Curated Programme

EMILY NICHOLL
In the Round is a playful spectacle and community gathering inspired by Portobello’s history of travelling circus shows inviting spectators to become participants in a series of choreographed performances along Portobello Beach.

SOLEN COLLET and AILSA LOCHHEAD
Roll the Dice film-based installation at Nobles Amusements draws inspiration from layered patterns found in nature and urban play spaces. Coming through the filming of a recent Move to Feel session the resulting sensory collage is installed in Nobles.

FIBI COWLEY
Living Pictures is a pop-up avant-garde puppet theatre show that combines soundscape and performance to breathe new life into local stories, legends and histories. Fibi stages a playful, slightly absurd DIY performance near Nobles Amusements.

SHOWMEN’S THEATRE COMPANY
Arcade Trilogy celebrates Scottish Showpeople’s largely undocumented, tantalising history. They aim to humanise an ofter misunderstood minority group, the only way they know how: by putting on a show. They present three site-specific, interactive performances celebrating the history of seaside amusements.

JORJA FOLLINA, MELISSA HEYWOOD & JEMMA STEIN
Dance Token is an interactive arcade-inspired community dance walk that transforms Portobello’s Promenade into a living game board of movement, joy and participation. Promenade visitors will be guided along a mapped route, stopping at a series of playful dance zones.

A series of 15 film shorts curated by Kerry Jones y(founder of Moving Images Cinema Caravan) and Rosy Naylor (Art Walk Porty).

Screenings:
Sat-Sun 13-14 September, 10am-6pm
Portobello Promenade, by Pipe Lane

Introductory Text:
Public Bodies by writer Tom Jeffreys

Portobello is full of surprising stories, if you only know where to look. Take a walk along the Promenade and pause for a moment outside Nobles Amusements. Look up. Notice, under the eaves, a series of painted battle scenes. Once upon a time, these eaves were home to depictions of Mickey Mouse. But not any more. Notice the tartan-clad footsoldiers. The brightly coloured knights. In the 1690s, the Scots tried to establish their own colonial project in Panama but were defeated by, among other things, the Spanish military. The debilitating economic effect of this failure was a significant factor in Scotland’s elites accepting the Act of Union in 1707.