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Respond and Write: Edinburgh Art Festival for Writers
6th August, 2019, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Free
Get inspired and meet other writing women!
Respond and Write, Tuesday 6th August, 1pm to 3pm, Meet in Edinburgh, 16+, Women only
Respond creatively to some of the surprising, challenging and fun exhibitions at the Edinburgh Art Festival. With support and encouragement from writer Olga Wojtas, discover new women artists and try out writing exercises in a stimulating environment. Open to beginners and seasoned writers alike!
Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80 is timed to coincide with a major retrospective of the artist’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition at Stills has been co-curated with Sebastien Montabonel, founder of Montabonel & Partners. Stills is grateful to The SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin for the loan of works to the exhibition.
Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA and lives and works in New York. Considered one of the most influential artists of her generation, she came to prominence in the late 1970s with a group of artists known as the Pictures Generation. She will be the subject of a one-person exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2019.
Throughout her career, Sherman has worked with photography to picture herself in a range of guises and personas. Drawing upon images from art history, film, TV, magazines and the internet, she has become well known and hugely influential for her explorations into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation.
“I left feeling proud of women and inspired myself” – Edinburgh Art Festival for Fearties participant
We’ll be meeting in Edinburgh but please get in touch for assistance with travel from Glasgow and the Edinburgh meeting point location.
On 10th August, we have another opportunity to visit the Edinburgh Art Festival and discover work by women creatives led by GWL staff and Art Festival guides. Find out more here.
Olga Wojtas is an unconventional – and very witty – writer of postmodern crime fiction whose surrealist humour has been compared to the likes of PG Wodehouse, Jasper Fforde and the Marx Brothers. Her debut novel, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, has been published in the UK and US to great critical acclaim – being longlisted for the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize 2019, shortlisted for a CrimeFest Award, and named as one of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year by Kirkus.
Booking
This event is for women only* and is free to attend. Please book below (you will be taken through the shopping cart but no charge will be made) or you can call us on 0141 550 2267. If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend please let us know so that we can make your place available to someone else.
*All women-only events are inclusive of Trans and Intersex women, as well as non-binary and gender fluid people.
