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SUMMARY:Night Walk for Edinburgh
DESCRIPTION:Night Walk for Edinburgh is a 50 minute walk\, best viewed at dusk\, which takes you through the closes and backstreets of Edinburgh’s Old Town. Following a film on your tablet or smart phone and a soundtrack on your headphones\, you will walk up Advocate’s Close and along a route that weaves around the Royal Mile before returning to where you started\, unravelling a disjointed tale – part game- playing\, part surrealistic poetry\, perhaps even a murder mystery – layered with history\, invention and memories. Cardiff and Miller’s Night Walk for Edinburgh is a permanent part of the Fruitmarket’s collection. Commissioned for the city of Edinburgh by the Fruitmarket. \nTo participate in the walk\, you will need to: \n\nDownload the Night Walk for Edinburgh App from the App Store or Google Play and have 1Gb available for the HD film\nBefore you set off you need to download the film through the app onto your tablet or smartphone using a WiFi network.\nHave a set of working headphones for your device.\nDress for the terrain and the weather. If you have any further questions check out our Frequently Asked Questions page.\nOnce the film is downloaded in the app head to the bottom of Advocate’s Close on Cockburn Street\, Edinburgh\, EH1 1ND. A map is available on the App.\n\nIf you are unable to get to Edinburgh or unable to walk the route\, don’t worry as you can still download the film on your device and watch it when and where best works for you. \nYou can download the Night Walk for Edinburgh Guide which includes the list of performers HERE \nCommissioned for the city of Edinburgh by Fruitmarket.\nAcquired by the Fruitmarket with Art Fund support. \nAnd supported by The Cardiff Miller Commission Circle \nRoyal Mile: Dasha Shenkman OBE\, Nick Thomas \nOld Assembly: Melanie Reid \nAdvocates: Sophie Crichton Stuart\, Fiona and Kenny Cumming\, Sarah and Gerard Griffin\, \nCatherine Muirden and Werner Keschner\, William Zachs and Martin Adam \nApp created by Evan Morgan \nApp developed with additional support from Art Fund and Creative Informatics and the Centre for Design Informatics\, University of Edinburgh.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/night-walk-for-edinburgh-2/
CATEGORIES:Outdoor
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SUMMARY:Eva Rothschild: The Void Presses The Wall
DESCRIPTION:10.07.26–11.10.26. Open daily 11am–6pm. \nThe Void Presses The Wall is a major exhibition by London-based Irish artist Eva Rothschild\, whose work grows out of a commitment to sculpture’s capacity to create bodily encounters in space. Her sculptures are born of the city and redolent of the urban landscape. Some\, cast or constructed in bronze\, plaster or steel\, are supported on plinths\, ‘behaving’ like sculptures ‘should’\, while others stretch\, twist\, balance\, or form whole environments in concrete\, polystyrene\, cotton and canvas that the viewer must negotiate. Her work creates a constant push-and-pull of the power dynamic between audience and object\, drawing attention to how we occupy space. \nSupported by the Henry Moore Foundation\, and the generosity of the Eva Rothschild Supporters’ Circle. \n  \n \nhttps://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/The-Fruitmarket-Gallery.mp3\n 
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/eva-rothschild-the-void-presses-the-wall/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: The Room With the Objects: A speculative writing workshop
DESCRIPTION:10.09.26\, 6-8pm. Free. For 18-30s. \nThis speculative writing workshop takes inspiration from Olga Ravn’s science-fiction novel The Employees\, which chronicles the visceral\, emotional impact a room of objects has on the crew of a spaceship – and was initially written as an exhibition text accompanying a collection of sculptures.  \n  \nMoving through the gallery\, participants are invited to write about their experience of Eva Rothschild’s The Void Presses the Wall\, attending to the sculptures’ material\, affective presences. Responding to a series of prompts\, we’ll use writing and deep attention to commune with the sculptures\, sensing speculative relations between ourselves and the work.   \n  \nWe reflect on the line between object\, sculpture\, and being. How would we write about these sculptures if we discovered they were alive? Participants are invited to write two speculative texts: one\, a ‘scientific’\, clinical catalogue text to accompany the sculpture in an institutional setting; two\, an embodied first-person text drawing on emotion\, sensation\, and memory. We’ll end by returning to the gallery for (optional) collective sharing of our work\, reading around and to the sculptures.  \n  \nXuanlin Tham is a Singaporean writer\, curator\, and maker based in Edinburgh\, keenly interested in the (collective) body and desire. Their book Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene explores the sex scene’s capacity to interrupt the violences of capitalism\, and is out with 404 Ink. They programme at Take One Action\, an arts organisation harnessing the transformative power of film and storytelling for social and environmental justice in Scotland and beyond. As an independent curator and facilitator\, they have worked with Glasgow Short Film Festival\, Queer East\, Rhubaba\, and the Edinburgh Art Festival. Xuanlin’s writing on film and culture has been published in e–flux\, British GQ\, i-D\, Little White Lies\, and AnOther Magazine\, among others.  \n  \nAccess \n\nOur building has step-free access and is wheelchair accessible via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neutral.\n\n\nDuring events and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet space if required.\n\n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther access information can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.uk/accessibility/ \nIf you have any specific access requirements that you’d like to tell us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop or event\, please let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit is made possible with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and William Grant Foundation.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/fresh-fruit-18-30s-workshop-the-room-with-the-objects-a-speculative-writing-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Wavetable #54
DESCRIPTION:10.09.26. Doors 7:45pm. Performances begin around 8:15pm. \nR.AGGS\nR.AGGS is the solo project of multi instrumentalist and songwriter Ray Aggs. A prolific specialist in euphoric post punk\, Aggs achieved international acclaim as a guitarist with touring projects Shopping\, Sacred Paws and Trash Kit and recently evolving as a fiddle player with Caliope\, The Pegwells and Curlew. Their solo music brings together folk and punk through an infectious mix of tropical wonky synths and a righteous force of melody.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/R4ggs/ \nLuci Holland\nLuci is a composer and sound artist who largely writes for games and film\, but lately has been developing experimental\, ambient\, multi-instrumental sets with a mix of oboe\, vocals\, double bass\, and effects – sometimes to accompany dance and other live performances.\nhttps://luciholland.com \nObakegaku\n(Ben Jones) is an Edinburgh based sound designer\, musician\, visualist and livecoder. For tonight’s performance\, they will build & destroy a network of experimental sound spanning their favourite genres.\nhttp://linktr.ee/obakegak
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/wavetable-54/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260914T120000
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SUMMARY:Pips!  Behind the scenes 
DESCRIPTION:14.09.26\, 10.30am-12pm. Free.\n\n\nJoin us with your baby for an informal visit to our archive with our Research and Public Engagement Curator\, Ruth Bretherick. A chance to learn about Fruitmarket’s history through archival materials that date from 1984 onwards. \n\n\n\nIf art is an important part of your life\, this is an opportunity to find a little moment to engage with it amongst the chaos of new parenthood. A relaxed\, welcoming atmosphere\, giving you space to talk and think about art and meet like-minded parents and carers. Fuss and feeding expected. Baby changing facilities and buggy park available. \n\n\n10.30-11am – arrival\, park buggies\n11-11.45am – archive visit\n\n\nInstallation image\, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings 1981–1984\, Fruitmarket\, 11 August 1984–23 September 1984.\nImage courtesy of Sean Hudson archive\, National Galleries of Scotland.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/pips-archive/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:Hey! Student!
