The Edinburgh Reporter January 2023

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18 WHAT’S ON


CULTURE • LITERATURE • EVENTS • MUSIC • MUSEUMS...


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
Free download pdf