Just Add Popcorn

The 'doors' of our Outdoor Cinema at the Garden pARTy as part of #colonyofartists2023 maybe officially closed for another year but we are delighted to offer you the opportunity to keep watching the films we showcased on 15 September in front of hundreds of guests. Just make yourselves some popcorn to last you for 25 …

Abbeyhill Primary School Time Machine

All aboard Abbeyhill Primary School Time Machine! In 2018/2019 we devised and produced Abbeyhill Soundscape – a time machine with which we took a binaural audio tour around the grounds of the school from 1905 until 1970s. A binaural experience which may sound a bit like an Abbeyhill episode of Horrible Histories drama. Five years …

Garden pARTy 2023

Join us for a special Garden pARTy 2023 at the Abbeyhill Primary School playground on 15 September 12.30-3.30pm to celebrate two milestones – the 15th year since the Colony of Artists Festival has been opening the doors of the school every festival weekend and the 10th anniversary of A is for Abbeyhill – our year-round …

C is for Ceilidh

We are delighted to announce the launch of C is for Ceilidh Club – our new after-school club running Tuesdays 3.15-4.30pm at Abbeyhill Primary School. It is led by our traditional dance artist-in-residence Caroline Brockbank as part of our ongoing artist-in-residence programme. The first block of sessions will run at the school gym hall 17 …

The story of Abbeyhill Primary School in murals and mosaics

Back in 2006 Edinburgh-based artist Jane Phillips started a project which gave the Abbeyhill Primary School playground areas their magical woodland identity. Jane created Woodland (2006) – a series of outdoor murals and mosaics – in an informal collaboration with pupils and parents at the time. Jane ‘paved the playground’ for the contemporary art residency …

Imaginary Cityscape

Screenshot of Imaginary Cityscape It may be the first week of the Easter holiday at Abbeyhill Primary School but we will appreciate if you keep all your fingers crossed as we have just submitted our wonderful and award-worthy short film Imaginary Cityscape to be shortlisted and selected by the Youth Jury of the 14th annual …

WINDOWS, SCREENS & GREENS!

With just a week to go we are very pleased to announce the line-up of our festival exhibition and events by artists-in-residence at Abbeyhill Primary School – Dave Pratt, Sylwia Kowalczyk, Romy Danielewicz, Heather Rikic and Citadel Arts Group with special guest-artists Caroline Brockbank and Bernie Hewitt. For the last 16 years Abbeyhill Primary School …

Swifts-in-Residence

It may be the school holidays but Abbeyhill Primary School is buzzing with activity – our outdoor classroom is taking new shapes, trails and hillocks. We are reaching new heights not only on the ground but also as we lay the groundwork for welcoming new wildlife residents – a nesting pair of swifts-in-residence – as …

Help Us Take Up to the Skies

Contribute to the making of Up, Up and Away – a new monumental artwork by Dave Pratt, our illustrator-in-residence at Abbeyhill Primary School! Become part of the story of this school windows mural. It is to be launched as part of the 16th annual Colony of Artists on 18 and 19 September 2021 – our …

Up, Up and Away

It is the last day of term at Abbeyhill Primary School before the Christmas holidays! What better way to say farewell to an extraordinary 2020 by unvealing our plans for a new school-wide project to start in the New Year led by our new artist-in-residence Dave Pratt supported by a 10 Villages Community Grant. Titled …