DESCRIPTION:17.07.26. 6–8pm. \nJoin us for a drink\, a chance to view Eva Rothschild’s exhibition and hear about ways you can get involved in everything Fruitmarket\, from events to creative workshops! \nThe Void Presses The Wall is a major exhibition by London-based Irish artist Eva Rothschild\, whose work grows out of a commitment to sculpture’s capacity to create bodily encounters in space. Her sculptures are born of the city and redolent of the urban landscape. Some\, cast or constructed in bronze\, plaster or steel\, are supported on plinths\, ‘behaving’ like sculptures ‘should’\, while others stretch\, twist\, balance\, or form whole environments in concrete\, polystyrene\, cotton and canvas that the viewer must negotiate. Her work creates a constant push-and-pull of the power dynamic between audience and object\, drawing attention to how we occupy space. \nImage: Eva Rothschild\, Cursive\, 2026. Courtesy the artist\, Modern Art and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd.\, Glasgow. Photo: Keith Hunter Photography
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/hey-student/
CATEGORIES:Students
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260918T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260918T230000
DTSTAMP:20260818T080800Z
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SUMMARY:TFEH presents: JOHN BUTCHER & ANGHARAD DAVIES / FRITZ WELCH & FIRAS KHNAISSER
DESCRIPTION:18.09.26. 8–11pm. \nJOHN BUTCHER & ANGHARAD DAVIES.\nJohn hasn’t played Edinburgh since the 80’s! Angharad is a regular visitor to our city but her last Edinburgh show was a little documented show in Firas’s living room 10 years ago to audience of 4. Well\, it’s time to change all that and bring these Cafe OTO regulars to Edinburgh’s brightest cafe stage. Butcher and Davies have been crossing paths since the early 2000s — largely through the Common Objects collective — but only started performing as a committed duo a handful of times before recording Two Seasons last year. This is still early days for this duo\, which is exactly what makes it so exciting… \nHere’s a snippet to keep you going until the show https://johnbutcher1.bandcamp.com/album/two-seasons (there’s a review below) \nFRITZ WELCH & FIRAS KHNAISSER.\nPut one half of Hexacaikadecagon and one half of Off Brand and what do you get?  But is that even an accurate description of what our beloved Houstonian and your resident Beiruti could be cooking up for this TFEH audience? Only time will tell… \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVsVshM6pOI&t=1297s \nThis show is a collaboration with 1.5 Months in Glasgow https://www.instagram.com/1point5months/
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/tfeh-presents-john-butcher-angharad-davies-fritz-welch-firas-khnaisser/
CATEGORIES:Homepage,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260921T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260921T200000
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SUMMARY:Eva Rothschild: artist’s talk and book launch
DESCRIPTION:21.09.26\, 6.30–8pm. Free. \nArtist Eva Rothschild in conversation with Fruitmarket Director\, Fiona Bradley to celebrate her exhibition The Void Presses The Wall\, and the new book that accompanies it. \nPublished to celebrate an exhibition at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh\, this fully illustrated book features work from the last ten years alongside very recent sculpture\, finished as the book was going to press. New writing from Andrea Schlieker and Philippa Snow shed new light on Rothschild’s visual language. \n  \nPhoto: Neil Hanna.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/eva-rothschild-artists-talk-and-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Homepage
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260922T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260922T200000
DTSTAMP:20260806T091702Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Allan Cameron\, Things Can Only Get Worse
DESCRIPTION:22.09.26. 6.30–8pm \nWhilst indignation saturates Allan Cameron’s third collection\, Things Can Only Get Worse\, whose title is a reminder of Tony Blair’s unkept promises before his first mandate which led us into another NATO war of aggression aimed at terrorising peoples and purloining the property of other nations\, this collection also praises the humanity of the great majority of people everywhere. Although Cameron is a writer who goes in search of paradox\, there is no contradiction here. Valuing humanity in these cynical times goes hand in hand with outrage at the behaviour of the powerful and the politicians who serve them. \nWe live in a period of insane and unforgiveable violence inflicted by the West on defenceless civilians with all the force of modern military technology. Of all the recent wars\, however\, Gaza takes on even greater demonic proportions not seen since the Second World War. Even silence is culpable in such circumstances\, so the poet has reorganised the collection in order to underscore the horrors we are witnessing\, whilst not forgetting that this genocide has historical roots in the European colonisation of the rest of the world\, particularly Africa\, America and Australia. \n  \nAbout Allan Cameron  \nBorn in 1952\, Allan Cameron went to boarding school at the age of six while also living in Nigeria and Bangladesh during holidays and\, though he is no fan of such institutions\, he found that it gave him a very sound education which compensated for the naval college he moved to in 1965. Mutual dislike prompted an early departure in 1968\, and after that he could once more pursue his education while trying out various occupations for fifteen years in Italy and England – too many to list. This part of his life could be defined as “down and out in London and Florence”. In 1983 he went to Sussex University and afterwards taught there for five years without tenure. In 1992 after moving to Glasgow\, his first translated