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We’ve been mighty quiet these past few weeks on account of our fearless leader Ryan being on holiday – but that’s not to say we don’t have some pretty awesome Big Ups to share with you:
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THE GOLDEN HOUR goes to the EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL!
August 25th, 2010
9pm
Highland Park Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square
Free! Free! Free!
Featuring:
![TOTAL KUNST GALLERY presents
SZAJNER [from this gleaming, words are born…]
8th-21st August, daily noon - 10pm
“A rain of signs created as ‘impediments’, fractured, fragmented or interstitialreadings.” A two-week installation and sound piece bythe French composer, theorist and visual artistSzajner. The work is part of the artist’s ongoingmicro-installations “Suspended Readings”.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6qkzrjxC61qbobk9o1_75sq.jpg)
TOTAL KUNST GALLERY presents
SZAJNER [from this gleaming, words are born…]
8th-21st August, daily noon - 10pm
“A rain of signs created as ‘impediments’, fractured, fragmented or interstitial
readings.” A two-week installation and sound piece by
the French composer, theorist and visual artist
Szajner. The work is part of the artist’s ongoing
micro-installations “Suspended Readings”.
THE GOLDEN HOUR!
August 18th, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free!
Reading:
Lidija Haas – stops the presses with her new chapbook
AL Kennedy – novelist, comedian, rude and wonderful.
Ryan Van Winkle – short poems, long stories.
Music:
Earl Grey and the Loose Leaves – A brawling bar-room blues band that sounds like Captain Beefheart oan the train over tae Howlin’ Wolf’s hoose fur a bevvy and a brace with Sonny Terry and the Mississippi Sheiks. Contagious.
&&&& loads more!!!!
Very excited!
THE GOLDEN HOUR!August 18th, 2010 Reading: AL Kennedy – novelist,… |
This August, The Forest Arts Collective turns ten years old! To celebrate there is an un-stoppable amount of free theatre and events including the massive 10th Birthday Party on 14 August….
Here at ForPub headquarters we’re stoked to announce the launch of a new collection of World Cup 2010 Poems, so that you can relive our most recent Cup in all its poetic glory.
The Project was…
WHAT THEY COULD DO THEY DID
Friday at 21:00 - 07 August at 03:00Upstairs at The Forest Cafe
After a year in the wilderness, WHAT THEY COULD DO THEY DID return to The Forest Cafe on a mission of unadulterated ultra-violet destruction and recreation - we’re having a party!
WTCDTD will be helping to celebrate the Forest’s 10 year anniversary (you can’t spell decadence without decade) in style THIS FRIDAY, featuring musical, visual and sensual entertainments galore, including
plus FREE GAMES with PRIZES,
MASS SLAUGHTER
BINGO
ZINE STALL
and DJs til late to dance the night away
!FREE ENTRY!
this FRIDAY AUGUST 6th
9pm-late, upstairs at the Forest
3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH1 1EY
!FREE ENTRY!
Unfurling film response by Helena Louise Woodvine & Mike Snyder. A first time film effort by Helena and Mike in a free DIY filmmaking workshop in Edinburgh Forest Cafe.
TASHWEESH
August 2nd starting 9pm in the Upstairs Hall
Tashweesh means ‘interference’ in Arabic and effectively sums up the band’s role in their native Palestine as a group offering a creative intervention against the political stagnation faced in their home country.
Their performance will include electronic, glitch and abstract hip hop with Arabic rapping and a strong presence of live visuals.
Find out more about Tashweesh at www.tashweesh.com.
