. Jekyll & Hyde
Visual Arts Static State 3 August – 27 September, 2012 Humour is focused upon a gritty social reality in this curated group show displaying the talents of nine of Edinburgh’s most gifted emerging artists. The work of Alex Allan, Matt Barnes, Liam … Static State & OWWO
Visual Arts In a newly commissioned work, David Michalek returns to Summerhall to pay homage to the cinematic and photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. Using clever “trip-wire techniques” Muybridge was the first person to photograph movement too fast for the human eye to … David Michalek at Summerhall
Visual Arts Carolee Schneemann is a pioneer in many artistic disciplines. Having consistently challenged concepts of sexuality and gender identity in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation art, video art and, most importantly, performance with key works such as Meat Joy (1964) … Carolee Schneemann at Summerhall
Summerhall Residents Stephen Thorpe is a Scottish artist based at Summerhall in Edinburgh. He has just won a prestigious award held by Saatchi online, the website of the famous London Gallery, Saatchi. The competition, “Places and Spaces”, invited artists from all over … Stephen Thorpe
Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV A trip to a community TV festival in Israel finds the event being filmed by school children in a film that explores some of the contradictions of community TV in Israel in the 1990s. Local TV in Israel
Performance Brought to you by Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson: Neu! Reekie! is the (very visceral) monthly meeting of avant-garde poetry-music-film fusions Neu!Reekie!
Summerhall Residents Alicja Pawluczuk’s short film of Jonathan Freemantle working in his studio at Summerhall. Jonathan Freemantle
Performance Screen Bandita is a collective that strives to create an environment where previously abandoned film and visual ephemera can be given a new lease of life. They will present the second installment of their exploration of previously abandoned Super 8 … Screen Bandita
Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV Meeting of community media activists from around the world at the Quaker House in London. Voices Without Frontiers
Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV The multi-lingual community TV channel in Gothenburg is the only source of news and support available to parents and friends of young people killed in a fire at a dance for children of migrant families. Brandkatastrofen – Gothenburg Fire
Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV Students explain how they set-up and ran their own TV station at the University of Lund. Student Television in Sweden
Northern Visions TV A short film from Northern Visions TV, Belfast, speaking to artist Hector McDonnell. McDonnell was born in Belfast, and educated at Eton and Oxford. He studied painting in Munich and Vienna in the mid 60s, and went on to win … Hector McDonnell : Northern Visions NvTv
Northern Visions TV A film from Northern Visions TV, Belfast. Photographer Simon Norfolk discusses his exhibition ‘Afghanistan : Chronotopia’. Shown as part of Belfast Exposed, Norfolk’s exhibition is a series of landscape photographs of Afghanistan during the war at the start of the … Simon Norfolk : Afghanistan – Chronotopia
The Red Star Archive As the impact of economic policies began to hit local authorities council tenants were in the front line. Here Muirhouse Tenants address the proposals being made by Councillor Waugh. Muirhouse Tenants Fight Back!!
The Red Star Archive One of the earliest Red Star films shot for screening at the Netherbow Cinema/Theatre on Edinburgh’s High Street. Edinburgh had been among the first cities to offer housing for refugees from Chile. This short film relates the experience of those … Pan Trabajo Justicia Y Libertad : Bread Work Justice & Liberty
The Red Star Archive Meeting of SWP members at Edinburgh Trades Council in November 1980 addressed by Mick Napier. Socialist Worker : Supporting the 1980 H-Block Demonstration
The Red Star Archive Suzy and Hector Fuentes’ film from the mid 1980s acknowledges the support of trades unionists in the UK in supplying medical aid for midwives in northern Nicaragua. Made by Banana Films with the support (among others) of the health unions, … Nicaragua Nicaraguita
The Red Star Archive Produced in 1982 with the War Zone Tour Committee, War Zone was Red Star’s second documentary for CND. It follows two women cyclists linking together the CND groups around Scotland. Each group tells its story of living and campaigning alongside … WAR-ZONE : Red Star
Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV Students at Bauhaus University occupy a gap site to build a temporary satellite TV station. Worldhaus TV
