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PENICUIK ARTS FESTIVAL 2007
Saturday 25 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
Animation workshop Storytelling
On-street galleries in Penicuik shops
The Penicuik Arts Festival 2007
follows the success of last year’s Penicuik Arts Trail. It actively
co-ordinates the arts events by Penicuik Community Development Trust, Penicuik
Community Arts Association, other local organisations and individual artists
and performers to coincide with Penicuik’s annual street fair and the nearby Edinburgh
and Peebles festivals. We’ve put together a mixed
program of exhibitions and events for all ages.
Contact 01968 672 706
1 Penicuik Arts Centre 2-4 West St. upstairs
exhibition, performances & craft shop, downstairs gallery cafe
2 Penicuik
Town Hall
3 Penicuik Pottery
7 Shop window exhibitions
a Optical Express John
St precinct b Headcases John
St precinct c
Flowers by Lindsey
High St d
Pen-y-Coe Press
Bridge St
plus Open air murals in
14 Stonework Studio Spittal,
Ninemileburn (on the Pentland slopes 5km south of
Penicuik centre)
DAILY
DIARY of exhibitions & events:
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition
& Turner Prize competition, Arts Centre upstairs
11am–4pm PENICUIK ARTS TRAIL: Open studios John Street, High
Street, & Ninemileburn;
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
Penicuik Community Development Trust’s Town Hall exhibitions free today by
Jan Miller’s Out
To Lunch and Off the Wall exhibition of batik & papier mache figures
Sarah Keer Keer
mixed media
Sandra Vick, paintings
Charlie Brodowski wood sculptures
Linda Early
sculpture and mixed media
Paul Carline
photographs
Penicuik Pottery at
Catherine
Freeland paintings, woolspinning, dyeing,
weaving
Jan Miller stained glass, raku
plus music &
storytelling in the yurt:
1.30pm welcome to Penicuik Arts Festival by Richard Demarco,
Richard Demarco opens Penicuik Arts Festival at the Arts Centre Gallery Café ~ Tomoko Nagatsuka
Town Hall ~ Jan Miller & Sarah Keer Keer Penicuik Taize Vaults sing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Catherine Freeland and Jan
Miller and Jane Kelly at Penicuik Pottery storytelling yurt
Ian Newton at Ninemileburn Aine Devine at l’Amitie restaurant Doreen books, Library
what happened every day
1-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
3.15pm Penicuik Taizé Vaults sing at Craigmillar Castle Great Hall,
Gallery Café
Tomoko Nagatsuka Upstairs exhibition Library Doreen Frew Headcases
Kenneth McQueenie
Aine Divine at Amitie Penicuik Taizé Vaults Craigmillar Castle Great
Hall
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
10 am-3pm: day one of Jane Kelly pottery summer school,
from
Tomoko Nagatsuka at the Gallery Café Musical minnows at the North Kirk Summer school at Penicuik Pottery
what happened every day
10am-11am Musical Minnows for 0-5yrs sing move feel & use
music North Kirk 01968 673338
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Aine Divine
portrait paintings at L’Amitie restaurant,
Kenneth McQueenie at Headcases,
Other artists at Penycoe
Press. Flowers by Lindsey, Optical Express
10 am-3pm: day two of Jane Kelly pottery summer school,
Valleyfield House,
7.30pm Sing, play or listen, Acoustic
music session in Cragiebield House Hotel folk, trad. Rock C+W
Doreen books,
Library Musical minnows
North Kirk Gallery
Cafe ~ Fresh organic bread 11am
PCAA
exhibition upstairs, Arts Centre, West St
Aine Devine, L’Amitie Music session Cragiebield Hotel
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
10 am-3pm: day three of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Tomoko Nagatsuka -Gallery Café
Exhibition upstairs Art Centre
Kenneth McQueenie -Headcases
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
10 am-3pm: day four of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
7pm Poetry and Prose evening: Tyne & Esk,
and Penicuik Writers’ Circles and guests read poems and prose. free new Penicuik library,
7.30pm Dialogues of Love:
Hugh Hillyard-Parker bass, Annie Patch soprano,
Graham Macdonald piano: Arts Centre upstairs
Doreen books,
Library Gallery Cafe ~ Fresh organic bread
11am Aine Divine portraits at l’Amitie restaurant John St
Gallery Café
~ Tomoko Nagatsuka
Arts
Centre ~Dialogues of Love
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
10 am-3pm: day five of Jane Kelly pottery
summer school, Valleyfield House,
Doreen books,
Library Penicuik Community Arts
exhibition upstairs, Arts Centre, West St
Gallery Café ~
Town Hall
~Friday Night Festival Ceilidh with caller Penicuik’s Annabel Oates
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
materials & tools
provided, prebooking recommended 01968 673893
11am–4pm PENICUIK ARTS TRAIL: Open studios at John Street, High
Street, & Ninemileburn
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
11am–4pm Ian Newton’s Stonecarving
& lettercutting open studio at Spital, Ninemileburn
Penicuik Community Development Trust’s Town Hall exhibitions
today by
Beltane studio bronze cast sculptures & video
about bronze casting
