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For the first time, the set of maquettes that were used to launch the The Kelpies in New York will be on display in the UK at an outdoor public space. The equine art works will be effectively stabled over the winter months at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (QMU).
The maquettes were the models for the award-winning 30 metre high horses heads known as The Kelpies. Together with Kelpies Marina, they form the dramatic gateway to the new section of canal in the Falkirk District linking the Forth and Clyde, which is centred within the innovative 350 hectare Helix Parkland operated by Falkirk Community Trust and funded by The Big Lottery Fund, Falkirk Council and Scottish Canals.
Hand crafted by Scottish sculptor, Andy Scott, the 3 metre high maquette sculptures will be positioned in University Square at Queen Margaret University’s campus next to Musselburgh on the east side of Edinburgh. The final design of The Kelpies is uniquely linked to this set of maquettes which recently toured the USA, appearing in Chicago, North Carolina and at New York’s Scotland Week.
Queen Margaret University has a special connection with The Kelpies and The Helix project. Working in partnership with the project partners, the University’s media practice lecturer, Walid Salhab, produced the stunning stop-motion film of The Kelpies which has been shared on social media all over the world and has received nearly 93k hits on the Helix website alone. He was the only filmmaker to have unlimited access to the full four month build phase of the momentous structures, and his mesmerising portrayal of The Kelpies when they reached completion helped launch The Kelpies in New York and in Scotland. His unique stop-motion/time-lapse filming technique has been used to great effect with The Kelpies film helping secure Falkirk’s place on the global tourist map and supporting the Council’s work in exceeding projected visitor numbers to Falkirk and the surrounding area.
Award winning filmmaker, Walid Salhab, often dubbed ‘Mr Kinetic’, due to the style of his unique filming technique, explained: “Filming The Kelpies over a six month period, capturing the build and then their final completion, was the most challenging project of my life. But it was a privilege to help bring Andy Scott’s creation to life in a stop-motion/time-lapse film.”
Walid continued: “I spent so much time filming them during the day and in the dead of night, trying to capture their changing qualities, I began to feel that they belonged to me. I think that people in the Falkirk area probably feel the same sense of ownership. To have them on display at Queen Margaret University is a dream come true. We couldn’t have asked for a better Christmas present!
“Once again, I get to experience the brilliance of Andy Scott’s work on a daily basis, albeit in miniature, and to share The Kelpies maquettes with the wider QMU community.”
…/Professor Petra Wend, Principal of Queen Margaret University, said: “We are extremely grateful to Falkirk Council and we feel honoured to have the maquettes of The Kelpies housed at the University. When we created our purpose built campus in 2007 we constructed a building that deliberately faced into our new community of East Lothian. We have sited the maquettes near the entrance to our academic building so that they too face towards Musselburgh. It is also the first time that we have had art work displayed in University Square.”
University Square has a daily footfall of approximately 2500 people and senior staff and QMU believe that the maquettes will encourage many more people from the surrounding area to visit the campus.
Professor Wend continued, “We now invite people from our East Lothian and Edinburgh communities, and from further afield, to visit our campus and see the maquettes. Hopefully, this will whet their appetite to see the full sized Kelpies in all their glory and to enjoy the amenities of Helix Park in Falkirk and the surrounding area.”
Falkirk Council’s spokesperson for tourism, Councillor Adrian Mahoney, said: “The Kelpies maquettes have become travelling ambassadors for Scotland and the Falkirk area and we are delighted they are being looked after by Queen Margaret University this winter, giving them pride of place as the first major sculpture to be on show in University Square.”
To celebrate the arrival of the maquettes at Queen Margaret University, the Preston Lodge Pipe Band played a set of Scottish tunes in University Square. The juvenile band, which is made up of pupils from Preston Lodge High School in Prestonpans, East Lothian, play at major university celebrations such as graduation.
To watch Walid Salhab’s film of The Kelpies visit: http://vimeo.com/90747645
Alzheimer Scotland is holding its inaugural Christmas Lecture and we invite you to join us for this truly festive treat. Come along and enjoy a fun yet informative afternoon in elegant surroundings.
At the end of a year that has been so important for dementia research, we are delighted to welcome Baroness Susan Greenfield to deliver our 2014 Christmas Lecture entitled Dementia: Current & future prospects.
