Lauriston Lectures 2015 Final

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Welcome toLauriston CastleFor more than 400 years, enchanting Lauriston Castle off Cramond Road South. Lauriston Castle is easy tohas overlooked the River Forth at Silverknowes, near reach from all main routes. It sits between Davidson’sCramond. Set among 30 acres of woodland and beautiful Mains and Cramond. You can take numerous buses togardens, Lauriston Castle is a special place to visit. Davidson’s Mains, or Silverknowes Terminus; both areThe charming old glasshouse, set into the woodland, around 10 minutes walk from Lauriston Castle. See www.is a perfectly magical place to enjoy our programme of lothianbuses.com for details of local services.garden events, art activities and craft workshops. As theweather turns colder, we move indoors into the old Castle Bookingkitchen where you will get a cosy welcome and lots ofcreative inspiration. Pre booking and advance payment are essential for allThe Castle itself has a beautiful Edwardian interior, from events. To book contact:which we take inspiration for many of our workshops. Online: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’Downstairs are the servants’ quarters, including the By phone: 0131 228 1155 (Opening hours: Monday-maids’ hall and the atmospheric old kitchen, where a Saturday 10am-5.30pm)warm welcome awaits you during the winter months. In person: Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EAWhy not double up a day visiting the Castle grounds with (Monday-Saturday 10am-5.30pm)a picnic, and historic Cramond is right on our doorstep...Free car parking is available within the Castle grounds For further information (non booking information) about any event, contact Margaret Findlay, Public Programmes Manager on 0131 529 3963 or [email protected]

To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EALectures Tuesday 21 July, 10.30amLecture mornings cost £8 and include a special tour of the On ReflectionCastle and coffee and cakes. Our lecture experiences aretruly unique and intimate, and you often get a chance to Victoria Crowe will give an illustrated talk exploring thesee parts of the Castle not usually seen by the public. Our relationship between her early paintings from the 70s, tolectures are hugely popular. work produced for the last Edinburgh Festival exhibition. From the landscape of the Scottish Borders, a life observed,Take advantage of our lecture deal – book 10 lectures at the influence of Italy and the genesis of the recenta special price of £60. tapestry, Large Tree Group, gifted to the National Museum of Scotland, the artist will share her thoughts and traceTuesday 26 May, 10.30am the development of her work. Victoria Crowe OBE, DHC, MA(RCA), RSA, RSW studied at Kingston School of ArtDruids, Knights and Fairy Folk: Scottish Art and (1961-65) and then gained an MA from the Royal College ofthe Celtic Revival Art in 1968. She now lives and works in Scotland. Victoria is one of Scotland’s most distinguished artists and portraitists,Spearheaded by the utopian thinker and sociologist Patrick and examples of her work are in the National PortraitGeddes, the Celtic Revival coincided with a period of Gallery, London; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery,cultural renaissance in Scotland. This lecture will focus on Edinburgh; and the Danish National Portrait Gallery, as wellartists such as E.A. Hornel, George Henry and John Duncan, as in many public and private collections worldwide includingwho drew their inspiration from Celtic myths and legends, those of The Royal Academy and HM the Queen and theas well as from recent archaeological discoveries and the Duke of Edinburgh.stylised forms of Insular manuscripts such as the Book ofKells. Dr Frances Fowle is Reader in History of Art at the Monday 3 August, 10.30amUniversity of Edinburgh and Senior Curator at the ScottishNational Gallery. She is a specialist in 19th century art The Penicuik House Projectand the author of Van Gogh’s Twin: the Scottish Art DealerAlexander Reid: 1854-1928 (2010) and with Strang and Take a journey through the family history and the history ofCumming S.J. Peploe (2012). the building of Penicuik House by Sir James Clerk (3rd Bt), to its subsequent  destruction by fire and its consolidationMonday 20 July, 10.30am as a ruin by the Trustees of the Penicuik House Preservation Trust. Sir Robert Clerk (11th Bt) recently retired fromThe Natural History of Blue John practice as a Chartered Surveyor and Land Agent. Along with other members of his family he owns and manages PenicuikBlue John is a banded variety of the mineral fluorite that is Estate, which includes farming, forestry and recreationalonly found near Castleton in Derbyshire. It has been worked activities for members of the public. He is a Trustee of theinto ornaments since the late 18th century, and Lauriston Penicuik House Preservation Trust and Lord-Lieutenant ofCastle houses outstanding collections, assembled by Midlothian.William and Margaret Reid, of Blue John vases, urns, tazzasand bowls. Most veins of Blue John have now been worked Monday 10 August, 10.30amout and the mineral is in very short supply. ConsequentlyBlue John artefacts are very valuable and highly collectable. An Enthusiasm for Looking: The Art ofThis lecture will show how Blue John formed and acquired Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004)its remarkable purple colour, and will be followed by aviewing of the Lauriston Castle Blue John collection. Godfrey The Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham had aFitton is Professor of Igneous Petrology at the University of professional career that spanned over 60 years. Born inEdinburgh. He obtained his PhD at the University of Durham St Andrews and trained at Edinburgh College of Art duringfor work on the Borrowdale Volcanics in the Lake District, the 1930s, she relocated to Cornwall in 1940, whereand has since worked on volcanic rocks in many parts of she became closely associated with the St Ives School.the world. Barns-Graham is usually considered within this context, as a member of the British modernist movement, working alongside Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost. Yet she was also a bold and innovative artist



