Penicuik’s wee Arts Festival

Saturday 29th August – Sunday 6th September.

Events will take place at venues around town

Penfest OPEN EXHIBITION for the Penicuik Turner and People’s Choice prizes

Entry forms and Artist packs can also be picked up from the CAP notice board on the left as you enter the Storehouse.

Provisional Penfest Programme

Hand in entries for the Penfest Open Exhibition for the Penicuik Turner and People’s Choice Prizes. Artist packs will be available soon (online and in the Storehouse).

 – Open Exhibition for Turner and People’s Choice Prizes

 – Voting for People’s Choice

 – Community Drawing project with Morag Donkin

– “Pop-up” Open Studios. This will be a chance for local artists who don’t have a studio of their own to open, or whose studio isn’t in Penicuik, to display some of their work along with other artists’ work. Please email exhibitions.communityarts.gmail.com for details of renting table and display space.

 – Giulia Drummond in concert – Giulia is a locally resident singer-songwriter from Brazil. Her musical background global, from Afro-Brazilian chants to celtic music, Bhuddist and Hindu mantras, Hebrew and Sephardic music, By exploring these different music traditions, she also explores the languages, singing in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Gaelic, Latin, Hebrew, Haitian Criollo, Yoruba, Ladino…

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKxgd4qgGfA3o-xbnugs-w

 – Penfest Closing event and exhibition prize-giving

 – Artist collect their work from a CAP representative near the exhibition area in the Storehouse

 – Penfest Open Studios trail – weekends and participants to be confirmed

 – Penicuik Silver Band Penfest concert: venue, date and time to be confirmed