The Edinburgh Reporter January 2023

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Burns&Beyond

Chinese New

Year 2023

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THE TWILIGHT SAD – STRIPPED BACK

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

Saturday 28 January – Doors 7.30pm

Burns&Beyond Festival Club, Assembly

Rooms, George Street, Edinburgh

Tickets: £27.00 Inc. booking fees

From their unassuming origins as a group

of school friends drawn together by a

shared passion for music to the global

touring force they have quietly become,

The Twilight Sad’s ascent has been forged

the old way with grit, graft and four

exceptional studio albums. Forged in

Kilsyth and honed while touring with

idols, The Cure, they describe their bold,

dark sound as “folk with layers of noise”

and their gigs have an electrifying,

intensely moody vibe. Founded by

vocalist James Graham and guitarist Andy

MacFarlane, and now embracing Johnny

Docherty (bass), Brendan Smith

(keyboards) and Sebastien Schultz

(drums), they describe fifth album It Won’t

Be Like This All the Time as a “raw and

dynamic take on the stuff of life”.

KINNARIS QUINTET & FRIENDS

WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS JULIE

FOWLIS & KARINE POLWART

Sunday 29 January – Doors 7pm

Burns&Beyond Festival Club, Assembly

Rooms, George Street, Edinburgh

Tickets: £21.60 Inc. booking fees

Kinnaris Quintet features an all-strings

instrumental line-up of fiddles from Laura

Wilkie, Aileen Reid and Fiona MacAskill,

mandolin from Laura-Beth Salter and

guitar from Jenn Butterworth. While the

members of Kinnaris Quintet are

individually eminent musicians in their

own right, their collaboration as a group

has pushed their musical creativity to

bold new heights.

http://www.kinnarisquintet.com

SATURDAY 7 JANUARY

RE-IMAGINING

WONDERLAND: AN

EXERCISE IN SOLITUDE,

12pm – 1pm

CutLog is a group of artists in

Scotland who have come

together to create new

opportunities for moving-

image artists.

Artists based anywhere in

the world were invited to

submit moving-image works

under 10 minutes long in

response to the theme

'Re-imagining Wonderland',

exploring ideas around issues

of change and adaptation in

today's world.

Edinburgh based artist and

academic, Beverly Hood

will discuss ‘an exercise in

solitude’ a short film made on

iPhone, about walking with

technology as a way to re-think

solitude, presented as part of

the Cutlog programme at the

SSA exhibition, and other

recent works.

Introduced by Pernille Spence

JILL BENNETT IN

CONVERSATION WITH

SHARON THOMAS

2pm - 3pm

Edinburgh-based Printmaker

Jill Bennett will join SSA

Council Member Sharon

Thomas to discuss her

recent SSA awarded artist

residency within the

Lithography Workshops of

Eichstätt, Bavaria.

Established and directed by

Stone Lithographer Li

Portenlänger, this residency

supports experimentation with

approaches to Lithography.

The event will provide

context for the work currently

exhibited by both Bennett and

Portenlänger, as part of its 130

Years Annual Exhibition.

FREE TALKS

The talks are all free to

attend and will allow

audiences to engage with

the various artists as they also

provide new insights and

discuss their individual work

in greater depth.

At the Royal Scottish Academy

EDINBURGH’S CHINESE
NEW YEAR FESTIVAL
Friday 20 – Sunday 29 January

THIS YEAR IS THE Year of the Rabbit, the
fourth of all zodiac animals. (The last year of
the Rabbit was 2011, in case you wish to
make any comparisons.)
The Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit is a
symbol of longevity, peace, and prosperity in
Chinese culture. 2023 is predicted to be a
year of hope.
The full programme of events will only be
published just after the beginning of January
but there will definitely be a gala event in

Usher Hall supported by Heriot-Watt

University who are also organising some

online Chinese events.

http://www.chinesenewyear.scot