A Place of Dreams
Bill Douglas the Newcraighall born film maker who directed the trilogy - My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home as well as the Tolpuddle Martyrs film Comrades, died twenty years ago. To mark his life and his inspiration there will be a weekend of film screenings - Bill's films as well as films made by local children and others. There will also be an exhibition of art work and cinematic artefacts as well as talks by people who knew Bill.
29th and 30th October 2011 at the Arts Centre, 58 Newcraighall Road and in Newcraighall itself. Free

Past Exhibitions

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  Portraits My Face is like a Million Battle Scars An exhibition exploring the anxieties of self-image. Participants photos were projected onto large canvases then rendered in black and white. Many of those who too part had never painted before. Such was the success of the workshop and exhibition, it is hoped that during the summer another portrait workshop will run. It is also hoped that the exhibition will feature in another venue. WATCH THIS SPACE. FOR FURTHER INFO CONTACT US. return to top
  Burns Exhibition A Man's a Man for A' That. 14 Artists with Craigmillar connections explored Robert Burns, the works, the man and the legend. The exhibition later transferred to Huntly House, Edinburgh for 4 weeks, during which time several paintings were sold. The project was part of the 250th anniversary of Burns and the Homecoming. return to top
  Dr Who: an exhibition  An exhibition by a fan, for fans - memorabilia, multi-media and daleks! return to top
  Scarred An Environmental Arts project Curated by Craigmillar Community Arts, Arts and the Environment Project Local artists and children from local schools investigated how scars are perceived socially & culturally in today's world. return to top
  Song of the Rickshaw Featuring two full size rickshaws and around twenty models made by children from a school in Kolkata, India. Project initiated by East Lothian artist Kenny Munro. return to top
  Retro: Gus Meechan Retro: Gus Meechan A retrospective of Local Artist, Gus Meechan's works. See Gus's website for more on his work. return to top
  Doodles from the Stars  Doddles done by famous people which will then be auctioned on ebay. See ebay website: www.craigmillarplayfund.com return to top
  BRONX & BRADLEY A retrospective of one of CCA's most prolific performers, artists, and all round super-stars - Alexander Brown aka Bronx. Alex is also a keen supporter of new young talent and has 'talent-spotted' new young artist Bradley. For more information on Alex/Bronx see your Music page and The Gallery return to top
  Never Too...  A popular mix of art from a variety of local groups, including our own. The exhibition reflected concerns and interest in the living world and featured photography, painting and drawing. Curated by Aurora Lutic. return to top
  Craigmillar Then A hugely successful pictorial record and history of EH16 curated by Johnni Stanton. See Archive return to top
  Forensic Photography An interactive exhibition on mystery places and faces in Craigmillar, from photographs in our growing archive... The Edinburgh Evening News ran a story about this upcoming exhibition, and immediately there was a response from the public. See the Evening News article. return to top
  Puppet Animation We host shows in the Puppet Animation Festival every year - this year it we hosted four workshops and five shows in March and April. return to top
  Who are you - Where are you? From 19th - 30th April 2010, CCA were proud to showcase and exhibition based on materials from our archive. Well covered in both local and national press, this show built on materials brought by a keen public when we ran the hugely popular Craigmillar Then. Many people brought along further images to add to our archives. As a result we were able to feature a selection from school photos over the years from all the different EH16 schools - some now gone. Along with these images, we had artefacts revealing more about how school has changed over the years. Anyone for the tawse? many kids saw the  the dreaded teachers' menace - the Lochgelly for the first time. return to top
  The Maxwell Legacy Through Be All You Can Be our volunteering initiative, we have received funding to explore social enterprise initiatives that will support the continuation of our work. VAF, who fund BAYCB, offer seed money funding to ensure that initiatives developed under volunteering can flourish. With this fund - Legacy of Learning - Be All You Can Be and CCA are exploring the potentials of raising monies through social enterprise. Ideally, CCA hope to gain a space at the newly developed Whitehouse where we could showcase our artist's work commercially, house the archive and develop its  potential. In exploring this, we are holding an exhibition of our artists' finest work - the best of the best, under the title The Maxwell Legacy. Artists will submit work to be selected by a specially chosen panel of experts and a representative of the local community. CCA and Be All You Can Be are then throwing down the gauntlet - inviting as many of the city's private galleries as possible to come and see our work and give us feedback, advice, encouragement, help with funding - and who knows maybe even agree to take on some of our artists as clients. If they don't come, or don't even bother to respond - well, what would you advise? We think maybe it might be time to name and shame... What worth is art, if it draws from a limited spring of talent and inspiration? Got an opinion on this, then contact us? return to top	download the pdf brochure of this exhibition
  Heid the Ba' For the Craigmillar Festival, a local volunteer, James Scoular, using images from the Craigmillar Community Archive, curated an exhibition focussing on sport in the area - teams, events, winners, schools - you name it. Featuring a fullsize boxing ring, Heid the Ba' proved an interesting new use of the archive, highlighting its potential for future events and exhibitions. At the opening, attended by Kenny McKaskill, local lad made good Paddy McGovern, who has played for many football teams, locally and nationally, spoke a few words and shared some of his clippings with the archive. return to top of page