Penicuik
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SOME
PAST AND PRESENT FRIENDS OF THE ARTS IN PENICUIK
PENICUIK ARTS FESTIVAL 2008
Saturday 23 August –
includes
Penicuik’s
Turner Prize Exhibition
at Penicuik Arts
Centre throughout the Festival
-prize donated by Andrew Turner, Blacksmith,
Penicuik
Penicuik Arts Trail of local studios
Music events Ceilidh
Films
Workshops Storytelling
On-street galleries in Penicuik shops
The Penicuik Arts Festival 2008 will
follow the success of last year’s festival, the well-established Penicuik Arts
Trail. It actively co-ordinates two
weeks of arts events by Penicuik Community Development Trust, Penicuik
Community Arts Association with other local organisations and individual
artists and performers to coincide with the nearby Edinburgh
and Peebles festivals. We are putting together a mixed program of
exhibitions and events for all ages. Contact 01968 672 706
Venues
Penicuik
Arts Centre 2-4 West St. upstairs
exhibition, performances & craft shop, downstairs gallery cafe
Penicuik Town Hall
Penicuik Pottery
John Street Garden Studio John Street Precinct -through brown gate
Dance Pointe Studio John
Street precinct
Shop window exhibitions in centre John
Spittal Farm
Stonework Studio Ninemileburn
(5km south of Penicuik centre)
Amazondean Studio
near Carlops
(6km south of Penicuik centre)
DAILY
DIARY of exhibitions & events:
Many events have still to be arranged.
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition
& Turner Prize competition, Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows:
Open Studios
Penicuik Pottery at Valleyfield House,
High Street through the arch & down the drive
Jane Kelly pottery
, Catherine Freeland
paintings, woolspinning, dyeing,
weaving
Mette Fruergaard-Jensen boxes and
brooches in natural wood, copper, aluminium, amber, bone & horn
Jan Miller stained glass,
raku
plus music & storytelling in the yurt
Ulla Hipkin paintings, Ian Milne woodcarving
Stonework Studios at Spital Farm on the Pentlands at Ninemileburn
Ian Newton & Gus Fisher Stonecarving & lettercutting
1.30pm welcome to Penicuik Arts Festival,
7.30pm Festival Ceilidh with West Telferton Caledonian Band, caller Annabel Oates,
many events have
still to be arranged.
Richard Demarco opens last year’s Festival exhibition
Mette Fruergaard-Jensen
Town Hall
~Saturday Night Festival Ceilidh with caller
Penicuik’s Annabel Oates
what happens every day
1-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows:
3.15pm Penicuik
Taizé Vaults sing at Craigmillar Castle Great Hall,
Many events have still to be arranged.
Penicuik
Taizé Vaults Craigmillar
Castle Great Hall
Penicuik Festival Sunday Cinema Silent Classic Buster Keaton’s The General with live piano
accompaniment
by
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows:
10 am-3pm: day one of Jane Kelly pottery summer school,
Summer school at Penicuik Pottery
Many events have still to be arranged.
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows:
10 am-3pm: day two of Jane Kelly pottery summer school,
Valleyfield House,
PCAA exhibition
upstairs, Arts Centre, West St
Music session Royal Hotel
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows:
10 am-3pm: day three of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Exhibition
upstairs Art Centre
Many events have still to be arranged.
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
10 am–4 pm: Let’s get crafty stalls and exhibition, Open Door at
Penicuik North Kirk.
Shops & shop windows:
10 am-3pm: day four of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Many events have still to be arranged.
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
10 am–4 pm: Let’s get crafty stalls and exhibition, Open Door at
Penicuik North Kirk.
Shops & shop windows:
10 am-3pm: day five of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
exhibition, Library Penicuik Community Arts exhibition
upstairs, Arts Centre,
Erling –who
played
Many events have still to be arranged.
what happens every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Town Hall exhibition today: Christine
Finlayson: contemporary embroidery
Robert Galloway: landscape paintings; Carol Robertson: paintings; Aine Divine:
portraits
10 am–4 pm: Let’s get crafty stalls and exhibition, Open Door at
Penicuik North Kirk.
Open Studios
Penicuik Pottery at Valleyfield House,
High Street through the arch & down the drive
Jane Kelly pottery
, Catherine Freeland
paintings, woolspinning, dyeing,
weaving
Mette Fruergaard-Jensen boxes and
brooches in natural wood, copper, aluminium, amber, bone & horn
Jan Miller stained glass,
raku
plus music & storytelling in the yurt
Ulla Hipkin paintings, Ian Milne woodcarving
Stonework Studios at Spital Farm on the Pentlands at Ninemileburn
Ian Newton & Gus Fisher Stonecarving & lettercutting
Amazondean Studio
approaching Carlops
Hazel Vellacott paintings
drawings & prints (10.30-4.30)
from
from
7.30pm concert in Penicuik Town Hall: from America: fiddle
Jamie Laval, mandolin Ashley Broder TBC
Penicuik Community Arts exhibition at the Art Centre
upstairs Mette Fruergaard-Jensen
Catherine Freeland
& Jan Miller & Jane Kelly at
Penicuik Pottery stories in the yurt
Hazel Vellacott
-Amazondean Ian Newton -Ninemileburn Anthony
Edge instruments -Town Hall