To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EA John Duncan ‘Saint Bride’ 1913, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh in her own right. This lecture provides an introduction to Friday 21 August, 10.30am her life and work, tracing her career from her early student days to the colourful abstract images she produced in her The Briggers: The Story of the Men Who Built mid 80s. Barns-Graham’s dual identity as both a Scottish the Forth Bridge artist and a St Ives artist will be explored, in addition to the remarkable breadth of her creative output. Helen Scott is For the first time, more than a century after its opening, Curator of Fine Art for Edinburgh Museums and Galleries. the Briggers gives the Forth Bridge a human voice. It tells Previously she worked for the Barns-Graham Charitable the story of the Briggers, the name given to the thousands Trust, conducting the first ever full inventory of artworks by of men who built the bridge – who they were, where they Wilhelmina Barns-Graham held by the artist’s estate. came from, what working and living conditions were like and what their impact was on the sleepy communities below the Wednesday 12 August, 10.30am immense structure. It reveals the ultimate sacrifice made by many men and boys whilst labouring to build this amazing Four Houses, Three Families, Two Countries, structure. This intriguing lecture reveals the incidentals One Collection – The Buccleuch Collection of everyday life that make the story much more than the construction of one of the world’s great engineering feats, The Buccleuch Collection is regarded as the best collection from the daily commute from Edinburgh by workers’ train of fine arts still in family ownership in Britain, in respect and boat to the 200 pints lined up on the bar of the Hawes of its quality and range. It is still seen, often in the very Inn at the end of a shift. With the Briggers Team. room for which pieces were commissioned or purchased, in Boughton House, Bowhill and Drumlanrig Castle, the extant Wednesday 9 September, 10.30am historic houses of The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. The care and display of, and access to The Collection will be Forensic Medicine in Edinburgh: Historical discussed in a richly illustrated lecture by the Director of the Origins and Subsequent Historical Sphere of collection. Gareth Fitzpatrick MBE is The Collections, Archive Influence and Research Director for the Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust. Professor Anthony Busuttil will take you on a journey through the intriguing world of forensics in Edinburgh, and the role of Wednesday 19 August, 10.30am the forensic medical expert in the investigative team that is assembled to deal with sudden, unexpected and suspicious Shackleton’s Geologist: the Life and Works of deaths. Professor Anthony Busuttil is Regius Professor of Sir James Mann Wordie Forensic Medicine – Emeritus, Forensic Medicine Section – Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh and One hundred years ago, Shackleton’s ship Endurance Professor of Applied Pathology, Emeritus, Royal College of sailed to Antarctica and became stuck fast in the ice of Surgeons of Edinburgh. the Weddell Sea. The story of the crew’s survival on the sea ice for months, their boat journey to Elephant Island, Monday 21 September, 10.30am and subsequent rescue by Shackleton has become the stuff of legend. Among the crew was Scottish geologist In Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and James Wordie, whose influence changed the face of polar the Great War exploration. His personal collection of books and papers forms the heart of the polar collections at the National David Forsyth explores the relationship between Scottish Library of Scotland. NLS curator Paula Williams draws on migration, military traditions and emerging national that collection to tell his story. Paula Williams is Curator of identities within the British empire. Emigration has been an Maps, Mountaineering & Polar Collections at the National ever-present theme in Scottish history. In 1914, as the world Library of Scotland. A degree in geography with options in prepared for war, thousands of men enlisted in Scotland for glaciology and cartography, and a background in community military service, and across the British empire and beyond, libraries are combined in Paula’s perfect job. It allows her to thousands more of Scottish birth and descent joined up. develop her interest in maps, exploration and discovery. David Forsyth is a Principal Curator in the Department of Scottish History and Archaeology at National Museums Scotland.

