A NEW exhibition celebrating "the power of music" will feature as part of the celebrations for Aberdeen’s Music Hall, when it re-opens its doors to the public on 8 December after its refurbishment.
Twelve poets have created a new work inspired by music, which has been illustrated by Scottish artist Andrew Cranston for the Music Hall’s new lower foyer.
The title of the exhibition, ‘In Love in the Music Hall,’ commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts is taken from Scottish Makar Jackie Kay’s poem whose birth parents met in Aberdeen.
There are contributions from former Makar Liz Lochhead, the Welsh poet Laureate Gillian Clarke, Simon Armitage, and poems in Gaelic from Aonghas MacNeacail, and in Doric from Sheena Blackhall.
Other poets include John Burnside, Douglas Dunn,Sinead Morrisey, Don Paterson, Alan Spence and Gerda Stevenson.
Lesley Anne Rose, head of artistic development, said: “The Music Hall is connected to so many people as a place where they have fallen in love with music, and we really wanted to represent the importance of that sentiment through this piece as we move forward into this new stage for such a beloved building.”
Gray’s School of Art graduate Andrew Cranston has illustrated each poem to create 12 dyptych works.
He said: "As a painter, poetry has always been hugely important to me.
"Poems often seem a condensed form of experience and idea, what Daljit Nagra calls 'an espresso shot of thought', and I think of a painting similarly reflecting, distilling and translating the world: things seen, heard and felt. With this suite of lithographs I have tried to translate the rhythms, sounds and meanings of each poem into my language: shape, space, colour, tone, line."
www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
THE V&A Dundee is to launch Winter Nights season with a special talk from Robin Shaw, the award-winning animator and illustrator.
As well as directing the Irn Bru Christmas campaign in 2006, Shaw and a team of animators at Lupus Films’ London animation studio have just completed the sequel which will air for the first time on Saturday night.
Shaw, who was also part of the directing team on the Channel 4 TV special The Snowman and The Snowdog, will join V&A Dundee Curator Kirsty Hassard on 7 December to discuss his 15-year career as an illustrator and animator.
The talk will mark the beginning of V&A Dundee’s Winter Nights, a series of late-night openings, music performances, festive design workshops and short film screenings at the museum throughout December.
The Winter Nights season begins on 7 December with music from St Andrews Brass.
On 14 December there will be a performance from the Scottish Police & Community Choir.
On each night, a series of short winter films from DCA's Discovery Film Festival will be shown.
Robin Shaw said: “I’ve been lucky to have enjoyed a career in animation and illustration that’s so far been fantastically varied, challenging and, for the most part, a great deal of fun."
Allan McIntyre, Creative Industries Producer at V&A Dundee, said: “Over three Friday evenings in December our Winter Nights season will see the museum opening hours extended to give everyone an opportunity to enjoy festive actives at V&A Dundee.
“We are delighted that Robin Shaw, whose work will be instantly recognisable to so many people, will join us for a special talk to launch to start of our festive programme."
www.vam.ac.uk/dundee
WORKSHOPS and discussions with film and TV professionals, the Industry Focus, are for the fourth time to be part of the Glasgow Film Festival.
Passes are on sale for the three day event at the movie festival, which runs from 27 February to 1 March next year.
In one event, a panel of industry professionals will take a film from concept to exhibition in under 90 minutes.
Other events include an opportunity for filmmakers to pitch to Channel 4, and a panel event looking at the changing attitudes to horror cinema.
The full Industry Focus programme will be announced in January, 2019.
www.glasgowfilm.org/industry.
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