this collection
investigates the state of cultural democracy through film vignettes of found poetry, conversations and workshops.
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Union Canal
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Detained
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Overflow
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Princes Street
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aig dachaidh/at home
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A Winter Walk Along Lauriston Place
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A Recipe for Whisky
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The Summer of EH26
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On an Old Scots Dictionary
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Circus Lane
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Jawbone Walk
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Tradesmen Visit
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The Windy City
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The River at Cramond
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Walls
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The Pubic Triangle
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Lunchtime in Leith
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The Castle
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Broughton Street
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La Plage
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Conspiracy of Buses
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The Ballad of Haymarket Hotel
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Imlach
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Dùn Èideannan
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Ministry of Memory
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Edinburgh Volte-Face
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Newington Road
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Ardmillan Lullaby
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Calton Hill
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After the last tattoo
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Festive, All
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An Edinburgh Invitation
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Postcode
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His Side o the Story
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Perfume
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Southside II & III
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January
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Gallows-birds and Graveyards
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Newington EH9
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Morningside
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Happy Birthday Hole
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Scene
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Portobello
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View over Nicolson Street
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Corstorphine, Midnight
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Animal Haven
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Niddrie
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First Aid in the Botanic Gardens
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Edinburgh Haiku
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At Greyfriars Bobby’s Pub
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Between Lauriston Gardens and Lauriston Park
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The Fringe
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Edinburgh Summer
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Tarvit Street, 2am
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Cables
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It
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Ghost
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Currie
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Sweet Sandy (Dedicated to Edinburgh Rock)
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Rebels of this timeless town
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Tollcross
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The Hanging Stanes
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The Septuagenarian and the Quartermile
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Lady Edinburgh
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Anonymous
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33
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i&eye
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Class
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Great Junkie Street, Aye
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Ephemeral Overflow II
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Dead Plastic Crow
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Mary King’s Close
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Business of Ravens
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Gandolf Sends his Regrets
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The Number 31 Bus Taken from Lasswade Road on a Late Summer’s Evening
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Going Home
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Meltdown
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Esnatu
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Piteous Pine
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Telepathy
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From Saturday to Monday
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Transformation
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And Nothing Worth Remembering
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After the Festival
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Café Life Slice
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Edin Unfurling
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Scarlet
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Broken
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The Forgotten Orchard of Craiglockhart
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MacAdam’s Inventory O A Tourist Trap
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Stopping
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Crags
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To Edinburgh
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Mellis, Victoria Street
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How Does a Bookies Have a Sale Anyway?
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The Guid Room
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To the Man Sleeping on Nicolson Square
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John Knox’s Grave
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Where It Lies
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Buddha
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Betwixt
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Landlocked
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Same Place Different View
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A Lifetime
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Lonely City
about
This Collection is a collection of film or performance adaptations inspired by poems based on postcodes in the city of Edinburgh. Developed by those who love the city, but who because of impossible real estate prices or 2-3 jobs that require extensive commuting have had to leave her, the project aims to capture an impressionist portrait of life in the city, with all its foibles and issues, through the media of poetry and film. The city continues to attract new talent and wandering artists who we hope will carry on the conversation and host events that encourage reunions.
Started in 2008, This Collection’s has always been unfunded, DIY, non-hierarchical and open to the slings of arrows of outrageous fortune and in proposing such an ethos, has come to realise how problematic some of these methods are for creatives of all walks of life – through the practice and each engagement we seek to find a better way of working, a struggle to fight for democratic access and collective sharing of resources for creative and cultural practice for all. Our efforts big and small force us to reassess the aspirational culture that celebrates the individual genius without acknowledging the collective effort needed in creating all works of art. See our Friends for other ongoing initiatives in the city and take part in the conversation.
Poems in postcodes
This Collection is a gathering of 100 poems by writers who have spent time in the city, each poem no more than 100 words long. Submissions come from school children to experienced poets alike. We hope the Maps and Vignettes collected so far will inspire you to meditate on the city’s inner life. See our blog of new articles on how to engage the city via these films and poems, the Wiki and maps welcome new poems based on your reflections and wanderings. Contact us for collaborator access.
Film poem Submissions
This Collection continues to welcome filmmakers, sound designers, animators who will like to develop short films (no more than 5 mins long) based on any of the poems collected. If you would like to make a film but have no prior experience, look out for pop up filmmaking workshops in the area or visit our friends’ page for resources to help you along. We are not fussy on film formats as long as you can upload it to youtube(link) or vimeo(link), we accept anything from basic mobile phone formats to high end crispy kit are welcome.
Join our facebook page for updates. If you’d like to request a workshop post it on our wiki(link) and if enough of a group forms a filmmaker may get in touch to mentor or facilitate your development. Upload your films on youtube or vimeo online and send us a link in the contact page so we can post it here and tell the community about it.
Curate-a-Challenge
We then also look for curators to showcase the mosaic of poems and the films together to raise questions of community public art, or the state of cultural democracy today. Curation can happen both online and at events across the city. Previous showcases have been held in McEwan Hall, Forest Cafe, Banshee Labyrinth, and as part of Utter, in the Old Roxy as part of Hidden Door’s Hidden Cinema, Tollcross Community Center, Speed Dating @ Scottish Poetry Library, Glasgow’s Glue Factory, and Out of the Blue Drill Hall. For more information visit our Blog and Wiki on how to access a curator pack.
We hope this website offers you a road map of how to start your own collection in your city.
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