Members of the public are welcome to attend

Longhope Lifeboat Guild will be holding their annual Christmas Bazaar and Sale of Work. Members will be collecting any items folk want to donate the week before the sale. Or alternatively the YM will be open on Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon for anyone who wants to bring along their donations.

Longhope Lifeboat Guilds Annual Christmas Bazaar at the YM Longhope. There will be stalls and home bakes, raffles and competitions, plus Santa will pay a visit. Teas will be served in the Shore

With Celia Imrie, Gerda Stevenson, Jack Shepherd, James Fleet
86 mins
Certificate PG

‘as the spirit of a place endures, the spirit of a person endures’ – Margaret Tait

A haunting and lyrical film, Blue Black Permanent was Tait’s only feature film. Although it was one of the last films she made, the film’s original script was started while Tait was studying film in Rome in the 1950s. The film tells the story of Barbara (Celie Imrie), a woman coming to terms with the mysterious death of her mother (Gerda Stevenson). Told through a labyrinthine structure, traversing backwards and forwards across several decades, and in between various locations in Edinburgh and Orkney, the film develops many of the same themes preoccupying Tait’s shorter films and poetry, such as the endurance of places and people over time and across generations.

This screening celebrates the centenary of Orcadian filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait, who was born on November the 11th, 1918. The film will be introduced by writer, actor, director, Gerda Stevenson, who plays Greta in the film (a role for which she received a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Film Actress).

“I think that film is essentially a poetic medium, and although it can be put to all sorts of other – creditable and discreditable – uses, these are secondary.” – M.T.

Margaret Tait (1918-1999), stands out as one of Scotland’s most innovative and stridently independent filmmakers. Although her work was relatively unknown during her lifetime, recent years have heralded a more wide-spread acknowledgement of her significance across several areas of the arts in Scotland – film, art, poetry.

This programme, part of a wider series of screenings and events marking the centenary of Tait’s birth, showcases the full breadth of work produced by this extraordinary filmmaker. Drawn from over thirty short experimental films produced by Tait during her lifetime, this selection of films form part of the body of work Tait referred to as her ‘film poems’. Filmed across the two places Tait lived and worked for most of her life, Edinburgh and Orkney, Tait’s films capture the people and places she was familiar with. Celebrations of the everyday, the films approach their subjects with great intimacy, unravelling the mystery of the commonplace through details of the everyday often overlooked. The programme includes: Three Portrait Sketches (1951), A Portrait of Ga (1952), Where I am is Here (1964), Aerial (1974), Colour Poems (1974), Tailpiece (1976).

This screening will be introduced by Dr Sarah Neely (University of Stirling), author of Between Categories: The Films of Margaret Tait.

IoHDT Open Board Meeting

All welcome

North Walls Community Room, 8pm