News
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Awarded Artists ‘Shift and Flow’
We are so pleased to be able to announce artists Sally Price and Minnie Scott have received awards from Art Walk Weekends to create new work for the festival. Both artists will be exhibiting in our Art in Shops strand of this year’s Art Walk Weekends festival open 5-6 and 12-13 September. Sally Price exhibits…
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We’ve moved…
This year has been an exciting time of change at Art Walk Projects, and we are happy to share a few more recent developments: We’ve moved! We are excited to say that after a community buyout and months of diligent work from Action Porty and their team of volunteers, we have been able to relocate…
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Portobello Seed Share
a space to save and share Portobello’s local seed Portobello Seed Share supports sustainable growing developing a seed bank of local resilient seed to be saved and shared. We invite you to browse, borrow or add open pollinated seed to the new Seed Share located in Portobello Library. This seed project comes through Remedy, a coastal…
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New Members sought for Art Walk Weekends Festival Organising Committee
We are currently looking to grow our Festival Organising Committee with 2-3 new volunteers joining us to help deliver this year’s Art Walk Weekends event. We operate as a small team of committed local people, many of whom are local artists who have been involved since our start more than 10 years ago. We are…
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Spring Cluster
We are delighted to announce our ‘Spring Cluster’ series of performances, installations and events. Friday 13 March 1200h-1300h The Portobello Moonlight Revue! featuring Big Stew’s Tidal Circus and Marine Marvels with Portobello High School pupils, facilitated by visual theatre artist Gretchen Maynard-Hahn.Leaves from Portobello High School at 1200h, arriving to Portobello Promenade by 1300h. 1200h-1530h Tide & Seek An…
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Introducing Art Walk Weekends
After 10 years, Art Walk Projects is announcing a restructuring of its year-round activities, accompanied by a new visual identity. Art Walk Porty is changing to Art Walk Weekends continuing annually in September, and we introduce a new environmental coastal biennial arts festival FORECAST, to commence from May 2027. These decisions have been taken to…
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Circling the Fair Ground
New writing now published from Dr Merlyn Seller in response to this year’s ARCADE programme as part of the 2025 Art Walk Porty Festival.
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PACBI Announcment
Art Walk Projects is proud to join other Scottish cultural organisations and colleagues in the art sector in endorsing PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. We have chosen to join this campaign in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and in line with our organisation’s ethos, policies and values.…
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Between land and sea by Tom Jeffreys
New writing in support of our current Deluge exhibition at Art Gene in Barrow-in-Furness. We are delighted to have been able to commission Edinburgh based writer Tom Jeffreys to create this new article interweaving the three different artist projects as part of Deluge.
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10 Years in the Making
Funding Announcement It is with immense pleasure we announce that we have been successful in our application for Creative Scotland’s Multi Year Funding for 2025-28. We feel so incredibly proud to be one of the 141 organisations, who for the first time, have become part of Creative Scotland’s Multi Year Funding Portfolio. This news marks…
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Thrift
We’re delighted to announce we’ve recently received a research award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for Thrift: Climate Conversations to take place this September focussing on food futures of Portobello & Craigentinny. We look forward to announcing more details in due course.
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Journey Lines: Making and Breaking Places with Tim Ingold and Ben Twist
Our recording of last week’s live event is ready to view from here Journey Lines brought together discussion around path making and place making, to consider tourism and access along our coast lines. Discussing how we consider the role of tourism in making (or breaking) places, Zeiske gave an illustrated talk about her long-distance 700 mile…