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Museum HIGHLIGHTS
As the National Museum of Scotland opens its doors, we hand pick some highlights
PUBLIC OPENING Prepare to be impressed as the Museum finally opens its doors to the public. Check out the on-street entertainment on Chambers Street from 9.15am, with doors opening at 10am. See feature page 13. Fri 29 July, free.
FREE FRINGE MUSIC In association with Live Music Scotland, this series of free daily lunchtime concerts in the Grand Gallery features a varied line-up, including traditional Scottish and international music styles. Sat 6–Fri 26 Aug, 12.45pm (45 minutes), free.
THE LEGENDARY MUSIC OF RAJASTAN
Bringing the Edinburgh International Festival to the Museum for the first time, the voices and instruments of the Langa and Manganiyar desert communities are brought to life at the heart of the Grand Gallery. Look out too for more evening events in the Museum later in the year. Sat 27–Mon 29 Aug (times vary), £17.50 (£8.75).
EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL AT THE MUSEUM
Pick from an array of Edinburgh Art Festival events, including Raiding the Icebox, panel discussions about how museum collections are a continuing source of inspiration for contemporary artists, and No Show, a screening of artists’ films on collections and museums. Sat 6–Sun 7 Aug.
A PASSION FOR GLASS While the new galleries will be the focus for most, don’t forget the modern building, telling the story of Scotland, from Pictish Stones to Dolly the Sheep. Still running, this exhibition showcases a collection of modern glass recently gifted to National Museums Scotland by Alan J Poole and Dan Klein. Daily, Until Sun 11 Sep.
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On the fringes
With just two weeks to go, we take a sneaky peak at the newbies and old faithfuls returning to the Fringe scene Words: Anna Millar
E ven for Fringe regulars the idea of cherry- the whopping 41,689 picking from performances and 2,542 shows on this year’s Festival line-up can seem daunting. Worry not, help is at hand, as next issue we bring you dozens of previews, top tips and much, much more in the first of our Festival issues. In the meantime, we’re rather excited by a few newbie ventures on this year’s scene. Leith gets ready to flex its muscles with Leith on the Fringe (LoTF) at Out of the Blue Drill Hall. Expect music, cabaret, dance, theatre, film, talks and more. Their plentiful programme can be found at the address below – we’re particularly excited by aerial theatre show, Peter Pan, comic monologue Winners Wear Crowns, as well as their staging of Peter
Arnott’s The Inquisitor. Back in town, the Bedlam Theatre has announced that in addition to their usual neo-gothic church residence, they will also be launching Bedlam Chambers, a few minutes’ walk away. Across town, keep ‘em peeled for the China Fringe Festival, running from 5–7 Aug at the Usher Hall, the highlight of which is undoubtedly multimedia musical Qing Cheng. Elsewhere, keep an eye out on these for very pages, for all the latest on Amnesty at the Fringe. This year sees the return of their star-studded Stand up for Freedom Comedy Show at the EICC on 17 Aug. See leithonthefringe.com and amnesty.org.uk/Scotland for more.
ReviewofReviews
THE TREE OF LIFE ON GENERAL RELEASE NOW
WHAT WE SAID: ‘Painstaking, poetic, intensely personal . . . The result is a sprawling, sometimes unfathomable epic on the endless conflict between “the way of nature and the way of grace”.’ THE LIST WHAT THEY SAID: ‘Cinema that’s thinking big. [Director Terrence] Malick makes an awful lot of other film-makers look timid and negligible by comparison.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘An overwrought compendium of topographical and cosmic imagery that awkwardly sits alongside an assiduously- constructed but far from exceptional depiction of emotionally repressive small- town life in 1950s America.’ THE TELEGRAPH ‘For all the grand ideas and the sweep of history at its core, the film comes to feel repetitive and even simplistic.’ TIME OUT LONDON