Anthony Edge exhibition of baroque viola de gambas, consort instruments, Renaissance instruments,
French early 18th century instruments
Ulla Hipkin runes on silk
Sue White Oakes sculpture in bronze
Leah Robb paintings of human emotions
Catriona Taylor paintings
Penicuik Pottery at
Jane Kelly pottery
Catherine Freeland paintings, woolspinning, dyeing, weaving
Jan Miller stained glass, raku
James Spence storytelling
in the yurt: from 1.30
–SEE ARTS TRAIL DETAILS BELOW
11 am “Next Goal’s a Winner” -Penicuik Arts presents free Dads and Lads
storytelling for children & adults at Penicuik Library
-one of Scotland’s oldest flower shows –pot plants, cut flowers,
vegetables, floral art. Refreshments
from
2 pm–4pm Animation workshop for ages 12-16 by Red Kite in the
Arts Centre upstairs, West St. £4 arranged by Penicuik Arts
(supported by Midlothian Council)- this is a chance for hands-on experience. RED KITE are award
winning local animators, and are also giving workshops to international
delegates at the
7.30pm Evening of Gypsy
inspired acoustic music from Fanattica, local balkan
band the Beggar Girls, at the Arts Centre upstairs West St.
Dads and Lads
storytelling at the Library
Penicuik Community Arts exhibition at the Art Centre upstairs
Red
Kite animation
workshop at
Sue White-Oakes bronzes, Catriona Taylor
paintings at the Town Hall
Catherine Freeland
& Jan Miller & Jane Kelly at Penicuik Pottery James
Spence stories in
the yurt
Penicuik
Flower show at Ladywood Glass at Beeslack Aine Divine
portraits at L’Amitie restaurant
Gallery Café ~till
Ian Newton at Ninemileburn
Fanattica at
Anthony Edge
instruments at the Town Hall The
Beggar Girls at West Street
what happened every day
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
Doreen books, Library Penicuik Community Arts exhibition upstairs
at Arts Centre, West Street
Gallery Café
~ Maggie Mowbray Yurt ~Friends
meeting
Penicuik
Taizé Vaults sing at Seton Chapel
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
Musical
minnows at the North Kirk Maggie
Mowbray at the Gallery Café
Kenneth McQueenie at Headcases
Aine Divine
portraits at L’Amitie
Penicuik Community Arts exhibition upstairs at Arts Centre, West Street
what happened every day
10am-11am Musical Minnows for 0-5yrs sing move feel & use
music North Kirk 01968 673338
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
11am–4pm Stonecarving
& lettercutting on view at Spital
Stonework Studio, Ninemileburn
Stonecarving and lettercutting by trainee Gus Fisher, local young
7.30pm Sing, play or listen, Acoustic
music session in Cragiebield House Hotel folk, trad. rock C+W
Ian Newton stonecutting Gus
Fisher
Penicuik Community Arts exhibition at the Art Centre upstairs Gallery Cafe ~
Fresh organic bread 11am
Maggie
Mowbray Gallery Café
Musical minnows North Kirk Music session Cragiebield Hotel
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
Gallery Café
~ Maggie Mowbray paintings & constructions Aine
Divine portraits at L’Amitie
Penicuik
Community Arts exhibition at the Art Centre upstairs Headcases
~Kenneth McQueenie
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
7.30 pm The
Open Heart: Clarelynn Rose with Roddy
Maggie
Mowbray Gallery Cafe ~ fresh
organic bread 11am Upstairs ~ songs & lute: the Open
Heart 7.30
. Aine Divine portraits at l’Amitie Restaurant Penicuik Arts exhibition at the
Art Centre upstairs
what happened every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
Gallery Café
~ Maggie Mowbray
Headcases ~Kenneth McQueenie
something every day
10am-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
1.30pm and 3pm: Lari Don storytelling
in the yurt, Penicuik pottery
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
Penicuik Community Development Trust’s Town Hall exhibitions
today by
Christine Finlayson textile art
Jan McLure contemporary
embroidery
Belle Claudi knitted
tapestries
Maggie Mowbray mixed media
Fiona Maher paintings
Jane Turner sculptures & paintings
Penicuik Pottery at
Jane Kelly pottery
Catherine Freeland paintings, woolspinning, dyeing, weaving
Jan Miller stained glass, raku
Lari Don storytelling in the yurt:
from
–SEE ARTS TRAIL DETAILS BELOW
from 11 am ArtsSoup’s Youth Animation Workshop -animated film using
model figures, with Linda Early in the mobile van by the Town Hall
Town
Hall -Maggie
Mowbray mixed media
-Fiona Maher
Youth animation, Linda
Early Paintings by Ulla Hipkin
and bowls Ian Milne at
Catherine Freeland
and Jan
Miller and Jane Kelly at Penicuik Pottery storytelling yurt
something every day
1-4pm Summer Open Exhibition & Turner Prize competition,
Arts Centre upstairs
Shops & shop windows: Amitie, Headcases, Penycoe Press. Flowers
by Lindsey, Optical Express
7.15pm Festival close with Penicuik
Taize Vaults at Sacred
Heart, John Street, Penicuik
Doreen books, Library Penicuik Community Arts exhibition upstairs
at Arts Centre, West Street
Penicuik
Taizé Vaults sing at Crichton Church 3.15pmand at Sacred Heart,
Penicuik
THE PENICUIK ARTS TRAIL
on Saturdays 25th
August, 1st and 8th September
Apart from the stone workshop, Trail venues are within a short
walk in the town centre.
