OUTWITH 3-8 SEPTEMBER 2019 DUNFERMLINE’S FESTIVAL OF NEW TALENT FILM. COMEDY. MUSIC. THEATRE. ART. LITERATURE. WWW.OUTWITHFESTIVAL.CO.UK DUNFERMLINE’S FESTIVAL OF NEW TALENT WELCOME TO DUNFERMLINE’S OUTWITH FESTIVAL 2019 After the success of the Festival over the last two years, the 2019 programme has grown again. We’ve added another day with the festival kicking off on Tuesday 3 September and running until Sunday 8 September. Headliners Idlewild are joining us for the live music day on Saturday, there’s some cool movies at our pop up Dunfermline Filmhouse and there’s a great line up of theatre, art and literature. It’s just a wee walk between venues - the whole festival is in Dunfy town centre. Fair braw, tell your Maw! Our festival of new talent has exceptional local writers and performers appearing beside national and international names. SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER! Outwith is brought to you by with Fire Station Creative, Avocado Sweet and Write Rammy. We would like to thank Festival supporters and the huge team of volunteers who help keep costs for the event as low by possible by dedicating their time, skills and knowledge for free. 3 OUTWITH EVENTS DATE. TIME. VENUE. COST. TUESDAY DAY TIME GENRES SHOW VENUE COST / AGE EVENT DESCRIPTION TUES 10.30pm Tour Welcome Walk Start beside Free Join our Town Ambassadors 3 – 7 – Carlucci’s All ages. for a 45 minute stroll around SEPT 11.30pm Restaurant Children Dunfermline’s Heritage Quarter must be for an introduction to the town’s accompanied unique past. by an adult TUES 10am – Art Where Am I? Cafe Wynd Free Collect your map from Cafe 3 – 7 4.30pm Art Trail All ages. Wynd and find all the characters SEPT Children on Dunfermline’s Art Trail. must be accompanied by an adult TUES 3 7pm – Talk / Leids o Fife / La Menta Free Paul Kavanagh, who writes SEPT 9.30pm Workshop Cànanan nam 16+ the Wee Ginger Dug column literature Fìobha for The National, talks about Scots, Gaelic and other Celtic languages in Scotland and what the language of maps tells us about ourselves and our country. TUES 3 7pm – Talk Pecha Kucha DCL&G £3 Fascinating rapid-fire illustrated SEPT 10pm All ages talks by people contributing to cultural life in Fife. TUES 3 8pm – Comedy / Steven Dick Cafe Wynd Free Join Steven Dick, award winning SEPT 9.30pm Theatre Comedy Writing 16+ comedy writer, originally from Workshop Dunfermline, for a hands on workshop uncovering the craft of the professional comedy writer. Suitable for writers, stand-ups, playwrights or anyone who wants to learn more about the techniques used by comedy professionals. Stephen worked on Have I Got News For You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Live at the Apollo. He co-wrote BBC radio sitcom Saddled and four stage plays for Glasgow’s Play, Pie and a Pint. 4 For tickets and more information visit: www.outwithfestival.co.uk WEDNESDAY WED 4 10am Art Shamanic Fire Station Free Paintings, collages and – SUN 8 Exhibition Creative All ages sculptures from the arts collective SEPT who will also perform Shamanic live at the festival. Art by Maria Rud, Fay Fife, Martin Metcalfe, Ewan Allinson. WED 4 11am – Tour A long time ago City £6 Starting at the City Chambers SEPT 12.30pm in Dunfermline Chambers All ages in the Kirkgate, take a guided Toun walk through the streets of Dunfermline. WED 4 11am – Literature Author School: Gillespie Schools Author School: Creative Writing SEPT 1pm Coo Clayton Centre Event for primary school kids with P3 bestselling children’s author Coo Clayton. WED 4 7pm – Literature Gaelic Poetry Cafe Wynd £5 Peter Mackay is a poet, SEPT 8.30pm for Grown Ups! 16+ broadcaster and lecturer from the Isle of Lewis. WED 4 7.30pm – Comedy It Just So Andrew £5 Four panellists deliver short sets SEPT 9.30pm Happened – Carnegie 16+ based around an event which an alternative Birthplace happened on the same date as history show Museum the show (4 September) at some point in history. THURSDAY THURS 10am Literature The Waterstones FREE Where do mermaids work? What 5 SEPT - 11am Waterstones Bookstore, 6 to 9 years job suits a giant? How does a & 1pm - Event: Kingsgate cyclops earn his money? Get the 2pm Children’s answers to these all important Author Justin questions as you join Justin Davies Davies, author of Help! I Smell A Monster, and step inside the only job agency for monsters in Scotland. Discover how Justin came up with his monstrous cast and find out why he thinks writing funny stories can help change the world. THURS 10.15am Film Nae Paseran DCL&G £5 Felipe Bustos Sierra’s acclaimed 5 SEPT All Ages documentary charts the incredible true