book was published and he went on to translate twenty-eight more of them. In 2004 and 2005\, his first two novels were published by Luath Press. Since then two more novels\, two poetry collections and two non-fiction works have been added to his published works. The Scottish Review of Books summed up his output: “… there is … in Cameron’s work\, a lingering spirituality\, a faith that something soulful and significant is present in the everyday\, in the ordinary ‘heroism of mortals’ he writes of. … he is dubious about ‘progress’\, political\, economic and scientific. … if Scottish literature has a true outsider\, it is not Irvine Welsh; it’s Allan Cameron.” \nAbout Vagabond Voices\n\nFounded in 2008 and based in Glasgow\, Vagabond Voices is an independent publisher that is both Scottish and fervently European in its aims. Vagabond is committed to introducing new titles from Scottish authors and translating fiction from other languages. Our library reflects our aims to promote literary ambition and innovative writers\, and to challenge readers.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-allan-cameron-things-can-only-get-worse/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: sooooooft play (hard work?): A porcelain handbuilding workshop
DESCRIPTION:24.09.26\, 6-8pm. Free. For 18-30s.  \nInviting participants to respond to Eva Rothschild’s sculpture series Soft Play and film Safe\, 2026\, this porcelain handbuilding workshop will make use of intuitive and embodied sculpting methods to create playful\, abstract sculptures.  \nWe often associate porcelain with fragility\, as well as a gendered and racialised performance of femininity. But in its wet clay state\, it is soft\, slippery\, and highly malleable. Drawing on Rothschild’s thinking about gendered modes of engaging with objects in public space\, we’ll shape and stretch wet porcelain to create emotional artefacts of ‘gender performance’ and bodily experience. We’ll think about queerness\, masculinity\, and femininity\, finding potential for gender disobedience and play in experiencing the soft and slippery. \nAs tactility comes to the fore\, participants are encouraged to respond more to feeling than an attempt to create pre-existing forms; the potential structural collapse of these objects can become interesting stories to tell\, too. At the end of the workshop\, we’ll stage a mini exhibition of our work\, plotting our objects in space together.  \nThis workshop especially welcomes queer and trans participants.  \nXuanlin Tham is a Singaporean writer\, curator\, and maker based in Edinburgh\, keenly interested in the (collective) body and desire. Their book Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene explores the sex scene’s capacity to interrupt the violences of capitalism\, and is out with 404 Ink. They programme at Take One Action\, an arts organisation harnessing the transformative power of film and storytelling for social and environmental justice in Scotland and beyond. As an independent curator and facilitator\, they have worked with Glasgow Short Film Festival\, Queer East\, Rhubaba\, and the Edinburgh Art Festival. Xuanlin’s writing on film and culture has been published in e–flux\, British GQ\, i-D\, Little White Lies\, and AnOther Magazine\, among others.  \nAccess \n\nOur building has step-free access and is wheelchair accessible via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neutral.\n\n\nDuring events and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet space if required.\n\n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther access information can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.uk/accessibility/ \nIf you have any specific access requirements that you’d like to tell us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop or event\, please let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit is made possible with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and William Grant Foundation. \n \n 
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/fresh-fruit-18-30s-workshop-sooooooft-play-hard-work-a-porcelain-handbuilding-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Home in Space: Selected Concrete\, Visual and Sound Poetry of Edwin Morgan
DESCRIPTION:24.09.26. 6.30–8pm \nAn evening to discover and celebrate the incredible body of visual and sound poetry by Edwin Morgan\, much of which is rarely seen and will now be available in this significant new volume from Reaktion Books. This new selection reveals Edwin Morgan’s groundbreaking multimedia poetics beyond his celebrated lyric voice. With editors Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone\, poets Iona Lee and Dan Power\, and Morgan’s publisher\, bibliographer and friend\, Hamish Whyte. \nEdwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet\, a bold\, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness\, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond traditional verse. This book brings together\, for the first time\, the full range of his visual and sound poetry – from vibrant poster poems and surrealist collages to concrete poetry\, cut-ups and sonic permutations. It reveals Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century multimedia art\, linking language\, image and sound in surprising and timely ways. Attuned to questions of identity\, ecology and empire\, Morgan’s work remains as urgent and inventive as ever – a celebration of poetic form at its most expansive and alive. \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nGreg Thomas is a writer\, critic\, poet and artist based in Glasgow\, Scotland. He is the author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (2019) and has written extensively on visual and concrete poetries\, text art and multimedia art. \nJulie Johnstone is an artist\, curator\, editor and publisher based in Edinburgh\, Scotland. She works primarily in the artists’ book form and her bookworks are in numerous national