DCN Creative Research Artist Fellowships

• Alex Menzies & Florence To
  Music
• Gavin Inglis
  Language & Cognition
• Susana Cámara Leret
  Design


DCN Mentoring Residencies

• Jack King-Spooner
  I am in a hare's likeness now
• Stacey Hunter
  Design and personal identity
• Sven Werner
  Observer Cinema

6th–11th November 2018. FREE
Across the City of Dundee.

LIFESPANS

What is fleeting and what will last forever?

In Scotland’s Year of Young People, NEoN will envision the paths of ‘digital natives’, those born into an internet and digitally-enabled world. We’ll investigate how this affects our perception of lifespans – considering both our socio-digital lives online and our real-world lives offline – as we’re propelled into a technologically-enhanced future.

Friday 9th November 2018, 6pm. FREE
VRC, DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY

Inspired by the Mexican Día de los Muertos holiday, 'Coco' follows Miguel, a 12-year-old boy transported to the Land of the Dead. Here he needs to find his late great-great-grandfather to help him get back to his family among the living, or else he has to stay there forever.

A family-friendly, literally jaw-dropping spectacle, that rightly won Disney Pixar the Academy Awards for both Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. There will be prizes for the best costumes, whichever side of the great divide inspires you, so seize your moment.

FULLY BOOKED.

Sunday 27th May 2018, 7:30pm RSVP
Leith Theatre, 28-30 Ferry Road, Edinburgh EH6 4AE

Enter the vampire underworld with a night of dark theatre and visual effects, hip hop and electro beats, secret vaults, interactive games and unexpected discoveries built in and around a 20th anniversary screening of Blade, all in the labyrinthine confines of the spectacular Leith Theatre.

Edinburgh International Film Festival in partnership with Hidden Door and in collaboration with New Media Scotland present a thrilling, interactive journey into the trailblazing film that paved the way for the Marvel Universe as it exists today, with amazing sets from DJ Nasty P and DJ EH-1.

Wednesday 19th December 2018, 7:30 for 8pm. £15
Lauriston Castle, 2 Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD

'Tis the season for a little something delightfully Dickensian at Lauriston Castle. Alistair Sim stars in this acclaimed 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens' novella 'A Christmas Carol', perhaps the finest transfer of the text to screen.

Look out for the Spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come as you explore the dramatic interiors of the castle, resplendently decorated for the holidays. What did Tiny Tim say, Ebenezer?

FULLY BOOKED

Thursday 5th April 2018, 3pm. RSVP
Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Field recordist and sound artist Chris Watson reveals sounds from his sound installation "Inside the circle of fire: A Sheffield Sound Map”, a project that describes the sound world of the city of his birth in dynamic multichannel sound. The installation reflects the boundary between man made sound and the sounds inherent in the landscape.

FULLY BOOKED

Art & Therapeutic Design

12th May to 8th July 2018, Mon-Sun 10am-5pm. FREE
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE

Each painting in ‘The Human Comedy’ series by James Pryde (1866-1941) depicts a facet of the human condition. From the series, this exhibition features ‘The Red Bed’ (1916) from the City of Edinburgh collection, alongside work from Lothian Health Services Archive and the Alt-w Fund.

Exploring the activity and research interests of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience in Edinburgh, Susana Cámara Leret, Tomoko Hayashi, Stacey Hunter, Gavin Inglis, Jack King-Spooner, Alex Menzies, Aidan Moesby, Florence To and Sven Werner also present their work.

Saturday 26th May 2018, 3pm & 7:30pm. RSVP
The State, 204-208 Great Junction Street, EH6 5LW

"Mirror mirror on the wall..." to celebrate both the 80th anniversary of the opening of the State cinema in Leith and the UK release of Disney's first animated feature in 1938, Hidden Door are bringing the silver screen back for one very last time to open this year's festival.

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Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, be immersed in a multi-sensory experience of this classic. Snow White, a princess of uncommon beauty, is pursued by her wicked stepmother whose vanity knows no end. Seven little diamond miners come to her rescue.

I am in a hare's likeness now
www.jackspinoza.itch.io

12th May to 8th July 2018, Wed-Sun 10am-5pm, FREE.
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE

Artist Jack King-Spooner creates strange and wonderful things. During his residency he looked at ideas concerning hope and false hope within the framework of personal wellbeing, focused on Victorian spiritualism and Scottish witchcraft from the early 20th century.

Quackery through the ages, inadvertent acts of mindfulness and placebo effects were also explored. A facet of this research examined how engaging in an activity, although fraudulent or unproven, could prove worthwhile. He presents an interactive 'amusement' arcade machine.

Sunday 17th June 2018, 7:30 for 8pm. £15
Lauriston Castle, 2 Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD

Celebrating 25 years since it's premiere, we present Merchant Ivory's elegant adaption of Kazuo Ishiguro's award-winning novel. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson star in a below stairs tale of unrequited love.

Opening in the 1950s, a butler in a grand country house embarks on a journey to meet the former housekeeper that he first met in the 1930s. Experience this wonderfully evocative film in the splendour of Lauriston Castle.

FULLY BOOKED