By some oversight we mananged not to post John Wallace’s fine First Foot film on The Stove blog when it first came out…..so here it is (with apologies to all you who like things in chronological order)
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First Foot – The Movie
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An Update and an Invitation
The Stove committee have been pushing forward on all fronts over the past year and we would like to invite you to a catch-up meeting on Wednesday 5th of September at 7pm at The Stove building.
At this meeting we will report back on progress with the building and projects and discussing the future structure of the Stove as an arts organisation. he Stove began as an open invitation and opportunity for D+G practitioners we’d like to discuss ideas we have for sustaining this ethos into the future and are eager to involve as many of you as possible in these discussions.
Some of you may also be aware that we have been commissioning artworks to accompany a 2 week long programme of public arts activity in and around Dumfries at the start of November. Artist Mike Inglis was award one of the Stove’s Inbetween commissions; Mike is one of Scotland’s leading street-artists and will present a short illustrated talk on 5th September about his practice and what he has planned for the November events.
kirsty whiten centaur/ fraser grey explosion/ martin mcguinness landscape / mike inglis spaceboy and the no9 junk dream /rab choudhry coins
We will also be introducing a two day symposium we are presenting in November where invited speakers will be addressing issues surrounding the identity of contemporary market towns in the UK: ‘Place Sustainability and Future Culture’ in Dumfries on 8 + 9 November 2012.
We hope you can join us, if so please RSVP via [email protected] with the text ‘ Stove Meeting Wed 5th Sep’ in the subject line.
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TRDM: Dumfries
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Punkin’ the Jubilee: The Movie
Punkin’ the Jubilee saw 100 High St transformed into a DIY T-Shirt printing factory for a day. This event was part of Guid Nychburris Saturday and was particularly popular with families and young children.
Here is a video documenting the day by John Wallace of Pile-On Productions:
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The Stove Comes Alive
The first images from our First Foot event are in! Find out more about the Stove’s first public live art event in 2012 over on our project page here
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Gin a Body Meet a Body
The keen eyed burghers of Dumfries may have noticed a lot of activity around the Stove this past week as men in bunnets and leopard skin toting ladies bustled around in ever increasing spirals of agitation, armed only with Stanley knives, paint brushes and reams of tracing paper. It’s been all hands to the deck as the Stove juggles projectors, aliens, keys, broken windaes all to get ready in time for the Big Burns Supper
Yes, after months of deliberation; eureka moments, several shoogly nailed marriages, shortfalls in monies, no monies, no ideas, awful ideas and finally super, nay super dooper ideas and enough monies to cover our costs, the First Foot show is finally about to kick off.
First out of the traps is ‘Windows for Burns Night’, a project that transcends time and place and asks contemporary poets to emulate the hard Bard Burns and speak of their own time via the medium of melinex and a permanent marker.
The results of this project, created by venerable Stovies Hugh Bryden and Dave Borthwick, have been a great success with established poets grabbing permanent markers and making free with the odes. Hugh, working with the primary school pupils in and around Dumfries has produced some sublime poems which are displayed throughout Dumfries. The collected works can be seen in the windows of the Robert Burns House museum, the Globe Inn, the Coach & Horses and on mass in the windows of The Stove.
Poetry is often a respite from the hubbub of daily life, so it was nice to notice in Dumfries today, not hordes of Doonhamers clamouring to read the poems, but a few people pausing to take a few moments out of their shopping experience and the dreich weather, for a contemplative moment or two.
Here are some of the treats that await you all between now and the 31st of January*
and finally from one our younger poets, Joanne Hiddleston.
* The poems on the Stove windows will be taken down on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings for the First Foot projections.