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out of the blue is a multi-arts venue committed to providing space for a range of community arts activities including exhibitions, classes, rehearsals, special events, meetings, performances, markets and festivals.
SPECIAL EVENTS DETAILS
The Village Store
Every Saturday
10am - 2pm
Free entry
We sell a range of ethical goods including fresh, local and seasonal fruit and vegetables, eggs, jam, cakes and Ecover refills. We can also provide you with lots of cooking tips and recipe ideas to keep your taste buds happy all week!
All our products are sourced from local farms, suppliers and producers.
Why not start your weekend with a relaxed visit to the Drill Hall - you can pick up some tasty bits and pieces at the Village Store and stop for a coffee at the Drill Hall Arts cafe.
Tinker Tailor
Every Saturday
10am - 2pm
Free entry
Got something that needs fixed? Starting this Saturday at the Drill Hall…Tinker Tailor - where you get things fixed and learn to be a fixer!
This Saturday come and meet our trusty sewing machines and our wonderful tailor-ess who will help you make those well loved threads as good as new! More fixers coming soon! Every Saturday from 10am - 2pm at the Drill Hall.
A festival food event at the Drill Hall Arts Cafe
Thursday 5th August
7.30pm - 10.30pm (last sitting 9pm)
We are delighted to invite you to a special festival event of the World Kitchen in Leith in collaboration with the Drill Hall Arts Cafe.
Come and celebrate the fantastic variety of cultures and flavours in our part of town.
Choose your own 3 course fusion of seasonal home-made world foods. Scottish, Irish and Indian Starters. Indian, African and Middle Eastern main courses. Multicultural home-made cakes and seasonal fresh fruits.
[We will offer vegetarian, meat and fish options]
£15 for three courses
£12 for two courses
Bring your own bottle (£2 corkage)
Booking in advance is essential but if we can't fit all of you in on the 5th we will hold a second event on 19th August with a new selection of home-made world foods.
To reserve a place please contact us by 2nd August
Email: leithopenspace@btconnect.com
Phone: 0131 556 4646
or alternatively you can book via the Drill Hall Arts Cafe in person or by phone 0131 555 7100.
Clax Youth Theatre presents
Tangents
Saturday 7th August
11am & 4pm
£3.50 (no concessions)
This is a drama set & performed in a real working café. This is an invite for you to eavesdrop - you're allowed!
Stories of friendship tested, emerging, long lasting. The various plots were devised by many young people through improvisations then scripted by Clackmannanshire Writer In Residence Tom Murray, these stories demanded to be told in no ordinary way!
We're a theatre company for the community with young actors drawn from all over Clackmannanshire. Come and join us for this short half hour play and enjoy a cuppa and a cake from the cafe.
Info and bookings:
Alison Young 01259 763953 alisonyoung@clacks.gov.uk
Thursday 12th August
7pm - 9pm
£9
Barbara Rae painted an acclaimed portrait of Lord Prosser. In a unique and fascinating event, Dr Duncan Thomson interviews both painter and sitter. This event is brought to you as part of the 2010 Edinburgh Arts Festival.
Info and Bookings: Linda McLeish admin@artinhealthcare.org.uk
Bruncheon! Featuring the Sound of Muesli
Saturday 14th August
11.30am - 3pm
Free entry
Brunch and live music event at the Drill Hall Arts Café. Local musical talent and DJ's creating a chilled out atmosphere alongside delicious home-made café food in the open space of the Drill Hall. From mellow to dance-able, from solo performers to polyphonic choirs …
The Land and the Sea: Alastair Cook
Friday 30th July - Saturday 14th August (excluding Sundays)
10am - 5pm
Free entry
Alastair's film and photographic work is guided by his knowledge, skill and experience as a conservation architect. His work is rooted in place and the intrinsic connections between people, land and heritage. This exhibition, his first major solo-show in Edinburgh, draws on several powerful photographic series from throughout his career that reflect these influences.
The Land and the Sea is an exhibition of black and white 35mm film photographs documenting Alastair's photographic and artistic response to the people, heritage and lands of our eastern seaboard. It draws together work from his solo show Sutherland | Caithness, exhibited at Timespan in Helmsdale earlier this year, alongside new work detailing the hinterland between land and sea, along the east coast from Edinburgh to The Holy Island of Lindisfarne. Alastair, in a recent profile by Creative Boom, offers insight into his working practice:
"My work is centred on the immediate; I try to reflect what I see, what I feel, through this lens. I try to avoid image manipulation, letting the film or 35mm negative be raw and honest. This often makes for dark and derelict imagery, but often tinged with positivity, with a move forward."
Giles Sutherland, in his review of Sutherland | Caithness for Hi-Arts Magazine states:
"Alastair Cook's black and white photographic images of Caithness and Sutherland - shot on 35mm film and hand-printed - repay close attention…[they are] carefully composed and conceived studies which use the camera's framing eye to convey rich metaphor and a sense of quiet, spiritual wonderment."
As well as still imagery, Alastair works extensively with film media and moving image. His recent projects include MALIN III, a 35 minute film with a score composed in collaboration with cellist Luca Nasciuti. It was premiered live at the Roxy Art House in June and is being screened with live cello accompaniment throughout Europe this summer. Working in collaboration with established poets, Alastair also produces short films of their work, regularly publishing his new films on his website, www.alastaircook.com
If you would like to hold your own class, use the studio for rehearsals or are looking for a venue for your an event of your own please see our book a space page.
Disclaimer: While we make every effort to ensure that information regarding events is up-to-date and accurate, details can change without notice. We advise to contact event organisers directly to confirm all details.