YES Arts Festival 2015

Diary of Events 9 – 19 September FESTIVAL OFFICE open daily at La Contea, by courtesy of the County Hotel, with information, tickets, competition forms, and voting slips for your favourite New Border Ballad. celebrating creative work in Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk

From Wed 9 11am - 4pm Trace exhibition 1 Tower Street 11am – 4pm Landscapes exhibition The Studio on the Green 10am – 5pm Moonwatching exhibition Forest Bookstore 10am – late Willie Muirhead exhibition County Hotel (all FREE) 9, 11, 13, 16, 18 2pm – 5pm James Hogg exhibition Ettrick School (FREE)

Thu 10 7.30pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra Victoria Halls £16, £14, £5

From Thu 10 Souter Stormers various locations

Fri 11 leaving 6.30pm Car Treasure Hunt Country Store, Selkirk Details of £10 YES Arts Festival Sat 12 – Sat 19 2pm – 6pm Hail and Farewell exhibition Clapperton Studio and associated w/e 12pm – 6pm FREE events in Selkirk Sat 12 – Sun 20 11am – 4pm Beyond the Shutter The Haining and the valleys of £1 Sat 12 & Sun 13 12pm – 4pm Helen Douglas open studio Deuchar Mill Ettrick and Yarrow Sat 12 & Sun 13 12pm – 4pm Robert Maguire open studio Ettrickbridge 9 – 19 September 2015 (both FREE)

Mon 14 – Fri 18 12pm – 4pm FESTIVAL OFFICE open daily

Tue 15 2.30 & 7.30pm Poetry Challenge Read-a-thon County Hotel (FREE) Wed 16 7.30pm John Nichol & friends - Aroond the Bleezin’ Ingle Yarrowfeus Hall £10 Fri 18 1pm John Nichol & friends – Aroond the Bleezin’ Ingle County Hotel £12

Sat 12 10am – 5pm Yarrow & Ettrick Show Carterhaugh

Sat 19 1.30pm Poetry Challenge Awards Bowhill House (by invitation) Sat 19 2.30pm Bravura Ballads Bowhill Theatre £10 Sat 19 4pm & 7pm Borderlands Bowhill House (FREE) Sat 19 7pm Ethel Maude in Conversation The Haining

POETRY EXHIBITIONS

Poetry Challenge – The People’s Prize Trace New Border Ballads poets in the Scots language – Mary Morrison, Clare Money, Inge Panneels The public also have an with work ranging from a The valleys of Ettrick and opportunity to cast their vote virtuosic translation of The This small but beautifully formed exhibition shows Yarrow were the cradle of and select their own prize- Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam, the work of three artists whose artworks are all many of the finest of the great winner from the shortlisted to verses penned during his informed by maps and mapping. The title of the Border Ballads. The entries. Copies of the shortlist residency in Ettrick as James exhibition refers to the investigative nature of their challenge for poets in 2015 are available to read at Hogg Fellow in 2013. work – tracing old, perhaps forgotten vestiges of was to bring that tradition into Rogersons Newsagents, the culture, which have formed the Borders landscape. the present day by writing a Selkirk Library, the Courtyard ballad set within fifty years of Cafe, or the Waterwheel, with Mary Morrison is an artist based in Selkirk whose 2015. The ballads had to voting slips to be completed work ‘investigate the relationship between the adhere to the convention of by Thursday 17 September. individual and the landscape that has shaped them, telling a story, have a something you carry with you – a geography of the structure of regular metre and YOUR VOTE COUNTS! mind’. rhyme, and a length of between 20 and 200 lines. Much of her work is inspired by relationships between They could be written in Read-a-thon the written word – poetry in particular – and image, and some works respond to the contemporary Scots Local residents also have Gerda Stevenson – actor, geopoetical writings of Kenneth White, and the Sufi (including Border Scots, Teri, two opportunities to listen to a writer, director, singer and poet Rumi. dialect) or live recitation of the whole song writer – won first prize in

English (including shortlist presented by John the inaugural YES Arts Clare Money is an artist who reworks old maps: Northumbrian and Cumbrian). Nichol, Janet Coulson and Festival Poetry Challenge in ‘In working with erased maps I aim to examine others, with voting slips 2013, and has more recently how we communicate what is no longer; how do we The competition attracted gathered in at the end of each won acclaim for a new album tell of lost places?’ entries from across the UK, session. of self-penned songs, Night with final honours awarded by Touches Day. Her current work is topical, as it investigates the now a judging panel drawn from Scott’s Hall, County Hotel, some of the top names in UK Selkirk abandoned Riccarton railway junction, part of the old poetry and literature – Rab Waverly line to – now partially re-opened as Tue 15 Sept, 2.30 & 7.30pm Wilson, Luke Wright and FREE the new Borders Railway.

