Oceanallover - free lunchtime concert

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Doors open 30 mins prior to listed event start time

Free Entry, By Donation: We think it's important to offer free music and culture to all. The acts for these shows are always paid and we rely on donations on the day to maintain our free shows. Suggested donation is £10, though any amount is welcome! :)


About the Artist:
This is a story about salt and sails, about the persistence of
mystery, transmutation and transcendence. It is an allegorical
tale told through music, dance, costume and words. It follows
a sailmaker and a salter on a journey to find a release from the
structures and strictures of their lives.

Sail making and salt panning have both been very vital crafts for
coastal communities. Salt was essential for survival, helping to
preserve food during winter months and maintaining a basic level
of health and cleanliness. Sails allowed people to catch the wind
and use its power to help with fishing, trade and travel, linking
communities in areas where travel by land was difficult and
dangerous.

The Sailmaker’s Palm is a discussion of boundaries, looking at the
tensions between differing states of awareness. Salt, water and air
have cycled through changes across the geology of our Earth for
years without number. Humanity is part of that cycle, the water
and minerals in our body are what life is made from.

The Sailmaker’s Palm

The cloth is cut to make your sheet
The wind now moves across the sea
The eye through which your rope is tied
Is spliced to the mast and eternity.

Your heart is an anchor without a chain
Your arms a yard without a sail
Your hands a capstan turning free
While spume and deeps and rigging wail.

Here a sailor never wetted
Here a catcher of zephyr breath
Here the shape of the So’ So’ West
As it fights against your brave wind nets.

By this stitching I will bind you
By all the birds of seven tides
By sky and salt and water green
I’ll hold my course ’til you arrive.

https://oceanallover.co.uk

Venue Info:

Pianodrome Bruntsfield is at The St.Oswald's Center at 41 Montpelier Park, Bruntsfield, Edinburgh EH10 4NB, just parallel to the main street and next to the primary school. It has an accessible entrance and an accessible toilet. Please get in touch if there is anything else you'd like to ask or tell us prior to your visit.

Concessions:
We do not check your right to a concession or name your price ticket. If you feel you can afford the full price please select this ticket. However, concessions prices are there to help anybody attend the show - if you need a lower cost ticket you are in the best position to determine that. No questions asked.

Accessibility:
There is ramped access to the main hall of the Pianodrome. We have an accessible toilet and space for wheelchairs. Most of our performances are relaxed performances. If you have any access requirements please feel free to email us at boxoffice@pianodrome.org.

Non-human visitors
Pets are welcome if they are well behaved.