Please note that artists are listed by their first names.
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Alan Bissett (St Cuthbert’s Church Graveyard – on corner of Princes Street and Lothian Road)
I Take Bribes is a short story about an encounter in a graveyard, by an award-winning novelist, playwright and performer. alanbissett.com
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Christopher Collier (St Andrew Square and various locations)
Sound artist Christopher Collier has created two pieces for (g)Host City – Bail Out, a situational sound intervention for St Andrew Square, and Ambient Counter Cartography, a series of sound samples that create an alternative soundtrack to the streets of Edinburgh.
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Ewan Morrison (Princes Mall, above Waverley Station)
Gravity Guy is a story inspired by Princes Mall, by the creator of Tales from the Mall. ewanmorrison.com
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Fiona Keenan and Hamish Kallin (George Square)
Staves and Graves is an immersive soundwalk set in 1830s Edinburgh, by Fiona Keenan and Hamish Kallin.
fionakeenan.bandcamp.com, twitter.com/HamishKallin
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Gavin Inglis (St Andrew Square)
Starfield is a story set in the Occupy protest camp that took over St Andrew Square in the autumn of 2011. Part of enLIGHTen. www.gavininglis.com
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Hamish Kallin and Fiona Keenan (George Square)
Staves and Graves is an immersive soundwalk set in 1830s Edinburgh, by Fiona Keenan and Hamish Kallin.
fionakeenan.bandcamp.com, twitter.com/HamishKallin
Hannah McGill (Cumberland Street)
Ragwort is a story inspired by the infamous Duke of Cumberland – also known as ‘Butcher Cumberland’ – by Edinburgh-based writer and critic Hannah McGill. twitter.com/HannahJMcGill
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Jenny Lindsay (Calton Hill)
Calton Hill is a poem for one of Edinburgh’s most striking viewpoints, by a performance poet and co-creator of Rally and Broad. twitter.com/msjlindsay
Jim Colquhoun (9 Great King Street and the surrounding streets)
In the Labyrinth is an adults only sound walk through the new town by Glasgow-based artist Jim Colquhoun – beginning at the old home of Thomas de Quincey.
JL Williams (Rose Street)
The Wisdom of Stone is a short piece inspired by a quote from James Hutton, by an Edinburgh-based performance poet. Part of enLIGHTen. jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk
Juliana Capes and Laura Cameron-Lewis (Portobello promenade)
Drift is a sound walk along Portobello promenade, which combines interweaving narratives from different generations of women. It was commissioned by Artlink Edinburgh.
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Katy McAulay (Market Street pedestrian crossing)
Red Man is a short play about a confrontation on a pedestrian crossing, by Glasgow-based writer Katy McAulay. twitter.com/ourkaty
Ken MacLeod (Royal Society Building, George Street)
Maxwell’s Platter, an imaginary meeting in the afterlife between key Scottish enlightenment figures, by a leading Scottish science fiction writer. Part of enLIGHTen. kenmacleod.blogspot.co.uk
Kieran Hurley (St Anthony’s Chapel, Arthur’s Seat)
St Anthony’s is a series of messages, and a journey that ends in the ruins of a chapel on Arthur’s Seat, created by leading Scottish theatre-maker Kieran Hurley. twitter.com/kieran_hurley
Kirstin Innes (a walk along Fountainbridge from Costa Coffee to the canal)
The Dancing is a short story about two women meeting on Fountainbridge, by the author of Fishnet and co-creator of Words Per Minute. kirstininnes.com
Kirsty Logan (Roxburghe Crown Plaza Hotel, 38 Charlotte Square)
Sleep Pictures is a love story set in an Edinburgh hotel, by a Glasgow-based novelist and short story writer. Part of enLIGHTen. www.kirstylogan.com
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The Last September with Rachel McCrum (Arthur’s Seat)
Climbing is a song about climbing Arthur’s Seat, moving through a history of Edinburgh, and reflecting on what it is to belong to a place (particularly when you’re not ‘from’ there). It is a collaboration between Edinburgh band The Last September and poet Rachel McCrum, one half of Rally and Broad, and features on the 2014 album Volcano.
Laura Cameron-Lewis and Juliana Capes (Portobello promenade)
Drift is a sound walk along Portobello promenade, which combines interweaving narratives from different generations of women. It was commissioned by Artlink Edinburgh.
Laura Cameron-Lewis (Traverse Theatre bar and various locations)
You Are Not With Me is a short dialogue for the Traverse bar (or a bar of your choice), inspired by the strange intimacy of online chatrooms. Plus fragments from Quantum Physical, a multi-media artwork about the search for a missing woman. lauraeatonlewis.com
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Momus (various bus routes around the city)
Unreliable Bus Tour is a series of bus journeys around Edinburgh by the internationally renowned musician, blogger, cultural commentator, and creator of the Unreliable Tour Guide. Get on a 22, 44, 26, 10 or 11 bus at any stop, and press play. imomus.com
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Seafieldroad (Cramond Island)
The Warplanes are Blitzing the Town is an evocative song set on Cramond Island, from Seafieldroad’s second album. See also Cramond Island Causeway, from the same album. seafieldroad.bandcamp.com
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William Letford (Melville Monument, St Andrew Square)
Monuments of the Mind is a short poem inspired by David Hume and St Andrew Square, by Scottish poet William Letford. Part of enLIGHTen.
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