Culture Café

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• cultcafe:Muses 22 May 12

  Tue, 22 May 12

  Duration:
  31 mins
  
  Available:
  24 days remaining

  Struggling actors have been doing it forever, working another job to pay the bills, but due to the recent economic climate more of us working in the Arts in Scotland are resorting to what's been described as a mosaic career - more than one job to make ends meet. Clare talks to TV Presenter Katrina Bryan (Nina and the Neurons) and Colin MacDonald (Photographer) about their mosaic careers. The National Museum of Scotland has won a share of £75,000 and acquired a work of outstanding contemporary craft, through Art Fund Collect. Curator Rosina Buckland joins Clare to describe how the experience of winning the piece (CRANE DANCE by Suiko Buseki ) resembled a process similar to that of the TV game show supermarket sweep! A relatively familiar concept associated with artists, but do painters still find inspiration in a Muse?... world renowned Scottish artist Gerard M Burns has recently found himself under the spell of an enchanting Russian ballet dancer Vassillissa Levtonova.

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• cultcafe:Arts for the elderly:15 May 12

  Tue, 15 May 12

  Duration:
  31 mins
  
  Available:
  17 days remaining

  We all know it's fun to get creative, but how much do we know about the benefits of creative activity for the elderly? Anne Gallacher from Age Scotland joins Clare in the studio to give us an over view of the creative work being done with older Scots right now. As part of the Edinburgh International Educational Outreach programme 'The Art of Listening' introduces children to creative ways of listening and exploring our inherent musicality through physical participation and exercises using music and the imagination. Two Scottish Artists who have been best friends since their schooldays are to exhibit together for the first time at the Union Gallery in Edinburgh. Janet Melrose and Jenny Matthews first met in 1976 when they were 11 years old at school.

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• cultcafe:08 May 12

  Tue, 8 May 12

  Duration:
  31 mins
  
  Available:
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  Connie Fisher: Welsh actress and singer, Connie Fisher famously won the BBC One talent contest, HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA? After illness and a lengthy period of recovery, she’s back on stage and starring in WONDERFUL TOWN which opens at the Kings Theatre Glasgow this week. Clare finds out more. US TV Guide Discussion: Desperate Housewives finally comes to an end this Sunday (13th May) on US screens after 8 seasons. With the likes of ‘House’ and ‘One Tree Hill’ also finishing for good over the next few weeks, which current US imports can take their place? Top trumps from the world of TV, Jack Seale (Radio Times) and Mike Hale (New York Times) join Clare to give us the low down. Ewan Morrison: Ewan Morrison has spent the last 3 years scouring the shopping malls of Britain to uncover the secrets of retail heaven and hell for his new book TALES FROM THE MALL. We find out why the shopping mall is one of the most defining and iconic symbols of the modern age

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• Journalism and digital privacy 01 May 12

  Tue, 1 May 12

  Duration:
  30 mins
  
  Available:
  3 days remaining

  As the Leveson Inquiry rumbles on, and journalists shift from covering the story to becoming the story, we take a fresh look at the crisis, with the National Theatre of Scotland and London Review of Books new production, Enquirer. Artistic director Vicky Featherstone joins Clare to talk about how the production explores the crisis and journalist Neil Cooper offers his review. How much of yourself do you put online, and are you aware of the footprint you leave? Whether you’re an open book or suspiciously refuse to sign up to social networking sites, we look at the personal trail you leave behind, and why the internet encourages you to take on a different persona.

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