If you’re not already a fan of Tom Gauld’s cartoons in The Guardian here’s a small selection to convince you. He’ll be at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival on 23 August. In April he published a book of the cartoons, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpacks, available from The Guardian bookshop.
Deep Fried Film – the only international film festival in Coatbridge – gets underway this Saturday 10 August and continues until 17 August. It kicks off with children’s films on the Saturday afternoon and ends with an awards ceremony followed by a big party and a chance to mingle with the film makers. There will also be some stand up comedy, music and art. The amount raised for charity – the festival
Claire Lamond, Andrew Lennie and Alan Grieve are the artists behind the Real Bothy Project. Travelling through Fife this summer, they have been inviting people of all ages to ‘grab a bothy brew and join in the bothy banter’, continuing a long association of artists with the wild shelters of Scotland. They say, ‘traditionally, the bothy is understood as an egalitarian environment, a space for exchange. a place of chance
Skateboarder Robbie Hamilton has drawn on his fleeting and ephemeral view of the built landscape to create this fantastic series of paintings for a new exhibition – Passing Places – at the Old Ambulance Depot Edinburgh 25-28 July. The Duncan of Jordanstone student says, ‘I wanted to capture the skater’s obsessive response to the constantly changing urban environment as well as featuring ‘unlooked at’ architecture and the restrictions on fast movement
There can’t be many Scottish festivals that have beach volleyball in their programme. Aberdour in Fife does, along with a regatta, Jo Caulfield and a great festival bake off hosted by Susan Rae, Radio 4 and judged by last year’s Great British Bake Off winner, John Whaite and Aberdour’s own baker, Mrs Lonie. The festival also has its own version of the BAFTAs, Brilliant Aberdour Film Talent Awards. Short film submissions
For those of us living in central Scotland it is quite a surprise to discover that the ‘Helix is Happening‘ nearby. Due to open this September, the Helix is an ambitious, even visionary, project aimed at transforming space between Grangemouth and Falkirk into a landscape of paths, waterways, public art, sports facilities and leisure services. The project has been developed with a £25 million Lottery Fund by Falkirk Council, Central
The Fife Dunfermline Printmakers summer exhibition is on now at the Lochgelly Centre and runs until 14 August. All works are for sale. (Above) Untitled by Bill McKechnie and below, Every Cloud has a Silver Lining by Claire Yarrington. Above, The North Shore Anstruther by Clive Ramage and below, Found Affinity by Jai Llewellyn Below, Shutters by Thora Clyne If you are interested in becoming a member of the printmakers workshop, please
Looking very Hansel & Gretel, this gingerbread village is based on local buildings in Crail in the East Neuk of Fife and has been confected by Leven company Sucre Coeur for the Crail Food Festival. It can be seen in the window of Crail Gallery. The Festival is on this weekend, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June, and includes participants such as The Fife Diet, with their smoothie bike (pictured below), and St
Scottish design studio, Lovely Pigeon, has opened its doors for a three week shop project in the sunny seaside village of Anstruther, Fife. The shop will also host daily workshops: Kirsty Thomas of Lovely Pigeon says the workshops will include, ‘fashion makeovers, illustrated jewellery, Minecrafting and t-shirt monsters’. ‘I am really excited to be featuring music from Fence Records and products from the likes of Nikki McWilliams, Hilary Grant and Laura
There they sat, three people of about the same age who grew up within streets of each other in the same small town, looking for all the world like prizewinners on speech day: the cleverest boy, the girl who’s best at writing and the bad boy who happens to be brilliant at drawing. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, best selling crime writer Val McDermid and Britain’s most successful artist Jack