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ANNOUNCEMENTS, LINE-UPS AND OPINION EIF director Fergus Linehan
Hinterland
COUNTDOWN TO DEEP TIME AT EIF The Edinburgh International Festival has launched its programme for 2016, and it’s a belter. The event kicks off with Deep Time, a free outdoor event featuring animated artwork exploring 350 million years of the capital’s history, which will be projected onto Edinburgh Castle. Meanwhile, acts to look forward to include opera superstar Cecilia Bartoli, Oscar-nominated singer Anohni (formerly Anthony Hegarty), post-rockers Sigur Rós, Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers and Alan Cumming, who will be performing a cabaret show.
ST PETER’S SEMINARY SAVED The Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland have announced £4.2m funding in order to transform the derelict St Peter’s Seminary into an arts venue and heritage destination. The seminary in Cardross was the centrepiece of Hinterland, a spectacular public art event which marked the Festival of Architecture (see review, page 100). The investment will allow for key elements of the building to be restored, while the chapel is set to be converted into a 600-capacity venue. Exhibitions are expected be held in the former sacristy and crypt.
FUNDING BOOST FOR SCOTTISH CREATION CENTRE Funding of £2.6m has been secured for the Briggait Creation Centre, a proposed dedicated
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H T I M S R A D S A L A base for dance and physical performance. The venue will complete the regeneration of the Briggait (a Victorian / Edwardian market complex in Glasgow’s Merchant City) and, t City) and, once operational, will be a hub for 600 professional be a hub for 600 professional artists and i ve arts organisations: Dance House ganisations: Dance House Glasgow, Conl ux, Indepen-dance, Aerial Edge and YDance.
and will and will be used to aid in be used to aid in its eventual restoration (expected to be completed in 2018).
NEW FROM NEU! REEKIE! ROSE STREET SET TO BLOOM
Those madcap folk at Neu! Reekie! have announced that they’re releasing #UntitledTwo, a poetry anthology and compilation album featuring a selection of work from associated artists on Friday 29 April. The launch event takes place at St Andrew’s Church in Leith, with Scotland’s brand new makar (the one and only Jackie Kay) reading on the night.
MACKINTOSH BUILDING GOES 3D Experts from the Glasgow School of Art Digital Design Studio have created a series of 3D visualisations which reveal the full extent of the damage done to the Mackintosh Building by the November 2014 i re. The point cloud images have been generated by laser scanning the building
Plans to create a theatre and performing arts centre on Edinburgh’s Rose Street have been approved by councillors on the city’s planning committee. If the project goes ahead, the Charlotte Baptist Chapel will be transformed into a 600-seat theatre and performing arts venue.
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