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To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EA Lara Vischi Photography www.laravischi.com Tuesday 22 September, 10.30am Wednesday 30 September, 10.30am ‘Altho designed Merchant in Eymouth… Mr A Clearer Light: Lord Hailes and the Scottish Nisbet himself was a professed smuggler’: The Enlightenment Smuggler John Nisbet, his suppliers and his customers Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, was very much a man of his time. ‘His time’ was no ordinary time, however. He was Gunsgreen House in Eyemouth is perhaps the finest born to an important Scottish family during a period when monument to smuggling in the country. Designed by John Scotland was just emerging as one of the most influential Adam for the merchant/smuggler John Nisbet in the early nations in Europe. But like his native land, Lord Hailes was 1750s, it symbolises Nisbet’s dominance of the local not to become influential through great political power or smuggling trade between about 1750 and 1780. This lecture enormous wealth, but rather through the power of ideas.  will explore Nisbet’s connections with merchants overseas, His was a time when Scotland, and in particular Edinburgh, especially in Gothenburg, and with the people he supplied was reshaping the world with new ideas in law, history, in Edinburgh, Newcastle and Leeds. Nisbet moved on the literature, philosophy, economics, medicine and science. If fringes of the Enlightenment and causes one to consider the the Edinburgh of Lord Hailes was ‘the capital of the mind’ centrality of smuggling to the supply of luxury goods in this he was one of its intellectual senators, and his house at period. Derek Janes is undertaking postgraduate research Newhailes was ‘a mansion of the mind’. Mark McLean into smuggling in South East Scotland at the Centre for is Learning Officer for the National Trust for Scotland at Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter. After Newhailes. He researched and co-curated the exhibition ‘A a career as a social historian in museums and – latterly – a Clearer Light: Lord Hailes and the Scottish Enlightenment’ manager in Edinburgh’s Culture and Sport service, Derek which opened at Newhailes in 2013. became the first Manager at Gunsgreen House, from which he retired in 2013. Friday 9 October, 10.30am Monday 28 September, 10.30am The Fascination of Jewellery: Important Women Collectors National Trust for Scotland Walled Garden Case Studies Clare Blatherwick focuses on four women and their amazingly diverse jewellery collections – Evalyn Walsh An assessment of the Trust’s walled gardens. Robert Grant McLean, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Elizabeth Taylor has designed several new heritage gardens including the and Madeleine Albright. She will look at some of their key model 17th century garden at Culross Palace, Fife and pieces as well as the motivations of these avid collectors. the Garden of Scottish Cultivated Fruits at Fyvie Castle, Clare graduated from St Andrews University where her Aberdeenshire. He has also redesigned the South Walled dissertation was on the use of naturalism in the work of Garden at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. He has also undertaken Fabergé. She completed her gemmological qualifications a number of smaller commissions and has project managed whilst working for a gemstone merchant in London, before several historic garden restorations. In 1991 he won a returning to Scotland in 2008 and becoming Head of the Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal for a model parterre Jewellery & Silver Department in Scotland for Bonhams, garden based on the NTS Pitmedden Garden, Aberdeenshire, the international auctioneers and valuers. She maintains and for four years he wrote a weekly gardening column a strong interest in the academic and historical side of her for Scotland on Sunday newspaper. Robert Grant is the subject. National Trust for Scotland’s Head of Gardens & Designed Landscapes and has 35 years of horticultural experience.  Tuesday 3 November, 10.30am He trained at RHS Wisley and at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and has also worked in commercial horticulture The Houses of the Old Cramond Parish Part 1: and with the Parks Department in Brighton, East Sussex. The Development of the Barnton Estate This talk will outline the development of the Barnton Estate from the late 1500s to the present day. We will look at ownership and show how the estate developed through time, and show how the owners were the most influential

Vincent Van Gogh ‘Farms near Auvers’ 1890, Tate, London. On long term loan to the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.in the ‘Old Cramond Parish’ and had the ‘right’ to appoint Tuesday 10 November, 10.30amthe Minister of the Church of Cramond from 1597 until theDisruption in 1843. We will then explore how the passing of The Houses of the Old Cramond Parish, Partthe Ramsay family led to the changes that we witness in the 2: The History of the Muirhouse Estate –area today. Bill Weir is a retired Civil Servant. In retirement Muttonhole Revealedhe has given more time to the Cramond Association and hasundertaken work researching the Mansion Houses of the Old This talk will outline the development of the estate from theCramond Parish in conjunction with Cramond Heritage Trust time of King Robert I to the present day. The speaker willand their archive team. look at ownership, outline some of the stories, successes and failures, and