Thursday 8th August 2013, 7pm. £4
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

This immersive experience features a new film by artist Catherine Street, followed by spoken word performances by the artist and also poet JL Williams. In addition there will be live performances by composers and improvisers Martin Parker and Owen Green.

The sound and image is derived from that of the exhausted body of the artist. The words spoken allude to the sensual, experiential world of human perception alongside a theoretical conception of time and space. An increasingly intense soundtrack envelopes all.

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Tuesday 21st May 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 3: Swarm

Syndicate is a unique initiative bringing together writers, musicians, artists and researchers working within, and in response to, digital technologies, new media and evolving network practices. 

Syndicate 3 presents multimedia poetry, electronic music, zesty discussion over carbonated drinks and performances from Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte, Samantha Walton and Sean Williams under the theme: SWARM.

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Wednesday 5th June 2013, 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 4: Poor.Old.TIred.Pancake

The fourth instalment of Syndicate welcomes Jennifer Cooke, nick-e Melville, Laurie Irvine and G S Smith who will perform, talk, project, make noise: please come and enjoy a range of sparkling drinks, experimental poetry and fizzling chat.

Inspired by text-based art practices of the 60s and 70s advertising, new media and contemporary consumerism, the themes of the night include: materiality/thingliness, infrastructure, malfunction, security, concrete poetry, capital and labour.

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Thursday 25 July 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 5: Like

The fifth instalment of Syndicate features the word and music performances of Peter Manson, Arild Vange, Peter Davidson, Colin Herd, and Karen Veitch.

Potential hashtags include: cyberculture, social media, dissemination, remediation/intermediation, intention, form/context, glitch, mass collaboration, and public sphere.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a stimulating evening of poetry for mind and sense, conversation, and of course, sparkling drinks.

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Friday 5th July 2013, 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide.

It is curated in Edinburgh by Gordon Duffy, Principal of architecture practice Studio DuB. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds.

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Tuesday 16th July 2013, 6pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The University of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library present the Picador poet John Glenday who will read from his work following an introduction from Miriam Gamble.

John Glenday is based in Drumnadrochit. His most recent poetry collection ‘Grain’ was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize for Excellence in New Poetry, as well as the Griffin Poetry Prize.

To book a ticket click here.

Sunday 21st July 2013, 6pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Considered innovative in it’s use of indigenous, new and unconventional materials and technologies, the Sruli Recht studio is a cross-discipline practice caught somewhere between product design, tailoring and shoe making.

Based in Reykjavík, the studio produces one “non-product” every month from umbrellas to bulletproof scarves, tables, to belts and boots, and incorporating such materials as concrete, diamonds, skin and wool.

Sruli Recht will be giving this year's annual StitchLab masterclass throughout the opening weekend of the 2013 Edinburgh International Fashion Festival. The results of the masterclass can be seen throughout the festival.

Click here for our image archive.

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Saturday 10th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

A video reconstruction of the landmark 1977 production 'Rumstick Road' which combined audio family letters, taped conversations, dance, 35mm slides and the writing of Mary Baker Eddy to construct a response to the suicide of Spalding Gray’s mother. ‘A brilliant and engrossing work; one whose abstraction and complexity are at the service of genuine emotion.’ The New York Times

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Sunday 11th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

'House/Lights', a video of a complete performance of the 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein’s 'Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights', with Joseph Mawra’s B-movie classic, 'Olga’s House of Shame'.

‘Bedazzling… there’s nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying thoughts about the deeply mixed blessings of technological progress.’ The New York Times

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20th & 21st June 2013. £9 (£7.50)
Cineworld, Fountain Park, Dundee Street, EH11 1AF

In May 1951, deaf James Duthie cycled alone from his Scottish fishing village to the Arctic Circle. He published his account of his three-month journey in the book 'I Cycled into the Arctic Circle'.

The book became the inspiration for this unique mixture of documentary, fiction, and playful visual poetry, set to an exceptional musical score. Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with British Sign Language interpretation.

To purchase a ticket click here.