updated 2009 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Events programme
Saturday 22nd August
John Street Precinct: 10am – 2pm
Penicuik Street Fair: stalls entertainment & sideshows
Organised by Penicuik & District Community Council
Penicuik Town Hall - Lesser Hall:
Café in aid of Childline 10am – 2pm
Exhibition 10am – 4pm
Jenni Jones: Paintings mixed media
Colin Robertson: landscapes in oil on board
Josephine Morton: Chinese knotwork and
demonstrations
Penicuik Town Hall – Cowan Hall:
Community painting 11am – 2pm
Arts Trail continues daily
(excluding local studios)
see
“Throughout the Festival”
Monday 24th August
Penicuik Pottery, Valleyfield House: 10am – 4pm
Jane Kelly: pottery workshop, 24th – 28th August
Tuesday 25th August
Road House, John Street: 8pm – 11pm free
Penicuik Folk Club: sing, play or listen to acoustic
music with Folk, Trad, Rock and Country & Western
Wednesday 26th August
Penicuik Arts Centre: 2 pm
Official opening of the Arts Festival &
Award of the Penicuik Turner Prize
by Bill Scott,
President of the Royal Scottish Academy
Penicuik Arts Centre: 10am – 4pm
(see also Throughout the Festival)
Craigiebield Hotel: 7pm – 10 pm free
Tyne & Esk Writers and Penicuik Folk Club
Poems, Prose, Pints and Folk Music
Saturday 29th August
Arts Trail & Local Studios: 10am – 4pm
see “Throughout the Festival”
Gallery Café: (until 29th August)
Moira Dickson & Textile artists
Upstairs: Summer Open Art Exhibition
Summer Open Art Exhibition continues in shop
windows:Pen-y-Coe Press, Flowers by Lindsey,
Headcases & Optical Express
Arts Trail – Local Studios: 10am – 4pm
Penicuik Pottery, Valleyfield House
Jane Kelly: pottery and raku
Amy Copeman: photographs of Paris dogs
Mette Fruergaard-Jensen: 4 copper clocks
Jan Miller: art glass
Catherine Freeland: wool spinning demonstrations
The Garden Studio, John Street Precinct
Ulla Hipkin: oil paintings
Ian Milne: wood turning
Belle Claudi: knitted landscapes
Stonework Studio, Ninemileburn
Ian Newton & Gus Fisher:
Stone carving & letter cutting
Gipsy Caravan, Valleyfield House: 11am – 2pm
Talking Trees – story tellers from the Botanic Gardens
Le Tout p’ti
Alicia Salazar: botanical paintings
Craigiebield House Hotel
Robert Galloway: landscape oil paintings
Navaar Hotel
Colin Robertson: landscape oil paintings on board
The Drum, Penicuik Library
Display Cabinets: Drawings from Nature
Sandra Vick’s book project with P7 pupils from
Cornbank School
Penicuik Town Hall
Exhibitions: 10am – 4pm
Charles Brodowski: wood sculptures
Eric Fleming: art glass
Robert Adam: paintings
Paul Carline: kites
Penicuik Arts Centre: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Regnhardt de Beer: Classical Guitar and African songs
Penicuik Community Arts Association – Tickets £5
Gipsy Caravan, Valleyfield House: 11am – 2pm
James Spence: Story Telling for all ages
Sunday 30th August
Penicuik Arts Centre:
Gallery Café: preview 2pm – 4pm
Jane Turner & Ryan Swinney:
“Emotions and Stereotypes”
mixed media, prints and paintings
(exhibition ends 26th September)
Seton Collegiate Church: 3.15pm – 4.30pm
Penicuik Vaults Singers: Taize
Penicuik Town Hall: assemble 3pm
Roger Hipkin: Guided walk of Old Penicuik
Cinema at Penicuik Town Hall: 7pm – 11 pm
Masterpieces of World Cinema: £8 / £4
Bill Douglas’ Newcraighall Trilogy:
My Childhood
My Ain Folk
Coming Home
Rare chance to see this moving and highly acclaimed autobiographic trilogy about one boy’s experience of growing
up in Newcraighall sixty years ago.
Display boards: Children’s images of Africa
Arts Trail continues daily
Penicuik Town Hall 7.30pm – 11.30pm
Festival Ceilidh:
Gordon Clark & his Band
Annabelle Oates, caller
Tickets £8/£4, BYOB
(excluding local studios)
see
“Throughout the Festival”
Tuesday 1st September
Sunday 23rd August
Penicuik House Project 11am – 4pm
Traditional Crafts Open Day – free
Have a go at stone carving, wool spinning,
plaster casting and lots more.
Family fun day with Archaeology Scotland
Car park off A766 by Tympany Gates opposite
Lowrie’s Den Road; blue badge holders only in
designated space by Penicuik House
Craigmillar Castle: 3.15pm – 4.30pm
Penicuik Vaults Singers: Taizé
Cinema at Penicuik Town Hall: 7pm – 11 pm
Masterpieces of World Cinema – Tickets £8 / £4
u-Carmen e Khayalitsha
Bizet’s Carmen in a Xhosa click-language.
Spectacle, rhythm, music, singing and dance
from the South African township of Khayalitsha
Winner of the Golden Bear Award
at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival
Road House, John Street: 7.30pm – 11pm
Gill Bowman: A Celebration of Burns
One of the finest interpreters of Burns stages
a performance based on her one woman show
“Toasting the Lassies”
Penicuik Folk Club – Tickets £10 / £8
pre-booking 01968 673278
Supported by Midlothian Homecoming
Penicuik Town Hall: 7.30 pm
Penicuik & District Community Council
Stuart Ritchie and Derek Cousins celebrate
Charles Darwin’s bicentenary by discussing some
of the evidence for ’Descent with modification’
– what did Darwin and Wallace mean when they
wrote of ‘fitness’ and ’Natural Selection’?
