Message from the skies 2019 - Chapter 4 - Louise Welsh - Love Letter to Europe
Message from the skies 2019
Louise Welsh's Love Letter to Europe
TechCube, Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
About the creative team
Writer: Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels including, The Cutting Room, Death is a Welcome Guest and No Dominion. She is the editor of Ghost, One Hundred Stories to Read with the Lights On (2016). Louise was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts by Edinburgh Napier University (2015) and was a University of Otago’s Scottish Writers Fellow at the Wallace Arts Centre in New Zealand (2016). She has presented over thirty BBC radio features and written many short stories and articles. Louise has written libretti for four operas including Scottish Opera’s production of Anthropocene (music by Stuart MacRae) which will hit the stage in January 2019. She has also written for the stage, most recently King Keich based on Alfred Jarry’s Pere Ubu. Louise is co-director (with Jude Barber) of the Empire Café, an award winning collective exploring Scotland’s relationship with empire. Louise is Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature @louisewelsh00
Designer: Emlyn Firth is founder and director of A Visual Agency, a design practice based in Glasgow. A Visual Agency specialise in the delivery of visual identities, communication strategies and marketing projects, with expertise spanning typography, letterpress, print, packaging, books and exhibitions, overlapping with digital strategy, web, social media and motion graphics.
Early in his career, Emlyn was recognised with a number of awards, including Young Designer of the Year ('06) and the Grand Prix ('02) at the Roses Creative Awards (UK).
More recently he was a recipient of the Craft Residency at Cove Park, and has been working on a British Council funded project researching, making and exhibiting block printed textiles in India.
Emlyn has taught on the Masters of Design course at The Glasgow School of Art and lectured at Edinburgh College of Art. He co-runs a letterpress facility at SWG3 in Glasgow.
About this location
Summerhall is a venue for visual and performing arts. It is a place for events, parties, workshops, festivals, weddings and meetings. Summerhall and Techcube are home to a varied community of creative artists and businesses, including a pub, café, brewery and distillery.
Summerhall has fast become a key arts organisation in Edinburgh, at festival time and throughout the year. The year-round live music programme, Nothing Ever Happens Here… has become one of the best places to see exciting, live music in the city, providing a platform for young bands in Edinburgh to play with established touring musicians from around the globe.
Summerhall won the Dan Crawford Innovation Award at the 2015 Empty Space… Peter Brook Awards and was shortlisted for The Stage Fringe Venue of the Year in 2014 and 2017. The aim is to be a major cultural destination where audiences meet and mix and where artists and performers are inspired to make and present their best work.