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Around Town
International Genealogy Festival Tue 21—Fn' 24 Jul. times vary. Prices vary. Strathclyde University. 16 Richmond Street. 287 2999. Festival of talks and events celebrating Scottish genealogy. family history. heritage and culture for all those interested in tracing their roots in Scotland or who just have an interest in the country‘s history.
Workshops
Photographs tor the Future Sat 1 l & Sun 12 Jul. 11am—4pm. £25. The Lighthouse. 11 Mitchell Lane. 221 6362. Create an ‘instant archive‘ of the River Clyde with professional photographer Rachel Thibbotumunuwe in this two-day intensive session. Booking essential.
Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Sun 12 Jul. 4—7pm. £7 (£5). The Arches. 253 Argyle Street. 565 1000. New York phenomenon Dr Sketchy's drawing classes bn'ngs creativity to life in a vibrant environment with contortionists. fire- jugglers. sideshow freaks and burlesque stars as the models. Beginners welcome. Basic art materials are available. July is Dr Sketchy Glasgow‘s 2nd birthday and the closing party for the Glasgow Cabaret Festival.
FREE Adult Workshop: Textile Art Wed 15 Jul. 10am. Burrell Collection. 2()60 Pollokshaws Road. 287 2564. View the Burrell‘s impressive tapestry collection and try your hand at making your own. Please book in advance.
Write Camera Action Mon 20 Jul. 6—9.30pm. £5 (£3). CCA. 350 Sauchiehall Street. 352 4900. A series of workshops for film writers. directors and actors for development and feedback on the third Monday of every month. Register interest at wntecameraaction @hotmail.co.uk Observers are also welcome. Ages 15+.
Edinburgh
Acttvmes & Events
FREE Storytellers at Home Until Thu 23 Jul (not Sun/Mon). times vary. Scottish Storytelling Centre. 43—45 High Street. 556 9579. Meet the storyteller who is making the centre their home for the day for a chat about spinning yams. with storytelling sessions at noon and 3pm. FREE Come Fly With Until Sun 26 Jul. Sat/Sun 10.30am—noon & I-2pm. Holyrood Park Ranger Service. Holyrood Lodge. 652 8150. Training from the rangers followed by a butterfly survey. Booking essential.
Living History Sat 11 & 18 Jul. 2.30—5.30pm. Included in admission: £5.50 (£4.50; family ticket £10/15).
Georgian House. 7 Charlotte Square. 0844 i
493 2| 17. Learn about the lives of rich and poor up until 1820.
FREE Bonaly Challenge Sat 1 1 Jul. 1—3pm. Bonaly Country Park. Bonaly Road. Pentland Hills. 445 3383. Games for all the family at Bonaly Country Park. FREE Walk to Cramond Island Wed 15 Jul. I—3pm. Cramond Island. Cratnond Public Car Park. 447 7145. Walk out along the causeway to Cramond Island and discover the historic secrets that it holds.
FREE New Writers Poetry and Short Stories Wed 15 Jul. 7pm. The Bowery. 2 Roxburgh Place. Brand new creative offerings frorn Edinburgh writers. The Rugged Island - A Shetland Lyric Thu 16 Jul. 6.30pm. £5. National Library of Scotland. George IV Bridge. 623 3918. The NLS film club shows a documentary about a young couple torn between the choice of emigrating to Australia or remaining to work their croft in Shetland. Written. directed and filmed by Jenny Gilbertson in 1933.
FREE The Black Watch Sat 18 & Sun
19 Jul. 10am—4pm. National War Museum
of Scotland. Edinburgh Castle. 225 7534. Officers and soldiers from the 42nd Highland Regiment of Foot demonstrate a soldier‘s life in the 1800s.
Scottish Modified Car Show Sun 19 Jul. 10am—5pm. £15 (£9; family ticket £33). Royal Highland Centre. lngliston.
