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Scott Begbie: Festival will bring soul back to the city centre © DCT Media There is a real art to creating a vibrant city centre… and real art is at the heart of it. So you can imagine my delight on hearing Nuart is returning to the Granite City next month. Not next year, not at some date in the future, but in just a matter of weeks. Now, that has to be one of the best bits of news we’ve had since we started this oh so slow process of coming out from the long grind of lockdown. It means we...

AS we begin to take our first, tentative steps out of lockdown, all manner of works that fell victim to coronavirus restrictions are now being brought out of mothballs. One of the most intriguing projects is Restless Worlds, a self-defined “kinetic sculpture artwalk” that was held over from the 2021 edition of the annual Manipulate Festival of puppetry, visual theatre and animated film. The pandemic has had a nasty habit of dashing hopes, and so it was with the desire of Manipulate to b...

Restless Worlds is an outdoor installation and artwalk from Puppet Animation Scotland – part of the Manipulate Festival A UNIQUE cultural project opens in Scotland this week offering the public a Covid-safe arts experience post lockdown. Opening in Edinburgh on Wednesday before moving to Aberdeen and Glasgow, Restless Worlds is an outdoor installation and artwalk from Puppet Animation Scotland. Part of the Manipulate Festival, Restless Worlds had to be postponed because of the recent lo...

Updated: April 1, 2021, 4:41 pm © Supplied Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An “extraordinary” kinetic sculpture trail will arrive in Aberdeen for 11 days next month – and city art bosses say it will mark a return to people enjoying arts in the city centre. Restless Worlds will see moving installations in windows...

Discover a ‘diverse world of adult puppetry’ says Perth-born arts festival director Puppet Animation Scotland CEO Dawn Taylor. Related Content “The themes tend to be thornier and we have a lot of risk-taking work,” says Dawn Taylor of Manipulate Festival. When Dawn took on her leadership role at Puppet Animation Scotland last August, she had no idea if the company’s annual puppetry festival would even go ahead in 2021. Yet, in the midst of a second lockdown, Manipulate Festival has la...

preview The world premiere of Eat Me, a filmed performance by theatre company Snap-Elastic, has been pushed back to next year LATE every January arts lovers are treated to Manipulate, Edinburgh’s annual festival of visual theatre and animation. Wonderfully diverse, exciting and international in its programming, the event is a welcome distraction from the winter blues. However, this year, with Covid continuing to plague our society, the festival’s organisers have had to make big changes....