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👣 As a resident of our Panorama programme, Lucas Priest will lead participatory walking games exploring an expanded panorama on Calton Hill on Saturday 25 October, 2–4pm.

⛰️ Join us at our event tonight (Thursday) at 6-8pm, celebrating the launch of our new exhibition, 'Highland Embassy' by Shen Xin.

Please note, refreshments will be served inside Hillside Gallery to protect you from the weather!

Scotland's Best Events This Week (19-26 Jun) - The Skinny The Refugee Week-curated Culture = Life: Palestinian Artist Programme comes to Edinburgh this week

In this week's Zap events guide, Culture=Life: Palestinian Artist Programme in Edinburgh, Safar Film Festival at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social and Mercedes Azpilicueta's new show at @collective-edin.bsky.social

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📣 Notice: we’re closed today (32.05.25). Thanks for your understanding - we’ll be back soon!

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📣 Introducing Cafe Calton, opening June 2025

New partner Cafe Calton is joining our special site in the City Observatory this summer. The vibrant day-to-evening café will offer morning coffees, hearty breakfasts, small plates and healthy takeaway options.

A newly commissioned performance by Azpilicueta and artist and choreographer Janice Parker on Friday 22 August will connect the themes of the tapestry to Collective’s site on Calton Hill.  The exhibition will present related drawings and costumes from the performance for @edartfest’s closing weekend

The mixed-media installation references subjects including war, food economies, collective action and women-led global rights movements, including the 1917 Potato Riots in Amsterdam, and the grass roots movement of #NiUnaMenos.

The exhibition centres around a central monumental human-scale Jacquard tapestry entitled ‘Potatoes, Riots and Other Imaginaries’ (2021). Accompanying the tapestry will be a sound piece that introduces whispered gossip and glimpses of songs from social demonstrations.

📣 New exhibition announcement!

Mercedes Azpilicueta: 'Fire on the Mountain, Light on the Hill'
20 June – 7 September 2025
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival: 7 – 24 August 2025

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💖 Reminder: exhibition tours this week

On Thursday and Saturday, our Associate Producer David Upton will be hosting free tours of Jerwood Survey III!

Thursday 10 April, 5:30-7pm
Saturday 12 April, 11am-12 noon

Book now: buff.ly/PIZ9jlk

📷: Paul Andrews

Free Exhibition Tours | Jerwood Survey III Curator-led tours with David Upton, Associate Producer at Collective. Book now, limited places available.

📣 UPCOMING EVENTS: Free exhibition tours of Jerwood Survey III on Thu 10 Apr 5.30-7pm and Sat 12 Apr 11am-12pm. Led by David Upton, Associate Producer, these informal tours will offer an introduction to some of the exhibition's key themes and selection of works.

Booking required: buff.ly/PRV37PQ

In the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social library we watched Ruth Ewan & Ian Saville & Regina Ohak’s @collective-edin.bsky.social short film, _The Beast_ ruthewan.com/the-beast/ It dissects Scots-American Andrew Carnegie’s responsibility for the strike-breaking Battle of Homestead, 6 July 1892.

Jerwood Survey III @ Collective, Edinburgh: Art Review – The Skinny This group exhibition at Collective takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display.

"Rejects institutional modes of exhibition-making"

JERWOOD SURVEY III at @collective-edin.bsky.social takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display

Partial Solar Eclipse livestream from Calton Hill Edinburgh Using the historic 6" McEwan Cooke telescope in the Playfair Dome.If the weather allows. 10:08 – 12:06 GMT

🌔 Watch the partial solar eclipse this Saturday with a livestream by @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social at our Cooke Telescope in the City Observatory! If you're visiting us on the day, safe viewing solar eclipse glasses will be available for use.

Livestream: buff.ly/Pjgx58h

Friday Play: Spring Season Designed for families with children aged 5-12 years, Friday Play is a chance for kids to engage in loose parts play and outdoor art activities.

🎨 UPCOMING KIDS EVENT: Friday Play on 28 March, 1.30-4pm

Inspired by MV Brown's film 'System of Touch' in our Jerwood Survey III exhibition, we will make self portrait marionette puppets and short green screen films. Free and drop in — just dress for the weather!

Tickets still available for our panel event tomorrow!

Artist Aqsa Arif will be in convo with her collaborating dancers and choreographers, discussing folklore, hybrid identities and archetypes of South Asian women in Aqsa’s work ‘Marvi and the Churail’.

Panel Discussion with Aqsa Arif, Nandini Manjunath and Himadri Madan Book now - limited tickets available.

💬 UPCOMING EVENT: Panel discussion with artist Aqsa Arif in convo with her collaborators on Thursday 27 March, 5:30–7pm. They will discuss the process of making and the ideas informing Aqsa’s work 'Marvi and the Churail', which features in our current exhibition Jerwood Survey III.

Jerwood Survey III is open until 4 May!

This major biennial touring exhibition presents new commissions by of the most outstanding 10 early-career artists from across the UK today, providing a snapshot of current artistic concerns and approaches in the visual arts.

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