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Music for theremin, cello and circuit-bent casio: Makmed the Miller Footage: Makmed the Miller. Makmed is a founder member of Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra http://livewithoutdeadtime.wordpress.com
4by8 Gallery Presents
Ruby Bayley-Pratt
1st - 30th May
“I came upon a single feather, a half-hearted wish for something better.” This series is based upon a theory of mine: “A Ribbon Around A Lamp-post”. Years ago I was on the school bus daydreaming out the window and we drove past a lamp-post with a blue ribbon tied in a perfect bow around it. The beauty of that little ribbon tied all the way up there, a flash of colour on something usually so dull, so mundane, clicked with something deep inside me. Since then, I’ve focused on seeing the beauty in the little thing; on appreciating the tiniest details that we so often pass by. The way a beam of light hits a bit of moss, the way a petal has landed in the grass, the way a feather balances perfectly on the water surface. Ruby x”
4by8 Gallery presents
Tupelo Tree
2nd - 30th May
Studying photography a while back forced me to see things in different angles and perspectives. I recently joined a printmakers and plan to make a mess of beautiful art there.
Trees are my constant safe place.
Tupelo Tree began in January 2012.
You can follow me on Facebook where I update what I’m doing and where I’m showing or have a look at my Etsy site. www.facebook.com/tupelotree www.etsy.com/shop/tupelotreeprints
SUBJECT INDEX
Iain Morrison performs and reconstructs the complete works of Emily Dickinson
Mondays 15th April to 6th May
Iain Morrison will read aloud all of Emily Dickinson’s poems from the Thomas H. Johnson Edition of her work, over the course of four Mondays from 15th April to 6th May, 2013 at Forest Centre Plus.
Eavesdropping is possible between the hours of 12–2pm and 5.30–7.30pm. Free entry at 38 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh. Follow the sound of the voice once inside the glass-doored foyer.
A replica of Emily Dickinson’s iconic white dress has been fashioned for the reading by her namesake Emily Goodwin.
Following inspiration from Thomas H. Johnson’s ingenious categorisation of Dickinson’s poems in his labyrinthine and fascinating Subject Index, Iain Morrison will create his own subjective diagram of the 1775 included poems’ relationships to each other and to Emily Dickinson herself, imagined self-concealed in her homestead. Argyle House, Forest Centre Plus’ homestead, stands in in the imagination with its own concealments and partial revelations, booths, rooms and glass partitions.
4:8 Gallery presents
Castles Built In Sand
2nd - 29th April
A collective of independent filmmakers, photographers, musicians, artists and writers, Castles Built in Sand (CBIS) exists to observe, document, explore and share ways of working. Their approach to critical and creative work is to allow time and space for self-reflexive/questioning thought-processes to take place, as a means of uncovering meaningful trends in society. Through these ways of working they hope to produce observational documents that arouse open-ended and inclusive debate.
Here CBiS present work from two of their recent studies: Ghosts and the Machine and Helpyourself Manchester.
On April 8the, also at The Forest, CBIS will be screening their recently completed documentary film Helpyourself Manchester - alongside two short films from local D.I.Y. filmmaker Jamie Khrist.
BOLLYWOOD SUNDAY
THE SING SONG SESSIONS
A Community meet, greet and eat, sing and song!
22nd & 27th March, 17th & 19th April
Everyone welcome to listen and play. Come along! Bring family bring friends, bring instruments!
Lazy Lunctimes 12-4 Wednesday - 27th March and 17th April
Musical Mealtimes 6.30-10.30 Friday - 22nd March and 19th April
See “The Fools Academy” or “The Lazy Lunchtime Sing Song Sessions” facebook pages to tuck in to some more tea shop tour dates.













