Penicuik
Arts Festival homepage: Penicuik Arts Festival 2008 illustrated daily diary
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ARTS FESTIVAL 2007 last year
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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 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