arts – Peter Geoghegan

Dundee: from black sheep of Scottish cities to ‘living cultural experiment’

By peterPosted on 23rd December 2015Posted in Guardian, ScotlandTagged arts, Dundee, Minecraft, regeneration

Chris Van Der Kuyl set up his first video game company in Dundee in the mid-1990s. “It was an industrial landscape,” he says of the city, which had been bled of heavy industry from the 1970s onwards. “Everything was closing, everyone was leaving.” Van Der Kuyl’s 4J Studios would go on to help develop the […]

Should Scotland’s famous arts fest join the independence debate?

By peterPosted on 8th October 2013Posted in Christian Science Monitor, Comedy, independence, ScotlandTagged arts, Independence, Scotland

August in Edinburgh in synonymous with the arts. This August over 25,000 performers have descended on the Scottish capital, offering everything from stand-up comedy and one-act plays to jazz, opera, and poetry readings as part of several separate festivals that are collectively known as the “Edinburgh festival.” But while the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town will be littered […]