tell how social development saw the oldMonday 9 November, 10.30am village of Muttonhole become known as Davidson’s Mains. Bill Weir is a retired Civil Servant. In retirement he has givenDaubigny to Van Gogh: The Artists’ Colony of more time to the Cramond Association and has undertakenAuvers-sur-Oise work researching the Mansion Houses of the Old Cramond Parish in conjunction with Cramond Heritage Trust and theirVan Gogh spent the last two months of his life at Auvers, archive team.a picturesque village on the river Oise known for its rollingwheatfields and quaint thatched cottages. This talk focuses Wednesday 4 and 11 November, 10.30amon the development of Auvers as a bustling artists’ colony,initially under the leadership of the artist Charles François Ballads, Songs and Snatches: Exploring theDaubigny, whose house and garden Van Gogh painted, world of Gilbert and Sullivanand latterly under the collector and amateur artist DoctorGachet, a close friend of Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne. Please note each lecture must be booked separately.Dr Frances Fowle is Reader in History of Art at the University In this two-part lecture you will learn how the world-famousof Edinburgh and Senior Curator at the Scottish National partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan created their universallyGallery. She is a specialist in 19th century art and the popular series of comic operas. You will also be able to hearauthor of Van Gogh’s Twin: the Scottish Art Dealer Alexander some extremely rare recordings and view some original 19thReid: 1854-1928 (2010), and with Strang and Cumming century memorabilia from the original productions. AlanS.J. Peploe (2012). Borthwick has sung leading tenor roles in operas ranging from Poulenc to Puccini as guest artiste for companies throughout Scotland. He is the only singer ever to have performed all the tenor roles in Sullivan operas – including those written without Gilbert – and he has recorded many

To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EAof these roles for leading record companies. For some years Please note that children cannot be booked into workshopsnow Alan has been in demand as a professional director alone; at least one adult must accompany them. Since ourand has directed shows annually in the King’s Theatre, workshops are family experiences the price is per adult andEdinburgh. per child.Wednesday 18 November, 10.30am Please also note that people do book very early for events much later in the year. If you fancy a particular ChristmasWilliam Morris: Artist, Designer, Entrepreneur, workshop, book as soon as the programme comes out,Socialist because these workshops get booked especially fast.By the end of the 19th century, William Morris (1834-96) Murder Mysterywas acknowledged as the most influential designer of hisday, with followers across Britain, in Europe and in the USA. Saturday 28 November, 7-10.30pmMany of Morris’s textile and wallpaper patterns are still inproduction nearly 120 years after his death, and his ideas A Wreath for the Laurelson the relationship between art and life continues to raisedebate and to inspire contemporary artists. This talk will £30 (with refreshments)provide a brief survey of Morris’s work in a broad range of Come along and immerse yourself in the Edwardian era andmedia and will look at some of the ways in which he has had help solve a murder mystery. A funeral wreath is delivered toa continuing effect on later generations. Annette Carruthers the Laurels, but puzzlingly no-one is dead... yet. Come andrecently retired from the School of Art History at the exercise your skills as a detective and solve an EdwardianUniversity of St Andrews. Her book on The Arts and Crafts murder. With Edinburgh Living History, our award winningMovement in Scotland was published by Yale in 2013 and group of Living History performers.she is currently working on a book about Ernest Gimson, oneof Morris’s most fervent admirers.Special Events and Special Events - FamilyFamily and Adult CraftExperiences Sunday 17 May, 11am-2pmAdult Workshops and the Unique Family A Sporting Chance at Lauriston CastleLearning Experience at Lauriston. £4 per personThe Lauriston events programme is open to everyone. Join us for a day of fun at Lauriston Castle exploring historicWe offer a separate adult craft programme which is games and competing for prizes. On our beautiful lawnsvery popular. Family Workshops which are labelled as explore a bygone era of fun sports and see some Edwardians‘family’ have something to offer the full age spectrum – join in. Indulge in ginger beer and strawberries and creamfrom toddlers to teenagers and grannies to grandpas! – classic summer croquet treats. Evoke the magic of timesOccasionally, depending on the workshop, a minimum age gone by ...limit is set. We encourage families to work together and offera unique family learning experience. All of our artists are Sunday 28 June, 11am-2pmvery experienced in working with a variety of age ranges. Ourworkshops offer excellent value for money, and during each The Teddy Bears’ Picnicworkshop you will use only the best quality art materials. Asnack is also provided. £6 per person A special family day at the Castle. Bring your teddy bear along and have a picnic with us in our enchanting garden. There will be crafts and woodland trails. A special cartoonist will be there to draw a portrait of your bear. Remember to bring a picnic. We will provide cake, strawberries and ginger beer! With the Lauriston team and a few special guests.



