STAnza: Scotland's international poetry festival in St Andrews, Fife
STAnza, Scotland’s international poetry festival will be filling venues in St Andrews, Fife from 6-10 March 2013. The issue of venues must have been a fraught one this year with the sudden closure of the Byre Theatre but every event, with the exception of one exhibition, is going ahead. Eleanor Livingstone, festival director explains: ‘The Town Hall in Queens Gardens, which has always been our secondary hub in all its Victorian
The first Sunday Assembly outside London will take place in Glasgow on 31 March. The venue is still being finalised, but the speaker is Scottish comedian Susan Calman (bottom picture). The Sunday Assembly is an atheist church started by Sanderson Jones (pictured below) and Pippa Evans. Using comedy to attract an audience to church seems an obvious idea that hadn’t occurred to anyone until Jones and Evans came along. In
These days beards are ever so fashionable but will we ever be able to say the same of moustaches? We had Movember when celebrities and ordinary blokes wore a moustache for the month of November to raise awareness and money for testicular cancer. The morning of the 30th saw all these moustaches swiftly removed. May be there just aren’t any role models – when was the last hero with a
Ever looked at an album cover and thought – I could turn that into a movie? Joel and Ethan Coen clearly have. Their latest film, just opened in America and soon to open in the UK, is about a struggling folk musician and is a paean to the iconic Freewheelin Bob Dylan cover. Seems a slim premise for a movie but the Coen brothers can probably pull it off.
Little did Niall Campbell realise when he was travelling from Glasgow to Culross every week for the pottery classes that he would later take over the Biscuit Gallery Cafe from his tutor, Camilla Garrett Jones. Two years after taking over from Camilla, and Niall is making some changes to the cafe and gallery. Upstairs the cafe has expanded into the gallery space and the ceramics and art are now displayed
Switcheroo is an interesting project by Canadian photographer, Hana Pesut. She asks couples around the world to swop clothes so that she can take a picture. A few things emerge that you might have known already. Couples who care about clothes invariably dress the same; opposites don’t attract. She’s chosen the backdrops well – making the most suburban scenes look pretty or interesting and the couples look very compatible judging by
Here’s a final chance to view the terribly romantic Head Over Heels before all goes dark in advance of the Oscar deliberations. The British Oscar nominated short was written and directed by Timothy Reckart and produced by Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly as a graduation project from the National Film and Television School. Good luck to them come Oscar night!
Times have changed for the humble snowdrop. The ‘venturous harbinger of Spring’ as Wordsworth described it has moved centre stage in recent years with a host of activities celebrating its arrival each February. The Cambo Estate near St Andrews hosts a fortnight long Snowdrop Festival where you can wander around 70 acres of woodland glittering with over 300 varieties of snowdrop. Even more enchanting, this weekend you can experience Snowdrops
How wonderful would it be to travel the world in one’s own house? Floating from place to place like the old man in Up without leaving the comfort of home behind. It’s not so whimsical a thought behind these images by photographer Laurent Chehere however. His aim is to pick out overlooked architecture and domiciles in his native Paris and literally elevate them for our attention. The complex, photoshopped collages
Here’s an early glimpse of what promises to be a very beautiful – and very long – tapestry depicting the history of Scotland. Writer Alexander McCall Smith, whose idea this was, is working with historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy as well as stitchers from all over Scotland to produce The Great Tapestry of Scotland. It will be world’s longest tapestry and one of the biggest community arts projects
