What's on Scotland 25 Feb-3 Mar: Lucky Star
Scotland lunges into a nearly-springtime cultural flurry this week with a GFF screening of Lucky Star soundtracked live Ela Orleans, an Elvis themed Itchy Feet, the return of Adem and Carl Craig playing Karnival's 10th birthday party.
Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on in the week ahead. From gigs, plays and exhibitions to spoken word and pop up cake shops, we give you the insider's guide to things to do in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee every Thursday morning.
Lucky Star
GFT, Glasgow. 26 Feb, 7pm
Frank Borzage's sumptuous, silent melodrama Lucky Star is given the GFF treatment with a full live score especially commissioned for the occasion. Polish composer and chanteuse Ela Orleans will provide the music; all you need to do is sit back, relax, and weep your little heart out. Oh, and bring the popcorn, maybe – it's the least you could do.
Artists' Bookmarket
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
27 Feb, 11am-6pm and 28 Feb, 11am-5pm
Everyone's favourite grapefruit-coloured art gallery gets set to host its annual showcase of artist-led publishing and artists' books this weekend. Bring a pocket full of cash and indulge in some delightful wee creations from the likes of Andrea Campomanes and Sarah Bissel (whose works often appear in The Skinny) Cécile Simonis and a selection of ECA's 4th year illustrators.
Karnival 10th Birthday
La Belle Angèle, Edinburgh. 27 Feb, 11pm
Carl Craig (pictured), the man of a million aliases – well, eight, to our knowledge – gets on the decks at La Belle this week to help Karnival celebrate double figures as seasoned party-chuckers. One of Detroit's most prized exports, he's a man you can trust to soundtrack your birthday bash. Read more about the debauchery planned in our February clubbing highlights.
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Grey Gardens
DCA, Dundee, 27 Feb-1 May
As part of the Festival of Architecture – an international, Scotland-wide celebration of Scotland’s unique built environment – DCA present Grey Gardens – an exhibition of art and architecture inspired by modernity and nature, including work by Scotland-based architects Morris and Steedman, and Peter Womersley, plus a look at the Marmite town art of Cumbernauld.
Karine Polwart
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. 29 Feb, 8pm
The Soundhouse continues its residency at the Trav, this time drafting Karine Polwart into its noble mission to restore Edinburgh's music scene and bring about pair pay for artists. This edition will host a rare intimate solo set from Borders folk songbird Karine Polwart. (Tickets have now unfortunately sold out, so you might have to beg / borrow / wait outside of the Trav and hope for the best for this one.) Photo: Wes Kingston
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Rebecca Sharp at StAnza
The Preservation Trust Museum, St Andrews. 3 Mar, 1pm, free
Scotland’s ingeniously titled International Poetry festival StAnza (it takes place in St Andrews, geddit?) continues after kicking off on 2 March. Check out poet-perfumer Rebecca Sharp’s exhibition in the Old Chemist’s Shop at the Preservation Trust Museum, in which scent and language come together as a ‘holistic creative practice’. Go take your nostrils for a stroll. Photo: Stephanie de Leng
Adem
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh. 26 Feb, 7pm
The almighty Bongo flexes its muscles as a live music venue with a gig from Adem Ilhan (pictured). The man behind the mask has recorded four albums with Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, collaborated with Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail and has worked with the likes of Sia, Foxes and Bat For Lashes. He's moving forward in a folktronica direction following the release of Seconds Are Acorns – this time on a solo (and first name only) basis. Catch him on the west side on 29 Feb at The Hug and Pint. Photo: Emma Macfarlane.
The Pitt
125 Pitt Street, Edinburgh, 27 Feb, 12-10pm
What wonderful luck! Just as you've fallen off the #EatClean wagon, mini food fest The Pitt storms back into town, poised to fill your belly with the best of Edinburgh's street food bounty, including Food and Drink Survey winners Babu Bombay Street Kitchen (pictured) and 12 Triangles, the Bearded Barista, Jones & Son Bespoke BBQs and lashings and lashings of Barney's Beer. What more could you want? Live sets from street buskers, you say? Sorted.
This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978-85)
Tramway, Glasgow. 25-28 Feb, free
Fresh from hosting the 2015 Turner Prize, southside art space Tramway get in on the GFF action, hosting two-day artist film exhibition This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978-85), a series of digitally remastered archive films – many of which have been out of circulation for over 30 years – by artists including John Maybury, Cordelia Swann, and Jill Westwood.
Itchy Feet
Studio 24, Edinburgh. 3 Feb, 11pm
As if Itchy Feet’s long-awaited return to Edinburgh wasn’t heart-bendingly exciting enough, the retro rock’n’roll-ska-funk DJ collective have earmarked their March event as a thoroughly Elvis themed affair. Time to dig out those blue suede shoes (if you happen to own a pair of blue suede shoes).
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