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But that’s so traces of pride and independence September 23 - October 23 IN OUR LAST ISSUE we took examples where statistics were used Berwick-upon-Tweed, binoculars passé , so Hollywood, so then and remain. Aberdeen Stone: Featuring Kate Thomson and ABERDEEN ART GALLERY & Hironori Katagiri. the BBC to task over its failure erroneously or in misleading ways and microscope to hand, there. Now, the question is, can MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor preparing for the forthcoming The future? It’s Berwick, such steely qualities help it forge 01224 523 700 Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, to “hold the ring” and referee by guests on programmes and were Closed for major renovation 01561 360 118 discussions and debates where not challenged by presenters.” Berwick Film and Media Arts where artists screen films that a better future? Which is where ABERDEEN MARITIME Original art and paintings by Kate MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, MacKenzie opposing views were pitched against The report went on to suggest Festival, which runs from muddle and cross borders, hinting the Berwick Film and Media 01224 337700 SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, Syl- September 21 to 25. at facts and unseen connections Arts Festival comes back into Until September 18 lavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, AB33 one another. that “audiences were unsatisfied The Festival theme, X, denotes beneath the fiction, fleeting the picture. Lucy’s work focuses Battle of Jutland. Small display 8AQ, 01975 562 273 We wrote that the BBC of all with statistical claims being pitched of letters THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH a vote, a kiss, a mystery, or, like images, traces, memories. on links between educational, Until January 14 2017 LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird Head, bodies should have been confident against one another in a ‘he said, Alexander Christie. Toys and Games. Was that a goshawk flying by? political and social issues. Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, 01346 enough to stand up to possible she said’ format “without providing Berwick, a crossing place where Portrait 511 022 artists meet and share. I’m in St Too late now. Gone. After “Search She explores how society GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle Purpose-built museum with multi- bullying and state the facts as they any kind of ‘refereeing’ voice.” Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, screen technology. Scotland’s first Aidan’s Hall with other volunteers Film” I watched “Writers’ Group”, might do things better, www.galleryheinzel.com lighthouse, built 1781. Open all year. demonstrably were. (Had Dame Jil been reading Contemporary Scottish art Check holiday opening times so that, when you all descend on by Lucy Parker, artist-filmmaker, confronting, challenging, This had a particular relevance ArtWork?) Until September 24 PETERHEAD MARITIME HER- Berwick for five days of cinematic in residence in Berwick this unveiling the unseen and Mixed Summer Exhibition. ITAGE, South Road, Peterhead, to the EU referendum, where The report further stated October 1 - November 5 AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 and artistic wonder in September, summer, jointly supported by unknown. Like “The Home and Peter Dworak, Margaret Evans & Experience Peterhead’s maritime life the Leave side in particular were that… the BBC had to do more to we can help you to see what you BFMAF and Berwick Visual Arts. the World”, filmed over two years Shazia Mahmood. past and present allowed to get away with murdering challenge statistics “when they’re GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, Rob- GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- want. A group of novice, aspiring in a rural care home, which raises ert Gordon University, Garthdee ping Centre, Constitution Street, the facts to support their very being used in a misleading way”. We’re watching “Search Film,” writers share new work. It’s fundamental questions about what Road, AB10 7QD, www.rgu.ac.uk/ Inverurie, AB51 4UY about/faculties-schools-and-de- THE MILL OF UDNY, The Mill, tenuous case. (“£350 million a week And “audiences need guidance by Duncan Marquiss, where it’s gripping, tense even. A writer is meant by a caring society. partments/faculty-of-design-and- Udny, Pitmedden, AB41 7RQ, to spend on new hospitals” - etc.) on understanding the weight of often what you can’t or don’t see myself, I’m drawn in. So good are In illusioned, Brexit Britain technology/gray-s-school-of-art 01651 842 429 ARTS CENTRE & THEATRE HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, Ellon, There is every likelihood that evidence rather than being left that tells the story. I’m learning Lucy’s actors, I don’t realise they power and influence can seem (ACT) ABERDEEN, 33 King AB41 7EQ Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 635 208 the BBC caved in to bully-boy unguided in what can seem to be about the vital role of adaptation are acting, and forget that this is a detached, spinning fiction. Artists COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden THE ART GALLERY, Grampian Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, tactics from the Leave side – who confusing and conflicting statistical in natural selection, the film.