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Interesting news from around Scotland
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Thirty of Scotland's furniture makers take over Dalkeith Palace
Scotland's biggest contemporary furniture show is back at Dalkeith Palace this weekend. Thirty of the country's leading designer-makers are bringing the latest work out of their workshops, furniture, sculpture and woodwork, all of it laid out in the rooms of the palace itself. Every piece is for sale, so if you've ever fancied owning something properly made rather than flat-packed, this is the place. It runs Friday 5th to Sunday 7th June, 10am to 4pm, and there's no booking, just turn up. Mimi's Bakehouse is doing a pop-up café inside the palace for the duration, so you can have a cake and a cup of tea while you mull over a chair you can't quite justify. The palace is part of Dalkeith Country Park on the edge of Edinburgh, run by Buccleuch, so you could easily make a day of it with the park and trails too.
Today
A medieval well beneath Glasgow Cathedral, and what came out of it
St Mungo's Well sits in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral and dates back to the 13th century. Last year, as part of Glasgow's 850th celebrations, the arts collective Aproxima excavated it for the first time in living memory, working with Glasgow University archaeologist Professor Stephen Driscoll and David Sneddon of Clyde Archaeology. The one-day dig pulled up dice, rings, glasses and coins from around the world, and shed a bit of light on the city's medieval roots and its old traditions of pilgrimage and healing. The well has since been fitted with a glowing mosaic by Aproxima and artist Joanna Kessel, designed by James Johnson, made from over a thousand handblown glass tiles from Venetian makers Orsoni, each inlaid with gold leaf. A new exhibition, From Well to Wellspring, now tells the whole story and displays the finds. Free entry. It's at Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 54 Bell Street, Wednesday to Friday until 18 September. The mosaic itself is free to view in the Cathedral crypt during opening hours.
Today
Giant puppets to parade across the sands at St Ninian's Isle
A carnival of twelve-foot puppets is heading for the tombolo at St Ninian's Isle this month, and the organisers want folk to join in. It's the work of local artist Alex Purbrick, who's spent months running workshops to build the puppets and their costumes, with a music score from the children of the Bigton Collective and dancers from the Shetland Community School of Ballet. The figures are drawn from island folklore. Gryla the ogress of the wild hills, her consort Flukler the wizard giant who lived on Fetlar, a njuggle called Nessa, and the Norse serpent Jormungandr. Straw-clad skeklers too. Purbrick took the idea from a Cornish collective, The Lost Giants, who've been doing this for thirty years. The free parade runs 2-4pm on Sunday 28 June. Around 50 to 60 people have already had a hand in it, and they're after a few more, including, as Purbrick puts it, "two strong folk" to be the legs of the giants.
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Lewis crannog turns out to be 5,000 years old
A wee island in Loch Bhorgastail on Lewis has been hiding its real age. Researchers from the University of Southampton and Reading mapped the crannog using stereophotogrammetry, stitching photos taken from different angles into a 3D model, and found the thing started life as a circular timber platform about 75 feet across, topped with brushwood. Neolithic pottery scattered around it dates that first build to roughly 5,000 years ago, somewhere between 3800 and 3300 BC. Later generations kept adding to it. More brushwood and stone in the Bronze Age, then an Iron Age stone causeway, now underwater. The pottery hints it was a spot for cooking and feasting. Crannogs were always thought to be Iron Age or later, so this pushes the story back a good 2,000 years.
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Ann Oram Leads New Garden Show in Morningside
Morningside Gallery has a summer exhibition worth catching. Into the Garden opens on Saturday 6th June and runs for just over a fortnight, gathering new paintings from a host of Scottish artists working in their own back gardens and well beyond. The centrepiece is a feature on Ann Oram RSW, marking her 70th birthday year. She paints flowers she finds rather than buys, from Kew to a roadside verge thick with cow parsley. It's a lovely premise. Director Eileadh Swan reckons it'll be a special one, and she's probably right.
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