* Delivered by Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, FRCP (Hon)
* Where: The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE
* When: 15 December 2014
* Ticket price: £12 (Alzheimer Scotland members: £10)
* Doors open at 3:30pm
Festive drinks and treats and a chance to mingle and discuss the lecture: 5pm-6pm
You can register at http://www.alzscot.org/training_and_conferences/conferences/3156_annual_christmas_lecture.
If you have any questions regarding this event please contact us on 0141 410 1072 or email externalevents@alzscot.org
Win a Free Place on the Executive Certificate for Events Management
The Executive Certificate is three day intensive programme designed to capitalise on the expertise and provide the key skills and knowledge associated with the design and delivery of corporate, private and public events. Delivered by the Edinburgh Institute: Festivals, Events and Tourism at Edinburgh Napier University, the programme outlines industry best practice in the marketing, planning, conduct and evaluation of events. For further information how to apply to the competition to win a free place, please click here.
Grassmarket-based musical instrument store bags MIA “Best Medium Retailer” gong in annual awards ceremony
Edinburgh-based independent music store Red Dog Music has been awarded the title of Best Medium Retailer by the Music Industries Association, the UK Trade Association of the musical instrument industry.
The award is decided by a UK-wide public vote on “the best presented and staffed shops, with the best customer service”, and is open to all music stores in the UK, of which there are over 1,900 listed on yell.com[1].
The company recently expanded with the opening of a London branch in August 2013.
Alex Marten, Red Dog Music Managing Director, comments “this award is a huge honour for us and a testament to the hard work, positive attitude, and determination of all the staff”.
About Red Dog Music
Red Dog Music was founded in 2008 in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket and has quickly grown to become one of the UK’s most respected musical equipment retailers, selling a huge range of electric guitars, keyboards, studio recording equipment, computer music, PA equipment, percussion and loads more from the Edinburgh flagship store, a showroom in London, and a website at www.reddogmusic.co.uk.
EDINBURGH, UK. 18 November – Qatar Airways will operate a daily, direct scheduled service from Doha’s Hamad International Airport to Edinburgh Airport from 1st May 2015. The announcement comes just six months after the successful launch of the five-weekly service on the route and reinforces the airline’s commitment to add additional frequencies on the route, which it announced at the launch.
The daily QR027 outbound service and QR028 inbound service, operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, will give passengers even greater access to the 145 worldwide destinations served by Qatar Airways through its recently opened state-of-the-art hub, Hamad International Airport.
The Dreamliner has a two-cabin configuration, comprising of 22 seats in Business Class and 232 Economy Class seats that include individual 10.5-inch television screens offering the latest inflight entertainment options while experiencing the airline’s award-winning five-star service.
Travelling from Edinburgh, the route has this year allowed enhanced travel times from the Scottish capital to destinations around the world with just one smooth international transfer through Doha’s new Hamad International Airport, without the need for any domestic transfers within the UK.
Daily flights to be operated by Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said: “We are pleased to offer even further choice and flexibility to passengers wishing to travel to and from Edinburgh. Offering a daily service to Edinburgh is a clear reflection of the popularity of this route since its launch in May this year and the new daily service will allow Qatar Airways to further support and promote Scotland’s leisure and business opportunities to different markets on our airline’s global network.”
The most popular destinations for those using the Edinburgh-Doha route are predominantly in Asia, and Australasia, with journey times to Melbourne reduced from approximately 26 hours with two transfers, to just 20 hours with one quick international transfer at Hamad International Airport.
Edinburgh is Qatar Airways’ third destination in the UK, preceded by London in 1997 and Manchester in 2003. The airline currently operates six flights a day from London Heathrow non-stop to Doha, including ‘Business One’, the all-business class A319. The airline also operates 10 flights per week from Manchester non-stop to Doha.
Qatar Airways has seen rapid growth in just 17 years of operations, to the point where today it currently is flying a modern fleet of 141 aircraft to 145 key business and leisure destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
EDINBURGH to/from DOHA:
Daily:
QR 028 departs Edinburgh (EDI) at 14:30; arrives Doha (DOH) at 23:30
QR 027 departs Doha (DOH) at 07:45; arrives Edinburgh (EDI) at 13:00
For more information, visit our homepage www.qatarairways.com
It’s been another interesting month in Japan. A surprise decision to increase the size of the central bank’s quantitative easing programme coincided neatly with the move by the vast Government Pension Investment Fund (with in excess of US$ 1trillion in assets under management) to boost allocations to equities, both domestic and international, at the expense of its holdings in government bonds. In addition, Prime Minister Abe has called a snap election, as he seeks a popular mandate to push back a scheduled increase in consumption taxes.
