LeithLate14 returns for a fourth year in an expanded format, with a full weekend of art, music, film and spoken word. There are over twenty-five venues with newcomers Collective on Calton Hill, Embassy Gallery, Gayfield Creative Spaces, Vision Mechanics and Coburg House Art Studios joining the mix.

Coburg House Studios

The festival continues its visual art focus with a showcase of Ugandan contemporary art festival KLA ART in two photography installations. There’s also painting, video, sculpture, illustration, photography, collage, printmaking, performance, textiles and jewellery. Don’t miss internationally exhibiting Berlin-based Edinburgh artist Andrew Gilbert’s paintings and sculpture at his Settlement Projects charity shop installation.

Monument to Andrew the Zulu Queen – Andrew Gilbert

LeithLate are also curating a special outdoor exhibition with Leith Walkers which captures the characters of Leith Walk. Take part in the exhibition by having a photo snapped at the LeithLate mobile photo booth.

Leith Walkers

Get around the festival by jumping on the bespoke LeithLate vintage red London bus and enjoy travelling to different venues in style with the occasional live music performance (Saturday only).

Rhubaba Choir

Music continues to play an important role in the festival. Holy Mountain will headline at the Saturday night afterparty venue along with SAY award-nominated Adam Stafford and others. William Douglas and King Creosote will perform on Sunday at the LeithLate Bruncheon. Be sure to check out the Rhubaba choir and the live music at Elvis Shakespeare.

Bruncheon

LeithLate 14 will take place on Saturday 21 June from 5pm-10pm and on Sunday 22 June from 12pm-5pm. For more details see the LeithLate website.

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LeithLate is delighted to announce the second phase of the highly successful Shutter Project, a public arts initiative in Leith, Edinburgh that matches up emerging artists and local Leith businesses to create a bespoke work of art, to be displayed on the shutter of the business outside opening hours. The second phase of The Shutter Project will involve the installation of a further 3 artworks in addition to the existing 6 artworks completed to date.

The first shutter artwork will be installed by Omar Zingaro Bhatia, (winner of The Skinny Award at the RSA New Contemporaries in 2010), whose Spuriosity Shop installation in Leith Walk Barbers was a highlight of LeithLate13. Omar recently completed a 19m long mural in a Roma/Gypsy village in the far north of Hungary. His Leith artwork will be on the shutter of Café Nemrut, a Turkish restaurant based at 255 Leith Walk. Work will start on the first shutter in Feb/March 2014, with the remaining two shutters (artist/venue as yet tbc) to be completed prior to the LeithLate14 event in June.

Games Master – Jamie Johnson

Origano – Rich and Simon

Word Of Mouth – Fraser Gray

For full details on the completed shutters to date, please visit Leith Late website.

All images copyright Eoin Carey.

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