collections. She was previously Head Librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library and established and curated the Edwin Morgan Archive held there. www.juliejohnstone.com \nHamish Whyte was born in 1947 near Glasgow where he lived before moving to Edinburgh in 2004. A former librarian and Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Shoestring Press has published five collections\, the latest being A Spell of Watching: New & Selected Poems (2024). HappenStance published a memoir\, Morgan and Me\, in 2020 and he edited Edwin Morgan: Centenary Selected Poems (2020) for Carcanet Press. For many years he was Edwin Morgan’s Scottish publisher\, at the award-winning Mariscat Press. He has also compiled a bibliography of Morgan’s work. \nIona Lee is a writer from Edinburgh whose work encompasses poetry\, music\, visual art\, and live performance. She has read her work in venues and on festival stages all over the UK and Europe\, from Shetland to Cornwall\, Paris to Berlin\, dive bars to the Royal Albert Hall. Her debut collection\, Anamnesis (Polygon\, 2023) won the Somerset Maugham Award\, and in 2024 she published What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability (Trickhouse Press)  ̶  a collection of visual and concrete poetry created through interactions with the geolocation software what3words. Iona’s work is concerned with themes of magic\, media\, art and artifice\, memory and other hauntings. \nDan Power was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2024. His poems appear in Poetry London\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Gutter\, Magma\, Wet Grain\, and more. Dan is the founding editor of Trickhouse Press\, a publisher specialising in visual poetry\, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. His film poems have been exhibited at the Off-Page Vispo exhibition in 2025\, Beaconsfield Gallery in London\, and at StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. Dan can be found on Instagram @therealdanpower\, or at danpower.xyz. \nAdvanced reviews: \nEdwin Morgan’s is the kind of poetry I want. A Home in Space is a multiverse chock full of concrete word-patterning\, sound-ups and cut-ups\, galaxies and constellations\, collages\, overlays\, typographic arrays\, acoustic riffs\, lettrist elations and noncesensical confabulations\, graphic designs\, ur-computer inventions\, and iconoclastic ads and icons. Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone’s detailed\, historically informative\, and discerning introduction sets the stage for Morgan’s verbo-visual-vocal – patalexical! polychromatic! – lollapalooza of a book.\nCharles Bernstein\, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature\, University of Pennsylvania \nThis eagerly awaited study is a veritable triumph. Greg Thomas’s fine introduction ranges seamlessly over the intricate details of Morgan’s multifaceted career as a poet. The decision to reproduce many of the poetic texts in the versions that Morgan himself devised enhances the book’s historical importance.\nStephen Bann\, Emeritus Professor of History of Art\, University of Bristol\, and editor of Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology (1967) \nA Home in Space is a fantastic presentation of the extensive work of the Scottish visual/concrete poet Edwin Morgan. Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone have created an artfully curated volume that showcases the many dimensions of Morgan’s practice – from his early scrapbooks through his explorations of typewriter\, graphic\, visual poetics in various media. Thomas’s initial essay situates Morgan’s work in the context of twentieth-century literary activity\, making the case once and for all that visual poetry was a central – rather than marginal – component of modern aesthetics. For those unfamiliar with the poet\, this is a terrific introduction and\, for those already fans\, the book is an opportunity to appreciate the range and variety of Morgan’s thought and expression. So much of his work is scattered and distributed in different venues and repositories and circulated in niche networks that the sheer effort of locating\, selecting and collating this collection is admirable. It’s such a pleasure to see the combination of solid research and beautifully designed publication honouring Morgan’s creative spirit.\nJohanna Drucker\, author of Affluvia: The Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture (2025) and Inventing the Alphabet (2022) \nThis is a marvellous book\, revealing for the first time the full range of generous wit with which Edwin Morgan wrote radical new poetries. Here\, indeed\, are oodles of thrillingly self-estranging technical experiment and much avant-garde mischief.\nDrew Milne\, Judith E. Wilson Professor of Poetics\, University of Cambridge\, and author of In Darkest Capital: Collected Poems
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-of-a-home-in-space/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Last Monday of the month\, 6–8pm. £4 which can be redeemed at the cafe on the night. \n\n\nThe Silent Reading Group events are hosted by Publishing Scotland\, in association with UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature. Enjoy the time and space to read whatever you like in a convivial and welcoming atmosphere alongside other friendly bookworms. \n\n\nEach month we have a guest author join us for a reading and book signing – for our September event\, our guest author will be novelist Olga Wojtas\, who will read from her novel\, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogues. \n  \n\nEvent Schedule\n6pm – 6.15pm: Welcome\n6.15pm – 7.15pm: Introduction and Silent Reading\n7.15pm – 7.30pm: Guest author talk / Reading\n7.30pm – 8.00pm: Book Chat / Book Buying / Author Signing\nBring your own book\, buy a book from the Fruitmarket bookshop\, or take a book from the UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature book box.\n 
