The first ever Edinburgh Yarn Festival is taking place on Saturday 16 March 2013 at the Out of the Blue (Drill Hall) in Leith. After seeing yarn festivals in the rest of the country, Jo Kelly (below), Mica Koehlmos (below left) and Linda Ahlgren (botttom right) wanted to create a similar event in Edinburgh. There are lots of stall holders from across Scotland including The Yarn Yard (above), Cairngorm Bags who
Detroit is a city built for 2 million people. Less than a third of that number lives there now. Houses, public buildings, churches and schools stand empty and are crumbling into dust. Detroiturbex chronicles the unique experience of this once great American city including these ‘then and now’ images of Cass Tech – once a thriving focus of inner city education, now a picture of utter dereliction. Images of school days
There’s nothing more powerful than shared nostalgia and The Kronk disco stirs fond memories for many. The club ran from 1989 to 1992 in various venues in Dunfermline, eventually ending up in a nightclub called Banners in downtown Lumphinnans. By the time it reached the West Fife mining village, buses were travelling from all over Scotland to this notorious rave club. Now, Dunfermline artist Alan Grieve has produced an exhibition
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!