Thursday 3rd September
Music Hub, Bellman’s Road: doors open 7pm
Andi Neate & Support: fresh from releasing her
5th album, Andi performs songs both new and old
in the intimate setting of the Music Hub
Tickets £5 from www.thebooth.co.uk
or Penicuik Library; pre booking 07989 984 261
Events programme (continued)
Throughout the Festival
Friday 4th September
DancePointe, The Precinct: 7.30pm – 9pm
Showcase dancers and unplugged music by
William & Julie McInally:
wine, refreshments and nibbles. – Tickets £1.50
Penicuik Arts Centre: 10am – 4pm
Gallery Café: (until 29th August)
Moira Dickson, Eileen Campbell, Betty Russell
Joan Murrie, Jennifer Hamshire, Alice Bertram
Hazel Reid,Ruthh Robb,Susan Fraser, Avis Moore
Ann Dickson, Yvonne Tweedie, Trish Gourlay,
Morag Pendreigh: textiles
(from 30th August)
Jane Turner & Ryan Swinney:
“Emotions and Stereotypes”
mixed media, prints and paintings
Craigiebield Hotel: 7.30pm
Makossa: Ghanaian musician Peter Akyeampong
and his 5 man African band playing an eclectic
mix of reggae, rock and African numbers,
including a couple of Jimi Hendrix numbers.
Penicuik Community Arts Association – Tickets £8
Saturday 5th September
Upstairs: Summer Open Art Exhibition
Plus shop-windows exhibitions in
Arts Trail with Local Studios: 10am – 4pm
see “Throughout the Festival”
Pen-y-Coe Press
Flowers by Lindsey
Headcases
Optical Express
Gipsy Caravan, Valleyfield House: 11am – 2pm
Talking Trees – storytellers from the Botanic Gardens
Le Tout p’ti
Ladywood Leisure Centre: 1pm – 4.30pm
Alicia Salazar: botanical paintings
Penicuik Horticultural Society:Autumn Show
competitive show of flowers and vegetables, crafts
and floral art. Teas and home baking – donation
Craigiebield House Hotel
Robert Galloway: landscape oil paintings
Craigiebield Hotel: from 2pm…
A Celebration of Africa: stalls of African charities, exhibition of
children’s Africa art -free
Navaar Hotel
Colin Robertson: landscape oil paintings on board
…and at 7.30 pm
Zawadi Womens Choir –Tickets £8 from Craigiebield
Hotel 01968 672557
The Drum, Penicuik Library
Sunday 6th September
Display Cabinets: Drawings from Nature
Sandra Vick’s book project with P7 pupils from
Cornbank School
finale
Display boards: (up to 30th August)
Children’s images of Africa and evolution
(from 31st August)
Beeslack Camera Club: exhibition
Festival Finale on Cornbank Green
Kite flying competition from 11am
Paul Carline and The Dare Bears
– his Parachuting Teddies
Bring a picnic
While we have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy of this programme,
the organisers can take no responsibility for changes, errors or omissions.
Crichton Collegiate Church: 3.15pm – 4.30pm
Penicuik Vaults Singers: Taize
Contact 01968 672706 or 677854 or www.makers.org.uk/Penicuik/festival2009
Cinema at Penicuik Town Hall: 7pm – 11 pm
Masterpieces of World Cinema: £10 / £5
Nosferatu: a Symphony of Terror (1922)
F W Murnau: the very first adaptation of Bram Stoker’s
Dracula - rare silent film classic with
Graham MacDonald’s live piano accompaniment
You can get more information and advance tickets for the Festival Ceilidh and
Cinema from Saturday Open House 10am – 2pm in Penicuik Town Hall. Tickets are
also available at the door.
Penicuik Arts Festival 2009
has been organised by members of
Penicuik Community Development Trust,
Penicuik Community Arts Association,
with the help of many other local organisations and individuals, including
Penicuik & District Community Council,
Penicuik Folk Club, Midlothian Libraries,
and local shops hotels and businesses.
The Fesival includes the award of
Penicuik’s Turner Prize
for the best entry in the Penicuik Community Arts Association Summer Open Exhibition
The Prize was wrought by the craftsman
Charles Brodowski of Andrew Turner blacksmiths
Venues
1 Penicuik Arts Centre
2 Penicuik Town Hall
2 – 4 West Street
3 Penicuik Library – The Drum
Carlops Road
33 High Street
4 Penicuik Pottery
A 701 Edinburgh
Bus stops to Edinburgh
17 High Street
(through the arch)
5 John Street Garden Studio
20A John Street
(pend through the brown gate)
LRT 15, 15A, 37, 47,
X47; First 62, 141
LRT 47 only
13
6 Le Tout P’ti
7 High Street
7 Shop window exhibitions
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Optical Express, John Street Precinct
Headcases, John Street Precinct
Flowers by Lindsey, High Street
Pen-y-Coe Press, Bridge Street
11
10
8 Craigiebield Hotel
50 Bog Road
John Street
9 Navaar Hotel
23 Bog Road
3
10 The Hub
12
Bellman’s Road
11 RoadHouse
136 John Street
7a
A 766
Carlops
12 DancePoint Studio
30 John Street
5
14
8
7c
9
7b
2
4
6
1
13 Ladywood Centre
14a Yarrow Court
14 Stonework Studio
7d
A 701 Peebles
22 August – 6 September