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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 follows the success
of the first
festival last year and the Penicuik Arts Trail started two years ago. It brings together a fortnight of arts events
organised by the volunteers of two local arts charities, Penicuik Community
Development Trust and Penicuik Community Arts Association, plus a handful of
individual artists and performers and other local organisations, with the help
of space and support from local shops and restaurants. It’s timed to chime with
the nearby Edinburgh and Peebles festivals. You’ll find a mixed program of exhibitions
and workshops and events for all ages. Contact 01968 672 706
“This is the real spirit of the
Festival Fringe” -Richard Demarco 2007
Venues
Penicuik
Arts Centre 2-4 West St. upstairs
exhibition, performances & craft shop, downstairs gallery cafe
Penicuik Town Hall
Penicuik Pottery at
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:
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer
mixed media & collage beaches, ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFE, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Street Gallery Bus outside Penicuik Town Hall features On
Edge, a sea-themed group exhibition of film, photography, sculpture and
drawing including French artist Celine
Duval :projected photographs of people enjoying the seaside; Thomas
Joshua Cooper: photographs from the The World’s
Edge series; Michael Mersinis: work exploring
coastlines and islands and the space in between; Matthew Dalziel
& Louise Scullion: film of young people from the north east coast of
Scotland; Artist t s Beall: a short film shot
on the Mull to Iona ferry; Charlotte Watters: sculptural installation.
Open Studios
Penicuik
Pottery at Valleyfield House,
Jane Kelly pottery
, Catherine Freeland
paintings, woolspinning, dyeing,
weaving
Mette
Fruergaard-Jensen boxes and
brooches in natural wood, copper, aluminium, amber, bone & horn
From the Scottish Potters 2008 exhibition:
work by Roger Bell, Stuart Orr, Janet Adam, Sue Nuttgens
Jan Miller stained glass,
raku plus storytelling in the yurt : James Spence, Fiona
Herbert
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,
2pm-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
7.30pm Festival Ceilidh with West Telferton
Caledonian Band, caller Annabel Oates,
On Edge Exhibition in the ArtBus outside
ArtBus On Edge Exhibition -seaside images by Celine Duvall; Matthew Dalziel & Louise
Scullion
Victoria Crowe to open 2008 Festival
exhibition (Richard Demarco opening last year’s show)
Pirjo Cassimally patchworks Gallery Café Mette Fruergaard-Jensen
James Spence in yurt
Scottish Potters
from the Stirling Smith Exhibition 2008: Jane Kelly, Stuart Orr,
Janet Adam
Town Hall ~Saturday Night Festival Ceilidh with Penicuik’s renowned
caller Annabel Oates
what happens every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
1pm-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
3.15pm Penicuik
Taizé Vaults sing at Craigmillar Castle Great Hall,
Penicuik
Taizé Vaults Craigmillar
Castle Great Hall
Penicuik Festival Sunday Cinema Silent Classic Buster Keaton’s The General with live piano
accompaniment
by
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
10 am-3pm: day one of Jane Kelly pottery summer school,
Summer school at Penicuik Pottery Pirjo Cassimally patchworks,
Gallery Café
Sara Keer-Keer: artworks,
Midlothian Writers Poems Songs Pints & Prose at the Craigiebield
Hotel
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
10 am-3pm: day two of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
1pm-8.15pm Children’s Art exhibition at Penicuik Library Carlops Road drawn from the work of Jo Powell’s
weekly children’s classes at Penicuik Community Arts
PCAA exhibition upstairs, Arts Centre, West
St Music session Royal Hotel patchwork, Gallery Café
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
