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Belle and Sebastian have been shortlisted for a Scottish Album
of the Year Award
U N C E R TA I N F U T U R E F O R T H E A R C H E S At the time of going to print, more than 400 of Scotland’s cultural i gures have signed a letter criticising the move by the Glasgow Licensing Board to impose a midnight closure on the city’s Arches venue following police complaints about drug and alcohol incidents. An online petition has also attracted close to 40,000 names. Police attempted in April to have the club closed entirely following 26 reported drug and alcohol-related incidents. For more, see page 12.
T U R N E R P R I Z E S H O R T L I S T A N N O U N C E D The shortlist for this year’s Turner Prize has been unveiled at Glasgow’s Tramway, where the winner of the £25,000 award will be announced on 7 December. The four nominees, none of them Scottish, are London artist Bonnie Camplin, German-born Nicole Wermers, Janice Kerbel and London-based architecture collective Assemble. Tramway’s exhibition of the four nominees’ work runs from 1 October to 17 January.
LYC E U M B O S S TO STA N D D OW N Mark Thomson is to stand down as artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre at the end of its 50th anniversary season in May 2016. The announcement follows the surprise 17.5% cut in its three-year funding from Creative Scotland last November, as well as the theatre’s 17 nominations in the 2014–15 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in
Scotland. Thomson will have been in the role for 13 years, and the theatre hopes to have a new artistic director in place by the autumn.
T H E STA N D F O U N D E R E L EC T E D M P Tommy Sheppard, founder and owner of The Stand comedy clubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle, has been elected SNP MP for Edinburgh East with a majority of 9106. He overturned a Labour majority of over 9000 with a swing of 21%. He was a Labour councillor in the 1980s and 90s, as well as assistant general secretary of Scottish Labour under John Smith, but defected to the SNP following the 2014 independence referendum.
N EW F R I N G E C I R C U S V E N U E A new Circus Hub for the Meadows is among the innovations for 2015 from the ‘big four’ Fringe venues, announced recently. The new venue will showcase circus shows from the Czech Republic, Australia, Belgium, Palestine and the UK across two spaces. Among the announcements in the Made in Scotland 2015 Fringe programme, celebrating work made and produced in Scotland, is a new production from Glasgow’s Vanishing Point theatre company and a multimedia Requiem for Edward Snowden.
SAY AWA R D S H O R T L I S T A N N O U N C E D The shortlist for this year’s Scottish Album of the Year Award has been revealed. The ten-
strong list includes: Belle and Sebastian’s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, Happy Meals’ Apèro, Errors’ Lease of Life and Honeyblood’s self-titled debut. Paolo Nutini’s Caustic Love won the public vote, and last year’s winners Young Fathers are also shortlisted for their 2014 album DEAD. The Amazing Snakeheads, PAWS, Kathryn Joseph and SLAM round off the nominees for the prize. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 17 June at the O2 ABC in Glasgow. For more details, see feature, page 33.
N EW C I R C U S S C H O O L F O R E D I N B U R G H Edinburgh has a brand new full-time circus school. Full Cirqle, situated in a former warehouse in Portobello, opened in early May after having successfully raised community funds via a crowdfunding campaign, and aims to combine workshops, classes, training for circus artists and ofi ce spaces for creative businesses.
K AT I E PAT E R S O N S H O R T L I S T E D F O R A R T P R I Z E Glasgow-born visual artist Katie Paterson has been nominated for the €40,000 Prix International d’Art Contemporain, awarded by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, for her work Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky, which recasts a meteorite into a new version of itself. The prize will be awarded on 6 October in Monaco.
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