THE ART of architecture is to have its own Fringe festival.
Following the success of the inaugural event in 2016, this year's Architecture Fringe festival has expanded to host over 50 events from July 1-23 in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, the Scottish Borders and Highlands. It encompasses a series of participatory events, exhibitions, installations, talks, tours, debates and parties.
Highlights include Taxi where a member of the public joins an architect and a taxi driver on a journey offering differing perspectives on a city's architecture. The result of trips in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow will be screened as part of a special exhibition throughout the festival.
New Typologies asks leading architects to "imagine our shared future infrastructure with visualisations on everything from public toilets to town halls."
In Edinburgh, Scotland's 2016 Venice Biennale representatives Lateral North will co-host a discussion on a live music venue for Leith with Leith Creative, and in the Highlands, Lesley Riddoch and fiddler Adam Sutherland will look at land reform and hutting in a series of events on Bothy Culture.
The theme for the festival is The Infrastructure of Architecture: public life, perception and practice.
architecturefringe.com
THE GAELIC King, a historical fantasy action film set in Scotland – made by five brothers from two Scots families – is going on sale worldwide next month, on July 10.
The 90-minute-long film, shot on location in Scotland, including scenes in their parents’ manse home in Stirlingshire, is now being released in DVD format in the UK and Ireland, United States, Japan, Italy and Middle East. It is the result of three years of effort by its makers – brothers Phil, Nathan and Matthew Todd and their cousins, brothers Tom and John Walkinshaw.
The five young men, aged between 22 and 28, formed Fellowship Film, a film production company, to get the micro budget project under way and they relied on crowd funding, friends and families plus sales’ advances. All those involved waived fees but will be paid when the film starts making a profit.
FellowshipFilm.com
A RARE Mackintosh watercolour is to be auctioned at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh. Titled the Road Through the Rocks, and valued at £20,000 to £30,000, it will be sold on June 14 at their sale of Scottish Paintings.
Road Through the Rocks was included in the 1933 Memorial Exhibition dedicated to Charles and his wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, where nearly all the later watercolours were purchased by personal friends. It was later in the collection of Professor Thomas Haworth, a collector and promoter of Mackintosh’s work, who amassed the largest private collection of his work as well as publishing many works on Mackintosh.
lyonandturnbull.com
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