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THESE COLOURS PRODUTIONS, the team behind King of Gypsies, has started its festival season in style by winning the first award of the year, the Dupliquick Zebra prize for poster design. The company won £500 in cash plus £500 worth of printing. the World.
Creative Chaos The Scottish theatre collective Poorboy is causing a creative flurry on this month’s Fringe. The popular posse, best known for its
multi-sensory site-specific events, has just announced that it is heading indoors to occupy space in the National Museum of Scotland. ‘Satellite’ collaborations will also take place in empty shop units in Princes Mall and Edinburgh College of Art. The last Poorboy Playroom project took place in April this year at Cove Park just outside Glasgow and produced a successful mix of music and movement. Artistic director Sandy Thomson, said of the project, which encourages internarional companie to collabroate with Scottish artists: ‘If you get the right folk together, great stuff happens.’ See www.poorboy.co.uk.
Friday and Saturday nights when the last train is 12.30am. For the rest of the week, the last one is at 12.01am. There will also be a later train to Inverkeithing on Friday nights at 11.50pm from 14 August. Many trains will have extra carriages.
■ Having established itself as the destination for virtual and vicarious clubbing, free web TV community Be at TV (www.be-at.tv), featuring some of the world’s best venues and festivals – from Space to Matter via Global Gathering – and backed by DJs including Tiesto, Sander Kleinenberg and deadmau5, b@ is set to make its Scottish debut at the EH1 Music Festival.
■ A late-night train to North Berwick is among this year’s special Edinburgh festival services. It will run on Fridays and Saturdays at 11.37pm, 30 minutes after the usual last train. Between 10 August and 4 September, Fringe-goers from Glasgow can stay late on 4 THE LIST FESTIVAL MAGAZINE 6–13 Aug 2009
ScotRail is also providing extra trains from Edinburgh for the Bank of Scotland Fireworks on Sunday 6 September, including a special service for people in the Newcraighall and Brunstane areas. The 11.37pm North Berwick service will call at Musselburgh, Wallyford, Prestonpans, Longniddry, Drem and North Berwick. Glasgow Queen Street services will call at Linlithgow, Polmont, Falkirk High and Croy.
EVENTS ADDED to the Edinburgh International
Book Festival line-up include Alistair MacLeod and renowned broadcaster and novelist Libby Purves. Following great demand, more tickets are up for grabs for new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
COMEDY CAPERS ■ Funny lady Jenny Éclair will host the one-day-only premiere Hot Pink Breakthrough Balloon Show to raise money for Breast Cancer. The comedy benefit is on Saturday 22 August at 3pm in the Debating Hall in the Gilded Balloon. Tickets on 0131 622 6552 or at www.gildedballoon.co.uk.
OFF THE WALL Here at List Towers we couldn’t help but smile at the news that Michael Jackson at the Gates of Heaven and Hell is rocking into town and landing at the Underbelly’s Big Belly. Audiences hear from a ‘cast’, including Quincy Jones, Bubbles the Monkey and Macaulay Culkin and ‘decide’ if MJ should go to heaven or hell. WWW.LIST.CO.UK Visit us daily for arts & entertainment news