To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EA Friday 24 July, 10am-12 noon or 1-3pm Special Events - Everyone The Edinburgh Sketcher ‑ Sketching for Sunday 10 May, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm Families ‘Uptown Abbey’ Lauriston Above and Below £5 per person Stairs We are delighted to offer a special family session with the famous Edinburgh Sketcher. In this sketching tour, you Adult £5 (£6.50), Child £3 (£4.50), Family £12.50 (£17) will get the chance to learn speed sketching skills and (price in brackets includes afternoon tea) time saving solutions which will enable you to capture the Join Edinburgh Living History, our award winning troupe of world around you in ink and watercolour, no matter how Living History interpreters at Lauriston Castle – Edinburgh’s long you have.  You will make the most delightful drawings very own hidden Edwardian gem. This is a unique chance to and be inspired to do more in the future – a very special observe life in an Edwardian house. Meet the Reids, their opportunity. staff and some special guests as they go about their daily lives. Sunday 4 October, 10.30am-12.30pm Friday 15 May, 7.30-9pm In the Kitchen with Mrs Mash Edinburgh Renaissance Band at the Castle £6 per person Sir Archibald entertains at Lauriston Join Mrs Mash the Storytelling Cook for stories, songs, games and food fun for all the family. £15 (with refreshments) Hear tales in the kitchen, make some home-made butter Around 1593 Sir Archibald Napier, master of the Scottish and add your own creative input to some very special fairy mint, ordered the construction of a tower house at cakes... Lauriston. At this time the court of King James VI supported a rich cultural life in Edinburgh; Scottish poets and Sunday 25 October, 10am-1pm composers collaborated with writers and musicians from England, France and Italy. This programme presents a Halloween at the Castle selection of vocal and instrumental music which might have been performed in the newly built Lauriston Castle in 1600, £6 per person using authentic replicas of the instruments of the time. This A slightly different structure to our usual events...come all event is presented in partnership with the Festival of dressed up for Halloween and explore a host of dastardly Museums. experience that will terrify yet enchant you... With the Lauriston team and a few special guests. MJ Bryant Photography www.mjbryantphotography.com Sunday 13 December, 10am-1pm Sunday 21 June, 7-9pm Christmas at the Castle A Midsummer Play at Lauriston Castle £6 per person £20 (with refreshments) Experience a traditional Edwardian Christmas at the Castle. Join Edinburgh Living History, our award winning troupe of The whole team will be on hand to show you the beautifully Living History interpreters at Lauriston Castle and spend decorated Castle interior. There will be magical Christmas a beautiful midsummer’s evening evoking the Edwardian crafts and maybe a few special guests. Era. This is just a perfect way to spend a summer’s evening appreciating the light over the sea. (We will have a bad weather option!) It is 21 June 1909. You are invited to attend a wedding at The Laurels. Preparations are well under way above and below stairs. What could possibly go wrong? Take part in the action.