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/silent-reading-group-4/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: Be/Longing
DESCRIPTION:01.10.26\, 6-8pm. Free. For 18-30s.  \nIn Be/Longing attendees will work towards a written poem responding to the themes of place and belonging raised by Rothschild’s exhibition. We will use her film ‘Safe’ as well as her sculpture installations to kick off a wider discussion about specific spaces we might personally have felt welcome or discomfortable in. We will think about what specific aspects of our identities create these relationships with certain spaces\, and how we might feel differently if we were able to experience them from outside our own perspectives. There will be time at the end to share our work but this is completely optional!!  \nGwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys is a writer and spoken word artist from the Scottish Borders. After being appointed a young makar by the Scottish Poetry Library\, she performed at festivals such as StAnza\, Dandelion\, and Wigtown\, as well as on ITV News and BBC Radio Scotland. In 2022 she moved to Dublin to study English Literature and Classical Civilisations at Trinity College\, where she founded and thrice-captained the TCD poetry slam team\, placed in the top 8 at the All-Ireland Poetry Slam\, and became Editor-in-Chief of Icarus\, Ireland’s oldest arts journal. During this time she also studied creative writing in Melbourne\, where she headlined Mixed Bag poetry night. In 2025\, her debut solo show [ac]quiesonce premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since graduating\, she has competed at slams like Loud Poets Dumfries and Paisley’s Storytree\, returned to the Fringe with her new show After Pride Comes\, and begun writing for Snack magazine. Her work has been published in Gutter\, Poetry Wales\, and Voiceworks\, as well as by Bloomsbury\, 404Ink and Arachne Press\, amongst others. Across all forms she works in\, her writing is consistently situated at the intersection of the personal and political\, of myth and history\, and of anguish and whimsy.  \nAccess \n\nOur building has step-free access and is wheelchair accessible via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neutral.\n\n\nDuring events and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet space if required.\n\n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther access information can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.uk/accessibility/ \nIf you have any specific access requirements that you’d like to tell us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop or event\, please let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit is made possible with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and William Grant Foundation.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/fresh-fruit-18-30s-workshop-be-longing/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: Be/Speaking
DESCRIPTION:08.10.26\, 6-8pm. Free for 18-30s. \nBe/Speaking will again focus on themes of place and belonging\, but this time attendees will work towards a spoken word performance\, focusing on techniques such as use of body language and non-verbal sound in order to convey meaning and express ourselves rather than word choice alone. We will again draw inspiration from Rothschild’s work under this different lens\, particularly looking at ‘Safe’ for how relationships to place can be expressed without/alongside language. Attendees who participated in the Be/Longing workshop on 01.10.26 are welcome to bring their written pieces from that session to adapt into performance pieces. New attendees are encouraged to bring along a relevant piece of writing related to the themes of place and belonging to use for this workshop. \nIt’s recommended to attend both of Gwenhwyfar’s workshops on 01.10.26 and 08.10.26\, as the second session develops what participants have written in the first. However\, this is not mandatory. \nGwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys is a writer and spoken word artist from the Scottish Borders. After being appointed a young makar by the Scottish Poetry Library\, she performed at festivals such as StAnza\, Dandelion\, and Wigtown\, as well as on ITV News and BBC Radio Scotland. In 2022 she moved to Dublin to study English Literature and Classical Civilisations at Trinity College\, where she founded and thrice-captained the TCD poetry slam team\, placed in the top 8 at the All-Ireland Poetry Slam\, and became Editor-in-Chief of Icarus\, Ireland’s oldest arts journal. During this time she also studied creative writing in Melbourne\, where she headlined Mixed Bag poetry night. In 2025\, her debut solo show [ac]quiesonce premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since graduating\, she has competed at slams like Loud Poets Dumfries and Paisley’s Storytree\, returned to the Fringe with her new show After Pride Comes\, and begun writing for Snack magazine. Her work has been published in Gutter\, Poetry Wales\, and Voiceworks\, as well as by Bloomsbury\, 404Ink and Arachne Press\, amongst others. Across all forms she works in\, her writing is consistently situated at the intersection of the personal and political\, of myth and history\, and of anguish and whimsy.  \nAccess \n\nOur building has step-free access and is wheelchair accessible via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neutral.\n\n\nDuring events and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet space if required.\n\n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther access information can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.uk/accessibility/ \nIf you have any specific access requirements that you’d like to tell us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop or event\, please let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit is made possible with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and William Grant Foundation.
