FashionABLE

fashion-ableCovered by STV, BBC and the Evening News – fashionABLE hit the catwalk at Waverly Train Station Friday 23 September and was received by large enthusiastic crowds.  The fashion show was about diversity and the celebration of difference.  It was kicked off by beating drums of one of UPMO’s dynamic percussion groups accompanied by the Bag Pipes.  The show was a collaboration between Models of Diversity, fashionABLE and UPMO with the inclusion of African, Asian and Scottish fashion. The showcased designs were made and modelled by students of UPMO’s Fashion Workshop initiated by UPMO student Raygan Bold back in 2012.

Raygan Bold of Upward Mobility “I think it’s a great cause because we’ve got people from all walks of life!”

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Call for Submissions | ROBERT BURNS EXHIBITION

Portrait of Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet and composer, Engraving

TOAST TO THE LASSIES: ROBERT BURNS & THE ROLE OF WOMEN
(Model as Body // Muse as Object)

January 20 – February 10

Gallery 23
23 Atholl Crescent
Edinburgh, EH3 8HQ
Tel. (0131) 229 1528

‘Toast to the Lassies’ invites artists to examine the relationship between artist and muse, and submit works that engage a gendered response for our exhibition celebrating Scotland’s most famous poet. Burns has a complex and sometimes contentious relationship with women, seeing them both as figures of inspiration and as objects of desire. Avidly promiscuous in his relationships, it was not purely a physical pleasure for him. Moreover, Burns’ poetry reveals a man who genuinely adored women and wrote some of the most famous declarations of love ever immortalised in the English language. Addressing notions of femininity, masculinity, and the power struggle between artist, viewer, and subject, this exhibition will be coupled with a catalogue. Additionally, select works will be on view at a Burns Night evening programme at The Royal Scots Club.

We welcome submissions in any medium, and are accepting both emerging and established artists.

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ASCUS Lab Microscopy Course

beginner_microscopy_course_image02Calling All Microscopy Enthusiasts! Do you get excited about all things microscopic? Are you interested in making the invisible visible? Are you new to working in labs? Want to do your own creative experimentation and play with the tools of science!? If YES is the answer then why not check out this new five week course, Microscopy for Beginners, in ASCUS Lab

When: Tuesdays 6.30pm – 9.00pm, 8th Nov – 6th of Dec
Where: ASCUS Lab, Summerhall
Price: £15 per session (£75 for 5 weeks)

Over five weeks you will experience ways of creating striking images venturing into the unseen world of microscopy, exploring different samples and staining techniques through the medium of light. Explore each of the five different Kingdoms of the biological classification of organisms, from Protoctists (single celled organisms) right up to animals (you, a multi cellular organism), and everything in between.

Book your place here: http://bit.ly/2e3bmSB
Check out our webpage for more details: http://bit.ly/2epPFJv

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Opportunity | Submit to Wishes & Fears

submissionWishes & Fears
November 25 – December 13, 2016

Gallery 23
23 Atholl Crescent
Edinburgh, EH3 8HQ
Tel. (0131) 229 1528

Gallery 23 is hosting a winter exhibition

Wishes // Fears, invites artists to submit holiday cards, postcard sized art, ornaments and/or larger scale works. Subject matter is not limited to holiday themes, rather we hope to incorporate a breadth of ideas within the format of a card or larger work.

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Portobello premiers charity film night in historical cinema building

portobelloOne of Portobello’s oldest cinemas, will sell tickets again for the first time in 100 years for a film premier event aimed at raising funds to bring a teenager living in a care home in Malawi to Scotland to learn film production skills.

The Cinema Theatre on Portobello High Street  closed around 1910, but records show that it didn’t screen films after 1915 (presumably because it was on war service).  It will open its doors for one night only in November, to showcase the work of the award winning filmmaker Walid Salhab and premier his stunning stop-motion/time-lapse film which has been shown at international film festivals in Cannes, Cape Cod and Pennsylvania. It will be the first time that this film has been publicly screened in Edinburgh.

The event will include interviews with the filmmaker, Walid Salhab, a media practice lecturer from Queen Margaret University, who filmed the five month build phase of the Kelpies in Falkirk. Walid’s film of the momentous equine structures was used to launch the Kelpies in New York and Scotland in 2014. His dynamic style of stop-motion/time-lapse filming has brought him to the attention of an international audience, particularly after the release of Kinetic Edinburgh II which has received over four million hits on You Tube.

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Opportunity | THE IMAGO MUNDI PROJECT

imago-mundi-projectCalling all open-minded artists, emerging or established to participate in non-profit, international project. www.imagomundiart.com

Deadline: February 4th 2017

Scotland’s representative and co-curator for the Imago Mundi project, is in search of passionate artists to contribute a piece of work in any medium only 10cmx12cm in scale. A board or stretched canvas can be supplied. Please visit the Imago Mundi website to see the wealth of artworks already curated and presented at such prestigious locations as the Venice biennale, the Dakar biennale and the Pratt institute New York. 

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