335 6200. Fast cars. demos and stalls. FREE Fly Right Dance Company Sun 19 Jul. 12.45pm. 1.45pm & 2.45pm. National Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. 225 7534. Put your best foot forward and step back in time to have a go at some popular 2()th century dances. FREE Amarula’s African Festival Wed 22-Sat 25 Jul. St Andrews Square Gardens. A four-day event featuring the sounds ofAfrica. live poetry readings and an Afro-beat 1)]. with the chance to sup on an Arnarula Cream cocktail. Ages 18+. FREE Bugs and Beasties on Patrol Thu 23 Jul. 1 -3pm. Cammo listate. Cammo Visitor Centre. Cammo Road. 447 7145. Join a countryside ranger for a walk through the fields and forests of Cammo Iistate while searching for beasties.
Fairs
FREE Edinburgh Treeiest and Woodmarket Sat 18 & Sun 19 Jul.
1 lam—5pm. lnverleith Park. Arboretum Place. 332 2229. This two-day festival offers displays. demonstrations. crafts. activities. games. entertainments and refreshments.
Your Healthy Living Show Sat 18 & Sun 19 Jul. 11am—5pm. £5 (£3: accompanied children free). Assembly Rooms. 54 George Street. 228 l 155. See preview. page 33.
Food 8 Drink
FREE The Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities Thu 9~~Sun 12 Jul. times vary. Bristo Square. Pop along to a restored 1890 railway carriage and bequeath your most curious item to their collection of curiosities in exchange for a tour of the peculiar and a Ilendrick's gin and tonic.
S ort Rat Race Urban Adventure £35—£99. Princes Street Gardens. Princes St Gardens. (1845 ()09 4365. See Hitlist.
Talks
An Evening with John Burningham Thu 9 Jul. 6—8.30pm. £7.50. Dovecot. 10 lnftnnary Street. 315 3054. A private viewing of Birmingham‘s exhibition with Tim Comwell. arts correspondent for The Scotsman. taking part in ‘In Conversation' and Bumingharn signing copies of his new autobiography.
The Splendid Palace of a Protessed Smuggler Tue 14 Jul. 10.30am. £8. Lauriston Castle. 2a Cramond Road South. 529 3963. Derek Janes tells the story of John Nisbet and liyemouth‘s Gunsgreen House. and the secrets contained within. Book in advance.
FREE Scotland and Scottishness in Visual Culture Since 1945'1'ue 14 Jul. 12.45pm. National Gallery of Scotland: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre. The Mound. 624 6200. Dr Jonathan Blackwood considers Scottishness and the country‘s part in the Union since the end of the war.
FREE No Venetian Male Portraits Fri 17 Jul. 12.45pm. National Gallery Complex. The Mound. 624 6200. Tricia Allerston discusses two portraits from Tintoretto's workshop. focusing on portraiture in mid to late 16th century Venice.
FREE David Bomberg: A Love Affair With Spain? Sat 18 Jul. 3, 3pm. National Gallery of Scotland: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre. The Mound. 624 620(). Spain played an important role in David Bomberg‘s paintings. Richard Cork discusses the work of the landscape artist to open The Discovery o/‘Spuin exhibition.
FREE Prejudice and Parsimony Mon 20 Jul. 12.45pm. Weston Link. Hawthornden Lecture Theatre. National Gallery. the Mound. 624 6560. Senior Curator Frances Fowle discusses the Gallery's early acquisitions and bequests of 19th century French art. including those that got away.
Creativity vs Destruction: Stories at Iraqi Art
The closing event of this year’s excellently curated Reel Iraq festival, this exhibition explores not only major artworks coming out of Iraq, but also the tribulations and obstacles that artists from that country have to go through in order to create their works. The exhibition runs until Sun 12 Jul, when Rashad Selim, the noted artist/actvist, will deliver a lecture with the same title. See www.ree1festivals.org for full details.
I Roxy Art House. Edinburgh. until Sun 72 Jul. Lecture at 6pm.
The Discovery of Spain: Curator’s Tour Tue 21 Jul. 12.45pm. Free with exhibition ticket: £8 (£6). Royal Scottish Academy. The Mound. 225 6671. Chief curator. Christopher Baker. gives a tour of this major new exhibition.
FREE The Reception of
‘Origins’ Thu 23 Jul. 7pm. National Library of Scotland. George 1V Bridge. 623 3918. See llitlist.