Gerda Stevenson. This year’s Inge Panneels has been mapping as a means to challenge proves that the Bravura Ballads ballad form is still alive and get a sense of place, as part of her ongoing Map-I The three judges of the New well in the 21st century. project. The works in this exhibition were informed by Border Ballads take to the an artist-in-residency at Jedburgh Abbey in 2012. stage to share some of their The Awards Ceremony Photo Steve by Ullathorne own work, in poetry and song. Selkirk formed the site of the very first Borders abbey, The Duke of Buccleuch hosts of which four remain, so it is fitting to show these four this year’s Awards Ceremony Performance poet and works on the site of the fifth and original abbey – the at Bowhill House. Prizes will broadcaster Luke Wright has exact location of which remains disputed. be awarded for the best updated the traditional ballad ballads selected by the panel form into a witty, bawdy style 1 Tower Street, Selkirk of judges, and for the most to suit contemporary stories. Wed 9 – Tue 15 Sept popular work chosen by His work is described as 11am – 4pm members of the public. ‘visceral, poignant and

riotously funny.

Bowhill House Bowhill Theatre, by Selkirk

Sat 19 Sept, 1.30pm Sat 19 Sept, 2.30pm (by invitation only) Ayrshire-born Rab Wilson is one of the country’s foremost £10

EXHIBITIONS CABARET MUSIC

Landscapes and Seascapes Aroond the Bleezin’ Scottish Chamber Karine Polwart Patricia Sadler & Helen Tabor Ingle Orchestra at the String Jam Club

An unmissable opportunity to Based in the , Patricia For the past 15 years, The orchestra pays a Sadler draws inspiration from the land American tourists have been welcome return visit to enjoy an evening in the and seascapes of Northumberland, the entertained by John Nichol, Selkirk, under the baton of company of the Queen of Iain Fraser and Gordon Ben Gernon. The concert Scottish folk music. Scottish Borders, ’s west coast and the Hebridean isles. Kelly, as part of an annual includes Rakastava by Songs of Scotland tour Sibelius, Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ She paints in a free and fluid style using organized by Texas-based Symphony, and a watercolour, acrylic and mixed media, folksinger and radio presenter performance of Mozart’s Horn always searching for an emotional Ed Miller. Concerto featuring the response which leads the mind beyond orchestra’s award-winning what the eye perceives. Now local audiences get the Principal Horn, Alec Frank- Patricia’s work is widely collected, and chance to see the Gemmill.

Friends of Ed, and enjoy has feature in both solo and group The evening starts with the their entertaining mix of Karine’s debut album exhibitions throughout the UK. premiere of a new work by traditional stories, songs and Faultlines won three awards Borders composer Chris fiddle tunes. at the 2005 BBC Folk Awards Achenbach, commissioned to and the follow-up, Scribbled in Helen Tabor is a painter who lives and celebrate the opening of the Chalk, included the song works in the Borders. Born in Middlesex, Borders Railway. The work is Daisy which won Best Helen studied English and History at York written for wind quartet and Original Song in the 2007 University, then spent a number of years Border pipes – with Borders- BBC Folk Awards. teaching in the UK and in the Himalayas based piper Matt Seattle before settling in Scotland in 1992. joining four SCO musicians Her latest CD Traces was

for the performance. shortlisted across all genres Since then she has concentrated on her in the Scottish Album of the career as a painter (as well as rearing Year Awards 2012, as well as three children), exhibiting widely in the winning the accolade of UK, Germany and Denmark. All her Yarrow Feus Hall, Yarrow Album of the Year from The work is oil on canvas or board, with Wed 16 Sept Guardian and The Sunday subject matter varying according to what 7.30pm Herald. she finds inspiring at the time – usually £8 landscapes, seascapes, and images from ‘For me’ says Polwart ‘music her travels. As an alternative to the is one of the most powerful Chris has titled his piece evening performance, you ways of making sense of the The Studio on the Green Lament and Flourish – world. It’s for celebrating, can enjoy the company of recalling the sad demise of 19 The Green, Selkirk Friends of Ed over a light grieving, sharing, wondering.’ Wed 9 – Sat 19 Sept local railways under the lunch at the County Hotel, Nothing inspires me more 11am – 4pm Beeching cuts, as well as upstairs in Scott’s Hall. than the realization that any celebrating the success of one of my songs means those who’ve campaigned for Scott’s Hall, County Hotel, something to someone else.’ many years to bring trains Selkirk back to the Borders. County Hotel, Selkirk Fri 18 Sept, 1pm Sat 12 Sept, 7.30pm £12 (includes soup and roll) £15 Victoria Halls, Selkirk phone 01750 721233 Book in advance for either Thu 10 Sept, 7.30pm to book in advance performance at the Festival £16 (£14, £5) Office in La Contea, open tickets available Mon 14 – Fri 18, 12 – 4pm from Rodgersons

