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16 ART SCHOOL ARTY FACTS
12 SUB CLUB DECKS LIFE
With a revamped kitchen and sound system, the Arty remains the hub for eclectic club nights and hipper bands. Despite being the venue of choice for legendary DJs like Andrew Weatherall, it maintains a programme of eclectic and more marginal art events. (GKV) At 30 years young, Sub Club continues to buck trends in an era of closures and downgrading, with longtime residents Harri & Domenic keeping Glasgow’s clubland buzzing. The knock-on effect for Scottish and UK club culture is immeasurable. See feature, page 98. (BD)
15 SUMMERHALL LOADS HAPPENS HERE
With reported ticket sales up a third on last year and the usual complement of Fringe First and Total Theatre Award wins, Summerhall continued to be an indispensable part of the Edinburgh Festival. Outside of August, Nothing Ever Happens Here (NEHH) is one of the city’s best live music outlets. (DP)
18 SCOTTISH BALLET DEBUT JAUNTS
In the expert hands of artistic director Christopher Hampson, our national ballet company has had an impressive year of i rsts. Not only did Scottish Ballet deliver a ground-breaking digital season viewed online around the world, but it played the Royal Opera House for the i rst time in the company’s 60- year history. (KA)
17 ELA ORLEANS ROUND NUMBERS
Composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Ela Orleans has been hard at work since her Scottish Album of the Year Award nomination for Circles of Upper and Lower Hell, having recently created and performed a live score for Canadian director Guy Maddin’s anthology of short i lms Cowards Bend the Knee as part of Matchbox Cineclub. (AQ)
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MUNCH BUNCH QUEER AS FOLK
As well as continuing to curate a programme of international culinary creativity at the Edinburgh Food Studio, Ben Reade and Sashana Souza Zanella are frequently involved in other innovative projects. Reade and Ian Wilson’s veggie street food pop-up, Eating House at the Meeting House, was a huge Fringe success. (LS) The Scottish Queer International Film Festival has been going from strength to strength each year, with the 2017 programme featuring queer i lmmaking hero Bruce LaBruce, the ever popular Feminist Porn Night, a Babadook Ball and various events that examine what it means to be LGBTQ+ in different communities around the world. (AQ)
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10 LYNNE RAMSAY CANNES OPENER
Continuing his championing of relevant and engaged theatre, David Greig enters the second year of his artistic direction at the Lyceum by promoting scripts from the past and present that shed light on contemporary conl icts and difi cult moral conundrums. (BD) For her adaptation of Jonathan Ames’ novella You Were Never Really Here, Ramsay won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes and got a seven-minute standing ovation. The i lm, starring Joaquin Phoenix and scored by Jonny Greenwood, is another high point of a remarkable career. (CA)
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