Pleasure Ground
The 2018 Art Walk Porty Festival ‘Pleasure Ground’ reflected upon the seaside entertainment history of Portobello, of an era of music halls, bandstands and the fairground showing archive material of community activity alongside newly commissioned work relating to our public grounds of the seaside and promenade.
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Pleasure Ground Newspaper
The newspaper details our 2018 Pleasure Ground programme with many archival images relating to Portobello’s seaside entertainment history. Available to download here
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Carousel
Artist Fiona Hermse worked with members of Portobello Older Peoples’ Project to create a series of mobile, merry-go-round style sculptures based on collected memories of Portobello’s pleasure industry past. The […]
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Pier to Pier
Pier to pier is a participatory performance, a meeting of one space that is lost and another which is very much in existence. In this case it is the melding of […]
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Festoon
Created by artist Deirdre Macleod, Festoon invited participants to walk slowly in a line, carrying portable lighted frames around the darker spaces of Portobello during the 2018 Art Walk Porty […]
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Bandstand Project
Lewisvale Park Musselburgh AS I WALK. I GLIMPSE. I HEAR. The bandstand has long served as the public site for community music occupying many of our public parks and promenades. […]