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/fresh-fruit-18-30s-workshop-be-speaking/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Both Hands — Be Like A Mountain In A Moonlit Way Album Launch Party 
DESCRIPTION:Sunday 25.10.26. 2–7pm. \nAdults £15 + booking fee · Children over 5 £5 + booking fee · Under 5s FREE \nEdinburgh synth-pop duo Both Hands celebrate the release of their debut album Be Like A Mountain In A Moonlit Way with a very special afternoon of live music\, performance\, and visuals at Fruitmarket Warehouse. \nReleased via Lost Map Records\, the album brings together Hailey Beavis’s distinctive vocals and surreal\, confessional lyrics with Brian Pokora’s dreamy\, wonky electronic production\, creating a strange\, joyful and beautiful world somewhere between synth-pop\, trip-hop and experimental electronic music. \nFor the launch\, Both Hands will bring that world to life in a specially created live show\, alongside Accident Machine\, Thundermoon and Supper Club DJs. \nExpect big synths\, infectious electronic pop\, unusual sounds\, homemade visual magic\, performance and plenty of dancing in the wonderful warehouse at Fruitmarket. \nAnd bring the kids! This is a daytime\, all-ages album launch\, designed to be enjoyed by grown-ups and little ones alike. Children are very welcome to come along and experience the music\, dancing and visual world of Both Hands. Children aged 5 and under go free\, with tickets for children over 5 available for £5. \n  \nBoth Hands\nAccident Machine\nThundermoon\nSupper Club DJs \n 
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/both-hands-be-like-a-mountain-in-a-moonlit-way-album-launch/
CATEGORIES:Album Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Elizabeth Cook: Tumbling
DESCRIPTION:I thought I would still be the me\nthat I was when you lived when\nyou died. I could not then see\nthat your death would bereave\nme not only of you but of me. \n\n\n\n\nThe poems in Tumbling are written from loss — of partner\, friend and family. There is grief but also curiosity and openness to the sometimes surprising ways in which these essential relationships persist and change. The poems are written with Cook’s characteristic precision and intensity — never heavy and with humour often breaking through. \nReadings from Michael Stephenson and Elizabeth Cook.\nMusic from The Self-Righteous Brothers.\n\n\nElizabeth Cook was brought up in Dorset\, lived in Suffolk with her late partner and now lives in East London. Her poetry includes two collections from Worple Press (Bowl and When I Kiss the Sky) and a pamphlet (The Sound of the Rain) from The Garlic Press. Her fiction includes Achilles (Methuen) and Lux (Scribe). She has taught in universities\, prisons and a Franciscan friary and has written the libretto for a Passion oratorio. \nThe painfully touching poems of grief and mourning in Elizabeth Cook’s Tumbling\, are so necessary\, so luminous that they comfort and sustain us. \n\n\nMICHAEL LASKEY \n\nMariscat is now one of the longest-running self-funded small presses in Scotland. The ‘jewel in the Scottish poetry crown’ (Ian McMillan)\, Mariscat has twice won the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award (2023 & 2015). The press is known for its tastefully designed publications and a quality backlist which includes work by figures such as Douglas Dunn\, Diana Hendry\, Stewart Conn\, Jackie Kay and Michael Longley\, as well as many publications by Edwin Morgan\, Whyte’s friend for over 30 years. \n\n 
URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-elizabeth-cook-tumbling/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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