Posts From Michelle McWilliams
Music of every genre from folk to Viking intergalactic thrash metal will ring out from over 20 venues this weekend as Dunfermline Live gets underway. More than 50 acts will perform including national festival headlining bands and young performers playing their first gigs. What makes the festival unique is that for one weekend a year the whole town becomes a music venue: as well as in theatres, clubs and bars, you’ll find musicians
Everything is lovely in this video of a mother playing the banjo for her baby. It bears no relation to the messy, noisy, chaotic scenes in my house when my babies were this age. Maybe I just didn’t play the banjo enough…
These powerful images were taken by photographer Lewis Hine on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee in America in the early 1900s. What is striking about the images is the adult expressions on the children’s faces. The NCLC aimed to promote the rights and well-being of children in relation to working. Hine later referred to his photographic work for the NCLC as ‘detective work.’ These images are archived by the
The Happy Lands is a feature length film about the 1926 Coal Miners Strike. It was filmed in West Fife using local people instead of professional actors and premiered last year at The Alhambra in Dunfermline. It will be screened next on 22 October at Beath High School in Cowdenbeath. In this exclusive interview the film’s director Robert Rae talks to Fife artist Ian Moir and testifies to the community
The excellent Cupar Arts Festival has just got underway and runs until 17 October. An impressive list of interesting visual arts events has been put together, including a man wondering around town dressed as a pig, handwriting cut into the town’s park grass and video projections onto buildings of people immersed in water. There are lots of live music performances and family activities too. Also featured is the work of
Without whisky Prince Albert of Monaco and Alex Bruce, a descendant of Robert the Bruce would never have met. It was Adelphi whisky, bottled in Charlestown, Fife that brought the two together; the Monagasque royal buys whisky from Alex who manages the company. Scotland’s national drink could be the unsung hero of international relations. When Alex heard that the Prince,who loves Scotland, was doing a private tour with Princess Charlene,
Artist Doreen Le Marinel, chic and charming in person and the creator of these sophisticated, tender and deeply feminine works, seems quintessentially French. She hails however from Clydebank, moving to France with her French husband more than 20 years ago. Le Marinel, who is self taught, is inspired by the work of Klimt, Schiele and the sculpture of Camille Claude and exhibits regularly in Brittany where she now lives.
Hard to imagine the Americans and Australians fretting about these dilemmas. But then they are Very British Problems, as captured by Rob Temple in his book, Very British Problems – Making Our Lives Awkward One Rainy Day at a Time, due out on 10 October 2013. Or follow his twitter feed @SoVeryBritish. ‘Secretly feeling a bit excited to be wearing jumpers again’ is a particular favourite. Via Buzzfeed.
Filmed at sunrise on 12 September this year on the 57th floor of 4WTC in lower Manhattan, this short film shows a performance of Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain. It was conceived as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a tribute to the future of the city that New York City Ballet calls home.
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, an international celebration of film in the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, gets underway today 25 September and runs until the 29th. The Festival transforms the coastal town into one big cinema with premieres, installations and live events in locations across Berwick, along the town walls and even in an inflatable screening room. This year’s theme is North by Northeast, exploring Berwick’s Nordic roots and the region’s cultural