Capital markets have been jolted into action; the yen has sold off relative to the currencies of its major trading partners and equities have soared in local currency terms. Investment strategists the world over are advising clients not to fight the central bank – has the time come to make an active recommendation on Japanese equities?
As regular readers will know, we’ve long thought that the post-2008 obsession with monetary and fiscal policy, as well as banking systems, across much of the developed world may have obscured the role played by micro-economic factors, particularly in Japan’s case. Of all the measures so far tried by Japanese authorities to jumpstart the economy, bottom-up reform and liberalisation have as yet been substantially absent. The Japanese equity market will remain a place where, most of the time, benchmark-aware investors should simply aim for a neutral position. Japanese equities will look mispriced if the corporate sector achieves the same level of profitability as its developed market counterparts, however, there remains much to doubt on this front.
We would urge investors not to underestimate the latent micro-economic factors at work, or the monumental effort it would take to change them. We have yet to see concrete evidence that the authorities are ready to embark on this path, even if the tentative steps mentioned in this article make us more comfortable recommending clients have at least some exposure to the region.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce in association with the Doubletree Hilton Edinburgh are delighted to launch the 4th Annual Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Business Awards.
The glittering launch party will be held in the Penthouse Suite of the DoubleTree Hilton Edinburgh on November 20th from 8:00pm, announcing sponsors for the Business Awards and launching the 2015 categories. Members will also be given a sneak peak of the 2015 provisional Events Calendar.
2014 hosted the most successful ECC Business Awards to date with more attendees, entrants and sponsors than ever before, we hope to not only emulate but smash this achievement for 2015.
The perfect way to start to festive season, Chamber members are invited to dress up and enjoy complimentary drinks and canapés for what is set to be a fantastic night of celebrations and networking.
Demand is expected to be high, so please do not hesitate to reserve your place. There will also be some surprise entertainment on the night too!
For information on how to become a sponsor for the Business Awards hosted at the Sheraton Grand Hotel and Spa on March 2nd 2015 contact sian.downes@edinburghchamber.co.uk.
We look forward to welcoming you all on the night from 8:00pm.
Please register for your place.
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS MEMBERS ONLY.
Come along to a Christmas themed shopping evening with a festive 20% off at Austin Reed, 102-104 George Street, Edinburgh, on Thursday 4 December. Enjoy complimentary refreshments and entertainment, browse Alzheimer Scotland’s selection of Christmas cards and learn more about our work making sure no one goes through dementia alone. RSVP to fundraising@alzscot.org or call 0131 243 1453.
Common Purpose has just launched recruitment for its next international leadership development programme, Dishaa, which will take place in February 2015 in Ahmedabad, India.
Dishaa is a programme that connects emerging talent from the UK and India to spend time learning and working together, exploring the process of innovation and how to create profound social change through building new links between the UK and India, and find new ways to address challenges common to both countries.
Dishaa was originally launched by British Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010 in Bangalore, India, to expand, enrich and energise relations between India and the UK.
“If the relationship between our countries is made up only by the politicians, the diplomats and entrepreneurs it will not last. A relationship with genuine meaning will be one that brings together people from every line of work and every walk of life. We need more than the trade of goods and services, as important as that is; we need the trading of experiences, stories and ideas between friends on opposite sides of the world.”
British Prime Minister, David Cameron
The 5th Dishaa Venture will take place in Ahmedabad, India from the 15-18 February 2015, and will bring together 40 leaders from the UK and India, from across all sectors and backgrounds, for an intensive four day course.
Participants are challenged to develop new models of collaboration, and helped to develop the skills, tools and techniques needed to create change and innovation in their own companies, organisations, communities and countries.
Applications are invited from exceptional leaders in the mid stages of their careers, from all backgrounds and sectors, and we would be delighted to have a nomination from your organisation or wider networks for Dishaa. For more information please see the attached flyer, or visit the Ventures website. (Link for embedding: http://www.commonpurpose.org/global-programmes/ventures , )
There is more detail here: http://www.commonpurpose.org/global-programmes/ventures/dishaa#about , and the link to apply online is here: http://www.commonpurpose.org/global-programmes/ventures/dishaa#apply
Alternatively get in touch with Steve Plummer, Operations Director, Scotland for Common Purpose on steve.plummer@commonpurpose.org.uk or 07889 650277 for an informal discussion.
