COVID update music, performance, artworks and writing

Link to my Patreon Page Our first exclusive showing of the brand new musical How the Light Gets In has been indefinitely postponed and now will not be taking place on the 15th April on the Isle of Lewis. We are of course, gutted. We’ve worked so hard to get to this place and having…

Northern Lights Theatar Oigridh

Northern Lights Theatar Oigridh on Facebook Halò a h-uile duine, gabhaibh ar leisgeulan airson beagan greis a thaobh COVID 19. Chan eil clasaichean ann a-nis ACH Bidh sinn air ais dh’aithghearr le clasaichean eadar-lìon tha mi an dòchas. Tha obair agam ri dhèanamh a thaobh a’ cuir air doigh curriculum a bhios ag obair eadar-lìon,…

(g)Host City – Virtual Festival

(g)Host City Virtual Festival This website link takes you to (g)Host City – Edinburgh’s Virtual Festival.  A project I started in 2011. Every marker on this map points you to an artist’s response to a specific part of Edinburgh – a graveyard, a shopping centre, a city square, a ruined chapel. Some take you on a journey, by foot…

DRIFT A performance by Juliana Capes and Laura Eaton Lewis for Opening Lines

DRIFT A performance by Juliana Capes and Laura Eaton Lewis for Opening Lines Combining description, history and storytelling in response to locations across Edinburgh, creating events for sighted and non sighted audiences. LISTEN HERE Drift weaves together stories from generations of women with connections to Portobello Prom across their lives. It was created collaboratively by…

Building Skyscrapers and tending to the Future

Pecha Kucha 22: Laura Cameron Lewis – Building Skyscrapers and tending to the Future   Laura Cameron-Lewis is a cultural leader, arts director, artist and educator. She has developed The Work Room choreographic foundation at Tramway since its inception in 2008 into an internationally recognised centre focussing on artist-led practice. She is an editor for…

Whatever Gets You Through The Night

The Film: http://vimeo.com/55223643   THE SHOW | The Queens Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 |  The Arches, September 2012 Featuring exclusive new words and music by Errors, Alan Bissett, Rachel Sermanni, Withered Hand, Annie Griffin, Meursault, David Greig, RM Hubbert, Wounded Knee, Alan Spence, Ricky Ross, Conquering Animal Sound, Emma Pollock, Isabel Wright, Kirstin Innes, Swimmer…

How The Light Gets In (in development)

Currently in development, this is a collaborative theatre performance and research project about compulsive hoarding. The creative team will share scenes from the script and musical score and discuss the ideas and the science behind the project. In recent years the phenomenon of hoarding has received extensive media coverage – much of it sensationalist. How the…

Swimmer One

http://www.swimmerone.co.uk  photo: Jannica Honey Swimmer One You can listen and buy Swimmer One records here: http://swimmerone.bandcamp.com Get in touch: biphonicrecords@gmail.com ‘They give intelligence a good name and are more windswept than worthy. Their music has the quirky intricacy of Belle & Sebastian and the soaring atmosphere of Blue Nile, and it is very, very good’ – The Guardian….

All Back To Bowie’s

http://www.allbacktobowies.com All Back to Bowie’s, the show, ran at Stand in the Square in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, from 1-24 August, as part of the Assembly Rooms Fringe programme (www.arfringe.com). It was created by playwright David Greig (The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Midsummer) and a collective of fellow Scottish artists from various disciplines –…

A Manifesto on Leadership for Artists

A Manifesto for Leadership for Artists (first delivered at Tramway World Café, and then British Dance Edition 2014)    Artists help us prepare for the future. Artists always exist on the threshold of becoming – the act of bringing things from the imagination or potential into being, positions them always with one foot in the…