The stonework studio is on the slopes of the Pentlands, at Spital, Nine Mile Burn, 5km south along A766 over A702
AT JOHN STREET GARDEN STUDIO
Ulla Hipkin Oil paintings Ian Milne wooden bowls
AT
25 August
Jan Miller’s Out To Lunch exhibition of papier mache figures
Sarah Keer Keer mixed media
Sandra Vick, paintings
Charlie Brodowski wood sculptures
Linda Early sculpture and mixed media
Paul Carline photographs
Jan Miller’s Out
to lunch Sarah Keer Keer textiles .
1 September:
Beltane studio bronze cast sculptures & video about
bronze casting
Anthony Edge baroque viola de gambas, consort instruments,
Renaissance instruments,
French early 18th century instruments
Sue White Oakes sculpture in bronze
Catriona Taylor paintings
Ulla Hipkin runes on silk
Leah Robb paintings of human emotions
Beltane
Studio bronze
Sue White-Oakes bronze
Anthony
Edge instruments
Catriona
Taylor paintings
8 September:
Christine Finlayson textile art
Jan McLure contemporary
embroidery
Belle Claudi knitted
tapestries
Maggie Mowbray mixed media
Fiona Maher paintings
Jane Turner sculptures & paintings
Maggie Mowbray mixed media
AT PENICUIK POTTERY,
Jane Kelly Pottery Jan Miller raku pieces Catherine Freeland wool and
textiles
Storytellers in the yurt
in
the garden include James Spence (1 Sept) & Lari Don (8 Sept)
Jane Kelly
pottery Jan
Miller raku+glass
Catherine Freeland Storytelling
yurt
(Jane Kelly holds 5-day prebooked workshops Mondays to Fridays 27-31 August and 17th-21st
September
AT THE STONEWORK STUDIO, SPITAL COTTAGE, NINE MILE BURN, on the
slopes of the Pentlands, 5km south of Penicuik centre along A766 and across
A702
Stonecarving and lettercutting by Ian Newton
Stonecarving and lettercutting by trainee Gus
Fisher, local young
Two Festival
Saturdays 25 August and 1 September,
Special extra Festival Tuesday with
Gus Fisher at the Stonework Studio on 4 September
Ian Newton stonecutting at Spittal
Farm stonework studio Ninemileburn Gus
Fisher
Linked to the Saturday Arts Trail, the following venues are open
during the two weeks of the Penicuik Arts Festival:
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE UPSTAIRS,
Summer Open Exhibition and Turner Prize competition opens on 25
August,
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE GALLERY CAFÉ, 4 West Street,
August: works by Tomoko Nagatsuka
–
bold abstract pieces evolved from old kimonos
September: works by Maggie
Mowbray
– paintings and
constructions
Aine Divine
portrait paintings
other ON-STREET GALLERIES IN PENICUIK SHOPS:
Kenneth McQueenie at HEADCASES,
Other artists work at
Pen-y-coe Press (
outdoor display of Cuikie
Kids and Art of
Art of Midlothian mural with Linda Early, Jan Miller
PENICUIK LIBRARY across
Children’s art exhibition
wall cabinet
exhibition of Doreen Cullen books
More events have yet to be finalised.
-plus 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.
GALLERY CAFÉ
The Gallery Cafe is the heart
of the Arts Centre at
UPSTAIRS EVENTS
This
main upstairs gallery is 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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