Donald Murray's Gaelic play about an island teacher's crisis of conscience after the First World War is to be seen in Ireland, London and Belgium after its run at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
Sequamur is produced by Gaelic arts agency Proiseact nan Ealan, and is the story of William Gibson, headmaster of the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, who encouraged many of his pupils to volunteer to serve in the "Great War" and lived to unveil a plaque in memory of the 148 of them who lost their lives.
As well as the playing London's Notting Hill, the other dates have particular resonance, being near the battlefield of Ypres in Belgium and remembering the soldiers of the Dublin and Munster Fusiliers who died alongside gunners of the Ross Mountain Battery at Gallipoli in Turkey. The show is at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh from August 18 to 24.
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The Southbank Centre in London has announced a programme of summer folk concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, which begins with a concert by Peggy Seeger on Saturday June 6. On Sunday July 5, there is an 80th birthday celebration for Shirley Collins in which she is in conversation with Stewart Lee before an evening of her music where Alasdair Roberts is one of the performers. Another highlight is the visit, on August 1, of the virtuosic Punch Brothers, where Rachel Sermanni is the support.
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Glasgow Film Festival has announced that the winner of the 2015 Margaret Tait Award is Glasgow-based artist Duncan Marquiss. Marquiss will receive a £10,000 commission to create a new piece of work, and the opportunity to present this work at Glasgow Film Festival in 2016. Supported by Creative Scotland and LUX, the Award is for experimental and innovative artists working within film and moving image.
Margaret Tait (1918-1999) (pictured) was an Orcadian filmmaker and writer whose film poems, hand-painted animations, and documentaries were pioneering in the field of experimental filmmaking.
Duncan Marquiss graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2005. He said: "The Margaret Tait Award is very significant to me at this time as it will allow me to make a film that I would not be able to otherwise realise, and is also a big encouragement for me to keep making work in future.
"I'm humbled to receive it as all of the shortlisted artists are excellent. With the commission I plan to make a film exploring analogies between natural evolution and the evolution of music. Provisionally entitled Evolutionary Jerks and Gradualist Creeps; Playing the Fossil Record, the film will also focus on a debate between two competing models of evolution and the political ideologies that underpin them."
2014 Margaret Tait Award winner Charlotte Prodger screened the world-premiere of Stoneymollan Trail at Glasgow Film Festival 2015.
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