To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EA Picture courtesy: The Pantaloons Tuesday 30 June, 5.30 & 7.30pm Sunday 27 September, 2pm and 3pm The Secret Room ‘Uptown Abbey’ Lauriston Above and Below Stairs £20/£18 conc. Duration: 75mins Ages 10+ Enter Lauriston Castle and travel back in time to a world Adult £5 (£6.50), Child £3 (£4.50), Family £12.50 (£17) of clandestine laboratories, hidden passages and secret (price in bracket includes afternoon tea) rooms... A sell out in 2013 & 2014, three of the finest Join Edinburgh Living History, our award winning troupe of Scottish magicians animate the Castle’s intriguing past with Living History interpreters at Lauriston Castle – Edinburgh’s stories, performances and illusions relating to the history very own hidden Edwardian gem. This is a unique chance to of Lauriston and the Castle’s owners. A high court judge observe life in an Edwardian house. Meet the Reids, their come surreptitious alchemist, a gambler who nearly lost staff and some special guests as they go about their daily everything, what other mysteries does this wonderful castle lives. conceal? Find your answer inside ‘The Secret Room’. This is part of the Edinburgh International Magic Festival Sunday 6 December, 2pm and 3pm official programme, to book for this event visit www. magicfest.co.uk Christmas at Lauriston Wednesday 15 July, 7pm Adult £5 (£6.50), Child £3 (£4.50), Family £12.50 (£17) (with Christmas afternoon tea) Much Ado About Nothing in the Garden Join Edinburgh Living History, our award winning troupe of Living History interpreters at Lauriston Castle at Christmas. There’s a lot to shout about in The Pantaloons’ take on Evoke the true magic of the Edwardian period at Christmas Shakespeare’s timeless summer comedy of masks, music and discover what life would have been like. and mistaken identities. The boys are back from war and it’s time for celebration - but villainous Don John decides Adult Craft to spoil everyone’s fun with his devious plots. Will young Programme Claudio and his love Hero fall foul of these machinations? Will Beatrice and Benedick stop bickering and fall in Saturday 23 May, 10.30am-3.30pm love? Find out in this fast-paced, physical and funny new production.  Bend it like... Wire! Tickets can be purchased online at www.thepantaloons. co.uk £20 Join artist Lindsey Hamilton to create a colourful mobile.  Wednesday 29 July, 10am-4pm Explore the varied designs and patterns at Lauriston before choosing a theme to base your work around. Bend wire into An Inspirational Day of Creative Writing at a variety of shapes and motifs then thread with beads to Lauriston Castle with Janice Cairns, author of catch the light and create an elegant hanging piece. ‘Forgiving Nancy’ Sunday 24 May, 10.30am-3.30pm £40 This very special summer writing course for adults will focus Blue and White Kitchen Delights on how we find the original ideas and the inspiration for writing a novel. It will focus on characterisation and how £20 we can create memorable characters. Plotting, writing Inspired by the beauty of Blue and White willow patterned believable dialogue and using the five senses in novel writing china beloved by 19th Century collectors, decorate a lovely will also be explored. The course is designed to prompt teapot and then stencil a useful apron to match! With artist aspiring writers from only thinking about writing a novel to Tessa Asquith-Lamb. actually writing a novel. There will also be some advice on how to find a publisher.

Saturday 4 July, 10.30am-3.30pm Saturday 29 August, 10.30am-12.30pm or 1.30-3.30pmSculpting with Sinamay Natural Jewellery from the Castle Trees£20 £20Ever admired the incredible shapes formed in fascinators? Using wood sourced at Lauriston, create some beautifulTake inspiration from the natural forms found in Lauriston’s natural jewellery – brooches, bracelets and pendants. Youstunning gardens and sculpt your response. Create will source, cut, drill, polish and assemble unique piecesindividual flowers or abstract shapes using sinamay and of wooden jewellery. All tools will be provided. With artistwire. With artist Lindsey Hamilton. Stephanie Walker.Saturday 18 July, 10.30am-3.30pm Sunday 6 September, 10.30am-3.30pmMagical Paper Sculptures Introduction to Abstract Painting£20 £20Create a tiny moonlit silhouette scene of a village or forest Following the success of last year’s workshop we areand light it with battery operated tea lights for magical running a one day introduction to abstract painting. Youeffect, then construct a larger paper heart-shaped wreath will be encouraged to experiment with a variety of paintingfrom cut and folded 3D paper flowers and leaves. With artist techniques, including pouring, texture, staining and layering,Tessa Asquith-Lamb. before creating a unique artwork on canvas. The focus is on creating a relaxed, fun day of experimentation for anyoneSaturday 1 August, 10.30am-3.30pm keen to try new painting techniques. With artist Michael Craik.Art Nouveau Jewellery Saturday 12 September, 10.30am-3.30pm£20Inspired by the stylised natural forms in Art Nouveau Printmaking for Autumnjewellery such as curving leaves, dragonflies and flowers,create a set of elegant accessories using fabrics, beads and £20trim. This class will include some hand sewing. With artist As we move into autumn, be inspired by our FriendshipTessa Asquith-Lamb. Garden and the 19th century craze for Japanese designs. Create a Japanese-inspired wall hanging using simpleSaturday 15 August, 10am-12 noon or 1-3pm printmaking techniques. Print simple animal and natural forms to create a unique artwork suspended from bamboo.Sketching Lauriston Castle with the Edinburgh With artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb.Sketcher – For adults Sunday 13 September, 10.30am-3.30pm£20We are delighted to offer a special adult session with the All Things Paperfamous Edinburgh Sketcher. In this sketching tour, youwill get the chance to learn speed sketching skills and £20time saving solutions which will enable you to capture the Explore the many ways you can manipulate paper to createworld around you in ink and watercolour, no matter how a 3D image. Cut, curl, fold, scrunch, tear: a chance tolong you have. You will make the most delightful drawings experiment and see what can be achieved using the humbleand be inspired to do more in the future – a very special sheet of paper. With artist Lindsey Hamilton.opportunity. Sunday 20 September, 10.30am-3.30pmSaturday 22 and Sunday 23 August, 10.30 am-3.30pm Tea TimeMosaics £20£30 Make a beautiful and unique set of placemats for your tableTwo Day Mosaic class. and also an enchanting wooden teapot trivet from hand-An introduction to Mosaics. Make beautiful sparking panels crafted wood, sourced from the Castle trees. With artistinspired by our gardens. With Margaret Findlay. Stephanie Walker.

