THE Glasgow International visual arts festival, which begins this week, will see nearly 100 contemporary Scottish sculptures being put up for "adoption".
Pieces by Laura Aldridge, Beagles & Ramsay, Mary Redmond, Andrew Lacon, Rachel Lowther, Nick Evans, Felix Welch and Littlewhitehead will be on show at the Sculpture Showroom in the hopes of finding them a long-term display.
Sculpture Placement Group (SPG) are behind the adoption scheme, and have a catalogue featuring the rest of the 94 available works by the 54 mainly Scottish artists currently taking part.
Sculpture Showroom is a pilot project and if successful SPG hopes to further extend the adoption scheme.
www.sculptureplacementgroup.org.uk
THE Welsh musician, Gruff Rhys is to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his debut Fringe show, Resist Phony Encores, from August 17 to 25.
The singer and songwriter of the Super Furry Animals will be playing a range of music from the last four decades.
Super Furry Animals released nine albums between 1996 and 2009.
Rhys’s first solo album was released in 2005.
Yr Atal Genhedlaeth was an all-Welsh language album where Rhys played most of the instruments and in 2014, Rhys released American Interior.
He will be appearing at the Pleasance.
www.pleasance.com
DUNS Film Club in the Borders to host the Scottish Premiere of BAFTA award winning director Samir Mehanovic’s new documentary Through our Eyes on 29 April at the Volunteer Hall, Duns.
Mehanovic, who is based in Scotland, will attend the screening, which looks at the Syrian conflict. A Muslim refugee himself, Samir fled Bosnia in the 1990s and settled in the UK.
It features music written and performed by refugees.
Duns Film Club was set up in 2017, and this screening would not be possible without the Volunteer Hall, the venue for the premiere.
Originally an army drill hall, it is the largest public space in Berwickshire, and last week the Hall was bought from the Lowland Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association by A Heart for Duns (AHFD) with a £206,000 grant from the Scottish Land Fund.
www.aheartforduns.org
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