🚨 Reminder: DEADLINE THIS SUNDAY Applications for our Time + Space programme close this Sunday 14 December at 5pm! Get your application in by then to be considered for our early-career artist development and exhibition opportunities. buff.ly/6xAQlyt

⌛ Announcing our new open programme: Time + Space Applications are now open for Time + Space 2026, our new programme for early career artists in Scotland. Deadline: Sunday 14 December, 5pm. Apply now: buff.ly/6xAQlyt

Time + Space Programme

Time + Space offers two routes designed to suit different levels of experience. Both opportunities combine learning and professional development with a significant exhibition opportunity.

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📜 Missing all the summer art events? Get your tickets now for our Black History Walking Tour on Saturday 8 November at 2pm – led by author, poet and founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association, Lisa Williams. buff.ly/glU66vM

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Buy tickets for Black History Walking Tour at Collective

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👣 As a resident of our Panorama programme, Lucas Priest will lead participatory walking games exploring an expanded panorama on Calton Hill on Saturday 25 October, 2–4pm.

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Buy tickets for A Slice of Life at Collective.

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⛰️ Join us at our event tonight (Thursday) at 6-8pm, celebrating the launch of our new exhibition, 'Highland Embassy' by Shen Xin. Please note, refreshments will be served inside Hillside Gallery to protect you from the weather!

In this week's Zap events guide, Culture=Life: Palestinian Artist Programme in Edinburgh, Safar Film Festival at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social and Mercedes Azpilicueta's new show at @collective-edin.bsky.social www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do...

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The Refugee Week-curated Culture = Life: Palestinian Artist Programme comes to Edinburgh this week

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📣 Notice: we’re closed today (32.05.25). Thanks for your understanding - we’ll be back soon!

📣 Introducing Cafe Calton, opening June 2025 New partner Cafe Calton is joining our special site in the City Observatory this summer. The vibrant day-to-evening café will offer morning coffees, hearty breakfasts, small plates and healthy takeaway options.

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📣 New exhibition announcement! Mercedes Azpilicueta: 'Fire on the Mountain, Light on the Hill' 20 June – 7 September 2025 Part of Edinburgh Art Festival: 7 – 24 August 2025 📷: Daniel Nicolas

💖 Reminder: exhibition tours this week On Thursday and Saturday, our Associate Producer David Upton will be hosting free tours of Jerwood Survey III! Thursday 10 April, 5:30-7pm Saturday 12 April, 11am-12 noon Book now: buff.ly/PIZ9jlk 📷: Paul Andrews

📣 UPCOMING EVENTS: Free exhibition tours of Jerwood Survey III on Thu 10 Apr 5.30-7pm and Sat 12 Apr 11am-12pm. Led by David Upton, Associate Producer, these informal tours will offer an introduction to some of the exhibition's key themes and selection of works. Booking required: buff.ly/PRV37PQ

Free Exhibition Tours | Jerwood Survey III

Curator-led tours with David Upton, Associate Producer at Collective. Book now, limited places available.

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In the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social library we watched Ruth Ewan & Ian Saville & Regina Ohak’s @collective-edin.bsky.social short film, _The Beast_ ruthewan.com/the-beast/ It dissects Scots-American Andrew Carnegie’s responsibility for the strike-breaking Battle of Homestead, 6 July 1892.

"Rejects institutional modes of exhibition-making" JERWOOD SURVEY III at @collective-edin.bsky.social takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display

Jerwood Survey III @ Collective, Edinburgh: Art Review – The Skinny

This group exhibition at Collective takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display.

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🌔 Watch the partial solar eclipse this Saturday with a livestream by @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social at our Cooke Telescope in the City Observatory! If you're visiting us on the day, safe viewing solar eclipse glasses will be available for use. Livestream: buff.ly/Pjgx58h

Partial Solar Eclipse livestream from Calton Hill Edinburgh

Using the historic 6" McEwan Cooke telescope in the Playfair Dome.If the weather allows. 10:08 – 12:06 GMT

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🎨 UPCOMING KIDS EVENT: Friday Play on 28 March, 1.30-4pm Inspired by MV Brown's film 'System of Touch' in our Jerwood Survey III exhibition, we will make self portrait marionette puppets and short green screen films. Free and drop in — just dress for the weather!

Friday Play: Spring Season

Designed for families with children aged 5-12 years, Friday Play is a chance for kids to engage in loose parts play and outdoor art activities.

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Tickets still available for our panel event tomorrow! Artist Aqsa Arif will be in convo with her collaborating dancers and choreographers, discussing folklore, hybrid identities and archetypes of South Asian women in Aqsa’s work ‘Marvi and the Churail’.

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💬 UPCOMING EVENT: Panel discussion with artist Aqsa Arif in convo with her collaborators on Thursday 27 March, 5:30–7pm. They will discuss the process of making and the ideas informing Aqsa’s work 'Marvi and the Churail', which features in our current exhibition Jerwood Survey III.

💬 UPCOMING EVENT: Panel discussion with artist Aqsa Arif in convo with her collaborators on Thursday 27 March, 5:30–7pm. They will discuss the process of making and the ideas informing Aqsa’s work 'Marvi and the Churail', which features in our current exhibition Jerwood Survey III.

Panel Discussion with Aqsa Arif, Nandini Manjunath and Himadri Madan

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Jerwood Survey III is open until 4 May! This major biennial touring exhibition presents new commissions by of the most outstanding 10 early-career artists from across the UK today, providing a snapshot of current artistic concerns and approaches in the visual arts. bit.ly/jerwood-surv...

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