FURTHER INFO...

WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?

This page is for blethers; what's going on in the studio at the moment, what's coming up plus any other bits and pieces regarding studio artists, people or places that we feel might be of interest - wherever it may be.

7 Short Sails

After the best part of a year with over 50 participating artists we have reached the end of the '7 short sails' - the website part anyway.

First and foremost this was/is a people project. It's not academic, it's creative and above all it's human. It's about people - artists - responding to each other in a creative way and creativity isn't limited. Many artists took the opportunity to try out a medium they had never worked in before, to try to say something in a way they had never said it before. We've had sombre and playful, happy and sad, - film, sound, poetry, stories and song....give artists the opportunity and they can rise to a creative challenge whatever the brief. And that's what makes the world go round regardless of the form it takes. (Einstein said that imagination is more important than science. Now there's one for a good debate!) We've made friends, forged bonds, looked outwards to different cultures and embraced them.

We're lucky to have Prof. Peter Davidson from Aberdeen University taking a good look at all of this and giving us his view of the project in the form of an essay. This is accompanied by a song from Margaret Bennett. I'm over the moon to have all these great people being involved in the project.

It is now accessed by one link on the studio logpage and the format has changed making it easier to see the seven different threads and the route which each sail took.

Happy viewing!

http://www.studiolog.heriot-toun.co.uk/7sails/7sails.php

A Heriot Toun Studio project

Kate Downie exhibition at the Watermill

PRINTWORKS at The Watermill in Aberfeldy features printmaking and other works on paper from 1988 to 2009. Featuring mono-types, screenprints, etchings, lithography and collagraphs, this is a chance to see the breadth of print exploration from the studio of Kate Downie. The exhibition opens on Saturday 13th February and runs until the 29th March. Open Daily.

Grace Notes Scotland & the TMSA

‘Bridging tradition’: a series of weekends of Scots, Gaelic and Irish song master- classes with Saturday evening ceilidhs showcasing all participants. Optional, Sunday ‘let’s sing them over’ sessions.

April 24—25, 2010 Elizabeth Stewart & Margaret Stewart
June 5-6, 2010: Gordeanna McCulloch & Margaret Bennett will lead ‘The BIG SING!’ Participants from previous workshops will rehearse and perform a community concert in the White Church, Comrie.

Cost: £5.00 for under-25s; or £15.00, all-inclusive (tuition, lunch, teas + ceilidh)
Sunday, 2—4 SING-AROUND: ‘let’s sing them over’ (in Ochtertyre or Crieff)

To book or for more information: (01764) 679-518 or email: sara@gracenotescotland.org

PMC news

Local events featuring Pathhead Music Collective musicians

Fri 30th April 2010:
Amy Geddes (fiddle), Tom Lyne (bass) + Kevin Mackenzie (guitar)
@ Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington. For more information: amygeddes@mac.com or
www.peterpottergallery.org 01620 822080

Sat 29th May:
Pan Celtic Festival at Newbattle Abbey College
featuring members of the PMC. Further info to follow.

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