Saturday 3 December | Cowdray Hall | 10am-6pm | £1 (Free for kids) Alternative art, craft and design fair Tea Cosy is back, and with 26 Scottish makers of nice things peddling their wares, it’s a pretty good bet for picking up Christmas gifts a lot more interesting than the usual TV-advertised, celebrity-endorsed pap that...
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Friday 11 November-Friday 23 December | Peacock Visual Arts | Free Peacock Visual Arts‘ open exhibition is back after a two-year break, and while there will be plenty on show from established artists, the most interesting stuff may well be from those of whom we know very little. It kicks-off from 6-8pm on Friday...
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Peacock Visual Arts | Friday 28-Sunday 30 October Fri: 7.30pm, Sat: 3.30pm, Sun: 3.30pm | £22 weekend/£9 Fri/£10Sat/Sun | Tickets We drew your attention to this a while ago, and now it’s upon us; a fantastic-looking three-day weekend of new music curated by the reliable hand(s) of Interesting Music Promotions as part of the Sound Festival. There’s...
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Update: 18/10: The six designs for Union Terrace Gardens have been unveiled. Pictures here (from the BBC) From Wednesday 19th October | Academy Shopping Centre | Free This was going to be yer usual post telling you about an art exhibition at The Academy shopping centre that opens on Thursday; it’s called Maps, and features...
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Okay, not really rocky per se, more indie-y with a definite skew toward the Scottish. I make no apologies for this, anyway, here’s a handy cut-out-and-keep selection of some (mostly touring) shows this later month which will be getting inked by our massive rubber stamp of approval: Friday 14 October | Cafe Drummonds | 7.30pm...
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Friday 9 September – Sunday 22 October | Peacock Visual Arts | Free Two new exhibitions open at Peacock Visual Arts this weekend: Inchoate Landscapes, a new suite of prints (pictured below) from recognised Scottish artist Toby Paterson and Black and White, a selection of monochrome work by the likes of John Bellany and...
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The website for this year’s Sound Festival is now live here. Running from 21 October-13 November across North-East Scotland, we’d like to draw your attention to a three-day event from the excellent Interesting Music Promotions at Peacock Visual Arts on the last weekend of October. Poster below. Very cool indeed.
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From Friday 15 July | Peacock Visual Arts | Free A double opening on Friday from 6pm: Natalie McIlroy’s Migrate, Replicate which features large-scale video projections of Scottish landscapes (below, until 27 August) and Drawing Connections, a series of prints from Hannah Redpath (until 30 July).
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