Linder: A kind of glamour about me
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 7 Aug, 6pm
EAF25’s opening event takes Sir Walter Scott’s definition of “glamour” as illusory magic and uses it as a springboard to discuss creativity’s massive metamorphic potential. Feminist artist Linder uses a neo-Gothic mansion on the Isle of Bute as an aesthetic reference.
Lewis Hetherington + CJ Mahony: who will be remembered here
EAF Pavilion, 7-24 Aug, 10am-5pm
Performances by queer writers in four different languages (Scots, Gaelic, English and BSL) respond to Historic Environment Scotland sites, in a film that makes visible the marginalised experience of erased peoples. Featuring work by Robert Softley Gale, Harry Josephine Giles, Robbie MacLeòid and Bea Webster.
Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass
St Giles’ Cathedral, 9 Aug, 8pm
Scottish Ensemble performs a Pulitzer-prize winning composition by Diné/Navajo artist and composer Raven Chacon. A powerful piece about the Catholic Church’s complicity in the silencing of indigenous voices, and the abduction and abuse of indigenous children, in the Americas.
JUPITER RISING X EAF25
Jupiter Artland, 16 Aug, 6pm
The iconic Jupiter Artland’s one-night-only festival, driven by artists, reimagines its unique landscape as a place of myth and folklore. With lights, DJs and site responsive performances, the event showcases the best of Scottish and international talent, including Glasgow DJ TAAHLIAH, performance artist Florence Peake and queer nightlife darlings Ponyboy.
UÝRA: Espiral da Morte
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 Aug, 2pm
Trans-Indigenous biologist and performance artist UÝRA presents a work that translates as Death Spiral, about natural phenomena that mirror Brazil’s indigenous storytelling traditions. How do ants’ shared memory systems parallel oral histories in diaspora communities and beyond?
Aqsa Arif: Raindrops of Rani
Edinburgh Printmakers, until 2 Nov, times vary
This Edinburgh Printmakers exhibition draws on Pakistani folklore and imagery from the childhood of multimedia artist Aqsa Arif to reimagine intergenerational traumas in a hopeful and resilience-building light: sites of rupture that can nevertheless lead us back to our roots.