story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. (2018) OutwithFestival @outwithfestival 5 THURSDAY (CONTINUED) THURS 12.15pm Film Whatever DCL&G £5 Ageing child star Jane Hudson 5 SEPT Happened to (Bette Davis) is left to care for her Baby Jane? wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford). Stuck together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier while Jane devises a way to get rid of her sister. THURS 1pm – Literature Jonathan Gillespie £5 From crafting characters to the 5 SEPT 3pm Whitelaw Centre 15+ perils of plotting, this workshop Author School: with author, Jonathan Whitelaw Creative Writing offers an introduction to teen for Teens scribes starting out on their writing journeys. THUR 5 3.15pm Film Shoplifters DCL&G £5 Palme d’Or-winning drama about SEPT 15 a Japanese family of crooks who rescue a little lost girl from the streets. A ‘satisfying and devastating gem’, Shoplifters adds another powerful chapter to director Hirokazu Koreeda’s rich filmography. In Japanese with subtitles. (2018) THUR 5 5.45pm Film Connect: DCL&G £5 Connect is an ambitious heartfelt SEPT (introduced by 12 attempt to confront suicide Director Marylin among Scottish men. Brian Edmond) (Kevin Guthrie) has lost someone close to him. Outwardly, he keeps calm and carries on until care-home owner Jeff (Stephen McCole) becomes a source of support. Moments of optimism clash with dark despair in a strikingly filmed tale shot in North Berwick. THURS 6pm – Art Outwith Erskine Free Outwith Festival is proud to 5 SEPT 9pm Contemporaries Building All Ages welcome to Dunfermline five of – SAT 7 (Sat 1pm Art Exhibition Scotland’s brightest young visual SEPT - 6pm) artists, all of whom have links to Fife. Photographers Emmanuele Centi and Craig McIntosh, painters El Mugid (Ben Rogers) and Louisa Livingstone and sculptor Katie Strachan will show their work in the atmospheric setting of a converted church building. Preview party with live music is at 6pm on Thursday 5 September - all welcome. The exhibition is then open from 6pm-9pm on Friday 6 September and 1pm-6pm on Saturday 7 September. Entry is free. 6 For tickets and more information visit: www.outwithfestival.co.uk THURSDAY (CONTINUED) THURS 7pm – Comedy Mirth of Forth – Royal British £5 This ever popular stand-up 5 SEPT 8.30pm Five Fifers for Legion 16+ comedy showcase returns to a Fiver Outwith, giving you the chance to see five of the best acts on the Scottish circuit who are all from or living in ‘the Kingdom’, and all for just £5. The full line-up will be announced via social media. Previous line-ups included Scottish comedian of the year finalists Ross Leslie and Stuart McPherson. THURS 7pm – Storytelling Stories o’ Fife La Menta £7.50 Glamourie are two traditional 5 SEPT 9pm and Beyond 14+ storytellers, and a harp, telling traditional tales woven with Scots, Gaelic and a wee bit magic. THURS 7pm – Theatre Prepare to Carnegie £10, £8 Back by popular demand after 5 SEPT 9pm be INSPIRED – Hall annex All Ages last year’s SELL OUT show! Again! concession, INSPIRE Drama as part of Carers go Cutting Edge Theatre brings you free another fantastic fun filled variety show where our performers showcase their talents. Prepare to laugh, prepare to cry, but most of all prepare to be INSPIRED! THUR 5 7.30pm Art Calum Colvin: Andrew Free Calum Colvin (born Glasgow, SEPT Behind the Carnegie 18+ 1961) is a Scottish artist whose Layers Birth Place work combines photography, Museum painting and installation. Colvin will talk about some of his favourite works and unravel the meanings behind them. He will also touch upon his project at the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum. THUR 5 7.30pm Theatre Jennie Lee: Monarch £3.00 Knights Theatre presents a SEPT – 9pm Tomorrow is a Bar, Upstairs 16+ work-in-progress rehearsed New Day (Work reading of a new play Tomorrow in Progress Is a New Day by Matthew Reading) Knights which will explore the personal and political life of famous Fifer, Jennie Lee. THUR 5 8.15pm Film Amazing Grace DCL&G £5 Electrifying concert film directed SEPT All Ages by Sydney Pollack featuring a 29 year old Aretha Franklin recording her live gospel album at a Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Franklin’s family decided to release the previously unseen film after the singer’s death. OutwithFestival @outwithfestival 7 FRIDAY FRI 6 10am Film Last Breath DCL&G £5 In 2012, diver Chris Lemons lay SEPT 12 trapped under the North Sea, his umbilical cable completely severed, leaving him without breathing gas. Docu-drama Last Breath recreates his story in this heart-stopping, nail-biting drama.