Greg Moodie and Chris Cairns

SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2018

Cartoonists Greg Moodie and Chris Cairns* discuss politics, satire and their latest books Send in the Clowns and Cool Scots.

  • 15:00-16:00
  • ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE
  • FREE
  • BOOKING REQUIRED

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via Eventbrite.

*Chris Cairns is a political cartoonist and author living in Edinburgh. A former journalist with The Scotsman, he has also written freelance for The Sunday Times, The Herald and Scotland on Sunday, among others. His books include the best socio-political history travelogue ever written about golf, a gritty urban thriller set in Portree, and Welcome to Cairnstoon, a collection of cartoons.

Catherine Sargeant and Tom Houston

SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2018
Award winning text artist Catherine Sargeant is joined by Tom Houston, an original and compelling Scottish singer songwriter.

  • 15:00-16:00
  • ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE
  • FREE
  • BOOKING REQUIRED

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via Eventbrite.

Whisky Masterclass – Isle of Arran Distillery


FRIDAY 26 JANUARY 2018

Allow yourself to be transported to the beautiful Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland, a stone’s throw away from Burn’s birthplace where your host will take you through 5 whiskies from the Arran Whisky Range.

  • Masterclass dates (all at 18.30 in Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
  • Ticket Price £10 (includes 5 tasting drams and a cream liqueur)

Isle of Arran Distillery are the only Scotch Whisky Distiller to produce a whisky officially endorsed by the World Burns Federation.

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via the Summerhall website.

Kenny Hunter

SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018

Kenny Hunter will discuss his practice as an artist in relation to the life and work of Robert Burns.

  • 15:30-16:30
  • ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE
  • FREE
  • BOOKING REQUIRED

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via Eventbrite.

Whisky Masterclass – Isle of Arran Distillery


THURSDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2018

Allow yourself to be transported to the beautiful Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland, a stone’s throw away from Burn’s birthplace where your host will take you through 5 whiskies from the Arran Whisky Range.

  • Masterclass dates (all at 18.30 in Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
  • Ticket Price £10 (includes 5 tasting drams and a cream liqueur)

Isle of Arran Distillery are the only Scotch Whisky Distiller to produce a whisky officially endorsed by the World Burns Federation.

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via the Summerhall website.

Commissioned Artists Panel

SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018

Ciara Veronica Dunne, Ross Fleming, Derrick Guild and Robert Powell in conversation with Festival Director Sheilagh Tennant and Exhibitions Facilitator Holly Knox Yeoman.

  • 14:00-15:00
  • ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE
  • FREE
  • BOOKING REQUIRED

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via Eventbrite.

Whisky Masterclass – Isle of Arran Distillery


THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2018

Allow yourself to be transported to the beautiful Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland, a stone’s throw away from Burn’s birthplace where your host will take you through 5 whiskies from the Arran Whisky Range.

  • Masterclass dates (all at 18.30 in Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
  • Ticket Price £10 (includes 5 tasting drams and a cream liqueur)

Isle of Arran Distillery are the only Scotch Whisky Distiller to produce a whisky officially endorsed by the World Burns Federation.

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via the Summerhall website.

David Mach & Robert Crawford

SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2018

David Mach RA discusses his fascination with Robert Burns with Burns biographer Robert Crawford*.  They will also discuss some of David’s recent work merging collage and poetry, as well as performing some of his lyrical works.

*Robert Crawford’s eighth collection of poems, Testament, was published by Cape in 2014. His biography of Robert Burns, The Bard, is published by Vintage and won the Saltire Society’s Book of the Year award. He is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews.

 

  • 12:00-13:00
  • ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE
  • FREE
  • BOOKING REQUIRED

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via Eventbrite.

Whisky Masterclass – Isle of Arran Distillery


THURSDAY 1 MARCH 2018

Allow yourself to be transported to the beautiful Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland, a stone’s throw away from Burn’s birthplace where your host will take you through 5 whiskies from the Arran Whisky Range.

  • Masterclass dates (all at 18.30 in Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
  • Ticket Price £10 (includes 5 tasting drams and a cream liqueur)

Isle of Arran Distillery are the only Scotch Whisky Distiller to produce a whisky officially endorsed by the World Burns Federation.

Book Tickets
Note: Booking is via the Summerhall website.

Burns Unbroke

CONTEMPORARY ARTS INSPIRED BY ROBERT BURNS

25 JANUARY – 10 MARCH 2018

Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, celebrating the variety of artistic and performing practices currently on offer in Scotland, and beyond, through the unique prism offered by new interpretations of the life and work of Robert Burns.

Burns Unbroke is a partnership between Sheilagh Tennant of artruist and Summerhall, which will ambitiously develop the potential of this unique venue for a multiplicity of arts activity under one thematic banner.

The festival’s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists, including Graham Fagen and Laura Ford. There will be newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. In addition, the focussed programme of events includes an Alternative Burns Night, spoken word performances, children’s performances and a tailor made programme of music. Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of this project and new synergies will be offered to a diverse audience, providing a unique experience of contemporary interpretations of Scotland’s national bard.

An advisory panel has been appointed for Burns Unbroke: Gerry Carruthers, Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, Calum Colvin, Professor of Contemporary Art Practice, Dundee University, Pete Irvine, Founder of Unique Events and Emma Nicolson, Director, Atlas Arts

Burns Unbroke will take place at Summerhall where the visual art will be on display in 11 galleries for six weeks, from 25 January – 10 March 2018, with the majority of performance events focussed around the weekend of 26-28 January 2018.  The exhibitions will be open to the public every day throughout he six weeks and entry is free.

The primary aims will be to present a diverse programme of creative responses to Burns from visual and performing artists in order to explore Burns’s status as a ‘Scottish icon’. By widening the response to his mythologizing in our culture, audiences will be able to experience the many ways in which artists find vitality and relevance in Burns’ life, work, and status nearly 260 years after the birth of this iconic figure.