LEITHLATE is returning this year with a programme of visual art, theatre, poetry and music. The festival takes place in Leith, Edinburgh, from June 15 to 18.
The event's new venues this year include Trinity House’s underground vaults at the Kirkgate, Punjabi Junction, and the Leith Walk Launderette.
Clara Hastrup, a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art will show video work in a site-specific installation at the hidden vaults at Trinity House and Holly Knox Yeoman, former visual arts curator at Summerhall, has curated an exhibition that includes Stephanie Mann and an opening performance by David Sherry, at the Sikh-Scot social enterprise Punjabi Junction.
Visual arts production company Ltd Ink Corporation will open their studio doors at the former Leith Ambulance Depot, for LeithLate17’s opening night, among many other shows and events, including its first public poetry trail.
The Public Poetry Trail will also take place on the final day of the festival in conjunction with Edinburgh City of Literature, taking Edinburgh Makar Christine de Luca's recent poem about Leith as inspiration. The audience will be guided by de Luca’s words in the poem from the Shore to the Kirkgate through the form of pavement stencils.
leithlate.co.uk
LONDON-based vintage jazz specialists The Dime Notes undertake an extensive eighteen-date tour of Scotland during June, taking in Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival, Glasgow’s West End Festival, the Spirit of Skye Festival and St Magnus Festival in Orkney.
The quartet features Oregon-born piano professor, composer and musicologist Andrew Oliver and long-time Chris Barber Band clarinettist David Horniblow alongside guitarist Dave Kelbie and bassist Tom Wheatley. They open the tour at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on June 1 and call in at Websters Theatre, Glasgow on June 6 as well as playing venues including Birnam Arts Centre, Eden Court, Inverness and the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool.
thedimenotes.com
PIANIST and accordionist Phil Alexander has composed the music for Among Others, a theatre piece that celebrates two hundred years of Jewish life in Edinburgh and premieres at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on June 11.
Alexander, who features with the internationally acclaimed klezmer group Moishe’s Bagel, has collaborated on the piece with writer Ellen Galford and will provide the music in performance alongside Martin Fell (clarinet/sax) and Emma Smith on bass.
tracscotland.org/scottish-storytelling-centre
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