10 am-3pm: day three of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Exhibition upstairs Art Centre Pirjo Cassimally patchworks, Gallery Café Sara Keer-Keer,
Craigiebield
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
10 am-3pm: day four of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Pirjo Cassimally patchworks, Gallery Café
Barbara Charke, Le Tout P’ti
what happens every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches, ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
10 am-3pm: day five of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Pirjo Cassimally, Gallery Café Sara Keer-Keer,
Craigiebield
Puppets, South Kirk Hall
exhibition,
Library Penicuik Community Arts
exhibition upstairs, Arts Centre,
Erling –who
played
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer
mixed media & collage beaches, ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Open Studios
Penicuik
Pottery at Valleyfield House,
Jane Kelly pottery
, Catherine Freeland
paintings, woolspinning, dyeing,
weaving
Mette
Fruergaard-Jensen boxes and
brooches in natural wood, copper, aluminium, amber, bone & horn
Pottery from the Stirling
Smith exhibition: Roger Bell, Stuart Orr, Janet Adam, Sue Nuttgens
Jan Miller stained glass,
raku Lari
Don 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)
11.30am-12.20 Lari Don presents First Aid for
Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts – for children 7 up and anyone else who
likes adventure, fantasy and fairy tales in the Yurt at Penicuik
Pottery, Valleyfield House, 17 High St
from
tickets £6 (child £4)
Stained Glass workshop, Town Hall
Pirjo Cassimally
patchworks, Gallery Café
Penicuik Community Arts exhibition at the Art Centre upstairs Mette Fruergaard-Jensen Aine Divine
Catherine Freeland & Jan
Miller & Jane Kelly at
Penicuik Pottery
with storytelling in the yurt
Pottery by Janet Adam, Sue Nuttgens and Roger Bell at
Penicuik Pottery,
Hazel Vellacott
-Amazondean Ian Newton -Ninemileburn Carol Robertson -Town Hall
Lari Don in the Yurt
Jamie Laval in concert -
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
Open Studio
Amazondean Studio approaching Carlops
Drop-in
mosaic workshop at
1pm-4 pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
1pm-4pm Emily Little artworks at the Gallery CAFÉ, Arts
Centre,
1pm-5pm Children’s Art exhibition at Penicuik Library Carlops Road drawn from the work of Jo Powell’s
weekly children’s classes at Penicuik Community Arts
7.30pm Visconti’s classic film The
Leopard with Burt Lancaster at
Penicuik
Community Arts exhibition upstairs at Arts Centre,
Emily Little
exhibition opens in the
Penicuik
Taizé Vaults sing at Seton Chapel
Penicuik Festival Sunday Cinema Classic Visconti’s
The Leopard 1963
with Burt Lancaster,
"one of the most moving meditations
on individual mortality in the history of the cinema."
Who but Visconti could have directed it?
Who but
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Graeme Pow, Turner Prizewinner at Arts exhibition upstairs at West St Sara Keer-Keer, Craigiebield
Emily Little
artworks in the Galley Café. West Street
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
1pm-8.15pm Children’s Art exhibition at Penicuik Library Carlops Road drawn from the work of Jo Powell’s
weekly children’s classes at Penicuik Community Arts
Emily Little
artworks in the Gallery Café. West Street
…Victoria
Crowe picks Graeme Pow’s photography for Turner
Prize Folk Music Royal Hotel Sara Keer-Keer, Craigiebield
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Graeme Pow winner of this year’s
Turner Prize at the Penicuik Arts exhibition upstairs at West St
Emily Little
artworks in the Galley Café. West Street
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Emily Little Gallery Cafe
exhibition at the
Art Centre upstairs Barbara Charke, Le Tout P’ti
what happens every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Graeme Pow winner of this year’s
Turner Prize at the Penicuik Arts exhibition upstairs at West St
Emily Little
artworks in the Gallery Café. West Street