To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EA



To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EASaturday 26 September, 10.30am-3.30pm Wednesday 16 December, 10.30am-3.30pmCopper Crafting Capers Christmas Felted Cushions£20 £20Try your hand at metal styling. Take inspiration from designs Make an exquisite Christmas cushion using feltin the Sheffield plate collection at Lauriston and transform making techniques. Decorate it with wonderful festivea flat copper sheet into an embossed plaque, brooch, plant embellishments. With Margaret Findlay.tag, etc. With artist Lindsey Hamilton. Friday 18 December, 10.30am-3.30pmSaturday 21 November, 10.30am-4pm Country WreathsDelicate Watercolour Christmas Cards £30£20 Make beautifully vintage style inspired wreaths. DecorateMake a set of beautiful hand-painted cards and hand- your wreath with a host of little unique touches. Withpainted envelopes for family and friends. Evoke frosty days Margaret Findlay.in the beautiful medium of watercolour. With artist JacquiPestell. Saturday 19 December, 10am-12.30pm or 1.30-4pmSunday 22 November, 10.30am-3.30pm Lauriston WreathsVintage Advent Calendars £25 Christmas would just not be Christmas without our fresh£20 wreath class. Make inspiring wreaths from green materialInspired by a 19th century Christmas, create a wall-hanging and beautiful embellishments. These wreaths have impact!advent calendar and tree trims of robins, fairies, holly and With Margaret Findlay and Jacqui Pestell.mistletoe in silvery tones of glitter and frost. Some handsewing involved in this workshop. With artist Tessa Asquith- Sunday 20 December, 10 am-12.30pm or 1.30-4pmLamb. Classic WreathsSaturday 5 December, 10.30am-4pm £25Hand Felted Christmas Stockings A second green wreath class. You will create absolutely stunning and dramatic wreaths in the festive class. With£25 Margaret Findlay and Jacqui Pestell.Make a stunning handmade Christmas stocking byhand felting fibres. Decorate with beautiful and unique Monday 21 December, 10.30am-4pmembellishments. With artist Jacqui Pestell. Enchanted Wooden BedsSaturday 12 December, 10.30am-4pm £20Forest Christmas Wreaths Christmas is approaching, and if you have a tiny person in your life, this is a unique chance to make a hand-crafted£20 little magical wooden bed for a doll or a teddy. You willCreate unique wreaths from hand printed birch and hazel hand-paint it and finish your project by making a little hand-pieces. You will get the chance to hand-print little scenes sewn quilt. With artist Stephanie Walker. All tools will bemaking something magical and individual. Also make provided, and wood will be sourced in our woodland.some candle holders and individual place settings for yourChristmas table. With artist Stephanie Walker.

