Once. Once upon a time… Once. But in another time, not this time. Another world, not this one. We have entered another world, another time. An ethereal world, outside the boundaries of space and time. (Ether is the substance that angels are made from…) Once upon a time there was… A pair of angels looking […]

Chewed bread sculpture, swanee whistles, upside down bicycles, Casio keyboards, record decks, cardboard constructions, dragons – and an out-of-breath middle-aged man with his trousers round his ankles. What more could you want of a Thursday lunchtime in Edinburgh? The Castle Builder is a show celebrating outsider art and ‘otherness’ in art-making. The celebration is in […]

Mexico: fiestas, salsa dancing in the street, big sombreros, jolly Mariachi bands, tasty enchilladas. Rewind. Mexico: women working 12-hour shifts in factories making parts for iPhones, fighting off the headache they get from not drinking water, because if they drink they need to pee, and if they leave their work station they are sacked. Police […]

Imagine a time capsule, to be buried deep in the ground; or sent out into deep space, perhaps. What would you put in it? A snatch of Mozart? A dash of the Blues? Japanese Koto? Children’s drawings? Photos of works of art or architecture? Scientific formulae? Poetry? A letter from Albert Einstein? A letter from […]

We live in a lovely town with parks and shops and very good schools. We have fathers who work hard as doctors and farmers and butchers, and we have pretty smiling mothers. Our school is School Number One – the biggest and best school in the town. We have a lovely big gymnasium – see […]