Puppets of Penicuik, South Kirk Hall
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer
mixed media & collages beaches, ports,
9am-3pm Paul Toms photographic panoramas at Jean’s Place CAFÉ, Kentigern Mall
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
10 am–4 pm: Town Hall exhibition and CAFÉ today: Launch
exhibition by Cuckoo group artists: Amanda Bennett: stained glass and
paintings; Ulla Hipkin paintings; Mark Illingworth:
paintings; Jane Kelly, ceramics: Maggie Mowbray, paintings & mixed media;
Graham Robertson, sculpture; Catriona Taylor,
paintings; Sandra Vick, paintings
And in honour of tonight’s Clerk & Corelli
concert: exhibition of Penicuik-made musical instruments by Anthony Edge
Open Studios
Penicuik
Pottery at Valleyfield House,
Jane Kelly pottery
, Catherine Freeland
paintings, woolspinning, dyeing,
weaving
Mette
Fruergaard-Jensen boxes and
brooches in natural wood, copper, aluminium, amber, bone & horn
Pieces from the Scottish
Potters 2008 exhibition: Roger Bell, Stuart Orr, Janet Adam, Sue Nuttgens
Jan Miller stained glass,
raku Bea Ferguson
storytelling in the yurt
from
Ulla Hipkin paintings of Pentlands & people, Ian Milne
woodcarving
Stonework
Studios at Spital Farm on the Pentlands
at Ninemileburn
Ian Newton & Gus Fisher Stonecarving & lettercutting
-one of Scotland’s oldest flower shows –pot plants, cut flowers,
vegetables, floral art. Refreshments
1.30pm and 3pm: storytelling in the yurt, Penicuik pottery
7.30pm Clerk & Corelli: prodigy and
master The music of Sir John
Clerk of Penicuik (1675-1755) and his mentor Archangelo
Corelli performed by Annie Patch, Anne Giles, Sandie Howie, Patsy Campbell,
Murray Campbell in Penicuik Town Hall tickets £5
Shops & shop windows:
Penicuik Community Development Trust’s Town Hall exhibitions
today
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Penicuik Flower show at
Catherine Freeland Jan Miller and Jane Kelly at
Penicuik Pottery
Mette Fruergaard-Jensen storytelling yurt
at Penicuik Pottery
work by Sue Nuttgens and Roger Bell at Penicuik Pottery,
Emily Little
artworks in the Galley Café. West Street
Anthony Edge instruments, Town Hall Barbara Charke watercolours, Le Tout P’ti
Clerk and Corelli: Prodigy and Master
The music of Sir
John Clerk of Penicuik and his mentor Archangelo Corelli in
something happens here every day
All day: Sarah Keer Keer mixed media & collages beaches,
ports,
1-4pm collections from Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize
competition,
1pm-4pm Emily Little artworks at the Gallery CAFÉ, Arts
Centre,
Graeme Pow winner of this year’s
Turner Prize at the Penicuik Arts exhibition upstairs at West St
Penicuik
Taizé Vaults sing at
Penicuik cinema showing in the Town Hall SERGEI
EISENSTEIN’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
with
FRITZ LANG’S METROPOLIS 1927
THE PENICUIK ARTS TRAIL 2008
Every day
The Arts Trail includes indoor exhibitions in Penicuik Arts
Centre, Penicuik Library Drum, Jean’s Place (closed
Sundays), Le Tout P’ti, Peni Deli and The Craigiebield Hotel, plus shop-window exhibitions
in Pen-y-Coe Press, Flowers by Lindsey, Headcases and Optical Express, and
children’s murals in the John Street precinct.
On the three Penicuik Festival Saturdays
23rd and 30th
August, 6th September
The Arts Trail is extended with more special
exhibitions in the town centre and elsewhere
Apart from the Spital and Amazondean workshops, all the trail venues are within a
short walk in the town centre. The Spital stonework
studio is on the slopes of the Pentlands, at Spital, NineMile Burn, 5km south along A766 then A702, then on the right. Amazondean studio is a little further along A702, on the
left approaching Carlops.
AT
On Edge, a sea-themed group exhibition of film, photography, sculpture
and drawing includes:
French artist Celine Duval:
projected photographs of people enjoying the seaside.
Thomas Joshua Cooper: photographs from the The World’s Edge series
Michael Mersinis: work
exploring coastlines and islands and the space in between.
