Scot-ART
Scot-ART’s very own Constantine has been the resident artist at the virgin hotels for the past two months. The three month residency program helps to provide a platform for Edinburgh based artists and creates to promote and display their work.
You can view his work in The Unicorn Room, located within the old India Buildings’ turret. This is a free space for the public to come and support the work of local artists.
Feldenkrais® Studio Edinburgh – Alan Caig Wilson Studio 6.27
The Feldenkrais Method® is an innovative way of learning more about your body, experiencing greater ease, calm and comfort in your everyday life and developing resilience and adaptability. In addition is used by artists of all kinds to develop their work – streamlining their thinking and practice through exploring their movement. You don’t need any kind of movement expertise – all the movements are guided. Everyone is welcome. Everyone gets something out of it.
Cath Sinclair, a visual artist from East Lothian writes – In my Artistic practice I think it definitely helped with focus and also experimentation. I like to think I’m always looking for a new way of drawing or working, and so if anything I think Feldenkrais has reminded me to keep working this way and to perhaps try new simpler ways of working with pen, paint and paper.
I cannot recommend Alan’s classes highly enough and recommend anyone who is feeling stuck in their body to give Feldenkrais a try.
Classes take place in Studio 6.02 every Weds 10.30am – 12 noon (running until Easter). And online every Tuesday evening.
Individual, hands-on one-to-one lessons, called Functional Integration®, are available by appointment.
freedomtomove@outlook.com – more info www.thebodythinkprocess.com
Rates for Scot-Art members:
Single group class £10, parcel of four £35.
Functional Integration lesson £35
COME AND JOIN US! We are having an Open day @ Studio 6.02 on the 6th floor this Saturday.
You can book here or cash on the day if you just wish to try a class, or two.
Let your friends know 🙂
Stay Tuned! Tickets, Sat 7th October 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
Mates rates for Scot-ART tenants if you decide to join a class block. Speak to the relevant teacher/facilitator.
We hope to see you on Saturday or soon.
Annamaria Alan Lisa Bernardetta Kirsten
CALL FOR ENTRIES Scotland’s biggest prize for contemporary landscape art, the Scottish Landscape Awards, are open until 31 May.
Internationally renowned artists @adeadesina @davidmachra, @janeandlouisewilson, Marion Leven and Barbara Rae (chair) will anonymously select all works for the exhibition and the prize-winners.
Prizes presented at the inaugural #scottishlandscapeawards 2023 will include:
• £10,000 – First Prize
• £5,000 – Second Prize
• £1,000 – Third Prize
• £1,000 – Young Landscape Artist Award (16-25 years)
• £3,000 – The Scottish Landscape Environmental Art Prize
• £1,000 – The Scottish Landscape Photography Award
• £5,000 – The City of Edinburgh Award for the top work depicting any aspect of the city in any media. The winning work will become part of the City of Edinburgh’s permanent collection.
• An exhibition #CityArtCentreEdinburgh running from November 2023 to March 2024.
• Inclusion in the Scottish Landscape Awards Short Films
• Inclusion in The Scottish Landscape Awards Catalogue
For more info, visit www.scottishartstrust.org/landscape
How to Enter
Entries are now open from 1 March to 31 May 2023. For further details can be found by visiting www.scottishartstrust.org/landscape.
The awards are only made possible by a dedicated team of volunteers. Each work entered has a fee of £10. Free entry is available for artists living in Scotland in a household where anyone is receiving any form of income support or Universal Credit. More information can be found here.
Part of Puppet Animation Festival 2023.
12th of April at 1pm.
A Raven visits a young, unhappy girl.
Why are the birds gathering?
And what is the secret that Ada learns about her past?
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, this tells the story of Ada, a young girl who is unhappy at school. She is visited by a Raven and thrust into a dream world of quests, feathers and a Glass Mountain.
The audience is taken on a tiny world adventure over an extraordinary, felted landscape as Ada unlocks the secret the Raven is trying to tell her.
The Seven Ravens is a brand new and unique performance/installation by Tragic Carpet Theatre using an innovative mix of live puppetry, digital image capture, processing and display, needle felting and specially composed music and song.
Book here: https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:4656/913:18689/
Hi all, my beautiful studio is ready to reopen after 3 years. It is available to hire for classes/gallery/music and available from mid-March onwards. I am ready to take slots.
If you would like to arrange a time to come and see it contact me on annamaria@bodysymphonies.co.uk or pop upstairs at 6.19.
I am quite keen to fill the weeks from July to mid September especially for exhibitions.
The address is 3a Montgomery Street Lane, EH7 5JT (behind Valvona on Elm Row).
In this class we get in touch with our fluid body, tissues and get to know ourselves and what moves and how and what doesn’t. Gradually we develop fluidity, lightness, a change in state which supports the shift to strenghtening and lenghtening work for a period, followed by deep rest.
I started practising in 1991, trained in the Iyengar system to senior level over 25 years and trained teachers during pandemic with the Body Symphonies teacher training. My way of teaching now is the result of integration of my experience and work as a previously Iyengar teacher as well as a craniosacral therapist and movement practitioner.
To book: https://bookwhen.com/annamarie-sacco-bodysymphonies
A fun free practical short course on Play for parents, grandparents and carers.
Build on your experience caring for a child between 2 and 6 years old. Accredited a SCQF level 4).
Every Wednesday 9:30 – 11:30am starting 26th October for 8 weeks, ending 14th December.
People Know How
Straits Meadow
61 – 63 London Road
Edinburgh
EH7 6AA
For more information and to register:
Contact Morag Lang on: 07783 171817 or email morag.lang@edinburgh.gov.uk
Hello , it was lovely to meet more of you at my exhibition Finding Roots in Water in Gallery 2 in September and exchange studio numbers :-).
One of my other huts is craniosacral therapy. I have now created a separate ticket for St Margaret’s House residents in my booking system to keep supporting one another through these challenging times.
You can see a short video on craniosacral therapy here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-mLstQUKQ0&t=1s
More information is available from the national body I belong to here:
The Craniosacral Therapy Association – Official Website
See the date on the calendar, contact me if the times do not work and you wish a different time. We can see if it is possible. I do not work evenings any longer.
To book, please use this link
https://bookwhen.com/annamaria-sacco-bodysymphonies
Sessions will begin again in November after I get back from teaching a retreat.
Love and Trust to all,
Annamaria
Northfield Community Centre, 10 Northfield Road, Edinburgh, EH8 7PP
Saturday 24th September, 12 – 3.30pm
– Tool sharpening – Bring your secateurs, loppers, shears, hoes, lawn edgers, etc to be sharpened and adjusted (no knives or saws). Run by Edinburgh Tool Library
– Repair Cafe – Our volunteers offer you free help with repairing items such as toys, small electricals, laptops, lamps, toasters… so if you’ve got something that you want to fix, you can email us at repaircafeedinburgh@gmail.com to confirm suitability and to reserve your place. Or just turn up on the day and we’ll take a look.
– Cargo bikes and trikes, electric bikes and even cycle trishaws. Courtesy of Cycling Without Age Scotland, Duddingston Community EBikes, Porty Community Energy
– Puppet shows and art fun
– Talks and workshops:
– Saving on heating – home insulation
– Planning for a Net 0 Community in Willowbrae
– Our local greenspaces
– Growing more food
– Information stalls about environmental issues and projects and local issues.