DANCE EXHIBITIONS

Dudendance presents Hail and Farewell Moonwatching James Hogg Borderlands Johnny Gailey and The Tom Heatley Exhibition Clapperton Trust This production was created Recent works from the artist in 2014, the year of the For over 140 years, four take as their axis ‘moon Scottish Referendum, and generations of one family watching’ and an illuminating performed within four Border worked from the same thought from Maurice Merleau- Abbey sites at Jedburgh, Victorian Daylight Studio in Ponty’s writings on perception: Kelso, Melrose and Dryburgh, Selkirk. This exhibition pays ‘Vision en-counters as at a as well as for the Queen’s tribute to the photographers, cross-roads all the aspects of Baton Relay in . and to the family that being’. continued to run the studio

Borderlands draws on the as a museum for 20 years juxtaposition of spirituality and until its closure earlier this The valleys have a very war, contemplation and year. important literary conquest. The history. James Hogg, often phantasmagorical figures Archive material is shown called The Ettrick Shepherd, could be seen as colonising together with a set of spent his entire life in the the landscape, or fleeing from contemporary screen printed Ettrick and Yarrow valleys. a place of conflict. The work interpretations by His most famous work, The does not aim to impose itself based artist Johnny Gailey, These large series prints have Private Memoirs and or represent specific events, The exhibition is the last both graphic ground- play and Confessions of a Justified but to show a kind of chance to see the studio, airy, filmic surfaces. Estuary, Sinner, is important in simplicity that makes people and the images from the calendar and cosmos drift in Scottish literature. He was a aware of the spaces around archive in situ. and out of sight/mind. lifelong friend of Sir Walter them. Scott, who aided his career Forest Bookstore, as a writer wherever possible. Heather MacCrimmon’s Market Place, Selkirk costumes are inspired by Wed 9 – Sat 19 Sept Poetry, portraits and other paintings of the Renaissance 10am – 5pm memorabilia are included in – combining historical dress, Dudendance ad lib this engaging exhibition. armour and ecclesiastical Visitors to The Haining in Selkirk might catch some early wear in garments designed glimpses of the Dudendance performers the previous Valley Views Ettrick School, TD7 5JA for free-flowing movement weekend, as they work on extracts from the Borderlands Willie Muirhead 9, 11, 13, 16, 18 Sept, and shape-shifting. performance at various locations around the house and 2 – 5pm grounds. The Clapperton Studio in front of Bowhill House, 28 Scotts Place, Selkirk by Selkirk around The Haining, Selkirk Sat 12 – Sat 19 Sept, Sat 19 Sept, 4pm & 7pm Fri 11 / Sat 12 Sept 2 – 6pm FREE FREE (weekends 12 - 6pm)

A big THANK YOU is extended to all those who have provided funding A selection of new work by a and support for this year’s festival – especially the Duke of Buccleuch, local artist who draws his County Hotel, Andrew Elliot, Lochcarron, Selkirk Regeneration inspiration from the Company, Souter Stormers, Studio on the Green, several anonymous Selkirkshire countryside. donors, many volunteers, and all the artists and venues involved. Lounge Bar, County Hotel, Selkirk Wed 9 – Sat 19 Sept FILM OPEN STUDIOS VISUAL ARTS ON THE ROAD

FILM SCREENINGS SPECIAL SCREENING Open Studio Souter Stormers Car Treasure Hunt

Improbable Cinema Ethel Maude in Helen Douglas The Haining Workshop Conversation Scottish Borders Tilters invite An invitation to visit Deuchar you to test your knowledge of Mill, where the artist has lived, This special screening is Borders culture, history and worked and created artists’ devoted to exploring the literature in twenty challenging books for 40 years. Helen collaborative practices of opens her workshop to show but fun clues. Ethel Maude, a collective visitors the presses, explain of artists, designers and the working process and filmmakers based in discuss her work with those Edinburgh. interested.