Matthew Dalziel & Louise Scullion: film of young
people from the north east coast of
Artist t s Beall: short film
shot on the
ArtBus On Edge Exhibition -seaside images by Celine Duvall; Matthew Dalziel & Louise
Scullion
Christine Finlayson contemporary
embroidery
Anthony Edge baroque viola de gambas, consort instruments,
Renaissance instruments,
French early 18th century instruments
AT PENICUIK POTTERY,
Jane Kelly Penicuik pottery Jan
Miller raku pieces Catherine Freeland wool and
textiles
From the Scottish Potters 2008 exhibition at the
Storytellers in the yurt in the garden
Jane Kelly Penicuik
Pottery Jan Miller raku+glass Catherine Freeland Storytelling
yurt
Pottery from the Scottish Potters Stirling
Smith exhibition: Stuart Orr, Janet Adam, Roger Bell
Pottery from the Stirling
Smith exhibition: Jane Kelly, Sue Nuttgens
(Jane Kelly holds 5-day prebooked workshops Mondays to Fridays 25-29 August and 15th-19th
September
AT JOHN STREET GARDEN STUDIO
Ulla Hipkin Oil paintings Ian Milne
wooden bowls
AT THE STONEWORK STUDIO, SPITAL COTTAGE, NINE MILE BURN, on the
slopes of the Pentlands, 5km south of Penicuik centre
along A766 to A702, turn left at Ninemileburn, Spittal is beyond
Stonecarving and lettercutting by Ian Newton
and accomplished
local trainee Gus Fisher,
Ian
Newton stonecutting at Spittal Farm stonework studio Ninemileburn with Gus
Fisher
AT AMAZONDEAN STUDIO (on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August only)
approaching Carlops turn left off A702
Hazel Vellacott
paintings drawings & prints (10.30-4.30)
Linked to the Saturday Arts Trail, the following everyday venues
are open during the two weeks of the Penicuik Arts Festival:
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE UPSTAIRS,
Summer Open Exhibition and Turner Prize competition opens
officially on 23 August with the Turner Prize announcement by Victoria Crowe at
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE GALLERY CAFÉ, 4 West Street,
August: Pirjo
Cassimally’s Finnish patchwork quilts
September: Emily Little’s artworks
PENICUIK LIBRARY across
shows an exhibition of
Children’s art and handmade books by Sandra Vick every day in The Drum
THE CRAIGIEBIELD HOTEL beside Penicuik Park in Bog Road shows
artworks by Sarah Keer-Keer
Inside The PENI-DELI and LE TOUT P’TI in the High Street there are
exhibitions of watercolours by Jim McGarva and
Barbara Charke respectively
Inside JEAN’S PLACE opposite Somerfield
in the town centre precinct Kentigern Mall is an
exhibition of the
photographic panoramas of Paul Toms (closed Sundays)
plus ON-STREET
GALLERIES IN PENICUIK SHOP WINDOWS at
PEN-Y-COE PRESS in West Street, FLOWERS
BY LINDSEY in High Street and HEADCASES and OPTICAL EXPRESS in the town centre
precinct,
Children’s outdoor murals are shown in the
-the all year:
CRAFT SHOP
Over 20
talented craft workers and artists have a co-operative craft shop in Penicuik
Arts Centre, open throughout the Festival.
10am-4pm daily
during the Festival, and when the Centre is hosting a festival event. Have a snack in
the Gallery cafe downstairs.
-the all year:
GALLERY CAFÉ
The Gallery Cafe is the heart of
the Arts Centre at
-the all year:
UPSTAIRS EVENTS at Penicuik
Arts
The
upstairs gallery is the main venue for Penicuik Community ArtsAssociation’s
big annual exhibition and Turner Prize for the duration of the Festival. a great intimate space for exhibitions and events. For years local and international performers
have enjoyed the close-up rapport with the audience here. They keep coming back for more!
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Arts Centre and Craft Shop,
-the all year:
OPEN HOUSE in the Town
Hall
Every Saturday through the year from 10 till 2, Penicuik
Community Development Trust organises coffee and home baking with a great
series of displays and exhibitions brought together celebrating local people,
interests and identity.
-the all year:
PENICUIK CINEMA in the
Town Hall
Fortnightly on Sunday nights PCDTs
Cinema in the Town Hall shows big-screen public presentations of popular films
new and old. The Trust’s work to promote full screen cinema open to all in
Penicuik has been nominated for best in category in the BFFS 2008 UK Awards
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Frederick Pilkington’s
Park End and South Kirk:
The 18th
century Kirk of St Mungo and its ancient Tower,
Campbell
Douglas’s late Victorian Cowan Institute -now Penicuik Town Hall
Walks around
Penicuik - Pentlands, Esk
Valley, Penicuik House PCDT, PCDT, PCDT, PHPT
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