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BIG MOVE FOR T IN THE PARK
Following months of speculation over the future of T in the Park, it’s been announced that 2014 is the festival’s i nal year in Balado. In 2015 the event moves to Strathallan Castle, near Auchterarder in southern Perthshire, where it will take place within the 1000-acre estate of the 19th century castle.
Questions had been raised about T in the Park’s future following safety concerns about an oil pipeline that runs underneath the festival’s current airi eld site. Earlier this year, the Health and Safety Executive required promoters DF Concerts to i nd a new site for next year’s event. Locations including Drumdownie, Gleneagles, Loch Lomond and Stirling had been proposed, but following a period of negotiations, agreements have been signed to move the event to the Strathallan site.
Geoff Ellis, CEO of DF Concerts, said: ‘When it became clear we’d need to leave Balado to safeguard the future of the festival, we became very excited about the prospect of Strathallan becoming the new home.’ A spokesperson for T in the Park
added: ‘We’ve been extremely happy in Kinross for 18 years, but the restrictions placed upon us by health and safety protocol meant that we had no real option but to leave. We tried very hard to i nd a solution, but the site orientation available to us was completely unworkable, plus we would have had to use additional i elds which were unsuitable. Rather than seriously damaging the quality of the event, we decided to move on.’ A festival spokesperson added that Strathallan will provide T in the Park with greater l exibility in site layout, and that there is enough space for future expansion of festival content. However, concerns have been raised by local residents about the impact of the festival’s arrival, especially the current road infrastructure’s ability to cope with the inl ux of festival-goers.
S U P P O R T A N D F U N D S F O R G SA R E B U I L D I N G AWA R D S F O R G R E E N F R I N G E S H OWS
Messages of support and i nancial assistance have l ooded in following the i re at the Glasgow School of Art on 23 May (above). First Minister Alex Salmond has announced that the Scottish Government will match funds raised to restore the building up to £5 million, and a £750,000 Phoenix Bursary Scheme will go towards helping students create works to replace those that were lost. The UK government is to donate £5 million. Actors Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi have become trustees of the Mackintosh Appeal, launched by the GSA with the aim of raising £20 million. Meanwhile, photography graduate Melissa Maloco has recreated one of her pieces using ash from the i re. Her ‘Negotiation of Space (A Door Opening and Closing)’ will be shown as part of Part Seen, Imagined Part: GSA in Dunoon until 26 Jul. For more info, visit gsa.ac.uk/ support-gsa/the-mackintosh-appeal
SAY AWA R D F O R M U S I C A N D V I S UA L A R T
Edinburgh hip hop trio Young Fathers have won the 2014 Scottish Album of the Year Award for their album Tape Two. The award was announced in Glasgow on 19 June. The SAY Award Art Commission, which celebrates the ties between music and visual art, goes to Edinburgh College of Art graduate Ian Jackson, who will create ten unique pieces of art to be presented to each of the 2014 SAY shortlisted musicians. 8 THE LIST 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014
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think about sustainability, and Applications are open the 2014 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award, which celebrates Fringe shows that encourage their audiences to take responsibility for their own environmental impacts. Applications close on 18 July, with the shortlist revealed in The List on 30 July, and the winner announced on 22 August at Fringe Central. More details at sustainablepractice.org/fringe
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the festival A non-stop bouncing performance and a steampunk show performed in its own self- contained dome are the two commissions Imaginate children’s announced performance in May 2015. Lou Brodie’s Bounce takes place inside a bouncy inl atable, and The Lost Things is a show for older children that blends puppetry and magic from Edinburgh-based company Tortoise in a Nutshell and writer Oliver Emanuel.
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residence A market has taken up in Edinburgh’s Festival Square. Boxsmall brings together food, design and crafts, as well as picnic lawns, and will run until the end of August. Alongside the traders, kids are invited to enjoy the giant Airpuddle, an interactive experience which combines boisterous fun and contemporary art. See boxsmall.com
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