~ Workshops
FREE The Drawing Room Thu 9 Jul.
5.3(L6.45pm. Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art. 75 Belford Road. 624 6410. Iixplore different ‘mark-making‘ processes in these monthly experimental drawing sessions. Iiach workshop is led by a contemporary artist and all materials
I are provided. Book in advance. Monthly Lite Drawing Classes Thu
9 Jul. 5.30-7.30pm. £10 (£8). National
‘ Gallery of Scotland: (‘lore liducation
Centre. The Mound. 624 6200. See how others have portrayed the human body and try it yourself. working with a model.
Award-winning artist Graham Flack is on hand for guidance. FREE lkebana, The Japanese Art
of Floral Arrangement Fri l()-<Sun 12
’ Jul. 10am 5pm. Royal Botanic Garden. L 20a lnverleith Row. 552 7171. Senior teachers from lkenobo. the most
celebrated lkebana school and the origin of lkebana itself. teach the skills and techniques of this art in a series of demonstrations and workshops.
lkebana Workshop Sun 12 Jul.
10am 12.30pm. £20 (members £18). Royal Botanic Garden. 20a lnverleith Row. 248 2937. Following the two-day lkebana exhibition. teachers from lkenobo lead a workshop allowing you to explore
the techniques involved in Japanese Ilower arranging. All materials are
provided. Book in advance.
Velvet Journals Sat 18 Jul.
10.30am~-3.30pm. £15. Lauriston Castle.
2a Cramond Road South. 529 3963.
Create your own hardback book with a luxurious velvet cover. using fabric paints
to decorate it with designs inspired by
Lauriston‘s sumptuous interior. Book in advance. Drawing Class Mon 20 Jul. 7.30pm.
£3. The Bowery. 2 Roxburgh Place. Take
inspiration frorn one of the prettiest pubs around at this life drawing class. Bring your own materials; experience not required.
Outside the cities
Activmes 8 Events
Spectacular Jousting Sat 1 1 &
Sun 12 Jul. 12.30-4.3()pm. £10 (concessions £8; children £5: family tickets available; members free). Linlithgow Palace. Kirkgate. Linlithgow. 01506 845698. See llitlist. Heavy Horse Show Sun 19 Jul. 10am-5pm. £5—-£6. National Museum of Rural Life. Wester Kittochside. Philipshill Road. liast Kilbride. 247 4369. See Clydesdale horses. Highland and Shetland ponies. and donkeys at one of Scotland's largest heavy horse shows.
Fairs
Scottish Vintage Vehicle Ti‘ansport Extravaganza Sat 11& Sun 12 Jul. Saturday £7; Sunday £9 (Children and . ()APs: Saturday £5; Sunday £6). Glamis Castle. Glamis. 01307 840393. At over 800 vehicles. this really is an extravaganza of vintage transport.
Soon
The Open Championship Sun 12—Sun
19 Jul. times vary. Toumament £55 per day; practice days £10—£30; concessions and composite tickets available. Ailsa Course. Tumberty. ()1334 460000. Golf 's most prestigious annual toumament with the world's best golfers taking part. Last year Ireland's Padraig Haddington took home the prize. This year one of the youngest ever professionals to ever play in golf's oldest major. Japan‘s Ryo lshikawa. will be joining favourite Tiger Woods and
Scotland‘s Colin Montgomene to challenge
him for it. Sun l2—Wed 15 are practice
days.
Glasgow Fair Festival Races Mon 20
Jul. 12.30pm. £l4—£23 (family ticket £22). Ayr Racecourse. 2-4 Whitletts Road. Ayr.
0870 850 5666. A day out at the races. with live music entertainment after the main
1 event in the Princess Royal Suite.
FREE World Bowls Singles Champion oi Champions Wed 22—Tue
‘ 28 Jul. Northfteld Bowling Complex. Ayr. . 01224 523575. The ultimate bowling
tournament moves to the excellent greens of Ayrshire from last year's venue in
, Aberdeen. The suspense will be mounting
all week as champions from around the world compete to get their bowl closest to the jack and take the Champion of Champions trophy.
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