Festival offers a ‘portal to the international gaze’ for Scotland
‘THE whole festival is a sort of love letter to the artists that are working in Scotland right now,” says LJ Findlay-Walsh, artistic director of Take Me Somewhere.
EXCLUSIVE Fresh take on famed Ken Loach film is as timely as ever
I, DANIEL Blake was filmed in 2015. Ken Loach and Paul Laverty created a parable of our times – but they are not a-changing.
EXCLUSIVE 'Why revolution?': This year's Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival theme
‘WE never really find out what the festival will be until it has happened, because we have very little creative control over a lot of it, particularly in relation to the theme. You find out what your theme means when everybody responds to it.”
EXCLUSIVE Scots playwright on new work celebrating Clydesdale and the Scots language
Writer and producer Martin Travers on his latest play and why the kids are the future for the leid. By Donald Stewart
EXCLUSIVE Guerrilla performance is set alight by Flames
‘ALL you need to be is over 50 and up for trying something.” It’s An invitation those of us of a “certain age” may feel is daunting but all you need is to have the flame lit.
EXCLUSIVE Meet the man behind the production about iconic Scottish comedian
THEATRE-MAKER Gary McNair has been set a daunting task – collecting the stories of people who have been touched by Billy Connolly. It’s one that he relishes.
Platform will help artists to form divine connections at festival
ON April 22, the Platform in Easterhouse will host a multi-art festival, Made in Easterhouse, designed to be a development – an evolution for our time. It’s an evolution which may not be televised but will have a pulsating – perhaps even looped – soundscape.