Family Craft Programme Sunday 14 June, 11am-3pmSunday 5 April, 10am-1pm Enchanting Mythical CreaturesEaster at the Castle £6 per person Let your imagination run riot and create some amazing£5 per person mythical creatures-on- a-stick out of felt. Embellish themHave fun in our idyllic setting and experience a host of crafts with magical things! With Margaret Findlay.and trails in the woodland. Enjoy Easter cake and lots ofother treats with us! Watch out for lost bunnies... With the Saturday 20 June, 10.30am-12.30pmLauriston team. Ahoy Me Hearties!Sunday 19 April, 11am-3pm £4 per personModroc Mirrors! Using a secret pirate map, navigate the grounds of Lauriston for ‘treasure’ to help transform yourself into a pirate. Make£5 per person your own crazy cutlass, pirate hat and even your own parrot!Make a beautifully crafted mirror with Modroc, inspired by With Mike Durnan.the shore and the woodland. With Margaret Findlay. Sunday 5 July, 10.30am-12.30pmSunday 26 April, 11am-3.30pm Croquet Tea Party!Magical Story Cushions £4 per person£6 per person Inspired by ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, enjoy a gameBring along your favourite story book, and create an amazing of ‘Queen of Hearts’ croquet on the lawns of Lauriston. Thencushion based on your chosen character, hand felted from decorate some spectacular cakes and biscuits for a specialsheep fibres. Decorate your cushion with a host of beautiful tea party in the Glasshouse. With Mike Durnan.embellishments. With Margaret Findlay. Wednesday 15 July, 10.30am-12.30pmSunday 3 May, 10.30am-12.30pm Marvellous Messy MonoprintsSpringtime Flowerpots £4 per person£5 per person The grounds at Lauriston Castle are teeming with wildlife.Spring is here and it’s time to get green fingers in our Taking this as our inspiration, we’ll get messy with a varietyglasshouse. Decorate some terracotta pots and sow some of monoprinting techniques, materials and stamps to createherbs for your garden or windowsill. Create some stylish a colourful woodland masterpiece. With Michael Craik.labels so you don’t forget what you’ve sown. With MichaelCraik. Wednesday 22 July, 10.30am-12.30pmSunday 10 May, 10.30am-12.30pm Bug HuntPond Secrets £4 per person The grounds of Lauriston are perfect for hunting mini£4 per person beasties. Find all sorts of wonderful bugs hidden within theCome along to our beautiful pond in the Japanese Garden woods and grasses, then create your favourite colourfulat Lauriston and discover the different creatures that live giant bug using natural willow and paper. With Mike Durnan.there. Record your findings in a special little book. Thenreturn to the Glasshouse to create your very own wooden Thursday 6 August, 10.30am-12.30pmsailing boat to sail back in the pond. With Mike Durnan. There’s a Dragon in the Castle! £4 per person Did you know we had a secret dragon? Come along and make an amazing dragon and hear all about dragons. Bring

To book: usherhall.co.uk – go to ‘What’s On’ 0131 228 1155 Box Office, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, EH1 2EAyour imagination and unleash your inner monster! With Mike Saturday 7 November, 10.30am-12.30pmDurnan. Magical Woodland 3D PicturesSunday 23 August, 10.30am-12.30pm £4 per personKnights of the Joust Imagine our woods by night and make a 3D picture of a mysterious night-time woodland scene, with fairy lights and£4 per person secret animals. With Mike Durnan.Lauriston Castle is always on the lookout for brave knightsto protect us from marauding dragons. Prepare for battle Sunday 29 November, 10.30am-12.30pmby making your very own shield with coat of arms and ajousting lance to keep these fiery beasts at arms length. Santas, Snowmen and SnowflakesWith Michael Craik. £4 per personSunday 27 September, 10.30am-12.30pm Get ready for the festive season in the traditional surroundings of Lauriston Castle with this delightfulBeautiful Bird Boxes Christmas decorations workshop. Brighten up your tree this year with some wonderful handmade treats. With Michael£4 per person Craik.Decorate your very own wooden bird box. Use found naturalobjects from the grounds of Lauriston, paint and other Sunday 6 December, 10.30am-12.30pmmaterials to transform your bird box into a very special homefor your feathered friends. With Mike Durnan. Crazy Christmas CrackersSunday 11 October, 10.30am-12.30pm £4 per person Create your very own colourful crazy Christmas crackers withAmazing Autumn Jewellery jokes and treats galore. They are sure to go with a bang! With Mike Durnan.£4 per personTake inspiration from the amazing autumn colours andtextures at Lauriston and make unique jewellery – badges,bracelets, brooches and pendants. With Mike Durnan.

You can get this document on tape, in Braille, large print and Photography by Teresa Sumerfield various computer formats if you ask us. Please contact ITS on 0131 242 8181 and quote reference number 14-1520. ITS can also give information on community language translations.Designed by the City of Edinburgh Council Corporate Governance 14.377/CG/IF/February 2015