Festival Events 2016

Edinburgh Printmakers at St Columba’s Hospice

Edinburgh Printmakers is delighted to be collaborating with St Columba’s Hospice to celebrate the To Absent Friends festival, a celebration of life and those we love.

Edinburgh Printmakers have worked together with staff, patients and families at St Columba’s Hospice to curate a suite of works that explore ideas and emotions relating to memory, stories, and reminiscence. People who use and work in the Hospice have selected work from Edinburgh Printmakers archive to be on display as part of a special exhibition in the hospice during To Absent Friends week.

1 – 6 November, St Columba’s Hospice, 15 Boswall Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3RW, 9am – 8pm, fully accessible, please use main Hospice reception.

Edinburgh Printmakers

Edinburgh Printmakers’ archive has been developed over the last four decades and is currently unseen by the public. It houses our expanding collection of published works, contract print editions, print folios and educational archive of prints and plates, with over 8000 editions in our care. A 6 month long programme of events and exhibitions exploring and showcasing the archive will mark Edinburgh Printmakers’ 50th Anniversary next year, in 2017. Plans for Edinburgh Printmakers’ future home at Castle Mill Works include a new facility for the public to view and use the print archive as an educational, artistic reference resource.

St Columba's Hospice

St Columba’s Hospice was opened in 1977 in Edinburgh and was Scotland’s first modern hospice. The Hospice provides specialist palliative care for patients and support for their loved ones from across Edinburgh and the Lothians. As well as the care provided for patients and families, the Hospice has a dedicated Centre for Education & Research where they run an education programme training specialist and non-specialist doctors, nurses, health and social care professionals from across Scotland and beyond. Their aim is to improve the lives of people with terminal illness, working to allow people to live as actively as possible. The highest value is put on respect, choice and empowerment.

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