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8-11pm / SUNDAY / 10th February

That’s right, folks! The Forest is open this Sunday evening, and not only that, but we are lucky to be hosting a super-last-minute-show featuring Anna Oxygen, Janet Pants and JMY James Kidd!

These incredibly talented performers are in town to perform as part of the Manipulate Festival (in the Cloud Eye Control collective) at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, BUT this is their ONLY UK show performing live-action-neon-electro-punk-thrash-music-noise!! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!! UK EXCLUSIVE!!!!

USA Women’s Olympic Team 1979

Featuring! 

Janet Pants
Experimental Music and Dance / Los Angeles and Torino based

Anna Oxygen 
Electronic Dance songs and psychedelic aerobics (LA) 

JMY James Kidd
NY/LA based ritual Choreographer 

From the KILL ROCK STARS label (Olympia, WA)

www.annaoxygen.com

www.janetpants.com

http://www.cloudeyecontrol.com/

Taking place between January 28th and February 3rd 2013, SoundProof is a week of explorative sonic arts at The Forest, Edinburgh; a vibrant community space, cafe and venue. The event is intended as a showcase for experimentation, works in progress, exploration, interaction and sonic potential.

Take a look at the programme for a break-down of the week’s happenings and read about some of the artists and musicians involved on: http://soundproof.theforest.org.uk/

Inky Fingers Presents: INDOOR SUMMER BEACH POETRY PARTY! 7-11pm, 11th January The Forest Café, 141 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh FREE ENTRY

We are holding a beach party in January, because we can. There will be live poetry, really stupid party games, summer tunes, and as much summer heat as we can summon. You cannot possibly miss it.

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES (£1 a pop)

Indoor sandpit sand castle competition
Paddling pool rubber duck racing
Poetry limbo dancing challenge
Massage corner with sunlamp and poetry recital

DRINKS

Forest is a BYOB venue (no spirits)
But we are doing extra special BYOB sangria. You bring the wine, we provide the sangria mix and a jug. Oh yes.

DRESS CODE

Summer beach wear. Seriously. Prize for the best costume.

AND

The best summer music playlist in the world ever now
Poetry karaoke (probably)
REAL SAND

Workshop - Christmas wishes, 1:30-4pm, Sunday 23rd of December

Workshop drawing pictures with pencil and crayons of your Christmas wishes!  Just drawing for fun and being a kid! Music at 1:30 is folk songs sung with Appalachian dulcimer and some improvising, maybe a few Christmas tunes.

 FOREST RECORDS PRESENTS Plastik Fork Apokalypze Soltice Spezial 21.12 pm till the end of the world (12.21) 21st December 

INKY FINGERS OPEN MIC, 8 – 11pm, Tuesday 18th December
The Forest, 141 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
FREE

The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

This month we’re bringing you a feature from Bram E. Gieben, a Glasgow-based writer, emcee and musician. Bram is awesomely talented and hugely prolific: his crime novel was nominated for the 2012 CWA Debut Dagger Award; his short fiction has been published by Timid Pirate Press and Drey Magazine, and received a special mention in the Boing Boing ‘Gadget Fiction’ contest of 2009; and he set up Weaponizer Press, an open-source site publishing edgy, groundbreaking fiction by emerging authors. Under the name Texture, he also makes loop-based hip-hop with dubstep, electro, and lo-fi influences, and he also helped set up the netlabel Black Lantern Music, releasing music by more than thirty artists from Scotland and worldwide. Find out more at http://www.bramegieben.co.uk.

NOTE: WE’VE MOVED BACK! After a year being supported by the lovely Lothian St project, we’re back in our original home of The Forest, now at 141 Lauriston Pl.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.