📢 Last chance to see: Ash Rise
Be sure to catch the exhibition before it leaves Edinburgh on the 12th of January!
🌳 Ash Rise
📅 13 Sep – 12 Jan 2025
⏰ Open daily 10am - last entry 3.15pm
📍 John Hope Gateway Gallery
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Join us for a BSL tour of Ash Rise on 12 January, led by Trudi Collier.
📅Sunday 12 January
🕓 2pm -3pm
📍 John Hope Gateway Gallery
🎟️ £5
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Thank you to all the staff, volunteers, artists, makers, visitors and contractors who have made our exhibitions and events come to life this year. 🎇🎄
Wishing you a peaceful break over the festive period + we look forward to seeing you in 2025 for more!
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Looking for a new hobby in time for 2025?🎶
The next Botanics Choir term has gone live, and what better time to sign up than now? From choir enthusiasts to first-time singers, all are welcome. No singing experience is required.
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Join Chris Amer and Rowan Addy as they bring the astounding sound of ash to life through musical compositions. Followed by a Q&A.
🗓️ Sun 15 Dec
⏰ 12 – 1:30pm
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Fungi Forms Room 6: “Future”
Fungi are at the heart of all futures. As processors and problem solvers, they can clean up the environment, inspire new medicines and fabricate novel material.
Explore a variety of works that showcase this in our final room.
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Fungi Forms: sounds & visions
Fungi weave through human culture, inspiring designers, artists & musicians with their forms, colours, properties and even sounds.
Whilst absorbing these works put a record on & immerse yourself into the fascinating world of fungi!
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ALT Two mannequins stand on a bed of dried shitake mushrooms. The one on the left wears an intricate long purple gown while the one on the right is dressed in a highly detailed short white and blue outfit. The walls are painted a deep forest green and in the gap between the mannequins a TV screen is playing a catwalk show.
Last chance to see: Fungi Forms!🍄
Don’t miss the final week of our exhibition exploring the fascinating world of fungi ending 8 Dec.
🍄 Fungi Forms
📅 2 Aug – 8 Dec 2024
⏰ Open daily 10.30am - last entry 3.15pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Fungi Forms: Fact and Fiction
The fourth room you will find in Fungi Forms is Fact and Fiction. For centuries, we have woven stories around mushrooms and fungi or used them to embroider the tales we tell, reflecting our sense of wonder and sometimes our fears.
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🍄Fungi Forms: Fashion👗
The third room of Fungi Forms explores Fashion. Today the fashion industry is experimenting with mycelium to develop sustainable and cruelty-free alternatives to traditional materials, particularly leather.
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The second room in Fungi Forms is Food and Drink. Edible fungi are celebrated by artists across the globe for their forms, flavours and scents.
In this room see botanical artwork, embroidered mushrooms, the wheel of fungi and a mushroom larder!🍄
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Fungi Forms Gallery 1: ‘Life’
In the first room of Fungi Forms you are welcomed by a wall of photographs showing some of the essential species that support life in the Botanics, alongside artworks inspired the by the effects that fungi have on the cycles of life.
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Join us for a recital of two musical compositions inspired by the Ash Rise.
Join Chris Amer and Rowan Addy as they bring the astounding sound of ash to life. Followed by a Q&A.
🗓️ Sun 15 Dec
⏰ 12 – 1:30pm
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There’s not long to go now until Christmas at the Botanics is back! Join us for the most wonderful time of the year below:
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The gallery will close early on 21 Nov @ 2:30pm and 24 Nov/ 4 Dec @ 3pm. Last entry is 15 mins before on all dates.
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#BookWeekScotland runs from the 18-24 Nov & what better way to celebrate it than finding a cosy nook in our Fungi Forms reading room?
We are celebrating with a free event, Fungi Talks: Stinkhorn! Book now: FungiTalksStinkhorn.eventbri…
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Final chance for Fungi Forms Spotlight Talks! Follow the link below to book for Nov & Dec:
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📍Inverleith House
📅 16 Nov
⏰2:30 – 3pm
📅 22 Nov
⏰11:30 – 12pm
📅 5 Dec
⏰1:30 – 2pm
📅 7 Dec
⏰1:30 – 2pm
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December Spill the Tea tour ☕🍄
Join a member of the Botanics' Creative Programmes team to explore the stories behind the artwork in our Fungi Forms exhibition and sample a cup of mushroom tea.
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Join us for Scottish Book Week 2024!
We'll be hosting 'Fungi Talks: Stinkhorn!' on Wednesday 20th November.
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ALT On the left a black book cover on a salmon pink background displays the text ‘stink horn’ in a gold font with an image of a stinkhorn fungus. On the right a book is held in front of copper autumn leaves and a tree trunk. The book cover reads 'The fascinating world of fungi' and features a large image of clustered bonnet mushrooms.
Looking to learn more about our current exhibition Ash Rise?
Join our free Spotlight Talk led by one of our wonderful Creative Programmes volunteers.
Thursday 14 November, 1 – 1:30pm
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Botanics Choir returns tomorrow on Tuesday 29 after an October break, so now is the perfect time to sign up to try it out! 🎵
From choir enthusiasts to first-time singers, all are welcome. No singing experience is required.
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