Founded by Robert and Nicky Wilson, Jupiter Artland, near Bonnington, is a collection of contemporary outdoor sculpture located across 100 acres of woodland and meadows just outside Edinburgh, where the 2015 programme features new work by international artists and emerging talent.
For the first time since opening, the collection will be open to the public every day throughout July and August.
Highlights for this year's exhibition programme include a dramatic new installation by New York-based artist, Tara Donovan, her first large-scale solo exhibition in the UK. This will be presented in The Ballroom, a space within the 17th century Bonnington House which will be opened up to the public for the first time.
This year's programme will also see a new permanent commission by sculptor Sara Barker, commissioned for the outdoor woodland, alongside exhibitions by artists including Edwin Burdis, Samara Scott and Lauren Gault. Contemporary Argentine artist Mika Rottenberg opens Jupiter Artland's spring programme on 16 May, with a series of sculptural works for the Goldsworthy Room.
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For the Mayfesto 2015 festival, Andy Arnold, the artistic director of the Tron has curated a series of productions, all putting women centre stage, either as writers, theatre-makers or performers; or in the case of Greyscale's Production of Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone, with female roles being undertaken by male performers.
The festival also includes Rites, Cora Bissett and Yursa Warsama's new piece of theatre exploring Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Working from transcripts of interviews with girls affected not only in Scotland but also the rest of the UK, the play explores the complexities, misconceptions and challenges associated with FGM.
In a new production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Karen Dunbar (pictured) will take on the role of Winnie.
The final house production of the festival is a new piece by Nicola McCartney, presented by Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, called Crazy Jane.
tron.co.uk
The acclaimed poet Christopher Agee will conclude this spring's series of Literary Lunchtimes at 1.00 pm tomorrow at Bar Gandolfi in Glasgow.
It is his final semester as Keith Wright Literary Fellow at Strathclyde University, and he will be reading from his book, Next to Nothing, as well as his new Glasgow-based collection, Now and Then.
The four series of Literary Lunchtimes have provided a memorable sampling of some of the best writers in Scotland, the full list of 24 readers being Liz Lochhead, Rob McKenzie, James Robertson, Andrew Greig, Kirsty Logan, John Glenday, John Burnside, Sandy Hutchison, David Kinloch, Andrew Philip, Bernard MacLaverty, Beatrice Colin, Louise Welsh, Alasdair Gray, Aonghas MacNeacail, Tom Leonard, Kathleen Jamie, Christine de Luca, Malachy Tallack, Karen Campbell, Donal McLaughlin, Alan Gillis and Rodge Glass.
The series is sponsored by the School of Humanities at University of Strathclyde.
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