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Seeing Things: Edinburgh Art Festival ‘Platform’ Exhibition AND Edinburgh International Book Festival, Maria Popova with Tania Kovats, ‘Making Waves in the World’
Wednesday, 22nd August, 2018
What: Edinburgh Art Festival Platform Exhibition AND Edinburgh International Book Festival, Maria Popova with Tania Kovats: Making Waves in the World
When: Wednesday 22ndAugust
Where: Meeting at Glasgow Queen Street Station at 12.30pm for travel from Glasgow, or 1.45pm at City Art Centre if you’re meeting us in Edinburgh.
Who With: Freya
Why should you join us:
We’re offering a Seeing Things double bill!
Do you want to discover some new artists at Edinburgh Art Festival AND experience the world-famous Edinburgh International Book Festival in one trip, in a relaxed and informal setting? Well, we’ve got you covered!
This Seeing Things trip will begin with a stroll around the Edinburgh Art Festival 2018’s Platform exhibition:
“Platform is Edinburgh Art Festival’s dedicated showcase for artists at the beginning of their careers. The 2018 edition, selected from an open call by artists Jonathan Owen and Hanna Tuulikki, brings together four female artists: Renèe Helèna Browne, Annie Crabtree, Isobel Lutz-Smith, and Rae-Yen Song. The selected practitioners, drawn from across Scotland, reflect a wide range of approaches to art making.”
After that, we’ll make our way to the Spark Theatre, where we’ll take our seats for Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Making Waves in the World. Part of the Festival’s The Sea Around Us series of interviews, we’ll hear visual artist Tania Kovats discussing her work on the relationship between the human species and the sea with writer Maria Popova:
“Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us has influenced and inspired a generation of environmentalists but its impact goes far beyond the green movement: it has been empowering artists and thinkers around the world for many years. Maria Popova, founder of www.brainpickings.org, ‘a mastermind of a literary empire on the Internet’, has spent the last two years immersed in Carson’s work. Today, she talks with Tania Kovats about the role of mavericks in reshaping creativity and changing the world.”
If you want to travel with us from Glasgow, we’ll meet you at Glasgow Queen Street Station at 12.30pm on the day. If you prefer to meet us at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh, we’ll meet you there at 1.45pm. The event ends at 4.45pm, after which we will travel back to Glasgow.
This Seeing Things trip is a women-only event*, 16+. It is free to attend but spaces are limited so you need to book your place with us. We can reimburse your travel costs from Glasgow.
If you have any questions or would like to book your free place on this Seeing Things trip, please email rebecca.jones@womenslibrary.org.uk
*All women-only events are inclusive of trans and intersex women, as well as non-binary and gender fluid people who identify in a significant way as woman or female.