It features their The films in this programme experimental video work Look out for a series of colourful and creative installations, celebrate our local film-makers Exquisite Corpse, which in and around Selkirk, Ettrickbridge, and the Yarrow Valley. and the diversity of works adapts the rules of a Each of these original, colourful and crafty items has been produced within the Moving Surrealists’ game involving custom-made by a member of Souter Stormers using a Image Makers Collective. a folded paper onto which variety of techniques and lots of vivid imagination.

each member of a group This is a rolling programme of draws a body part. Thirty miles of driving through Deuchar Mill around thirty short to medium stunning Borders scenery. near Yarrow Kirk, Yarrow length films – step in and out at Followed by prize-giving with Sat 12 & Sun 13 Sept any time and expect to be pies, refreshments and raffle, constantly surprised! 12 – 4pm plus late shopping available at Country Store, Selkirk on Filmmakers include: return Open Studio Joy Parker, Jason Baxter, Robert Maguire Jules Horne, Grace Connor, Various outdoor locations Wed 9 Sept – Wed 28 Oct Limited to thirty cars, so Chris Maginn, Jessie Growden, In his career as an architect, pre-booking strongly Frank Brown, Dorothy Robert Maguire rethought the recommended Alexander, Patrick Rafferty, The Haining, Selkirk design of student housing, as Sheep in Shops

Jason Moyes, Eileen Sat 19 Sept, 7pm well as the planning of Why not forget about picking up the usual loaf of bread and Entry forms from Rodgersons Cummings, Kenny Mitchell, churches for modern bottle of milk, and indulge in a little sheep shopping instead? Newsagent, Selkirk. For Sara Clark, Kirsty Jobling, workshop. He now has time Lots of little sheep may be found in the window display of further information email Kerry Jones, Tony Gulvin, to pursue his passion for many of Selkirk’s shops, and they need to be rounded up by [email protected] Julie Witford, Richard Ashrowan, abstract sculpture, and opens some keen-eyed children – any time after 7 September. Narda Azaria Dalgleish. up his studio to show current Anyone aged 12 or under can pick up an entry form from the Fri 11 Sept The Bird & The Monkey work in progress. Festival office in La Contea, match the sheep’s names with a leaving at 6.30pm number and identify each shop which has a hidden sheep. £10 per car First three correct entries drawn will receive a prize.

Hopewater House Ettrickbridge, TD7 5JN

Sat 12 & Sun 13 Sept 12 – 4pm Selkirk shops Mon 7 – Fri 18 Sept (hand in entry forms by 3pm) FILM FILM

Beyond The Shutter FILM INSTALLATIONS Yarn of the Forgotten: Celluloid Dreams Fugacious: Tibbie Tamson Unbound Jason Moyes Addressing Sarahjane Swan & Roger Swan The Cottage - downstairs Ephemerality a.k.a The Bird & The Monkey left Sam Christopher Cornwell The Haining Library The Cottage – downstairs right

Technology has allowed us to FILM INSTALLATIONS send and share imagery at a Some Room faster and more transient Kerry Jones pace. Fugacious explores The Haining Morning Room one inevitable yet ridiculous This textural piece utilises nirvana we are headed for. The Borders-based Moving Image Makers Collective, Enter a room through a door / a mid-20th century home a film-making group of thirty members, presents a Leave by a door movie to explore the Spying some or no detail / ‘By Haining Loch, beneath the deterioration of the programme of over twenty locally made films and ten dark’ning skies, what raging moving image installations at The Haining. Leaving with impressions of American dream. our own making. storm beyond the shutters lies?’

The site specific installations – situated in the house, A sideways look at the Victim or plague or murders? minutiae of everyday life cottage and outbuildings – offer a uniquely cinematic Unravelling the yarn of Selkirk’s vision of grassroots creative renewal in the Borders. or an ‘obsession with the Tibbie Tamson, buried on un- ordinary’. Subjects range from folklore to punk aesthetics, the consecrated ground in 1790. haunting of Tibbie Tamson to the mercurial mysticism of feathers. Property is Theft The Hope Andrew Forsythe & Tony The Haining, Selkirk Narda Azaria Dalgleish Gulvin Sat 12 – Sun 20 Sept The Haining Dining Room Mercurius The Cottage - upstairs left 11am – 4pm Richard Ashrowan £1 Realisations:time / timelessness, The Cottage - upstairs right colour / colourless. Film Strip FILM INSTALLATIONS Chris Maginn A single channel installation Forest 2 The Haining stairwell depicting old archive footage of

Jessie Groden Hawick and the Scottish A series of unconnected Borders, with some insights from The Haining entrance impressions, moods and interviews with alumni of ideas contributed by several A day in the life of an Chisholme House, and some of artists and edited by Chris anarchist squatter, living in This film is an exploration into winter the film-maker’s poetry. Maginn. A substantial the Scottish Borders. A film installation celebrating in Craik Forest. Filmed entirely on an contribution to the hollow, the mercurial nature of us all, iPhone, the tall and narrow space for echoing coffers of MIMC will The video installation is through a mysterious finding images creates a new way of get you your very own copy of accompanied by a Tony encounter with feathers. composing images. The film is an film strip. Gulvin film. attempt to challenge the idea of ‘deep Within alchemy, the rising of dark woods’ as a scary place the spirit vapour from heated that is dark and haunted. mercury was often depicted

using images of feathers.